Monthly Archives: September 2008

Today has been a productive day.  We both had really good workouts at the gym, though maybe I need to push myself more on the weights when working the arms.  It looks as if I’ve lost #1-1.5 this past week.  Lets see if it looks like that tomorrow, keep your fingers crossed for me and for Harold to have a good workout tomorrow.We came home, showered and headed back out.

We have been wanting to get a new dinner room set for awhile now.  Our old one we’ve had for over 11yrs and we got it when we were young and broke, so not of the highest quality but it did very well through the years.  We also need a chair for the living room, all we had was a couch and that is not enough for entertaining.  We had been looking online, we knew what we wanted but wanted the best bang for our buck.  But to make sure what we wanted, we headed to the local furniture store, since we knew they had it and checked it out.  Hell, they had it for just a little more than online without the shipping cost!  Not only that they delivered it today and we didn’t have to put anything together.  Then we found chair for living room on top of that!  All it came to the price of ordering the dining room set online with shipping!  Not only did we do great on this purchase, we got to spend our money locally.  We are believers in trying to do that….even if we order online a lot.

After the furniture store, we headed over to the home depot.  We really needed a cat door, there is no way am I having the litters in the bathrooms anymore and I’m tired of leaving the garage down open for them to get to it.  So we got one of those and picked up some birdseed, a hanger for the feeder, and some blinds for the office.  That sun really hits Harold and blinds the crap out of him.  But I couldn’t find door stoppers, to keep the doors open in the house when the wind comes through….gggrrr  If I can’t find it at lowe’s tomorrow, I’m just going to order it online….sometimes I wonder why I bother at the stores, except that I don’t want to wait for it to be delivered.

We live at the beginning of the Colombian Gorge and some of our neighbors gave us a heads up that it will get windy here. Well, they weren’t kidding, it got windy as hell.  Normally we would be able to sleep through it, but have 3 years in Florida and hurricanes we are sensitive to it.  Hell, when we looked outside and saw all the leaves and some branches down, it felt like hurricane to us.  Once we get use to the wind without thinking of hurricanes, we’ll be good.  =)

Well, we got back in mid afternoon and I haven’t done any of the work that I need to get done…icks.  But I still couldn’t get to it until have dinner.  I helped Harold with little things when he did the cat door, hung up a coat rack, sweep the back deck, cleaned out the litters, and vacuumed the dining room area for the new stuff.  So by the time we got done with that, it was time for dinner and I was starving.

I’ve spent this evening playing catch up with support tickets, store orders, emails, balance the books and work on our check books and bills.

I feel good about today because our place is coming together nicely.  It has taken us several years to get things the way we want and this house has been a big help.

Our next big goal in a bedroom set.  Just not sure what we fully want.  The bed room set we have is 16-17yrs old.  It is still good, but needs some work because we have had 2 cats that have learned out to open the drawers and have scratched it up and all the moving we have done…..it hasn’t help.  Once we get a new set, ideally, I would like to find someone to rework the pieces for me.  Our bedroom set is considered an early american style, dark pine and I love it….but it needs work now.  =(