Is there anyone out there?
I am having a Cyber Monday Sale Here. I had a Black Friday sale, and let me tell you, it wasn't easy having to go in and edit every listing I wanted to put on sale. Etsy doesn't make it easy. Then I had to go and change those tags to cyber Monday on Saturday, inactivated a few until now. I'm wondering why I bother. A lot of work for what? 2 sales. I did better during the week.
Hubby is on vacation for the next 2 weeks. We started it off with a big fight Saturday, I don't have the energy to write about it now. We've made up, or made a truce. Sunday was our anniversary. I got about 4 hours sleep, since I was up we did the 3 mile walk at 8am that morning. Wow, there were other people around at that ungodly hour. We spent the rest of the day at the MIL's house visiting with the SIL from NJ. It wasn't bad, just not my idea of fun and I was pooped.
We plan on celebrating our anniversary tomorrow, actually today. What horrible timing. I wanted to list things off & on all day to drum up some sales, I also need to pack & ship a couple of things. It's like I'm going at a snail's pace with everything.
Not only do I have a lot of things I need and want to do as far as my online biz goes, there's a shitload of things to do around the house. And now Hubby's family is lining up all sorts of errands for him to do during his time off-MIL needs to go food shopping, to the pharmacy, pay bills, the FIL wants to buy new beds for the nephews and guess who has to take FIL to the store and put the mattresses in his trunk? Hubby, who else. Sometimes I feel like we're in a hole and we're never going to get out.
Enough of the rant, all I ever do here lately is rant & complain. I'll come back with some positive postings soon. Right now I feel like I could throw up.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Friday, November 27, 2009
Thanksgiving-DONE!
It wasn't too bad, I'm just happy it's over.
I didn't blow my diet, there was nothing to eat. Well, nothing to go overboard with. MIL made a turkey, some BBQ chicken legs, rice and beans. She stuffed the turkey with this concoction of 2 boxes of stove top (we bought them for her) and hamburger. I make my stuffing with the stuffing bread, celery, onions, bell's seasoning, butter, a little broth and a couple of eggs to hold it together. I LOVE my stuffing, don't like this stuffing with the meat. Then she put the bird in the fridge without taking the stuffing out. Ewww.
I missed having squash, my stuffing, cranberry sauce, my gravy, even the mashed potatoes. I AM cooking Christmas, so we'll have them then. Today nobody sat down to eat at the table, they never do. Everyone just helps themselves to whatever they want, whenever they want, put it on a plate and stand there or go in front of the TV and eat it. If there's room at her table people will eat there. She sent everybody home with leftovers, a container loaded with rice & beans and a bit of turkey. The rest she's saving for the crowd coming tomorrow, plus an uncooked pig pieces-I don't know I didn't want to look-in the fridge. We ate our turkey leftovers already, so now we have a fridge full of rice and beans ;( I made brown rice & beans with chicken for hubby's birthday and had leftovers. OMG, I am SO sick of rice and beans. So much for turkey sandwiches, turkey soup, turkey salad.
On Hubby's birthday I made the chicken, brown rice & beans and it came out great. I soaked the beans overnight, and added peppers & onions, cilantro and green olives while it was cooking. Very tasty. I put in Sazon and Adobo, I try to go easy because it's salty, and it had a nice flavor. I don't know about MIL's version, her's is kind of bland. The Thres Leches cake was a hit! Hubby loved it. I think I should have used more milk, it didn't soak enough IMO in the middle. I also whiped up a pumpkin pie that night. I did all the cooking with Hubby in the kitchen, whooping it up with a couple of beers for his birthday. He didn't help, I didn't need the help, everything went easy and as planned. Oh, I made the cake around 6-7 am that morning.
Now moving forward to Black Friday. Holy shit, I have to work a double. I was planning on staying home (at least during the day) and listing things, but I need the money. Work money is definite money, not "maybe I'll sell a bunch of stuff or maybe not" online money. I'll be home Cyber Monday so I can do that then.
BTW I did find time tonight to slash prices on some of my stuff and made a Black Friday section in my store. At least I got something done.
I didn't blow my diet, there was nothing to eat. Well, nothing to go overboard with. MIL made a turkey, some BBQ chicken legs, rice and beans. She stuffed the turkey with this concoction of 2 boxes of stove top (we bought them for her) and hamburger. I make my stuffing with the stuffing bread, celery, onions, bell's seasoning, butter, a little broth and a couple of eggs to hold it together. I LOVE my stuffing, don't like this stuffing with the meat. Then she put the bird in the fridge without taking the stuffing out. Ewww.
I missed having squash, my stuffing, cranberry sauce, my gravy, even the mashed potatoes. I AM cooking Christmas, so we'll have them then. Today nobody sat down to eat at the table, they never do. Everyone just helps themselves to whatever they want, whenever they want, put it on a plate and stand there or go in front of the TV and eat it. If there's room at her table people will eat there. She sent everybody home with leftovers, a container loaded with rice & beans and a bit of turkey. The rest she's saving for the crowd coming tomorrow, plus an uncooked pig pieces-I don't know I didn't want to look-in the fridge. We ate our turkey leftovers already, so now we have a fridge full of rice and beans ;( I made brown rice & beans with chicken for hubby's birthday and had leftovers. OMG, I am SO sick of rice and beans. So much for turkey sandwiches, turkey soup, turkey salad.
On Hubby's birthday I made the chicken, brown rice & beans and it came out great. I soaked the beans overnight, and added peppers & onions, cilantro and green olives while it was cooking. Very tasty. I put in Sazon and Adobo, I try to go easy because it's salty, and it had a nice flavor. I don't know about MIL's version, her's is kind of bland. The Thres Leches cake was a hit! Hubby loved it. I think I should have used more milk, it didn't soak enough IMO in the middle. I also whiped up a pumpkin pie that night. I did all the cooking with Hubby in the kitchen, whooping it up with a couple of beers for his birthday. He didn't help, I didn't need the help, everything went easy and as planned. Oh, I made the cake around 6-7 am that morning.
Now moving forward to Black Friday. Holy shit, I have to work a double. I was planning on staying home (at least during the day) and listing things, but I need the money. Work money is definite money, not "maybe I'll sell a bunch of stuff or maybe not" online money. I'll be home Cyber Monday so I can do that then.
BTW I did find time tonight to slash prices on some of my stuff and made a Black Friday section in my store. At least I got something done.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
It's the printer now
I've been trying to print a label for the past hour or so. I take breaks and shut the thing off so it's not a whole hour, but still~ It's eaten 11 pieces of paper so far. Now, lights flashing, it keeps telling me it's out of paper. Whenever i have this much trouble I usually shut it off and try it again in the morning, but this time I've scheduled the mailman to pick up these packages in the morning so that's not possible.
I swear I've gotten nothing accomplished this week/season/etc. Falling way, way behind in painting up ornaments, listing things and soap. The ornaments I did list & sell, didn't go for much, I keep reassuring myself it's still early in the season. If it keeps up I won't list anymore. I go to paint some ornaments and the freaking light goes out in the room, it's the middle of the night and the light fixture is a chandelier (it's an ugly one, too, something I want to get rid of) which I can't reach so that's that. I go to label some soaps and write thank you cards, I pick up a pen and it doesn't write. I ran out of packing tape. Hubby threw out the pile of Racing F*rms newspapers I swiped from work to use packing material. I couldn't find my bubble wrap for a couple of days, it was in the room with the light out.
We put these blue icicles on the outside of the house. 3 strings worth and we're a little short. I pick up another set at Wallyg's and Hubby gets up on the ladder only to discover he can't plug them in, the outlet has 2 holes of the same size, the plug has 2 prongs, one bigger than the other. Shit. A week later I find another set of blue icicles in the basement, whoo-hoo! Last night we put them up, plugged them in and guess what? The colors don't match. The new set is an aqua, the other set is more of a royal blue.
Hubby's birthday is today. Yesterday I ended up taking a nap and screwed everything up. He had to take his mother out shopping and said he'd be late coming home. I threw on my clothes and ran out the door. Ideally I would have liked to have gone to Marshall's, Target or Burlington Coat Factory for his gift, but with all of those stores I have to cross a highway almost to get to them. I hate it. I was going to get him some socks (from the dogs) and cologne from me. I get down to Broadway, call him to see if he's still in town and he's almost home. I was expecting him to come home around 5, he was an hour early, no traffic. He say's he'll meet me at WallyG's. I go to this bakery I wanted to check out, it's a Spanish bakery and figured they'd have something different. There was nobody around and no cakes on display either, all they had on display was balloons and kid shit you decorate the cakes with. Forget it. I ran into Rite Aid and they had socks, too short though. I could not find any decent fragrances there. I run across the street to Wallyg's and they don't have any men's socks and hubby calls and he says he's coming into the store. I give up.
Even though it's 2:30am I'm going to make him a cake. A Thres Leches Cake. I had been reading about them and I'm going to try one with chocolate and coconut milk. If I have to make the frigging candles to go on it, I will. I have wicks and wax!~ I am not going to be unprepared for his birthday-even though it seems that I am. I'll have to make the cake after he leaves for work.
As for Thanksgiving, the word today is that NOBODY will be going over MIL's house on Thursday, they're getting together on Friday. Well, if that was the actual case I could have cooked and me, Hubby and MIL could have had dinner together. They'll be a different story later today, I'm sure.
I swear I've gotten nothing accomplished this week/season/etc. Falling way, way behind in painting up ornaments, listing things and soap. The ornaments I did list & sell, didn't go for much, I keep reassuring myself it's still early in the season. If it keeps up I won't list anymore. I go to paint some ornaments and the freaking light goes out in the room, it's the middle of the night and the light fixture is a chandelier (it's an ugly one, too, something I want to get rid of) which I can't reach so that's that. I go to label some soaps and write thank you cards, I pick up a pen and it doesn't write. I ran out of packing tape. Hubby threw out the pile of Racing F*rms newspapers I swiped from work to use packing material. I couldn't find my bubble wrap for a couple of days, it was in the room with the light out.
We put these blue icicles on the outside of the house. 3 strings worth and we're a little short. I pick up another set at Wallyg's and Hubby gets up on the ladder only to discover he can't plug them in, the outlet has 2 holes of the same size, the plug has 2 prongs, one bigger than the other. Shit. A week later I find another set of blue icicles in the basement, whoo-hoo! Last night we put them up, plugged them in and guess what? The colors don't match. The new set is an aqua, the other set is more of a royal blue.
Hubby's birthday is today. Yesterday I ended up taking a nap and screwed everything up. He had to take his mother out shopping and said he'd be late coming home. I threw on my clothes and ran out the door. Ideally I would have liked to have gone to Marshall's, Target or Burlington Coat Factory for his gift, but with all of those stores I have to cross a highway almost to get to them. I hate it. I was going to get him some socks (from the dogs) and cologne from me. I get down to Broadway, call him to see if he's still in town and he's almost home. I was expecting him to come home around 5, he was an hour early, no traffic. He say's he'll meet me at WallyG's. I go to this bakery I wanted to check out, it's a Spanish bakery and figured they'd have something different. There was nobody around and no cakes on display either, all they had on display was balloons and kid shit you decorate the cakes with. Forget it. I ran into Rite Aid and they had socks, too short though. I could not find any decent fragrances there. I run across the street to Wallyg's and they don't have any men's socks and hubby calls and he says he's coming into the store. I give up.
Even though it's 2:30am I'm going to make him a cake. A Thres Leches Cake. I had been reading about them and I'm going to try one with chocolate and coconut milk. If I have to make the frigging candles to go on it, I will. I have wicks and wax!~ I am not going to be unprepared for his birthday-even though it seems that I am. I'll have to make the cake after he leaves for work.
As for Thanksgiving, the word today is that NOBODY will be going over MIL's house on Thursday, they're getting together on Friday. Well, if that was the actual case I could have cooked and me, Hubby and MIL could have had dinner together. They'll be a different story later today, I'm sure.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Holidays
Turkey coming soon! I love turkey along with stuffing, cranberry sauce, gravy, squash, pumpkin pie and pecan pie. I can live without sweet and white potatoes. I'm just making a pumpkin pie, no pecan this time around.
This year I will not be eating much of all that, I have lost 9 pounds in 2 weeks. I'm not throwing all that hard work out the window. :)
Even though my mother is no longer with us, the holidays are still a little stressful for me and Hubby. Now it's his family that is driving us up the wall. The following things occur every Thanksgiving and Christmas:
1)nobody has any $$ for food. Yes, MIL got paid, but she blew it on the numbers or whatever. She knows Hubby will bail her out and pay for turkey (and now a ham)and whatever else she needs to go with it. SIL has no turkey and no ride to get to MILs house. I've told him once this week and I'm going to hold my tongue for the holiday: if he keeps bailing them out they're never going to learn to manage their money and keep "borrowing" from him/us. We really don't have it. The cell phone bill is 2 months late now, he knows about it. Ok. Let the cell phone get shut off, I don't care.
2)they never get the story straight. SIL in NJ is coming for the holiday. First she was going to be here last week, then it was Thanksgiving, now it's this Friday. BIL may or may not come over. Nobody knows if the real bitchy SIL is coming or not. Ugh. How do you know how much food to cook if there maybe 4, 9, or possibly 17 people coming? Are they going to eat before they come over or what? I got a taste of this when we got married, hardly any of my in laws rsvp'd and I had no idea who would show up.
I give up. All I have to do is get up early and show up at MILs. Make a pumpkin pie the night before. Try not to let anyone get on my nerves.
What galls me is that SIL in NJ told MIL that she wanted turkey, ham, rice and beans and would send MIL $$ to make it. She is 38, WTF doesn't she make it herself? MIL is not a young woman, what is she, 71? I think. She has dizzy spells, high BP and is diabetic (type2). The daughters should be cooking for her, not requesting their favorite foods for their arrival.
The turkey MIL got-it was from step FIL from his work is only 12 pounds. Not enough for a possible shitload of people. Then hubby was thinking of buying another turkey in case there wasn't enough. Nobody came to a decision on that one. Last night I got an idea, how about I buy another turkey around the same size, cook it here and bring it over? I really don't think MIL should be slaving over a hot stove. Hubby said no can do, we have to get there early because we have to pick up step FIL in one city, SIL & kids in another, possible the niece, and bring them all over there.
Ok, I offered to help, I'm not going crazy over this. Tomorrow is Hubby's birthday, I have to get a cake & a gift together, I don't have time to be worrying about extra turkeys or who's coming to MIL's house.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
My camera
is driving me insane. Fucking insane. This is my digital camera. Oh, if I had my old canon A1 or a pentax k1000, or my roleiflex or my graflex and my darkroom I'd be done now. Hell, I'd have been done months ago. I'd be busy packing and shipping all my stuff out now.
My current camera, bought in 2001 is a Nikon coolpix 880. Either I'm going color blind or the camera is messed up. OMG, I have had a few photo shoots with some of my merchandise and nothing comes out right. Take the photos under sunlight, take them with 3 lamps all around, still problems. The color NEVER comes out right, it's either too blue, too red, or green. Then I try to fix in photo suite (I don't have photoshop, I'm used to the suite so that's what I use) and can't get the color right there. And while I'm taking the photos I'm constantly having to do a white balance correction. "Incadndesent", "daylight", etc, settings on my camera mean zip.
Did you know I have a BFA in photography? I got honors in color photography and color theory. This shouldn't be happening now. Yes, I used film when I was in school, it was the pre-digital days, but why, why, why can't I take a decent photo with a digital camera?
Right now I have several soaps I cannot take a decent photo of, I've tried several times with different lighting and on different occasions and I'm ready to tear my hair out.
A week or so ago, I decided to look for the camera I bought Hubby for Christmas last year, a Nikon l18 or something. I wasn't crazy about it, but figured I'd give it another chance. It has vanished. The last time I saw the camera was in the glove compartment in his car, Hubby likes to keep it there in case, God forbid, he gets into an accident. Months ago we were driving around, I took it out to take a photo and the batteries were dead. I believe I put it back in there. Haven't seen it since.
It is now 1am and I've wasted the night looking for that frigging camera. Did you know I HATE looking for things? I go crazy and get upset when I lose things and thankfully it doesn't happen often. Hubby, on the other hand, loses things constantly. I keep thinking he's misplaced the camera somewhere. I don't know, I've torn up various areas of the house tonight and no dice. Maybe we'll look some more tomorrow.
I really should attempt to take some photos of my stuff tonight, instead of making more soap, I'm running out of room here. I dread taking the photos. I look at other peoples' photos then at mine and I feel like crying. They will have a white background that is actually white! I use a white background, even with white balancing before hand, when I upload it I have to remove the tinges of blue, red, green, or yellow. Really, I can sit down and try it all again, in a relaxed pace, with a beer or something, really take my time and try to enjoy it. That may work, BUT once it's uploaded there might be problems, like what I see on the monitor of the camera may not be what I end up with as far as color goes. Aggggghthshtjsdkl shit!
My current camera, bought in 2001 is a Nikon coolpix 880. Either I'm going color blind or the camera is messed up. OMG, I have had a few photo shoots with some of my merchandise and nothing comes out right. Take the photos under sunlight, take them with 3 lamps all around, still problems. The color NEVER comes out right, it's either too blue, too red, or green. Then I try to fix in photo suite (I don't have photoshop, I'm used to the suite so that's what I use) and can't get the color right there. And while I'm taking the photos I'm constantly having to do a white balance correction. "Incadndesent", "daylight", etc, settings on my camera mean zip.
Did you know I have a BFA in photography? I got honors in color photography and color theory. This shouldn't be happening now. Yes, I used film when I was in school, it was the pre-digital days, but why, why, why can't I take a decent photo with a digital camera?
Right now I have several soaps I cannot take a decent photo of, I've tried several times with different lighting and on different occasions and I'm ready to tear my hair out.
A week or so ago, I decided to look for the camera I bought Hubby for Christmas last year, a Nikon l18 or something. I wasn't crazy about it, but figured I'd give it another chance. It has vanished. The last time I saw the camera was in the glove compartment in his car, Hubby likes to keep it there in case, God forbid, he gets into an accident. Months ago we were driving around, I took it out to take a photo and the batteries were dead. I believe I put it back in there. Haven't seen it since.
It is now 1am and I've wasted the night looking for that frigging camera. Did you know I HATE looking for things? I go crazy and get upset when I lose things and thankfully it doesn't happen often. Hubby, on the other hand, loses things constantly. I keep thinking he's misplaced the camera somewhere. I don't know, I've torn up various areas of the house tonight and no dice. Maybe we'll look some more tomorrow.
I really should attempt to take some photos of my stuff tonight, instead of making more soap, I'm running out of room here. I dread taking the photos. I look at other peoples' photos then at mine and I feel like crying. They will have a white background that is actually white! I use a white background, even with white balancing before hand, when I upload it I have to remove the tinges of blue, red, green, or yellow. Really, I can sit down and try it all again, in a relaxed pace, with a beer or something, really take my time and try to enjoy it. That may work, BUT once it's uploaded there might be problems, like what I see on the monitor of the camera may not be what I end up with as far as color goes. Aggggghthshtjsdkl shit!
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Saving Money 11/17 House Cleaning
Since I've been doing a lot of cleaning in the house I thought I'd share some ideas about it today.
Vinegar: I recently learned that you can use vinegar as a spray cleaner and a fabric softener. I had an empty spray bottle, filled it halfway with water, a small squirt of dish wash soap, and poured some vinegar in it. As you can see I rarely measure out things unless I absolutely have to, like when making soap and bread. If you don't measure those two out you end up with shit. I didn't like the smell of the spray, so I added several drops of peppermint essential oil, it was an improvement. I spray the vinegar spray on the table, counters & stove and wipe up with a rag. It made my stove sparkle.
I have not tried the vinegar in the laundry yet. I just did a laundry tonight and forgot about it, and forgot that we still had some store bought fabric softener. Ah, I'll let Hubby use it. Since we line dry the clothes, they come out a little stiff, or as Hubby says, "Crunchy". With this wash I did tonight I cut back on the soap because I heard too much will cause the clothes to be stiff.
Laundry Soap:I've been making my own laundry soap for a couple of years now. Extremely easy, here's how I do it:
grate up enough bar soap* to make 1 cup, pour into a large ziplock bag
once in the closed bag, I grind it up to a powder, then remeasure add more to make 1 cup (maybe this is where my problem lies with the crunchy clothes, I'm adding too much soap? Maybe I should just grate it, measure out a cup and forget about making it down to a powder. I do like making it powdery because it seems to blend better with the other ingredients.)
add 1/2 cup super washing soda
add 1/2 cup borax
mix it all up in the bag and viola!
use 1 or 2 tablespoons for each load of laundry
* As for bar soaps to use, I've used everything from Ivory to Coast, my favorite is Fels Naptha, I just love the smell of it. I like Zote, too, it smells like citronella. I'm going to use some of my reject bars of soap for laundry at some point, we have a lot of Fels Naptha I got on ebay a while back, haven't used it up yet. I bought a shitload because I couldn't find bar laundry soap anywhere around here. Now the new supermarket carries it, 99¢ a bar. The borax and washing soda weren't easy to find, either. I think I had to go to Wally World for Borax and found the washing soda in the supermarket, but not all carry it. I buy the biggest boxes of each so I don't have to hunt so often, and they last a long time.
There are plenty of recipes online for laundry soap, take a look! I prefer the powdered version. I am working on a liquid version with some left over handmade soap right, it's sitting in a jug waiting for me to add some borax and washing soda.
Enough for now, I've got to get busy and do some painting......
Vinegar: I recently learned that you can use vinegar as a spray cleaner and a fabric softener. I had an empty spray bottle, filled it halfway with water, a small squirt of dish wash soap, and poured some vinegar in it. As you can see I rarely measure out things unless I absolutely have to, like when making soap and bread. If you don't measure those two out you end up with shit. I didn't like the smell of the spray, so I added several drops of peppermint essential oil, it was an improvement. I spray the vinegar spray on the table, counters & stove and wipe up with a rag. It made my stove sparkle.
I have not tried the vinegar in the laundry yet. I just did a laundry tonight and forgot about it, and forgot that we still had some store bought fabric softener. Ah, I'll let Hubby use it. Since we line dry the clothes, they come out a little stiff, or as Hubby says, "Crunchy". With this wash I did tonight I cut back on the soap because I heard too much will cause the clothes to be stiff.
Laundry Soap:I've been making my own laundry soap for a couple of years now. Extremely easy, here's how I do it:
* As for bar soaps to use, I've used everything from Ivory to Coast, my favorite is Fels Naptha, I just love the smell of it. I like Zote, too, it smells like citronella. I'm going to use some of my reject bars of soap for laundry at some point, we have a lot of Fels Naptha I got on ebay a while back, haven't used it up yet. I bought a shitload because I couldn't find bar laundry soap anywhere around here. Now the new supermarket carries it, 99¢ a bar. The borax and washing soda weren't easy to find, either. I think I had to go to Wally World for Borax and found the washing soda in the supermarket, but not all carry it. I buy the biggest boxes of each so I don't have to hunt so often, and they last a long time.
There are plenty of recipes online for laundry soap, take a look! I prefer the powdered version. I am working on a liquid version with some left over handmade soap right, it's sitting in a jug waiting for me to add some borax and washing soda.
Enough for now, I've got to get busy and do some painting......
Monday, November 16, 2009
Saving Money Sunday 11/15
I don't have much to say tonight, I'm a little anxious. I have all these soap & painting ideas running in my head and they're not getting off the ground as fast as I'd like. I just decided to check on things online and stopped by here before making soap and breaking out the paints. Yup, it's soap night.
As you can see I did do some painting! I painted up 8 of these dazzling zebra ornaments (and more) Thursday night. Fell asleep earlier tonight and didn't get to list them. I needed the sleep, I have been VERY jazzed up from starting the new meds on Wednesday and have only been sleeping maybe 4 hours or so at a time. It will wear off with time, right now I'm rolling with it. Do you know how hard it normally is for me to sit down and paint (or do almost anything) without getting distracted several times, putting the stuff down, having to come back to it later and/or never finishing it? I just sat down and whipped these up in less than a couple of hours-including drying time, no bull. That is one of the nice things about soap, you can't put it down or walk away from it until it's done. Well, I have left some MP 1/2 finished in the molds, with CP and HP soap, you can't leave it til it's done. I have a million things I've started painting in various stages of completion sitting and waiting for me around here, maybe I'll get to some of them this week.
Getting things done: We have made amazing strides in the house over the weekend. This old guy at work was trying to get sell/rid of a treadmill and I jumped at the chance, which meant we needed to clean out part of the cellar to make room. The guy is a PIA, first he was giving it away, then he said his wife wanted $150, then he said he didn't want anything, I told him-which I'm sure he knows that my hours have been cut and I'm broke, so he he said what ever I could afford without leaving myself short. I gave him $40, I know he'd like a bit more so when we have it I'm going to give him $60-if he'll take it, and that will be all. The treadmill is a really nice one, wow, it inclines, has a heart rate thing, it's like one of the ones from the gym, it does everything, not cheap. It was so heavy & big we paid a friend our $20 to help move it with his van. Where's the saving money here? Well, we've been wanting to buy one for years and know they cost several hundred and this will be $120 total, plus a few cans of pepsi for the moving guy.
Back to the house-we cleaned the cellar Thursday night & all day Saturday. There's more room now, but still have lots to do. We made a few trips to the donation box and the dumpster. I also have a couple of bags full of towels (hubby brings them home from work-they're driving me crazy) that I want to give to the animal shelter.
Score~!!! I found several boxes of Christmas ornaments I bought to paint that I couldn't find last year and the year before. I would buy them all after Christmas for cheap to make for the next year. I guess it's next year now! I found a bunch of books, two old paperback cookbooks from the 50's which were my mother's that I've never seen before, I'm keeping those. I love old cookbooks, I have a collection. I was reading excerpts of Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Cadged Bird Sings" online last week and decided I wanted to get a copy. I found one in the basement, it was a copy I bought second hand a few years ago, put away and forgot about. Score!
Friday night after work I did some cleaning upstairs. I have this shelf in the kitchen, it's one of those white wire jobs on wheels, 3 shelves and long. It was full of my clutter: bottles of paint, brushes, my stick blender and a hand mixer, junk jewelry, paperwork, boxes of craft stuff-papers, feathers, scraps of material, ribbons, OMG, the thing was packed. 2 hours later it was done! Now it looks very neat, it holds my paints in 2 shoe boxes, some brushes in cups, my old crock pot (it's for sale-click on the ebay logo to look!) my bread maker machine I brought up from the cellar, my 2 blenders, no clutter, nice and neat. Really, before I'd get 1/2 way done with things like that and never finish. I'm on a roll here.
What about the saving money post? Shoot, I'll do that tomorrow, I've got to go and soap now!
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