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Our messy basement

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We haven’t set an exact date yet, but sometime in April we’re going to have our oil tank replaced. Prior to that we have to clean out our basement so that the work can be done.

I’m not looking forward to the clean up!

We’ve lived in our house since 2001 but because we started doing renovations from the first day we owned the house we still have a lot of stuff stored in the basement that hasn’t even been unpacked from our move! Plus there’s tons of renovation materials – extra wood, paints, sanding stuff – way more than a normal household would need, but enough for one that’s undergoing renovations.

When my Mom died in 2004 we divided up furniture and other things from my parents house between my three brothers, my sister and I. Since I’m the youngest and being a fairly new home owner I got more furniture than my siblings. Of course, as I said above, we’re still trying to renovate our house, so most of the items I got from my parents house are stored in the basement as well.

All of this has resulted in a very jam packed basement! I really should take some pictures just to show you the furniture and boxes piled up on top of one another. It’s so bad I really hate going into the basement to do laundry, get food from the freezer or use the washroom down there.

We have a lot of cleaning to do over the next month! I think that once we start going through all the stuff down there we’ll end up throwing out or giving away at least half of it. Hmmm … if the weather stays nice maybe we could have a yard sale.

What I’d like, once the basement is cleaned out and hopefully half the stuff has been disposed of, and once the new oil tank is in, is to have a useable area in the basement. We don’t have money to renovate it just yet, but eventually I’d like to set it up like a den with nice home theater furniture and home theater system down there. Now that would be nice.

It’s a shame … our house is fairly small, and we have all this space in the basement but we can’t really use it for anything because we’ve been using it as a storage area for things that we’ll probably never use.

Do you have a place in your home that’s like that too .. maybe the garage, the basement or a specific room? Or maybe it’s your attic that’s jam packed with things that you put away years ago thinking you’d use them again sometime in the future?





It’s snowing …. Again!

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Well, I guess I can’t complain all that much that it’s snowing yet again. We’ve had a fairly nice week with temperatures either well above freezing or only just a little below freezing. All the snow that we had melted away. Nice for February … but the nice weather is over for a while.

Chris and I were trying to beat the storm this afternoon. We figured tomorrow would pretty much be a right off for going out and getting the groceries and other shopping done due to the storm, so we headed out late this afternoon before the snow started.

We had planned to go to Andy’s meat terminal off of Warden avenue to get two bags of boneless skinless chicken breasts. Man it’s a deal – 12 to 14 huge chicken breasts for about $35 bucks! The breasts are so big that we only eat one between us so each bag is 12 to 14 meals. Since we’ve been eating so much chicken lately we thought we’d get two bags. That’s a lot of chicken!

Well after we left the meat place we saw a Sportschek store and since Chris has come home complaining of sore feet and sore knees after every work shift for oh the last two or three months we decided to stop in and see if we could find him some good running shoes – well walking shoes since that’s what he does all day. Not only did Chris get a new pair of running shoes but I did too. The ones I’ve been wearing were at least two or three years old and they make my feet sore when I wear them while walking around a lot too. So … over $200 bucks later and we were out of the store and on to Costco to fill my prescriptions and pick up a few other items we needed.

By the time we left Costco at just after 6 pm the snow was falling hard. The city snow plows and sand/salters hadn’t been on any of the major roads were driving on yet either so it was a slippery drive home. It’s times like these that I wish we were on one of those Vegas vacations so we could escape the snow. Now that would be nice.

I think sometime in the middle of next week it’s supposed to warm up again so maybe this snow dump will all melt away again.

Ah … I can’t wait for spring!

These African Violets won’t last long

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When my husband was in the hospital two weeks ago the nurses caring for him decided to get him a gift. They presented him with some lovely African Violets – in bloom. Now nurses don’t usually buy gifts for their patients, but considering that Chris works in the hospital and knows just about all the employees it was a different situation.

Here’s what the flowers look like two weeks after they were given to Chris:

African Violets

They’re quite pretty, but the flowers are starting to die down a bit now I think.

Now I can grow just about any kind of plant, but the one that I’ve had the most failures with – believe it or not – is the African Violet. Yeah … I know. They’re easy to care for, but for some reason mine always die.

I think I over care for them or over-water them. These African violets came in a container that doesn’t have a drain hole so I’m either going to replant them into a new pot or get Chris to try to poke a small hole in the bottom of the current container. I figure that they don’t have a chance without drainage … but if I can get them in the right kind of pot it might work.

Do you have any trouble growing certain kinds of plants?

NO to house guests!

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OMG … Chris’ parents are driving me nuts! Chris went back to work today for the first time since he was admitted to the hospital for his heart problems a week and a half ago.

Just like the last time he had heart problems I’ve been a little nervous about him going back to work, but he called me in the afternoon and said that he’d felt a little off when he first started, but had felt great the rest of the time.

Of course, his parents have also called several times today as well! As I said they are driving me nuts. I think they are expecting Chris to have problems and then be admitted to the hospital again … like that does anything for my worries!

Believe me, this time if anything does happen with Chris his parents can stay in one of those extended stay hotels with a kitchenette. I can’t have them invade my home again! Last Friday when Chris was admitted to the hospital they came down right away without even letting me know, so when I should have been trying to relax and get some food into me after spending hours at the hospital with Chris I was instead running around trying to clean up the house.

I get along with the in-laws ok … but they’ve done a few really bad things to Chris and I in the past so I really don’t like spending much time with them at all. I just don’t trust them.

Anyway .. I’ve got my fingers crossed that the rest of Chris’ shift went well and that he’ll be home here with me within the next half an hour. I’ve already got dinner cooking so we can eat shortly after he gets home.

How do you feel about your in-laws and no-notice extended visits? Do you get along with them well or do they drive you nuts like mine do to me?

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