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Clearing out the clutter

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I’ve been spending a little bit of time cleaning out drawers and closets and other storage areas in my house lately. Unfortunately there’s a lot of stuff to clean out and go through since we’re kind of pack rats or so it seems looking at the stuff we’ve stored away.

My greatest problem is that I don’t know where to start. I suppose I should just start in one room and work my way through the house, but so far I’ve just been doing a little bit of cleaning and clearing out here and there. Oh don’t worry the house isn’t overly cluttered or anything … it’s just that we’ve accumulated a lot of stuff that we just don’t use and that I’m sure we won’t ever use again.

The other day I was looking in an upstairs closet where we keep things for the bathroom, hair care and so on and I came across some older straightening irons. I think I’ve had those for twenty years or more. I keep my hair short these days but a long time ago I used to have it longer and when it’s longer it gets wavy and sometimes I’d use the straightening iron to straighten my hair for a sleek look. I probably should get rid of them but lately I have been thinking of growing my hair longer again so maybe this was a good find after all?

How often do you go through your closets and drawers to clear out the clutter? Regularly or almost never?

Thinking about a second cellphone?

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I’ve been sort of thinking of getting a second cellphone lately. I’m not 100% sure that we need two cellphones in our home since we don’t use our current one all that much … but it seems that whenever I need a cellphone my husband is out and he’s got mine. So … yeah – maybe a second one wouldn’t be the worst idea.

If we were going to get a second cellphone I have no idea which kind to get. Something simple or another smart phone? I love my current smart phone and so does my husband … so maybe something like a Atrix 4G might work? But then if we want to keep thing simple since it’s a second cellphone that we’ll barely be using maybe a really bare bones cellphone might be better? Any ideas?

I wish we had a pool in our backyard!

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I wish our property were big enough to have a pool!

I got a little envious earlier today when I noticed a neighbor having some pool maintenance done. I was inside my house when this big truck with these huge colored canisters on the back pulled up in front of their house and then the sound of a pump started up. At least I’m fairly certain it was a pool cleaning service.

I wasn’t sure that this house had a pool but earlier in the summer, on a very hot summer day I saw a bunch of kids wander out of the yard wrapped in towels and that along with a truck that said something about pool heat pumps about a month before that confirmed my suspicion … yep … those lucky devils have a pool!

My yard is so small the best I can do is a big hot tub or a pond. LOL

My husband is on temporary layoff again

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My husband is on one of his temporary lay off weeks again. This is the second one this summer and if history repeats itself he’ll have two more weeks or temporary layoffs at the end of the year. Not very good when you don’t have much money to work with to pay the bills to begin with as it is!

So it seems that every time my husband has one of his weeks off he goes out of town. He’s at his parents house right now helping them out by fixing things around their house.

Part of me doesn’t mind him going away and helping out his family but part of me wants him to stick around and well … I guess get some stuff done around our house too. I mean … I’ve been living in a house with stalled renovations for uh … six years now and my husband all of a sudden has all this extra time on his hands .. maybe just maybe he could work with me to put the ceiling up in our living room dining room? Nope? Nah … he just called and he’s running off to some store to get some polaris sportsman parts. I have no idea what they are but he needs them.

He was supposed to be home tomorrow evening but now he says he might not be back until Thursday … Big Sigh … Oh well maybe we’ll get some work done this weekend.

Almost finished setting up the garden for summer

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My husband and I have been working so hard in the garden the last couple of weeks. It’s really shaping up. I think it’s going to be the place to be this summer.

I was out in the garden earlier this afternoon after it had been raining most of the day and the roses just smelled heavenly … oh yes, I have lots of roses that have the old rose smell and it’s fantastic .. that’s why I said that the garden is the place to be.

The only thing missing from our garden or backyard – as my husband would say, is one of those dlp lcd projectors. He’s always wanted one of those to use outside for movies. You see our yard faces the back of our neighbors house and he figures we could just project a movie right onto our neighbors wall while sitting in our lovely garden surrounded by flowers and lovely smells. Pretty cool idea eh?

I’ll think about it … maybe we’ll do it this year.

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