Like this photo? This was one I took back in the fall - when it was WARM. The trees were gorgeous and caught my eye as I drove around running errands one day. I never published it to the blog because there were a bunch of cars, vans, trash cans and For Rent signs all along the street. For Christmas I got the Adobe Photoshop Elements software and just learned how to "erase" all those "distractions" - as they call them. Even erased a bright red fire hydrant! That's pretty fun - but it took over an hour to do it - so I'll just try to shoot the photo right to begin with from now on!! LOL!
The New Year was fun. Mike and I turned on Dick Clark's Rocking New Years Eve at 9:00 and were bored to sleep by 9:15. Pretty sad when we were complaining about all that "racket" those young kids were attempting to call music! Dang! I'm OLD!!! Ah well - as long as I can still laugh about it - then I can have wrinkles and a sense of humor!
So, my new years resolution this year is to get organized. This week I went out and bought a ton of storage containers. They then cluttered up my kitchen, breakfast room, formal dining and living room. I finally decided that I had enough bruises on my shins and took them all down to the basement and organized and labelled all my sewing paraphernalia.............and trust me, it has grown by leaps and bounds over the years! At least now it looks like someone really has their stuff together down there! Too bad you have to walk over all the disorganized crud upstairs to get to that one slice of heaven!
My other resolution is to only get mad at things that matter. God must've laughed like crazy when I made this resolution and said "Huh! Let's just see how resolute she is!"! Some backstory: we have been in search for some solid oak bookshelves for the basement (i.e. kids junk) that aren't $2,000 a piece and have had no luck. So, last weekend I made the suggestion that maybe Mike could build something - since he had built a small bookcase for Zach's room prior to his birth. Ok - so it's been 6 years, but it's like riding a bike right? Well, he got a pair of them made and they look good but before staining them he decides to make a tv stand for the family room. He's put a lot of effort and time into that stand. Tonight he went to stain it and before I could say "hey, you forgot to put down a drop cloth" he dropped the just soaked sponge onto the white carpet in the formal dining room. The stain is a dark walnut - and so was the carpet..... I didn't even lose my cool - just got a bunch of paper towels and started blotting away. Then I went for the power cleaner and got out my Magic Eraser (you gotta love Mr. Clean!) and my carpet now only has a very faint pinkish color stain. Tomorrow I'll get out my Goo Gone and see how that works ..............or maybe the Oxy Clean!
So God's shocked that I didn't give in to temptation...........so he throws in another curve ball during this chaos. Gee, I'm scrubbing up a storm and I'm getting colder and colder. Hmmmm, not even breaking a sweat. That can't be good. So we check the furnace and sure enough the pilot light isn't working. So we get out the manual and turn the system off, wait 10 minutes - turn it back on...............and still no heat. Great. I'm still not mad...........just cold. The Heating/Air guy just called and he's on his way - and gee, it's a $70 service call and $160/hr for his labor...............sigh................. We've got to have heat so ........................ I'm keeping my sense of humor - but I'm thinking maybe if I just go ahead and blow up then God will fix my heater.............................and no other calamity will befall our household because of my resolution...........yeah, right................
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