Exhausting....

Well, there's a new toy in town. I took back the other Eureka vacuum and replaced it with this one. I'm very happy with it even though I've only used it once. It's bagless and very reasonably priced.

I looked at their top of the line but it was just too darn heavy to deal with. This one is light weight and surprisingly quiet for a vacuum.

Assembling it reminded me of putting the kids Fisher Price toys together when they were little. Talk about all plastic. Okay, I saw 4 metal screws! LOL! I guess if I had one complaint, it would be the cheap little tires. They're hollow plastic and I just don't see them lasting very long. We'll see...

I'm fighting with D to keep his stuff outside. His garage and shop look like cyclones hit. He brought these items 4 months ago to sell on CL or eBay and here they're still sitting on the floor in the office. Sigh....I caught him bringing more boxes and immediately turned him around and sent him back to the garage with the stuff. To say his nose was bent out of shape is an understatement. Hahahaha!

I came home from work the other day and the house was a wreck. How does one guy home alone and spending most of the day next door accomplish that? I couldn't see the top of the island, kitchen table or any of the kitchen counters.

I bit my tongue and immediately went to work cleaning. I couldn't even use the sink there were so many dishes in it. He just couldn't fathom why I was miffed. What's worse is it took me 50 minutes to clean the kitchen, family room, make the bed and clean the bedroom putting all of his clothes away. Now why he couldn't do that is beyond me. It must be a marriage thing.

I got up at 6:30 this morning and made myself some cereal, looked at this and went to bed to eat it and read. I must be getting old and senile because when I finished eating, the front of my bathrobe was soaked as were my sheets and blanket. I'd tipped my bowl too far and was spilling milk all over and didn't even notice. Okay, out of fairness, I didn't have any lights on and was reading and eating with a flashlight.

After D got up before going to work I heard this hammering. I came out and yelled, "You'd better not be hammering on that chair on my kitchen tile!" As I came out of the hall I heard, "Uh....ohhhh....I'm done." I did one of those pointing two fingers from my eyes toward him showing I was watching him. He just laughed at me.

See the stack of pants by my sewing machine? That is every cotton pickin' pair he owns. Each a every one of them is ripped or torn in one fashion or another. I ignored them today too. Maybe tomorrow I'll be in the mood to tackle the pile and reclaim that corner of my counter.

Well, time to go pull my sheets out of the dryer and start putting the bed back together. I always buy 400 count Sateen sheets. A couple of weeks ago I found a 600 count set of sateen sheets. I thought they'd be softer than the 400 but they aren't. Instead, I love the heavier feel of them and they seem to keep the heat of my body in them longer. When I go to the bathroom in the wee hours of the morning, I hop back in bed and it's still warm. I'm really liking that.

I'm thinking I just outgrew the 400 and now only 600 tc is in my future.

Have a nice weekend everyone!

Death and Dust Bunnies

I first must start this blog with a gratuitous picture of my granddaughter and her mother. I visited a week ago and was able to hug and cuddle her. She still has the new baby smell. It's great.

S took her in to change her diaper (no not that new baby smell!) and came out with her wearing this cute little tutu. My son accused my daughter in law of turning his daughter into a prost-a-tot. Hahahahaha! Only could my son come up with a phrase like that.

While I was visiting, my love of a son replaced the brakes and rotors on the front of my car. I no longer hear metal on metal when I stop. Yep, I'm ashamed to say they were that worn.

What did it cost me? Hmmmm a pumpkin spice Starbucks for my daughter in law. Homemade fried chicken for my son for his lunch. And....cuddling, kissing and playing with my granddaughter. Now that's what I call a screaming deal.

Well, we had a death in the family last week. Yep, I killed the vacuum. I bought a new belt for it because it was making a horrible noise. When I put the new one on, it didn't make a difference. D. inspected it and said the bearings were shot.

I paid under $200 for my little Eureka over 10 years ago and thought I'd stick with the brand. I bought this one because I loved my other one being bagless. I opened the box, placed everything neatly on the floor so I could put it together and out pops a bag. I look at the box again and they don't show emptying a bag but in smaller writing they mentioned it.

Back in the box everything went. It was very easy. It comes from having my first job folding and unfolding maps. I think growing up doing jigsaw puzzles also helps. Anyway, back to the store I go next week in search of a vacuum that doesn't take bags.

I hauled out the broom and swept the bedroom floor this morning. I'd used the shopvac to clean out the pellet stove in the bedroom so thought I'd just suck up the pile of dirt. When I turned around, the dogs were walking through it and spreading into the room again.

I vacuumed up my first pile of dirt and went back to sweep up what the dogs spread around the room and picked up quite a bit. I thought it would be nothing but those little paws sure can spread stuff around.

I find the bedroom hardwood floors are harder to sweep or dust than any of the other hardwood floors I've owned. I think it's because they're handscraped so not nice and flat. One or two passes just doesn't do the job. Oh well, they're beautiful floors so I'll grin and bear it.

I'm in a cleaning mood today. I've got goodies in the toilets waiting to be scrubbed and a kitchen that is asking to be swept and the counters shined. It's one of those, if I put my mind to it everything would be spic n span in less than two hours because it's not dirty, just dusty and cluttered.

So, off I go to get some things done before D gets home. Maybe tomorrow I'll check my email. I've neglected it all week. I'll make tomorrow my email and catch up on paperwork day. Yep, that works for me.

Have a great week everyone and I'll see ya'll next week.

It was a good week....

Last week was my boss's birthday. She's allergic to flowers, yet people keep sending them to her. The upside is, she gives them to me to take home and enjoy.

She got two deliveries last week. I got one to take home and the other is sitting on the bar at work for the rest of the employees to enjoy.

Also, last week they gave out bonuses. Having never worked for a company who did that, I expected only the sales staff would receive them. Nope...she gave me an envelope with a very generous check in it with instructions not to pay bills or blow it on the baby. Hahahaha! Her suggestion was to take a weekend trip.

I won't tell her today it's buying two tons of pellets and next week will buy brakes for my car. Most likely a radiator too. But I refuse to spend any of it on D's medical bills.

If you wrack your brain, you'll remember way back at Christmas we ran out of water. Then on New Years, and again and again. We called the well guy out and he charged us almost $300 to say nothing was wrong with it. DUH!

D suspected it was the above part so I went on a search for one. The cheapest I found it was $89 + shipping. Well, somehow it got put on the back burner and each time the well would stop, D would go out fiddle with something and we'd have water again.

Last week I got fed up and told him to just go buy the part! He went to the same well guys who came out and told them he needed this part. The guy said, "Wow that's an old one. I think I might have one somewhere around here". He took off to the back room and came back awhile later with one in tow. He charged D....are you ready for this????? Eight bucks! I said, why didn't you ask him if he had two so we'd have one on hand when this happened again? LOL!

Anyway, D pulled out the part and was disgusted to see this. See the little prongs on the right? Well, there should be a matching set on the left. Almost $300 and the well guy didn't see this. D said it was the first thing the guy should have checked.

I was a good wife and bit back, "Uhhhh...so why didn't you check it before calling them out?" Smirk...smirk...LOL!

D and I got into a discussion the other day and decided men and women see things from a different perspective. I've been healthy as a horse until last week. I got a cold but being a huge fan of Zicam, it was much weaker than it could have been. Anyway, a week ago Friday I woke up twice with D and I almost forehead to forehead while sleeping. He'd had a horrible cold and I was avoiding him like the plague. When I came down with it, I accused him of giving it to me. His comment was, "No...you stole it from me!!!"

Yep, we definitely see things from different perspectives. LOL!