I been so busy with various projects at work plus working on the house and going to classes in the day for work and at night for my personal career plans plus a few other projects I threw in the mix that I just collapse every night. I am tired y’all. I went to bed … Continue reading
SO I am still planning on making a wide deep closet and not having any doors on it. Something like this. Code requires that I have a window in the closet and that has been bugging the hell out of me. What to do. I did not want a window because I did not want … Continue reading
The five keys to identifying your soulmate by Toure’ Roberts. You can view the whole sermon on YouTube. God is a God of purpose. He’s a God of intentionality. He’s a God of vision and he wants to be involved in every area of your life especially relationships because relationships will make you or break … Continue reading
I got sooo ticked off last night. I had been working with a color consultant at Valspar to pick a color for my vanity. We emailed Wednesday and I knew she would be sending me the name of the color we discussed last night. While in Lowes my phone died making me unable to check my email, but wait … I … Continue reading
I have been out thrifting, and collecting materials for my projects as normal. I am not sure for how many days in a row but it has been a lot. I must say, the thrift store fairy has been very kind to me. And I am not bragging Continue reading
Happy New Years everyone!! I have been home for the last couple of weeks so I been catching up on my blogging and blog reading. I had the nasty mean flu which turned into a nasty mean pneumonia. I was “treated” by my local VA hospital quacks and I swear you put your life on the … Continue reading
Every time I go on a highway trip I see a car flipped over. Every time. What does that mean to me? People are texting and driving. Please don’t do this people!! Nothing is that important that it can’t wait….and no I did not take this photo while driving….my grandson took the photo… Continue reading
Okay so where do I start? The chickens or the snake? Okay in the case the chicken came first. For a couple of months every time I go out to the chicken coop to collect eggs…nothing….In my mind somewhere in the recesses I knew it was a snake but I kept looking at the security … Continue reading
So amidst all the other things going wrong I get a letter in the mail from my step brother. It’s my step dads obituary with a hand written note from his wife saying “thank you for everything, we appreciate you!” My step dad passed away in May and here it is August but better late than … Continue reading
Yeah so what? I haven’t even finished with the inside of the house yet and here I am thinking about painting the outside of the house. WELLLLLLL It is getting warm and now is the time before it gets sweltering hot!! When I painted the house a few years ago I waited until full Spring … Continue reading
Why oh why did I switch to Sprint? My bestie and I was on Sprint for over 12 years but when I moved to NC I could not get good service here so I switched to ATT, I got in a dispute with them because when my Mom died my bill went over minutes and … Continue reading
I am almost done with classes for the semester and if I can have a sane minded evening I will work on my school projects and then when I am finished I will get busy on my house projects before classes start again. I have a week window and the following projects to finish in … Continue reading
I ordered my furniture a few weeks ago and yesterday was the delivery day for the living room set. I was so excited BUT in actuality my house was not ready. I stayed up all night long the previous night putting things away and moving things around. TOOLS EVERYWHERE! JUNK EVERYWHERE, no rhyme nor reason. … Continue reading
Too often we complain about what we do NOT have. That is the glass half empty syndrome, the pessimist’s theme song. Everything around us supports pessimism and is focused more on the negative than the positive. We thrive on that for some reason. A daily example of that is instead of reporting the weather as a … Continue reading
When I was living in Florida I had a huge frog sitting at my door waiting for me to get home every day. This went on for at least a year and those who knew about him used to tease me and tell me to kiss it because maybe it was my prince. One day … Continue reading
I always find it interesting to see how people got to my site. There is a stats tool that comes with wordpress.com and on .org you have to down load a plugin called Jetpack to get it. I see the traffic with all spiders traffic blocked from my stats. I think I get a healthy … Continue reading
I see the direction this table is going already… a place to throw all my crap soon as I walk in the door. LOL I have to do something to deter myself from doing that!! It looks so messy after a while!! Ohhhh but I am loving the idea of having this table in here!! … Continue reading
Well I sat in this house all weekend long with no electricity except in the kitchen and one outlet in the living room. That was no fun. I had to sleep on the floor which killed my back…also no fun. I have stomach pains and dizzy spells, no doubt from all the stress. I almost … Continue reading
Did you ever have a situation going on and you just don’t know how to feel about it so you dread the worst? That is how I am feeling. I had Santos doing some work for me. He priced the job, brought two workers and left them. They finished the job in 3 or 4 days, I … Continue reading
I keep getting messages from people about signing up to follow my blog but not getting the notifications. When you sign up to follow me it is a two-step process. The second step is to confirm this is your wish by clicking the link in the email. If you do not confirm you want to follow my blog you will not get any updates. This process goes for updates to comments as well. Continue reading
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