Some of the stuff we had to throw out had been in that basement longer than we have been here. There was decayed bug carcases everywhere.. *shudders* BUT the basement is now 95% empty as far as storage goes… the remaining 5% needs to go up to the attic… and that I am not looking forward to since the attic and basement are three narrow, steep flights of stairs apart. I am still freaked out about carrying things on the stairs. It has been almost 4 years since I took the tumble and broke my leg and yet I still get a little pang when I have to go up to the attic.. or the second floor on the back staircase. Course the ones here are nothing like the ones I fell on. Those were really steep.

So the TO-DO-before-we-put-the-house-on-the-market list is a little shorter… but not by much since we didn’t finish the ceiling in the bathroom..that will be finished this weekend, BUT it was a lot better looking in there than we thought. There are two layers above the drop ceiling and we were thinking we would have to rip everything out to the studs because of the water leak… but we only had to do a small section. The original ceiling? Green. Why green? I don’t get it. One top of that is some kind of tile board… kind of like a combination of particle board and paper. Then the drop ceiling. Course since you can’t even give rental property away around here these days, we have plenty of time to do what we need to do.

The list for today?
* Gotta mop the bathroom floor again. There is a fine layer of dust in there that I can’t seem to get up. I prefer to be barefoot and hate walking on it like that. YUK!
* Install the CO Detector in the basement. Don’t know why we never put that in, gotta get that in as it is the law
* Laundry.. the never ending battle… might let The Drama Queen do hers so I can get out of doing mine Heh!
* Call and close 2 dormant credit card accounts. Don’t need them, trying to keep our credit report nice and neat
* Work out
* Relax

I think that is it… feels strange not to have a ton more to do… I have that “I’m forgetting something” feeling. I hate that

 

The dumpster will be arriving sometime between 8 and 10 am (better window than the cable company ever gave us) and then we will tear apart the bathroom… the parts we haven’t touched yet… and maybe even more than planned since The Mr.was looking at tub surrounds this evening while we were picking up new shower doors. Course the toilet is now running none stop. Guess it felt left out.

Oh and we are finally getting our ginormous tv set up. Well that is if we can find a TV stand that will hold a 250lb tv. I see a trip to IKEA tomorrow as well…. or maybe Jordan’s Furniture since they are having a huge no interest for a year sale… we do need a new sofa as well… ah I guess you can’t take it with you, so you may as well enjoy it while you’re still kickin’

Now if only we could do something about the living room carpet… and then there is the tile in the kitchen… oh and we are going to paint out bedroom soon… gonna buy some of our mis-tints cuz I really dig the color! Win-win there!!

 

** All the crazies were out in Freaky Town today. I guess that goes along with being next to a bar that opens at 8am. But then again I was bumping into all the loons here in town before heading to work as well. So blame it on the full moon and then we can just assume it will all be back to norman soon. Riiiiight!

** I am getting in a bit of a tizzy here (joining the loons I guess). My baby girl is going to HIGH SCHOOL in a little over a week. HIGH SCHOOL! AHHHHH! It isn’t fair! I need more time! I am sure if I had more time I still wouldn’t be satisfied. They grow up way to damned fast! Gotta enjoy every moment you have (even though the ones between say 12 and 20 make you want to throttle them on a daily basis)

I am really having a hard time with it though. I am so frickin proud of her and everything, but I just am not ready to let go.. though I guess I have been letting go little by little since she learned to hold her own head up. Before I know it she’ll be driving and dating… not sure which is worse….. deciding where to go to college and what she wants to do with her life… Ugh time to change the subject, I am depressing myself way too much

** Know that show on MTV called Made? Well apparently they are filming in a neighboring town. Something about the cheerleading squad at the high school… and someone involved isn’t very disciplined so the ones doing the making decided they need to attend some martial arts classes and they picked the Karate Kids school… they are supposed to be checking it out this week. They will be in the adult class though not KK’s class.. Course I feel so old not having a clue what the show is about. Never seen it but have heard of it… I have a vague recollection anyway. Heh! Sensi was really bouncing off the walls over it too

** Being a total Coca ~ Cola kook, I have been collecting points so I can get myself some nifty rewards. This becomes very challenging when you have sworn off the stuff. But I have some people looking out for me who have been saving their caps and the tops of their fridge packs for me.. and I got my first reward today… it is a Coca ~ Cola bottle flash drive. Heee!  I am such a geek for silly things.

** I really should be getting some work, work done….
** I am breaking out like a teenager lately… I guess that is one way to stay young huh? Ugh!

** My back is peeling. I can’t reach it either and it is very itchy. I offered to let The Mr.peel me and he of course thought I was suggesting something else. Which was actually pretty interesting since his mind is never there

** I wish I knew where my bamboo back-scratcher went disappeared to… maybe I can get one of the kids to do it… heh!

** Getting my pictures from both of our vacations developed cost me $40… and that was just mine I haven’t done the kids pics yet

** I flickred them.. I still have to go through and do some editing, but they are up because my sister was bugging me to see them… Glad I did though since I ended up deleting some by mistake when I was trying to get them off the laptop..

** Been flooded with member registrations from fake email addresses… don’t remember that happening as much before… spammers must be gearing up for a big one hmmm…. don’t get to be a member unless you confirm so they aren’t doing themselves any good faking it… hmmmm

** I am very tired. I think someone should put me to bed now