Month: September 2018

Meet My Friend Chad.

A little while back, I was surfing through Facebook and I noticed that a friend had just published his first book.  Being one of my goals, I was excited instantly and I had to find out more.

I sent him a message to ask about it, and wouldn’t you know it, it sounded almost identical to the reason I started this blog.  I was on Amazon within minutes and I’m pretty sure I was the first one EVER to buy his book.  I’m going to say I am, cause you can’t prove that I’m not. 

A few days later, “Notes to My Son: Parts 1-10” by Chad Carlson was in my hands.  I couldn’t wait to read it.  I love the lessons that he so thoughtfully captured.  Lessons that will help guide his son (and all who read it) through the journey of this life. 

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Changing a Tire on your Vehicle

Check out the newest video a little further down…..

I’m going to start this by saying that despite my overwhelming lack of knowledge in other areas, I do know how to change a tire on a vehicle.  And I’ve even done it.  No, I’m not talking about the time that I blew a tire on my minivan by hitting the sharp edge of a curb as I was turning onto a street.  It was a different time.  A time that wasn’t my fault.  Our neighborhood was still being built and a stray nail found its way into my tire.

Moving along; the first step once you realize that your tire is flat, is to curse a little bit.  No, don’t do that.  Check to see that it doesn’t just need air.  Maybe you got lucky and can just put air in it.  You should have a tire air pressure gauge.  If you don’t, go get one.  Then you can test the air in the tire.  To do this, on your tire, remove the little plastic cover from the knob where air goes in.  Push the gauge onto the knob and it’ll tell you how much air there is.  If you’re not sure what it’s supposed to be, look in your handy manual.  Usually though, it should be between 30 and 35 PSI (pounds per square inch).  And trust me on this, more is not better.  Kaboom!

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Cleaning out My Closet- The Final Chapter

For the love of Pete, this better be the last post about my closet.  If that wasn’t where I hung my clothes, I would never go back in there.
I’m not going to lie, this one kicked my butt.  I spent several sleepless nights trying to figure out how to finish this stupid closet.  It looked a whole lot better than when I started, but I just couldn’t get it to be magazine cover worthy.  And then it hit me, screw your magazine cover!  I’m not trying to be perfect.  Which is a good thing, because I would fail miserably.  I just want to be comfortable.  I just wanted to be able to “walk in” to my closet without breaking my neck.  Done and done!
I got rid of the clothes that I didn’t wear anymore.  I gave away the purses that I would never use again.  There are no more banana clips or spare fridge parts.  I have the clothes that I still wear, some shoes and that’s still where I keep the medicine.
Yes, I still have many bins of memories, but they bring me joy.  Any time I want, I can go into my closet, open up a bin and go back in time.  I can relive the fun parts of my youth.  The ones that without pictures I wouldn’t know existed.  I can laugh at the pictures of me and my glorious 80’s hair.  I can remember how I felt when I first met The Man.  When I was pregnant with each kid.  When we moved countries and states all those times.
I am going to call this one a win.
Join me in my walk down memory lane….

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Cleaning out My Closet- Part Two

Here is Part One of our story, in case you missed it.

First I’d like to apologize if The Man contacted you to ask you to harass me about finishing up the closet.  I’m sure he hunted down a few of you.

Here’s what I did this week:  The way that I do a lot of unwanted chores is by having other, even less appealing chores to do, and in order to postpone those, I do the first unwanted chore.  Take for example today, I really should be cleaning a bathroom or two, but that’s way lower on the scale than cleaning the closet, so I’ll work on the closet instead.

I’m starting to see some progress.  And the floor.

I have collected all of the unused and expired medicine that I found.  After a little research, I discovered this from the FDA and that from the DEA to help you decide what to do with them.

You may have already seen that I happened upon 18 Oregon Ducks t-shirts and 8 sweaters.  I also came across a pair of Oregon Ducks shorts and a sports bra.  For any of you that don’t know me yet, NO! I did not give any of them away.  I have a plan to make a T-shirt quilt out of them.  Stay tuned for that.  Some day.

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