RANT

When we bought our house almost three years ago, all of the exterior lighting worked. Now, int he past month, one by one they have all burned out. This sucks becuase I turn the lights on in the morning to light the way for the little girl I babysit and her dad. Stairs can be slippery int he winter, and light helps!

Why on earth are the sizes of light bulbs not printed inside the fixture or on the light bulb itself? We spent 25 bucks buying light bulbs - cool blue ones - last weekend and this afternoon hubs went out to change them, and what do ya know?

They don't fit!

Dream Bed

My bed is very functional. But it is ugly. It used to be a water bed. Now it isn’t. Heh. you’re trying to picture it, aren’t you? Don’t, it will scar you for life. Not only is it ugly but it is old, and scared and dark. It was my husbands bed when he was a child - it’s a queen, and trust me, he put a lot of wear on it by the time we got married.

I would love to have a new bed. Something without a billion ugly handled drawers under it. Something light and airy. Something like this

I love oak, its such a vibrant, alive looking wood. So my lust for Oak Beds is completely expected. Time 4sleep is a UK based site that has awesome beds - oak, leather, kids, divan - everything. If you are looking for a tpe of bed, they will have it!

The stress of Getting a mortgage

When we got our house almost two years ago, it was very stressful. We applied for a pre approved mortgage, mainly because we needed to know our limit before we started house hunting. We learned many things, such as what benefits are available with First Time Buyer Mortgage.

We also learnt, the hard way, how important good credit is when applying for a mortgage. About six years before we applied for our mortgage we used a store credit card to purchase a high end item. It took us a long time to pay it off, because we had to pay a little at a time, but eventually we paid it off and celebrated.

Unfortunately, for some reason when the company we had gotten the credit through shut down, they did not shut down our card and we had eleven cents interest owing on the card. The bank looked at this a a big black mark and we were almost denied our mortgage!

Be really sure you have all of your things in order before applying for a mortgage, it is way less stressful!

My Sink Sucks

I have six million kids. Or three. I can never keep track. Regardless, for some strange reason they are constantly eating. We want breakfast! Where is my Lunch! I'm hungry, the tell me.

What am I? Their mother?

What? Oh. Right. I am.

In any case, their constant eating means there is constantly dirty dishes in the sink. Dishes I have to wash.

Although I love my house, there is very little counter space by the actual sink, so it is hard to wash rinse and have room for the dishes to sink. I am trying to convince my husband I need one of these expandable rinse things to rinse off the dishes. Plus, I remember having the BEST water fights with the one my mom and dad had!

taps4less.com has a wide array of Taps, not just for my kitchen, but for the bath and shower as well. I have checked prices in stores near me becuase I have long wanted the rinse wand, and taps4less has the same or better prices! This excites me because I love saving money!

Almost home delivery

When we lived int he city, our mail was delivered to our home between eleven and noon. I really, REALLY liked that.

In four days we have lived in a small town for two years, and the only thing I ever had issues about was that we had to go to a post office to get the mail. It really is no big deal, because it is a small town, and Hubs would stop b the post office Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays to get the mail.

The first year we lived here that was not a big issue. All I ever got in the mail was bills and flyers, but now that I have joined PPP and have that lovely PayPal account, I often am expecting things in the mail.

Right now I am waiting on a Halloween costume for the pup (click link to see a Google image of the costume), and some bath fizzies from biker body works.

It really pains me to think that they might be in, but I won't know until the husband gets home, and if they come in tomorrow (Thursday) then I have to wait for Friday!

Luckily, this is happening. I took this from my driveway.



You will have to click it to make it bigger. Basically, about fifty/one hundred feet or so. I'm bad with distance. across the street and two houses over, they are erecting mailboxes. It isn't quite home delivery, but I will soon be able to check the mail whenever I want!

ACK! Alive! It's Alive!

So finally that lazy husband of mine got home from work, I mean srsly. Who does he think he is to get up at six and head off to weld for eight or nine hours leaving me home alone to deal with problems like this?

If you read this and this, you will know what I am talking about.

Ok. So the Mr.I have a job I can't be here every time there is a bug you need squashed came home from work and I told him that it was his DUTY to check and see if it was alive.

IT WAS!

So he did what any manly man would do. He hit the chain with a pen and watched the spider fall down down down onto the table where he sprayed it with raid to watch it spasm on its back.

Hint. The spider is under the lid.

This. obviously. Is the spider.

*smile*
This, is the only way I like spiders. Dead. And you know what? Even then, I'm not very fond of them.

This is me relaxing with a smoke. Its damn stressful keeping one eye on a fan all freaking day long just in case the spider makes a getaway and hides in my bed!

And so, the saga of the Scary Spider in the Fan has ended. Once again the prince has slain the dragon and the princess shall reward her knight with a kiss.

*wink*

Spider Update

Earlier this morning I wrote about a spider that had decided my kitchen ceiling fan would make him a nice winter home.

I do not recall putting out any for rent signs this fall, nor Do I recall him paying a deposit on his new room.

So I want him gone.

But should a woman alone be expected to deal with unsavory characters? I think it is perfectly understandable that I am leery of confronting this beast.

Becuase the children's safety is important, I decided to tackle this problem without a man present.

How brave am I?

Not very, as it turns out. I sprayed him with the hair spray, but he is still holed up in the hole. (lol) I'm not sure if he ended up glued inside it from the hairspray or if he is just smarter than I am.

I hope I killed him and his dead little bod is rotting in there. Despite the fact that he is directly over the dinner table and the way my luck runs he will fall into MY food.

What do you think? Is he Dead or Alive?

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Well Crap

With fall here we can look forward to cool crisp air, and beautiful foliage. Unfortunately, fall also brings on the spiders. The little freaks are desperate to outlive the winter months and move indoors.

Have I mentioned that I am arachnophobia yet? There was an instance when I was seven - almost eight months pregnant when I climbed onto the top of a couch and up the side of some stair rails, all for a few millimeter long bug.

My sons are very aware of my fear of spiders.

"Mom. don't look up, just back way and I will get my hat" said my seven year old of his hat on the table.

Of course I DID look up. I DID scream, and the spider retreated to his hide hole. Now I have to wait him out.

He is tucked away in the ball part at the end of the chain. Little bugger.

When he emerges I will spray him with hairspray, which is the most effective spider stopper ever. It sticks their legs together making them sluggish enough that an badly co-ordinated three year old can kill them for their momma!

Speaking of Winter

Earlier in the year I was sweeping out the garage and i noticed one of the kids, most likely the baby had pushed a twig into the crack where the driveway and the garage floor meets. I pulled it out, thinking it only went down an inch or so. I was distressed to see he had over a foot of twig down the crack.

I will be the first to admit I don;t know a lot about driveways and cement and home improvements, but I don;t think there should be a gap that deep. I'm worried that in the winter when the snow is here, water will seep down that crack and wash away the foundation under the driveway making it so we have to replace the whole thing.

Our house is only six years old, so we want the driveway to last a bit longer!

If I was in the UK, I would contact Anglian becuase they have over thirty six years of experience in the home improvement business. From home additions to driveway repair, they are the company to see!

Yet another update on how dismally slow the painting is going

First the good news. I finished the top of the blanket. I need to wait now till I can get to a fabric store *note to self check eBay* and pick up some material for the back, binding and the border.

But whatever. I finished the top! That was the time consuming annoyingly slow part! YAY ME!!!

Way back when, we bought five paint trays. One each for white, pink, dark pink, green, and dark green.

We completely forgot we needed a sixth try for the burgundy. Figuring it would be cheaper easier to just paint all the colors but burgundy and then wash out a tray, we did just that.

This afternoon i emptied all the trays of paint into their respective cans, I got paint on my favorite pants by the way, I also mushed my hands in as many colors as I could before I had to get to work with the washing of a tray.

Playing in paint is fun right up to the point you notice your husband looking at you like you are a retard.

Anyway. After the kids went to bed I started taping and painting te burgundy circles. I figured I would have all the painting done tonight and by the weekend, when we went shopping, the room would be ready for showing.

Yea Right.

I estimate it will take at least four coats per circle. Each circle must be taped down, painted and left to dry for six hours each time.

LE SIGH.

It's not gonna be done for next weekend . Sorry.

A Preview

I wanted the whole room to be a surprise, but I also want to show off the lettering, so here you go! Yes, we know it is crooked, but once the lettering is down, you can remove it, but it won't go back on! I guess the falls under the category "Deal With It" doesn't it?

All of the spots, except the deep burgundy ( the color on the wall you are seeing right now - which now that I look at it, looks black. Trust me, it's not!) are done. We forgot to buy a sixth paint tray for the burgundy and decided that we would just paint all the spots and then wash out one of the other trays.

And we ran out of plastic tape. Which reminds me, I have to send my son to go grab some.

So. Here is what is left before I will unveil the whole darn thing.

• I have two feet of stripes to put onto the bottom of the quilt. I am not going to worry about the binding or backing for the photos, so long as I can get the quilt top done, I will be happy becuase it will give you the general idea of what it will look like. (want pictures of it half done? Click here)
  
• I need to buy a 14 inch and a 12 inch pillow form for the decorative pillows
• The burgundy spots. Once I have the tape and start actually doing them, I estimate they will take less than an hour and a half to finish.

One thing I was wondering. Should I do just photos or a video, or both, when I am unveiling the room? Photos, I can get up close and clear, but you will have a hard time really seeing the room. With a video I can tape it as you walk in the room and turn in a circle so the whole thing can be shown.

What say you, internets?

The Final Piece of the Puzzle

I have one light green, Two dark green and one white circle left to paint. Think thats exciting?

..well, it is, but even more exciting is that the last piece to the room came in the mail today!

Our custom vinyl lettering is HERE~

We ordered it almost a moth ago, but I wanted the color, length hight AND font changed so she had to make it from scratch.

It turned out absolutely PERFECT and I cannot wait to get it up on the wall!!!

Of course this puts a bit more pressure on me to get off the net and into the sewing room to finish the quilt for the bedroom, but thats OK.