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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Monday, January 19, 2009 - 10:28 am
LOL, Glad you are back Wargod! I swear, do you have to clean hardwood floors everyday to keep them clean. Yesterday the sun was streaming in just right to show every bit of dust and dirt on my floors, that I swear I had just cleaned, LOL. Oh, I did clean the bedroom floors based on the above issue. I didn't do much this weekend but keep the kitchen clean and sit on my patio, it was beautiful!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, January 19, 2009 - 10:49 am
Well dang, Dipo, I want hardwood floors one day but I'm already cleaning my cheap tile daily, lol! I slept in today, first day in forever. Kids are vegging, I'm vegging for now. I'll have to get moving in a while to get to my aunts and then back here for some cleaning, but right now I'm gonna sit here and enjoy not doing nothing.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, January 20, 2009 - 1:26 am
Tuesday's Mission I sat, I enjoyed, I did nothing. Then I went to my aunts and cleaned and came back home and did a bit. The rest of the week is pretty clear for me, other than one day needing to go give aunt a shower and change her sheets. Part of tomorrows mission is going after shoes in your closet and I had to laugh. Dakota and my oldest niece have softball tryouts coming up this weekend and their supposed to take their gloves and cleats. My niece, never having played before, doesn't have cleats, but Dakota does and it's only been about 5-6 months since she wore them. She dug them out of her closet the other day, and I asked her to try them on since she's outgrown one pair of shoes since she last wore her cleats. Sure enough, her toes are touching the very end of them. Told her they wouldn't be good for the season, but would probably be ok for tryouts. Also told her to take them to my niece and see if they fit her. Of course, they're too big for niece, lol. So we have this great pair of cleats, worn for one season and in great shape, that are too big for niece and too little for Kota and both girls will have to have a new pair this week.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, January 20, 2009 - 2:03 pm
Despite watching the inauguration most of the morning, I have also cleaned out my fridge and gone grocery shopping. I was going to clean the bathroom, but couldn't hear the tv from there, lol, so washed breakfast dishes, wiped counters, swept and mopped the floor. I'll be dusting/vacuuming/picking up the living room in a bit cuz yep, I can hear and see the tv. Bathroom just may not get done today, lol.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Tuesday, January 20, 2009 - 2:54 pm
I've always thought there should be an exchange program for parents of children in sports...my daughter went through soccer shoes, basketball shoes, volleyball shoes and softball cleats with great rapidity...she is 11 and wears between an 8-1/2 and a 9-1/2. And volleyball season is coming up and I know she will want (and probably need) new shoes...although I just bought her a pair of athletic shoes last week. Fortunately I think she's giving up softball for at least this spring!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, January 20, 2009 - 3:03 pm
Roxip, our league takes used pants and sells them for pretty cheap, but not cleats nor other equipment which is a shame. Dakota has one pair of pants that fit (we bought them for the all-stars games) and two that she's probably outgrown. Besides the cleats, she also needs a new bat, so not only needing them, but she has two items at least that were used for six months and are still in pretty good shape that could be handed down. Most likely we'll just leave her old bat to be used as a team bat. And even though my oldest niece is only 9 months younger than Kota, she is much smaller, so it'll be at least a year, probably two, before she grows into anything of Kota's.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 12:03 am
Wednesday's Mission Tomorrow is another day of errands for me. Bank, pharmacy, bill paying, a little shopping. Sis and I are planning to take the girls to buy their cleats after school since I think they'll need a couple days of breaking them in before going for tryouts on Saturday. After that I really need to go to Costco (need Darren to go with me) but we might wait til Thursday for that. Darren's gonna be out of town Friday night through Sunday again so I've got to get quite a bit done before he leaves. Caleb's Christmas concert has apparently been rescheduled for Thursday night, though his teacher hasn't sent any notes home or made any calls so I'm not sure about that.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 9:36 am
I can't believe there isn't some place to trade cleats, that is such a good idea and kids do grow too fast. I managed to keep my kitchen clean, ran the dishwasher and did some work on my investment club. I need the work week to only be four days so I can relax, and keep my house clean, LOL.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, January 22, 2009 - 1:39 am
Thursday's Mission Ran a few errands today, took Kota (and sis niece) out of school early to go to lunch and go buy their cleats. We had fun. Darren came home, we had dinner, then ran to Walmart (had to pick up undershirts for Caleb to wear with his dress shirt tomorrow night.) Tomorrow is more errands (seems like I've been doing a lot of those lately though I have been neglecting them) and some minor housework. I've been enjoying my week to myself, lol.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Thursday, January 22, 2009 - 10:08 am
I got the dishwasher unloaded, I had set the 15 minute timer to get some food loaded up in the crockpot and I had 1.45 left so I had a contest to see if I could get the dishwasher unloaded, LOL. I almost made it, had just started putting away the silverware when the timer went off. Didn't do much else, just enjoyed the rain. Blackie and I sat on the patio under the umbrella listening to the rain and reading a book.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, January 22, 2009 - 1:08 pm
Is it the rain causing my lack of energy? I ran all the errands I had (pharmacy, bank, store, and one bill) and that's about it. I not only can't get myself going this afternoon, I've actually been contemplating a nap. I haven't slept well the last two nights and after weeks of running, having this one to myself is letting it all catch up, so that's probably a big part of it, but dang. I hate days where I just feel sapped of all energy!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, January 23, 2009 - 1:35 am
Friday's Mission I'm really not sure what I'm doing tomorrow. A little cleaning and I have one more bill to pay I've been putting off all week (cuz it's in the next city over, dang trash company.) Other than that, I don't really have anything to do. Darren's not going to Sacramento this weekend, or at least his step dad wasn't planning on going yesterday when he stopped by. We'll get a few things done around the house, like him straightening up the big pile of wood he brought home last weekend!
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Friday, January 23, 2009 - 9:47 am
I swept the house, and following your example wargod, I cleaned out my fridge. Found some stuff from New Years, LOL, it had been pushed back in the back so I didn't realize it was still in there. Paid all my bills so now I know that I have $100 play money, thank goodness I am not going anywhere.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, January 23, 2009 - 10:21 am
Must be bill paying day, lol, I just paid my mortgage. Should go pay my trash bill, but it's been raining on and off this morning and my windshield wipers suck so driving out there isn't a great idea. I need to clean up the kitchen and the living room and I think that's about all I'll be doing today. Oh, guess I should also figure out what we're doing for dinner too, lol.
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Christy358
Member
07-10-2007
| Sunday, January 25, 2009 - 12:28 am
Put getting new windshield wipers on the next shopping list. I know you can put off bill paying cuz of the rain, but something might come up that you can not put off.....and then you will be driving with sucky windshield wipers and a stressfull situation..... (wow, I sound so much like my dad!)
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, January 25, 2009 - 12:46 am
Ah, Christy, where were you yesterday morning to remind me of that? My mil is not in the best of health, actually doing pretty poorly right now and I've been driving out to her house (about a 20 minute drive) to help her when needed. Even though he didn't need Darren to go, her husband drove up to Sacramento yesterday morning and he was about an hour from there (so 5-6 from here!) when she called and asked where he was and told him she was just checking in. He immediately knew something was wrong, she doesn't call just to check in, and eventually got her to tell him she had fallen and was hurt. He was too far away, so he called Darren at work. And just about two hours after writing that post about skipping the bill cuz my windshield wipers suck and it's raining..Darren called me and asked me to go out there. I ended up going out there with my wipers squeaking and leaving streaks the whole way. I might have stopped at an auto parts store any other time, but to tell the truth, mil so rarely calls anyone when she's hurt or sick and I was worried the situation was worse than what she was saying it was. I did end up doing some minor first aid and checking her for bumps and bruises, but luckily other than hurting from the fall and unfortunately the what is now pretty normal feeling like crap, she was ok. Tomorrow morning we're taking both cars for oil changes and we talked about the auto parts store in the same parking lot so we'll go over and get the new wipers while waiting for that to be done. And lol about sounding like your dad! Don't ya hate it when the parent speak creeps in? Caught myself telling the kids something the other day that my mom used to tell us and could only groan at myself.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, January 26, 2009 - 12:42 am
Monday's Mission Detailed Cleaning List for Zone 5 This weekend was pretty busy for us. Yesterday Kota had softball tryouts. She did pretty good, actually did really good, but she was also one of the oldest girls out there and had a year of experience behind her. Hoping she didn't do too well though, we don't want her moved to the major league team with the older girls. After that we ran out and checked on Darren's mom (she's ok) then went to Costco. My nieces were spending the night so they came over when we got home, I did manage to sneak a run to the grocery store though, just for a few things we needed this weekend. This morning I got up and cleaned up from breakfast...Darren let the girls make cinnamon toast for everybody. Oy, lol, ya'll can imagine what my kitchen looked like! After that I started dinner, pot roast, and cleaned up the living room. Back for another round of kitchen cleaning after the lunch. Threw in a few loads of laundry, finished the menu for the next two weeks and seperated a bunch of meat and stuff from costco yesterday and put them away. Darren had been totally sweet and defrosted the deep freezer and then cleaned it, so I had to seperate the stuff that goes in there from the stuff in the regular freezer. Tomorrows gonna be a nutty day. Caleb has a dr appt at 9:30 and I decided I'd take him to school for first period. So drop him off, run home and start the chicken soup in the crock pot, and then go get him 45 minutes after dropping him off, lol. I chopped up all my veggies tonight for it, defrosted the chicken earlier and cleaned it tonight too, and got all the spices ready for the soup. I should just be able to toss it all in, no cutting, cleaning, measuring, etc and run to get him. I also decided I'm not going to take him back to school. After his appt, I need to go pay my trash bill and since we'll be out there, Darren and I decided I'd run him by the video game store (he's saved up half the money for a game he wants, we're going to contribute the rest.) And then cuz I took Kota out of school last week for a fun day, told Caleb he could pick somewhere and just the two of us would go out to lunch.
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Monday, January 26, 2009 - 2:32 am
Sweet!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, January 26, 2009 - 9:16 am
LOL, apparently I started something. Told my neighbor Friday I'd be picking Caleb up early and she'd have to pick up her daughter from school. Neighbor daughter told me this morning her mom had decided to pick her up early too so they could go look at banquet halls for her quincenero (I think I spelled the wrong) and then they were going to go out to lunch and a movie if they have time. Chicken soup is in the crock pot and I'm all ready...rather impressed, I thought I'd be running this morning and it's been rather calm.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Monday, January 26, 2009 - 10:03 am
Quincenera? The only thing I know for sure is that words ending with "o" tend to be male and with "a" are female. Sounds like a great morning to me WG!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, January 26, 2009 - 10:50 am
Oops, you are right, Roxip, my high school spanish teacher would be shaking her head at me if she saw that, lol. Small change of plans, baby niece is going to come over for an hour or so in a few minutes so her parents can go get their taxes done. Caleb was kind enough to suggest inviting them for lunch so they're going to go with us after our appt.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Monday, January 26, 2009 - 11:10 am
Sounds like a great day, Wargod. So funny, I was going to make pot roast yesterday, but I am doing it tonight instead. I got all my investment club work done this weekend,YEAH, I had to delete all the stuff I had entered and the enter September, October, November and December stuff so we can do our taxes. The former treasurer seems to only want to tell me bits and pieces of how to do this stuff and it makes me nuts. I want to tell her, if you want me to do this then tell me everything otherwise you can do it yourself. I don't have time to redo stuff every other month. Rant over. I got most of the recycling out this morning as I left for work, tonight I will take out the papers and trash. Then I noticed this morning I really need to mop the kitchen, since the rain is over for a week or so I think I will do a quick mop of the floors tonight.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, January 26, 2009 - 2:37 pm
Oh my, Dipo, the pot roast was soooo good last night. Especially since it was so cold. Change of plans again, sis and bil were lagging and finally told me to go without them. So Caleb and I went and had a very nice lunch together. Ya know, I try to stay close to my kidlets. We talk and share, I know their friends and what they're up to, but so often Caleb is so Darren's boy. They are gamers and they enjoy the same stuff and if Darren's going somewhere, Caleb will go with him. Which, btw, I think is great that they do share so much and enjoy each others company. I find myself wondering a lot what the heck is going through his head, not the big stuff, but with the little stuff. It was nice to have time to sit and chat about the little stuff like that. Then I really made his day taking him to pick up the thingamabob for his nintendo ds. I've no idea really what it is other than he was excited about it and Darren thought it was pretty cool. Also picked up the new bedding for Kota, she's been making do with what I could scrounge cuz I didn't have sheets or a comforter to fit her new bed. She'll be very happy when she gets home!
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Monday, January 26, 2009 - 8:54 pm
Hey, wargod, it occured to me that you probably did you pot roast in the crockpot. How do you do it, what is your recipe? I was going to cook mine in the oven, but it is too late, so I thought I would put it together to cook tomorrow in my crockpot before I get home.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, January 26, 2009 - 9:41 pm
Yup, the crock pot is my best kitchen friend, lol. I'm really not much of a cook, but you can't really screw up much in the crock pot, plus you have dinner started early and don't have to worry about it later on. I can't begin to explain how much I love the crock pot, lol, and even more since Darren's mom bought me a new, bigger one for Christmas. This week I have/had four meals planned in it! The beans, the pot roast, chicken noodle soup, and later this week spaghetti sauce and meatballs. I washed and cut up potatoes and carrots (don't even peel them) and they go on the bottom. Then onion and garlic (if you like those) and celery. Sometimes I'll toss in fresh green beans, sometimes frozen green beans and peas just to have some green veggies (I love veggies.) Then put the meat in and enough water or broth to cover all of it up. Add in salt and pepper and whatever spices you want. That's one area I'm not that good at, I have no idea which spices go with what, so I just open bottles up and if it smells like it'd go good with it I throw it in, lol. If it's going to cook all day it'll be good on low. Yesterday I got off to a late start (11-11:30) and we usually eat between 5:30 and 6 so I coooked it on high most of the day then turned it down to low about an hour before dinner. It is yummy and the meat pretty much falls apart. I made chicken noodle soup today in the crock pot. Well kinda, lol. I messed up the timing and it wasn't done by the time we had to eat (early dinner on Monday's cuz Darren has class.) I do basically the same as the pot roast, except no potatoes and instead of green beans/peas use brocoli and cauliflower and a whole chicken. Oh and chicken broth instead of beef. Where I messed up tonight was that about half an hour before dinner, you're supposed to take the whole chicken out of the crock pot, add in your noodles, and then cut up the chicken into little pieces and put that back in the crock pot. I didn't think about it til 5 and by then it was too late for Darren, so I put the soup in the fridge, gave him money to grab dinner and took the kids to McDonalds for cheap burgers. Tomorrow I'll cut up the chicken, heat up the soup and add the noodles and chicken back in and we'll have that for dinner. I'm hoping it's like pasta sauces, it gets better after sitting a day, lol.
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