It looks to be a cloudy day here, so far at least. I'm still sipping on my morning coffee and trying to figure out how much I can get accomplished today. Yesterday was aggravating. We have now hired a plumber to fix the shower plumbing that the contractor totally screwed up, so he and his girlfriend were here most of yesterday. I've been waiting for the time that we can say the shower project is finished so that I could give the bathroom a good cleaning, top to bottom, but so far had only been able to rush in now and then and hit the high spots. Anyway, when the plumber got here yesterday, it was clear that he could do part of the job, but like everybody else, he was still waiting for another guy to do something or other for him so that he could do it all. Okay, I think, a few more days.....again! After a couple of hours of them coming in and out of the house, working in the bathroom, then outside, Ice went out on his way to town and saw water running across the road. And it was OUR water, of course. Our neighbor across the road had cut our water line a couple of months ago while digging a ditch and had patched the leak, so apparently the patch gave way and we once again had a leak. The neighbor happened to be home, so he set about trying to get that fixed and thankfully, we still had some running water here in the house. So I'm thinking that's another problem that might take a couple of days to get fixed.
I was sitting here thinking I might just go start cleaning the bathroom anyway, playing a computer game and the electricity went out. So much for the computer game, so that was it! I decided one way or another, I was tackling that bathroom! So, I grabbed all the cleaning supplies, charged into the bathroom and, in the dim light from the window, started attacking the grime. I was a woman on a mission and I didn't care if the plumber had to stumble over me in there, I was not going to be deterred. Obstacles be damned, this project had become personal, lol. You girls know what I'm talking about. The power finally came back on about an hour later.
This is no small bathroom, so I knew I was in for the long haul, but I was sick of looking at the fuzz on top of the light fixtures and grime on the walls that builds up over time. By the way, those Mr. Clean Magic Sponges are great for walls! I have no idea how they work, but you just wet em, squeeze out the excess water and go to town! I went through three of them on the walls, cabinets, woodwork and doors. The only part I didn't clean was what I couldn't reach from a chair or standing on a cabinet, so Ice is gonna have to hunt up a ladder for me. I hope he has one around here so that I can finish the job today. I still need to clean the ceiling too and will probably paint it in the near future. But I'm already just pleased as punch that I got that much accomplished. My goal is to tackle one room at a time and clean every surface.
Other than winning the lottery, my wish is that a team would come in, move everything out, clean everything, then move the furniture (clean of course) back in and only about half the other stuff (haul off the other half) and organize it as it's brought back in. Now THAT would be heaven. lol Yeah, I know. They do it on TV all the time, but I've already established that I don't want to be on TV. Dream on, Puppy.....dream on.
The pups are doing great. I took them to the Vet the other day to get their tails docked and their dewclaws removed and I weighed the runt while I was there. She weighs a mere 5.2 ounces while all the others weigh around ten or eleven ounces. She fits in the palm of my hand, so if she continues to stay that small she may be a "Toy" rather than a "Miniature". We'll see. Prissy is in heat now, so she and Buster have been pretty "busy" the last couple of days, lol. She's the one that has white puppies, so I had a talk with Buster and told him that we needed five puppies this time, preferably female. He just looked at me and I'm sure would have rolled his eyes if I hadn't been looking, lol. The two of them produce beautiful puppies, so even if they aren't white, I hope to have several "Nelsons" which is the picture I use for my Icon. He was the only salt & pepper out of Prissy's last litter.
I think I'm going to look into having myself cloned for the next three or four years. One to be a housewife, one for the Schnauzer business, one for the "regular" job, and that will leave me to do whatever the heck I please. lol. I seem to be totally covered up right now with everything. This next week will be a challenge since I have four meetings to go to in four days, two are board meetings and two are in the City. There's an out of town training the last part of this month also, so I'll be puttting the miles on the Hemi and my butt too. I have two grants to write within the next six weeks and I'm seriously wondering when I will find the time. Calgon, take me away!
Anyway, I haven't gotten around to posting on the blog too much lately and may be sporatic for a while, so I thought I should let everybody know so the purse posse wouldn't be forming a search party, lol. Feels good just to pull out the ole keyboard and bitch to my hearts content, it helps me get back to the chaos with a little more patience. I think my medication has levelled out to the point that it doesn't seem to be working anymore, but from what I've read about it, that seems to be very common and the dosage needs increasing til I get to a level that's right for me. So that's the next step.
Well, guess I better get some breakfast in the making and get the day started. Ice looks like he may waste away if I don't feed him soon, lol. BTW, does anybody have a ladder I can borrow?
