[jb829]

Good morning, ladies, hope everyone is doing well, and as glad to get back to *normal* lives as I am. The holidays turned out to be very nice, but I'm still glad they're over. Tomorrow I go back to work after four wonderful days off...I haven't worked since last year, lol!! I whined and complained so much Wednesday that my boss kindly arranged for me to be off...my choice, tho...Friday, and I took the opportunity for a four-day mini-vacation.

Martie, I love your hair, and I love the Eeyore blanket...good job on both counts. As far as I know, yes, semblance is a real word, lol. And my life is going back to some semblance of normal, too.
BTW, was that the FlyLady *More Time for Moms* calendar I saw in your picture? Do you have any of her stuff? I'd like to have the book, the duster and timer, and I *think* I'd like to have her control journal, altho I really doubt I'd use it.

Navywife, I don't see how you coped with being in one house with 12 people for a whole week, bless your heart. I would be a blithering idiot by now, I think. We still haven't taken our Christmas stuff down yet. I'm going to use the FlyLady *babysteps* way of taking it down, just like I did putting it up. So it'll take me several days to do it, but, it'll get done, and I won't hurt my back, etc., or get stressed out doing it.

Anybody know if Mouse has made it home yet? School starts back tomorrow, so I'm assuming they should be hom today, if not already.

We finally started cleaning off the carport yesterday, and it looks somewhat better, but still sort of like the city dump. E. simply will NOT throw anything away..."We might need it some day," even if it's been out there for over a year now. I threw some stuff away yesterday, and darned if he didn't pull it out of the dumpster, sigh. FlyLady's Super Fling Boogie is on right now, but our dumpster is so full, I can't really do anything else until it gets emptied on Wednesday. Due to the holidays, ours didn't get emptied for a tad over two weeks...there was trash on the ground, literally. It finally got emptied Friday, and someone very kindly picked up the majority of the stuff on the ground, and now it's overflowing again, sigh. I'm very grateful to whoever picked it up, tho, as I went out yesterday AM planning to at least start picking it up, even tho none of it was ours.

We did salvage a huge piece of plywood, tho, and it will be used to make my craft worktable in the bedroom...eventually, lol. Y'all know how slow I am about getting stuff done, right? E. has to cut it in half for me, and I'd like to paint/seal it, too. Then I have to move/empty a couple gazillion milk crates...yikes. It's going to be a major project, and will most likely take us a couple months to get it all done. Then I have to hang a floor-to-ceiling black curtain between it and the bed, so that I can have a light on and work in there after E. has gone to bed at night.

Guess that's it for now. As usual, things have been pretty quiet and serene around here. We'll go pick up my paycheck this afternoon, and then I plan on doing a pretty major grocery shopping...we've been living off canned spaghetti/beef-a-roni/ravioli for the past few days, and I"m getting tired of it, and so is my stomach, lol. My own fault, tho...I've had money to go to the grocery store, and just plain haven't wanted to.

Hope every one has a Super Sunday. God bless.