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| | From: «jÓñi» (Original Message) | Sent: 12/20/2008 12:22 PM |
oh man I have to actually go to the mall today. I got an email from Piercing Pagoda with 50% off one thing. Since I heard they are going out of business and that is where I get my charms for my friend's daughter, I HAVE to go. I buy her a charm every year for her birthday. She'll be 13 this February so only a few more until I can get her the bracelet - either for her 16th or 18th or graduation, I haven't decided yet. I started this when she was born. I'd hate to be wandering around in February trying to find a place that sells gold charms for an affordable price so I need to go today! I decided last night I probably won't do much more cleaning until Monday. No point in cleaning things that will just get messed up again. I'm glad I did the kitchen since it was a lot of underneath stuff that will stay mostly clean but no point in anymore dusting or vacuuming. My house gets so dusty so quickly. I may do some oiling of the dining room furniture now and clean our bathroom which is full of gifts and rarely used anyway. Otherwise I'm concentrating on wrapping, finishing the fudge, finishing any decorating, and shopping/errands (grocery or otherwise). Do not know why I'm up so early but I think I'm going to go tackle something right away before I get tired again! |
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| | From: Sara | Sent: 12/20/2008 11:51 PM |
You're doing so well! We spent 2-6ish, out running errands and I don't even feel like we were all that successful since we spent a butt-load at Home Depot (we had our sliders without any coverings so I was going to move the matching curtains from the dr to there and get new curtains for the dr. Well, $47/panel!!! are the ones dh picked out. augh They are nice but geez louise. We also bought 3 new lights... one for the upstairs bathroom, one for the dining room and one for the front hall. All lights we wanted to change (the up. bathroom one really needed to be changed) but geez, that added up.) Then, ate out at the mall which was our lupper... too late to be lunch, too early to be supper. So, that's kinda good but there goes another good supper plan I had for tonight, down the drain! I have thawed ground beef I should cook up but I dont' want my house smelling like ground beef. How dumb is that?! The grocery store didn't have a few things that I needed so dh will have to go out tonight or tomorrow anyways. ARGH At least all our Christmas gifts are bought for tomorrow, just need to be wrapped. Hmm, we may need to buy a card reader thing if we can't find dh's so we can put our pictures from our camera onto the computer and then onto MIL's gift, a digital pic frame. Ok, this is crunch time. I think I'm going to do the painting cause I really want to get that done and I'm so close to getting it done. Plus, I need to do as much as I can before the kids are in bed as the girls' room needs a little bit of touching up and my room needs a bit too. Not sure if I'll be on here again... if I'm not, hopefully it's cause I'm working up a storm! lol |
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| | From: «jÓñi» | Sent: 12/21/2008 12:01 AM |
we just finished a movie - we started it two weeks ago but were too tired. nightmare before christmas - a tradition every christmas. i keep doing little things but nothing big. i think i'm going to shower then maybe wrap more gifts? sounds like you got a lot done. my MIL loves her dig pic frame so i hope yours does as well. i emailed her to bring hers so i could update it. |
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| | From: «jÓñi» | Sent: 12/21/2008 3:27 AM |
wrap all gifts iron tablecloths finish swags hang swags buy more label tape finish labeling frozen meals ALMOST DONE THIS, NEED MORE TAPE finish fudge finish kitchen NEED TO DO INSIDE FRIDGE, FLOOR, WINDOW, AND LIGHT FIXTURE heavy clean dining room (make list) heavy clean living room (make list) game crazy piercing pagoda put meemaw's and other gifts under tree put kids' gifts back in erik's room neatly lemonheads other candy talk to kids about christmas expectations THEY ARE GOOD WITH EVERYTHING, ALL THEY HAVE LEFT FOR "WANTS" IS LIGHTS IN THEIR ROOMS eyes on puppet? list for tomorrow answer christine's email polish glassware (champagne glasses) clean party dishes - platters, etc handwash kitchen floor handwash dining room floor carpet stains throughout house scratching post hacksaw - hang window trim threads on recliner vac, febreze couch & chair photos in albums? CAN'T FIND ALBUMS, NOT SURE IF I EVER KEPT THEM, I'M THINKING I FREECYCLED THEM DARN IT pen photos laundry room santa cleaned and back up spice cabinet |
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| | From: Sara | Sent: 12/21/2008 12:47 PM |
I'm glad you like it! I actually couldn't taste the butterscotch chips in my first batch so I wonder how this batch will be! I have to cut it up. I'm the only one up here and ready to go but I'm stressing out and have no clue where to start. I had to go to sleep around 10:30 last night. My back was so messed up and I just could not do anything. I'm thinking we have to prioritize now and focus on the rooms that will be used the most. While the painting jobs I've started look worse now, that is SO not something that HAS to be done. Aw man, Timmy's awake. It's still snowing out there so I'm still hoping no one shows because of the weather. lol But, I have a feeling I shouldn't count on that. And, we didn't get any wrapping done yesterday :( Going to start cooking ground beef and work on picking up the kitchen, dr and lr. I think I'll try to drill this morning: -cook hamburg meat, put away -get 2 graham cracker crusts in oven -bring down canned food that's on lr table -give breakfast to Timmy, give myself cereal -cut up fudge, put on plate, ready to go and put rest in container -finish off fudge topping for the other one -wipe down lr table -bring up mini-vac for couches -bring in curtain rods and other canned food -bring up duster Ok, that's probably more than enough. But, I'm going to try to be done by 9! |
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| | From: «jÓñi» | Sent: 12/21/2008 2:30 PM |
hi sara! i won't talk at all today. i can tell you are totally stressed. don't worry about the paint jobs - everyone knows you just moved in going to drill today too. before i come back at 10:30 i will: - reboot laundry
- put jeans in to wash
- unload dw
- 50 thing pickup
- check mall times
- get cap 1 card
- grocery list
- find prescriptions
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| | From: «jÓñi» | Sent: 12/21/2008 3:29 PM |
didn't do all of 50 but did do everything else plus i think a couple of things i thought were on the list but weren't yet lol. getting ready to go to my mom's to get the futon mattress and extra chairs. then i'm going to go right out to the store so i probably won't be back 'til early afternoon. before i come back i will: - get futon mattress
- unload futon mattress
- put futon mattress in c's room
- put old futon mattress in garage or by curb
- get chairs
- unload chairs
- put gas in malibu
- grocery shop
- put away groceries
- tell kids to clean their rooms while i'm gone
- clean up the front yard
- move santa (w/scott's help)
- ask scott about bonton check
hope to be done all that by 12 but that's iffy with scott still in the shower! |
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| | From: Sara | Sent: 12/21/2008 4:11 PM |
taking a break... I hate painting!! I decided I can't leave the stairs but now I'm not sure I like the green. lol I'm so close to being done but to keep my sanity, I stop and do something small and then come back (plus to let it dry a bit before doing the edges.) We're doing little things here and there but not much progress. augh Dh just came down and said we need to work on one room at a time. So, I'm going to go finish painting, shower and then we'll get moving. Dh asked MIL about coming for Christmas Eve (and sleeping over.) She said she'll have to think about it (likely because she'd have to come to church!) so I'm hoping that's a no. Mean, yeah, but this year, I'm REALLY hoping to have a quiet Christmas Eve where I can just sit and watch a movie after the kids are in bed and go to bed at a decent hour myself. I guess we could still do that with MIL but it's not quite the same. Better get moving, still so much to do! |
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| | From: «jÓñi» | Sent: 12/21/2008 6:07 PM |
sometimes it helps when i make a list that looks like this: scott joni our room kitchen kitchen dining room playroom our room etc then we set the timer for 5 minutes and do whatever we want in that room. i don't get on scott if he does something i wouldn't have done and vice versa because different things are important to us. if a room's horrible, i put it on both of our lists and sometimes twice on both of our lists but no matter what we can't stay in the room more than 5 minutes and maybe 30 seconds after the timer goes off. we usually get the whole house reasonable in 30-60 minutes this way, even if it's totally awful. and it usually motivates me to go back and fine tune things. i hope you have a wonderful family dinner. i'm going to revisit my lists and figure out what to do next. check in if you have time. i promise i'll try not to write as much next time! |
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| | From: «jÓñi» | Sent: 12/21/2008 6:14 PM |
btw i hate painting too! before i come back at 2 (i am tired of drilling but it works so here goes it!), i will: - unload futon mattress
- put in c's room
- take c's to curb
- unload chairs
- put somewhere out of the way for now
- move gifts down to erik's room
- get the kids started on teacher gifts
- get the kids started on signing their names to cards
- finish my puppet
- cut and package the fudge for the teachers
- decide who gets what baked goods
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| | From: «jÓñi» | Sent: 12/21/2008 8:53 PM |
- unload futon mattress
- put in c's room
- take c's to curb
- unload chairs
- put somewhere out of the way for now
- move gifts down to erik's room
- get the kids started on teacher gifts
- get the kids started on signing their names to cards
- finish my puppet
- cut and package the fudge for the teachers
- decide who gets what baked goods NEED TO BUY TINS, WANT TO MAKE MORE FUDGE AND/OR MORE COOKIES
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| | From: «jÓñi» | Sent: 12/21/2008 8:56 PM |
wrap all gifts iron tablecloths finish swags hang swags buy more label tape finish labeling frozen meals ALMOST DONE THIS, NEED MORE TAPE finish fudge finish kitchen NEED TO DO INSIDE FRIDGE, FLOOR, WINDOW, AND LIGHT FIXTURE heavy clean dining room (make list) heavy clean living room (make list) game crazy piercing pagoda put meemaw's and other gifts under tree put kids' gifts back in erik's room neatly lemonheads other candy talk to kids about christmas expectations THEY ARE GOOD WITH EVERYTHING, ALL THEY HAVE LEFT FOR "WANTS" IS LIGHTS IN THEIR ROOMS eyes on puppet? list for tomorrow answer christine's email polish glassware (champagne glasses) clean party dishes - platters, etc handwash kitchen floor handwash dining room floor carpet stains throughout house scratching post hacksaw - hang window trim threads on recliner vac, febreze couch & chair photos in albums? CAN'T FIND ALBUMS, NOT SURE IF I EVER KEPT THEM, I'M THINKING I FREECYCLED THEM DARN IT pen photos laundry room santa cleaned and back up spice cabinet |
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