Saturday, January 31, 2009

I have NOT been good about publishing to my blog lately. I have a lot of different foci in my life right now, and losing weight doesn't seem to be one of them! lol Oka, I haven't gained massive weight, but I have not really been using my time to my best advantage when it comes to that.

I have been focusing on the house and remodeling the kitchen, and I really haven't even been all that good with that. It seems to overwhelm me - in that I get to a stuck point and I have to go do something different. I have been working on two seemingly simple faucets for a week, for example. You don't even want to know how many trips to Home Depot and Lowe's I have been through! Tonight I actually got the HD guy to take a faucet similar to mine out of the box and connect a waterline to it, just to prove it could be done, LOL! So I bought new connections, since I already got a new faucet. If the tools aren't broken, the parts must be, right? This isn't rocket science. I have a fine brain. If someone else has successfully done this, I surely can figure it out. Just repeat that, over and over and over, and you'll have spent the last week with me. LOL.

In a good note, I managed to get $375 in faucets for $194 on ebay - and it would have been $174 but I didn't read the auction well enough and had to buy a single hole deckplate separately. Of course, the guy from Home Depot said if I had brought it to him, he could have called and got me one for free. Bummer! But I still saved mucho dollars.

I just had to get up because I smelled *gasp* fresh air. The front door was locked, and open. Not sure how I did that! But yes, I checked for boogeymen, and all is well. It must not have been shut all the way when I clicked the lock. Fooled it, I did the deadbolt too this time. I was outside cutting the diagonals in the tile earlier, wearing a garbage bag, of course, before I got too chilly. I am warmed up nicely now, and I have to get back to the faucet and the gas stove connection. I am looking forward to having a stove, oven and range hood! In fact, I bought the stuff to make lasagne because of it!

I have also been slowly and limpingly cleaning out the scrapbook room, fun. It really sucks because I know I am going to have to seriously cut down on the amount of "stuff" in order to move it. For now, I am getting rid of the obvious, putting it in the closet in the spare room for a yard sale. I may start trying to ebay some things, I ordered a new camera with my $75 Dell coupon to remove that excuse. Off to check twopeas before I get back to work...

JOY walks here... PEACE follows... COMFORT saves...

This is where life should be lived