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Lumbele
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07-11-2002

Saturday, October 23, 2010 - 3:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
Haven't been around here much lately, but I haven't been loafing either. Lately, I have been busy knitting up a storm.
First the jacket for dil, got that one done not just under the wire, but lightly touching that wire.
Then Molly got sheared and was shivering, so I made her a couple of sweaters.
Now I am working on the sweater dh chose as his Christmas gift. If I get that done quickly, I might make one for ds as well. Time will tell.

As for housework, well let's just say eating off the floor is not an option these days, but we got 2 happy and well exercised dogs w/ Molly slowly feeling more secure every day.

Oh, wait, I managed to go through all the containers in my bedroom closet, sorting it all out. Value Village here we come.LOL The hanging stuff will have to wait a bit longer to get sorted. I might take Zone 5 to do that and get it all done once and for all.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Sunday, October 24, 2010 - 10:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Monday's Mission

I missed you're posts yesterday, Dipo and Lum, wonder how on earth I did that?!?

Potato soup sounds great Dipo! You just gave me a dinner for later in the week, thank you! Darren liked the chili, said it felt like the first real meal he'd had in 3 days, lol. How is your mouth feeling?

Lum, where's the pics??? Heh, I love that I'm not the only one in the middle of Christmas craft gifts!

As far as cleaning goes, I didn't get too much done this weekend, except keeping the kitchen clean. I did get quite a bit accomplished on the craft front though. I finished the no-sew blankets for my nieces, finished the chandeliers for the dollhouse and strung a strand of beaded garland for the Christmas tree for that. I need to see the tree before I do anymore decs for that cuz I'm not sure how big it is. I've also started the beaded bookthongs for Kota's softball team. I'd said I wasn't doing them since there are 17 girls on the team, but decided why not. Bookthongs are relatively cheap to make (I did decide against adding a charm to hang off the end since that gets expensive) and pretty quick to make. I've strung the seed beads (the teeny tiny ones) for 7 of them, need to finish the ends off with bigger beads tomorrow. My next snack day is Nov 13, I think, so I've got some time to do them.

I did pick up a little in the living room tonight, but I need to vacuum and dust tomorrow.

For tomorrow, I have littlest niece and nephew (they'll be over Wed. as well) so probably won't get a bunch done, though hoping I can get some housework done. Also need to get a couple loads of laundry done. The girls have practice but I am probably not going tomorrow. It's way too windy for me to sit out there, plus I have a couple crafts for Dakota (a no-sew blanket and a necklace) I want to get started on while she is not here since they are for Christmas.

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Monday, October 25, 2010 - 10:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
Mouth is feeling great I have a follow up appointment on Thursday. Hopefully then they will give me the go ahead for all foods and that I can brush all my teeth, LOL. I have to be careful when I brush my top teeth not to forget and go for the bottom ones. Never realised how much of a habit I had in the way I brush my teeth.

I have done a few chores, changed out the litter locker, took it to the trash along with some recycling and other stuff in the kitchen. Last night I made some carrot cake, this morning I cleaned up the kitchen, oh and yesterday I moved some furniture around in my bedroom. Now that I have a laptop in there I needed a bigger nightstand on one side, so I moved a table I had in there over to the left side. It is perfect, big enough for the lamp and stuff plus I can put the tray with the laptop on it an don't have to leave it sitting on the bed.

Went and got a Starbucks so now I will start working on some of my "office" chores, need to fill out some paperwork and call on a few things.

Back to work tomorrow with lots of breath mints, LOL.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, October 25, 2010 - 11:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
I'm very glad you're not having a lot of pain Dipo! Darren has to go back Saturday (he's trying to get the appt chanced cuz of softball) to get his permanent crown put on.

My morning so far, little niece came over and I fixed us breakfast. Then it was time to pick up nephew from preschool and I grabbed my jacket and realized my drivers license wasn't in he pocket. Tore threw the house and car looking for it before I finally found it in between the couch cushions (guess it fell out of my pocket when I tossed the jacket on the couch.) Ran out the door because when I'd gotten ready to leave the first time we were a little early, but after the dl search we were most definitely late! And then just as I got niece on the porch and locked and shut the front door she looked up at me with her little angelic face and said, "Mommy," (she calls every woman "mommy,") "I dirty." Aw crap! Normally, I'd have taken her back in and changed her right then but we were really running late, so told her sorry, she'd have to wait til we got back, we'll only be gone a couple minutes.

Uh huh, that's how it worked out *insert eye roll here.* We actually did pick up nephew just a few minutes later, but I happened to look down when I got to a stop sign and saw my fuel light was on. So had to stop and get gas. Then nephew tells me he's hungry and I mentally go through my kitchen wondering if I can feed the kids string cheese and tomato paste, because I have absolutely no lunch foods for them. Little "adopted" sis is usually great about throwing lunch into the diaper bag but she'd been late this morning and didn't think about it til she got here, I told her not to worry about it! Ran through the drive thru after getting gas and the whole time I'm thinking about the baby in her dirty diaper and trying to get home quickly. We came running into the house, I threw their lunch on the table and grabbed the baby and her diaper bag and got to changing her only to discover she wasn't dirty. She laughed when I told her and said, "Oh, I just fart!" Which set her and her brother off on another round of laughter. Can't be fart humor I guess.

Lumbele
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07-11-2002

Monday, October 25, 2010 - 1:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
War, didn't want to clutter up this thread, so I posted the pix here

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Monday, October 25, 2010 - 2:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
LMAO, oh that is so funny, I am still laughing.

I finally opened a savings account with a 1.30% interest rate, so much better than the .5 I have been getting. Did some work on my hall closet, cleaned out and reorganized my desk drawer and pulled the paint so I can do the touch up in the bathroom. I think it will probably take me all of 5 minutes once I mix the paint and it has been on my list for a while. when I found the paint I realized that the paint I had brought in for storage to touchup the bedroom was the wrong can. I got the closet paint instead of the bedroom paint, so once it dries out a little, probably Wednesday, I will take that back down and bring up the correct one to do the bedroom touch up.

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Monday, October 25, 2010 - 3:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
So my computer started acting up so I rebooted, with a restart. I was able to paint the bathroom in the time it took for the computer to shut down and reboot and get all it's signals back, LOL. (no more than 10-15 minutes)

Next up, I need to sort and put away the massive amount of cat food I bought while it was on sale, then I think I will sweep the patio, the sun has come out for a little while and I have a bunch of leaves from the rain/wind storm.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, October 25, 2010 - 10:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Tuesday's Mission

Hehe, well, we did have fun, once I got over worrying about baby in her dirty diaper, lol. Unfortunately it didn't last too much longer. She'd been feeling a bit under the weather this morning, little "adopted" sis had told me she'd given her some cough medicine before they left their house. She started to get whiney, fought with her brother, and cried. Spent the last hour or so they were here cuddling her in my lap...typical Dakota sick behavior and I'm pretty used to that. I think her parents are in for a rough night with her tonight.

I'm jealous your weather is ok enough to sweep outside! We've still got such bad wind here tonight. What color did you paint the bathroom?

Didn't do too much this evening. Darren took Kota to practice (too cold for me, lol.) Caleb and his buddy stayed at school late today to work on their project, they walked here and then I took his buddy home. I felt kind of bad when we walked outside, if I'd known it had gotten that cold, I'd have picked them up at the school. We got back home and me and Caleb sat on the couch and watched a movie. It was nice, we spent more time chatting about nothing than actually watching the movie. We don't often get the chance to sit and talk alone for that long these days.

Then Darren and Kota got home and I fixed dinner while the kids (and Darren) did homework.

Tomorrow I have nothing planned except staying home. Niece and nephew won't be over either so I'll take the chance to clean the house and do the mission.

Lumbele
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07-11-2002

Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - 9:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
Finished the back of dh's sweater last night and puttered around the house yesterday. Outside of knitting and cooking a decent meal for a change, I got nothing done on my list. Don't know why I bother making one, I rarely adhere to it anyway.

It has been raining for the second day now and the weather frogs are predicting a snowstorm for tonight and Wednesday. Dh went out into the garage to make room for the car voluntarily this morning. Usually, I have to nag.

Potato and carrot salads are ready and I am off to cooked the sausages to go with them now.

Someone give me a kick to tackle some more closet after dinner, please. I have been procrastinating something fierce.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - 9:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Heh, Lum, I stick my lists here the night before and have no problem changing them around at will. Having said that, did the breakfast dishes and wiped down the counters, took out trash (tomorrow is trash day and I need to go through the fridge to toss stuff) and picked up the living room and still need to vacuum.

I have chicken defrosting, thinking I'll make chicken soup for dinner and a couple necklaces I want to get done today. Oh and laundry.

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - 10:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
Nice weather only until Friday, I think, then rain again! I have to stay on top of the leaf sweeping or I get buried. I have a huge tree in front of my balcony which I love in the summer since it keeps the house cool, but it sure has a ton of leaves, LOL.

Lumbele sounds like you are on top of everything I am sure you will get some closet work done eventually, LOL.

I just had to touch up some areas that I spackled, the bathroom has a lilac color wall, which I like, but I hate that the molding and trim was painted purple! Still haven't gotten around to painting that yet, but I have the supplies, LOL.

I did end up getting a lot done yesterday. Tonight I just need to finish up a few left over chores and probably hit the sack early since I will be tired from a day back at work!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - 9:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Wednesday's Mission

The lilac sounds pretty for a bathroom. Ack, how hard will it be to repaint the purple molding and trim??

I'm with you on the leaf sweeping. Our yard and driveway seems to collect everything from the neighborhood when it's windy. It's always so much fun to clean up leaves from trees we don't have, or even worse, other peoples trash.

I never did get around to vacuuming, but I did get several loads of laundry done and made some fantastic chicken soup for dinner. What else...made the necklaces, one for niece for Christmas and one for Kota that I gave her tonight cuz she's just been doing so well lately. Her grades are great, she's working hard at softball, her chores are done, she deserved a little treat. Finished some bookthongs for the softball team and ran to the store for Caleb. Also wrote a couple checks for bills that need to be mailed out tomorrow. That was about it.

Niece and nephew will be here tomorrow and I haven't really decided what I'll be doing for the day. I promised nephew we'd do a craft for his mommy and since I picked up a little kid craft kit for the feathers, I'll dig through that and see what's there for him. I'm making potato soup for dinner (Kota has practice and it's been really cold late afternoon here.) Other than that, not much planned.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 - 8:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Huh, well now I am plan-less. Niece and nephew are both sick today and staying home with their mommy.

Lumbele
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07-11-2002

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 - 8:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
Oh War, scratch plans and go put your feet up, catch up on some well deserved sleep or turn your place into a beauty spa w/ a long luxurious bath, a foot soak, manicure, pedicure, whatever feels good.

Believe it or not, I did put a bit of a dent into that closet yesterday and intend to do the same today.
There's a brisket simmering, so dinner will be easy. Just need to bang those knitting needles together for a bit in between a little housework here and a little there.
Hopefully, the closet will be done this weekend and then it's into the laundry room for a few days. The more I clean out that closet, the fatter that hamper gets.

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 - 9:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
Lumbele, when I have tasks that I am just not into I just make a deal with myself to set the timer and spend 15 minutes and that is what I do. I don't feel guilty when I walk away and eventually it gets done, LOL.

I didn't really do to much, I was tired when I got home. Watched a tape and then went to the bedroom to rest and watch TV.

I am in battery hell all of a sudden though, LOL so today I am off to the store to buy a bunch of AA batteries. I just realized my doorbell wasn't working, the ringer uses batteries since it is not wired into the house, and then my thermostat on the fireplace said I needed to replace the batteries, so it wouldn't come on, LOL, I didn't even know there were batteries in it. And I swear I had a bunch of AA's but I couldn't find any, I was running around trying to figure out what had AA's that I could borrow.

I have a board meeting tonight so will do a few chores, but I plan on completing my mail in ballot today, that is the big goal.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 - 9:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
I cleaned up the kitchen (wasn't too much to that, just the kids and Darren's breakfast dishes and a little trash to take out) and fixed myself breakfast.

I did make a couple phone calls too (that's an accomplishment for me, lol.)

LOL, Lum, I was just sitting here thinking, no niece and nephew, nowhere to be and nothing that really has to be done...this would be the perfect time to shave my legs! I'm not all that hairy to begin with, my leg hair is blond, and with it being cold I'm in jeans so shaving my legs is like the last thing on my to do list. Not quite treating myself to a spa day, but why not!

Dangit Dipo, if you lived next door you could pop over for batteries! I just bought a pack of AA's from Costco and have a bunch of them.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 - 12:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Oy, I should have skipped the shaving, cut myself bad enough I needed to hunt down the first aide kit.

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 - 12:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
LOL, I hate when I cut myself. I went up to Safeway at lunch time (we have a shuttle) and there is a CVS there. I got a great deal on batteries. They are CVS batteries but they were buy 1 get one free for an 8 pack at $7.49. So I went for it.

Picked up some halloween candy while I was there and the funniest thing happened. They had some of those motion detector halloween characters (3-4 ft tall) at the checkout stand and a couple of kids came in and were quite afraid of them. It was so cute, one Mom said, Honey they aren't real. LOL, I was chuckling thinking how if you hadn't seen them before they could be startling.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 - 12:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
That is a good price for batteries!

I used to have a ghost that hung on the porch for Halloween, motion sensored and when someone walked past, he'd moan and shake. My middle niece was about 3 at the time and if he was on, she wouldn't come anywhere near the porch! No matter how many times we showed her what was underneath his little white sheet and that he was just a silly dec, she still didn't like him. Haven't seen that ghost in a while, she probably found him when they were buidling a fort in the garage and hid him, lol.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 - 11:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Thursday's Mission

I did a couple loads of laundry tonight and helped Caleb study for his english class.

Tomorrow I'll be doing a full house pick up/vacuum/mop. I've also got plans with Kota to take her shopping for her Halloween costume. Should be fun!

Biscottiii
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05-29-2004

Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 3:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Biscottiii a private message Print Post    
Hey, if you all are picking up batteries don't forget in the not too far future it will be
"Spring forward, fall back" time.
Going to need to replace 9v for the Smoke Detectors. Just a thought to save a 2nd trip.

I've been using the old smoke detector 'used' batteries for stuff that doesn't matter much, such as my message machine which normally stays lit because it's plugged in to electrical.

Skootz
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07-23-2003

Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 4:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Skootz a private message Print Post    
Great idea Biscotti - another place could be in your alarm clock if it has battery back up.

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 9:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
LOL, Biscotti! My smoke detector beeped at me this morning! I couldn't believe it, I just got all the batteries replaced in the doorbell, etc and now the smoke detector is complaining, LOL.

Anyway, I think I have batteries for that. Will climb up on the stepstool and take a look tonight when I get home in case I have to go back to the store for more batteries!

I did my board meeting, replaced batteries and then took out some recycling, that was about it.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 1:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Least the smoke detector didn't wait a week before it started acting up, lol.

We actually just did our smoke/co2 detector batteries. We do ours when we light the pilot lights on the heaters and Darren did that 2-3 days ago. When it warms up enough to turn off the pilot lights, we'll change them again.

I'm getting laundry done today, a strange mix of the extra blankets I've had put up, the kids old clothes, and what everyone wears now. One of the softball grandma's informed us early in the season she'll take any hand me downs because her church collects it for the needy, especially children's clothes, and most especially winter stuff. I've found sweatshirts, jeans, and a coat I bought Kota last year that she's outgrown.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 10:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Friday's Mission

I finished six loads of laundry today. Blankets, towels, enough outgrown clothes to fill a medium sized trash bag. Still had laundry going when my aunt called to tell me she needed a couple things from the store (and I picked up a bag of halloween candy for her, or rather her companion, to pass out Sunday night. When I dropped her stuff off, she asked if I could do her laundry, so brought home a load of clothes and a load of towels. Right now, load #6 (her towels) are going through the dryer. Sucky part is, after all this laundry, I still have more to do, lol, cuz now I have mine, Darren's, and at least one more load between the two kids.

Let me ask a question, while I'm on the subject. Am I weird? When it gets warm, I pull off the blankets and heavier comforters from the beds, and grab most of the smaller, light weight blankets we use when we go out (like to softball games) or for sitting around on the couch when it's cooler but not cold. I wash/dry/fold them, then put them in big garbage bags and store them in a closet. Then, when it starts to get cold and I pull those out of the closet, I re-wash and dry them before we use them. Is that weird? The idea of using them after they've been bagged up in a closet for six months without rewashing them kinda bugs me.

Funny thing is it hit me when I was going through the kids closets and drawers for the outgrown clothes. Sis had said last week she went through the girls stuff for the softball mom and did a bunch of laundry and I realized we had done the same thing. She had, and there I was doing it too, washed a bunch of stuff that hasn't been worn or used since the last time it was washed! At least with the kidlets clothes, I can say as I was washing/drying/folding I was looking for stuff that needed to go to the trash rather than to the softball moms church.

Ok, back to today's stuff, lol. I also took Kota shopping for her Halloween costume and then came home and threw together a necklace and bracelet to match that. Made potato soup for dinner (thank you Dipo, it was yummpy!) And then decided to tackle the sock pile, though I didn't get very far on that.

Tomorrow I need to take aunts laundry by her house and do some cleaning in mine. And then I'm taking it easy cuz we have a very busy weekend planned.

Lets see...tomorrow afternoon, Dakota has her halloween dance at school. Darren and I were supposed to go out to dinner with some folks he works with (a committee thing, we do it every year) but he thinks it's been postponed, so either we're going to dinner or not, lol.

Then on Saturday, omg. We have to be at the park by 9:30 for warmups for the first of Kota's games, then she has a second one at 12:30. Darren has a dentist appt to get his permanent crown put in at 2:30, he'll barely have time to make it from the park and that's only if the game doesn't go over, if it does, he'll have to leave early. Then, he has an old high school friend coming into town for some family thing she has to be at by 5:30 or 6 (can't remember what he said) but, her and her hubby will be stopping by sometimes between when his dentist appt is over and when their family thing starts! And finally we are going to a city halloween event that starts at 5:30 (probably won't get there til at least 6:30). Oh, and Darren is starting off Saturday by working! Phew, it's going to be insane.

Then Sunday, dinner at my aunts, followed by taking Kota trick or treating with the rest of the kids. Caleb is going to a Halloween party (sigh, he's reached the age where its more fun to hang with his buddies.)