Lucky One

Yeah baby I'm the lucky one. :) Or whatever. I got to drag out the Christmas decoration boxes and then, I also got to put up most if not all, well lets just say 99.9999999% of them, I did have some assistance from the kids... the five and three year old kids, mind you.

AND!!! AND! AND! AND and and and and and and and GUESS WHAT!!! NO! really take a guess!! Go ahead!!

I get to take them all down. ALL by myself!! Nope, I don't even get any help from the five and three year olds. NONE. Zip. Nata. NO HELP. yay!! :) I'm delirious with excitement!! I can hardly stand to take a break from doing it to come type this post. :P

I have most of the stuff piled up on the couch... dangerous to leave it there with all three kids playing in the living room right now. My thought process is sort of like... the more they break the less I have to pack away. JUST KIDDING. lol (well sort of b/c it is true. what they break won't get kept and packing into a garbage bag is a LOT easier than a Rubber Maid bin! just sayin')

So now I'm off to dig out the Christmas bins that are buried in my bedroom, the 1/2 we aren't using yet. And, BTW, when I say "buried" I'm not just saying it because they are under one or two things, or just in the back corner and I have to take a few more steps to get to them... I'm sayin' they are BURIED!! Like buried under tons of crap. Crap that was all over the house, that we took from all the rooms of the house and shoved in our bedroom before our New Years Eve party. Yeah. That kind of buried. Oh the joy. OH the fun of being the one that gets to take care of all this. I freakin' love it. :D <----- that is me with a huge big smile on my face!! I can't wait to get back to the cleaning up!

**all sarcasm aside, I am happy to be the one to get to do all this because then I know it is done right and nothing will get broken, I mean once I have it packed that is... while on the couch there are NO guarantees. AND, also taking down all the Christmas decorations is making my house look very empty-ish... BUT in a good way! like less clutter. so maybe I will ONLY have to take down the decorations and put them away and I can be done with this cleaning and organizing shit I was thinking about. ~ just a thought. we'll see. **

I've Got a Date...

I've got a date with a big black garbage bag today. Well actually I guess you can call me run around Sue, because I have a date with a few of them. :)

I got this email today :

~MCSD Schools are CLOSED today, Wednesday, Jan. 7, due to severe winter weather conditions. ~

No school for Trevor means lots of work for me. I don't loose anytime running him to school and picking him up. We leave here at 8:20 AM and then I get back home around 9:20-30 -- if I come straight home, if not then we get here around 11:20-30 (some times later) and then I have to leave here at around 2:20-30 to go get him from school. Not that I mind. But it just takes up some time.

So today I'm going to attempt to take down all the Christmas decorations. Oh! no, that isn't what I'm using the big black garbage bags for...the decorations I'll pack up, the garbage bags are because we are going through as many rooms as we can today and getting rid of old toys, broken stuff, junk, stuff we don't need, use, want or love = garbage.

I have so much "STUFF" every where, I just want less of it. Toys are one thing... we are over whelmed with them too, but at least they are toys... and serve a purpose. STUFF just random stuff, I can't deal with. I am loosing my patients with having stuff sitting around every where. It is so much easier to stay organized and also keep things clean with less clutter, so that is what we are shooting for today. :)

I'll be back to let you all know how my date goes!! :)

Oodles of Noodles

Oodles of Noodles and Oodles of Laundry and cleaning too. I'm off to eat some cup of soup oodles of noodles with the girls in between doing oodles of laundry and when I'm done, I'll start one of the oodles of projects I have with cleaning our house. Fun times.

bored

today i'm bored.
there is plenty to do, but for some reason i have little to no focus or ambition.
i want to do something, but nothing that is here for me to do.

yesterday we took a trip to just get out of the house and walk around the mall.
window shop.
on our way the truck started making a HORRIBLE noise... sort of like a flat tire.

but, it got way worse.
we stopped.
it was our brakes.

we went in to Lowe's and looked around.
got back in the truck to go to the mall.
noise is worse.
brakes seized.
tires locked up.

we are in traffic.
Bryan gives it gas.
something breaks free.
we go.

we have to stop again.
holy shit.
we stop.
we can't get going again.
almost get rear ended.

we move.
HORRIBLE noise again.
we are thinking the worse.
big $$$$$$.
possible tow.

Bryan calls his brother.
he comes.
they try to find parts.
the calliper is ripped off.
bolt broken.

auto stores say no good.
discontinued part.

new truck?
i wish.

not today.
they go to Lowe's.
found the right bolt.

go to Sears.
get the right wrench.

problem solved.
truck is good.

yay!

thank God my BIL and my dad and brothers know how to fix stuff because other wise it would have been a LOT of money for us to have the truck towed and then fixed. ugh. it ended up costing us about $50 total. not too shabby. we were thinking a LOT more than that.

MORE pictures!!

here is the BAR AREA (man cave)

all painted.

I LOVE this color.

I loved it so much that I put it in my kitchen today too!!

It's showing up a little darker in the pictures than it actually is...

but still you can get the idea.

Some how I didn't end up with pictures of what I painted today,

which was the hallway and by the stairs...

I'm too lazy and tired to take them tonight and load them on the

computer and the do a post about them...

but I will take some pictures tomorrow of the house

CLEAN

and the bar all set up and the hallway,

and I will post them when I get some time.

Not to sure when that will be... most likely after the PARTY.

BUT ...
I am still trying to make it to me 365 posts this year...

SO needless to say,

I might be back to post more pictures of the house.

I know FO SHOW I'll be posting once more with the

pictures of my newly painted kitchen wall

with KID ART on it. :)