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When did changing a light bulb get so hard?

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I went to walk into my kitchen a couple of hours ago and it was in complete darkness. The light in the oven exhaust hood finally went out.

Off I went to find a new light bulb for the fixture. I knew it took a normal light bulb but what I didn’t know was that I was about to have a lot of trouble getting the light in place! All the have just a little bit of light in the kitchen without having all the overhead lights on. Sigh … In the end I had to get a screw driver and take out a couple of screws and flat washers just to get at the area with the light.

Now I’m not happy with the light that I put in. I put in CF bulb and I think the box said “day light” color .. but my kitchen now has a greenish light cast and I HATE it. I don’t think I want to use the rest of the lights in the box. Too bad they’re so expensive! Maybe I can trade them for some I like better.

A lot of doctors visits?

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My husbands been going to the doctor a lot in the last six months or so. Often I don’t even know about his appointments until after he’s had them or long after he’s had them when the receptionist calls our house to tell him that some blood test he’s had has come back abnormal.

I really don’t know why my husband is seeing his doctor so much. He’s being very secretive about it. For all I know he’s getting herpes testing or something. I’m half joking, but who knows .. I mean, we are in the midst of getting separated so anything is possible I suppose. He’s had appointments with a dietician and a gastroenterologist though so I’m concerned that something might be wrong with him, but he’s not talking. I guess he doesn’t have to if he doesn’t want to but I hope there’s nothing serious going on.

I really need new clothes

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I need to go shopping for new clothes. I’ve been losing weight since last October or November and in the last month or so I’ve started noticing that most of my clothes are way too loose. I simply have to get new clothes.

I was hoping to wait just a little longer until I lost just a little more weight but my clothes are pretty much falling off so I have to buy a few things. I started looking at some clothes online and I came across these great looking spyder jackets but what I really need is pants and perhaps a few tops. Pants are the main things … those are what are falling off!

I don’t want to buy pants online though .. I don’t even know what size I am anymore. Maybe this weekend I’ll go shopping and pick up a few new pair of jeans and other pants.

Almost done cleaning the basement clutter!

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I think I’ve mentioned a few times now that I’ve been busy trying to clean the massive mess that is my basement over the last month or so. Actually I’ve been trying to clean it since the end of December if you want to know the truth so I guess that means I’ve been at it on and off for three months or so! Well .. I think the job is getting closer to being done.

No .. not finished .. I think I’ll have to sort through things at least one more time, but the first major round is almost done. My husband and I spent 8 hours in the basement last Saturday and we went through about half of the basement – the worst part of the clutter. There’s only a small area of unsorted clutter left! Did you know I still had some boxes of unpacked stuff from when we moved from our Apartment in 2001 to the house? I knew there were some small boxes of nick knacks and stuff that were unpacked but one of the boxes had cosmetic and about 7 bottles of womens perfume that I had totally forgotten about. You see I had stopped wearing perfume some time ago because I’m very scent sensitive so I had put my perfumes aside and when we moved to the house I guess I meant to unpack that box and at least put the cosmetics and perfumes in an upstairs closet but that never happened.

The perfumes were nice ones too … like Channel number 5 and so on but the bottles were probably more than 15 years old – packed away in the basement for 11 years and as I said it had been an additional 4 or more years since I’d last wore any of the perfumes so I decided to through them out. That was probably a couple hundred dollars worth of perfume that I threw in the trash!

However, throw out things I must do if I’m ever going to clear out the basement. Did you know that we have a sectional couch downstairs that I hadn’t been able to see (see the seats anyway) for several years? Well as of last Saturday we could actually sit on most of it! So yeah … progress is being made. I think within a month the basement will be pretty clear and we’ll be finishing the renovations upstairs.

Strange weather today

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The weather was so strange today! I was up early because I had an appointment and I found it to be fairly nice in the early morning but shortly after I got home again I looked outside and it looked like there was a blizzard going on. Crazy weather!

A while after the snow storm the sun came out and the snow melted away and it seemed like a nice day again. It was almost like the blizzard like weather hadn’t happened … But … then heavy winds started up. Of course that happened to be just when I was out walking my dog. I could barely walk! Things were blowing in the street. It was garbage day and the garbage containers were blowing over. I even saw someones mesh pool fence looking like it was going to blow over. Needless to say I didn’t stay out with the dog very long.

Later in the day the blizzard conditions came back a few more times alternating with sunny periods. Really weird weather. I’m glad I didn’t have to be outside for long today!

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