{"id":5840,"date":"2011-04-11T02:26:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T02:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5840"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:36:25","slug":"day-140-through-day-148","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5840","title":{"rendered":"Day 140 Through Day 148"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It has been at least a week since I’ve updated this blog with info about my Throws, Gives and Sells.\u00a0 I haven’t been writing about it, but I have been DOING it.\u00a0 Nothing too big or exciting here, sad to say.\u00a0 I was just trying to survive this past week and not much else.\u00a0 I got run down and sickly just as our final week of play practice got underway.\u00a0 And there were all sorts of last minute things to be done regarding props and concessions for intermission and t-shirts for the cast, etc.\u00a0 Dress rehearsal was scary, but the cast and crew pulled off a good show on Friday and Saturday evening.\u00a0 Now it’s Sunday – the DAY AFTER – and it was a good day.\u00a0 We slept in\u00a0a bit.\u00a0 Attended church.\u00a0 The temps hit the 80s in the afternoon.\u00a0 I killed some dandelions.\u00a0 And I went for a 7 mile run (well, maybe 5.5 miles were actually running!).\u00a0 It was all very relaxing.\u00a0 I am looking forward to being at school tomorrow and being able to leave at 3:30!!\u00a0 I need to go to the mechanic shop and clean out my old Saab so that I can get it towed away soon.\u00a0 Later in the week is the Drama Queen’s 9th birthday!\u00a0 And my 43rd… So I will take the opportunity tonight to get caught up here. Back to Day 140…<\/p>\n\n\n

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Marthon Bag to Give.\u00a0 I got rid of the medals, so might as well move some of the other souvenirs – to Goodwill.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

Day 141:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Book on Japan to Give.\u00a0 I got this book from my good Japanese friend, Masato Suzuki, who spent a year at Wabash College when I was a Sophomore.\u00a0 If I had more time, I could tell some great Masato stories!\u00a0 He was one of a kind.\u00a0 I have thought about him recently with the earthquake in Japan.\u00a0 Unfortunately, we lost contact with him years ago.\u00a0 Anyway, my brother Spencer was also good friends with Masato and Day 141 was his birthday, so I am passing the book on to him.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

Day 142:<\/p>\n\n\n

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More marathon souvenirs:\u00a0 some hats to Give to Goodwill.\u00a0 I have a lot of hats for a guy who never wears hats.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

Day 143:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Halloween candle to Throw.\u00a0 This one is admittedly pretty lame, but I was in a hurry.\u00a0 I might have even been tempted to throw it in the garage sale stuff, but it's totally the wrong time of year.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

Day 144:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Horseshoe from my Grandpa Henke's farm to Give.\u00a0 It was my nephew's birthday.\u00a0 I didn't get to give it to him personally because it was the night of dress rehearsal, so I don't know if he appreciated it or not.\u00a0 This was from his great grandfather's farm.\u00a0 And Alex's dad was the one of us who was really, really into the horses.\u00a0 I remember how devastated Spencer was the time a storm knocked down an old barn, killing several horses that had sought shelter alonside the barn.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

Day 145 and 146:<\/p>\n\n\n

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These two are the lamest yet, but they had to go.\u00a0 I tossed the biscotti for Day 145.\u00a0 I don't even like biscotti typically, but this was part of a Starbucks Christmas gift basket some time ago and so I figured it was expensive and should eventually be eaten.\u00a0 When I pulled it out of the kitchen cabinet, I looked at the "best by" date on the wrapper:\u00a0 March 2009!\u00a0 The tea was from the same basket, but I didn't figure dead leaves would really ever expire, so I Gave the tea to one of my students who was in the play.\u00a0 He's been talking about tea a lot lately.\u00a0 I've mentioned him before:\u00a0 Nerd Supreme.\u00a0 Over the course of this school year – and especially having him on stage these last few weeks – I have really grown to appreciate him all the more.\u00a0 He's hilarious.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

Day 147:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Scottish Cap – Give to David.\u00a0 This student was the one who picked the play we performed:\u00a0 12 Angry Jurors.\u00a0 He ended up only having time to take on a bit part – that of the guard, but it was good to have him be a part of the production.\u00a0 He showed up for the last night in a kilt for some reason and so I ended up giving him this cap that I brought back from my year in Aberdeen, Scotland.\u00a0 It's real Harris Tweed.\u00a0 He was very excited to have it.\u00a0 He wore it the rest of the night – all through the cast party.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

Day 148:<\/p>\n\n\n

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While I was out running today, Melissa got the kids together to clean out the van.\u00a0 She brought in this remote to clean up.\u00a0 It belongs to the little portable DVD player we got for the kids to watch in the van years ago.\u00a0 It has been floating around in the van ever since (notice the years of sticky grime!) and we've never used it.\u00a0 In fact, it ocurred to me that there is absolutely no point to having a remote like this.\u00a0 When the DVD player is strapped to the back of the seat in front of you, why would you need to point a remote control at it??\u00a0 So we tossed it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

Woohoo!\u00a0 I’m caught up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It has been at least a week since I’ve updated this blog with info about my Throws, Gives and Sells.\u00a0 I haven’t been writing about it, but I have been DOING it.\u00a0 Nothing too big or exciting here, sad to say.\u00a0 I was just trying to survive this past week and not much else.\u00a0 I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5846,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5840\/revisions\/5846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}