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Post by zenamidievel on Apr 1, 2024 14:50:30 GMT
We are a group working to declutter our spaces. Please feel free to share your goals, projects, ideas, revelations or challenges facing you as you work toward your own goals. Also feel free to copy and paste this intro, use our "CLUTTERBUSTERS" Title for the day to start the thread if you don't see it started. Good luck Clutterbusting!
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Post by zenamidievel on Apr 2, 2024 13:59:10 GMT
Good Morning,
Great work getting through your HIS PROJECT! Hooray! I also enjoyed reading about your perseverance and maintaining of your weight and good eating habits. Congratulations! I was reading a book for booclub and it talked about a quote by Socrates, "The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new." It seems like you've done this!
Landscaping: Things are moving forward, I will be paying for the rock delivery tomorrow which is to take place next Thursday. I made two follow up phone calls on this to the landscaper and the rock people. The edited version of this the landscaping communication skills is very lacking. The bid, yes, which I signed, is very high now that I see the amount of time two people spent out there, and what what remains in regard to prepping the ground. The good news is I've only paid the deposit, will keep track of time till the job is complete and then see if there can be any "fair" adjustment to if I think it's in order. I don't like talking to this guy, I had a good first impression of him, but it's gone downhill. I don't want to bring any of this up now. There was a misunderstanding/communication between rock person and landscaper as to what ground prep should be. This is my being "generous" on landscaper behalf. Phone call made today I stated that his planned return time to finish prepping the area was not going to work, was too last minute ( he wanted to do it the day of rock delivery, i was aghast at hearing this idea) I said it needed to be done prior to that. Corrected his interpretation/memory of what rock people said to do to prep certain areas, told him he'd need to bring a weed whacker, this after already using the terms, "cut it down to the ground", so he said he could bring it if I thought it was necessary. Um yes, please bring all necessary tools that may be needed as a landscaper. I will be glad when this is over with.
I spoke with my sister and got feedback on the charts and reading of them. She advised that the one view I find most helpful is NOT a good idea to include with my PDF offering because it's a view people with experience would never use. SO this is good to know and actually saves steps for me. But it's very helpful for me in painting. Crossing fingers conversations go well today. We'll see.
I've been working on these bears and realized I'd made the circle surround too large, without noticing, and then did them all that way, so I do need to go back, correct, resave, etc. before I begin the printing of for scanning for the submissions. But now I also Have to double check my other designs to make sure I've not done the same thing, and fix.
Then tomorrow, I hope to actually prep some canvases for painting! This means pencil marking, spraying in the garage, then doing the matte medium application. I have had fun on the computer but I am actually ready to move on with other things. I walked with the neighbor today, that was fun. I hope to work through the rest of these circles so I can do the submission again.
Z.
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Post by michelle on Apr 3, 2024 3:43:13 GMT
Z, Sorry about the landscaper fiasco. It makes me want to relate more ridiculous stories pertaining to dealing with these contractor types. With the crawl space one I actually typed the list, made two copies, put them on a clipboard, brought a pencil and started discussing each point. We agreed on them, then I handed him his copy of the list. I liked this approach the best and will continue to use it in all cases. The fire mitigation contractor loved this approach. He was so appreciative that someone had taken the time to draw a map and also flag the areas so he knew exactly what I wanted and that's what he delivered. I am at a standstill with the HVAC contractor although I did get them to come back and hook up the air conditioning which had been unhooked due to the crawl space work. Sometimes I think about what I thought was going to happen in my life as an adult when I was a child. Just the normal being a school teacher, get married, have children. LOL Excellent!!! progress is being made with the Audits. I am on fire, BIG TIME! My plan is to get this last year of this type of work done as fast as I possibly can and I am not going to waiver from that plan---not one iota. I am shooting for the first week in June to be done. The office Admin work may slow me down but I think if I confine it to one day on the weekends I can keep to this schedule. I am going to MAKE IT HAPPEN.
The needlepoint creativity is fun to read about!
Wednesday - I am doing great! 10 Done and then 3 more of this type of Audits. I need to send emails for three of these which I will do on Friday since tomorrow is appointment day. Also Clair has a therapy event at the University.
Hope you are having a pleasant evening!!!
Onward>>>>
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Post by zenamidievel on Apr 3, 2024 21:28:55 GMT
Good Afternoon,
Good work with the audit work and keeping at it!
I'll try not to relate any more stories. I'm not inn a position to say a whole lot. I need them to show up and do what needs done on the da, so I'll have to just make plans, handle what I can do, and move forward to prepare. I think I'm making my own plan today for window/side of house protection and will discuss with DH today, take some measurements, then advise the landscaper, we will be taking care of this part of it. I have paid, I"ve notified the neighbors on closest side for delivery date.
THere was a pantry explosion of a container of cocoa powder where lid came off and spilled. Fun times! Partly my fault because pantry had become jumbled but also, someone not looking at what was doing. Oh well, I've been working on it since last night. I CB'd a bunch of exprired food, consolidated crackers, cereals, organized, vac'd, cleaned the floor and wire racks, containters, boxes, and what not most of it is put back away. So CB result is I've put set several cooking related supplies I use little to zero in a box for DD to use in her rental house next year., so a bit of CB though most of that will be coming back to me.
I'm stressed, I've done a few chores, showered, got the pantry put back together, rebooted laundry x1 . I've discussed window protection with DH, he says we can do it, so we'll do it.I might go look at plywood today. But I need to measure the windows and the height.
THat's all for now.
Z.
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Post by michelle on Apr 4, 2024 23:19:35 GMT
I had a wonderful day today!!! Clair and I went to the university. We couldn't even get past the front door of the building since she was mobbed by adoring students. Also went to the vet---I love this new vet. She is 100% real, a great quality as far as I am concerned. Then went to PT and spent time with my most loved person and I am serious. We have an incredible bond forged when I had Clair's older sister in PT there--Clair, as a puppy, went to every single one of Luna's PT appointments to support Luna. When Luna got out of the underwater treadmill, Clair would kiss her. Clair behaved perfectly since she understood the serious situation, which is saying something for a labrador puppy. I am so glad we had this day after Clair being incarcerated for five months! Hooray!!!
Hope you evening is perfect!!!
Onward>>>>
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Post by zenamidievel on Apr 4, 2024 23:44:21 GMT
Yay, hooray! Sounds like a great day!
Thursday, Mom came yesterday, I got dinner made, a good breakfast made, took her car in left at the place, went back and got it, they have to order parts, helped her pack up, she went home, I tried to follow up to get better car info to no avail, e-mailed oldest sister the status of the situation. Tried to follow up with the spray people, some grass that should have been killed is still not dead, we might have to do our own application. I've discussed concerns with DH. Tomorrow I will follow up with a text to landscaper for next weeks expectations, I paid for the rock.
Creative: I've been working through the 10 more, recent patterns to submit for certificates. I've got the circles corrected, somehow they got off. I've got the pallets simplified to the main thread manufacturer colors. I've saved most in the proper format to be a completed downloadable file. I have researched the charts I purchasedfor example from other sellers to see what they include. I've researched what are appropriate copyright statements to include with listings and on PDF's., copied and saved that information for when I put those together I will try to get the scan, safe, send steps this evening.
FRiday Mornign Update:
It snowed here, and is now raining, wet so no spray application can be done today, were it to be done today, which they never replied to me until very late, editing.
Creative: -all steps completed for bundle submission, submission done. Moving on with OTHER THINGS!
Bears: I feel the need to talk about this again, which I really think is gonna be a great thing! Because of the size of my bear, I can put soooooo many cute, simplistic things on him. It's ridiculously fun.! As it's my idea to have this as downloadable charts, I'm so excited. I just cranked out three more things this morning that are adorable and made a list of 15 other things that can do....at least! Now...after today's submission, I'm not going to do submissions for every variation possible in regard to this design, because I think what's important is to have covered the overall shape/size of the thing itself, every variation which only goes on the center, doesn't have to be done. After today I will have 8-10 formal submissions covered already. It is my belief that the statement applies and I include on all, whether the variation has had a formal submission done or not as I'm using the same template, which should be covered by the CR.
I have gotten some negative feedback on why I'm bothering with the CR process at all and other. Like one person is saying not to offer them certain ways to deter stealing/copying. I'm like, well it has to be offered someway if you're trying to sell a thing and once it's out there, anyone that's an a-hole and wants to steal it, can figure out a way. So if you worry about that, you'll never move forward. All you can do is take steps to try to safeguard the situation, which is what I am doing. ANother response was, "you know....they only need to change one thing....so why bother." True, but at least again, I've done what I can.
Yesterday I did a snip and save of an image as a JPG of a design, then put it on a word document because I wanted to resize to view it as close to the size it would be as finished product. I picked one of the most involved designs it's not too small, not too busy, it's cute, and the rest are super cute.
So after I do the submissione process today, I actually can begin prepping canvases and get back to that process which I'm looking forward to. I'm looking forward to perfecting that process and reducing errors!
Z.
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Post by michelle on Apr 5, 2024 23:40:13 GMT
Z, Great job getting the submission done! The bears sound adorable!!! This has been quite a process of creativity. Another day moving forward on getting the audits done and permanently out of my life. The two former employees have made such a difference to the point that I am much farther ahead than I imagined. Now I am starting on the more complex audits. AA will be here Sunday to do their cash workpapers. Hooray for that! Since it keeps the monontony low. However, I am rarely bothered by doing the same items repeatedly as long as there is some "me time" in my life. Also I like to stream line processes so it's fun for me to consider this as an ongoing challenge. Now I am giving some thought to what I want to do when I no longer have this business in my life. I tried not working many years ago and got so bored that I went back to work. However I did not have the yard back then and other items that have devolved to me over the years.
Time for Clair's last PT walk of the day.
Hope you are enjoying your evening!!!
Onward>>>>
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Post by zenamidievel on Apr 6, 2024 14:21:10 GMT
Good MOrning,
Does this mean Clair is free to roam wild and unsupervised? Glad the partimers are helping to make a dent.
DH and I pulled some things out yesterday that are to create a cover protection for the house for when the rock gets delivered. One of them is a "tarp" which is actually a billboard sign!!! OMG, it is massive and overkill, but at least it's something, and I found some big cardboard wood and other to deal with the shorter wall and bedroom window. THe landscaper texted to say what day he'd come MOnday which was good, and I advised that we'd located materials for protection purposes and he didn't need to bring any, editing.
DH is doing an overnight road trip which I'm declining to go. Maybe selfishlly. I'm hoping to get through a few things while he's gone so that I can sort of get back on schedule with my painting plan. I will make a list today of what is to paint, do the markings on canvases, spray, apply matte medium. I'm nervous to start because the canvases are challenging so I'm hoping the marking process goes smoothly. It all takes time, but I will figure it out! Plus my sister and friend helping to stitch, my own tools to use ideas, this should go better and beter!
Hope your day is off to good start.
Z. Update: MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH!!!!
While excited to start the painting again, I was feeling a bit ....ummmm....like discouraged, about how to do the line guides, get the markings on teh canvas properly. You will just have to trust me that these things cannot be traced. The canvas is so teeny, and also it's canvas and though in grid form the strands wave/curve are not straight all of this makes this step very challenging which is a necessary step for the painting part to go more smoothly. You need certain centering lines point, as guides to keep everything going where it should go. SO I went down and was immediately frustrated, again, with just making the circle, which I know by heart, I could type out the numbers each of the 72 rows to you right now! Yet, mistake, mistake, mistake, mistake! So, think, think, think! I realized I saved JPEG picture form of the stitch view to help. Then because I'd shrunk one of those down pretty close to actual size the other day, just to see what it looked like, was it cute, not cute, busy, not busy etc. I realize....okay! Do the same thing except take the time to make it the PROPER SIZE!!!! So I did that and I can get it very close, if not exact to what it needs to be for the 4" round!!! (You need to know all the charts print larger, by several inches so they can be readable. What people do when they work with a chart print out is they draw a square or box around the outside of the entire image, measure with a ruler, then they divide the inches verticle, then horizontal, by the count of the canvas, in this case 18, and it tells them what the actual dimensions will be of the finished product.) So....I laid my vellum paper on top of the CORRECTLY SIZED color print out and then could EASILY make my bold black felt ink line marks on the vellum. Then I lay the canvas on top of the vellum which is still on top of the color printe out, both of those, get canvas in right spot, (this is still tricky cause it's not square everwhere, you just have to try to line up a few important places) , tape ALL down to my light board, then use the pencil to do the markings again on the canvas. YAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!! THis is actually the hardest step of the whole thing! This is awesome!
Sunday: -line guides on vellum with black felt pen (sets on top of the color stitch view printout, and the Canvas then sets on top of both of those, all taped down so nothing moves around). -sprayed 4 prepped canvases outside, brought inside to dry in laundry room -next step is to apply liquitex matte medium in stencil type way to areas of canvas that will receive paint -having had the friends/family stitch a few things, has helped see my errors, I can also see where I trip up when I'm applying the marks from line guides. Previouse experience, improved markings on canvas, better guide underneath canvas, knowing what to watch out for, this should all make things go more smoothly! I have prepped 4 canvases. A large angle, two smaller angels with different dress designs, and one English Robin. Prediction: When I'm ready to paint, I think I can get the painting part done in 2 hours per canvas, which is much faster than first attempts. Even if it was three hours, that would be victory. I will keep you posted!
I will work on chores in between these steps and try to get my walk in. Weather is good today.
Hope you're doing well and that Clair is also!
Z.
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Post by michelle on Apr 8, 2024 4:15:14 GMT
Z, CONGRATS!!! on your major breakthrough. You are becoming a definite creative expert in this area!! I have been making myself get through these audits and have been doing incredibly. It looks like I can finish up this month!!! I worked 10 hour days Sat and Sun and will do the same several days next week. I have to go to town three different days so that is interfering with my plan to get this stuff out of my life ASAP. However I will finish up much earlier than originally planned. DH is not a happy camper about the removal of my personage from the business. I will have to do a small amount of work off and on for the next few months but will NOT have to work like I have in past years.
Clair got to hang out with AA today so she was over the moon happy about that since Clair adores her. We go for the PT appointment on Wednesday to go over the next phase of her recovery. The surgeon said she was to be restricted for 6 months so our six month begins on the 15th. However, being able to be out of her palace and wandering around the house is huge! I had to install dog gates to keep her siblings away from her since Sam loves to rough house with her. Anyway---things are moving along FINALLY in this area.
Hope you are having a wonderful evening!!!
Onward>>>>
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Post by zenamidievel on Apr 8, 2024 16:20:44 GMT
That is great your audits are going so well! Your hard work is paying off! I am looking forward to your retirement!
Well, this is my life right now....so.......
I started painting, beginning with the European Robin, so as this only 4th attempt at painting, different design, learning curve. So this design allows for a bit more freedom with how to do. I realized my thistle bases were to complicated. Then I got off a line possibly with the outer part of the bird body, still unsure where, but was too far in to go back. At this point I realize while looking at my pattern to try to correct, I can really do whatever I want here, it doesn't have to follow the pattern EXACTLY as long as it's close, it will work. People are not getting a chart along with a painted canvas so they cannot compare what is what. THey just get the canvas and possibly a thread color key, or they match threads from their "stash" to the colors on the canvas. So I did the necessary corrections and moved forward. THis also caused revelation with the mini scapes in general. While it is fun to add detail and lots of color variation because on the screen it's huge, when you print it out it's about 2 2.5" larger than actual, also big, the reaality is painting that amount of detail, or someone wanting to even stitch it, maybe not so much fun, on a 4" diameter thing. Very, very challenging. Does this mean the designs are not good? Not at all! There is just the reality that probably a reduction in foreground color detail to 2 to 3 tops, and sky, same, and the rest, simplify where possible. Like it's very cute to have the varied stone colors on the stone bridge, but maybe 2-3 is more than plenty. None of this will detract, if anything it will make certain aspects pop more because they are cleaner, sharper, simpler. So that single painting took many hours, like 7-8. But some of that was trying to figure out my problems, thinking what to do, correcting, etc. Today I hope to address two of angel #1 design, which I've painted two of these so far, neither error free. So, I think I will try these two together, assembly style, and I will be able to track the time better than what happened last night. It "should" go more quickly because I've done before have better handle on situation we shall see. This is why a painted canvas costs so much. Also I need to work on my paint consistency when painting,
THe landscaper is to come today, hope conversation goes well. Hope your day is off to a good start.
Z. Update: Landscaper came, things did not go well, they were here 1 hour. I spent about 4-6 hours, out there raking and bagging grass debris. This is all on a slope, it's tricky, I'm gonna be sore to morrows I have about 1/3 left to go. The good news is at least they came today, the beginning of the week, and not later, so I have to time do to this clean up and get everything prepped appropriately in my opinion, to the degree it I can get it, so the rock delivery has a as clean of a base as possible for delivery and the weather is cooperating. I will save the debris bags in the garage and surprise them with them at the end of the job, after I possibly ask for lesser fee for their work based on their time here if it applies and attempt to get them to haul them to dispose of after the job is complete. I wonder if they'll even notice that things look better than they left it. Lord.
I finished the European Robin, then I did some fixing on it, it looks better, I'm done with that! Now I'm going to paint two armless angels. Another thing I realize with painted canvas, I can make it any size I want. So, on this design I accidentally had it too low so one of the thistles too close to the edge. So I just painted it 1/4 inch larger all the way around.
Z.
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Post by michelle on Apr 9, 2024 4:45:52 GMT
Z, The yard experience is similar to one that makes me say--Glad that is behind me. I am amazed at how complex needlepoint is. Congrats!!! on your incredible determination to succeed. Your creativity is remarkable!!! Not much for me today--just banged away on the Audits and made fantastic progress again. Had to wade through some emails tonight and get them answered so I ended up working until late. Tomorrow I have to go see about my arm and will drop Clair off at DH's office so I can do that. I have a plan to make a small yard for her that will keep her separate from Sam while I am gone. The ground is frozen which is holding up phase #1. Yet another dog gate arrived which needs to be installed. Not too sure about them since DH forgets to shut them and they are desperately needed to be used correctly since she still cannot do stairs. I WILL OVERCOME but hopefully I can remain pleasant to get all concerned (including me) to shut the gates. In the meantime she is not in any danger since I am paying attention. However, that could change at any minute. Not sure DH wants to spend all of that money again--sticker shock on this whole medical thing for the dog. An unnecessary redo is not going to happen.
I am so far behind that I am almost ahead--time for bed!
Tuesday - Got some chores around the house done. The most important one was figuring out how to stop Sam from jumping in a rather dangerous area--mission accomplished. Also got my arm back in working order. Drudged through the tax season brainless client emails--this is an annual pleasure. Lovely day today. Load of laundry is drying. Next--go outside and get the car cleaned out of travel stuff from today.
Tomorrow -- PT appointment to go over xrays and consult. Also to make up the next plan.
Hope you are having a relaxing evening!!!
Onward>>>>
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Post by zenamidievel on Apr 10, 2024 17:54:04 GMT
Good Morning,
I got on here to post yesterday and then walked away I guess.
Hooray on your progress with the audits and figuring out how to control Sam! You are doing well! I'm going to try to be like you and take care of daily chores here today while I intermittently make more bear chart designs for PDF files. Is the Xray and PT on your arm or Clair?
Yesterday was busy, I was out of the house most of the day. I had lunch with the ladies group and then I had bookclub immediately following. I ate very, very lightly at the lunch, cause I knew I'd be eating at the book club meeting. So that all went well and I did not over eat yesterday and enjoyed the company of all.
Needlepoint: Yes, there is more. How is it possible...lol. Okay so I've been monitoring another seller and the more I see what is happening there the more excited I get about it. So today I'm trying to plow through as many designs as possible get them formatted, fine tuned, and ready. I have list and all this will result in about 40 things. While working I'm like do I need to show the different combos and the answer is really yes. Because the combination also shows the color key and some people need all of this spelled out completely and a beginner would. Other people can take a thing and say I like that, but I'm gonna do it this way or that way or use up my fuschia pink thread on that thing, blah, blah, they know they can take the basic idea and do it however, use the chart, but just do anyway they want based on what their thread stock is. SO there's that. But there are different ways to show somethings that is important, like one thing can have 6 candles or just one, I need several combinations for baby stuff in pale pastel combinations. There are the backgrounds, the sweaters, and the accent part of the sweaters and the bear color, sometimes the colors of the embellishment also need changed to coordinate. So there's lots to do. My idea is to try to be maniac today and get as many as I can done today, I have a list. IMO, multiple combination offerings are most important for the ones that center around babies birthdays. On this note, I blanked out a round yesterday and learned how to use the fonts, found the best one I thought worked for custom back scenario and monogram/initials only. I got those on there, then I added a couple small touches above and below, and a year. This Looks awesome, so cute. Then I fixed holiday one the same way. So these can be shown and I can be contacted, or I will figure out how customers input there custom option request for a chart. So this allows them to stitch their own custom thing, all I have to do is plunk the information in. So I'm very excited about this option as well and I figured out for baby birth, year but also just holiday with different things.
Contacted the rock people and made sure to ask him if he had advised the delivery crew what order the rock would be put in at. This matters. And, ulitimately, the rock guy agreed with me what should go in first, which is the larger rock in the middle section. I will text the landscaper. Wayne and I will do the set up today for the delivery for house/window/siding protection. I will wear a mask, gloves and long sleeves and finish the raking and bagging of debris and stack some medium sized rock lying around to increase a border areas we'd already sort have made but it will bulk it up.
Z Update: -texted landscaper what time trucks would be here per rock dispatch and asked what time he'd be here, "same time I guess" quote.....well...it's an answer, that's a positive -I just came in and showered from 2 more hours of raking, baggin and a little weed whacking, rock picking etc. It's as much as I can do, I think it looks good, fingers crossed, tomorrow is the day
Home: Emptied DW, rebooted laundry times one, hand wash items done, went to grocery store to get lawn and leaf bags, and got some new baking pans for myself and will give DD and her roomies my gross old old ones that look bad but still work.
Creative: I made designs ALL day today up until 5:00 PM before starting out in the yard. I'm going to end up with close to 40 charts with different color combinations, colors of bear and embellishments. I'm not going to list them. You will be able to scroll through them all when I list them in my shop ALL AT ONCE when it's time. Holy moly! Then I did a new design which I LOVE which is new and I'm not going to bother getting certificate for, I need to move on with life. It is a beach them thing, and can also be a chart as it's very simplistic, but they do not have too much beach carp extra theme carp going on on them, and I think they are quite eye catching. So I did two different colors on those of the main theme item in the scene. Very fun. What a day!
Hope yours has been good. Z.
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Post by michelle on Apr 11, 2024 23:36:34 GMT
Z, I checked out the canvases on Etsy--not near as cute as yours!!! Hope the rock situation worked out perfectly. The results of Clair's PT appointment were great! She has increased muscle a total of 5 centimeters in the atrophied leg and also one centimeter in the other leg. So now the legs are balanced and clearly is using them both and weight bearing on both. The PT was totally excited about this! Clair is still not completely healed and will have to go another 6 weeks in her pen etc. I have been letting her roam in part of the house and she does not seem to be getting enough rest so I will modify the amount of time. I was very disappointed about the time extension of six more weeks. Sometimes I do the "it could be worse thinking" to get over whining. This is a happy story---our old Collie developed life threatening seizures and had to be put on the medicine they prescribe for those dogs which turned him into a lifeless zombie and that was going to be his life ever after. So I decided I wasn't going to put up with that and called a holistic vet. He and I worked so hard and got Alfie off that awful medicine so he went back to being a happy normal dog. When he would have a seizure the vet and I would go back to square one with that awful medicine and then wean him slowly off it. He had three of those terrifying seizures and every time we got him back to normal. This is my topper story for dog troubles. So once I remembered it I got very happy about what is going on with Clair!
Tomorrow Clair and I have a therapy event at the University. I hope they provide shade if we are to be outside. Clair is black so she is not able to do extended time periods in the sun. It is another lovely day.
Today I did a little bit of this and that. Got some office clerical work done. Spent a lonnngg time getting a new stick vac out of all of the boxes. Clair and Buttercup had fun ripping up the small containers. This vac is much better but I know it will not make it through vacing an entire house before the battery runs dead. Originally I had two of the same type of the old ones but finally the remaining one quit. If it doesn't make it I will just buy another one to make life easy. Why not! I just keep the motor part of the extra one charged up so it is a quick change out. This is kind of a boring post--chatting about my vac situation. LOL
Hope you are having an exciting evening!!!
Onward>>>>
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Post by zenamidievel on Apr 12, 2024 16:36:31 GMT
Good Morning,
All of this sounds very possitve in regard to Clair's progress! That is great. I hope you enjoyed the event and had shade.
Landscaping, it is done and it looks great! The Landscaper showed up on time, the trucks did not, this gave us time to do an overview again of situation, what type of rock goes where, which was good and then he handled everything, I did not have to be out there, I watched from windows, went out once for a question, one request for a spot fix and that was about it. After adding up hours, and etc. I'd say I did overpay the landscaper a bit, but I don't care, wasn't too bad and it's over with! Then I popped open the garage door and said how about you take these bags of yard debris with you, 6-7 bags, those things were heavy! I think he was surpised. On this note, in the AM I'd mentioned I'd spent time raking and bagging debris, which he told me he felt was uncessary and I said that as I was not sure how much rock would slide or roll, but I thought it best that debris not be mixed in it. Also...though I didnot say this...there would have been a lot of long dry grass from clods and whatnot, sticking up to a great degree and it would've taken more rock to cover it. YAY!!!!!!!!!! Also, DH is pleased, thanked me for my efforts, planning, working. He also helped with some stuff, carrying some heavy bags, digging out a big thing I couldn't get out myself etc. I think the neighbor to the West enjoyed it sort of tied into what they did to a degree with the sizes and where we put them, as it sort of looks kind of fluid. Aslo I think we used less rock says the guy, so the bill will less than the estimate he gave me, so this sort of makes up for the slight overpaymnent to the landscaper.
Creative: Maniacle compulsive behavior going on surrounding this but it will be worthwhile! I've already said that with two bear colors, the number of embellishment options, color cominations, there is just a lot. So I've been resaving all the files after correct cropping, removing unused thread colors from the pallet, reordering the pallets so they look nicer, renaming, saving. So While doind this with what was already made, of course I think of a few more things that can be made, so that happens, then same steps as above. ALso why make so many, well, everyone is different, they can get what they want, I can always start out with more then edit back my listing options if need be later. So where am I at, I'm approaching 60, yes you hear that correctly, all bears with just a few other miscellaneous, and they are all adorable if I do say so myself. So I'm now down to 10 or less to go and will be done with this part. THen I bought one more chart from that "hot" seller I'm tracking, (she sold 5 more yesterday alone), it is happening. to see what her's look like, mine are better format, she usese different program.Â
After last few above are done, I need to do my own write up PDF so it is also ready to go along with the charts. I hope to finish this example write up today.
That's about it.
Z.
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Post by michelle on Apr 14, 2024 3:37:37 GMT
Z, Glad that the landscaping turned out!!! It will be exciting when you begin the sales process! Another busy day for me today. The day flew by just getting my basic homemaking chores done. I am a little exhausted tonight. More tomorrow!
Sunday - Spent much of the day doing Office admin work. I accomplished significantly more than I thought I could. Now I need to start on the homemaking chores but possibly I will just sit and read.
Hope you are enjoying your evening!!! Onward>>>>
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