Catching up

Yes, I know it's been quite a while since I posted something.  However, I've been a bit busy.  The kids and I went out of town for Easter while Trey's work sent him to Hawaii (tough bit, that one).  Sunday night, I went to the opening show for The Dead's summer tour.  It was awesome!!  And this week I'm getting ready for a baby shower for two of my friends that will have about 30 friends coming to my home.

 

Yeah, it's a busy few days.   

 

I took lots of pictures and have lots of stories to share about the Dead show to post on my blog, and I promise, I'll get to it, but really, I have other things I have to get done around the house, first.  

 

I hope you'll come back!

 

Sorry, can't think of a title.

(Sorry about the title, I'm just not that creative tonight)

 

It's cold in our house.  Why, you ask?  Because our furnace isn't on.  It's not working properly and it's old and it's leaking water around the base and carbon monoxide into the house.  So it's not running tonight.

 

On a side note, this explains why I've been getting terrible headaches and that overall yucky feeling over the last few days.  (No, Daddy, we haven't had the CO detector plugged in - it's still in a box somewhere).  I think I'm more sensitive, though, because Trey and the kids haven't really been effected.  Unless CO makes kids fight with each other and not share and just be all-around normal kids.

 

As much as it sucks to be cold, today it was actually kinda nice out and it won't get that cold tonight, so it could be worse.  "That cold" meaning below 35.  Trey brought home a space heater from his work and we've been moving it back and forth between all our bedrooms.

 

So tomorrow we're getting a brand-spanking-new furnace installed.  That should be fun.  Just in time for winter to be over.  Murphy's Law really sucks.

 

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We're done, for now at least, with the kitchen.  If I can keep it straightened up long enough, I'll take a couple of "after" shots and make a nice pretty post about it.  Of course, now that we have the walls and trim painted, we're thinking we want to paint the cabinets.  Yeah, that should be fun.

 

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I'm participating in another really big consignment sale coming up next month.  I need to get everything tagged before the 14th so I can order the bar codes.  Because of that, I won't be around too much in the next couple of weeks.  I have some posts that I'll hopefully be able to get together and get out, but if I'm not around, it's not because I don't love you.

 

Off to curl up under an old down comforter.  Hope it doesn't get really cold tonight, like they said it wouldn't.

 

future topics teaser

Yes, I have done the unthinkable in the blogging world.  I have gone 8 days without writing a post.  That's bad, I know, but it's been one of those weeks.   Nothing has really happened that was worth writing about and I really don't want to bore my readers with the mundane things like "today, I folded laundry.  Woo hoo!"  But this weekend, several different things happened so, like a good blogger should, I'm hanging on to them and posting about them separately and spreading them out so at least it looks like I'm a productive blogger.

 

There was a conversation/event between Little Man and Monkey that was pretty funny in a not-so-funny sort of way. 

 

I received something in the mail that could be another option for Monkey's education next year.

 

We're painting and cosmetically upgrading two different areas of the house - the office downstairs and the kitchen upstairs.  Yes, I know it sounds funny to say the kitchen is upstairs, but we have a split foyer, so there.

 

Oh, and I have a post idea that was given to me by Mawmaw (my mother-in-law) about something that happened to them that paralleled something that happened to us.  

 

So, assuming I can find time in the day when I'm not doing laundry, painting, prepping, working, taking care of the kids, cooking dinner, cleaning and organizing the office and the kitchen as well as normal day-to-day housecleaning , then I'll be typing away at my future posts.

 

And to help me out for future blogging, please feel free to leave topic suggestions in the comments area.