Thirteen Favorite Instagrams

I love the Instagram app (except for my goofy phone has flipped the camera so it takes all the pictures in this app upside down…durrr…oh yes, and it doesn’t give me the option to share anywhere except Facebook anymore, so I have to upload there and then come here and link if I want to blog it…other than THAT, I love Instagram.)  Haha

Anyway, so here are 13 of my recent favorites that I don’t think have been shared here:

1. July 28, 2012 – Being naughty at Chick-Fil-A

2. July 31, 2012 – Sitting on the airplane waiting for our flight to leave for Haiti

3. August 12, 2012 – Ahsoka piled in my lap in the front seat of KC’s truck

4. August 17, 2012 – My nemesis, the devil cat…2 hours after this picture, after I was asleep, she picked the bed as the best spot in the entire house to have a giant hairball, resulting in a middle of the night change of the sheets. 

5.  August 18, 2012 – This is what happens when I crave chocolate!

6.  August 19, 2012 – My sweet dog, Obi

7.  August 24, 2012 – Hot towel mask treatment: the tootsies feel SO fine!

8.  August 25, 2012 – K-man at a neighbor’s birthday party…awesome plane!

9.  August 26, 2012 – Our “beach” (the sand where the patio stones will go)

10.  August 26, 2012 – This was like the PERFECT swim day…then it rained.

11.  August 31, 2012 – He’s camera shy, don’t ya know?  (Bwahahahaha)

12.  August 31, 2012 – I am, too…it’s so obvious, right? 

13.  September 3, 2012 – The dogs hanging out in my craft room…quiet company.

And that’s it…hope you enjoyed…and maybe got a smile out of one or two of them…lol. 

I Just Don’t Know…

What to do with myself…

LOL…except that’s the only part of that song that fits right now.  LOL! 

And really, I know lots of things that myself should be doing, but myself is just not in the mood.  Like the kitty litter should totally be changed because I forgot it this morning when I took out the trash.  And there is laundry scattered all over my bed.  (I did it today, so we won’t be naked tomorrow…teehehe).  Not to mention there are a zillion things I could be doing to get ready for our trip to the state of the big O on Thursday.  But I don’t want to do anything.  Yuck.  Need some motivating.  *sigh*  Tomorrow is errands and then the MIL will be here tomorrow evening to house/kid/puppy sit the little mama and little baby and the two crazy puppies while we’re gone. 

I think tomorrow morning sounds like a great morning for coffee.  Maybe that will motivate me to pick my little self up and get all 11 hundred things done by the time I need to leave for errands at 9:30 in the morning.  LOL. 

The bad thing about being unmotivated is that Munchkin copies EVERYTHING I do.  So on the days when I am at a complete motivational loss, HEY…so is SHE.  Except that I can be perfectly happy vegging with a book or a magazine and NOT SO for her.  No, when SHE is at a complete motivational loss, it’s my job (she thinks) to be her entertainer.  Hello, I have my hands full trying to find my OWN inspiration, much less entertaining you while I’m at it.  LOL.  Maybe I should teach her that song.  It could be her theme…she goes through it at least once or twice a day.  (Like once in the morning when she gets out of bed and it lasts until lunch and then again after lunch and it lasts till bedtime.  LOL…j/k).  It hasn’t been so bad until the last couple of days when the rains and storms have killed pool time…lol.  Oh well. 

Anyway, so that’s life in our house.  In other news, some of the other pressure has started easing off.  ;-)  And that’s all I’ll say about that.

I think that’s the majority of the mess around here…the van was in the shop the last couple of days…getting the timing belt changed so we won’t have any issues in our travels over the next few weeks, so I stuck around the house the last few days since I wasn’t keen on packing us all in the batmobile to go anywhere unless it was an absolute necessity.  *grin*  Van’s back though, so tomorrow’s errands should be pretty simple. 

Would have been a little difficult packing 5 of us in the batmobile PLUS devil cat (I mean Snowball…hey, if KC can insult my dogs with every breath, I am SO not going to be forgiving of her hatefulness highness) since one of my errands is to get her hatefulness highness a rabies shot and grooming.  Heaven knows she needs to have that rabies shot…if she insists on sleeping on ME at night and then having the nerve to chomp into the back of my leg when I move the slightest half inch in my sleep….GRR.  At least my dogs are friendly.  They might knock ya down but they are totally loving on you while they’re knocking ya down.  ;-)  Hey honey, you know those titles you suggested awhile back?  I have one…Cat For Sale - $1 (Disclaimer: You could possibly die in your sleep with this purchase) ;-)

LOL.  Time to head for bed…later (if I don’t get eaten before morning….teehehe)!

Today I Feel…

Well, a picture is worth a thousand words.  In this case, maybe two thousand.  I just LOVE PMS!!  I am so grouchy!!! 

This picture is what happens every time the cat and the dogs get within 3 feet of each other.  It’s also a pretty fair assessment of my mood today.  And on that note, I’m outta here!  *grin* 

My Poor Kitty

Well, I scrapped him. No, wait, I don’t mean that like it sounds. I mean, I did a page with one of the last pictures I took of him back in December. My poor baby.

I was trying to get back in the scrapping groove after being “on break” so long with the house stuff, but I don’t know that I’m 100% pleased with this page (although it is kinda growing on me)…

Anywho, the kit is great and I look forward to using it for more happier things. *sigh*

Kit is Time Flies By from Cara at Sweet Tomato Designs and it’s exclusively at Digi Design Resort for the month of January (where she’s doing a guest designer gig) and will be in her store at Polka Dot Plum after January. Fonts are FFF Tusj and Adler. Digi Design Resort is having server transfer difficulties right now, so I’ll have to come back and post the links when it’s back up.

Un.Be.Lievable!

• The hour that I got out of bed this morning to finish cleaning the house for a showing today (YAHOO about the showing).  And on the time…I’ll give ya a hint…the clock had a 5 on it and it wasn’t AFTER the colon.  (wincing)
• The fact that I mopped the floor, cleaned the bathroom, cleaned the litterboxes, took a shower, made the bed, dried my hair, got Munchkin up and hair fixed for school, penned the cats in the bathroom so they wouldn’t mess up my clean house, got Munchkin to school on time, went to Walmart, came home and spot cleaned the carpet, went to the bank and deposited a check, AND got to court by 9:00am.  (Eesh?!?)
• That they don’t allow you to take cell phones OR purses into the courtroom anymore?  I don’t get that at all…I mean, ya have to go through the metal detector and they search your purse before ya go in, so what’s the big deal?  UGH.  So no book to occupy me today.  AND I had to walk all the way back to my car this morning to put my purse and phone in it so I could get in the courtroom.  Unbelievable. 
• The way I flew home in the 45 minute break for lunch and vacuumed the house, cleaned up the cat mess in the bathroom, put the cats in their carriers (which is a feat in itself), picked up the stuff on the deck that the wind had blown over, threw together a sandwich (that I choked down on the way back to court), put the cats in the car, and got back to court with 3 minutes to spare.  And at least 15 minutes of that time was spent on the road. 
• The 1/2 hour testimony that happened in court today.  I had no idea a person could get their story so mixed up while they were “UNDER OATH” to tell the truth and nothing but the truth. 
• That another person could take the stand and say they couldn’t answer the questions every time the answer would have been incriminating. 
• That the second person to take the stand didn’t listen well enough to the first person’s testimony (obviously) and denied things the other one had already admitted.  Actually, the second person denied pretty much every single report that was in the court file.  NOTHING was true, it was ALL lies.  All those people made up all those stories that (OH, MY!) happened to all correlate. (please note, heavy sarcasm in those statements) Forget the fact that their two stories had so many crossed facts it made my head hurt.
• That they didn’t get laughed out of court, or at the very least, fined for lying under oath. 
• The headache I walked out of the courtroom with….I don’t think my head has EVER hurt so bad. 
• What Jango evidently thought of my driving today…right after he puked in his carrier.  Then he had an issue out the other end.  The road was a little curvy.  Wasn’t my driving, I’m SURE.  But then I had to clean it up.  Unbelievable!
• The fact that I had the Awful Headache and got home at 5 o’clock and didn’t call KC to say…um, honey, can we please do take-out tonight?  NOOOO…I put my big girl undies on and chopped up lettuce, grated the cheese, browned the beef, and had taco salad almost ready by the time the hubby got home. 
• The hubby who is listening to Melikiwikimaka (a hawaiian christmas song) and said “I feel like I’m saying a cuss word.” (ROFL!)  Only my hubby!
• That I’m seriously contemplating giving my stinky bottomed (derrierred?) kitty a bath at 10:07 pm because I can’t stand it anymore!
• That we’ve been told we’re going to get an offer on our house after the FIRST SHOWING!  Let’s hope it’s an UNBELIEVABLE offer! 
• That this blog post is getting insanely long and I really didn’t even have much to say.

 

Okay…one last unbelievable thing: that I haven’t posted the December Photo Hunt yet…so here goes:

1. Holiday Lights
2. Holiday Spirit
3. A Holiday Treat
4. An Ornament
5. A Gift-Wrapped Package
6. A Window Display
7. A Winter/Holiday Icon
8. A Tree
9. A Tradition
10. Something that says Noel
11. Something Precious
12. Something Peaceful
13. Something Hot
14. Something Cold
15. Something Red
16. Something Green
17. Motion blur
18. Black & White Photo (with selective coloring)
19. Any photo using an Infrared Photography Technique (in-camera OR post-process)
20. A Macro Shot

And that’s it….this post is long enough. Thanks for reading!  If you’re still here, that’s…

UNBELIEVABLE! 

(so leave me a comment so I can believe it…hahahaha….sorry.  shameless i know)

Hey Look!

I’m back.  Twice in one day.  Be warned, this will more than likely be at least 90% random.  LOL!

First up…the house.  We have been busy little bees. 

• There’s the very large sheetrock patching in progress on the living room wall.
• Pictures of the gorgeous decor pieces from our fruitful shopping trip to Hobby Lobby tonight (they’re having some GREAT sales, by the way)
• The framed piece over the bed was a $12 deal from Habitat Restore (I was thrilled with that one!) and the two small pieces over the bed were HL and they coordinate soooo well…I picked them out…I am so proud of myself!

 

• Not pictured is the garage (KC cleaned early this morning)
• Also not pictured is all the places in our house where clutter collects that are now totally (or almost totally) de-cluttered and cleaned
• Another thing not pictured is the canvas I put on the playground roofs.  It’s dark grey and looks peachy.  I totally rocked on that one because I forgot to measure for how much canvas, and I completely guesstimated it to be 5 yards.  I had about 6 inches left over and the width was right on. 

Still on the house thing, we had an appraisal done this morning on our house to find out where we’re at on the home value thing.  In two days, our house will be officially for sale.  EEEEEK!  That kinda makes me sad because I love our little house.  *sigh*  I hope some couple that is looking for a first house (or downsizing) comes along and buys our cozy little place.  If they come along by Monday, that would be just peachy.  LOL! 

And now for TOTAL randomness:

• Munchkin’s therapy has already been quite interesting.  I found it a little humorous when the therapist looked at me with raised eyebrows and said, “She is a very fascinating child.”  I’m pretty sure she was using that word in place of “odd” or “strange” based on her other comments.  LOL.  Another thing I thought was quite interesting was that the therapist told me that she usually could read the situation pretty quickly and easily but that she was getting very mixed and unusual messages from the Munchkin’s behavior and signals.  According to the therapist, we are dealing with some kind of attachment issue/disorder and/or anxiety, and will continue narrowing this down until we figure out what exactly we’re dealing with and exactly HOW to deal with it. 
• Jango (fat cat) is sick.  I’m not sure what’s going on, but I took him to the vet today because--according to our lovely google-ness--he is showing all signs of kidney or bladder stones and needed to see a vet.  However, they didn’t really seem concerned (at least not about anything except the removal of my arm and leg in payment for bloodwork and consultation) so I brought him back home.  Anyone have any suggestions that don’t involve a vet?  Because unless he is in an ungodly amount of pain, I don’t forsee another vet visit in our future. 
• It is absolutely amazing what our kids pick up in church!  For those of you who weren’t at church for the revival last weekend, Bro. R preached one night on the weights.  God requiring things of us and us not wanting to put that thing forth for him and it making our life off balance…well, that’s the general overview….not exactly it, but paraphrasing a bit.  Anyway, he used one of the old fashion balance scales and coins, he would drop like a quarter in one side that God was requiring and a dime in the other side to show what it looked like when people weren’t wanting to fulfill God’s complete requirement and it put their life out of balance.  Of course, there was more to it than that, but I don’t have all night.  LOL.  Also, that night, he got in the pulpit at 9 and preached til almost 10.  Great message, but no one was really expecting him to preach that late.  My kids sat like troupers and were actually not even playing during the sermon (they were tired of their toys because they played with them during the song service because I didn’t expect preaching).  I didn’t think they were listening though because I knew they were tired and their eyes were glazed over and they were just staring the majority of the time.  (teehehe…I might have looked like them a couple times myself…not on purpose of course!)  So…this is turning into a long story, but we were in a thrift store this week and there was a balance weight thing on a lower shelf and K-man points at it and says, “Momma, we need money to put in that!” 
• Driving to church last Sunday (I think it was Sunday), KC swerved and then there was a thump-crunch-crunch. 
  I didn’t see what it was, but I winced.  “It was already dead, right?” 
  “Nope,” he says, “I think them squirrels have a death wish, I’ve seen I don’t know how many squashed on the road this year.  *long pause*  Population control.” 
  “You’re awful,” I said, “I am SO blogging that!” 

LOL!  And on that note, I’ll wish you goodnight before this post ends up on tomorrows date and I don’t have the two posts in one day that I was bragging about earlier in this post. 

Thanks for dropping by! Have a great day (cuz that’s probably when it is by the time anyone actually reads this).  *grin*

An Unpremeditated Day

Yeah.  I just wanted to use a long word that meant “random.”

And also because today just kinda….well…it was definitely unpremeditated. 

I started out running late.  I did have two appointments (get the cats to the groomers at 9 and a birthday party at 6) and I had a general idea of things that needed to be done in between those appointments (most of which DIDN’T). 

Then.  Despite my BEST effort to not give ANY indication of the first appointment, SOMEHOW, Snowball was NOWHERE to be found.  I swan…that cat has a sixth sense somehow.  I didn’t have to chase her like usual, but I couldn’t FIND her.  Took me about half an hour (on top of already running late) and I finally found her (she had crawled up INSIDE the recliner).  Dumb cat.  So I get the cats in their boxes finally and the kids herded out the door….and hum.  My car keys are not in their spot.  OH YES, KC drove the car to the store last night. 

Had a moment of panic in which I thought the keys might still be in his pocket and now a half hour AWAY, then I searched the living room kitchen area a SECOND time, panicked again, and called him.  Check the tables, he says.  Finally found them under a pile of papers on his NIGHTSTAND.  Such a logical location.  (Love ya, honey)

Finally got everything and everyone to their locations.  The cat groomer is about half an hour away so I really didn’t want to take the cats, come home, and then turn around and get them, so I decided to hit the thrift stores in that particular town and see if that would kill enough time.  Okay, and really…any excuse to go thrifting, right? 

Found some pieces we can use for VBS along with a couple of other neat little things.

Went to a couple of other stores. 

Munchkin saw a little frog sitting on the sidewalk outside this one store we were coming out of and when I looked around and realized it had somehow gotten into the middle of this concrete and glass Shopping Center and had nowhere to go that wouldn’t result in death, I had to rescue it.  I didn’t kiss it though.  I already found my prince.  Besides, I looked humorous enough just trying to catch the crazy thing.  I finally caught it, and the Munchkin and I returned it to the grassy field at the far end of the shopping center.  We wished it a happy, non-squished life and went to the car to squirt up with anti-bacterial gel. 

Then it was close to lunchtime and the groomer said about 45 more minutes.  So I drove around the little town trying to get to McDonalds.  Got lost, and ended up finding a park before I found my way back out of the little dead end street maze I got stuck in, so I noted it and then after we went to McD’s we took our food back to that park and ate and Munchkin played for a bit. 

While I was out, I got the call from DSS…our case for K-man that bio-mom appealed to the state level was overturned on a technicality (not because she should get another chance to get him back).  The TPR hearing somehow wasn’t approved in court and was amended instead of going through court again to be approved like it should have, so basically that means that we have to go through the termination hearing at the local level all over again.  If she hadn’t appealed, it would have stood and been fine, but the local decision was overturned by the state because they saw the paperwork wasn’t quite straight.  It is a bit frustrating but they said that nothing changes, she doesn’t get visits or anything, we just have to do it again and hope that this time she won’t appeal.  They said they are going to throw everything they have into the case this time (which I’m guessing they don’t generally do, they must only put the bare minimum of information…just enough to prove the child doesn’t need to return) and I’m hoping if they put down EVERYTHING, hopefully she won’t even try to appeal it.  So aggravating. 

Anyways….fast forward. 

Went to the big town in the OTHER direction for the party this evening…the Munchkin and I picked up the K-man and went early so I could get the rest of the stuff for VBS picked up.  Was in the Hobby Lobby and smelled something.  Rank.  “Munchkin tooted,” he says.  Sure, okay, whatever.  But I KEEP smelling it.  So I check.  OH PEACHY.  Munchkin tooted, my foot! 

So we went to the bathroom to clean up…and it just wasn’t happenin’.  Let’s just put it this way…he went commando for the rest of the evening.  Side note to the Hobby Lobby, just hold your nose when you take out the trash, kay?  K-man left you a little buried treasure.

Did the whole birthday party thing and came home to finish vacuuming up the carpet powder I left on there when I left for the big town… and forgot that our LAST vacuum cleaner blitzed after using that same powder a few months ago.  Double Oops.  Currently has no suction.  And carpet powder dust is floating in the air.  PHOOEY.  So on my list for tomorrow is to attempt to take vacuum cleaner apart and see if wiping all the dust out would help.  PHOO---EEY.

My day.  Totally unpremeditated. 

Dear God, thank you for watering the flowers and garden for me tonight.  After the day I’ve had, I needed a little help with my chores.  Do you think if I stuck my hampers on the porch, you could do my laundry, too???  Oh. Probably not?  Alright then.  Well.  I’m still grateful anyway.  =)

Wordless Wednesday (mostly)

   
UGH! Kindergarten Registration!

HONEY!  I can relate!!!

(FINALLY!)

Today I...

• Got out of bed. (Go ahead, laugh, but I feel like that is worthy of listing...especially since I was up twice with the K-man and once just randomly at 4:00.  Do you see a trend?  3:30 a couple of nights ago, 3:45 night before last, and last night it was 4....by my estimation, in approximately 9 days, I will wake up at 6:30 and start my day doing something besides weaseling just 3 more minutes out of the alarm clock.)
• Ran by the vet to pick up some kitty medicine.
• Went to lunch with KC.
• Came home and gave the white and hissing cat (otherwise known as Snowball) a bath.  Actually, two baths, since I washed her in dish soap first and then in kitty shampoo next.  She was NOT a happy camper.  My first clue was the way the water turned yellow the minute I put her in it.  E-yew.  I emptied it and started over.  Thankfully, her bladder was also empty at this point, so I didn't have to worry about a recurrence of that discusting problem.  LOL!
• Went to pick up the kids.  The kids and I got home and I debated about what to do next.  I went into my bedroom to take off my wet (thank you, dear cat) clothes when I see the cat.  Still dripdrying.  And where is she choosing to do that????  ON MY PILLOW, of course.   Not a chance, cat, so I scooped her up and took her to the bathroom and shut the door (the kids had to join me so picture the three of us plus cat in the 3x6 bathroom).  I pull out the hairdryer, hand it to the Munchkin and I hold the cat and we blow her dry with only a few growls from kitkat.  I lifted her up to dry her belly and Munchkin shields her eyes and gasps, "MOM.  We can't SEE that!!!"  ROFL.  Being recently groomed, her hair is pretty short under there, she does look rather naked.  BWAHAHA.  Anyways, the cat is nice and fluffy and soft now and only glares at me whenever I cross her field of vision.  Teehehe!
• Put play shoes (aka: muddy shoes for our mudpit of a backyard) on the  kids and headed outdoors to enjoy the 65 degree weather.  They played for TWO hours in the single tower that is currently the only functional part of the playground (pictures at the end of this post).   I heard something about dancing ballerinas (Munchkin) and building a fire (K-man, and yes, it was pretend...I know...I checked...LOL) and they were using the play food plates to haul dirt....and I bit my tongue and let them get absolutely filthy.  Mostly because I remember doing much similar things when I was their age and I'd hate to deprive them of those kinds of memories.  *grin*  Plus, I was busy hauling the leftover wall blocks from their original location in the driveway to the top of the hill next to the play area.  Which leads me to my next bullet point:
• Nearly broke my back.  Or more appropriately "nearly finished it off" since I  STARTED moving that pile (pictured to the right) yesterday.  Let me put it this way, I'm not sure of the weight of a single block, but I would venture to say it weighed more than Munchkin (35 pounds).  I'm thinking maybe TWO Munchkins.  MAYBE.  I definitely have a new appreciation for the work it took to do that wall.  Total blocks moved between the two days = 28.  I'm thinking I will either be in a wheelchair or flexing my newly developed muscles sometime in the next few days...perhaps both. 
• Am going to finish off the evening vegging on the couch.  With Tylenol.  And perhaps a glass of milk with a carton of Oreos.  We won't even talk about the last carton of Oreos which I almost singlehandedly polished off in a matter of hours.  Two words: COMFORT FOOD!!!!

Have a lovely and pain-free evening.  I plan to do the former, but the latter is a little iffy.
 
PS: the pictures....first, this is the retaining wall, and up there behind it is the pile of leftover block that nearly did me in, along with the sole functional tower that the kids were playing on, and the slides and swings that are waiting for the set up to be arranged.  Please don't ask me if I tried to go ahead and move the tower there into place.  Please don't even ask me if I was able to budge it.  I don't know how I know this, but it's a lot heavier than it looks.
              

Next up: This would be the currently UN-functional part of the playground.  Back behind it, you can see the other end of the retaining wall and the back end of the pick-up truck (which is real handy for scale).  Also behind the wall, you can see the neighbors yard and the hill which I traipsed up no less than 15 times today.
              

And just for random-ness, here's a picture I like to call, Dust On The Keyboard.
              
At least, we'll call it dust.  There is no way in this world it could possibly be Oreo Crumbs. 

A Little This And That

Well, this week's Ten on Tuesday is Ten Favorite Ethnic foods, and since I am not really sure I could think of 10 to go on that list, I decided to skip this week.

While we're on the subject of food though, I should note that tonight's dinner (Cheesy Beef & Rice) got 3 out of 4. KC's verdict: flavored styrofoam. He hates rice. I was hoping that maybe fixing it with the cheese and beef would make it edible for him. Well, he ate it, but he didn't care for it. OH well. My other picky eater ate it just fine, and me and munchkin enjoyed it (of course, my enjoyment was more from the PRICE of the dinner since virtually the bulk of the cost was the 2.25 for the hamburger meat, and there was enough for approximately 10 servings, which means that it cost around 23 cents for my dinner tonight). Plus, I used a can of crescent rolls that needed to be used up, but I don't remember how much I paid for that, and I'm not counting it b/c it was past the date which means it probably should have been thrown out and so I'm giving myself bonus points for using it anyways. HAHA. Really, I think the only problem was that it didn't rise like a fresh can. Who cares. Haha.

How about a few random pictures....these are from the other day when KC and I gave the kit kats a bath. I like to call these pictures: MadKatz exhibit A and MadKatz exhibit B. LOL!!!

Today I worked on tagging the clothes for the upcoming consignment sale. I got through a good 2.5 boxes but only about one box of it is good enough to consign. Hopefully it will all sell though and make it worth my time. The other stuff is decent, but just has a few small stains or worn spots, which means it can't be consigned, so I sorted it and I'm going to see if any of the local foster parents have kids that are in that size to pass it on to.

The kids are growing so fast. It seems like their closets are getting thin again because I keep pulling out clothes for them to wear and then having to stick them in a "too little" pile because they can't fit them anymore. EEK.

Another random picture. This is me and munchkin this afternoon.

Let's go through a couple of reasons why I might be tired. Um....well, how about getting up at 3:30am for some completely unknown reason. You should see KC though...he's REALLY tired. He actually STAYED up because he couldn't go back to sleep. Not me, man, once I determined that everyone was good, I conked right back out. I'm not quite sure what woke us, but I heard what sounded like one of the kids leapsters playing and I was like, oh boy, if one of them GOT UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT and is playing their leapster, I am going to have a COW! They weren't, of course, they were both soundly sleeping and the leapsters were off, as they should be, so all was well and I have no cows (LOL), but I have no clue what woke me. It had to have been a sound, and not just me dreaming, otherwise it wouldn't have woken both me & KC. But anyway, okay....so that's really the only good reason I have for being tired....oh well.

I have a couple more pictures, but I'm going to save them for Wordless Wednesday tomorrow. (teehehehe)

Alrighty then...I'm heading out now. It's about the kids bedtime so I gotta get moving on all that. Catch'a later!

A Little More Update

Okay...I'm finally back.  The kids are in bed and it is my usual blogging time (which could also be called "really late"). 

Seriously this is my favorite time of day.  Kids are so much more enjoyable when they're sleeping.  They don't fight, they don't do things to drive you up the wall, you know...you can pretend for a little while that they're angelic beings.  LOL.  I'm sure God probably feels the same way about me when I'm sleeping, too.  Haha.

Anyways, back at that update thing.

Here is our original closet. Well, kind of original, this is after KC removed the closet racks that were designed by evil pawns and puttied the holes up (the heater was his big plan to create his own sauna and sweat off a few pounds while he was working to make the putty dry faster)

Once the putty dried, he put a nice fresh coat of light grey/brown paint over the original antique white and while the heater was hard at work drying the paint, the cat decided it would be fun to go in the closet and get high on the fumes.

We know this because he apparently laid up against the wall where the particles collected when KC sanded the putty and Jango spent the rest of the evening looking quite "skunk-like."  If he had gotten his stripes on straight, I would REALLY have had a heart attack when I saw him moseying from room to room (especially after our skunk in the garage episodes).

Then you have the main reason we were up so late...because we couldn't get to our bed until we got the closet back in order.  LOL!

And now....how bout them "AFTER" shots?

Are you ready?

Are you sure?

Cuz I was certainly ready to get to the point of the project where I could take them. 

OH WAIT.

First I have to show you my "on the job injury" (but no workers comp here...LOL!!)

Please excuse my hands...I need to carry lotion 24/7 obviously. 

Anyways, see the white line about 1/4 of the way down into the bed of my nail?  That's how far the nail bent back.  And I don't even know how I did it b/c I was just snapping the shelf locks in that hold the shelves from coming off the racks.

Well, hopefully that didn't hurt you to look at it as much as it hurt me when it happened.  And I'm pretty sure you won't feel the painful throbbing for three straight days either.  LOL!

NOW.  Are you ready for the after shots?

I thought so.  You've been ready, right?  HAH.

     

And all I can say is GO RUBBERMAID CLOSET SYSTEMS.  These babies are screwed in the studs....every last one of them.  THIRTY-TWO 2.5 inch screws.  Pop out at 3 am again, will ya.  I don't THINK so!!

Okay.  That's all for the closet project.  I am having a SERIOUS chocolate fit right now (which is highly unusual for me) but I will have to take care of this.  I'll be back before you get to the next paragraph (LOL).

See? I told you I'd beat ya back.  And MMMM...chocolate always tastes best when you are craving it really bad.

Well, that pretty much sums up the updating except for Sunday.  Sunday was (of course) church, and afterward was a carry-in dinner in honor of Sis Celestine (affectionately known to most of the congregation as "Nanny") who turned 90.  Can you imagine???  NINETY YEARS? 

I can't even fathom it. 

Any-ka-who, she is the sweetest lady and she is still driving herself to church on Sunday mornings.  I can't even imagine driving when I'm 90.  But she does good.

And these pictures just make me smile because this is just the kind of lady she is... genuine and full of joy. 

Of course, she was talking to Bro. K here, so ya never know, she might have been laughing for many other reasons...LOL (just teasing).

Well, that was pretty much the day.  We just hung out at the church all day instead of burning gas to drive back home just to turn around and come back, so that was the afternoon.  Oh and the service Sunday night was really good.  I don't really feel like elaborating on that at this particular moment, except that God is good and to say that His Spirit wasn't real and working there would be...well, I just can't say that.  I have erased like 10 sentences here, but maybe someday I'll post what I'm thinking right now.  Anyways.  Not today.  Don't feel like stirring the pot. 

Plus...KC's gone to bed on me already (AGAIN) so I'm gonna hit the sack. 

Later!

PS Monday's meal went off without a hitch and will definitely be on the list of recipes to repeat.  Super easy and super yummy.  Yay!