Friday, February 22, 2013
Friday, February 23,2013
I just couldn't get myself to watch Robin Roberts journey tonight...she is such a strong woman. I think of my journey and feel like a whimp ....she endured so much pain for so many months....I praise her for being so brave....she is a true winner. God bless her!
Saturday, February 2, 2013
No health issues...just been busy....doing......
February 2nd
I've had so much energy and I'm putting it to good use! Cleaning...organizing stuff, and even throwing away 'some' stuff too....
Early December we had a water leak in one of our 'tubes' in our waterbed. Granted it's about 20 years old or older....When I went to fix the bed I noticed the blankets were soaking wet and we found the leak in the tube on 'my' side of the bed. Years ago, Charlie had one on his side and we called to get a 'new' tube. When we were looking for the leak I noticed on the mattress (it looks like a shell) that there were spots of mold! Thank goodness we've had a 3 inch piece of foam over the mattress so were weren't in any danger mold related (I think)....We decided to get a new bed but we'd have to wait until after Christmas...with having the Christmas tree and decorations all over the house - it would have been hard to have them deliver the mattress and not knock anything down.
With 'that' in mind (a new mattress); while shopping at Sam's Club during December I noticed a pretty nice bed frame (top and bottom) and the cost was very reasonable...but I had my convertible and it was way too cold to buy it and bring it home with the top down.
I had mentioned to Charlie about this bedframe....and time went by....finally we decided to go and buy it one Sunday that he was home. When we arrived at Sam's Club we noticed that there were no more 'pick up' signs there and it was just the floor model that looked like a full/double size which wouldn't do. I decided to check out the mattresses while we were there...Walking to the back of the store, Charlie was looking UP to see if there were any 'display' model boxes around and he came across a cart with the entire 'set'!!! 4 boxes!!! ready to go!!! We thought it maybe another customers so I told him that we'd go pick up the dinner rolls that we also came in for and if it was still there when we got back - we'd take it. Well, taking our time and going back --- it was still there! Charlie took the cart and off we went to check out! He was walking ahead of me and I was a little behind -- just in case the original buyer saw us walking towards the cashier I'd say that I didn't know him! (nice of me!)....we got to the cashier and the woman ahead of us was griping about a product that was rung up with the wrong price (and we wanted to just pay and get out)....I told Charlie I was going to see the mark down on the Christmas stuff but he aggressively said 'NO'! A couple came up behind us and were talking about running into another couple and not knowing their names...but we thought they were going to complain about their bedframe....no.....now a gentleman came up to us and tapped Charlie on his shoulder - I was listening to this woman in front of me complaining....then Charlie poked me --the guy was asking what the price was - being that there was no ticket....I remembered the price from the first visit - wow! and here WE thought it was his!!! While he was asking us, the girl was ringing us up and charging us for each piece - duh, it's a set....anyway, we got it and RAN out of the store. I still wanted to go back to get the Christmas stuff but Charlie wanted to get out. We had one of the employees that was putting the carts away to help load the one piece of the bedframe....all in his truck! done!! and then he goes to put the dinner rolls in and the whole bag rips...about a dozen fell out and Charlie looked at me as if he wanted to pick them up....no way, the pigeons had more to eat!!! I was laughing hysterically the expression he had on his face when the guy asked the price....and his expression as we were running to the cashier and out the store....still thinking of it - I can laugh so hard!!! We finally got it home and in the garage. Paul helped Charlie bring it upstairs to Sam's room.
Now, noticing the carpet in our room - disgusting!!! spots all over the place....Years ago, when Paul was a baby - he threw up on it and of course stained the carpet....now with the dogs - just them laying on it made spots everywhere! So we decided that if we were getting a new mattress and bedframe we may as well get carpet....and paint the room.
I'm telling Charlie - that we need this to sell the house. The bedroom didn't look like a master suite...it was so messy....I had to change my original comforter because Marlee had chewed a corner of it when she was a pup and I just bought a regular comforter to make due at the time.
We ordered the carpet, and bought the paint. We kept it the original color; a very light green. We took EVERYTHING out of our bedroom as the carpet was coming on a Wednesday and the bed on Saturday. I had written down that the first paint took only 1 gallon. Charlie bought it at Lowe's and we both painted. Of course we ran out of paint only having a small portion left. He was off Monday and Tuesday, so we went back to Lowe's on Tuesday to buy another gallon.....came home and painted the rest of the room - touching up a fairly large area where our pillows were. Charlie had to go to some seminar that night and came home after 10 pm.....I came up to the bedroom to get ready for bed about midnight and noticed the area on the wall where he touched it up....uh oh...the paint didn't match!!! He came up and noticed that he bought the wrong type. First was ' matte finish' and the replacement was 'eggshell' - same color but noticeably different!!! Here we were = 1 AM in the morning RE-painting the whole wall!!!! We had to do it then because the carpet was coming the next morning!
Here we had all our furniture on the loft and in the hallway to the kids bedrooms! Such a mess!! We were sleeping in Sam's room. Her bed is so hard!!! I couldn't sleep the first night so I decided to sleep downstairs on the floor in the living room with the pellet stove rather than in my Mom's bedroom as the cat sleeps on her bed and I'd be sneezing all night....the floor was not comfortable at all...the next night I decided to sleep in Sam's bed rather than the floor.
Carpet guys came and went...arrived here about 8 AM and left by 1 PM....wow, it looked so nice! The carpet guy said it was pretty bad! After all this carpet has been down for 27years!!!! He really said it was pretty gross!!!
Thursday we brought the bed frame in and Charlie began to 'sort' out all the pieces. Friday he figured he'd put it together...again, another outing for him - had to go to the chiropractor so we didn't finish putting it together. The mattress was to be delivered between 12 noon and 4 pm, so we had more than enough time in the morning to put it together.
8AM I woke up and shook Charlie telling he that we should put the frame together....he said it would only take a few minutes so we could wait....well, not 5 minutes later the phone rings and they were delivering another mattress in Blairstown and asked if they could bring ours now....YIKES!!! We both jumped out of bed and began putting it together....I had to move my car and it was done about 10 minutes before they arrived!!! This bedframe has everything screwed in...headboard, sideboards and bottom frame all connected to the dividers in the middle.
When they left, we began bringing in the furniture. Dusting and cleaning it all before bringing it in the nice clean carpet! We were finished about 4 PM...exhausted!!! But it looked so nice.
Several years ago I had bought a new comforter set. I was going to put it on our bed but we had just gotten Marlee and I didn't want to do it seeing what she did to the older comforter set and due to our bed being a platform - it was hard to get the sham on...so it was put away; and used now!!!
After the room was put together I thought the windows needed something....off to Walmart for valances....got them and 7:30 AM the next day, I was washing screens and windows and putting up the new window treatments.
I love the way our room looks now!!!
So much cleaning to do!!! Dust everywhere from when Charlie put in the pellet stove - the hearth...with cutting the wood and putting down the tiles....so I had to dust off the bookshelves.
During all this, I cleaned Paul's bedroom. I took out his bookcase (that had a ton of t-shirts) in it and placed them all in his closet. Paul takes after me - can't throw or give anything away!!!! so I found another place for all of them. I moved the bookcase into my bathroom and am using it as a linen cabinet. I bought baskets to put the stuff inside so it looks 'clean and organized' (of course I can't find anything even though I tried to keep things somewhat together). I moved his shoe racks and just made his room neater!!! Sam's room is done...I put a few flower arrangements in there. She already had a wall unit in it that has her TV and other things...HER room looked more like the master suite than ours DID....now ours is beautiful!!!!
Next: I want to make an atrium (where you put plants), in the bathroom downstairs. My sister Patty, has hers like that. Putting a piece of plywood over the tub and putting plants around it with the shower curtain drawn back.....But I have to wait until its warmer as Charlie said its too cold outside to cut the plywood to fit.
All this = to make our house 'sellable'....as much as I prefer staying here...it will make a little more of an impression on 'lookers'...and as long as we're here - we can enjoy it!!!!
I've had so much energy and I'm putting it to good use! Cleaning...organizing stuff, and even throwing away 'some' stuff too....
Early December we had a water leak in one of our 'tubes' in our waterbed. Granted it's about 20 years old or older....When I went to fix the bed I noticed the blankets were soaking wet and we found the leak in the tube on 'my' side of the bed. Years ago, Charlie had one on his side and we called to get a 'new' tube. When we were looking for the leak I noticed on the mattress (it looks like a shell) that there were spots of mold! Thank goodness we've had a 3 inch piece of foam over the mattress so were weren't in any danger mold related (I think)....We decided to get a new bed but we'd have to wait until after Christmas...with having the Christmas tree and decorations all over the house - it would have been hard to have them deliver the mattress and not knock anything down.
With 'that' in mind (a new mattress); while shopping at Sam's Club during December I noticed a pretty nice bed frame (top and bottom) and the cost was very reasonable...but I had my convertible and it was way too cold to buy it and bring it home with the top down.
I had mentioned to Charlie about this bedframe....and time went by....finally we decided to go and buy it one Sunday that he was home. When we arrived at Sam's Club we noticed that there were no more 'pick up' signs there and it was just the floor model that looked like a full/double size which wouldn't do. I decided to check out the mattresses while we were there...Walking to the back of the store, Charlie was looking UP to see if there were any 'display' model boxes around and he came across a cart with the entire 'set'!!! 4 boxes!!! ready to go!!! We thought it maybe another customers so I told him that we'd go pick up the dinner rolls that we also came in for and if it was still there when we got back - we'd take it. Well, taking our time and going back --- it was still there! Charlie took the cart and off we went to check out! He was walking ahead of me and I was a little behind -- just in case the original buyer saw us walking towards the cashier I'd say that I didn't know him! (nice of me!)....we got to the cashier and the woman ahead of us was griping about a product that was rung up with the wrong price (and we wanted to just pay and get out)....I told Charlie I was going to see the mark down on the Christmas stuff but he aggressively said 'NO'! A couple came up behind us and were talking about running into another couple and not knowing their names...but we thought they were going to complain about their bedframe....no.....now a gentleman came up to us and tapped Charlie on his shoulder - I was listening to this woman in front of me complaining....then Charlie poked me --the guy was asking what the price was - being that there was no ticket....I remembered the price from the first visit - wow! and here WE thought it was his!!! While he was asking us, the girl was ringing us up and charging us for each piece - duh, it's a set....anyway, we got it and RAN out of the store. I still wanted to go back to get the Christmas stuff but Charlie wanted to get out. We had one of the employees that was putting the carts away to help load the one piece of the bedframe....all in his truck! done!! and then he goes to put the dinner rolls in and the whole bag rips...about a dozen fell out and Charlie looked at me as if he wanted to pick them up....no way, the pigeons had more to eat!!! I was laughing hysterically the expression he had on his face when the guy asked the price....and his expression as we were running to the cashier and out the store....still thinking of it - I can laugh so hard!!! We finally got it home and in the garage. Paul helped Charlie bring it upstairs to Sam's room.
Now, noticing the carpet in our room - disgusting!!! spots all over the place....Years ago, when Paul was a baby - he threw up on it and of course stained the carpet....now with the dogs - just them laying on it made spots everywhere! So we decided that if we were getting a new mattress and bedframe we may as well get carpet....and paint the room.
I'm telling Charlie - that we need this to sell the house. The bedroom didn't look like a master suite...it was so messy....I had to change my original comforter because Marlee had chewed a corner of it when she was a pup and I just bought a regular comforter to make due at the time.
We ordered the carpet, and bought the paint. We kept it the original color; a very light green. We took EVERYTHING out of our bedroom as the carpet was coming on a Wednesday and the bed on Saturday. I had written down that the first paint took only 1 gallon. Charlie bought it at Lowe's and we both painted. Of course we ran out of paint only having a small portion left. He was off Monday and Tuesday, so we went back to Lowe's on Tuesday to buy another gallon.....came home and painted the rest of the room - touching up a fairly large area where our pillows were. Charlie had to go to some seminar that night and came home after 10 pm.....I came up to the bedroom to get ready for bed about midnight and noticed the area on the wall where he touched it up....uh oh...the paint didn't match!!! He came up and noticed that he bought the wrong type. First was ' matte finish' and the replacement was 'eggshell' - same color but noticeably different!!! Here we were = 1 AM in the morning RE-painting the whole wall!!!! We had to do it then because the carpet was coming the next morning!
Here we had all our furniture on the loft and in the hallway to the kids bedrooms! Such a mess!! We were sleeping in Sam's room. Her bed is so hard!!! I couldn't sleep the first night so I decided to sleep downstairs on the floor in the living room with the pellet stove rather than in my Mom's bedroom as the cat sleeps on her bed and I'd be sneezing all night....the floor was not comfortable at all...the next night I decided to sleep in Sam's bed rather than the floor.
Carpet guys came and went...arrived here about 8 AM and left by 1 PM....wow, it looked so nice! The carpet guy said it was pretty bad! After all this carpet has been down for 27years!!!! He really said it was pretty gross!!!
Thursday we brought the bed frame in and Charlie began to 'sort' out all the pieces. Friday he figured he'd put it together...again, another outing for him - had to go to the chiropractor so we didn't finish putting it together. The mattress was to be delivered between 12 noon and 4 pm, so we had more than enough time in the morning to put it together.
8AM I woke up and shook Charlie telling he that we should put the frame together....he said it would only take a few minutes so we could wait....well, not 5 minutes later the phone rings and they were delivering another mattress in Blairstown and asked if they could bring ours now....YIKES!!! We both jumped out of bed and began putting it together....I had to move my car and it was done about 10 minutes before they arrived!!! This bedframe has everything screwed in...headboard, sideboards and bottom frame all connected to the dividers in the middle.
When they left, we began bringing in the furniture. Dusting and cleaning it all before bringing it in the nice clean carpet! We were finished about 4 PM...exhausted!!! But it looked so nice.
Several years ago I had bought a new comforter set. I was going to put it on our bed but we had just gotten Marlee and I didn't want to do it seeing what she did to the older comforter set and due to our bed being a platform - it was hard to get the sham on...so it was put away; and used now!!!
After the room was put together I thought the windows needed something....off to Walmart for valances....got them and 7:30 AM the next day, I was washing screens and windows and putting up the new window treatments.
I love the way our room looks now!!!
So much cleaning to do!!! Dust everywhere from when Charlie put in the pellet stove - the hearth...with cutting the wood and putting down the tiles....so I had to dust off the bookshelves.
During all this, I cleaned Paul's bedroom. I took out his bookcase (that had a ton of t-shirts) in it and placed them all in his closet. Paul takes after me - can't throw or give anything away!!!! so I found another place for all of them. I moved the bookcase into my bathroom and am using it as a linen cabinet. I bought baskets to put the stuff inside so it looks 'clean and organized' (of course I can't find anything even though I tried to keep things somewhat together). I moved his shoe racks and just made his room neater!!! Sam's room is done...I put a few flower arrangements in there. She already had a wall unit in it that has her TV and other things...HER room looked more like the master suite than ours DID....now ours is beautiful!!!!
Next: I want to make an atrium (where you put plants), in the bathroom downstairs. My sister Patty, has hers like that. Putting a piece of plywood over the tub and putting plants around it with the shower curtain drawn back.....But I have to wait until its warmer as Charlie said its too cold outside to cut the plywood to fit.
All this = to make our house 'sellable'....as much as I prefer staying here...it will make a little more of an impression on 'lookers'...and as long as we're here - we can enjoy it!!!!
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