i hope heaven has food trucks!

happy valentine's day, all you lovebirds out there! and elementary school teachers! i mean no one rakes in the cheap chocolates better than teachers, along with stuffed animals and other silly knick-knacks! don't get me wrong, the sentiment is absolutely precious, but how many pink teddy bears does one human being really need??

it's been a busy week with ups and downs. i got to attend a REAL SCHOOL GARDENS coordinator meeting last night-which means i received some great instruction to pass on, and i also received baby onions and potatoes to plant. we will be participating in the SMART POTATO program again. i think we may try something a little different this year. we may be planting some of our potatoes in laundry baskets-and have classes be in charge of taking care of their potatoes, so that we can have an additional garden bed for the hot season plants.

but the best part of the evening was the food truck! when i got to the school, i parked and there was a food truck near the door. i thought to myself, 'hmm... that's pretty cool, parents can get dinner to go on the way home!" it smelled SO GOOD!!! i was wishing that it was for our meeting. weeeellllll.....when i got inside, they gave me a green ticket to go back out to get dinner at the food truck! nammi food truck showed up and i was in heaven! woah! i mean to tell you: it was incredible! in fact, i didn't know which food truck it was, nor what type of food it actually was, so i just looked it up a bit ago and found out it was vietnamese-ish. so then i had to look up recipes because if i were stuck on an island and could only have one meal for the rest of my life, this might be it! AND guess what! they have a permanent spot at valley view mall-which is mere minutes from me-i'm excited to see if it's as good the second time around!

i do need to go get some groceries tomorrow so i can make fruit roll-ups and prepare some meals for the week-including my contributions for tuesday's AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE MEAL-yum.

so, there's this chair that i've had for years that i really like. about 4 weeks ago, i saw some strange pieces of metal scrap on the floor-no idea where it came from. the next day, another piece, before i knew it, i rolled the chair and it lifted a little, and the wheel fell off. so i put it back and just tried to keep it on the ground. finally, after the wheel falling off several times, i decided i had to do something about it. so i got it to a point where the wheel was no longer falling out.

yesterday, i heard a little clink! and when i looked down, i saw the same piece of metal on the ground that started the demise of the first wheel. so i took the wheel and rigged it up the same way. now it's a matter of a. seeing how long the 'fix' lasts, and b. seeing how long it is before another wheel bites the dust! most people would probably have thrown the chair out by now, but nope...not me-

whatever works!

then this happened this week as well: i  was at school and i had lunch. when i went to grab the sweet-potato chips i'd baked the night before, i only saw an empty baggie. i didn't remember having eaten them, so i thought, "wow, i must be boredom eating or something..." and i was still hungry to boot...it was a little strange. well, it must've been a baggie from something else because when i got home, there were my snacks sitting where i had left them in preparation for the day!

nothing is worse than leaving food at home!

looking forward to another relaxing weekend and whatever next week brings!

julie