Saturday: disappointing

It was a rather disappointing day.  Not really a bad day, but I probably would have changed several things if I could have.

*Our evening plans were changed last minute.

*Taxes are not as straight-forward as we were hoping this year.

*The kids had a rough afternoon

Friday: car

The car was fixed by the end of the day.  It meant I still needed to bring Ben to and from work, but in the scheme of things that wasn't too bad.

I was going to do a "day in pictures", but then I only remembered to take three pictures.  So I guess we don't get to see that today.  

I tried a new type of sausage for our pizza today.  The overall consensus was that it was either the same or slightly better.

Thursday: today's gonna' be a good day

This morning as I was walking to class I decided it was going to be a good day.

It started off well: Ben was able to work from home so I could have the car and the car was safe in the garage.  It was really a great place and time for it to die on me.

Today I got to teach ANDs and ORs and nesting them.  It's one of my favorites.

I ate lunch with Natalie!

My second class is great because they ask a lot of good questions.  It's great.

There was a student issue that was solved in a positive way.

Joshua has extra stuff after school so I can just wait for Isaac at Hope College.  It's a lot less driving.

Ben will have his glasses fixed tomorrow!

All the driving could be done this evening rather easily.  It was a lot more driving than normal because there was only one car, but the scheduling worked out just fine.

The car started!!  Ben tried and it didn't start.  He popped the hood and as he did so I tried and it started right up.  He didn't even get the hood all the way open and it started.  Yay!  We were able to get it to the mechanic, and hopefully it will be fixed tomorrow.

I ran the dishwasher this evening.  I often don't get the dishwasher started in the evening, but it's so nice in the morning to have it ready.

Wednesday: could have gone better

*Grandma passed away early this morning.  She's happy with Jesus now, even though she will be missed here.

*It was nice and rainy today.  Our lake is higher than it's been for a while.

*I still have no idea how to log into the Health Insurance website on the computer.  I can do it on my phone, and every time I log in on the phone I create a passkey so that I can log in on the computer and it never works.

*A friend is studying for a homeopathic medicine degree and this month...I'm not sure what she was studying but I got a free massage as she was practicing some of her stuff.

*The headache that was just barely there the last few days came for real.  Some ibuprofen took care of it, but it wasn't nice for a bit.

*We had fettucine as the pasta type today.  The kids didn't really like it, which doesn't surprise me.

*My car didn't start this evening.  I think the starter is out; it isn't the battery.  It's done this twice before but it started after a few tries, so we're hoping it'll start once more to get to the auto shop.  In the meantime, we're down to one car for a while.  At least it decided to not start while in the garage and with Ben's car available.  It could have been a ton more annoying.

*We played Space Base this evening - it's been a while since we've played.  I had a bunch of cards on the "1" and no 1's were rolled.  For about the first 10 rounds.  It was absurd.

Tuesday: normal day

It was a pretty normal day.  I worked.  I was tired.  I rock climbed a bit.  There were some great thunderstorms.

Well, I tried rather hard to find something else interesting.  Thunderstorms really were the most interesting part.

Monday: life

This morning I helped out at Kids' Food Basket.  We got done packing the lunches early, so that was really nice.  I also dropped off some donations (mostly clothes), but it was nice to get several things out of the house.

Time change is hard.  We're not quite falling asleep at the right time and then I was awake for an hour in the middle of the night.  I'm not sure that's a time change thing; it's been happening more often.  I got back to sleep a little bit, but it was harder than normal 

vacation Monday: down day

Today was our rest day.  We still did a whole bunch of things, but it wasn't park level amount of stuff.

We had some breakfast sandwiches in the room and then walked through the boardwalk shops.  We found two displays with these thread bobbins dressed up as Disney characters and had a great time trying to figure out who they represented.  (For example, the bottom left is Anna, Elsa, and Olaf.)

We went to an ice cream shop for lunch.  We did have some real food - we split some entrees.  Isaac and I had more tater tots.  Then we shared some ice creams and it was all delicious and I ate too much.

We went to the pool in the early afternoon, but it was rather cool.  Not cold anymore, but not really hot either.  There was a slide, so we went down that many, many times.  We didn't stay all that long though because just being in the water was cold!

Our dinner was at Disney springs.  Oh, what did I have...shoot, I don't remember.  But I think I ate it all, which I try not to do at restaurants.  Several people had chicken and donuts, which was a big hit.  Food is so delicious.

We took a stop in the Disney store and Ben found a long sleeve t-shirt/hoodie and I found a t-shirt.  Then we stopped at the real main attraction, the LEGO store.

They had an AMAZING pick-a-brick wall up.  There were many pieces that we didn't have (or needed more of) along with some trans-blue tiles, which we always need for water.  I think we got a whole box of water.  Isaac and Joshua also snapped several pieces together so they would fit better in the boxes, and in the end I think we had four boxes - a lot more than normal lately.

I finally let the kids play with the bubble wand that we were getting for Great Grandma.  It was a lot more fun than I was expecting and made me smile a lot.