And so far under $5! My $80 personal redecorating/reorganizing challenge is going pretty good.
The small bookshelf in the bathroom is working out great and the top is a great place to store towels so it's giving me more room in the hall linen closet...which is giving me room in each of the girl's rooms because I put a few of the 1,000 quilts/blankets grandma made in there instead of their rooms and they can still get to them. I scronged around the house for baskets and boxes and found ones that fit (both in size and color scheme).
I took out the large towel bar and I am just going to fill the holes with spackle ($3.44+tax) and a tiny touch of paint that is in the shed...it's not the EXACT color of white, but there are only 2 holes the size of Q-tips...so in true trailer park fahion I'm letting it ride : )
I actually took a "before" picture but the batteries in my camera died before I could get an after picture. Once I find the battery charger I will take an "after" picture and a "during" picture of my oldest's room. The small bookshelf came from her room, so I needed to reconfigure her room a tad and made her and her sister help me purge some of the surplus...Grandma sent 2 boxes from Florida that should get here on Thursday...so I need to make room for some stuff...
Friday, July 29, 2011
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
$80 Challenge
Ok, so my folks gave me some cash during my visit and I made it home with $81...the 5 year old ripped me off for a buck...but it kept her out of the bathroom while I soaked...and that was when inspiration hit...I need to make some tweaks to the house...quickly followed by the reality check that we are completely broke...
So...
I am going to take my $80, take a tour around my house and see what I can come up with : )
First on the list - upstairs bathroom
What's going to happen...move hand towel ring to adjacent wall, move regular towel rod to space over toilet, move small bookcase from bedroom to bathroom and paint walls (I'm gonna leave some holes in the walls and we never painted this room, I figure if i get a quart I can paint this room and touch up around the house to make my $ stretch so more) Hoping this room will cost me about 20 bucks or so, but I will be able to use the paint and spackle in other areas, everything else I already have : )
Game on!!!!
So...
I am going to take my $80, take a tour around my house and see what I can come up with : )
First on the list - upstairs bathroom
What's going to happen...move hand towel ring to adjacent wall, move regular towel rod to space over toilet, move small bookcase from bedroom to bathroom and paint walls (I'm gonna leave some holes in the walls and we never painted this room, I figure if i get a quart I can paint this room and touch up around the house to make my $ stretch so more) Hoping this room will cost me about 20 bucks or so, but I will be able to use the paint and spackle in other areas, everything else I already have : )
Game on!!!!
Be it ever so humble...
There really is no place like home!
We were supposed to be gone for 22 days, it turned into 23...the lovely folks at Continental were trying to help and rerouted us with US Airways because Continental was running behind and thy knew we would miss our connecting flight...and we got stuck in the US Airways plane, on the runway, in the middle of a lightning storm, and then...missed our connecting flight...
The monkeys and I made it an adventure, pulled up our panties and started making the phone calls, reserving rooms and getting the shuttle sent over for us...the little we saw of Charlotte, NC was quite nice.
The next morning (this morning actually) we found out we had been placed in an Exit row...now normally I would be jumping up and down and high fiving strangers, but this seating arrangement does quite work out when your traelling companions are 5 and 11...had the hubby been with, he would have ditched our asses (not because he's mean, but because he's 6'4", air travel is not his friend) but we found some very happy people to trade with us.
The only real complaint I had with this airline was the food service...I know that you have to pay for what you want off the their menu and I am ok with that, but how can you run out of 2 menu items by the time you get to row 11?! We got lucky and one of the Continental Breakfasts was hiding and he found it by the time he got to us in row 13, but come on folks...it's a 7:45 am flight - people wants their $8 bagel and cream cheese.
So, now my poor tired girls only got to see their Daddy for about 2 hours, poor man is the only IT tech at his location...AND we only saw him for a day before we left because he had been in Hawaii for 5 days. So our little family has been apart for 28 of the last 29 days and only got a quick little visit on day 30 : (
Oh well, we are home...now for the unpacking...see you in about a week...just in time for the boxes to come from Grandma's house...
We were supposed to be gone for 22 days, it turned into 23...the lovely folks at Continental were trying to help and rerouted us with US Airways because Continental was running behind and thy knew we would miss our connecting flight...and we got stuck in the US Airways plane, on the runway, in the middle of a lightning storm, and then...missed our connecting flight...
The monkeys and I made it an adventure, pulled up our panties and started making the phone calls, reserving rooms and getting the shuttle sent over for us...the little we saw of Charlotte, NC was quite nice.
The next morning (this morning actually) we found out we had been placed in an Exit row...now normally I would be jumping up and down and high fiving strangers, but this seating arrangement does quite work out when your traelling companions are 5 and 11...had the hubby been with, he would have ditched our asses (not because he's mean, but because he's 6'4", air travel is not his friend) but we found some very happy people to trade with us.
The only real complaint I had with this airline was the food service...I know that you have to pay for what you want off the their menu and I am ok with that, but how can you run out of 2 menu items by the time you get to row 11?! We got lucky and one of the Continental Breakfasts was hiding and he found it by the time he got to us in row 13, but come on folks...it's a 7:45 am flight - people wants their $8 bagel and cream cheese.
So, now my poor tired girls only got to see their Daddy for about 2 hours, poor man is the only IT tech at his location...AND we only saw him for a day before we left because he had been in Hawaii for 5 days. So our little family has been apart for 28 of the last 29 days and only got a quick little visit on day 30 : (
Oh well, we are home...now for the unpacking...see you in about a week...just in time for the boxes to come from Grandma's house...
Monday, July 18, 2011
Success!
We survived the sleepover at Grandma's house!!! My girls had a daughter of an old party friend of mine spend the night last night. Since we had 3 girls running around, the potential of someone being left out and in tears was hanging over our heads, but never came into play...they would pair off, come together, pair off and come back together...a sweet little dance. We opened this can of worms last year with one sleepover at Miss L's and one over here and I fear we are now doomed for all eternity...just wait until Lil's old enough to join us and the 3 local cousins figure out what they are missing...I should starting hoarding some Depends Undergarments and prozac now...I am way too old for this crap...
Now my insane self is packing up and heading to the beach : )
Now my insane self is packing up and heading to the beach : )
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Getting ready for my vacation may kill me...
The hubby is away on business...in Hawaii - AGAIN!!!! I am trying to purge, organize, sort, donate, clean and pack BEFORE he gets back. The dog isn't getting walked, but the kids are being fed (the dog is getting fed), having playdates and getting their pool time (3 hours yesterday with friends and cousins- kicked their butts, mine too, but who's counting?!)
I am the bizarre love child, hybrid mix of slob and organizational freak...it's not pretty, it's frustrating for everyone involved and it is getting on my last nerve. It has me on edge, my husband pissed off, (not that he helps or anything...I know he knows where the dishes and laundry go), my kids living in a Sanfred & Son nightmare...so I have decided (after a blow up with the man befroe he left) that it ends now...whatever isn't put away, donated or sorted...will be thrown out before he gets home...
So, that being said...MY walk-in closet is done, the dressing area between our closets is done, upper landing - done and my craft closet downstairs DONE! I did feed the kids a meal that I actually made myself, with groceries we went to the store to get...I have 48 hours left to finish this bitch...time to get back to it!
I am the bizarre love child, hybrid mix of slob and organizational freak...it's not pretty, it's frustrating for everyone involved and it is getting on my last nerve. It has me on edge, my husband pissed off, (not that he helps or anything...I know he knows where the dishes and laundry go), my kids living in a Sanfred & Son nightmare...so I have decided (after a blow up with the man befroe he left) that it ends now...whatever isn't put away, donated or sorted...will be thrown out before he gets home...
So, that being said...MY walk-in closet is done, the dressing area between our closets is done, upper landing - done and my craft closet downstairs DONE! I did feed the kids a meal that I actually made myself, with groceries we went to the store to get...I have 48 hours left to finish this bitch...time to get back to it!
Monday, June 27, 2011
Deja vu...I.C.U.
Dad is in the hospital again...ICU, chest pains that were at an 8 (his "4" would cause me to pass out) that nitro couldn't bring down, waiting for results of echocardiogram and nuclear stress test...all initial tests came back pretty okay, but he is still showing signs of a clot somewhere...checking his lungs today...mom isn't sure if they are doing this via x-ray or dye...hope it's not dye because he has stage 4 renal failure and getting the dye in and out of him is hard on his body already...
SUCKS being so far away...we are headed that way in a week, hopefully he is out and on his way to recovery...he is always like this boomerang or yo-yo that always comes back to you or diligently back up the string...I'm just afraid that one time he will just keep going...
I try to be hopeful, with a little bit of reality thrown in...he is a very sick man and has been for a long time...it's just really hard to see it when you are in his presence...you can't see scars, the missing parts of lung, the artifical arteries, the shunts, the stints, the cancers, the failing kidneys, the deteriorating bones, the blockages, the vascular disease, the heart disease...
All I can do is sit by the phone wait for the updates and pray...
SUCKS being so far away...we are headed that way in a week, hopefully he is out and on his way to recovery...he is always like this boomerang or yo-yo that always comes back to you or diligently back up the string...I'm just afraid that one time he will just keep going...
I try to be hopeful, with a little bit of reality thrown in...he is a very sick man and has been for a long time...it's just really hard to see it when you are in his presence...you can't see scars, the missing parts of lung, the artifical arteries, the shunts, the stints, the cancers, the failing kidneys, the deteriorating bones, the blockages, the vascular disease, the heart disease...
All I can do is sit by the phone wait for the updates and pray...
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