I Almost Have My House Put Back Together!

Almost there! It all started yesterday when I got rid of that nasty old recliner. Normally when you think of threadbare furniture, you think of a few spots where the fabric is worn. This thing- there was practically no fabric left to it. After putting the dog outside I decided it was time for it to leave my home! I drug it over to the front door, wriggled it out onto the porch, pushed it off, loaded it into the back of the van and then hoisted it up into the dumpster.

When I got back into the house, what did I find but a big gaping hole that stood out like a sore thumb. So that began the deep clean and re-arranging of the living room. And that's not so bad to re-do one room. But now there isn't room for my gate leg table in the living room. Well I'm not about to part with that! It has to find a place somewhere in this house. Ah Ha! The kitchen! I just have to stack the cabinets and scoot this here and that there. Yeah I had to re-do the kitchen too. But the kitchen is pretty well finished. Just a couple of things to put away. The living room on the other hand. Ahhhh I still have a stack of boxes with junk to go through. The kiddos have 2 bags of stuffed animals and a stack of boxes with books in them to go through. After that maybe we'll be back to normal. OH CRUD! Where in the world am I gonna put the Christmas tree?! Do you really have to have a tree at Christmas? I'll figure something out surely.

I'm tired and sore. Hadn't really planned on doing the kitchen tonight, but got a call to clean tomorrow morning. So tomorrow evening I plan on working on candies and cookies and tote bag for a barter. I can not wait to get back to my crafts. I haven't worked on anything in so long. I wonder if I still know how to make anything. LOL

Cleaning Up

I have been busy going through boxes and boxes of junk the last few days. I have posted a bunch of stuff on my swap-shop blog. I have all kinds of things listed. So hop on over and check everything out. My goal is to barter for things I can use for Christmas gifts and well maybe some new lil things for me as well.

As you may have guessed, the move to the other house doesn't seem to be happening anytime soon as I had originally thought it would. A little aggravating - yes. But it will be ok. Maybe we won't get moved this year, maybe we will. And maybe it will just hold out till next spring when the weather is better. It's starting to get pretty chilly here. And I don't know about the rest of you, but I have no desire to move in the freezing cold. My hands just will not cooperate in the cold.

There is one reason why I do not like holidays. They totally screw up my work schedule. I still have the same amount of work to do just one less day to get it done in. Plus I wind up working days like Black Friday and Christmas Eve. Not that I have any desire to fight the crowds in the stores, but it would be nice to not have to spend the entire day after a food-filled holiday working.

I made myself a list of chores to get done last weekend. Ummmm I got about half the list done. I wonder if I will get the rest done this weekend. Probably some of them. But I'm planning on working a while on Saturday so I don't think I'll get the whole list finished.

Speaking of lists- I finally have the rough draft of the candy list made out for my sister to take to work with her. And tonight I was going to type it up and print it out and wouldn't you know the printer is running out of black ink. Hmmm I wonder maybe I should try another color. Yes dears I did begin my life as a blond. Do not let the brown fool ya.

Well I'm off for tonight. I have a full day of work tomorrow and then some. Have a lovely evening!

I'm ready to move

I am so ready to get moved. We are almost down to just basics left to box. But of course we won't be boxing those until we know for sure when we will get to start moving. If the kiddos hadn't came down sicj this week, I had planned to call my aunt to see if she needed help cleaning out the house. But of course things don't usually go the way you have them planned. The kids are feeling better and should be returning to school tomorrow. And of course next week is my busy week of work. Please keep your fingers crossed for us that we get to get out of here soon. I know I'm impatient but I can't help it.

Well that was aggravating!

Just about lost the computer. Poor Cat accidentally opened up an infected email and it decided to wreck havoc on the PC. I spent a good bit of time working on it earlier today. I first tried a system restore. No of course not. That would be waayyy to simple. Had to do a full system recovery. This not only takes a lot of time it also wipes out everything that was stored in your PC after it left the factory. I didn't lose all of my pictures, but I would guess more than half of them are gone. I'm just very grateful right now that I am still old fashioned in my business record keeping, as it's all in paper form. Oh well we're back together and online again and we have all leaned a very important lesson.

And the Winner Is.....

Melody June from the MJF! ! Congratulations Melody on winning the B-DAY Giveaway!!! I will get this little goodie box wrapped up and mailed out to you in the next couple of days.

A Gift for Me

I thought I would treat myself since I got off work early yesterday. I went to the Goodwill. I LOVE that store, especially the one here in Boonville cause it's new and clean. I have been wanting some new shirts for a couple of months now. I haven't really had the extra cash so I just kept putting it off. Well the bills are finally caught up and the kids got some much needed clothes earlier this week so it's my turn. I found 5 shirts for $2.50 a piece!! I found a couple of skirts I really loved but wouldn't you know they were too long and too big. Bah-humbug! I also found Matthew a Levis denim jacket with the woolly lining. So it's little frayed at the cuffs, but he loves it and it will gt him through the winter. I told him when winter is over we'll get him a Carhartt coat on clearance. My babies are gonna know how to shop! If they don't learn anything else from me, they will know how to find a bargain! This may sound strange but do you know what I really want right now. I mean "Really really" want--- a bouquet of flowers. I look at them all the time at Wal-Mart but can't see paying $5-$10 for cut flowers. Well I would if they were for someone else, but not for me. Maybe just maybe I will break down and get buy some later. I will at least stop and smell them.

B-Day Giveaway!!!

I wound up with the morning off. I have taken advantage of the extra time to catch up with friends online and put together the B-Day Giveaway box.

We have:

An embroidered table cloth, vintage handbag, jar of buttons, two votive candles- flowering herbs and plum pudding scents, autumn wired craft ribbon, lavendar essential oil and small chunk of jasmine vanilla homemade soap.

Drawing will be September 13th, Sunday evening. My son, Matthew will be drawing the winner. Remember to leave a comment. You can leave comments here on my blog, on MJF, facebook or email 'em to me. Have a wonderful day and Good Luck!!!