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Y2krazy
Member
09-17-2002
| Friday, November 09, 2007 - 5:14 am
I got so much done with DH's help yesterday. We really de-cluttered the kitchen. Got three boxes of stuff ready to give to charity. The cupboards are no longer bulging with stuff. YIPPEE!!! He has to go back to work today, it was just his day off... I still have a few more days of vacation left.
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Friday, November 09, 2007 - 6:39 am
This weekend I'm teaching my 14 year old nephew how to use the lawnmower! 
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Friday, November 09, 2007 - 10:25 am
Vee, you said "Remember the glue on those new windows? I tried e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g. The eraser was the only thing that finally worked" Did you try a razor scraper, the kind you would use on a glass top stove I mean, along with the cleaner that helps keep it from scratching? Ugh, I hate extra work on something like that. Everybody in here is doing a great job! May do the floor in the kitchen later, but will do the desk jockey part most of the day. Seems paperwork has a way of multiplying on me lately. Vacanick, don't let him run over any sprinkler heads!
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Merrysea
Member
08-13-2004
| Friday, November 09, 2007 - 10:26 am
I made my own shopping list on my computer that has the things I buy in the order they are in the store, then I just check off what I need before I go shopping. We have a white board up in our kitchen, so when anybody notices we are almost out of something, they add it to the board, and I can make my list from that.
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Friday, November 09, 2007 - 10:51 am
We have one of those wipable boards on the fridge, too. On shopping day, I just make a handwritten list from that, in the order of how the store is laid out. I hate shopping, so this is the fastest way for me.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, November 09, 2007 - 10:58 am
I have a notepad on the fridge for stuff we're out of. Right now it says cookies, lol. That's one huge gripe I have about Darren and Caleb. Both Kota and I are lactose intolerant, I don't drink milk at all and she drinks the lactaid stuff. I don't cook with it. I don't pay attention to it. And both Darren and Caleb, instead of writing it on the list or telling me we're out of milk will wait til two days after its all gone to mention it to me (usually as they're scrounging around for something for breakfast cuz there is no milk!)
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Jewels
Member
09-23-2000
| Friday, November 09, 2007 - 12:10 pm
I keep a notepad on the fridge too and just write down stuff as we run out or become low. My dh just writes down stuff that we are out of and it drives me crazy. He knows I always go to the store on Monday, so I told him if he knows on Monday we only have one more day worth of xyz, then write it down, don't wait until Tuesday when I've already been to the store!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, November 09, 2007 - 12:27 pm
LOL Jewels, my aunt does that to me every single time I go shopping! I will even call before I leave the house and tell her I'm going can she think of anything else she needs....nope. Then I drop it off and she tells me she needs this or that.
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Meme9
Member
07-30-2001
| Friday, November 09, 2007 - 5:41 pm
I didn't get much done here at home today. After I was done working, I came home and crashed. I slept for about 4 hours. Then I fixed dinner, cleaned up and I'm back on the bed. Ok, all my family and friends that were coming Thanksgiving...have decided to come after our meal(usually 1:00). I'm thinking someone told someone and they told someone...(you know how that goes)that I wasn't up to doing a big meal. First off, I haven't told everyone that I've been having issues...so, now, I'm wondering who told who what! I'm going to scale back the meal big time. It will only be dh and me, our son, our daughter and her husband. I will not have to grocery shop for Christmas, I obviously have enough food stocked up. And that big @ss turkey will probably last til next summer! That reminds me...the turkey was so big it wasn't thawed completely today...I'm hoping it's thawed tomorrow and I can bake it...I read on it 22-25lbs. will need 8-9hrs. to bake, that is all day. By the time it cools, meat trimmed off the bones, gravy made and all this bagged, sealed and frozen, it's going to be late. Not what I wanted to do on a Saturday. I'm thinking the nap made me very cranky. LOL
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Biloxibelle
Member
12-21-2001
| Saturday, November 10, 2007 - 7:37 am
This house is getting cleaned today. No ifs ands or buts! If I don't log in within the next couple of days.....send backup!
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Saturday, November 10, 2007 - 9:20 am
These pillows are getting sewn today. No ifs, ands or buts! If I don't log in within the next couple of days....send backup! Anybody else?
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Saturday, November 10, 2007 - 10:38 am
working on a major clean here too....same thing if I don't reply in a couple of days...........send backup!!!!!
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Meme9
Member
07-30-2001
| Saturday, November 10, 2007 - 12:47 pm
........send backup!!! Now!!! LOL
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Saturday, November 10, 2007 - 6:16 pm
Hang on, Meme, I'll grab my trusted old steed. Will I have to haul you out of that blessed shower or have you moved on?LOL Well, pillows are done. Just need to pick up some cord to finish the neck roll covers I made with the scraps. Then I need to finish the throw afghan I made - as soon as I figure out how to make the last row of the edging.
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Meme9
Member
07-30-2001
| Saturday, November 10, 2007 - 9:52 pm
LOL, Lumbele! When I first saw your animation, I thought you were posting me on the big @ss turkey I've been wrestling with all day!!! LOL Dh was none to happy today either...hehe I'm not sure if I should post the ordeal of the turkey baking day, or to wait. Yeah, I think I should wait til maybe tomorrow, looking back I'll see the humor more! Picture Lucille Ball...in the kitchen...with a big @ss turkey! Oh, I've moved on from the blessed shower. lol
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 1:43 am
LOL Meme, have you seen the commercial with the woman wrestling with the huge raw turkey until she throws it out her window and knocks out her husband with it? Do we need to send out a search party for Skootz and Biloxi now? Didn't do squat here today we slept in this morning, hopped in showers, got dressed and went to sis' for nieces party and spent the day there. By the time we got home tonight, no one was up for anything. To tell the truth the only mess here is mine tonight, lol. Little nephew and I are making a scrapbook for his parents for Christmas (he's doing cute things for me to take pics of, lol, and this week he's gonna have his hands and feet painted to put his hand/footprints on some of the pages.) I've only got a couple pages left to do in the book so I left the craft table and all the supplies sitting in the middle of the living room.
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 5:56 am
Well, here I am....I got a great deal of cleaning done yesterday. Not just a quick clean over, because it was not too bad before, but base boards and a good dust and vacuum clean. My two bathrooms, kitchen living room, sunroom and laundry/entrance room. The sun was shining yesterday for the first time in a week or so here, so it was nice to see it done and actually have a bit of sparkle with the sun shining in. So today, we were invited to my moms, but dh wants to do some more plowing in the field, but I have also told him that before he does this, he has to help with things around here first! I have a "honey never does list" that I want him to work on that and at least get a nice hour of help from him. I will get the kids to start filling up jugs, clean the leaves out of the pool, vacuum it etc., so we can get it closed perhaps in the next day or so as well. We haven't swam in it since the 2nd week of October. It is a tad cold and now getting late to close lol. So that;s my day..so much for Sunday being a day of rest eh?

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Biloxibelle
Member
12-21-2001
| Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 7:02 am
I'm here and closer to the end. Just not quite done yet. Still have the kitchen, laundry room, half bath, my bedroom and bath. Plus laundry so yes please......send backup!
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Meme9
Member
07-30-2001
| Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 7:18 am
War, if they don't show up by Monday I think the search party may be needed. War, no I haven't seen the commercial. By the end of my day, I wish I had thrown it out the window. If this had been Thanksgiving Day, we would not have been eating until nine o'clock at night. Well, I might as well tell the tale. Saturday morning, about seven, I ask dh to help get the bird out of the frig,(dh is fine with this step)I go to wash the turkey and get it in the oven...it's still partially frozen...it's been in the frig since Tuesday, and it's stilllll frozen. I tell dh we can't put it in the oven. I run cold water in the sink and try to finish thawing the bird. The instructions on the turkey said to bake approx. nine hours at two hundred and seventy five degrees, breast down. I've never bake one upside down or at that low of a temp. At eleven o'clock, it's thawed...I call dh to come home when he gets the chance, it wasn't long and he was home. He gets the turkey in the pan upside down and in the oven. Oh, I bought one of those aluminum pans because I didn't have one big enough without the juices running out. It filled the pan, so I knew I had to keep a close eye on the juices and use the baster to keep the juices from spilling over. As the hours past, I'm bailing the juices, I do notice the dripping sound of juice hitting the oven floor, I thought I wasn't being careful with the baster...mind you I'm having a hard time bend over anyway...so it was one of those 'get in, get out, as quick as possible'. This went on for hours. I have a convection oven and things will bake somewhat faster than a conventional one, so I put in the thermometer(in a couple places)it shows over 180 degrees, I think it's done. I'm thinking ahead here and I spread newspapers on the range just in case dh spills juices for some reason. I ask dh to come help me. As he is getting the turkey out of the oven, juice is flowing out of the bottom of the pan!!! The breast bone had punctured a hole in the pan!!! Quickly, I throw a towel under the pan before he sits it on the range. We decide to pour the juice out of the pan and into a pot then put the bird and pan in the sink. As we roll the turkey over I see juices come out and they aren't clear!!! That means it needs to go back in the oven. I grab a roasting pan, and we put it in breast side up, dh is ready to put it back in the oven and I said, wait I need to clean the gunk off the breast so it browns nicely. He goes and lays back down. While I'm making the bird neat, I realize if I don't want to spend a long time cleaning the pan, I need to put foil in. I dump the turkey back into the sink, do the foil, call for dh. Dh is not a happy camper at this point. I tell him this is the last 'big @ss turkey' I'm ever going to bake. The turkey is baking some more. I'm cleaning the floor, the range the island, the counter around the sink and the sink, what a mess. About 45 minutes later, I ask dh to come get the turkey out of the oven. He's happy this was the last time and he can go to sleep now. He gets to go to sleep and I've got a turkey that needs to cool somewhat, and then I need to get the meat off the bone and into the frig until morning to freeze. Lesson learned: If dh brings home another big turkey, I'm giving it away to a local family in need.
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Meme9
Member
07-30-2001
| Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 7:20 am
I'm glad they showed up while I was posting!!!
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 8:31 am
Merrysea said: I made my own shopping list on my computer that has the things I buy in the order they are in the store, then I just check off what I need before I go shopping Yeah, I used to do that until my bigass grocery store decided it would be fun to move things to different parts of the store - not once but a couple of times this year. Arrgggghhhhh! What a time waster for their customers. Not only are you looking for things but answering questions of complete strangers looking for things. Biloxibelle, Lumbele, Skootz, and Meme! Hope all turned out okay! Biloxi is still missing. Ack! Oh my Meme! I could "see" you every step of the way, and since I've had things like that happen can empathize and chuckle at the same time! Without a doubt, your incorporation of dh will make all the difference in the size of the turkey he brings home next year. War, I haven't seen that commercial. What product is it for? My dh is trying to train the new puppy and isn't getting very far. The puppy comes to me when he needs to #1 but wants to fiddle around in the yard after that. We can't leave him in the yard alone, because he's so little he can skoot right out through the weave of the fence. All I know is there seems to be more housework since the puppy arrived!
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 12:21 pm
Ok, I have a question of the day? Ugrace who is more work, dh or the puppy? Now really think before you answer that one Meme, I am reading your post and seeing your side of the bird cooking fun and then trying not to lol - as it is funny, but I can relate, I am sure it was not a barrel of laughs at the time. I do think a shelter of some kind would just love the bird that size next time. I like this grocery list thing as something to quickly check off when you need something and you can just check of the product. Also I use it as a guide line to see other things that you may need to purchase. I always re-write my own list and put things like produce, dairy, meats, canned goods etc., together. Like Ugrace said, these big stores keep moving things, I can no longer do it isle by isle, so I have to just bulk things together and hope that one item I realize I need is not 10 isles back lol.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 8:12 pm
OMG, Wargod, I LMAO everytime I see that commercial, I love it. Lets see, I took off on Friday, the plan was to get ahead on my house, only having the weekends wasn't doing it! I was too tired after work (it is crazy stressful right now). So Friday I moved a bookcase into my bedroom, moved a bookcase from the DR to the office and shifted a bunch of books around. Doing that made my office/LR a lot nicer (I have been trying to get to this project for a couple of weeks). I got the patio rearranged so that when the trees drop all their leaves I won't look right into my niegghbors house, moved some plants in strategically. Cleaned the patio where some kitty litter had spilled and gotten wet in the rain, got that done just in time for the newest bit of rain. Did three loads of laundry, cooked some stuff, got most of my stuff for T-day, mopped the floors and now I am working on paying the bills -- mostly just makeing sure my checkbook is right and everything is on track, I have automatic bill pay. Oh, and I took a few things down to my storage area. Just a few more things to do next weekend to feel more completely moved in! The commercial is for some sort of easier to cook turkey, the message is "tired of wrestling with your turkey, try ..." i think it is a precooked turkey. I do know that I stop and watch everytime I see the woman drop the turkey on the floor. LMAO, just thinking about it.
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Meme9
Member
07-30-2001
| Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 10:00 pm
I saw the commercial today...LOL It was funny. Whatever they were selling got lost in the humor. Good laugh for us, not so good for the company paying for the commercial. I have the oven cleaned! I also put up some new sheers on the sidelights at the front door, not sure if I like them or not. Tomorrow, I hope to start working in the office(living room hardly ever used turned office). Tuesday and Wednesday on getting the kids rooms clutter free, cleaned, and fresh sheets on the beds. I have used them to stick almost everything, because I could shut the doors and not see it. DD, room isn't to bad.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 10:56 pm
I think it's one of those turkeys that come in a bag or something. To tell the truth I'm so busy laughing I hardly notice what the product is, lol. Meme, what a mess with that turkey! I'm thinking of making one next week, with Darren and the kids home and my other two nephews here a couple days it'll be good to have lunch food. I don't have to cook one for Thanksgiving. I didn't do anything today but kick back and relax and finish off the scrapbook for little adopted sis and started Dakota's traditional Christmas scrapbook. I tried to go grocery shopping for my aunt, got to the store and realized I didn't feel the least bit like shopping. Picked up what I had to and came back home. Tomorrow I do have to get some stuff done, but with Darren and the kids home for the day I'm going to put them to work to help. I'm all for vacation days, bt I need some help for an hour or two.
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