Whoa. Where have the last two weeks gone? Work has been horrible for the last two weeks. Don't get me wrong, I like working there and all, but things have just not gone well. Whatever energy has things all skewed needs to settle down again because I'm getting really tired of this roller coaster and I want OFF!
Today was just nuts. Our phones went out completely for about 30 minutes. Verizon was useless. Told me they couldn't have someone out until Tuesday. Leaving us dead in the water, no phones in or out. They came back on just after I got off the phone with verizon, apparently something in the building went screwy. Later that afternoon my boss comes back upstairs and comments that it is warm. I was quite comfy and said so, but then looked up at the thermostat (which I can see from my desk) a few minutes later and realized there was NOTHING on the display. Blank, no nothing. Call the management company and let them know, and we turned on all our little fans and opened the door, which was about useless. Eventually, a woman stopped in that oversees the building, and commented that the "energy management system" was getting upgraded, and they had several suites and floors without a/c.
It came on right before I left, of course. Glad it was the afternoon and not the morning because that would have been awful!
This week despite all the crazy at work I've managed to do a lot of cleaning in the house in the evenings. We've got friends coming over for dinner tomorrow night and I swear her house is always PERFECT. Not that I feel like I need to keep up with the joneses, but I was getting really sick and tired of the clutter and crap sitting around. So I've been working every evening (and sometimes a bit in the morning if I woke up early) trying to get things organized and cleaned up. I feel like I've actually made real headway. Our month of recycles that have not gone out cause we keep forgetting are in the shed, the shed is neatened up and organized again, the tiki torches are out and waiting to be cleaned up so we can put them up, the electric fence parts are divided and put into the office for the stuff I am not keeping and into the bedroom for the stuff I am keeping, the paperwork around the desk is organized a little better and everything filed that was waiting to be filed, the laundry is caught up (for the moment), the stove is cleaned (gotta post pics of the orange vinegar cleaning job! Awesome stuff!), the spare bathroom is SCRUBBED, the stain is removed from the back of the toilet where it was leaking (that got fixed, too!), and the bathtub/shower is SCRUBBED, and the drain cleared with bakingsoda/vinegar (so much fun!) and then plunged, and the sink drain cleared with baking soda/vinegar, and then plunged, and then cleaned, the hydraulic jack is back in the truck tied down along with the gear bag of stuff..... I am VERY happy to have gotten so much done.
Tomorrow I will vacuum, clean up the kitchen floor, repot my poor barely hanging on basil, clean off the patio furniture and get it ready to use, clean off the kitchen table, maybe spray some weeds if I get a chance, and finish picking up a few things here and there.
I also found someone on freecycle giving away Iris! I will go over on Sunday, probably to pick them up, I think they've already dug them, so I don't even have to do it! I'm excited to start populating the yard with them. The deer don't eat them and the nasty invasive trees don't grow through them! A variety of Iris will be pretty in the yard, too. We'll see how that comes together over time. I need to split the miniture Iris that I already have, so that will fill up more of the yard too. I like making improvements!
Gotten a lot accomplished and looking forward to a laid back weekend of getting more stuff done! I love improving my space!
I looked ALL through the desk tonight, and couldn't find it (did find the $45.00 visa card that I got as a rebate for my contact purchase this year...). The other half used it a few months ago to purchase a new pair of clippers for himself, and now I don't know where it went. He needs to check in his car to see if he might have left it in there 
but if it isn't in there I don't know where it is.... 
I hate it when we lose stuff.
on the good deals!
