Mike & I went to Ft. Lewis yesterday, hit the comissary (son: "Naw, I don't need any food" "Hey! Cereal is that cheap?!") then the PX & Garden center. Usually I get there no later than 10:30 and leave by one-ish to avoid traffic and not find cleaned out shelves. We didn't get there until about 1:30 so I hit the gas station first to fill up telling ( Read more... )

Well, it has.
I popped the hood of my Camaro to put a new battery in it. January is the last time it would fire up and though I've been lax, I did get a new battery and conditioner.

Imagine my
**surprise to find a rat had nested on the header and after taking the shop vac to suck all the nesting out
**and total shock to find it had chewed ( Read more... )

Stolen from Galatea...(well, she said to copy it to lj ( Read more... )

Thank you everyone who had good thoughts - I went outside again and found a very scared kitty in the bushes just feet from the house. She is limping so we are headed to the vets in a few minutes - she has had a rough day ( Read more... )

Please, good vibes as soon as you read this ( Read more... )

but for some reason, my desk looked like a disaster and I just cleared it last week so I dove in and filed, wiped down and organized again! Was going to wait since I spent from 4pm to midnight cleaning the soot rooms, washing everything (down to picture frames), got most of the kitchen done with packing needed in the dining room & grand room before ( Read more... )

This whole body thing ( Read more... )

Another dorky moment of "I thought yesterday was Sunday. Glad it isn't ( Read more... )

Now that the furnace isn't pouring soot in the house I started the massive cleaning. 9 loads of laundry (only 2 were clothes I wore), 10 runs of the dishwasher on "quick glass" with countless hand washings. My son packed as soon as anything was dry, its all going into storage until the ceiling is replaced and skylights done. Even though I started ( Read more... )

I almost hate these phone calls - they are so damn short! 10 minutes is all but you learn to talk fast, almost in sound bites. John had some time left on his calling card but it wasn't much more...just hearing his voice, I know he had a smile on his wonderful face and was feeling better than he has in quite awhile. It takes the stress of life off ( Read more... )