Estate Sale

I love estate sales.....it is like a garage sale were you can go inside someones house.

I went to an estate sale today and actually it was at the home of someone I know. Nick Pisano...my old neighbor from lawndale ct. The house was 2 houses down from the house I grew up in. I got a lot of interesting treasures:

2 embroidered pillow cases
1 embroidered body pillow case
a lovely glass pitcher
2 books on cd
glass punch bowl
3 necklaces

I hope to find one again next Friday

I love to go to them...but they are kinda sad...it usually means that someone died or is moving to a retirement community.

oops I forgot

I forgot to tell you about my ob/gyn appointment. I really like my doctor! So far and I am very happy with her. I did receive one bit of bad news: she said to not try to have a baby until you are off your bc for 2 months. I was planning on trying on Sunday...now I am suppose to wait 2 months.

Daily Cleaning Routine

I am starting a cleaning routine. If I stick with it my house will always be 'company ready' (not like that really matters) but also will eliminate the need for spring cleaning (not like I have ever done that). This routine envolves 3 daily routines, a weekly schedule, and zone missions. Lets start with the daily routines:

There is a morning, afternoon, and evening routine. The following is what is currently set up and will change shortly (today was day one):

Morning-
make bed
dress
swish toliet/swipe bathroom countertops
empty dishwasher
check calendar for appointments (this will change since I do not have many appointments)
check online bank accounts

Afternoon-
get dinner started
fill sink with warm soapy water
set table
spray air freshener
light a candle

evening-
shine sink (this is the only daily challenge...I hope I can keep up with this one)
wipe kitchen counters
brush teeth
wash face

the daily routines are designed to last 10 minutes or less

Now the weekly schedule:
Monday-grocery shop
Tuesday-weekly home blessing with discuss this later
Wednesday-Free day, but with 15 min zone work
Thursday-Clean fridge/write thank you notes
Friday-Errand run (non-grocery errands)
Saturday-paperwork-menu for week, file papers, clean purse, clean car
Sunday-laundry

(Home Blessing-this is my one basic whole house cleaning day-you are suppose to toss papers, change sheets, empty all trashes, vacuum, sweep/mop kitchen and bathroom, clean mirrors, clean stove top, and dust----everything is done easily and by that I mean just vacuum center of room (( do not move furniture)) no deep done detail cleaning)

and the final thing is zone cleaning:
every week is a new zone and everyday is a chore for that zone
The zones are as follows:
Entrance, Front Porch, dining room
Kitchen
Bathroom and extra room
Master Bedroom
Living room

So for one week you only detail clean one zone and one one challenge in that zone per day...so you spend 7 days cleaning one room (you are actually suppose to only spend 15 mins per day in the zone..but I am not timing myself)

For example-this week is zone 4 the master bedroom-yesterday was dusting the ceiling and walls and today was dusting the floorboards-I will have to check the website tomorrow to find tomorrows master bedroom challenge-possible tasks might be moving furniture to vacuum or sweeping the bottom of the closets or so on and so forth.

I have a binder that should keep me organized and I check things off as I go...lets hope I stick to this.

Appointment

My first ob/gyn appointment is tomorrow...wish me luck.

Fan-tab day

I had a fan-tab-u-lous day.....Emily and I went to estate sales all morning long....then we went to Quadoba for lunch, walked on the riverfront, went to the mall, and then hung out at her house. What a fun girls day....I need more of them.....

Got a busy (not quite so fun) day planned tomorrow. I do have one fun thing planned. Wes and I are going out to dinner and then hanging out at barnes and noble. I want to find a really good pregnancy book.

Not really a whole lot going on here.

I received my Uggs yesterday in the mail. I do like them..but they are hard to get on and I am really disappointed in that. They are too expensive to struggle so much to wear. I hope they stretch a little :)

I had to take Huckleberry's rabies paper back to the vets today because they put the wrong address down. Not a big deal...but just goes to show that nothing can go easy or correctly.

I bought some NERDS from Big Lots on the way home because I have not had any in like 22 years. I am not really liking them and don't know why I liked them so much when I was a kid. Probably won't have any anymore.

Huck keeps digging in the back yard and it is reallly making me mad...I wish he would stop...he is messing up the grass.

I actually am really excited to get my first call for this year...I can't believe I am saying this....but I kinda want to go into work. I wonder when my first job will be.

I really want to have a game night this Saturday night...but it doesn't sound like anyone is interested. It is such a struggle to have friends over...no one wants to come ever. I do take the hint for a good 8-9 months and then I try asking people again....struggle ensues and then I go another 8-9 months before I try again. We have not had a single friend over in like a year or more.

I don't really have anything else to say right now. I really hope that I have a fun weekend or a productive weekend.....either way I will be happy. Talk more later.

Cook-out

Had a great day at Doug and Jamie's cook-out today! Wonderful food. To bad it rained. I saw tons of people I haven't seen in a long time!!!! I was shocked at the number of kids that were there. I think the kids out numbered the adults. It is so weird to think of all my peers having kids...some are even on their seconds. Crazy

Yesterday

Yesterday I went to Emily's and we had an awesome day. We sat and hung out at her house for awhile and talked.....then we ran some errands together and one of those was to Cliff's market. When we got back we sat on her back porch in her 'cool' chairs and played fetch with the dogs...we really did not do anything exciting, but it was still a very fun day!!!

Ladies Guild

I am thinking about joining the Ladies Guild at church...I will be the youngest one there by about 35-40 years! lol. I want to join some things that will have people my own age....but there are really not that many things available and especially none that don't cost money...I have tried a scrapbooking class one time...but that was $30 plus the cost of supplies. I want something free. The ladies guild will at least be free and do activities that I enjoy....I just wish there was somebody my age. I think I might try it and see how it goes.

Pool Time

Today I went to Galesburg to visit Heather, Ava, and Taylor. We went to the Lake Braken pool where we had a quick lunch and then went swimming! We had a blast. Here are a few pictures of us swimming.









After swimming Taylor had a Dr. appointment that I went along to to watch Ava while mommy and baby saw the dr. Ava and Taylor were so well behaved!!!! (Taylor slept the whole time)