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Wargod
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07-16-2001

Thursday, July 26, 2007 - 3:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
{{{Gracie}}}

Vee
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02-23-2004

Friday, July 27, 2007 - 2:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
*Friday's Mission*

Right, Kelly! ;> The thought of lighting a candle at bedtime scares me...

Urgrace, take care... We're going to miss you around here.

Vee
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02-23-2004

Monday, July 30, 2007 - 2:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
*July 30–31*

*Monday's Mission*

Ahhh, sofa diving! :-)

Hope you all find money!

Serate
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08-21-2001

Monday, July 30, 2007 - 1:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Got the new microwave installed last night.



Now just waiting on the stove. Today is day 10, was supposed to be here in 7 - 10 days. I'm trying not to be impatient but the whole reason for a new stove is this one scares the pagjoobies out of me and is getting worse and worse.

Saturday we butchered a tree [see the gripe thread for more details if you want] and yesterday did some butchering of the butchered and got all the big limbs chopped smaller. Still had alot of the smaller ones left so I spent an hour and a half chopping up branches with pruners so they would fit in the compost bags to put out for tomorrow's trash pick up. 5 bags full. And still some more left but I just piled them nicely by the wood pile hubby made yesterday with the chopped up branches.

Not much going on in the house. Did some laundry but mainly worked on filing.

Vee
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02-23-2004

Tuesday, July 31, 2007 - 2:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
No new mission up as another snafu has last week's Tuesday mission from the bedroom instead of this week's from the living room. In lieu of a mission, I'm posting *The Detailed List of Cleaning for the Living Room.*

Serate, the new microwave looks very nice in your pretty new kitchen. Hope that the stove is here today.

Happy Tuesday!

Serate
Member

08-21-2001

Tuesday, July 31, 2007 - 5:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
I'm playing the waiting game today. I guess this time it wasn't good to be patient. Stove was in at Menards last Tuesday. They supposedly sent a postcard. They are delivering the stove today. No time frame. No promise of a phone call, even tho we told them when we paid for it and hubby told them last night we needed a call so I could lock up the kitties. We are so disappointed in this Menards. Since I can't hear anybody knocking at the door anywhere but the kitchen, dining, & living rooms and those are pretty much ok it's gonna be a lazy day for me until the stove is delivered.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, July 31, 2007 - 7:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Ack Serate that sucks! I hope you let them know how disappointed you are.

Today I'm running. Or later today at any rate. My sister called me Friday and asked me if I could come clean my youngest nieces bedroom carpet. Sis said and I quote, "She's been peeing in her room." Now I'm sitting here thinking it's a bit strange but niece is only 3 and maybe she's had some trouble making it to the potty in the middle of the night and has been wetting the bed. But then sis continued, "And I think she's peed in the hallway." At that point I just had to speak up. What do you mean she's been peeing in the hallway? In her bed I can understand but the hallway??? Sis started laughing and said, not the baby, the dog! So I will be out there today cleaning her carpets since sis can't do it.

Also have to do my aunts today. She has developed a stubborn streak lately and is insistent I won't be doing as much for her as I have been doing. I've got a couple problems with this, lol. As I keep telling her, if I do a little bit throughout the week, then one day come in and do a good cleaning, her house is good and it's not a lot of work. However if she keeps putting me off, it just makes more work for me later on. I've been timing some of my visits for when I know she's napping so I can go clean some. She has been taking a more active envovlement with cleaning (she washes dishes, cleans her tables, wipes the bathroom sink down) but really shouldn't be doing much more than that. The thought of her trying to change sheets of sweep scares me. I'm going to go over and have a little chat with her today, lol. Seriously, if I go do 20-30 minutes of cleaning each day, then the big housecleaning day will only take a an hour or two compared to 4-5 if I'm not doing that daily work. Now I just need to convince her of this, lol!

Serate
Member

08-21-2001

Tuesday, July 31, 2007 - 9:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Just cleaned my oven. Looks brand new.

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 2:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
*August 1–3*

*Wednesday's Mission*

How dirty was your new oven, Serate? ;> Any chance of a pic?

Yup, Wargod, definitely easier to keep up than to catch up. Hope that your aunt will be okay with that explanation. It makes perfect sense to me!

Happy Wednesday, everybody!

Serate
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08-21-2001

Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 6:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    


Vee
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02-23-2004

Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 10:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
Serate, you sure know how to build curiosity! LOL!!

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 11:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
Well, finally, I have cleared the island and dining room table, there are no more boxes to be unpacked in my new house. I can finally get back on my cleaning routines, which I desperately need. I now know how often my kitties throw up, it is not hidden when you have hard wood floors, LOL. And I am now aware of the mass amount of hair they shed, LOL, I have a roomba on order.

Excellent to start with the front door! I can't wait to get home and sweep and wipe it down!

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Thursday, August 02, 2007 - 3:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
*Thursday's Mission*

Yay, Dipo! It's wonderful to read how much you've gotten accomplished. I had many boxes that were unpacked after 14 years. Yikes!

Does your new home feel like home now? I know that it can take awhile sometimes. Nothing like kitties to help with that process, even if they are shedding and other things. Ha!

Dipo, have you ever seen *This Product*?

Serate, if you'd like to come out from your cloak of invisibility today...

How's everyone doing this fine Thursday anyway?

Skootz
Member

07-23-2003

Thursday, August 02, 2007 - 3:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Skootz a private message Print Post    
Morning, well this week has been a busy one, it started out slow and bam it is Thursday already. We are leaving after lunch tomorrow for a week of camping. I think I have most everything purchased. Have the fridge plugged in, so just have to get the fresh food and our clothes in the trailer. Today is to hit 93F and I work till noon. So it will be high noon that I pack it up..or tomorrow morning lol

I want to clean up the house to before I leave so we come home to a clean/de-cluttered home.

Have a great day

P.S. the link for your "product" you posted doesn't work Vee? (not for me anyway)

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Thursday, August 02, 2007 - 3:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
Have fun on vacation, Skootz. It's not easy getting all that you must do done in the heat and humidity. Yuck.

Thanks for telling me about the link. It was supposed to be a You tube clip. Let me give another and we'll see if it works: *Furminator.* I just ordered one this morning from Amazon.com so I will get back to you with my critique as soon as it arrives.

Y2krazy
Member

09-17-2002

Thursday, August 02, 2007 - 5:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Y2krazy a private message Print Post    
Have a great time camping, Skootz! I'll be right behind you! I'm leaving the weekend you're coming home. I'll be camping at Sauble Beach. I'm so looking forward to it. I should be cleaning more at home before I go....but it's so, so hot!

Skootz
Member

07-23-2003

Thursday, August 02, 2007 - 5:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Skootz a private message Print Post    
Y2krazy..it is soooooooooo hot, but we cannot complain, we want this weather in the winter and we cannot gripe about it in the summer then, right? lol

btw, Y2, you have a pm.
:-)

Serate
Member

08-21-2001

Thursday, August 02, 2007 - 9:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Am I visible yet? *L*

Serenity
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06-28-2005

Thursday, August 02, 2007 - 9:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serenity a private message Print Post    
LOL Serate!!!

My house cleaning went swimmingly! However...I am gearing up for months of dust and construction clutter. DH is going to start finishing my basement in the next two weeks! Yeah!!! By 2008 I will have a new storage room, a third bedroom, another bathroom, and a family room. I can't wait! It will take a while because we are doing all the work ourselves (with help from my step-dad who is a general contractor).
The bonus is that I decluttered all of my junk before storing it in the garage - so moving it all back in once the basement is complete will be a snap.

Serate
Member

08-21-2001

Thursday, August 02, 2007 - 10:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
I could have sworn I posted pics yesterday.


What the kitchen looked like move in day.







As it looks now. Disappointed in our "white" mini blind but at least it makes the cabinets look whiter than they really are. Hopefully the one over the sink will go up this weekend. One thing bad about the stove - it has to sit out 4 inches from the wall because the gas hook up is at the top of the stove flush with the back, and the other stove it was recessed into the back at the bottom. I had the trash can under the sink but that wasn't working out [don't even get me started!] but we need something to deter the kitties from going behind the stove. I see a black one sitting there as soon as I find one I like. New dishwasher will have to wait until we need one, just can't see getting a new one when the one there is not that old.

Serate
Member

08-21-2001

Thursday, August 02, 2007 - 10:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Oh sorry Vee you asked to see my clean as new oven. Look now cuz it'll never look like this again.



Skootz
Member

07-23-2003

Thursday, August 02, 2007 - 10:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Skootz a private message Print Post    
Great pictures and a great oven...my oven is still as clean as the day I cleaned it as it has been over 90 here the past week or so and there is NO WAY that I am turning it on for anyone. lol

Dipo
Member

04-23-2002

Thursday, August 02, 2007 - 11:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
LOL, that furminator would work great except the kitties think that my hand is supposed to do that work!

My Condo is definitely starting to feel like home, I have a few pictures up and hopefully can finish up some of that stuff this weekend. I have a "handyman" coming to take a look at stuff I want to do tomorrow at 6:30 -- like install the medicine cabinet and light fixture. Have I mentioned before that I hate, well strongly dislike my bathroom, and the new stuff is my way of finding a cheap way of making me love it, LOL.

Serate, love the new kitchen, have you thought of getting a new panel for the dishwasher? I don't know how expensive they are but maybe they have one in black that would make it more like your other appliances.

Hope all the camping trips are tons of fun.

Y2krazy
Member

09-17-2002

Thursday, August 02, 2007 - 11:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Y2krazy a private message Print Post    
Thanks Skootz, I'll check when I get home. I'm at work so I'm not supposed to play on here too much...LOL

One last thing....if I want to complain about the hot weather, I will....I don't complain in winter.....much LOL

The heat bothers me a whole lot more than the cold ever does.....I can put on more clothes...there's a limit to what I can take off-if you know what I mean

Y2krazy
Member

09-17-2002

Thursday, August 02, 2007 - 12:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Y2krazy a private message Print Post    
And when I get home, could someone tell me how to check for a pm?