this is an altered box from christmas - it once contained some yummy chocolate, and was adorned in happy little snowflakes and snowmen. i painted over it, added black paper polka dots (attached using varathane water based varnish) grosgrain ribbon and a melissa frances antique keyhole embellishment.
today I inadvertantly poured my detergent into the fabric softener well. its the kind that sits on top of the agitator. i think about doing that every dang time i go to put detergent in and hope that I dont do it. I was even thinking to myself - {dont put the detergent in the softerner well} as I poured it in.
so cursing myself, i unscrewed the top and went to pour the detergent out into the basin and decided to look down the hole of the agitator to see how it dispensed the softener.
omg. i will spare the details, but let me just say this. if you have a washer like this. dont look down the hole.
you will never want to wash your clothes in there again.
so i am off with rubber gloves and a gallon of bleach (which will kill my septic system) to scrub the hole.
i just have to figure out which kitchen utensil will fit appropriately.
oh and PS - the picture above of the DEAD palmetto-roach was taken just a few short months ago in my backroom. this one, had apparently crawled up into my memoir basket (while in florida obviously) and musta forgot it was hiding. i had brought my basket in to sort thru old photos, and he fell out. gross. pss - they think if they hide, you cant see them. theyre so stupid. one time one was running across the wall and decided it was going to run and hide behind a glass plate i had hung up on the wall. my red glass plate. my CLEAR red glass plate. can i just say how weird looking this roach was trying to hide under a red clear glass plate? psss - did you know palmetto bug scat is as big as mouse scat? yes - it looks nearly identical too.
so, roxann inspired me to blog about my hatred of....palmettos bugs.... 3 years ago, we moved to ohio. we left sunny south florida with it's swaying palm trees, humidity, sticky boiling hot cars, sun faded furniture (for idiots like me who place it in front of windows), crystal blue swimming pools which we never went in because it was too dang hot to leave the comforts of the AC, my favorite critters: sun bathing lizards; and my most hated enemy-the palmetto bug. they lived everywhere. two things you could always count on creeping around your house. lizards who got startled and ran the wrong way while you were entering the house and palmetto bugs, which likely entered their posh hotel riding on the coat-tails of concrete block cave dwellers.
on one of the moving trips my husband made up here in the middle of a snowstorm in early 2005, my step brother, who is an orkin man, thankfully stepped up to help joe unload. during the unload, which was mostly stuff that came from our storage unit and had been in there for several years at this point, they all noticed these dead palmetto bugs (for those who dont really know the term, think of a big fat 2" COCKROACH cuz thats all it is) lying on the floor of the truck. step-bro, in his infinite orkin wisdom, thought this was the motherlode! he was excited! he started picking them up and putting them in a ziplock baggie and had planned on taking them to the shop for all the orkinites to poke and prod.
later, in warm depths of my mom's house, everyone was sitting around chewing the phat around a hot roaring fire. step-bro decides to reach in his pocket and check on his prize when he starts feeling a curious wiggling sensation - he pulls the baggie out of his PANTS POCKET and
as mentioned to roxann, i gave these up, for field mice who on occasion decide my house is a pretty cool place to be...which leads me to tomorrows post. my dog.
i went on a cleaning rampage today and i'm still not finished. i cant believe how much dust this old house creates. or is it us? idk, but I started at one end of the and worked my way thru, like any good housewife would - ok so i'm not a housewife - but i play one on tv.
i'm working on my old office and moving things around, noticing that my furniture is coming out nice & shiney and smelling all orangy and stuff. i move on to the family room and do the same and catch a little overspray in my eyes as I spray the wall shelves and my faux japanese maple tree, that everyone thinks is "something else"...ok that burns. no biggie...i'm feeling the clean...living room...looking all lovely and shiney, weird that the poofy white glob of furniture polish isnt coming out like usual - but whatev...dining room...starting from the top of course, i dust and wash and get halfway across the monster dining room table . i grab the can to spray another section and my eye catches the word "active" on the can. feeling perplexed, i wonder why my furniture polish is active. my eyes wash over the rest of the orange can now and i am crapping myself as i realize that not only is my house now sweatproof, but it is also saved from the ravish of mosquitoes that carry the west nile virus.
the real debacle is trying to decide whether or not i shoudl finish the table using the bug repellent or use my real furniture polish, in its orange can, still under my kitchen sink.
i reason that the outcome of using two different products would yield an unsavory finish on my black french oak table and continue spraying my active sweatproof OFF...
it sure is shiney.
just a small project i did a couple months ago - i love how it turned out, but you cant help but think i was in some kind of altered state...
i just made that up. it is a word to commemorate that matt has graduated to toofdom. the discovery was made this week (actually last friday)
it explains his incessant need to chew on anything that comes within reach of his face. (enter the picture below of him trying to chew the kitchen counter)
in celebration, i ordered (finally) the smartmom teething jewelry --- i should be getting my package any day now and i am excited on matts behalf!
you know who you are...consider yourself warned! no bookie wookie = dead canoli in your bed
yes, indeed i have...and it began last year, when some company called me stating that they were renewing magazine subscriptions - - i was led to believe they were renewing it on behalf of the magazine...but i just came to the realization that I'VE BEEN SCHNOOKERED
because they called me again the other day, telling me thank you for doing business with us last year yada yada yada...this time they wanted to sell me a subscription that would benefit special olympics of Ohio...and the last words out of their mouth was that I would get an invoice in the mail and a special letter from the whoever at special olympics. ok - i am not doubting that they are donating on my behalf to special olympics, however...when they mentioned my payment would be 5 installments of 9.99 for 15 issues - it didnt register in my head until after i hung up the phone.
i've been had. not once, but twice. 50.00 dollars for a 15 issue subscription!!! not this time buddy! i hopped on MM website because i KNEW it didnt cost that much for me in the past! in fact 19.99 for 18 issues ...
they charged me over 30.00 more for the subscription and special olympics gets only 12.5%!! that comes to a grand total of $6.24
riiiiiight - eat me DIAL-AMERICA. the only trouble I am having right now is whether i should send your bill back with a nasty note or just call you up and tell you what i think.
why is it i can go for weeks without talking to myself and then in one day i have all this stuff to post.
1. Name 1 thing you do everyday:
make coffee, drink coffee. make more coffee
2. Name 2 things you wish you could learn:
to play the guitar.
to relax.
3. Name 3 things that remind you of your childhood:
the smell of fair fries & malt vinegar.
orange yellow & green stripes (the pattern of my wallpaper in my room)
halloween
4. Name 4 things you love to eat, but rarely do:
blue cheese stuffed green olive (absolutely no nutritional value whatsoever)
hot melty brie & apples (ahhhhhhh)
fondue anything
5. Name 5 people/things that make you feel good:
my boys
the first cup from a pot of perfectly brewed coffee - (doesnt happen everyday - somehow a measurement is always askew)
completing a project
a day with no little to no email
taking a hot shower, getting dressed and doing my hair with absolutely no place to go.
i tag Yvonne & CurlyGirl and perhaps a few others ;-)
wow. who knew. i found a babysitter - two in one actually - sisters. i'm so excited. i've never had babysitters before.
