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I haven't blogged in two weeks because NOTHING INTERESTING has been happening! Let's see... big accomplishments in the last 2 weeks????
Painted Hall bathroom..... blew the leaves out of the front yard..... got my SS package out in the mail..... am working on a little photo book for a friend.
Yeah, that's it..... Sorry my life is not more interesting.... LOL!
I realized today that I have been horribly neglect in keeping Taz's "diary" up to date. She has her own website on Catster
I updated her diary today and added Sandi to her family.
Other than that, my day has consisted of errands and laundry.
Another THRILLING day in paradise.......
Russ will be home in a few hours.... I'm waiting for him to call and tell me he's at the airport and his flight is on schedule. After that, I'll be off to the grocery store to get whatever he wants for dinner!
This weekend I gotta STAMP STAMP STAMP!!!! I need to get a minimum of 35 and a goal of about 60 swap cards done for Regionals. I leave on Thursday. In my defense, I am waiting for an order to arrive on Monday with some of the stuff I need, but I need to start cutting and stamping what I can this weekend or else I'm going to be in a total panic come Wednesday and Thursday! WISH ME LUCK!!!!!
The last two days we have been having the house painted (FINALLY!). Above is what it looked like when they started tarping everything. Russ wanted to do grey again. I like a nice blue-grey or a light silver grey, but the house next door is blue-grey and the one directly behind us is silver grey. Besides, of 16 houses on our court, HALF are grey! BLEH! ENOUGH!!!!! 
Here is what my front porch looks like now (they are ALMOST done):
There is one other house on the court that is a light color like this and one around the block, but at least it isn't GREY!!!! Since we will probably put the house on the market in May, I wanted something that would look neutral and clean. One of the painters said it made the house look bigger.... BONUS!
Even my gigantic peppermint-scented geranium seems happy about the whole thing. (see it growing behind the column? Yeah. A GERANIUM. This stupid plant is about 7 years old and was never bigger than a basketball until about 2 years ago when it started growing like crazy.) I was afraid we would have to chop it to move the lattice that it has taken over and grown into, but we only lost a few little branches (YAY!). It is one of two plants I'm going to be REALLY SAD to leave here when we move. The other is the big fern behind the screen door. Still trying to figure out how I can move that one.... The geranium will have cuttings started soon so at least I can take its children with me!
State law prohibits bringing in plants other than house plants in potting mix. The fern IS in potting mix, not earth soil and it TOUCHES the house, the only question is if we can PHYSICALLY move the pot.... It weighs a TON and the movers will NOT take plants of any kind, so it would have to load into one of our cars..... What FUN! It's the other plant that I have had for 5 or 6 years that never did anything, but just started growing like gangbusters the past couple years.
We hit the coast near Lincoln City, Oregon. They have a program called "Finders Keepers" where they place these GORGEOUS hand made glass floats along the shore. They started doing it to increase tourism in the off season. Here is a link. We stopped at the studio that makes the floats. For $65 you can "make your own". We watched a couple people doing theirs. Basically, you pick the colors and do the turning while the artist does the heating and the blowing, but still very cool. Unfortunately, we were on a time constraint, and you have to pick them up the next day or pay an extra fee for shipping and it was just too much. Across the street from the studio is the store where the glass artists sell their stuff.... OMG.... I coulda mortgaged the HOUSE for all the stuff I wanted!!!!! I found a float that was ALMOST exactly the colors I would have used if I had done one (I would not have used the yellow). Buying it in the shop it was $45.
Then I saw it...... My heart skipped a beat..... I had NO CLUE what I would do with it, or where I would put it, but I knew I HAD TO HAVE THIS BOWL!!!!! At the end of this post is a picture. They are both on top of my entertainment center (yes, that is dust on top of my speaker. Sue me.). The float is on a PartyLite aroma scent candle stand which is a beach theme (see the little shells?), so I thought it was PERFECT!!!! The bowl looks REALLY COOL with a little tealight candle (in a small glass cup) in it!!!!!!
I admit it. I am NOT a blog addict like SOMEONE I KNOW.....
In case you missed the e-mail, here is the link to the Oregon Photos.... password is PHOTOS (ooooo.... so original!!!!!)
I drove almost 1500 miles this weekend and was SOOOOOO tired when I got home last night! It was about 10PM. It was also garbage night, which meant scooping the litter boxes.... my FAVORITE CHORE.... So I go into the stamp room where the boxes are and the SMELL HIT ME..... The little darling peed OUTSIDE OF THE BOX. I'm hoping it was because she was mad at me for being gone. The alternative reason would be that she is starting to have kidney problems (she has Feline Diabetes) which would mean I would have to put her down as I refuse to keep her locked in the bathroom all the time and with the probability of putting the house on the market in the spring, I just can't take the chance of her peeing on the carpets. I know that sounds HORRIBLE, but the alternative is locking her in the kitchen or (more likely) the bathroom whenever I can't be watching her closely (pretty much ALL DAY, EVERY DAY) and that would make her MISERABLE and give her a really crappy quality of life and I refuse to do that to her.
So at 10:30 last night I was outside hosing off the mat I have under the litterboxes (which paid for itself last night saving my Pergo floor!). I wracked my brain for hours when I was getting the floor done in there since they (OK, probably not THEY, probably just Aspen because she had kidney problems that I didn't realize until it was too late to save her AND my living room carpet) had RUINED the carpet under the boxes, even thru the linoleum I had on plywood under them. I decided I needed something waterproof with a lip. Finally googled the right combo of words that brought up a familiar site.... Subaru.com..... I ALREADY HAD THE PERFECT MAT! It is the cargo liner for the back of my Forester!!!! I went to Subaru and got one in beige to match the floor. After this weekend, I can now honestly say it was worth every penny of that $60! 
ANYWAY.... the trip was GREAT, but the drive was TOO LONG! I am getting too old for 10 hour driving marathons! UGH! I have also decided, after this trip, that come Spring either this year or next, I will take 4 days and do (just) the coast drive again and see some of the stuff I missed or could only see at night when it was closed.
I'll save one of the trip highlights for tomorrow's blog!
