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Wargod
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, December 29, 2009 - 1:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Tuesday's Mission

Well, Kota is feeling better, still not great, but she was able to go out and play for awhile with my nieces but she was back in after an hour or so and spent the rest of the day/evening just vegging. As sucky as it is, at least they are on vacation and she's not missing school.

LOL Dipo, you sound like me with plants. I kill most of them pretty quickly.

Today was busy day here, the house is clean and shiny. Sis and bil and the girls came for dinner and I just wanted everything spotless (though if anyone could care less if it was messy it'd be them, lol.)

Tomorrow, I don't really have any plans. I need to drop some water and sodas off at my aunts (meant to have sis and bil take them tonight but I totally forgot about them.) Other than that, I'm not sure what we'll be doing.

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Tuesday, December 29, 2009 - 11:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
LOL, Wargod, I had that plant since the 90's, I tried to sell it, give it away and finally just put it out on my patio to see if it would survive. We had a couple of frosts and I think that was what did it in, it was just to big for my house, but at least I tried to let it live on the balcony.

I put away all the Christmas Cards last night and most of the decorations, just have the lights and tree still up - probably won't take them down for a little while, I like the lights on the balcony at night. Took out some recycling this morning and went through my earthquake kit last night to pull food for our food drive (realized it wasn't a very good kit, LOL, I need better food for emergencies), and that was it. Lisa comes today to clean so that will be nice for the new year!

Now if I could just figure out what I want to cook for New Years I would be set!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - 1:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Wednesday's Mission

Heh, that is funny...when my step dad died, Darren's company sent us a plant and condolence card. I kinda "aw man'd" when I saw it because by then I'd well proved that I killed every plant I'd had to take care of. But, it was such a sweet gesture (and more than my company did!) that I felt obligated to keep this plant alive. And I did for a few years, it got huge and I didn't kill it.

Then one day we were moving furniture or something and decided to set it outside for a little sun. Except that we forgot it. And judging by the way the plant looked when we remembered it must have been 115 outside that day. Fried the heck out of it. We were on the verge of throwing it out and just by chance Darren's mom had stopped by and made us stop. She managed to save one little piece of it and from that piece has a big beautiful plant. Tried to give it back at one point, but honestly it is safer with her than with me, lol.

Today was a lazy day for the most part. I did a few things here and there just to keep the house looking spiffy, made a run to the grocery store for a couple things and that was it. Oh, also took care of a couple bills.

Tomorrow I need to go to aunts and clean and help her with a shower. We may start taking some of her decs down, but she enjoys them so not sure she'll let us. We won't take ours down til this weekend. I've got a couple strands of outdoor lights (little lanterns, decorative, not Christmas) and noticed the other day one whole strand is burned out. When we take our Christmas decs down, we'll probably steal the little bitty light bulbs out of the Christmas lights from the tree. Remind me of that next Thanksgiving when we pull the lights out and I gripe about the missing bulbs!

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - 12:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
LOL, I have some bulbs out as well.

I didn't do any cleaning except to go through cabinets looking for food donations for work. In doing so, I found some more out of date cans which I tossed. I made some chili, which I will probably pull out for New Years as well.

Today, I ran up to the store to get black-eyed peas, Safeway. They had cans - organic and they were $3.39 each!! I said screw that and went looking for the dried beans. So when I get home I will be putting the crock pot on since I need them cooked for the recipe I am trying, LOL.

When I ran up to Safeway I remembered to take the gazillion plastic bags I had been collecting for them to recycle and this morning my shower curtain, pole and all fell down while I was taking a shower, so I have to fix that when I get home. Do you know how hard it is to take a shower and not spray water all over the bathroom, LOL, I was practically plastering myself to the wall to get rinsed off.

I guess that's it for now. We will be closing early today and I have the "stucco" man coming to look at a problem on the exterior wall on my balcony. TTFN.

Biscottiii
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05-29-2004

Thursday, December 31, 2009 - 1:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Biscottiii a private message Print Post    
Dipo said: "my shower curtain, pole and all fell down while I was taking a shower, so I have to fix that when I get home. Do you know how hard it is to take a shower and not spray water all over the bathroom, LOL, I was practically plastering myself to the wall to get rinsed off."

Umm, I can just visualize. Did your kitty get an eyeful while pulling out the camcorder to make a home Youtube tape?

Poor Dipo! Thank heavens you got all that grout sealed beforehand!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Thursday, December 31, 2009 - 1:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Thursday's Mission

I should never make plans to clean aunts and just go when she calls. It was too cold and windy today, she didn't want a shower, which means no time for cleaning for me and no vacuuming while she's up and about.

So instead, had sis watch the kids and Darren and I had date afternoon. We went out to lunch, then ran to Costco real quick (I know, exciting huh, lol.) Yesterday was a pretty lazy day for me, I was kinda headachy and had little energy. Today I figured out why. We'd no sooner walked in the door than a migraine hit and I spent the rest of date afternoon in bed and not in a good way. Couple hours of restless sleep and worse pain later I finally crawled out of bed. Luckily I'd set up dinner in the crockpot so no worries there. Rest of the day was spent on the couch and I don't think I'll be up too late tonight.

Tomorrow Darren's going golfing with his buddies early in the morning. Caleb has a buddy spending the night tonight so I told them I'll fix a late breakfast around lunch time and then take the buddy home and head to my aunts. Sis and bil are still undecided about going to their annual New Years Party so no idea yet if the girls will be coming to stay with us or not.

Biscottiii
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05-29-2004

Thursday, December 31, 2009 - 1:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Biscottiii a private message Print Post    
Today I got an H1N1 flu shot (free at my HMO, they're running $22 at pharmacies where we can find them). Even found a parking spot at 4:30pm which is shocking but, given the lateness of the time & people out of town for the holidays, I got lucky.

Also ran to the post office (mailed my earthquake insurance $473 check, whew at least that doesn't seem to increase each year!) and the grocery store for food for the weekend, including 2 little 8oz bottles of Brut champagne. Looked up and it's a full moon (I've read somewhere that this is an oddity, having 2 full moons in the same month). THAT convinced me! 2 full moons in a month and people partying hardy, I'm staying home like any reasonable old phart! Actually, I may be able to watch fireworks from the Space Needle from my balcony, if they're offering this year, need to check.

Since I have an "owwie" in my arm now from the shot, I'm going to milk it for all it's worth! Not doing ANYTHING tomorrow, maybe just finish reading a book. No guilt trips for being lazy, munching cookies. That's the ticket!

WRT the earthquake insurance, this is my yearly paranoid run, it's not due til Jan-24th. They would dearly love to cancel it, but I bought the policy 10 yrs ago. If the check is late or doesn't clear - Policy Cancelled, never to be renewed! Since the Nisqually earthquake of 2001, we can't hardly buy insurance in this town unless we 'Grandfathered'. Will start checking next week to make sure the funds are yanked out of my acct.

Biscottiii
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05-29-2004

Thursday, December 31, 2009 - 2:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Biscottiii a private message Print Post    
I'm sorry War, I hadn't read your post while I was typing mine! Here you're dealing with one of those horrid migraines and I'm grousing about the "owwie" in my arm. I so hope you feel better tomorrow!!! Happy you had a nice lunch date with Darren, though.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Thursday, December 31, 2009 - 2:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Heh, Bisc, migraines are a normal occurance with me, flu shots are once a year...milk it as much as you can! I hate shots.

We had a very nice lunch. Lancaster has been revitalizing downtown for a couple years, trying to turn it into a cultural/shopping center of town. It's kind of funny actually. When we were kids, the bowling alley and movie theater were on the blvd, along with JC Penny's and the bigger stores in town. Then it kinda turned into a...well, not bad area, but nothing really interesting and businesses that didn't attract a lot of people. Now though they have a couple museums, library, performing arts center and community theater. They've got little stores (music store, clothing stores, vacuum store) and even a couple artist loft type appartments.

But, the biggest thing for us, is they now have 7 or 8 new smaller restaurants. A couple deli's, a mexican restaurant, a couple bistros. We've been slowly (cuz we don't really go out to eat all that often) trying them out and haven't been disappointed yet. The little French Bistro was nice, we've been there for lunch and once for breakfast and even for breakfast it was kind of quiet...lots of couples and women with groups of girlfriends, not really a kid type of place. The Mexican restaurant was ok for me, great for Darren...they're mostly seafood and I'm not big on seafood. Also not a restaurant we'd take the kids to, too spicy and too much seafood. Today we tried the Brooklyn Deli and that was awesome! Steadily busy, family type place and nothing too exotic or spicy so I think that'll be one we can take the kids to.

With kidlets, our eating out tends to be driving thru McDonalds or Taco Bell, or the sit down chain restaurants like Chili's and Red Lobster and I'm really sick and tired of most of that. I love having these little places popping up, though I'm still on the hunt for a good authentic Mexican Restaurant like we used to have when I was a kid, family owned, hole in the wall type of place.

But, besides the food, it was just nice to have alone adult time. Especially with the kids on vacation, if my nieces aren't here then one of the kids friends are. I love the fact that the kids want to hang out here and that we get to know their friends, but once in a while it's nice to have alone time, lol.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Thursday, December 31, 2009 - 3:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Oh, oh, and Dipo, I'm sorry, I had to laugh about you huddling in the corner of the shower to not spray the whole bathroom.

Caleb pulled the shower curtain down a few weeks ago while he was in the shower. He came out of the bathroom complaining about having to turn the shower head towards the wall to finish his shower and we just cracked up cuz he could have turned the water off, wrapped a towel around himself and come out and asked for help. He's so modest though he wouldn't even think of coming out of the bathroom in a towel! Now, if it'd been Dakota, she'd have come running out of the bathroom butt nekkid and dripping wet, lol.

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Thursday, December 31, 2009 - 12:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
LOL, well you do feel really stupid standing in the shower and the whole curtain has just dropped, LMAO.

I did get it back together when I got home took me about a half an hour, I had to take it down a couple of times before I got it back up right.

But the even funnier thing was when I got home I hung my coat and scarf on the coatrack in my hall AND THE WHOLE THING PULLED OUT OF THE WALL AND FELL ON THE FLOOR, ROFLMAO!!!

I feel like I am having some sort of home malfunction. This is the second time it has fallen and I thought that the toggle bolts would keep it up. But they are these weird toggles that I have never used before, I knew I should have gotten the ones like I had in the olden days.

Anyway, I am having a nice new years day, made a breakfast casserole this morning, have the black-eyed peas cooking and just watching some stuff on TV. I made some new humming bird food last night so that is done, and maybe later I will get down the toolbox and see if I have some toggles that will keep the coatrack up.

Happy New Year

Biscottiii
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05-29-2004

Friday, January 01, 2010 - 12:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Biscottiii a private message Print Post    
Happy New Years Everyone!

I have a nice fat T-bone steak, brussell sprouts, mashed potatoes planned. Discovered that I forgot to pull the steak out of the freezer until this evening. So now, I plan to cook tomorrow. Fireworks should start off the top of the Space Needle in about 30 minutes.

Dippo WRT my comment about your shower experience:
"Did your kitty get an eyeful while pulling out the camcorder to make a home Youtube tape?"

I think I've been checking out too many of those "LOL Cats" websites & Youtubes.

Umm, the fireworks in the neighborhood have now begun I can hear. We had a lot of rain today, so I'm not worried like I usually am at 4th of July.

Happy Holidays, stay safe and warm and dry!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Friday, January 01, 2010 - 2:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Flylady says this is Friday's Mission

I say the mission for today is to relax and enjoy yourself doing something fun and having a quiet holiday. I hope it's a wonderful day for ya'll!

Today, I got up and made french toast for breakfast. I don't normally cook breakfast (unless it's pancakes over the weekend to freeze for the kidlets) so it was a special treat. Went to my aunts and got several things done there. She has an appt on Monday so I'll go back Sunday to give her another shower. Came home and did some minor cleaning here, wiping the kitchen cabinets and sweeping the floor, picking up in the living room and vacuuming, and doing a couple loads of laundry.

Had a very quiet night with Darren and the kids. Nieces were all asleep by 11, Darren was in bed by 11:30. Caleb stayed up playing x-box live with his buddies til after midnight but didn't last much longer than that. Kota just went to bed.

I don't really have anything planned tomorrow. Darren's going golfing with his buddies again (they did 9 holes today and plan on 9 in the morning, so not a real long activity.) I'm going to spend part of the day reading and kicking back and then fix a quickie dinner and play Clue with Darren and the kids.

Serate
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08-21-2001

Friday, January 01, 2010 - 11:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Discovered that I forgot to pull the steak out of the freezer until this evening.

If you had a NuWave oven you could cook it from frozen, and it would be juicy and yummy. And you could make your brussel sprouts too.

lol I'm not a sales rep for NeWave Ovens, I just got one for Christmas and I love love love it!


Dipo
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04-23-2002

Friday, January 01, 2010 - 12:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
LOL, Biscottiii, they ran for the recorder as soon as the curtain began to fall.

I just had some of my breakfast casserole, cleaned up the kitchen and I am going to take the paper and lay on the bed with the kitties, watching HGTV!

Happy New Year

Biscottiii
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05-29-2004

Saturday, January 02, 2010 - 12:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Biscottiii a private message Print Post    
Congrats Serate for getting your NuWave oven! I've seen those on TV and wondered if they really worked as good as they show. Sounds like it. But for me, this worked out just fine. I had splurged and bought BoarsHead mesquite smoked sliced turkey and just munched on a sandwich last night. The T-bone today turned out fantastic along with my little bottle of champagne.

Dipo, "LOL, Biscottiii, they ran for the recorder as soon as the curtain began to fall." That story just gave me so many giggles (sorry for the troubles you had to go through).

War, sounds like you and the whole family had just the perfect RESTFUL holiday!! As busy as your household gets, I bet it was the best ever!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Saturday, January 02, 2010 - 12:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Heh, well not quite so restful. Baby niece slept with me and Darren last night, I spent the whole night clinging to the very edge of the bed and woke up so sore the first thing I did was grab a heating pad. More bizarre, Darren made a comment about hanging onto the edge of the bed last night and I can't quite figure out how a little 2 year old managed to nearly shove the two of us out of our own bed, lol!

Anyways, was a quite, lazy morning. Girls played outside for a few hours, then baby came in the house to eat lunch. She ended up climbing in my lap on the couch and going right to sleep...leaving me stuck for the next 2 hours cuz if I moved she'd have woken up grumpy. So read a little and watched a little tv until the baby woke up. Did the lunch dishes and threw laundry in the washer, then took a close look at the girls and realized they were all filthy. Gave baby and middle niece a bath then made Kota and middle niece take showers and had four squeaky clean girls in the house. Cooked dinner and that was about it for today. Never did get around to playing a game, by the time the girls went home it was time for dinner, then Caleb hopped in the shower and Darren headed to bed. Ah well, got time for them tomorrow.

Not much really planned for tomorrow. Darren has to plant a pole to put up Dakota's hit-a-way (softball training thingie, looks like a teether ball but has a softball on the end of it to practice hitting) and we need to run by the hardware store to get the hook thingie for the pole. Maybe a trip to Michaels, I need some beading stuff. Little bit of cleaning here and aunts tomorrow. Mostly just enjoying the last weekend before Darren has to go back to work.

Christy358
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07-10-2007

Saturday, January 02, 2010 - 12:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Christy358 a private message Print Post    
I think a small child asleep in your lap is a wonderful reason not to work!!

Biscottiii
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05-29-2004

Saturday, January 02, 2010 - 3:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Biscottiii a private message Print Post    
Wow War! What size bed did the 2 yr old take over and push both of you out of? Just confirms that I did right a couple yrs ago. My Sis told me I was nuts. When we had the crowd of nieces, great nephews, & their friends visit over a weekend (crowd of about 12 people in my house, yikes!)

Had niece & her husband in the double bed downstairs. Was told the 2 yr old, big for his age, nephew could sleep with them. But I pulled my wicker couch with cushions, probably about 4ft long faced right up against their bed, so he couldn't fall out. A pseudo crib. Guess he slept great, having Mom & Dad close even though it was a strange place for him. I hadn't even thought about his parents, frankly, which are tall sturdy build young adults. Just didn't see how a double bed could fit three of them, from your story I now see why!

Sweet excuse to hold a napping baby for 2 hrs. Smart! Forced relaxation, so you had to 'do nothing' for a change!!! Good Job Grasshopper!

Merrysea
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08-13-2004

Saturday, January 02, 2010 - 9:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Merrysea a private message Print Post    
LOL, when DS2 was two years old, he was sleeping with us one night, lying with his head on me. I heard a thump, woke up, and he had literally kicked my husband out of bed (we had a queen-sized bed). I was awake in time to see a startled head pop up over the side of the bed - it was hilarious!

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Saturday, January 02, 2010 - 5:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
LMAO, Merrysea, I can just see that in my mind, I remember when my sister was about that age, she used to end up sleeping sideways in the bed so if you were in there you either had to conform or end up on the floor. It was amazing.

Biscottiii, I actually chuckle when I think about the shower curtain myself.

Haven't done much today, it is sort of gray and cloudy outside so seems like a day to relax. I did do some office stuff yesterday, like replaced the ink cartridges in my printer (it has been complaining for awhile). Plus I was reading something about saving energy and it said to turn off your computer and printer. Well it takes to long to power up my computer, but I never even thought about keeping my printer off. So now I do that. I unloaded the dishwasher and I cleaned up the rest of the kitchen. Oh and I printed my checking statement. I think I will take out some recycling, get the mail, dump some trash and balance my checkbook, then call it a day.

I love this long weekend it is fabulous!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Sunday, January 03, 2010 - 12:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
LOL Merry!! That is hysterical.

We have a Cal King size bed, should be plenty big enough for Darren and I and one small toddler, lol. Both Caleb and Kota slept with us when they were babies, Dakota was pretty bad with the tossing and turning, but she was a terrible night sleeper anyways. Older two nieces slept with us too when they were babies on the occassions they stayed over, but they weren't all that difficult. The baby, though, is horrible. She's all over the bed (not to mention sweats horribly all night.) As soon as she was old enough she started sleeping with the girls when she'd spend the night, but the other night she wouldn't lay down with the girls so no choice but to come sleep in my bed. It was a very bad night of sleep, lol. She's lucky she's so cute!

She's such a sweet baby, reminds me a lot of Caleb at that age. She'll climb up into your lap, give hugs and kissy face randomly then wander off to play. She's a big cuddler, but usally when it comes to sleeping she prefers to be left alone so it's rare to get her to go to sleep in your lap and always a joy when she does.

I did some random cleaning around the house and laundry and changed the sheets on my bed. Bil stopped by early to see if we had a snake...aunts toilet was completely stopped up and had backed up all over the bathroom. He tried for a few hours to unclog it but ended up calling the plumber. I went over afterwards to clean up.

Our FSA card was updated on Jan 1, so today I went to the pharmacy and stocked up on otc's. Also ordered a couple prescriptions for Kota that I needed to get (have to pick them up tomorrow.)

Also going to aunts tomorrow to do a little more cleaning and help her with a shower since she has a dr appt Monday. Need to balance her checkbook and write a couple checks too.

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Sunday, January 03, 2010 - 3:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
Well I took out the recycling and some trash, unloaded the dishwasher, and I balanced the checkbook. So far this morning I have cleaned up the kitchen of the leftover mess from last night, refilled all the water and soda bottles, cleaned out the freezer and taken an inventory (I needed to know if I had some chicken for dinner), and read the Sunday paper. Next up is to get the toolbox down to see if I have any toggles to put in the wall so I can rehang my coatrack.

We shall see how much more I can get done, I do want to relax before work starts up tomorrow.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Sunday, January 03, 2010 - 11:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Monday's Mission

Ack, you were busy today, Dipo, hope you got to relax later this afternoon and evening.

I ran by the pharmacy and picked up Kota's prescription and a new first aid kit. Sis had called and asked me to pick up a finger splint for middle niece (she cut her finger on the knuckle yesterday, not a terrible cut but it kept splitting open when she bent her finger) so got that as well.

Then off to aunts. She actually surprised me and hopped right into the shower today. Unfortunately, about 3 minutes in the water got ice cold. I turned off the cold water and even then the water never got above cool so it was a very quick shower. Bil was checking the hot water heater when I left, never got a phone call from him so I'm guessing it was something pretty simple like the pilot light being out and not the hot water heater being broke.

Also did some cleaning, took her laundry and balanced her checkbook and wrote a few checks. Came home and did a bit of cleaning and cooked dinner, really didn't get all that much done here though.

Tomorrow will be a busy day. It's banking day and my aunt has a late morning dr appt. Haven't decided yet if I'm going to the bank before I go get her ready for her appt or after. I told Dakota she has to go with me, lol. This is the drs office that is quite a walk so we'll be taking the wheelchair and since the kids are out of school, Kota can go with and pull the oxygen tank. Caleb's going to his buddies and she can't stay home along so she's stuck with me (I'm not complaining, it's a pita to try to manuever the wheel chair and oxygen tank when I'm alone.)

Then coming home to do a bit of cleaning here. Darren goes back to work tomorrow and I'd like to have something done when he gets here, lol.

This week I need to take a couple pairs of jeans back to the store and exchange them for Kota (Christmas present, wrong size,) I need to drop off some paperwork for my job (I've been procrastinating on that for a couple months,) need to pay some bills and do aunts grocery shopping. Normally I'd do her shopping on bank day but sis asked me to wait til Tuesday so she can go with me.

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Monday, January 04, 2010 - 10:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
Thanks Wargod, I did relax, never got to another chore, LOL. Guess I will get the tool box down tonight when I get home from work.

Plus I like today's mission, I was doing something in my upper cabinets and touched the top of the microwave (It is above the stove) and it was greasy/sticky, so I plan to clean that as well as check out the top of the fridge.

Good luck with the doctors trip.