Mondays

It’s that certain day of the week that has the highest tendency to be ONE OF THOSE DAYS.  At least it sure seems that way for me personally.  Garfield and I are kindred spirits when it comes to Mondays (and early mornings, and that mood we get in when we don’t get fed…well..okay…we’re just kindred spirits!)

My day just got off on the wrong foot when I (wearing day old clothes and without a shower—i was just gearing up for a day of housecleaning, okay!?!) was on the way to take Munchkin to school and realized that (oh my) I had a meeting to discuss last week’s therapy session with the therapist.  At 9am.  That is NOT how you want to begin a morning, trust me.  The forgetting, I mean, not the therapist…lol…although digging into our daughter’s multiple dysfunctions issues is not really my idea of a fun morning, to be quite honest.  And someday when that daughter is meeting with the nursing home director about her mother who won’t stay in her room, or is wreaking havoc in the craft hall, or won’t stop screaming at the nurses, I’m sure she’ll be saying the same thing about me!  LOL!  Gotta have a sense of humor about these things, right? 

Here’s a random quote I came across today while working on a project which shall not be discussed herein because of the holiday that is rapidly approaching which I prefer to push FAR from my mind.  (EEEK…i’m so far behind)  ANYWAY, the quote:

“False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine but leaving us when we cross into the shade.” - Christian Nevell Bovee

I’m so glad I have true friends that are friends in sunshine AND shade.  ;-)  Oh and have I mentioned that we are going to be moving all our heavy furniture on January 15th?  Ahem.  LOL!  I’m not really hinting at anything…really….lol! 

Seriously, I thought the quote was deep and wanted to remember it but moving our heavy furniture is not a requisite to being my friend.  LOL.  Ain’t ya glad about that?!  Trust me, your back will thank you.  Mine will be screaming at me and it won’t be saying thank you!  Oh wait, it’s still screaming at me from last week…I think I hear it saying something about 15 tons of gravel?  Ah yeah. 

Well anywho, we showed our house again yesterday.  I think it speaks volumes that we showed our house two times and got an offer both times.  *grin*  Yes, and although we countered a few times on the first and finally rejected it because it was a contingency based on their condo selling in a town down the road which is suffering economically (at least the housing market), we did accept the second.  Closing date on our little house is January 8th, they are already pre-approved for the loan, and because we have already had the house inspected and appraised, we don’t have to worry about any of that stuff causing any problems, so it’s pretty safe to assume that our cozy little home will be in new hands in about 5 weeks.  *sigh*  I’ll miss it.  I’ll miss it probably every time I spend 8 hours cleaning in the big house what took me 1 hour to clean in the little house.  And I’ll miss that nice big area of gravel in the backyard.  *sigh* 

I would like to point out that although the playset was quite the craigslist fiasco, and although it is concreted into the ground and we weren’t planning to take it with us, and although we did not state that up front in the listing, I do think it HIGHLY interesting to note that BOTH offers specifically requested that the playset remain.  BWAHAHAH! 

Okay, apologies for my sporadic posting recently, but things around here have been a little hectic.  Maybe SOMEDAY I’ll have time again and will be able to post deeper thoughts than just random updates.  LOL.  That’s assuming my brain isn’t completely fried by that point.  Or assuming I’m not in that nursing home I was talking about up in paragraph 2.  LOL. 

Oh well.  Goodnight.  =)

Un.Be.Lievable!

• The hour that I got out of bed this morning to finish cleaning the house for a showing today (YAHOO about the showing).  And on the time…I’ll give ya a hint…the clock had a 5 on it and it wasn’t AFTER the colon.  (wincing)
• The fact that I mopped the floor, cleaned the bathroom, cleaned the litterboxes, took a shower, made the bed, dried my hair, got Munchkin up and hair fixed for school, penned the cats in the bathroom so they wouldn’t mess up my clean house, got Munchkin to school on time, went to Walmart, came home and spot cleaned the carpet, went to the bank and deposited a check, AND got to court by 9:00am.  (Eesh?!?)
• That they don’t allow you to take cell phones OR purses into the courtroom anymore?  I don’t get that at all…I mean, ya have to go through the metal detector and they search your purse before ya go in, so what’s the big deal?  UGH.  So no book to occupy me today.  AND I had to walk all the way back to my car this morning to put my purse and phone in it so I could get in the courtroom.  Unbelievable. 
• The way I flew home in the 45 minute break for lunch and vacuumed the house, cleaned up the cat mess in the bathroom, put the cats in their carriers (which is a feat in itself), picked up the stuff on the deck that the wind had blown over, threw together a sandwich (that I choked down on the way back to court), put the cats in the car, and got back to court with 3 minutes to spare.  And at least 15 minutes of that time was spent on the road. 
• The 1/2 hour testimony that happened in court today.  I had no idea a person could get their story so mixed up while they were “UNDER OATH” to tell the truth and nothing but the truth. 
• That another person could take the stand and say they couldn’t answer the questions every time the answer would have been incriminating. 
• That the second person to take the stand didn’t listen well enough to the first person’s testimony (obviously) and denied things the other one had already admitted.  Actually, the second person denied pretty much every single report that was in the court file.  NOTHING was true, it was ALL lies.  All those people made up all those stories that (OH, MY!) happened to all correlate. (please note, heavy sarcasm in those statements) Forget the fact that their two stories had so many crossed facts it made my head hurt.
• That they didn’t get laughed out of court, or at the very least, fined for lying under oath. 
• The headache I walked out of the courtroom with….I don’t think my head has EVER hurt so bad. 
• What Jango evidently thought of my driving today…right after he puked in his carrier.  Then he had an issue out the other end.  The road was a little curvy.  Wasn’t my driving, I’m SURE.  But then I had to clean it up.  Unbelievable!
• The fact that I had the Awful Headache and got home at 5 o’clock and didn’t call KC to say…um, honey, can we please do take-out tonight?  NOOOO…I put my big girl undies on and chopped up lettuce, grated the cheese, browned the beef, and had taco salad almost ready by the time the hubby got home. 
• The hubby who is listening to Melikiwikimaka (a hawaiian christmas song) and said “I feel like I’m saying a cuss word.” (ROFL!)  Only my hubby!
• That I’m seriously contemplating giving my stinky bottomed (derrierred?) kitty a bath at 10:07 pm because I can’t stand it anymore!
• That we’ve been told we’re going to get an offer on our house after the FIRST SHOWING!  Let’s hope it’s an UNBELIEVABLE offer! 
• That this blog post is getting insanely long and I really didn’t even have much to say.

 

Okay…one last unbelievable thing: that I haven’t posted the December Photo Hunt yet…so here goes:

1. Holiday Lights
2. Holiday Spirit
3. A Holiday Treat
4. An Ornament
5. A Gift-Wrapped Package
6. A Window Display
7. A Winter/Holiday Icon
8. A Tree
9. A Tradition
10. Something that says Noel
11. Something Precious
12. Something Peaceful
13. Something Hot
14. Something Cold
15. Something Red
16. Something Green
17. Motion blur
18. Black & White Photo (with selective coloring)
19. Any photo using an Infrared Photography Technique (in-camera OR post-process)
20. A Macro Shot

And that’s it….this post is long enough. Thanks for reading!  If you’re still here, that’s…

UNBELIEVABLE! 

(so leave me a comment so I can believe it…hahahaha….sorry.  shameless i know)

Sisters Night Out

The other side of the table....they dont know im using my camera phone to blog....they will kill me for this one. Teeheehe.

oh and so far no blue lights on SNO night. But its still early and im the chauffer of the evening so theres still plenty of opportunity.

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MIA again…

Well, I’ve been gone again…sorry…it’s been one of those weeks.  Let’s see, where do I start? 

Our early “anniversary” trip that we were going to take over thanksgiving while KC’s mom kept the kids for us kinda got shrunk.  First we decided that instead of going out of the country, maybe this year we should stick to someplace within US borders.  Then it got downsized again when we were like, um…maybe we’ll just go to the city up the hill for a couple nights.  And…well, KC’s mom kept the kids for the three days and…um…we went out to dinner and came back home.  And spent the next two days busting our tails while the kids were gone.  Oh well.  Maybe next year.

So Thanksgiving was a workday here at the old house.  I painted the back of the house foundation, painted the back door on the garage (it was stained mud red from the middle on down and no amount of pressure washing would budge it), and took outdoor bleach and scrubbed the fire out of the siding on the back of the house (also mud red) and KC pressure washed it off (looks SO much better now).  And finally, we sanded, primed, and painted the sheet rock patch on the living room wall…that was a job.  But the wall looks GREAT now! 

KC’s mom invited us up to eat with them around 5, so we did that and came back home (leaving the kids there…that was a little unusual.  LOL!) and finished cleaning up the house from all the work we’d done during the day. 

Friday, we got up early (KC went black friday shopping at five and I slept til 7:30 when he got back) and hit the crawl space…got all the plastic back down and hauled off a bunch of trash to the dump.  How in the WORLD we collected that much TRUE junk is beyond me.  I mean, literally, it was a truck load of stuff that was unusable trash.  Not even stuff you could clean up and re-invent or ANYTHING.  Anyways, we took all that to the dump and then house inspection time…

Our old house passed, only a few minor things that the inspector suggested we change (like there isn’t any weather stripping under the back door because it came off…that sort of thing), so we were pretty satisfied with that. 

The new house (well, new OLD house) also passed…also a few fairly minor things.  However, the inspector told us, for a house as old as that one, he found SURPRISINGLY few things wrong with it.  He said it was a very quality built house and it’s held up very well.  He’s not licensed to inspect for termites, so he couldn’t tell us that he found what looks like the beginning of a termite problem.  WE saw them though, so we let the realtor know that it needs to be treated.  LOL.  And the inspector did say that he couldn’t find any structural damage because of anything that he wasn’t licensed to inspect.  Hah. 

And finally…are you dying of curiosity?  It killed the cat, you know!  LOL.  Okay, so enough already, right?  Yes, we have a contract on a new house, and from everything we have seen so far, it looks like we’re getting a STEAL.  We’re excited.  Supposed to close on it around Dec 31st, and the current owner asked for 2 weeks after closing to get all her stuff out.  Here’s the photographic tour of the inside of the new place.  And after you look at the pictures, you’ll understand why she asked for 2 weeks after…hahah!  I’ll post an outside photo and more pics when we move in and start doing updates and stuff. 

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Alright.  It’s library trip day, so I have got to get moving.  I have a little man beside me that is saying, “Please, momma, can I talk?  Can we go to the library now?  Pleasseee??”

Thanks for dropping by.  ;-)

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Things Aren’t Always As They Seem

That ditch in front of our house for example.  It’s not as shallow as it appears.  And our truck?  It kinda looks like it could be an off road vehicle, but it’s not. 

And the hill on one side of the drive near the ditch at the road?  Well, it doesn’t look so steep that a person would have a hard time climbing up it to throw mulch on it.  *ahem*  It is. 

So.  *ahem*  If a person that might seem to be me, (oh wait, it was), were to assume that said ditch wasn’t that deep, and that said truck was fully capable of backing into it, so that said person could much more easily throw the mulch up said hill, said person might just be dumb enough to do it.  Yes, one should never assume. 

I have only three more things to say about this story:

1. the moment my stupid self said person backed into that ditch, the first and ONLY thought in their head was, oh dear heavens, KC IS GOING TO KILL ME!  Please tell me we’re not stuck, oh please, oh please, oh please---NOOOOO……KC IS GOING TO KILL ME!
2. It was much, much easier to unload the mulch from the truck’s position in the ditch.  Mostly because I said person very nearly rolled the truck over and just dumped it out on that hill.  The ditch was THAT deep.  Oops.  
3. Thank GOD for Triple A!!!!!!!!  Our membership has now paid for itself.  Also, they are amazing…they called like three times while I said person was waiting for the tow truck to get here to pull it out…JUST to make sure that I said person was in a safe place and still doing okay. 

Also when it comes to the house, you know, things aren’t always as they seem, there either…not that the rooms were in bad shape before I took pictures, but I

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did have to go through real quick and pick up some things and put a few things out of sight before taking pictures…

*sigh*  Just so ya’ll know I’m being perfectly honest here…wouldn’t want anyone to think my house is magazine perfect all the time…cuz that would be a lie.  LOL.  Actually, I think in one of the boy bedroom shots, there is a clump of something that needed to be vacuumed up, that I missed.  Oops.  OH WELL. 

And PS, we now have a lockbox on the door and sign out front…it’s officially for sale now.  =) 

Our House

Want a tour?  *grin*  It’s all tidy and clean.  (Maybe we should have listed the house AGES ago…it looks so nice now. haha.) 

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Hopefully, it will be under new ownership in a short amount of time.  ;-) 

Child Labor

Perhaps a better title for this post would be something like…more than one way to skin a cat…although, admittedly this would have been the LONG way to skin the cat, since their loads consisted of exactly one shovelful per load.  LOL!

Here are better pictures…the last one was from my cell phone and wasn’t a great shot.  I actually went and got my real camera because they were cracking me up.     

Especially watching them dumping their trucks in that little line of piles….SO funny! 

They are in training to get their CDL’s…(rofl)!

K-man kept coming back to me for his next load and this is what he’d say: 
“More, please!…THANK YOU! Have a nice DAY!!”

Then Munchkin, (my little control freak) decided SHE wanted to do it her way and fill up the trucks herself.  Then she figured out that the wheelbarrow held more, so she started filling that up (although she couldn’t budge that one) and of course, the K-man followed suit.  So funny!

The gravel pile is SLOWLY, but surely, shrinking.  Praise the Lord.  After busting our tails yesterday to get everything done, I stood up last night after I sat down for a little while and I couldn’t walk.  Literally, my hips and back were like locked up and shooting pain all the way up my back and down my legs.  I was thisclose to just falling down on the floor.  I am quite ready to be done with all the big backbreaking jobs.  I don’t like getting old.  lol!

Hey Look!

I’m back.  Twice in one day.  Be warned, this will more than likely be at least 90% random.  LOL!

First up…the house.  We have been busy little bees. 

• There’s the very large sheetrock patching in progress on the living room wall.
• Pictures of the gorgeous decor pieces from our fruitful shopping trip to Hobby Lobby tonight (they’re having some GREAT sales, by the way)
• The framed piece over the bed was a $12 deal from Habitat Restore (I was thrilled with that one!) and the two small pieces over the bed were HL and they coordinate soooo well…I picked them out…I am so proud of myself!

 

• Not pictured is the garage (KC cleaned early this morning)
• Also not pictured is all the places in our house where clutter collects that are now totally (or almost totally) de-cluttered and cleaned
• Another thing not pictured is the canvas I put on the playground roofs.  It’s dark grey and looks peachy.  I totally rocked on that one because I forgot to measure for how much canvas, and I completely guesstimated it to be 5 yards.  I had about 6 inches left over and the width was right on. 

Still on the house thing, we had an appraisal done this morning on our house to find out where we’re at on the home value thing.  In two days, our house will be officially for sale.  EEEEEK!  That kinda makes me sad because I love our little house.  *sigh*  I hope some couple that is looking for a first house (or downsizing) comes along and buys our cozy little place.  If they come along by Monday, that would be just peachy.  LOL! 

And now for TOTAL randomness:

• Munchkin’s therapy has already been quite interesting.  I found it a little humorous when the therapist looked at me with raised eyebrows and said, “She is a very fascinating child.”  I’m pretty sure she was using that word in place of “odd” or “strange” based on her other comments.  LOL.  Another thing I thought was quite interesting was that the therapist told me that she usually could read the situation pretty quickly and easily but that she was getting very mixed and unusual messages from the Munchkin’s behavior and signals.  According to the therapist, we are dealing with some kind of attachment issue/disorder and/or anxiety, and will continue narrowing this down until we figure out what exactly we’re dealing with and exactly HOW to deal with it. 
• Jango (fat cat) is sick.  I’m not sure what’s going on, but I took him to the vet today because--according to our lovely google-ness--he is showing all signs of kidney or bladder stones and needed to see a vet.  However, they didn’t really seem concerned (at least not about anything except the removal of my arm and leg in payment for bloodwork and consultation) so I brought him back home.  Anyone have any suggestions that don’t involve a vet?  Because unless he is in an ungodly amount of pain, I don’t forsee another vet visit in our future. 
• It is absolutely amazing what our kids pick up in church!  For those of you who weren’t at church for the revival last weekend, Bro. R preached one night on the weights.  God requiring things of us and us not wanting to put that thing forth for him and it making our life off balance…well, that’s the general overview….not exactly it, but paraphrasing a bit.  Anyway, he used one of the old fashion balance scales and coins, he would drop like a quarter in one side that God was requiring and a dime in the other side to show what it looked like when people weren’t wanting to fulfill God’s complete requirement and it put their life out of balance.  Of course, there was more to it than that, but I don’t have all night.  LOL.  Also, that night, he got in the pulpit at 9 and preached til almost 10.  Great message, but no one was really expecting him to preach that late.  My kids sat like troupers and were actually not even playing during the sermon (they were tired of their toys because they played with them during the song service because I didn’t expect preaching).  I didn’t think they were listening though because I knew they were tired and their eyes were glazed over and they were just staring the majority of the time.  (teehehe…I might have looked like them a couple times myself…not on purpose of course!)  So…this is turning into a long story, but we were in a thrift store this week and there was a balance weight thing on a lower shelf and K-man points at it and says, “Momma, we need money to put in that!” 
• Driving to church last Sunday (I think it was Sunday), KC swerved and then there was a thump-crunch-crunch. 
  I didn’t see what it was, but I winced.  “It was already dead, right?” 
  “Nope,” he says, “I think them squirrels have a death wish, I’ve seen I don’t know how many squashed on the road this year.  *long pause*  Population control.” 
  “You’re awful,” I said, “I am SO blogging that!” 

LOL!  And on that note, I’ll wish you goodnight before this post ends up on tomorrows date and I don’t have the two posts in one day that I was bragging about earlier in this post. 

Thanks for dropping by! Have a great day (cuz that’s probably when it is by the time anyone actually reads this).  *grin*

Well.

I’m doing it again.  Bringing you some picture edits in place of an in-depth post.  Really, I have no time for this either, but well…here we are again.  I’m really hoping for a few moments to sit down and catch up on writing again soon, but I’m not quite sure when that will be, and rather than neglect the ol’ blog completely, I’m just posting a few more edits.  I’m sure Kelbs will be happy about it.  *GRIN* 

I don’t know why I really liked a lot of their shots in black and white, but I tried not to ONLY post those, so here are a few NOT b/w.  *grin* 

Naturally I’m such a rebel, I have to post at least one more of the others anyway.  Whatever. Thanks for looking and for the comments which I have not had time to respond to…I still appreciate them. *grin* 

Have a lovely afternoon!

In Which I Have No Time

Here’s a post.  Life is killing me right this minute, and I have no time to write…actually, right this minute I *SHOULD* be getting off my computer and fixing some sandwiches for a quick supper before running out the door to choir practice.  BUT.  Here I am. 

I did some picture editing today.  I am so behind again on that stuff.  But here are a couple that I did…I figured I’d use them to fill this post.  *grin* 

Hope ya’ll are having a good week so far! =) Will be back in my next free time.  Could be next year.  LOL.  (I’m kidding…I hope).  Haha. 

Later!