He has this habit of screeching for no apparent reason and he did that a LOT today. Normally it’s only when he’s tired that he screeches. I think we all need a dose or two of Tylenol now.. lol.

Right now his daddy is giving him a nice bath and Andi is cleaning up the kitchen. We usually switch off duties like that. If Andi cooks then I clean up afterward and if I cook then Andi will clean up.

It looks like an early bedtime for Benton which is good and bad at the same time. Early bedtime means he’ll be up really early in the morning… something which no one looks forward to.

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I picked up a couple things at Shoprite then went to CVS and struck out (I was looking for Tea Tree Oil and couldn’t find any there). Next stop was Ace Hardware where I picked up a couple cans of “canned air” to blow the dust out my electronics. Then I went to WaWa to get my breakfast sandwich and a couple other things.

After all that I came home and blew the dust out of my computer tower and our two space heaters. Then I had to clean up the dust from that stuff so I dragged out the vacuum and the disinfectant cleaner and washed the floor. I put the laundry away and took a well deserved break.

Today I cleaned the windows. I usually don’t do windows often but living in this camper they get dirty quick. I have to clean them about every 2 weeks.

With all the snow still on the ground and what isn’t snow covered is muddy a lot of crap gets dragged in here on our shoes so I have to shake out the throw rugs and sweep the floor just about every day. That’s the next thing on my agenda for today after I get off this computer.

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I think the colors are calming and soothing. I just have to fix a couple things but I think I’m quite happy with this one.

On to other things… We are still looking for a place to live. We went to see one today that they want $925 a month for but…. It was the tiniest house I’ve ever seen. I don’t think my stuff would fit in that place. It’s just a little crackerbox house and they’re nuts if they think they’re going to get that much a month for it. It comes with a washer and dryer but no refrigerator and there is another small house, on the same lot, that is less than 5 feet away. Scratch that one off the list.

I’ve been doing a lot of packing and cleaning so as soon as we find a place we can just move on out.

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I’ve been busy today getting the spare room cleaned up again. I stripped the bed and washed the sheets and comforter. I sprayed fabric freshener on the mattress and pillows. I dusted the furniture. Now all I have to do is make the bed and vacuum.

I haven’t seen her since January when we took the boys down to her. She was barely pregnant then and now she says she’s big and fat. As if she’d ever get big and fat… she’s a skinny thing.

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Here is the before picture:

After less than 10 minutes it looked like this:

Now I even have room for another appliance or two. I didn’t just shift the stuff on the shelves to someplace else. I actually went through everything and either found a home for the stuff or tossed it out.

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I also stopped at WaWa and got some smokes and my hazlenut/mocha steamer (16 oz). I think the coffees at WaWa are so much better than coffee you get at coffee franchises and they’re much cheaper too.

Now I’m doing laundry, emptying the dishwasher, cleaning bathrooms, etc.. such a fun day.. don’t you think? *NOT*

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I was so tired by the time I got done. Then I got up this morning and started on my bedroom. I’m doing laundry, putting clothes away and clearing junk off the tops of the dressers too. I have to do the same with the living room. I have stuff on the coffee table and end tables that need to find a home. I also need to empty out my “to file” basket and file all that stuff.. it’s overflowing!

I’ll save the second bathroom for another time since it rarely gets used and doesn’t need a whole lot of cleaning done to it.

Time to get back to work… I just sat down to rest for a bit and did this post while resting. Now I have to get finished! Have a great Sunday everyone!

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This place needs a top to bottom cleaning and I’m gearing myself up to do just that. Part of it will be to get ready either to babysit JoJo or get a kitty of my own. One way or another I’ll have a kitty in this place. I’ll probably wear myself out and be asleep early.

I’ll even be pulling the furniture away from the walls to vacuum behind and under it. This place won’t know what hit it. The shame of it is that the floors, counters and other things are so old that even heavy cleaning won’t help how they look. I wish my landlord would do some remodeling here. He owns other places in this building that are empty right now and he is having them remodeled. This place was built about 1984 or 1985 and everything is original and not in the best shape. Oh well.. I’m just happy to have a roof over my head at this point.

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I was going through a box that has moved with me from place to place for a number of years and I found and old book that was titled “how to lose weight“. I think it was from the 1970′s. I also found some old, yellowed papers with notes scribbled on them. I only found a couple things worth keeping and tossed the rest.

I’m slowly going through things and clearing out the clutter. I know I’ll never be “clutter free” but I’ll, at least, get it cut down a bit.

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Yesterday I cleaned the bedroom and stripped the bed. I sprayed the mattress with Febreeze to get some residual cigarette smoke smell out of it. I looked at the mattress and wished it was a memory foam mattress instead of the nasty looking thing that it is. I hauled the sheets into the laundry room and gave them a good washing.

After I climbed into bed last night I buried my nose into those nice clean sheets and drifted off to sleep to the smell of fresh, clean sheets instead of ones with cigarette smoke infused in them and dreamed of having a brand new, cloud soft mattress.

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