7 things

Unusually Unusual Farmchick posted a thing where you're suppose to divulge seven things others might not know about yourself. So I'll let you in on seven things about me:

1. I was purely left handed for quite a bit of my life, actually right up until elementary school. They saw fit to fix that. My father is a lefty. I seem to have adapted into quasi-ambidexterous. I drink using my left hand, switch with utensils, grab and hold with either hand but when it comes for writing I am a righty and as for the computer mouse I can do either way but I am more comfortable using my left. My desk at work is set up lefty style. But Bill is a righty so thats how it is set up for our computer here.

2. I currently own 3 pairs of jeans, thats it. I also only own a total of 4 pairs of shoes.

3. I listen to everything thing imaginable when it comes to music. From Les Miserable to Pantera.

4. My favourite dessert is a tie between Tiramisu and Honey Glazed Chocolate chip croissants(only found at Panera so far) it's funny that I rarely ever get to have any though.

5. I am NOT a morning person without massive amounts of caffiene. On the occasion that I drink coffee it has to be with LOTS of sugar, usually I opt for diet Coke or Mountain Dew.

6. I have never owned a coffee pot as an adult on my own. We had one here at the trailer but it was J's.

7. Every female on my mom's side of the family is somewhat "gifted", heavily intuitive (to a creepy point sometimes) and have all had run ins with "weird" stuff happening to them. It's all pretty much accepted yet quite a few of these women freaked out when I came out as a pagan LOL.

I tagged a few people I read but I will leave it open to anyone who happens upon this post, too. Just leave a comment to let me know who to visit.

The blob, bucket style

To update, the laundry soap was a gelatinous thing with little liquid, maybe i needed more water?? It also was on the floor so it might just have been too cold. Moved it to the laundry room on top of the dry we'll see how it does. Teen got her drivers license. And we haven't heard anything from the real estate agent yet. J moved out and S hasn't been home much. So I got super industrious tonight and cleaned like a mad woman. Here's my proof....

The place only looks this nice when I do this; otherwise, it is a sad, sad sight. My own mother can attest to this. Bill will be pleasantly suprised when he gets home. When I wake up Thurs I am tackling Teen's room..she's had more than enough time to avoid this. Now Im off to find my body lotion as my hands are screaming dry.

Making my own laundry soap

So I came across a recipe on The Family Homestead to make my own laundry soap. I've been chomping at the bit to do it and finally got to do it today. Took me a bit of running around town to find the Washing Soda (Schnucks had it) and I got a deal of the Fels Naptha bars at Arnold's. The borax was easy enough. Anyway, I gathered my ingredients up. I got out what our group of friends affectionately call the "Mongolian Pot of Doom". Cleaned out my 5 gal pickle bucket that my friend G salvaged for me when he worked at Burger King. Then I had to wait for time to make it cuz we were super busy today too. I lamented to Bill today that I didn't want to leave the detergent in the pickle bucket but I didn't have a container big enough to hold it all. Bill smiles and lets me know that in all this super windy weather he spotted a huge cooking oil container running down the highway on his way home so he picked it up and brought it home for me cuz "I know you could use it somehow." So it's in the back of his Blazer waiting. How cool is that? Anyway about 7:30pm I got to make my soap, and yes I took a few pics. I added geranium oil for scent and let it sit. Checked on it at 10pm and it was already gelling up :) So we will see how it looks when I get up and then its ready for use around 7:30pm Wed. We can't wait! My next project will be trying to find a dish detergent recipe.

Grrrrrr

So we found out that there was a little more wrong with the house than we anticipated. Bill freaked out a little I freaked out a little but its a 108 year old house for crying out loud. Today we are better but we put in what we want done with the house and are now waiting again. It's not that we couldn't do them ourselves eventually but some of it really does need to get taken care of right away. The Rural Development and housing appraisal should be happening soon Im worried that it wont pass and that will bring on a new set of headaches. So we are in a holding pattern. If you have energy or prayers to spare, we wouldn't object some thrown our way.

House inspection ...take 2

So I realized I never told you how the first house inspection went LOL.. It was a riot a la the movie "The Money Pit" but not that bad. In a nutshell, the water had been off, the propane had been off and when the water turned back on the faucet exploded in the kitchen...it was cool to watch. The seller went straight out bought all the stuff for a new one and installed it while we waited for the furnace technician to come out and bleed the propane lines and light the pilot lights. Found out that the pipe trap in the bathroom had also cracked. Pretty sure he was fixing that as we were leaving. So with all that the inspection didnt get finished but we meet back up with Mr. Inspector tomorrow so it will be done. Im just waiting to hear about paper work after that.

In other news Im going to attempt to make my own laundry soap out of Washing Soda, Borax and Fels Naptha bar soap stuff. I will take pictures as I finally got new batteries.

Overtime went well. They may offer more towards the end of the week. Came home and found out Heath Ledger died, I am heartbroken, he was one of my new fave actors...damn sexy, damn shame. I was suppose to get the disclosures for the house emailed to me with the square footage of the house. I dont have it and Im kinda torqued off. I made lasagna today with low carb noodles by Dreamfields. It wasnt half bad, not as good as my first batch though. I like cottage cheese better than riccotta I guess. I worked in a salad for everyone as well. Teen is making me slightly irrate. She promised to clean her room and hasn't so I gently reminded her that its not about a messy room, its about keeping her word. Who knows, I just might go in there while she's at school and clean it. She absolutely LOVES that. (Yes that is sarcasm) But thats what you get when you fall back on a promise and then complain about it.

Does anyone live by me?

So I was wondering if anyone lived by Southern Illinois. Im in Carbondale, which is about 45 minutes from Paducah and 2 hours I think from St Louis and 6 hours from Chicago. Just wondering where people are. I guess Im feeling just a little lonely tonight.