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Post by huskermom98 on Sept 21, 2021 15:15:59 GMT
Uptown Funk & Jump Around are always fun ones to sing & drive-dance to for me.
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Post by huskermom98 on Sept 18, 2021 16:22:10 GMT
We are just finishing homecoming--things seemed somewhat normal, but we don't really know what's normal because DS didn't participate much his freshman year and then nothing could happen last year because the high schools were 100% online the first quarter. This year they had the usual dress up days, a pep rally yesterday, the court was presented at halftime of the football game last night, and the dance is tonight. Masks have been required for anything indoors because the state law banning mask mandates was paused by a judge earlier this week, but outdoor events (including a movie night on the football field Thursday night and the football game last night) did not require masks.
Other schools in the area seem to be having completely normal activities for their homecoming.
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Post by huskermom98 on Sept 16, 2021 18:00:55 GMT
The availability of curbside pickup and/or delivery has changed how I shop, but my circumstances have also changed because I started working more (and more of a set schedule) in January 2020. There are days I don't want to "waste" my time doing my normal grocery store/Target shopping, so on those days I place an order online and pick it up. It has meant I spend less at Target, but somehow I spend more at the grocery store. I'm not nervous/scared/worried/concerned about shopping in person, I'm just taking advantage of the curbside options because of how I chose to spend my time.
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Post by huskermom98 on Sept 16, 2021 1:42:42 GMT
I had Covid in February 2021. I felt "off" for a couple of days and then started to feel like a was getting a bad cold. I had a fever off and on for a couple of days. I had some loose stools, but that could have been all of the Body Armor I was drinking. I was tired, but not as knock-down, sleep all day as I was a year prior--I'm not saying I had covid in February 2020, but I'm not ruling it out.
I had it the "worst" in my family. Dh & our boys all tested positive a week after I did, but they mostly had a cold. Our youngest had a fever one night, but that was it.
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Post by huskermom98 on Sept 16, 2021 1:32:12 GMT
For our anniversary a few years ago we had a 4 or 5 course meal at a local restaurant. I think it was around $125 a person, but it also included wine with most courses. It was sooooo good, but sadly they closed down a few months later because the owners/chef was burned out.
Technically we just spent $120 per person for a dinner on our vacation in Colorado, but that also included horse riding to and from the lodge where we ate a really good dinner.
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Post by huskermom98 on Sept 15, 2021 0:45:36 GMT
I've been doing a good amount of grocery pickup lately so I can't comment on what the shelves look like. However, I have had quite a few items look like they are available but really aren't because the shopper can't find them. I did have a hard time finding Gatorade this summer.
When we went to buy a second fridge this summer the one I probably would have picked first wasn't going to be available until October or November, but my second choice was in stock at another location so we went with that one.
Oddly, the one thing we expected to wait up to 18 weeks for was DS's first passport, but we applied for it during the first week of August and it was delivered to us during the last week of August. I'm a little mad I paid extra to expedite it, but maybe that was the reason we got it before November/December...?
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Post by huskermom98 on Sept 13, 2021 16:53:45 GMT
So glad I cancelled the story & stamp kits last month. I really like the vellum hearts, but not much else. And maybe it's my mood today, but I like the negative statements and would have used those more than the positive ones! I want the stitched hearts add-on, but not in those colors...
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Post by huskermom98 on Sept 13, 2021 16:43:32 GMT
I think about support for police because of officers lost in the line of duty, not because of anti-BLM. However, that's mostly because 5 or so years ago there were two cops killed early one morning--a mentally ill guy found a parked cop car and shot the officer sitting in his car, left the scene and found another cop car in a suburb & shot that cop sitting in his car.
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Post by huskermom98 on Sept 13, 2021 2:32:06 GMT
I also make sun tea. Water & tea bags in a large pitcher/dispenser and leave it out in the sun until I remember to bring it in.
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Post by huskermom98 on Sept 12, 2021 19:18:44 GMT
Watching pregame as I type--so fun & brings back so many memories of 94-96 when I was there! Damn! You were there during the great years! Yup! Had I stayed in the marching band for my senior year I would have gotten to go to 3 National Championship bowl games. It still bums me out that I missed the '97 championship and Tom Osborne's last games. My poor sister was in the band 89-92--she saw some good bowl games, but all of them were losses.
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Post by huskermom98 on Sept 11, 2021 19:28:47 GMT
Nebraska is playing Buffalo in Lincoln. We are heading down to watch our son in band. It is going to be soooo hot! Hopefully the team shows up to play! Watching pregame as I type--so fun & brings back so many memories of 94-96 when I was there!
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Post by huskermom98 on Sept 10, 2021 16:10:40 GMT
I try not to, but I also try not to purchase anything cream colored...and definitely avoid cream colors that are too close to a manilla folder color because that is one of my least favorite colors!
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Post by huskermom98 on Sept 9, 2021 15:47:58 GMT
Is this the first year in some time that no (new) album or stamp set has sold out in the first 90 minutes? I think so. But I know I tend not to worry about stamps because they are usually able to order more of those, maybe everyone else has realized that too. On the otherhand...between the price increase of both albums and stamps, and the tons of offerings (beyond albums and stamps) it's not surprising that none have sold out.
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Post by huskermom98 on Sept 8, 2021 18:10:42 GMT
For those wondering about the VB Warm Wishes album, it does NOT have a large spine. It's maybe 2 inches? I'm not sure if it will work for me, but I'm going to try since I ordered it...not sure why i did because I actually prefer the 6-ring system because it's easier to add in smaller things outside of page protectors (like a 4x6 on just the top or bottom part of the page.)
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Post by huskermom98 on Sept 7, 2021 17:49:52 GMT
Ouch. At first glance I don't love this year's AE release as a whole, but I've also already committed to the VB line. I did get the VB album, but I'm not sure I can make a 2" spine work (especially if we gather with family and take a weekend trip to Kansas City).
There are a lot of AE pieces that I like simply because they are new & different, but there is just so much...to to to much...
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Post by huskermom98 on Sept 5, 2021 20:23:35 GMT
Major dislike- PACKING for it! I have the opposite dislike. I don't mind the packing at home...I hate packing back up after the crop! Part of it is because I don't want to go back to real life (especially the crop I was at in March 2020 where the US went to hell in a handbasket the 4 days we were there...) but I hate trying to remember what I packed where & getting it all to fit.
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Post by huskermom98 on Sept 3, 2021 15:08:50 GMT
Like: >Prizes (as long as it isn't old crap) >Snack tables >Good spacing between rows of tables (I tend to spread out on the floor right next to my table, but still need space to move my chair around to dig into my supplies) >Rolling chairs >easy access to outlets/power strips >trash to treasure tables >massage therapists available (for multiple-day crops)
Dislike: >games that interrupt scrapping >loud obnoxious ring tones or other phone noises >Poor lighting >short crops >uncatered meals if there's no close food options >places that are hard to load & unload at >far away restrooms >loud music
Indifferent on: >vendors >seating--if it's a huge public crop then it's nice to be able to pick your seat, but at a small one like the one I go to yearly it's ok...unless I get stuck next to that one person...then I care!
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Post by huskermom98 on Sept 2, 2021 12:29:14 GMT
I use a lot of blues & reds so I've always preferred silver because another color I use a lot is gray. I've never been a fan of gold and usually only use it for Christmas albums (mostly because it's usually part of the collection's color scheme).
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Post by huskermom98 on Sept 1, 2021 13:54:34 GMT
I'm watching it on Hulu--very good so far (I've watched episodes 1 & 2). I've watched the documentary on 9/11 that is about how most of the firefighter footage came to be--a documentary was being shot about rookie firefighters--but it has been interesting to get a few different points of view beyond those involved in the original documentary. Episode 2 focused on the South tower & most of those were new stories to me.
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Post by huskermom98 on Aug 29, 2021 14:22:46 GMT
Last year the district had a chart they updated each school day--cases per 100K, county positivity rate, percent of students absent & percent of staff absent (the last two were useless without a comparison to a "normal" year because I don't think it was just Covid related absences). I haven't seen anything like that this year, but we only started back on Wednesday. However most of the information was posted in relation to the district's own set of metrics regarding when to be online only, hybrid or in person--this year they pretty much have to be in person (and honestly aren't set up to easily go online).
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Post by huskermom98 on Aug 26, 2021 12:13:01 GMT
I have a large U-shaped desk in my corner of the basement. Unfortunately I have so much stuff that it is covered (with fairly organized supplies) and I have only the pull-out keyboard tray to work on these days.
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Post by huskermom98 on Aug 24, 2021 17:46:33 GMT
We went to Colorado last month for a family wedding. We had no issues and honestly there were very few things that made you remember that there's a pandemic going on (saw very few masks, nothing closed, no restrictions for the wedding, etc.)
We have plans for a weekend trip to Kansas City in December to see the Auschwitz exhibit at Union Station. We just booked that over the weekend, no qualms here about traveling on our end, but I do worry about things shutting down & missing the exhibit.
Fingers crossed that DS16 can go on his school trip to Germany/Austria/Switzerland in March. It's already been postponed once and should it get postponed another year he'll at least still be in school for it.
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Post by huskermom98 on Aug 24, 2021 15:46:42 GMT
We live 3-5 hours away from grandparents. Our visits usually coincide with a holiday so it's not like it would be an unexpected visit. I do check with my stepmother to see if there's room for us to stay because she has more kids that live out of state that would need a place to stay compared to the other two sets of parents.
DH's parents are the only grandparents that travel to see us on a semi-regular basis. They call and ask if a certain weekend works...unfortunately they have gotten into a bad habit of asking less than a week in advance. However, a lot of their visits coincide with our birthdays so we are not usually surprised by the short notice.
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Post by huskermom98 on Aug 22, 2021 0:04:32 GMT
Most likely--some years I do, some years I don't--it all depends on if I make time for it or happen to come across a place doing flu shots when it's convenient for me. I've never had the flu, but I'm not against getting the shot. Last year was probably of the first times I searched it out.
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Post by huskermom98 on Aug 21, 2021 18:35:02 GMT
I've put them in several places. I started with my own 12x12 album, but that's a lot of LOs with pictures from before I had kids (LOs I do when I feel like scrapping something other than my boys). I then started an 8.5x11 album, but haven't added any to either album for a few years now. Right now I'm at the point where I just include anything that's about me in the 12x12 family album--partly because I forget about the other two albums and if I do remember the smaller one I forget it's not 9x12 and end up having to trim it down to fit it in there...
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Post by huskermom98 on Aug 21, 2021 13:41:11 GMT
As someone who put a blue Corian countertop in her kitchen 16 years ago...paint the wall blue! I liked the blue and it matched the wallpaper, but mostly we weren't planning to move any time soon so I had no issues with a blue countertop. Sadly we had to remove the wallpaper before the end of the end of the remodel because the new cabinets weren't the same size (and we didn't have any paper to try to fill in since it was put up by the previous owners), but I still like my blue countertops!
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Post by huskermom98 on Aug 19, 2021 20:03:40 GMT
Earlier this summer we bought a 65qt Lifetime cooler for our road trips (but then couldn't use it this year for our big trip to CO because we had to change from a van to a sedan at the last minute...). We did use the cooler over the 4th of July weekend and while the ice did melt (packed Saturday morning and melted by Monday morning) we did get into quite a bit over those few hot days. I know it's available at several retailers such as Cabelas, Dicks & Bass Pro, but it's also for sale on the Sam's website for at least $100 less. I think we paid $130? It's heavy when empty, but not break-your-back heavy.
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Post by huskermom98 on Aug 14, 2021 14:39:42 GMT
Some of these places sound similar to a Travelodge my boys & I stayed in last summer on our way to Wisconsin Dells. Online it looked decent, but in person parts were definitely sketchy. We had a room that definitely didn't look like the pictures. It felt old, but at least not dirty...but it was also the first one where I wore shoes the entire time! We only needed a place to sleep and it provided that, but I was happy our car was still there in the morning. I was also happy that we didn't need ice because the machine closest to our room was broken, smashed and maybe a little burnt...
So needless to say, I was a little apprehensive about being in charge of finding a place to stop on our way out to Colorado this summer, but found a couple of options that worked.
Also in regards to the comment about reserving and canceling day off--almost every place I looked at this summer is now requiring a cancelation to be made the day before you plan to check in. We had considered making a reservation somewhere along the way and canceling by the required time that evening if we thought we could go farther, but every place required the day before.
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Post by huskermom98 on Aug 13, 2021 15:06:08 GMT
I've been stuck in the basement for over 13 years, ever since DS#2 was born. It works because I have plenty of space and because the rest of the family is never down there except when doing some school work. The biggest downsides are the fact that it's freezing down there in the winter, and that rain water can seep up through the floor when the ground is completely saturated. Things are set up and stored to protect against water, but I get lazy on dry times and then have to scramble to get stuff out of harms way.
But I like that I can spread out and be alone so it's all good.
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Post by huskermom98 on Aug 12, 2021 3:25:09 GMT
The state of Iowa says schools can't have mask mandates. I've never been a fan of masks and only wear them when I have to, but I think it was a bad idea to pass this law. I feel sorry for the concerned parents who have kids in districts that can't/won't offer online learning this year. People usually have nothing but bad things to say about our district (myself included), but the one thing they have going for them is that they had an online option going before Covid (for high school only) so it was easy to have an online option this year. They expanded it to middle school at the end of last year, but now they are also offering an elementary option through some service.
Our district is definitely pushing for kids to wear masks when school starts in a couple of weeks, but who knows how many will. My youngest son's private school hasn't said anything lately about masks so that will be interesting too--they only required them when numbers were bad last year (October into April).
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