Def-y's Categorizing: January 2011 Archives

How can it be that we are already at the close of January? I've been busy all month, as I am sure you have, and I'm satisfied with what I have accomplished, but there's a lot left to do. Scraps on a Mission is coming along nicely, and I've got the tax planners for our personal taxes, and Mother's final tax return. We plan to shop for carpeting for the hallway, and for the living room, which is long past needing to be replaced. We're ready to face February and see what our shortest month will bring.

I was talking with Dear Husband about the need to clean out the basement. Our basement is truly a disgrace. I don't trust my knees on the stairs, so I go downstairs very infrequently. I think I'm going to need to live in the basement during February, because so much needs to be done.

We need to destroy documents from our company dating back to 1986,and personal documents that we no longer need. I need to gather all my Mother's things into one section of the basement, so that my family will be able to see them, and decide what we will do with them. I need to store all the Christmas decorations in their bins, and throw away a collection of boxes that we probably no longer need. AND, I should go through a collection of ancient electronic stuff, to determine what needs to be given to the recycling center. All of February, right? Maybe I need to put up a bed down there, and add a hot plate and refrigerator! lol

I'm looking forward to Spring, and warmer weather, but not until this mess has been sorted out. I'll take my cell phone with me, in case anyone needs me. *G*

How can it be that we are already at the close of January? I've been busy all month, as I am sure you have, and I'm satisfied with what I have accomplished, but there's a lot left to do. Scraps on a Mission is coming along nicely, and I've got the tax planners for our personal taxes, and Mother's final tax return. We plan to shop for carpeting for the hallway, and for the living room, which is long past needing to be replaced. We're ready to face February and see what our shortest month will bring.

I was talking with Dear Husband about the need to clean out the basement. Our basement is truly a disgrace. I don't trust my knees on the stairs, so I go downstairs very infrequently. I think I'm going to need to live in the basement during February, because so much needs to be done.

We need to destroy documents from our company dating back to 1986. We need to destroy personal documents that we no longer need. I need to gather all my Mother's things into one section of the basement, so that my family will be able to see them, and decide what we will do with them. I need to store all the Christmas decorations in their bins, and throw away a collection of boxes that we probably no longer need. AND, I should go through a collection of ancient electronic stuff, to determine what needs to be given to the recycling center. All of February, right? Maybe I need to put up a bed down there, and add a hot plate and refrigerator! lol

I'm looking forward to Spring, and warmer weather, but not until this mess has been sorted out. I'll take my cell phone with me, in case anyone needs me. *G*

Could you PLEASE explain to me why someone in a third world country feels it's appropriate to spam my blog? It's not like I have a gazillion readers, and by now you'd think they would have figured out that most comments have to be approved, and I'm just dumping them in the trash.

Please, you turkeys, go find someplace else to roost!

(Now, watch, it will take me hours to clean out all the comments. Sheesh!)

I was cleaning the kitchen Sunday and discovered that "something" had taken bites out of a plum tomato on my kitchen counter! I had just two tomatoes and had put them in the fruit bowl to make more room on the counter.

I showed the tomato to Dear Husband, as evidence of at least one BRAZEN mouse in the house. I set the other tomato back in the bowl, and used bleach on the counter.

Monday......the top of the tomato was chewed away.

I need a cat.

It's time to practice 2011, 2011, 2011!

And it's time to leave the weeks of celebration behind and get back to our usual lives. Well, almost! lol

My quilting bee meets the first Friday of the month. That would be this coming Friday. I leave my Christmas decorations up until they have visited, and then everything comes down. I really enjoy the wreaths and swags and decorations. I love the red bows and strings of lights. I'm glad to have them for just a week more, especially since they didn't go up until mid-December.

Most of us are back to our regular schedules now. This morning I filled in for my exercise guru, and I'll get to do that again on Wednesday and Friday. Wednesday's class will be smaller, as many of the class will be on a trip to see "The Mikado," in Chicago. Today, one of the class clowns, someone who must be nearing 80, turned the lights out while we were in the middle of a cardio exercise. I get that he doesn't want to be there, but I wish he would find less dangerous ways to express himself.

I'm working on several small quilts for our charity quilting group. I've found blocks from previous projects, "orphans," that have made a great basis for several small quilts. It's wonderful to find homes for these pieces and know that nothing is going to go to waste!

I'm going to make apple bread this afternoon, which will be the last of the tea bread for a while. I made five loaves of pumpkin/walnut bread, two loaves of banana nut bread, and I'll make two loaves of apple bread. Dear Husband has an early morning sweet tooth, and he takes a slice with him on his way to work. All the bread, with the exception of one banana-nut loaf is in the freezer. I won't have to bake for a while. DH will make these loaves last!

And.....bills. I have bills to pay today. I wonder how many times I will print 2010 rather than 2011??? Onward and upward!