Gee, I've missed a ton of fun stuff lately!! I'm a little jealous I missed out on all the shenanigans!!
While you guys were all oggling Tricia's hubby,
I spent seven hours today helping my parents get their second house ready to sell. They rented this place to one of my sisters and she moved out on the 30th of July and left it TRASHED!!
I felt so bad for my parents, Randy and I made arrangements to lend a hand today and we drove an hour to Chatham to pitch in. He was putting up drywall in the basement all day with my brothers-in-law and I tried to get the kitchen back into some semblance of order.
She (meaning my sister Jenn) left garbage ALL OVER THE HOUSE! And most of the drawers and cupboards in the kitchen had all of her crap still in them. Don't get me started on the state of the fridge and one look at the oven made me want to run away screaming!!
I spent the first hour cleaning everything in the kitchen out and getting rid of the junk. I went through 2 garbage bags, several boxes of recycling and a ton went in a pile for Good Will. Then I had to wash out the cupboards,
fridge
and clean the stove top.
We let the oven cleaner sit overnight INSIDE the oven...my mom's going to finish it tomorrow.
Yeah, it was THAT gross. I did manage to get the door clean though.
Then we broke for lunch. I ran my mom up to McDonald's so she could buy lunch for everyone and we ate sitting on the carpet whereupon we discovered the ant problem.
No one wanted to linger so it was back to work and the kids helped me clean up all the crab apple that littered the front lawn. This was my idea. Randy told me he nearly broke his neck a few times when he helped move Jenn and family out of that house a couple of weeks ago. The lawn looks really good now...or it will after a quick haircut!!
After that, the cupboard door knobs, light/outlet plates and vent covers were removed in preparation for painting. And since the men were still finishing the drywall (the did nearly the entire basement...at the last they ran out of drywall but they only need to put up about three pieces more tomorrow) my mom, sister (no, not the one responsible for the disgusting pigsty of a mess left behind, but the WW one, Cheryl) and I stripped the wallpaper in one of the upstairs bedrooms.
Meanwhile, my dad switched out several light fixtures and then took up the upstairs carpeting and the tile in the downstairs bathroom. My parents were staggered at the amount of work accomplished today with a relatively small work force. They still have a lot to do but are psyched that so much on the TO DO LIST has been crossed off.
I am going to be sore tomorrow.
The backs of my thighs are already sore but hopefully it won't be much more than that. I earned myself 20 exercise points though, so it was totally worth it!!
We went for a dip in my parents pool and then had dinner there (they made us steak, yum) and left pretty much as soon as the dishes were done.
Randy went up to bed at 9:45 pm
. He runs early in the morning and it really was a full day today, so my joke on the ride home about him falling asleep in front of the tv at nine thirty wasn't too far off the mark.
Will get some pics of myself modelling my new purchases and then post them as soon as I can.
Oh!! Saw the eye dr. yesterday and he gave me new contacts to try as well as new lubricating drops for my dry eyes. Maybe I'll be able to ditch the glasses more frequently. Cross your fingers they actually work!!
My name is Bree and I've been a total slacker loser not keeping up with posting on this thread for weeks and weeks now.
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me today!!! Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It's off to school they go!!!! (Can you tell I'm gonna miss them??)
