flooring issue resolved!

Well, with impending doom looming over us... oh I mean with a move to certain death by dehydration, er... uhmmm... okay, with a possible move to somewhere, we gotta get our butts moving on this house, and where we wanted to take the time to do it with finesse not just to get'er dun' and with very limited funds to do sooo much in soooo little time well it just gonna be not so nice:( but functional. I'm gonna have to live with that!!! This weeks adventure was how to not have to jack our front door up 1 inch, or replace it like we wanted to accommodate our new Pergo flooring... apparently a very common issue in homes in this area. So we are cheating and making a 3'x3' laminate entryway... almost like a built in floor mat. I actually think I'm going to like it better anyway, plus I can change it every so often if I feel like it since it is laminate... you know in my daydreams where this is all just one big nightmare that I wake up from and find out we don't have to move! So I've got my supplies, and tomorrow promises to be cooler... I should be able to spend at least an hour or two on it!!! Plus we got spackle and paint for the foyer... one room planned, supplies bought on the cheap, and soon to be started!!!

I thought 2010 was suppose to be better...

... not so!
I finally after 7 years of wondering what to do now that I got kids had a plan, made some goals, acted on them. The house is almost finished. And I start a business... based on plants... landscaped plants!!! Hubby is losing his job... or being relocated... to far far f$@%ing away. I married a Morris not a Murphy!!! I'm so depressed I could sleep until we have to move!

Oh and Ti failed his food challenge today... he is allergic to TREE NUTS... when in doubt just don't feed him;) We had fun at Johns Hopkins all day!!!

New Soap, for my fur-less friends

It's springtime... which means actual baths for my fur-less companions, so we all climbed into the tub the other night... okay I got in and Buddha jumped up and thought about it awhile till I pulled her in, Olivia... well I had to take her in with me! One day I need to but on my bathing suit and take pictures of this process b/c it's cute! Anywho, as I was shampooing Olivia I was thinking it would be great to have a soap specific to the sphynx breed and be able to have it in a terry cloth pouch! That was Wednesday night, now Sunday I have a recipe cooling in the fridge and a pattern awaiting the sewing machine! It would be great for newborn babies as well!!! A gentle mix of castile soap, calendula petals, lavender buds, oats, and milk... I can't wait for bath time!!!!

february may june july

yeah that's my new calendar and I'm sticking to it! So much for keeping up with my blog! I tried, I'll try again, besides nothing but illness and general crankiness to report on! My biggest new news is that we are pulling everything together to open a business mostly internet based. Hubby gets to tinker with a website so he is pleased, I get to play with crafts and plants... lots and lots of plants. 4t's Lavender Farm As of now I have close to 75 lavender plants, between 20-25 varieties. Plus we have many other good herbs to make yummy bath salts, bombs, and teas. I'm working on a holistic especially for pets, and another line in the back of my head to go to charity for ASPCA probably since they cover small pets up to horses. More later I promise... plus pics!

just cuz it's a bug doesn't mean you gotta squish it!

Apparently for folks trying to beat red lights that thought wasn't one of them. I will admit it could have been far far far worse! In some ways it was good it was snowing a bad kind of snow that I'm not fond of or I would have been farther into the intersection... I was driving like an old geezer! Of course me being the bad example 99% of the time, this was the 1% of the time I choose to wear my seat-belt and that is what has screwed up my back and kept me out of work all week, plus my eardrum that keeps oozing blood... but that doesn't hurt anymore, I just can't hear out of it... really annoying! Buggy should come home from the car hospital Tuesday or Wednesday weather permitting!

As a side note never lock the car rental keys in the rental car... they don't keep spares at the rental place, gotta triple a, it sucks all around!!!

New Years Resolutions

I stopped making resolutions long ago, the ever over achieving suck-up that I am could not handle something on a to do list with a time constraint not getting done. Well folks perhaps that was to drastic, perhaps instead of making those big resolutions like everyone else, I should stick with manageable for me resolutions... so this year that's what I'm trying. Notice I gave it 3 weeks before posting! So of course there is everyone's wishful hope that usually gets crushed by some monetary crisis... but I made a plan! I hope to be Credit Card debt free by the end of the year. We've been so behind the 8 ball for so many years, paycheck to almost paycheck... why can't the bill companies realize that if I get paid on the 31st they aren't going get that payment on the 2nd? Anyway... for at least until late spring I'll be working 3 jobs. We just paid off our 4 highest interest bills smart thinking there, and will make as large of payments each month as possible on the next highest interest bill. We sat down and made a plan... in some ways that is almost more important to me than completing this resolution! My second resolution is Miss Lisa's fault :P she thought it would be fun to try something new every week... I thought so too, but that it would not work with my debt free resolution, so I downsized it. Every other week I try a new wine, every other week I try a new mixed drink! My first mixed drink was a Homecoming equal parts Irish Cream, and Amaretto... liquid candy is all I have to say! Then I tried the Hazlitt Vineyards Red Cat Wine, meow... I don't like red wine... well now I do! This weeks drink was a Widget... I don't suggest it... if you like girly drinks, that is...equal parts gin and peach schnapps. It would have been much better if I had added ginger ale, or doubled the schnapps I think. Next shall be the Hazlitt Vineyards White Cat!!

See told you I'd do better!

So today was a big first in the lives of one of our little men. The little man himself went to the dentist! We all wanted to keep it simple and go to the same one and since they won't see children under 5 we had not pushed the subject. Well look out 2010 cause I'm tearing it up already! So the plan was I would get my exam/cleaning first with a certain someone watching and watched by Daddy then he would have his turn, and we would just get as far as possible, as I detest the dentist I was prepared to pay for the cleaning of one tooth. Well as luck would have it I woke up with a migraine and since I had to go to work and holding my mouth open that long always gives me a migraine Daddy got the appt, but he had to be a few minutes late, which meant my little man had to forego the example. He hated the x rays being taken, then did not want to let the dentist look at all, but then the dentist gave him a print out of his x ray and all was right in the dental world... not just one tooth but the whole mouth cleaned, all the while flirting with all the girls... OF COURSE!!! Let's see want happens in 6 months! I didn't think a picture would be appropriate... but he was awfully cute in his flirtatious ways!