cinco de mayo

i actually had a teacher walk up to me yesterday and ask what the date is. is it the 6th she asked? no, i said, it's the 5th. Cinco de Mayo! she looked at me like i had lost my mind. cinco de mayo, i tried again? still a blank stare... so i said it one more time, because maybe she just is old and hasn't woken up yet...cinco de mayo! the mexican holiday? nope. nothing. she had no idea. how does that happen? i thought everyone celebrated with mexican food and beer. maybe that's just me. apparently mexicans don't celebrate it, and it's their own holiday, but leave it to americans to kick mexicans out of the country, then celebrate one of their holidays. i'm for it. and i'll keep doing it. in celebration for the wonderful cinco de mayo, i made a mexican lasagna. my sister got to see it going into the oven, via gchat video. it was scrumptious. i also made some mexicanish hominy...although i don't think hominy is at all mexican.
i ended up eating alone because our air conditioner was being fixed, and trust me, i would rather eat alone every night than go without heat at this time in memphis. so i ate alone, and drank my beer alone, while the husband vigilantly watched the sketchballs who were sent to fix our AC. i suppose i shouldn't say he vigilantly watched, since he was working in the garage for the most part. this is what my garage looks like most afternoons...

now he is a wonderful husband, so he moves both cars out, works, then moves them back in. but still. this is my life.

and these two pictures show the sides. they're like this all the time. we just got a lot of this wood the other day though, and john's going to build us something glorious from it. 

beautiful tongue and groove boards for a new kitchen table. 

isn't that so pretty!? 

see the tongue and groove? 

both ends have tongues. perfect for teaching children not to stick their own tongues out. good thing we don't have to worry about that yet.