Hop…Skip…and a Jump…

Last night I un-boxed the Dorm refrigerator

New Dorm Fridge!

that I had purchased and decided to put it in my office as I am out of space in the other rooms of the house.  In order to put it where I did, I had to move 10 bank boxes full of paperwork that was the culmination of my daughter’s soccer career for Club and High School to the living-room.  In my bedroom is a file cabinet full of more soccer stuff.

Boxes of Soccer memorabilia 

Lucky for me, she’s going to be home for the next two weeks, so now is as good-a-time as any for her to go through and see what she wants to save and pitch the rest.  I’m going to suggest that she scan some of it and build a Facebook page for all the archives her dad saved.  Fury ’83 was one of the premier soccer teams for the state of Oklahoma 10 years ago.  I know the old team members would love to see the pictures and such that we have.

Last year Dave helped Ned Hockman’s daughters clean out a storage locker full of Historic film and other items.  The girls threw away lots of their dad’s stuff.  Dave could not bear to see some of it head to the dump.  Last night I came across three WWII photo albums of combat photo’s that Ned shot in Burma (Ned was a combat photographer and at one time was thought lost).  They are outstanding.  They tell quite a story.  Now I know why he saved them as they are history that we can pass on to our grandchildren.  This was also in the space along with the soccer boxes, video tapes and wedding photo shoots. 

Picture of a crashed plane, the
medics that pulled the pilot out
 of the plane and put him on a
 stretcher.
WWII China-Burma-India Theater

My TS Display

I’m working on clearing some of the shelves in “my” office to display my Tastefully Simple Product.  The space was Dave’s office but my “son” advised me that he had the better computer and I might as well learn a new operating system and enjoy more bells and whistles.  It’s been interesting, but I will say so far I like Windows 8.  It’s very much like the apps screens on my smart phone.

Skipping to the kitchen…Even though I’m not going to be in the house that much longer I want to finish a project I started six years ago.   I figure it will run me about $150 to finish it.  “Why” you ask???  Because completing it will make me feel good and make me happy.  I have been living with bright sunshine yellow counter-tops since we moved into the house 37 years ago.  Five years ago my daughter painted the fur-downs a bright indigo blue.  I had purchased Mexicali Café Curtains to use in place of the doors, which I had removed many years before.

Mexicali Café Curtains 

When we had purchased the house the former owner had put down horrible .49 cent stick down tile in the kitchen, dining-room and living-room. It still remains in the kitchen.  I have found a lovely .89 cent stick down laminate that looks like parquet flooring that I can more than live with for the next 6 months.

I want to refresh the paint on the fronts of the cabinets.  I will have to go over the oil based paint with a flat white and then go over that with a semi-gloss white.  With a fresh coat of paint, new floor tile and colorful Mexicali Café curtains my kitchen will be the cat’s meow! 

Jumping out to the living-room…At the moment it looks like the wreck of the Hesperus.  It’s in a total state of disarray. I have boxes of Mary Kay inventory that I’m trying to wade through and get put away.  9 Boxes of Tastefully Simple Food inventory that I need to inventory and put away.  Taxes are still on the dining room table, have one more year to finish, almost done. Papers are everywhere, from going through boxes of records. Somehow I think I got the cart before the horse, but that’s ok, everything will work out. 

So you sort of know what I’m doing for the 4^th of July and the next couple of weeks.  What are your plans for the Holiday?

Bite by Bite I’m eating the Elephant!

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