Everyday Randomness

Cleaning Out The Closets

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It’s been quiet around here today, and I’m thankful for that.  The loggers have been clearing trees from the land near our house for about a week, and they’re having to use our driveway to get in and out of the pasture.  Logging trucks in and out of your driveway all day is pretty annoying.

Today is a rainy day though, so the loggers didn’t work.  I’ve had peace and quiet, and I’ve been able to get into my office again.  All week I’ve used Hubby’s computer because my office is closer to the driveway and the noise.  I can’t concentrate in there!  I took the time to catch up on some work I’ve needed to get done, and then I ended up cleaning out two closets today.  I’ve got 3 down and 2 to go before I have them all completely cleaned out and sorted.

My guest room is packed floor to ceiling against the back wall with boxes I’m taking to Goodwill.  It’s taken me a lot longer since I’m sorting, washing, and then packing everything up in boxes.  A lot of stuff is just getting trashed because it’s not good enough to give away to charity.  Hubby has tons of shirts he’s insisted on wearing to work that are falling apart at the seams.  Those got trashed.

Hubby truly is a pack rat, and getting him to part with his stuff is harder than I ever thought it would be.  Why does he need 6 boxes of legos?  Because they were his legos, and he wants his kids to play with those!

We haven’t even started on the collections of baseball cards, comic books, and Garfield books.  I want to keep the Garfield books as well, but I think it might be time to check on values for the baseball cards and comic books.  I know he’s got a few that I could definitely Ebay.

Then there is one closet I haven’t even touched yet that’s full of my junk.  There are boxes of Christmas ornaments from my childhood…stuff my mom doesn’t want me to part with.  I’m going through those boxes, keeping what I want, and she can do something with the stuff I don’t want.  I shouldn’t have to keep it in my house just because she doesn’t want to part with it.  There’s my violin I haven’t played in 7 years.  I know someone could use it.  I might consider donating it to the school.

And last but definitely not least are all the boxes of computer parts…laptop harddrives, cd burners, just a bunch of spare parts.  I planned to keep them for our own builds or for when a customer needs this or that, but most of the stuff just ended up stacked in the closet.  Yeah it’s time to clean house.

Happy Mama’s Day

Happy Mother’s Day to all you wonderful mothers out there!  If like me your not a mom, let’s celebrate as an unofficial woman’s day!

Man am I tired.  We got in last night around 1 am, and even though I passed out almost as soon as I walked in the door I’m still super drained.  All that sun and heat yesterday got to me.  We just finished up the mother’s day stuff, so I decided it was time to upload some of the photos I couldn’t send yesterday.

We didn’t have signal anywhere around Deal’s Gap, and I was only able to send out a few texts after we drove another 28 miles past the Gap to our friend’s house.  Blogging a few photos didn’t work out like I had planned.

So, here we go.

The next few posts will be nothing but photos.

Thank God It’s Over

Today has been such a long freakin’ day.  I had a long list of things to accomplish, and I didn’t get hardly any of it done.  We spent pretty much all evening running around doing things for other people.  I mean Hubby came home from work at 5:30, and we didn’t make it home and finished with what we were doing until 10:45.

Of course we didn’t make it to one friend’s house to drop off a game he wanted to borrow, and he had the nerve to get pissed off about it.  WTF!  You know where we live.  You’ve got wheels.  Pick it up your damn self!  Be happy we’re willing to let you borrow it in the first place!

Maybe I’m just aggravated because it’d been a long day, and a lot has happened that I’d rather not deal with.  Hubby’s been in a bad mood, and that just puts me in an even worse mood.  Either way, I’m just glad this day is finished.

TGIF!

Oh yeah, and happy birthday Miss Kim!

Mentally Running Behind

Man I feel so out of it today.  I woke up this morning to the sound of trucks and big machines, and I thought that’s not right.

I mentioned earlier that my Grandparents are having some of the trees logged on some of their land.  They’ve been on the back part of the 200 acres working, but this week they’re cutting some on this side.  My Grandpa specifically told me not to let anyone park in front of the gate to the pasture since they would start logging on this side on Thursday.

The only problem is I’ve been a day behind all week.  I thought today was Wednesday, so when I looked outside to see them loading up a truck full of logs it really threw me off. Thank goodness it really is Thursday though.  I’m ready for this week to be over with!  Now I wonder which day I missed!  LMAO!

16th Annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive

Speaking of charities, it’s time to prepare your non perishable items for the Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive on May 10th!

We all hear about hunger in 3rd world countries all the time, but what about the hunger in America? Did you know an estimated 35 million Americans are at risk of hunger? 12 million of those are children!

The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) joined forces to fight hunger in America. Since 1993, the Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive has become the largest single day food drive in the world collecting over three quarters of a billion pounds of food!

How can you participate?

That’s easy! Gather together any non perishable items you may have such as canned or boxed food (no glass jars and nothing that’s expired), and place it near your mailbox or wherever your postal carrier delivers your mail. I normally hang a grocery bag of food from the mailbox. If I’m going to have more than that I tape a note to the mailbox letting my mail carrier know there is a box of food on the porch.

The letter carriers will pickup the food donations as they are delivering your mail, and all food will be taken to a local food bank in your area.