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Time to relax

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I’m trying to relax this weekend. This past week was fairly busy. I’ve been working to get my house in order – cleaning and sorting things out, getting taxes done and on top of that I’ve also been busy trying to get my old job back. I had appointments with my family doctor and the Occupational health doctor at my workplace this past week and it looks like in a couple of weeks I may very well be working in the Emergency Ward again. Yeah!

I also saw an old friend for a little while this week too. Man his place was a mess! I guess he’s become a bit of weight lifter or something in his spare time. There was exercise equipment in one corner, magazines and xenadrine ripped reviews. He looked good though so I guess it’s working for him. He has the absolute cutest little dog. I have to get my dog and his dog to meet. I’m sure they’ll get along famously!

Ok … as I said … time to relax, that’s what the weekend is for after all isn’t it? And if I’m going to be going back to work again sometime soon I’m not going to have that many weekends left anymore because I’ll be working at least every second weekend.

Back to the old grind

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Another weekend, another day cleaning up the basement. Sigh … I guess I can’t complain, I’ve escaped cleaning and sorting out the mess in the basement all week and even last weekend. I know I should be working on it a little bit each day, but my husband made a good portion of the mess down there and he hasn’t been around to help so I don’t feel like I should have to do all the work on my own. However, if it’s ever going to get done I think I’m going to have to do most of it.

We were supposed to work on the basement together today and as I just explained in my last post my husband made a mistake with his work schedule and he ended up getting called in to work since he really was supposed to be working this evening. So … I went downstairs to do a bit of work on my own.

I’m just sorting through small stuff and deciding what to keep or throw out. I’m finding all kinds of things down there – birthday cards that we bought as extras and didn’t use, little collector toys from restaurants like McDonalds, even some testors paint from a model project Chris did with his nephew a few years ago. There’s so much to sort through! I think I’m going to have a headache soon! LOL

Ok back to work.

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

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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.

Keeping a leather couch clean

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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?

Me and my growling dog

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I’m all alone at home this weekend. Well, not totally alone, my Labrador Retriever is here with me to keep me company so I guess that’s a good thing.

My husband went to his parents house in Brantford on Friday to help his dad get a few things done around the house. They were supposed to get the eaves troughs cleaned out and re-parge an area of the foundation that was cracked but it’s been raining a little bit here and there so I don’t think they got a lot of outdoor work done. I could be wrong though.

My husband’s been pretty good about checking in while he’s been away from home. He’s been calling and filling me in on a little bit of what he’s been doing. I guess his sister showed up at his parents house today and was helping his mom vacuum and somehow between his mom and his sister they managed to suck a sock up into the vacuum tube or something so my husband spent about two hours trying to unblock the tube to no avail.

I guess while he was trying to work on the vacuum he and his sister were talking. His sister and her husband have two RV trailers up North on a property but they want to get another one so more family members can go up for visits so now they’re applying for rv loans so that they can make it happen. Personally I think two RVs are enough.

Hopefully Midnight, my dog, and I get through tonight ok. Something is setting her off. She’s lying on the couch with me, but she’s growling every two or three minutes. That’s really not like her, but she’s been doing that for the last hour or so, so she must be smelling something outside or maybe since my husband isn’t her maybe she’s feeling more protective. I don’t know, but the growling is setting me on edge.

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