Month: April 2012

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Not this year

I am determined not to lose power this year when the storms come through. Last year was horrible. It seemed like every week we were without power for anywhere from a couple hours to a couple days. I am not going through that again. If we lose power I will have generatorsAtoZ to thank for us not losing power ourselves. I am buying a generator and having it set up to direct connect to my breaker box. GeneratorsAtoZ have a lot of models to choose from and my dad has told me which ones are good for my needs.

Having kids and losing power from a storm is not a good thing. Kids need to have something to keep their minds off of the deadly storms and the aftermath, at least for a little while each day. With generatorsAtoZ, I don’t have to worry about dealing with storm damage and bored or upset kids. They can be easily distracted so long as we have electricity.

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Money

I hate to stress over money. My man is having problems with his job and it is stressing me out. His boss can’t keep him with forty hours a week and he would probably make more money on unemployment. Add to that the fact that my man is being very closed mouth about what is going on. He hasn’t been to work all week and will not tell me if he quit already or his boss just doesn’t have any work this week. Usually he tells me everything, but not right now. That is jacking my stress level up to over load. Ready to pop a vein right now. grr

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New spice rack

I am so happy. I bought a new spice rack for my kitchen. My old one just seemed to fall apart. I seem to be a bit hard on my spice racks for some reason, but to be honest, I do a lot of cooking. I have a large family and we get together a lot on the weekends. I am constantly cooking food for one family get together or another. Add my friends get together’s and I am always in the kitchen.

You would think that kitchen spice racks would hold up better then they have, but maybe this new one from a different company will. I certainly hope so. Then again, I have kids and they like to cook for themselves sometimes too. That is actually how the last one broke. My new one is made of stainless steel, so I am confident that it will last a long while. I have instructed the children to be more careful of course, but then I do that all the time and it usually doesn’t help much. They are a rowdy bunch.

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Always something

There is always something when it comes to kids. I have one who has been consistently sick for the last few weeks. I had to take him to the hospital last night because he was coughing so badly he could barely breath. Of course, the ER doctor was about a moron and didn’t do much for him. The nurse however went and got him something to help alleviate his cough and help him sleep. Gotta love nurses.

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So pretty

Oh I found something so cool. I was surfing the web and found a site about designer fireplaces. It was so amazing to see all of the different concepts the designers come up with for a fireplace. Of course the company isn’t near my house, but my cousin lives out that way, so I sent the link to her so she could check them out. Wouldn’t you know it, but she needed to find fireplace inserts San Francisco for her house. She had been looking for fireplace inserts bay area for a couple of years and hadn’t found one she liked at all.

She was using the wrong search for what she wanted. She was searching fireplace mantles instead of inserts. Although, by all rights that should have found her this page too. She did tell me that she was really happy to find wood stoves for sale on the site as well. Now she can get everything she wanted for her house.

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Awesome Idea

Ok, so my best friend came up with an awesome idea. I can’t tell you exactly what it is until we have patented it but I can tell you that she wants my help with it. Since I have a business degree, she asked me to help with all of the logistics that are involved in the patent process and starting a web page, etc. I am looking forward to this whole process as it is something new to do and exciting as well. Wish us luck on our new venture.

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My house

I am still fixing up the outside of my house. I want it to look really nice, because I think it has been the shabbiest house on the block. Not that it is from me, because I just bought it and have been continuously renovating since I got it. I had to start on the inside and have gotten a lot done that I wanted. Anyway, I ordered custom address plaques for the front of the house and the side drive. It was really hard to choose exactly what I wanted, so I ended up buying two different ones.

The first is a bronze address plaques for the front of the house next to the door. I has the house number and street on it. The second one is for the end of the side driveway. I live on a corner lot, so the house sits on two streets. It is easier to get here from the other street, so I put custom address plaques there for people to find easier. I am very happy with it and it makes the house and yard look so much better.

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Crowded with Easter Shoppers

I have a bad feeling that when I get to the grocery store this afternoon it will be extra crowded because of Easter. I know that a lot of people like to have a big dinner on Easter Sunday, and so do I.

Most of the time I do the cooking and go all out with the big meal. We get a half ham – I make sure to get the butt end and not the shank – and then we have all kinds of side dishes and desserts. But this year my sister in law says that she wants to cook and the deal is that if I go do the shopping, that she will do the cooking.

That sounds great to me1 I’d love to have a day off from cooking and cleaning and just enjoy myself for a change. I’m really looking forward to Easter – now I just have to deal with the crowds at the grocery store and buy all the food for tomorrow’s dinner.

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Sick of Doing Laundry

Around here I try to get the laundry done just about every day. I don’t like it to build up and become a nagging problem, but I also try to make sure I run a full load so I’m not wasting water and electricity.

Most days I can do one load of colors. I have to let the white things add up for 4 or 5 days before I have enough to make a full load. Usually whatever day I do the whites I will also get all the bath towels and sheets rounded up and just do a couple of extra loads of laundry that day.

Today I am looking at four piles of dirty clothes, towels and sheets and I can’t help thinking that it would so much nicer to spend the day outside getting my garden started. But I need to make sure all the clothes get clean instead.