Christmas decorating and Car Problems...
Wow.....I know I haven't been posting since I got back from Caseville. I just keep forgetting. Got back last Thursday. We were only in Caseville for a few days...long enough to get my mums cut back and winterize a few things. I left the furnace running when we left.
I had hubby go up into the attic and get all my Christmas decorations down. I swear that I am going to start downsizing some of this Christmas stuff. I eliminated quite abit of things. I took some stuff to this consigment store. And I took another box full to the Salvation Army. And I have some stuff I'm going to sell at my next garage sale. But I still have too much stuff! I have some things I put out but I'm not packing it up again....it's going too. If I can just STOP BUYING MORE CHRISTMAS CRAP, then maybe I can get it cut down some.
Anyway, I have my house decorated and it looks so nice. Hubby still needs to do the outside lights. And we decided to get a real tree this year, so we'll go get our tree next week. I have the majority of my Christmas shopping done and I've already started wrapping some things. I'm just loving Christmas this year! Since we do Christmas at home every other year now, it's been 2 years since I went all out with the decorating, the gift buying and having the kids over. So I'm looking forward to everything instead of dreading it like I had started doing. Then next year, it will be nice and simple with us going to Caseville and getting away from it all and just shopping for the two of us. (Kids get gift cards then)
Our attic needs more insulation badly. It's been years since we put some in. So now that all the decorations are down, hubby has been busy putting in 15 rolls of insulation. He finished today and I can feel the difference. Maybe lower our heat bills..! Hope, hope...
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So last Tuesday I'm out and about and all of a sudden my windows started steaming up and I couldn't see a damn thing. I had my defroster blasting and it wasn't doing much....just getting worse. I had to pull off and wipe the windows down myself so I could see. Then I noticed smoke coming out of the vents. I turned the blower off and pulled off the road. Couldn't call hubby, cause OF COURSE MY CELL BATTERY WAS DEAD! So I let the engine cool a little and then drove home. My heater core was gone! We had to have my jeep towed to the dealership. That was Tuesday. I finally got my jeep back tonight....Thursday. Over a thousand dollars! Of which, most of it was for fuckin LABOR....I guess they had to tear the whole dashboard out to get to it...a big job.
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Tomorrow I'm going to Cleveland for a few days. You ever watch A Christmas Story? Well Cleveland is where the house is at and some guy bought it and renovated it like the movie and now does tours. There is even a museum and gift shop. Also, Ian Patrella who played the little brother, Randy, is going to be there conducting the tours. We are big fans of the movie. Every Christmas it's on TV for like 24 hours straight and we watch it over and over and over...and when it's done, I pop the DVD in and we keep watching it!!
Have a nice weekend....
I had hubby go up into the attic and get all my Christmas decorations down. I swear that I am going to start downsizing some of this Christmas stuff. I eliminated quite abit of things. I took some stuff to this consigment store. And I took another box full to the Salvation Army. And I have some stuff I'm going to sell at my next garage sale. But I still have too much stuff! I have some things I put out but I'm not packing it up again....it's going too. If I can just STOP BUYING MORE CHRISTMAS CRAP, then maybe I can get it cut down some.
Anyway, I have my house decorated and it looks so nice. Hubby still needs to do the outside lights. And we decided to get a real tree this year, so we'll go get our tree next week. I have the majority of my Christmas shopping done and I've already started wrapping some things. I'm just loving Christmas this year! Since we do Christmas at home every other year now, it's been 2 years since I went all out with the decorating, the gift buying and having the kids over. So I'm looking forward to everything instead of dreading it like I had started doing. Then next year, it will be nice and simple with us going to Caseville and getting away from it all and just shopping for the two of us. (Kids get gift cards then)
Our attic needs more insulation badly. It's been years since we put some in. So now that all the decorations are down, hubby has been busy putting in 15 rolls of insulation. He finished today and I can feel the difference. Maybe lower our heat bills..! Hope, hope...
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So last Tuesday I'm out and about and all of a sudden my windows started steaming up and I couldn't see a damn thing. I had my defroster blasting and it wasn't doing much....just getting worse. I had to pull off and wipe the windows down myself so I could see. Then I noticed smoke coming out of the vents. I turned the blower off and pulled off the road. Couldn't call hubby, cause OF COURSE MY CELL BATTERY WAS DEAD! So I let the engine cool a little and then drove home. My heater core was gone! We had to have my jeep towed to the dealership. That was Tuesday. I finally got my jeep back tonight....Thursday. Over a thousand dollars! Of which, most of it was for fuckin LABOR....I guess they had to tear the whole dashboard out to get to it...a big job.
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Tomorrow I'm going to Cleveland for a few days. You ever watch A Christmas Story? Well Cleveland is where the house is at and some guy bought it and renovated it like the movie and now does tours. There is even a museum and gift shop. Also, Ian Patrella who played the little brother, Randy, is going to be there conducting the tours. We are big fans of the movie. Every Christmas it's on TV for like 24 hours straight and we watch it over and over and over...and when it's done, I pop the DVD in and we keep watching it!!
Have a nice weekend....
posted by Diane @ 11:17 PM
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