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Wargod
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07-16-2001

Sunday, September 28, 2008 - 12:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Oh wow, Dipo, you got quite a bit done too! I need to wash my comforter.

I plan on doing nothing tomorrow, I'm absolutely worn out today.

Hey same here with the weather! Dakota's party was scheduled for last weekend and I've been worrying all week it was going to cool down (pool party!) We walked out of the house about 10:30 or so and it was already 90, big relief for me cuz I had nothing else planned if it was too cool for the kids to swim, lol.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, September 29, 2008 - 12:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Mondays Mission

In spite of my desire to do nothing today, me and the kids did vacuum my car and carpet clean the floorboards and then washed it. Yesterday I dropped the kids off at sis' while I did a quick errand and when Kota got out of the car she dropped a bottle of bbq sauce. Lid popped off and splattered the side of my car. I didn't realize it'd gotten on the car til later and by then it was dried, no wiping it off.

Tomorrow is cleaning day for me at home. Hoping to get all of it done, Tuesday I have to take both my aunt to her dr appt and Darren to an eye dr appt so I'll be a bit too busy for much else.

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Monday, September 29, 2008 - 10:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
Sunday for me was to finish up my "soft" chores. Rend the sunday paper, finished my tapes (only had 4 this week), looked at and recycled all the catalogs, opened and sorted any mail that hadn't been dealt with, did the required computer updates.

Now the week begins! If it cools down I may get a few things done after work.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 12:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Tuesday's Mission

Ew, Dipo, I hate sorting mail, I really really do.

Today was the day of mishaps. After all the work on my car yesterday, it rained today. Was going to clean at least part of the carpet, one of the hoses busted on the cleaner and shot water all over me. Broke some glasses washing dishes. Made the most amazing chicken n dumplings, tasted good, looked great and creamy, and burned it in the last 10 minutes or so of cooking. I should have taken the day off, lol.

I've added a couple errands to dr appt day tomorrow, need to run by the bank, need to go pay for Darren's current class, and need to run by the grocery store. I'm hoping I may get something done around the house but I'm really not counting on it unless it's later in the day.

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 1:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
Wargod, sometimes I swear you do yourself in, LOL.

So last night I managed to get the bedroom swept, wow, I didn't realize how long it had been, or me and my kitties have been especially dirty, hahahaha. I swept up the kitty litter on the bathroom floor and darn if I didn't have to do it again this morning, darn Blackie!

I do need to check the missions and figure out where we are. I am thinking tonight I will clean the patio (again - the leaves really are falling), take out the trash and mop the bedroom.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 1:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
You aren't kidding Dipo! Heh, screwed up today too. Took my aunt to the dr, they wrote a new prescription and an order for bloodwork. Nurse asked if the visiting nurse still came and I said yes (they send the order for bloodwork straight to him, rather than giving it to us,) she said ok and handed me the prescription. I just ran to the pharmacy and handed it to the girl working and she said, "uh...this is an order for bloodwork." Argh...nurse gave me that instead of the prescription and I never even looked at it. Now I have to call dr, pick up the prescription, and take it back ot the pharmacy.

Missions right now are the living room. I really should be following them this week, but have been getting distracted with other stuff.

Funny, I just walked in the house and thought about how messy the porch/driveway is looking. Not so much falling leaves, but, we've had quite a bit of wind lately.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, October 01, 2008 - 2:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Wednesday's Mission

Hehe, everytime this one comes up I swear Flylady's been through my living room. Kids and Darren always walk in and drop everything right there in the entryway.

Like I expected, I didn't get much done today. My aunts appt wasn't too bad, not quite in and out but it was pretty quick. Got my errands done, except for going by the grocery store (sales ad came today and there's some good sales starting tomorrow.) Darren's appt took forever though. It was scheduled for 2:30, we got there at 2:10, they didn't even call him in til 3. Finally called him in, but first they have the tech? nurse? come in and do a quickie exam, then pressure test, ask all the questions, etc, when he was done he had us wait in the hall til eye dr was ready for him. While waiting I did make an appt for me (Nov. 3) so that was good. I had to leave at 3:45 to pick up the kidlets and Darren was still waiting to see the eye dr then. By time we got back to get him, we waited another ten minutes, then he had to order glasses and by the time we got home it was 4:30, ack!

On the plus side, we have a newish secondary (vision) insurance, don't pay copays and they cover most or all of one pair of glasses per family member per year. I think we pay like $10 a month for it. Totally worth it, last year Caleb's glasses cost us $380, this year free. Darren's new ones will cost us $30 (for kids glasses, the insurance covers polycarbonate lenses, but they charge the $30 for adults.) Love the new insurance, it's already saved us a bundle.

This evening I cleaned the kitchen: washed the few dishes, wiped down the stove, fridge, and cabinets, swept and mopped the floor. Also rinsed the beans and put them on to soak so tomorrow morning all I have to do is toss them in the crockpot for dinner. Oh and did a load of laundry.

Tomorrow, or today rather, all I have to do is go to the grocery store. Planning a decent cleaning day here (Caleb has a track meet Thursday, that'll be most of the afternoon.) Maybe even carpet cleaning and washing the curtains since we're working in the living room this week.

Dfennessey
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07-25-2004

Wednesday, October 01, 2008 - 4:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dfennessey a private message Print Post    
War I have vision insurance and I love it. I just pay a $10.00 copay and my glasses are free (one a year) I think everyone that needs glasses should invest in vision insurance. It is worth the $10.00 a month

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Wednesday, October 01, 2008 - 1:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
Wow, you guys are lucky, I have vision benefits from my employer and I still end up spending $200-500 for my glasses. I have progressive bifocals, scratch resistance, and inevitably I pick the most expensive frames in the building. LOL. I am going to put some money into the flex plan to pay for that this year and some extra dental stuff that won't be covered. I am so bad at my benefits, but getting better.

Ok, lets see, what did I do-- hmm, apparently not much, oh that's right, I did have plans but then I found this sticky white creamy stuff on the floor coming out of my refrigerator. Couldn't figure out what it was, it was sort of the consistency of sour cream. Anyway, cleaned up the long dribble and it occurred to me that it could be milk. Sure enough, one of the gallons I had delivered on Sunday was leaking, so out comes the milk, pulled the shelf to clean, wiped up the refrig and down the inner door of the freezer and to the floor. Found three different spots that had to be cleaned, two were hard and dry, eventually it was faster to use a knife to scrap it up and then wipe it down. So after all that I just loaded the dishwasher, ran it and this morning I unloaded it.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, October 01, 2008 - 3:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Oh the vision is awesome. Caleb's had glasses for 8 years, sometimes 2-3 pair a year. I got mine about 5 years ago and they cost a small fortune (last pair was over $500.) Darren's had them for 3 years now. It wasn't too bad with just Caleb but now all three of us we're spending anywhere from $800-1500 a year on glasses, plus all the co-pays (with the regular insurance we had to go see our dr, get the referral and then go to the eye dr, two co-pays each time, now we have none.) The secondary insurance is so worth it.

More later, having a pretty bad day so far.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, October 01, 2008 - 11:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Today was a total wash as far as housework goes. Darren got up and left for work, his left knee swollen/red/sore. He made it a couple miles and had to come back home cuz it hurt so bad he couldn't shift gears.

I finally convinced him to let me take him to urgent care. We spent a couple hours waiting, then the dr came in and stuck a needle in it (no fluid which was good.) Says it's cellulitis, hooked him up to IV antibiotics, did an x-ray and kept him there another couple hours. I had to leave him there to go pick up the kids, drop his prescriptions off and run by the grocery store. Then back to get him, make an appt for tomrorrow (has to go back for more antibiotics and to have it checked) then back to the pharmacy. And since he had class tonight, I had to take him to the college to drop off his homework and explain why he wouldn't be there for an oral presentation. By the time we were done it was already 7:30.

I'm not expecting tomorrow to be much better. Another dr appt and Caleb has another track meet. Poor Darren with his sore leg, now also has the iv thingie still in his arm (all wrapped up) so he can't do too much. He's even having trouble getting off the couch by himself.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Thursday, October 02, 2008 - 1:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Thursday's Mission

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Friday, October 03, 2008 - 1:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Friday's Mission

Tomorrow is another dr appt with Darren and probably more iv antibiotics and banking day for my aunt. Not sure if I have anything else planned or not.

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Friday, October 03, 2008 - 10:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
Wow, you have a lot of appointments this week for doctors. I screwed my back up on Wendesday night so haven't done much since, annoying!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, October 06, 2008 - 1:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Monday's Mission

Kitchen today, though I don't keep a trashcan, so won't be doing this one.

I didn't get much done yesterday (or most of last week) but today got quite a bit done. I have the living room sparkly clean and ready to have the carpet clean, except that the carpet cleaners not working for some reason and I think I'm going to have to take it in to have fixed (Darren tried but no luck.) Something about the hoses.

Cleaned up the kitchen, though I'm looking forward to the missions this week. Went grocery shopping yesterday and got all the meat and veggies seperated today, along with the pretzels (seperate the big bags into the sandwich baggies,) and made up the menu for the next couple weeks.

Also got a couple loads of laundry done and folded, not put away though. Caleb mowed the lawn, Kota cleaned the bathroom, and Kota and my nieces decorated for Halloween (mostly.)

Considering whats been done the past week, including fast food two nights, quite a bit accomplished today. Hoping this week is a bit smoother and I can accomplish more.

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Monday, October 06, 2008 - 11:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
Wargod, hope this week goes much better for you and everyone, including you, gets well and feels better.

I made beef stew this weekend, which caused me to look into my veggie bin where I found I was supporting a lot of mushy stuff. This lead to cleaning out the frig (soemthing I have been meaning to do) and then cleaning the frig (still some leftover milk mess). It wasn't on my list but got done so I guess I am ahead for the kitchen week. I got the entire house swept, which doesn't sound like much but since I screwed up my back on Thursday I was happy. Spent most of sunday doing officy stuff like balancing my checkbook, activating a bunch of credit cards (that got filed into the back of my desk) and cleaning up my inbox and snail mail.

I did realize this morning that I only have five pairs of panties therefore I must plan for some laundry, LOL.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, October 06, 2008 - 11:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Oh that's funny about the laundry Dipo! In our house, school and work clothes are the first thing I (and now Kota) wash cuz, well they can't go naked. Then towels. Then it's my clothes. Figure if for some reason I run out of clean clothes, I can spend the day at home in my jammies (the sacrifices I make .)

I got up and got dressed this morning and saw I only had two pair of clean socks left. Now, I don't have a gazillion pair like everyone else in the family and Dakota often takes my socks (she loves her knee high funky socks and the shorter cartoon character ones but sometimes she wants the white ankle socks) but I know when I get down that low, it's time to do laundry.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, October 06, 2008 - 11:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Tuesday's Mission

Well, I got squat done today, except for taking a nap and vegging on the couch all evening. Caught the damn cold everyone else in the family has now.

Tomorrow's gonna be baby steps all the way. A little laundry. Throwing dinner in the crockpot. Washing a few dishes. I have too much to do later this week to not take it easy while I have the chance to now.

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Tuesday, October 07, 2008 - 1:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
I didn't get much done myself, Wargod, I did get the kitty litter off the bathroom floor, finally transferred some paint into new cans (the old can lip was rusting) and got that off my island. I am especially proud of that one because I think it has been on my list for 3 months, LOL.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, October 07, 2008 - 2:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Heh, I love stuff like that Dipo! Darren goes paintballing sometimes. He's pretty good about putting his stuff up (gear, gun, canisters or air or whatever they are,) except for the box of paintballs. Has a box of 1,000 of them sitting on the bookshelf in the den. It's something I've been meaning to put up forever..since I babysat my nephew (and last time I did that was at the beg. of May!) It's like my eyes glide right over them when I'm cleaning the den and it's usually something like this, you talking about moving the paint cans, that makes me think about it.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, October 08, 2008 - 1:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Wednesday Mission

I just love missions that include my trusty cleaning tooth brush.

I got a little done today but that was about it. Sis called this morning and asked if I was feeling worse. Huh? Apparently this crap gets worse before it gets better. Had to call her and tell her thanks this evening, I made what everyone else said was a great dinner, but I wouldn't know since I had no appetite at all. Thanks sis.

I don't know what the heck got into my kidlet today. Kota came home from school, had her snack, and went to her room to do her homework. When she was done she came out and told us she was going to be doing something in her room and didn't want to be disturbed. Door shut, radio went up, and we didn't see her for another hour. Darren called her for something and I told him she wouldn't hear him, she was rocking out to Alvin and the Chipmunks and didn't want to be disturbed, he just laughed. She came out a few minutes later, asked us to close our eyes and led us back to her room.

I'll admit, I expected to find a giant fort in her room or a gazillion polly pockets staring at me, certainly not what she showed us. She clean cleaned her room. Cleaned off her desk and wiped it down, polished her furniture, put all her toys away, picked up the laundry, made the beds. I was a bit shocked. That's Caleb, he's neat and tidy, doesn't like mess and will usually pick up. Dakota though, as long as she can find what she's looking for, her rooms clean enough. Usually it's a fight to get her to do it!

She also remembered it was her chore night, laundry, and asked what she could do since there wasn't a whole lot of everything. Told her to do what little she and Caleb had and a few things I had and she jumped right to it. When she was done, Caleb was motivated, picked up his room and stripped his bed and washed the sheets and comforter (he doesn't use a blanket.) It wasn't done by bedtime so he grabbed another set of sheets and a sleeping bag.

It was sooooo nice. Silly as it sounds, I was really touched. Darren was sick last week, hard for me to keep up, the last couple days I've felt lousy and he still isn't feeling great. Housework is just maintaining right now. Was nice to have them do something just cuz. They got dessert after dinner.

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Wednesday, October 08, 2008 - 2:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
Wow, that sounds like a great day!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Thursday, October 09, 2008 - 1:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Thursday's Mission

Sis was telling me earlier this yucky illness is some virus or other. She's about a day ahead of me with it (aunt is two days ahead) and still not feeling good and I'm thinking this week so sucks.

Unfortunately, sick or not, tomorrow's a busy day for me. Have to run and pay some bills, run by the kids drs office, then pick Caleb up by 1 to take him to a cross country meet across town. I had told him I wasn't going to take him and he just said "OK," no whining or complaining, but he sounded so disappointed. Told him ya know what, I'll take you. He's only got six meets, not fair to him to miss one when he's been working so hard to get his time down. Darren's on mandatory OT so he can't take him either.

Don't know that I'll have much time for cleaning after everything else I have to do. At least there's no big messes!

Heh, Dakota's been full of surprises lately. I'm seeing such maturity from both of them lately. I miss my little kidlets but sure am liking the big ones (minus puberty.)

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Friday, October 10, 2008 - 1:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Friday's Mission

Good one for me tomorrow. I'm hoping to spend most the day at home and getting things cleaned up. Rather not spend the weekend cleaning.

Caleb has a big project due in language arts due Monday. It's a book report, but he's got to draw a character on poster board and dress him/her with fabric or construction paper and compare inside/outside (character may look like an athlete but is really a bookworm, for example.) It's right up my alley and he asked if I'd help. Usually the only homework help he asks for is with math, where I'm useless, so it's nice he's got something that I can help with, lol.

How ya'll doing?

Skootz
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07-23-2003

Friday, October 10, 2008 - 4:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Skootz a private message Print Post    
Hey everyone, I am still here.

I had my presentations yesterday and they went really, really well. I had some great feed back so that was great. Hopefully I will get some business from it. I know the director of the place will be hiring me in the spring so that is good. But nothing like a day of networking and being able to show people my business (advertising) and get paid for it.

In Canada we have Thanksgiving here this weekend, I have our family coming here on Monday, I have all the meat bought and everyone else is bringing the rest of the food. Temperatures are to be in the 70's and sunny, so dh will be in the field, but the rest of us can be outside on the deck and soaking up the sun. There will be around 20 of us for dinner. Looking forward to it and the fact that I have no plans for Saturday or Sunday, so I can soak up the sun and relax before Monday (with cleaning of course first)

Have a great weekend!