Oops....

When I get really involved in a project I kind of forget everything else.

That being said I cleaned my room today (found some missing books LOL) and forgot ALL about dinner.

My poor husband, who had been working since 4am, was less than thrilled.

I felt bad for HIM but didn't really care myself because I got a lot done today. I didn't realize my room was even messy until I started cleaning it! But I have been so busy getting stuff ready for the party I kind of became blind to my bedroom.

Oh well, my room is nearly clean and I guess it's a leftovers night!

:D

LOVES!
AmyG

Clothes!

I FINALLY unpacked a box of MY stuff!! (Of course on a day I wasn't taking pictures...figures.)

And it was CLOTHES!!

For those of you who don't know, I only had a couple pairs of jeans and a few (nicer) shirts - mostly my school spirit shirts - when we moved in. Since then I got a bunch of new clothes for Christmas and a whole bunch of clothes during Kmart's dollar sale, and I even got some on sale at Khol's, so it's not like I don't have clothes....still, it was superawesome to find a box of my nicer clothes.

It does pose a dilemma, however. At our old house I had a walk-in closet that was chock-FULL of clothes!

My current closet is much MUCH smaller....the Mr doesn't have much of a problem because his half of this closet is about the same size as his fourth (lol) of the walk-in closet. But I am going to have a TON of clothes that won't even FIT in this closet. :(

For the most part I can find a new place for my sweaters and small jackets.....but after that I will have to keep my wardrobe trimmed down and that's going to be hard for me. But I must do it!!! I have lived perfectly well with what clothes I have right now, so hopefully I'll keep that in mind while I'm going though the clothes I just unpacked (they are in the laundry ~ they were clean when they were packed [still on hangers, even!] but they've spent a year in a cardboard box and I have asthma and allergies....not taking the chance...they get cleaned!).

I'm actually kind of excited to go through them. I've lost over ten pounds since I last wore these items! Hooray!

Today I'm doing some bills and then I'm sitting outside trying to get my roses planted again. It's a good day to do it! My stepdaughter wants a pot or two and it's getting close to freezing at night so if I don't get it done soon I'm going to start losing them. They were cheap so it won't be a horrible thing, but I did still pay money for them LOL! So wish me luck and the time to get it all done!

Yesterday's Adventures

My adventure yesterday. I got bored so I started taking pictures of everything I was doing and thought it'd make a good (if dull) blog post LOL.

So I decided it was high time I started unpacking again (I had been concentrating on Halloween decorations for the past few weeks). I picked a crate (another stack gone!) and lugged it to the patio to unpack it. It was unreasonably heavy. I opened it up and found this:

CANS?!? REALLY?!? Someone packed CANNED FOOD in a CRATE?!? RIDICULOUS!!! I was pretty sure I had unpacked all the food within the month we moved in!!! This crate could've been used for something a lot more worthy than canned food! 

So whatever, I started going through the canned food.

It turns out, 60% of that canned food expired in 2010..... THREE YEARS BEFORE WE MOVED!! What?!? Someone packed up expired food in a crate and then we moved it with us!!!

RIDICULOUS! Ha ha!

So I dumped the expired food and the rest of the food expires next year, but JUST TO BE SAFE.....I opened up a can of pear halves and sampled it to make sure it was still okay to eat ;)

I'm still alive today, so they must be okay. I might try another can of pear halves just to make double-sure, however, haha!

I wanted to mow, but it was way too rainy:

So instead I decided to work on my drawing. I've been trying to get back to doing some things that I enjoy instead of just cleaning (or finding reasons not to clean) every single moment of every single day. So I started this drawing last week and worked on it for about 20 minutes, getting this much done: (10 points if you know who the subject is!)

And yesterday I worked for about 20 more minutes and finished up with this:

Decent enough, so far. It's been a while so I'm a bit rusty. Still, the only person I need to impress is myself, right?

After that I decided to get back to work. It was still too rainy to mow, but it wasn't too rainy to go pick up the driveway.  Lazy (and probably dumb) people walk or drive past our house and throw garbage into it....so I got all the trash and then moved the chairs into the garage to dry off for the football game tonight, and picked up a few things my husband insisted needed to be left outside but have remained in my driveway untouched except for when I move them to mow. They've been there over a year now. I  moved them into the garage as well.

Lastly, after a day of moderate work, my husband got tickets for D's annual pancake and sausage dinner. It was awesome.....I didn't have to cook!! All the kids enjoyed their meals, 

And we finished off our evening watching our Tank play football.

It was a great day.

:D

Autumn!

It is Autumn here in Illinois, which means, in addition to leaves dying and falling off trees, some GORGEOUS skies!! I think I take more sky photos during autumn and spring than any other time of the year!

Beautiful!

Speaking of....here's some embarrassing photos of my stepdaughter going through what jewelry I have unpacked to find things to wear for the homecoming dance!! LOL

She ended up borrowing quite a few things!

I have some good pictures of her all dressed up and ready to go to the dance, but they have not been downloaded off my camera yet. I let the battery die and now I need to charge it before I can get the images off LOL!

I do have a SD card slot on my computer....but it has ceased to function (quite a while ago, actually) so I cannot get images off my cameras any other way than via USB cord, and there has to be power to the cameras to do that.

So next time!!

Continuation

The plans I had made today kind of got thrown out the window (this week has been a bit brutal on everyone around me), so of course my whole world was messed up because I don't think like a normal person thinks LOL.

I put up on Facebook whether I should continue cleaning/organizing/rearranging the basement or if I should finish cleaning up the pool and get it put away already.

The general opinion was I should finish the pool before the rains come (tomorrow-ish) and enjoy the *nice* weather while I can.

Of course then the Mr called and mentioned he's out of socks so I ended up spending time in the basement anyway.

If you've read my blogs you know what happened the last time I was cleaning the basement. I did not want a repeat of that situation. Knowing I still had to finish vacuuming cobwebs out from under my basement stairs, I leashed up one terrified puppy named Butterfly and forced her to go under the stairs with me. She was upset at first, but quickly realized I was serious and she wasn't leaving. Instead of panicking and peeing on the floor (which is what I figured would happen) she sat on my lap while I finished up under the stairs. You could tell she wasn't happy about it, but she did it so I praised her and gave her a treat.

When I moved on from the stairs I began vacuuming the cobwebs on the ceiling. I did not bother leashing Butterfly up because if she peed on the floor I could easily clean that up. She tried to come after the vacuum one time and I poked her in the side with my finger and said "no" very sternly but without yelling at all.

At first she ran to her cage and cowered inside it every time I turned the vacuum on, for which I praised her and gave her a treat.

After a while she began running over and lying down on the ground whenever I used the vacuum, for which I also praised and fed her a treat. After a while the other dogs began running over while I was vacuuming and sitting around me because unlike my Butterfly, they are pretty smart and wanted some of the action she was getting LOL!

I have a picture but it's still on the iPod of Butterfly lying on the ground (but still pretty obviously not happy) while I'm vacuuming. Such a good girl!!

So SO FAR she is being a good little puppy while I'm working and that's good. I haven't had to clean up any more dog pee (SO FAR) and that's great.

I'm not quite halfway through the basement at this point....and I really didn't get very much laundry done today (socks got done so no one can complain at least!), but maybe tomorrow I'll get started a little earlier. I'm just dealing with some outside issues and trying to help out when I can, so my own stuff is getting put on the back-burner.

Also I have had a constant headache for two weeks straight now, and I'm considering bringing this up when I see the doctor (soon). It's not bad enough to warrant major meds...but the fact that it's never going away is concerning me.

Love you all!