Ask somebody to bring you some apples and oranges.
Then eat them.

I think I'm going to eat some tomato soup. :)

The only fruit we have in the house are bananas; and I hate bananas. The last time I ate a banana was when I was 14 years old. My high school health class totally ruined bananas for me. ;)

Still very cold today. A whole 12 degrees F.

Fed the cats. Gave them fresh water & filled the kibble bowls.
Swept the floors.
Tidied up the bathroom.
Still need to vacuum the carpet.

Then I will cook something. :D
Something hot and yummy. Don't know what yet but have many ideas.

Putting off relining the kitchen cupboards with fresh new paper until next week. I am still resting up from him being home ALL last month. lol

Hope everybody has a happy day! :D

MayMay,
Pickles have no vitamins and way too much salt.
Go eat some fruit! :)

OMG! I was just looking for something to eat in the fridge; and I just discovered that right before my boss, my boyfriend, and his best friend left yesterday, they taped all the jars of pickles that I have in the fridge shut; so that I can't eat them. LOL.
They don't want me to eat any pickles until my cold is totally gone.

Matt and Cory just woke me up from a deep sleep by jumping right on top of me. Lol.

Thanks Beverly. :)

Wow, another shooting. That's so sad. :(
I was really hoping that there weren't going to be any shootings this year.

I'm so sorry to hear about what happened to your bird. :(

Tillie! 40 degrees... a heat wave...hahaha It's been 29 here at night and I'm freezing. Can't imagine 4 degrees.

Maymay, I hope you fee better soon and can taste again.

We had a HS shooting this week in Taft. It's awful that shootings have become the thing to do for depressed angry young people. I guess this little town made national news.

A guy came to my house Friday with a flier about a prayer group at a park for the HS shooting and Paulie my little Jenday Conure few out to greet him. Then Squichie my little fan sitting cockatiel flew out and away. she made it through the night and answered my calls to her the next day. I found her in a tree 1 block away and waited laying down in my open trunk so she would fly down to me like she does when I'm laying on my bed. She finally flew to the trunk lid and then to the ground instead of me. I started to get up and a hawk swooped down and flew off with her screaming. I was shocked and horrified. She was so close to being home again. I had to sleep the rest of the day and finally forced myself to get up today. She was just starting to warm up to me and follow me around. Sooo sad. She's in birdie heaven now.

OMG! My bathroom looks like a rain storm just hit it. LOL. :)
Josh, Kevin, and John just finished giving Cory and Matt a bath; and now the whole bathroom is filled with water and Josh, Kevin, and John are soaking wet. I think they are even more wet than Cory and Matt are. LOL. :)
I asked them what happened and they told me that Cory and Matt kept wanting to jump out of the tub. LOL. :)

Hey Tillie,
Yeah when my boyfriend, his best friend, and my boss first arrived at my house, they told me that I'm not allowed to eat anymore pickles until I get better. Lol. :)

Right now I am being pampered by 2 paramedics and a retired firefighter. :D
My boyfriend Josh, his best friend Kevin, and my boss John just arrived at my house a few minutes ago with chicken noodle soup, some cold medicine, and a bunch of new magazines for me to read while I'm trying to get better. And right now they are making some hot coco. I had no idea that they were going to do this. They are so sweet. :)
My boyfriend Josh and his best friend Kevin are both paramedics. And my boss John is a retired firefighter who owns the bar that I work at. :)

Hello :(

Only 5 degrees F here this morning.

The weather report says that by Thursday we will get up to 40F.
I am really looking forward to that! Heat wave. lol

Went grocery shopping yesterday.
As always, I have a list and only buy what I need/want.
He bought too much for himself because he likes to buy the reduced stuff and impulse buys.
This is why I started grocery shopping only once every two weeks, to keep him out of the store. ;)

Today will be a simple stay at home day only venturing out if absolutely necessary.

Hope to see lots of people tonight in the chat group. 5pm PST

MayMay
Since you can't taste anything anyway try eating healthier stuff like oranges, oatmeal and soup.
Those things have vitamins that will help you get better sooner. :D

Wow! I have completely lost my ability to taste anything. Right now I am eating pickles with barbecue sauce and I CAN'T taste it at all. Being sick is awful. :(

Christina Aguilera has just inspired me to dye my hair again! :D
The first time I had my hair dyed, I had it dyed blue; and now the color is starting to fade away. So this time instead of dying my hair blue again, I want to dye my hair blonde, purple, and pink, like Christina Aguilera's hair. :)
The top half of my hair will be dyed blonde, the middle half of my hair will be dyed purple, and the bottom half of my hair will be dyed pink. :)
I'm definitely not going to have my hair dyed this weekend, because I'm sick. So I'll probably have it dyed either next weekend, or the weekend after that. :)

Thanks Tillie. :)

Sorry MayMay :(

Feel better soon.

Today I'm not feeling good; I have a really bad cold. So I'm probably just going to have a movie marathon today; and maybe do a little napping too. Right now I'm just laying in my bed and surfing the Internet on my iPad. And Cory and Matt are laying right next to me, all snuggled up under my new "Sons of Anarchy" blanket. :)

Cats have all been taken care of. :D

I have just been sitting here snuggling one cat and reading news online.

Nothing to do today.
New fresh layer of snow fell over night.

Going to enjoy the day! :D

Good morning :)

I have a wash load of cat blankets out on the clothes line.
The wind is blowing and that will help remove some of the fur from them.

Just the usual tidying up tasks to do today.
Swish & swipe the bathroom.
Scoop litter boxes.
Sweep the floor.
In the evening wash up dishes.

I love waking up in the morning to a kitchen with NO dirty dishes waiting for me. :D

Have a productive day! :)

Today I'm going to go to work. And then after work, my boss and I are going to go to the shooting range. It's been a while since I've been to the shooting range. :)

Good morning :)

Woke up super early this morning.
Fed the cats their breakfast of canned food.
Scooped the litter boxes.
Gave them fresh water & filled their kibble bowls.
Brushed one cat.

Swept the floor.

Now I have the rest of the day to do whatever I feel like doing. :D

Hey Tillie,
Yeah the self-defense class that I took was just for women; and I actually had a lot of fun in the class. :)

I grew up around guns.
Used to go deer hunting with my Dad & brothers every Fall.
Taking self defense is great.
They also have courses just for women to learn how to stay safe or ways to get away from dangerous situations.

Taking the basic college courses online like english & math is good because it gets them over with and out of the way. :D

Thanks Tillie. :)
Yeah, I've been thinking about taking some online college courses. I have no idea what I want to take though. I'm thinking about maybe taking an English course. :)
I try not to let what happened to me rule my life. I never got counseling for what happened to me; but I did start taking some self-defense classes about a month after the attack happened. And my boss started taking me to the shooting range after The attack; so that he could teach me how to use his guns. Actually my boss is the only person that knows that I know how to shoot a gun. No one else knows about it.

Hey MayMay

Sorry you had a bad experience. :(

Please don't allow that to keep you from your goals.
Don't wait too long before getting back to the books. Maybe sign up for an online course?
If you want, most all colleges and universities will provide you an escort out to your car, especially at night.
Don't let that episode fester. Get some counseling if you think that will help.

Sincerely, Tillie

Hey Tillie,
I actually was in college recently but then I decided to drop out and take a little break from it after something really bad happened to me while I was there.

My boyfriend just woke me up by laying my Legolas cut-out right on top of me. And now Cory and Matt are totally freaked out by it and they hiding in my boyfriend's bedroom and they won't come out.

Thank you Cory :)

Today is going to be a fun day.
Planning on a mani-pedi while watching some movies.
A good day for hot chocolate. :D

MayMay
You have way too much free time on your hands.
I suggest you start taking some college classes to fill your spare time and expand your mind. :)

Ok, so it's around 2:40am where I live. And I just put my Legolas cut-out in my boyfriend's bed. Right now Cory and Matt are asleep in their dog beds in the living room and I am going to sleep on the couch. I can't believe my plan went so well. I'm so glad it went well because I was kind of scared that I was going to accidentally wake up Cory and Matt when I went to get my Legolas cut-out from my car to set it up.

Right now I'm getting ready to go to my boyfriend's house. Cory and Matt are sitting in the back seat of my car, and my Legolas cut-out is laying folded up in the trunk. Cory and Matt have no idea that my Legolas cut-out is in the trunk. Since Cory and Matt are terrified of my Legolas cut-out, my plan for tonight is to sneak out to my car and get my Legolas cut-out once my boyfriend and Cory and Matt are asleep; and then I'm going to set my Legolas cut-out up in the living room then hide it in the bathroom. Once I've done that, then I'm going to wake up Cory and Matt and take them into the living room to sleep. Then after that I'm going to take my Legolas cut-out out of the bathroom and sneak it into my boyfriend's bedroom and lay it right next to him in his bed. Hopefully the plan will go well and I will scare the crap out of my boyfriend. I love playing pranks on people. ;)

OMG! Today while I was in my closet I found my cardboard cut-out of Legolas from "Lord of the Rings". When I found it, it totally scared the crap out of me because I forgot that I even had it. I got it when I was like 13 years old because I had a really huge crush on Orlando Bloom. After I found it in my closet, I decided to set it up in my room. That was a big mistake because it totally scared the crap out of Matt and Cory, and now they won't even enter my room. I just took it down and put it in the trunk of my car because I just got a really funny idea. Tonight I'm going to stay at my boyfriend's house and then in the middle of the night while he's asleep, I'm going to sneak out to my car and bring the cardboard cut-out inside and set it up. And then after I set it up, I'm going to lay it in my boyfriend's bed so that when he wakes up tomorrow morning he will see Legolas staring right at him. Lol. :)

Tillie,
Your energy level never ceases to amaze me! Keep up the incredible work, but don't forget to take time for yourself. Build a nice fire in the fireplace and enjoy the evening and the warmth! 10 degrees??? Yuck!

Good morning :)

9:00 am and I am going to start cleaning.

Sweep the floors first.

Then run around everywhere with the vacuum attachments vacuuming lots of things and places where dust has setteled.

Then scrub that bathroom super clean.

Fix a bucket of wash water with some pinesol and wipe off all light switches and door knobs and door jams. Then wipe all other things made of metal.

Then wash the floors.

Vacuum the carpet then dust and wash everything else in here.

When I feel brave I will sweep the porches, it is only 10 degrees F outside right now.

The house is small and clutter free so a good deep cleaning will only take me 5 hours at the most and I move slow.

It will feel GREAT to have it all back to normal.

Wishing everybody a happy & productive day! :D

Good morning :)

I slept in and am just sitting here drinking tea and surfing the web.

Nothing much to do today. :D

Tomorrow will be busy cleaning everything since he will be going back to work. Finally! :D

Going to make spaghetti today. Yum!

Hope everybody has a fun and relaxing day.

Hey Tillie,
LMAO! It's so true! :D
I also found a cardboard cut-out of my favorite character "Jax" from "Sons of Anarchy" on the Internet too. I thought about buying it also; but then I decided to wait and see if I will eventually be able to find it at the mall. Because I'm scared that if I order it from the Internet it might accidentally get damaged during the delivery process. I really really hope that the mall will eventually start to sale it because I want it really really badly. :)

Cory it has been an amazing day! :D

To celebrate I just took a long hot shower.
Such a wonderful start to the new year.

P.S. you missed deleting a post down in "Clean Up Help". ;)

See you tomorrow at 5pm PST in the online chat.

MayMay hoards sons of anarchy stuff :D

LOL

I just bought a "Sons of Anarchy" blanket that I found on the Internet. I figure since I already bought a bunch of "Sons of Anarchy" merchandise from the mall in Michigan, I'll finish off my collection by buying a "Sons of Anarchy" blanket from off the Internet. :)

Tillie,
Contrats on the new lines, flushing toilets, and the back to work hoarder! Sounds like a very AMAZING day full of progress all the way around!

And yes, MayMay, too much info.

Thank you for the heads up Tillie :) I took care of the numerous posts. This can't become a spam message board!

MayMay!

TMI TMI TMI

Honestly

OMG! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!!!
Matt just let out a very NASTY and SMELLY fart! It's sooooo GROSS!!!!! LOL. :)

Good morning :)

Wishing for another snow storm to move in.
That will make it warmer here.
The temps have been 4 to 20 degrees F for too many days now. BBBBRRRRRRR!!!


The cats and I have been watching out the windows at the men digging trenches and laying in the new leech lines. :D

They have one line already in, connected and working.

My toilet now actually flushes SWOOSH! instead of just sorta/kinda maybe flushing.

We will have 2 very long lines to handle the water when they are all finished.

The kidney stones have stopped hurting him for now.
He seems anxious to get back to decluttering.
He has filled the truck with items to donate and will be dropping those off today. :D

Hope everybody is having as great a day as I am! :D

Sorry you missed it MayMay.

YEA! WTG! Beverly! :D

Getting that fan cleaned is wonderful!
I am happy for your little bird too. :D

Yes it is sad and difficult to deal with things that hold memories.
But it is a better way to honor those memories when the things are not just buried under other things and collecting dust.

Clearing the dresser is a great accomplishment.

Good luck & best wishes :)

((((hugs)))

I am actually cleaning off my bedroom dresser. It's piled 2ft high and dusty. It's hard to see things that belonged to my two husbands especially John the first one. He never even lived in this house but his things all around... Makes me sad.

I started with cleaning the ceiling fan that my little cockatiel bird started sitting on at night. She would hide up there where it"s really warm and I finally saw her. The fan was filthy. I have never cleaned it in the 10 years I've been here and it was filthy when we moved in. We were remodeling so I didn't bother. Turns out the fan is white not beige...lol. Now her white/yellow feathers won't get dirty.

Guess I better go back to cleaning off the dresser.

OMG! I just missed "Lifetime" playing my all time favorite episode of "HOARDERS". :(

I was flipping through the guide on my television and I just found out that they are playing a "HOARDERS" marathon on "Lifetime". And I also found out that one of the episodes that they just played was my all time favorite episode; and I accidentally missed it. :(

OMG! I feel like such an idiot right now. :(
I just found out that my dad found out that Kim Kardashian is pregnant 4 days ago. I can't believe that he found out that Kim Kardashian is pregnant before I did. And I can't believe that he didn't tell me. He knows Kim Kardashian is my idol. I need to start watching "E! News" and "Showbiz Tonight" more often. :)