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A womans work is never done – more cleaning in the basement for me!

by The Diva

It looks like I’m going to be spending yet another weekend cleaning up and organizing the house. Oh and when I say house I mainly mean basement because that is where the MESS is.

Honestly … I don’t know how or why the basement became the mess that it is, but it needs major work. I know when we first moved into the house 10.5 years ago we stored several boxes downstairs – boxes that contained items that we meant to pull out once all of the renovations were finished. Trouble is, those renovations were never completely finished and those boxes are still down there along with multiple other things. It also doesn’t help that this is an old 1927 house with only four small closets – all on the uppermost floor. Storage space is at a premium.

On top of all this … my soon to be ex – oh yes, I said that – ex – is going away this weekend and he won’t be helping me clean up the basement. He hasn’t really done much in the way of cleaning or sorting out stuff down there anyway so far so I guess I didn’t expect much help, but there’s a lot of heavy stuff to lift so I guess if you guys don’t hear from me call for a search party because I might be buried under a mountain of stuff in the basement. Yes it’s that bad down there. Semi hoarders delight.

There’s even a half decent sectional couch with a pull out bed buried under all those boxes, coats, Christmas decorations and renovation supplies. I hope that by the end of the weekend I might be able to see it!

Speaking of sectionals … I might be moving in a few months because of the situation I alluded to above – although I really don’t want to move. This is MY house. If I do have to move that old sectional is staying in the basement and it can be the new owners problem because it’s huge. However, I’ve been looking at this site – sectional sofa los angeles and they have a nice selection. Perhaps if I do end up in an apartment or condo I’ll get a small sectional – with a pull out bed if possible, as those are always handy for guests!

Ok .. I’m going to relax because tomorrow I have a lot of work to do. If anyone wants to come and lend me a hand you are more than welcome. I could use the help and the company.

Filed Under: A clean home, Home and family, Home Improvement, House and Home, Items to Try, Womens World Tagged With: apartment, basement, boxes, cleaning, coats, condo, ex, hoarding, house, husband, moving, my house, relax, reno, renovation, sectional couch, situatiion, sorting, stuff, tired, work

Keeping a leather couch clean

by The Diva

I’m trying to figure out how to clean my leather couches. I’ve had them for about six years – maybe longer and well .. when we first got them I used to clean them regularly with the cleaning fluid that came with them, but of course I ran out of that stuff and never replaced it and slowly slacked off in my cleaning of the leather surfaces.

I think that was a big mistake. Not only does that couch look kind of beat up and aged (to some degree) but I think there’s a stain in one area so now I need to try to remove a leather stain. That’s what I get for slacking off! If I get the couch clean and looking good again I’m going to clean it regularly again so that it never looks like this again.

Do you have a leather couch? Do you try to clean it regularly too?

Filed Under: A clean home, Furniture, Home and family, Home Improvement, Items to Try Tagged With: clean, cleaning, cleaning fluid, couch cleaner, leather couch, leather stain, regular cleaning, stain, stain remover

Trying to fix a digital camera

by The Diva

I have three digital cameras. I really only use one of them as the other two are older models. Actually, now that I think of it I suppose I can say that I have four digital cameras if you count my mobile phone as it has a camera on it that’s 8 megapixels and it really does take quite decent pictures.

Anyway … the other day I was speaking with my sister and we talked about going out one weekend to take photographs around the city. My sister used to be an artist but because of recent health problems she really hasn’t been sketching or painting so I suggested that she might be able to express herself through photograph and she seemed to like that idea.

This past weekend I pulled out one of my older digital cameras – a Sony Cybershot DSC-H5 and I discovered that it had a problem. At first, once I’d put in new batteries, the LED screen would flash on for a moment with the message – “Lens cap still on” – and I’d remove the lens cap and the power would go off on the camera. The lens wouldn’t extend out or move in anyway and the LED screen wouldn’t come on with the lens cap off and it wouldn’t do much with the lens cap on either.

After a lot of research on the internet I finally discovered a a page that suggested that I plug in the cameras AV connection so that the LED screen wouldn’t turn on when I pressed the power button and that that would give more power to the lens motor. I tried it and the lens extended but then the power shut off again and I couldn’t get it to retract! I’d read on several pages to try tapping the lens or gently twisting it to the right to get it retract so I tried that many times and after two days of trying the lens went back in .. but still, the led screen won’t work. Now I’m thinking that it might be one of the retaining rings or the internal battery in the camera.

OR … I just don’t know … maybe I won’t get this camera working again. I’d like to. It took great pictures and it was an expensive camera back when I originally bought it. It would be nice to get some more use out of it or at least to see if my sister might enjoy photography as much as I do.

If anyone has any ideas as to how to fix this cameras lens and led screen problem I’d love to hear your suggestions. I really don’t want to take it to a camera store or back to Sony as that would probably be very expensive.

Filed Under: Electronics, Home and family, Items to Try, Recreation Tagged With: artist, battery, cybershot, digital camera, DSC-H5, express, fix, help, led screen, lens, mobile phone, older models, painting, photography, retract lens, sister, sketch, sony camera, suggest, suggestion

People do strange things to themselves

by The Diva



I’ve been watching the news and shows like Intervention on TLC and I can’t believe some of the things people do to themselves. I mean either to punish themselves or just to get high.


One of the shows that I’m talking about is that one on TLC that shows people addicted to eating weird things like couch stuffing or hair. How can people possibly eat that kind of stuff and live? Really!

Then there are people that get high on bath salts. First .. I want to know how someone figured out that you could get high on bath salts? It had to be someone with a weird eating fetish that discovered this side effect, right? LOL .. well now these people can get bath salt abuse addiction rehab treatment if they really want it. I have no idea how you’d go about treating this kind of addiction, but I guess someone has figured it out.

I wonder what the next strange addiction or fad is going to be? So … have you watched any of these strange TLC shows? Where do they find these people?

Filed Under: Entertainment, Health and Fitness, Television Tagged With: addiction, bath salts, couch stuffing, eating weird stuff, fad, fetish, fetishes, hair, high, intervention, news, odd, people, punish, strange addictions, strange people, TLC, treat, treatment

I’m freezing!

by The Diva

Brrr It’s getting cold! I’m absolutely freezing right now!

Actually I don’t think I can really complain as we’re having a much warmer than normal winter here in Toronto than normal. They were actually saying on the news today that we might break a record for warmest January since the 1930’s or 1940’s!

I can’t complain about snow either. I think it’s only snowed three or four times – snow that stayed on the ground for a few hours or a day or more I mean – or that had to be shoveled.

Still … right now .. I’m freezing … I’m eying some american eagle flannel shirts and seriously considering buying them and having them shipped next day. LOL Of course I could also just wrap myself up in my snuggie and see if I warm up that way too. Yeah .. that might work.

So what kind of winter are you having? Is it warmer than normal in your area too or is it cold and snowy?

Filed Under: Home and family Tagged With: cold, complain, flannel, freezing, no snow, record, shirt, snuggie, Toronto, warmer, winter

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