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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Sunday, March 11, 2007 - 12:20 pm
Yep, I picked up the messes ( including a pill ) around the hospital room, and caught myself wiping down the bathroom sink, too. <sigh> Don't think I'm a Born Organizer though, because I can guarantee my mother taught me most of what I know and do. She would have been a great drill sergeant when it comes to organization and cleaning. My hubby says I have perfect organization skills when I'm at work outside the home and that I neglect to use them at home. Truth is the homefront is my home and I'm comfortable in it, but he wouldn't know if I cleaned under the sink or straightened the linen closet anyway. I used to label myself a perfectionist until I decided I didn't have to be one and relaxed. I can do a jammy day now and not feel guilty about it. Great to see you Lumbele!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, March 11, 2007 - 12:21 pm
Sidetracked! LOL, that's me. I can be cleaning the living room and go to take something to another room and get there and end up stopping to clean there before going back. I bounce all over the house, but I think a lot of that is because I like to do things all at once. Like if I'm cleaning my bedroom and polishing the furniture, I'll stop my bedroom to polish the furniture in the den, living room and other two bedrooms even if I'm not doing much work in those rooms that day or if I'm planning on mopping I'll wait til I have the kitchen, den, and bathroom clean so I can mop all three floors at the same time.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Monday, March 12, 2007 - 4:57 am
*March 12–16* *Monday's Mission* Since Kelly has chosen the office as her other room, I thought I'd include this link for the *Clickable Office*. My favorite tip is to place the desk telephone on the left if right-handed and vice versa. There are other plenty of other practical tips as well. Probably nothing that Vacanick and NT haven't already seen in their travels, though. I enjoyed reading your comments and hope that others may join the conversation, too. I even found a test on perfectionism that I took this weekend scoring just 75. Believe me, I was bummed about that! LOL! Lum, as ever, you are our practical one and I think we can learn a whole lot from your approach. I'd like to have your energy, Wargod!! Urgrace, LOL! I can just see you in there straightening up the hospital. Maybe by the time Kit gets sprung, you'll have it shaped up. Happy Home Blessing Hour today!
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Monday, March 12, 2007 - 7:03 am
We'd all love to have War's energy.LOL Hey, Gracie, how's Kitt doing? Got a question. Our new pizza stone is not coming as clean as I'd like, far from it. However, the instructions state that cleaning it wet is a nono. Now, I scraped everything off that's scrapable, but that doesn't do anything for the stains. Anybody got any trick to impart or do I just have to live with it as is?
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Monday, March 12, 2007 - 7:43 am
A good motto to remember is "The worse it looks, the better is cooks!" Seasoned stoneware will become darkened and look "ugly" (although that is in the eye of the beholder! I think a seasoned stone is beautiful!) *Source*
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Monday, March 12, 2007 - 8:53 am
Thanks, Vee, live with it it is then. 
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, March 12, 2007 - 11:55 am
Hehe, I've got to tell ya'll a funny story. A while back my sister was getting ready for people to come over and she'd given my 7 year old niece the vacuum and asked her to see how well she could do it. Judging by what I saw later that day, she did a pretty good job. Anyways, we'd been talking on the phone about it and my youngest niece who is 3 was complaining that mommy hadn't given her a job. I told her to give the little one a rag and let her dust. I haven't given that much thought since that day. This morning she was over visiting and I left her in the living room playing while I was washing some breakfast dishes. I have a load of laundry sitting there waiting to be folded....she'd taken a washcloth out of my basket and was walking around dusting everything she could reach and singing, lol! She did such a good job I had to pay her a buck. I wish I had my energy today! I did pretty good this morning, cleaned up the living room and kitchen, vacuumed and mopped some floors, threw one load of laundry in...but now at almost noon I'm sitting here staring at the load that needs folded and put away. When I pick Darren up from the drs later I need to run by Costco, I don't have a choice on that. But I also have several other rooms I should do something in and just don't feel like it!
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Monday, March 12, 2007 - 2:36 pm
War, give yourself a little break! I adore three year olds. What a sweetie. Does she have a piggy bank? Sitting, lying, hanging out at the hospital has to be one of the most tiresome jobs ever. I swear, I didn't clean up anyone's space but ours! Today the various staff left paperwork with stats, two packages of ECG tabs, an extra neuralizer mask, several plastic tube covers, a twist off top and some pad with straps belonging to some one else. They tried to give me a warming blanket that belonged to another patient, too. Guess you could say I cleaned up at the 'office', today. Thanks for asking, Lumbele. Kit has much better numbers and stats now, but he still refuses to allow anyone to put anything (food or drink) in his mouth. DH and I have tried the straight approach, the sneaky approach and the guilt approach with little luck. Today he has had three bites of a banana, one bite of oatmeal with applesauce in it and about one ounce of apple juice. The IV drip is keeping him hydrated and full of antibiotics. The chest therapy and breathing treatments are keeping him loosened up. He's fine as long as he is in the hospital and they are pumping nutrients into him, but otherwise it's up to Kit and the Lord.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, March 12, 2007 - 3:33 pm
Is Kit being stubborn about eating just to be stubborn or is it because of the pnuemonia, Gracie? I know when Kota has trouble with her asthma we can't get her to eat anything, though she will drink water, apple juice or gatorade (I think cuz it soothes her throat when she's been coughing.) I do hope he's feeling better and that he starts to eat and drink on his own! Niece has a couple piggy banks. She loves to save money and loves to find money, lol. Usually when she's coming over here I'll walk around the living room and den and "drop" pennies around for her to find. She's always so proud to come show me what she's found and either sticks it in her pocket or sets it on the table for when she goes home. I never do this when any of the other kids are here, but she takes such joy in finding it that it's fun to watch, lol.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Monday, March 12, 2007 - 4:28 pm
Definite stubborness War. He didn't have pneumonia before, but he has been in the hospital twice for the same thing - not eating - two years ago and four years ago. We just have to figure out what exactly is bothering him and go from there.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Tuesday, March 13, 2007 - 5:50 am
*Tuesday's Mission* The "wargodding" gene must run in the family! : > Urgrace, do you have any words of wisdom about coping with stress? Caring for an adult child with disabilities who isn't always a willing participant in his own care has got to take some kind of grit. Sometimes we don't realize all that folks are coping with from day to day. It's a whole lot bigger than smudges on the bathroom door. Best of flying today! ETA: Take a peek at what NT has been up to lately in the Military Family Support Group thread. Lots of super pictures!
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Tuesday, March 13, 2007 - 6:21 am
Well hot dang!!! Yesterday I moved the stuff on the left over to the right. Just cain't win!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, March 13, 2007 - 9:46 am
LOL Lum. I was reading the hot spot thing where it says to look under your desk and my first thought was "NO! I don't want to!" I'm pretty sure I'm gonna find old bills and dust under mine..don't want to look! And it's just a reminder that I need to tackle the kids desk. They have two shelves under theirs that used to be used for storing books they needed but not on a regular basis (like the dictionary and thesaraus..I know I spelled that wrong! and several gaming books of Calebs) and now those shelves are just a jumbled mess of whatever they don't know where else to put it.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Tuesday, March 13, 2007 - 11:21 am
Hysterical laughter from Lumbele's post here! Yesterday, I was thinking it too, but didn't do it. Afraid the desk clutter will have to wait for another day. I'm home for a midday nap! Vee, the good Lord must have given me just the right number of people with disabilities in my young life to learn how to cope as a parent and grandparent. My uncle had polio, aunt was mentally a child, two friends in different states were severe burn victims, neighbor kid had cerebral palsy, different schoolmates had wink disorder, birth defects, deafness, leukemia, skin cancer and mild cerebral palsy. Kit also has cerebral palsy, but is severely multiply impaired. My oldest granddaughter became stricken with transverse myelitis at two which paralyzed her from the chest down. Remembering what a joy all these people have given me is truly a stress reducer. You must truly put roses in your life and take time to smell the roses frequently.    
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, March 13, 2007 - 2:24 pm
Ya know Gracie, I agree! When I worked, we had this partnership thing with a community organization that worked with disabled kids (well, teenagers really, 16-20.) Most of the ones we had were mild-moderate down syndrome, though we did have a couple who had phsical disabilities if they weren't too severe. They attended a special class where they learned things they'd need to learn once they were out of school, like how to catch buses, manage money, or get a job. I was working in the dining room at the time so got to train them and spend a lot of time with them and I had a blast! Those kids were so enthusiastic and fun to be around and made work just fly by. There was one girl, Carol, who had started shortly after her 16th birthday. Usually we'd have these kids for four or five months, then they'd go to another job, but with Carol, they tried several other jobs and she never did as well with any of them that she did with us, so she came back and spent all four years with us. When she graduated the class, she was offered a part time job working five days a week. There were times that she tested your patience and pushed the limits, but in the end it was totally worth it. When she left us, we threw her a going away party and no one was left not in tears! I came to care for all of those kids, but Carol will always hold a special place because when she laughed or was full of joy, she could light up the whole room.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Tuesday, March 13, 2007 - 4:34 pm
Awww, Grace, that's one of the most lovely sentiments ever expressed. You seem to have found the secret so many are looking for... 
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 5:10 am
*Wednesday's Mission* Well, I am officially missionless for the day having just done these assignments in the morning Swish and Swipe. Guess I could get the computer screen cleaned up, though. Since we haven't had any before and afters lately, I am including this link of *Before and After* pics. Don't ask me why, but looking at this stuff totally floats my boat. I'm ill. LOL! Have a happy day flying, fluttering or flubbing!
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 5:34 am
*Thursday's Mission* A fun one today! It's sort of a Home and Organization meets Decorating Ideas. I need a question for the day. Anyone have one? LOL!
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 8:55 am
Okay, this is beginning to be strange. I seem to be doing things before Kelly puts them down as a mission! AcK! Maybe it's esp. Tuesday evening I had to go shopping for a few things since I'd been at the hospital most of a week. The grocery store parking lot was packed, so I moseyed over to Target. I got sidetracked in the bath isles looking at the cutesy bathroom accessories and thought about how our main bath needs redecorating - from the floor up. I also need to remove about half of the towels and washcloths from the linen closet and donate them. Community services has been trying to get us to put in a "drive-in" shower for my son in place of the bathtub. I'm not keen on losing my tub, but know the fifties style in there is beginning to irritate me! I have already renovated the master bath and gotten rid of the medicine cabinet and light fixture in there. We modernized it, put down new flooring, also changed the hardware, and repainted. "Anyone have one?" sounds like a question to me, Vee! 
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Native_texan
Member
08-24-2004
| Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 10:52 am
Hi ya'll! I know I've been lax about coming in here but I'm trying to get back into the groove. The party is over (huge success and feel free to see pics in the Miltary Support Group thread) but I still have to finish and frame the cross-stitch gift before we go to San Diego in 17 days. My kitchen is currently a no-Fly Zone because my daddy is the bestest daddy in the whole wide world. I had mentioned a few weeks ago that I wanted to reface my kitchen cabinets and asked him what it would cost me. Well, bless his heart, he never gave me an answer, but instead drew up plans for completely redoing my kitchen. We are tearing out the old knotted pine cabinets and putting in oak. He started with pantry/cupboards, tore it out, move it down a foot and rebuilt it deeper and wider than before so that I now have a cubby for my microwave and can throw out the computer printing table it has sat on for years. My fridge was about an inch too tall for the cabinet it's supposed to go under. Not anymore. It's been torn out and rebuilt bigger also. He just started this week so we have a ways to go . My most favorite I'm doing is a tin backsplash which will carry over behind my stove and can't wait to see how it looks. I'm already ahead of Kelly also in the bathroom department. I've been thinking about what I want to do with it in the way of remodeling.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 11:27 am
NT, you'd better be getting some before and afters! You know how I love them!! 
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Native_texan
Member
08-24-2004
| Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 11:48 am
Vee, I have the befores, although the pantry and cabinet above the fridge were already torn out but since they had been there since 1954 there's no mistaking where they were.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 11:54 am
DH and I were discussing the kitchen cabinets yesterday. I told him I don't feel like repainting them and want to just buy new cabinet doors/drawer fronts. He said I should just measure and buy all new cabinets! What a shocker. Then he said we should get a new double oven and new dishwasher. Okay, that sounds like a makeover to me, 'cause the microwave and refrigerator are both brand new, and I don't need to replace the glass stove top or sink! Can't even think about redoing the kitchen right now, though. I have too many other things on my 'mind' plate. Then he comes in the 'spare/catch all/computer' room and says, you need new closet doors in here, don't you? Hmmmm, did he win the lottery and not tell me? I am a little bit jealous of NT and her dad doing those things for her, because I know my dad would too, if he were nearby. The tin backsplash sounds cool. Don't forget the modern way to do cabinets is to leave them without drawer/door pulls. Gee, you even get more floor space without the microwave stand. I know you are going to love it.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 12:15 pm
Hey NT, take some pix and post them in the decorating thread, maybe we can toss a few ideas out for you... Are you going to be painting or anything?
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 12:20 pm
Yay, are you going to post them now or when you are finished, NT?
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