Wow this blog went from being really quiet to really busy. Hi Loretta it is so good to have you back on line. You will have to drop by and show off your new hair color. Joni when did you dye your hair? I dyed mine a darker color than it was, I think I like it better than blonde.
Andrene how goes the shelf escapade, it must be nice being able to do stuff like that by yourself. I remember helping Dad when I was a kid build cabinets and cases for his medals, I love the smell of wood. Joe jr is here visiting Greg he has gotten quite a bit taller.
I decided to post in Internet Explorer and see if the buttons stay on the screen so far so good. I get a split screen in Mozilla too but the typing area is no where near as wide. Doesn't matter alot but it might be nice to have the buttons stay where they are supposed to. I guess I may have to use IE to post.
Well I had better get to work I am supposed to be doing some elearning for work, it is going kind of slow hard to get motivated for some reason.
Thursday, April 17, 2003
Loretta! Long time no type! That snake was bigger than an inch and a half hose! He was a good two inches. Yuck. The shelves are going well, setting up the drill press to actually get started took longer than making the holes in the boards is taking. It takes about ten minutes to do one side of an 8' board. I am putting the holes in for the little adjustable shelf pegs. I am using the "You can do anything for fifteen minutes" flylady thing, only I adjusted it to twenty so I could have a ten minute break after each one (cause IT IS HOT OUT!!!) I have my timer going. That means this will be a series of a couple posts, because I can only do ten minutes at a time. I actually remembered your birthday! I hope it will be wonderful. I heard about AManda's baby, Mom told me when I called her after her first day of work. I also got an email from Laureen, she told me too. It was so good to hear from her! I am going to invite her to join the blog on my next break.
Wednesday, April 16, 2003
Last night I went to Lowe's (huge home inprovement store) and got the stuff to make the built in bookcases for the bedroom, and to make a new top for a couch table that I am going to turn into the bottom part of the computer desk. I got the guy to cut everything to size for me and he didn't charge me anything! So that will save me tons of time today. I have to go out and set up my drill press that Lyle got me for Christmas to cut the little holes for pegs for the adjustable shelves. Plus I went to WalMart and got my "other stuff", all the stuff that is too expensive at the grocery store. I had some coupons and I took back two four dollar plastic shelves that we had bought for Ashley's room and didn't need, and my total went from $78 to $61. YAY! I also splurged and got some Wilton Candy melts for Ashley to make some more Easter lollipops with this weekend. And I got a $1.75 craft organizer for my embroidery floss, which I needed because I used my old one that Angie got me for Xmas years ago to organize little pieces of glass for mosaics. Anyways, I am off to go build shelves. Since I am working on the lawn, I hope it isn't as windy as it was last night!
Monday, April 14, 2003
Whoops PPS - That shop hop is exactly the same thing, Rolana! I got some great organizer bins at the dollar store for the tools. Now if I could just magically make the stuff jump in.... We also got a beautiful wall unit at our "Global" (called CCA) on Saturday. It is so pretty! We are going to set it up on top of a deep desk for the computer stuff so it will all be hidden but still be in the room so we can watch Ashley while she is playing, and so I can work on my book without being hidden away in the back room somewhere. I also bought two pairs of jean overalls to work around the house in, neither of which fit my fat butt. Depressing! They have no changing rom there, so I can't tell. I hate that! I have to go wrap Joni's LATE birthday presents, I am planning to walk the mile to the post office.
PS - Chuck - thanks for the Grover introduction - that made me laugh! All our birds are gone, I guess they headed back to you guys. I heard about a plan online for a loftbed that you can set up an office/closet/whatever underneath, and thought of you - http://www.oploftbed.com/index.php It sounded so cool, I wated to do it in Ashley's room!
I probably shouldn't tell you this so close to when some of you may visit, but....
We killed a HUGE snake in the yard yesterday, and I went online to look up what it was. We couldn't figure out what it was, but Lyle (who moved here from CA when he was seven) said there are two kinds of snakes, king cobras and water moccasins, and he was killing it regardless. It was funny, he hates the cop thing, he is a fire marshal, so often doesn't carry his gun or even know where it is. He was mowing the yard, the mower turns off, he comes running into the house and yells - "Where is my gun?" I thought the Iraquis had made it to Texas. After finding his gun under the seat in his truck to give him courage, he killed the snake with a shovel and a fireaxe. Much more firemanly of him. I puked and we delayed lunch a couple of hours.
I quit my job on Friday. I gave two weeks notice but the VP was so mad he didn't want it. The President (Gene) tried to talk me into staying but the VP (Steve) didn't want me to. It helped that I told him I was tired of him being demeaning and rude to me. Lyle has wanted me to quit for six months, so he is happy. We have savings for three months of living with no change, or indefinitely if we scale back on the shopping and remodelling. Gene suggested I start my own business. Lyle agrees. I am scared! But, Lyle said I have to marry him if we start a business so it will have his name on it. :) Lyle wantsme to take a week off and relax because I have been working 70 and 80 hour weeks lately, but relax is a relative term.
Luckily, this no job thing means I have more time to clean the house up and finish the nine hundred chores I have to do with the remodel. And I am doing the fifteen minutes at a time flylady thing, but I have found it works better if I use the timer backwards, and count up, then I go faster. Then I try to beat my time. I have an anal retentive chart that will allow me to do all of the housework M-F in 45 minutes a day. So far so good, I have been refining it for a while now, and I am trying to make it second nature to do it while I make supper. Of course, not having a kitchen makes it easy because there is one less room to clean, but harder because I have to "mop" a wooden dusty subfloor, and there are open cracks that lead to the dusty attic.
Anyways, that is my news, so I'll go for now, and hopefully I can check in more often.
We killed a HUGE snake in the yard yesterday, and I went online to look up what it was. We couldn't figure out what it was, but Lyle (who moved here from CA when he was seven) said there are two kinds of snakes, king cobras and water moccasins, and he was killing it regardless. It was funny, he hates the cop thing, he is a fire marshal, so often doesn't carry his gun or even know where it is. He was mowing the yard, the mower turns off, he comes running into the house and yells - "Where is my gun?" I thought the Iraquis had made it to Texas. After finding his gun under the seat in his truck to give him courage, he killed the snake with a shovel and a fireaxe. Much more firemanly of him. I puked and we delayed lunch a couple of hours.
I quit my job on Friday. I gave two weeks notice but the VP was so mad he didn't want it. The President (Gene) tried to talk me into staying but the VP (Steve) didn't want me to. It helped that I told him I was tired of him being demeaning and rude to me. Lyle has wanted me to quit for six months, so he is happy. We have savings for three months of living with no change, or indefinitely if we scale back on the shopping and remodelling. Gene suggested I start my own business. Lyle agrees. I am scared! But, Lyle said I have to marry him if we start a business so it will have his name on it. :) Lyle wantsme to take a week off and relax because I have been working 70 and 80 hour weeks lately, but relax is a relative term.
Luckily, this no job thing means I have more time to clean the house up and finish the nine hundred chores I have to do with the remodel. And I am doing the fifteen minutes at a time flylady thing, but I have found it works better if I use the timer backwards, and count up, then I go faster. Then I try to beat my time. I have an anal retentive chart that will allow me to do all of the housework M-F in 45 minutes a day. So far so good, I have been refining it for a while now, and I am trying to make it second nature to do it while I make supper. Of course, not having a kitchen makes it easy because there is one less room to clean, but harder because I have to "mop" a wooden dusty subfloor, and there are open cracks that lead to the dusty attic.
Anyways, that is my news, so I'll go for now, and hopefully I can check in more often.
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