Monday, February 21, 2011

Winter's Wintry Blast!

We it looks like we got off pretty easy this time around!  Three weeks ago we were nailed with Snowacalypse which dumped (I'm not sure how many) inches of snow and the wind blew 4ft drifts in our driveway!  This made it impossible to get to work (oh dear ;-) ). 

Last night, well actually yesterday afternoon, the snow machine began cranking out the fluffy stuff again - this time to inches per hour.  I believe the final total was 7 some inches. Not too bad for a Michigan snow storm!  The potentially problematic part was snow changing over to rain and freezing everything up.  This is what we avoided! Hooray!  It was wonderful to wake up to a warm house with lights this morning!  We do have a generator, but the hubs is out plowing (for other people - not me - BOO!).  He is the only one who knows how to hook the generator up, so we would have to wait for him to get home. But!  All is good!  Praise Be!

Have a wonderful day!

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Whooo Hooo!

My taxes are done and we are getting a rather nice refund!  And no...I don't have it spent all ready.  As a matter of fact, it's going straight into savings!  THAT feels good! 

Now that that little project is finished (why am I loathe to do it every year even though we always get $$$ back?), I'm going to treat myself to some computer and tv time {love}

Theme for 2011..... SIMPLIFY!

I had the great fortune to meet a fellow artist and blogger at a fundraiser for our local Humane Society this past December (2010).  Lisa later posted on her blog about choosing a word to 'define' 2011.  After much thinking (Ow! My head hurts! ;-) ), I have decided that my theme for this year would be to Simplify!

I am on day 3 of a 3 day weekend (back to the muggle job tomorrow.... boo!).  If you were able to glance my 'to do' list for these last 3 days, you would see 'clean out the mudroom closet'.  Well, that didn't get done :-P
What did get done (and I'm not entirely certain how I got started), was that I have cleaned and sorted out nearly all of my kitchen cabinets!  I have taken quite a load to the Goodwill and I have quite a stack of 'stuff' that I want to get listed on Ebay.  In addition, my mums got inspired by watching me clean out the cupboards and grabbed a rag and some dish soap and tackled cleaning the cupboards (especially on top where all the dust and grease collects - gross! Not to mention, I allergic to dust so I cannot really help her with the cleaning *sigh*)

It's only February and we have quite a start on our spring cleaning!  And I'm feeling lighter by de-stashing my cabinets!

Have a wonderful Day!