Just like Christmas only WAY different!!

This Saturday is one of my favorite days of the year.  No it isn't my birthday or any super cool holiday.  Nope nothing like that...it is clean up day in our township.  That means you can fill your trucks, load your trailers or even make your kids drag any and all crap you may have to drop off.  When I say anything I mean ANYTHING.  You gotta get there early or you are going to wait in line to get into Steven's to dump your load.  I made the kids go to bed early and Ryan brought me in a few turbo garbage bags out of the barn.  You know what that means, right????  It is time to clean out the......TOY ROOM!!!!  Bwwwahahahhahahahaaaa!!!  The kids are scared and rightfully so.  They have so many little odds and ends in there that just need to be trashed.  They aren't even worth donating so are you ready for the before and afters (I can hear my mom cringing as I decide to post more horrific closet pictures)?????

BEFORE:

Yes I do realize that it looks like Milton Bradley vomited in there!!

Whew this is going to be a 2 night project I am afraid.  It is very close to being WAY past my bed time so I better call 'er a night.  So I guess that means you need to tune in tomorrow night for the after photos!!  Believe me I did some serious work tonight so I am super excited to finish up tomorrow night!  This is going to make moving just THAT much easier!!   Catch ya'll on the flip side!!

"This replaces the naughty bag......"

So, this post has absolutely nothing to do with selling our house, shacking up with the 'rents, dream house deals or raccoon invasions but it is pretty funny.

My dad got my SIL and I a cute little make up bag and they said NAUGHTY on the side of them (ya know the whole naughty/nice thing).  I have a habit of leaving my makeup bag on my desk at work in case I need to freshen up my lip gloss through out the day!!!  The girls would walk by on occasion and remind me that my naughty was showing if the wrong side was showing in my office.  I didn't want to give anybody the wrong idea with the whole naughty thing.
Well a couple weeks ago I was apparently chewing gum, walking and trying to throw a couple water bottles away in our outdoor garbage cans.  I also had my NAUGHTY bag under my arm and managed to throw that away as well.  I spent an hour the next morning trying to find it and Ryan finally found it and dug it out of the garbage.  Needless to say it STUNK like serious garbage.  I decided my best bet was to throw it away and go with a temporary bag.  Sooooooooo this is what I have been carrying around for the last month:

Then I got to work today after being out sick for 3 days and this is what I found in my mailbox:

With a post-it note that simply said, "this replaces the naughty bag"!!  So I gotta give a big shout out to KC for my sweet new springy make up bag.  THANKS GIRLFRIEND!!!!!!

Slacker much?!?!?!

So, did you guys think I fell off the face of the earth or that I was kindapped by a band of angry 'coons?  Well I didn't and I wasn't!!  The crud that everybody around me has had finally caught up with me and knocked me down for a couple of days!  Blah, been home from work for 2 days and NO WORKING OUT FOR 2 DAYS!!!  Good lord this better clear up real freaking fast!!  Well enough about me 'bout that house of ours????

We had our open house on Sunday and here I am back to staging!!  Uggghhh I thought I was done with staging.  NOT SO MUCH!!  So here is my table with the FANTABULOUS flowers I bought from Costco.  Seriously I got a membership there just for the flowers (don't tell Ryan that was the only reason).

 

The good news:  we had 2 people through the open houe!!  The bad news:  they both said the bedrooms were too small!!  Ok whatevs!

Thennnnnnnn we had another showing yesterday and they said that they loved the house but that it was too small!  Ok, don't get me wrong but isn't all of that info listed on the interweb?  Call me cuckoo, but I believe it has the total square footage of the house and the dimensions of all the rooms.  As I said, WHATEVS!!

I think that desperate times call for desperate measures so I am on a mission to find one of these:

St. Joseph Home Seller Statue Kit

Sorry, I was going to put the picture there but the 104 temp is frying my brain and I can't figure out how to "borrow" and past a picture.  Oh, and the Nyquil is kicking innnnnnnnnnnnnn, oh oops I dozed off for a minute

After all you know Nyquil is the night time sniffling, sneezing, coughing aching, stuffy head, fever, how the h#ll did I wake up on the bathroom floor medicine!!

So I am off to bed and promise I won't slack anymore!!

Dream House Deals

Well, well,well wait til you see this deal!!!  This is one of my favorites so far!!  Oh and not just because how much it cost!! I gave my mom a couple framed Eiffel Tower pictures a year or so ago.  She said once we built the new house she would buy me a picture to replace the 2 I gave her.  Soooooooo, I saw this one about 6 months ago and absolutley loved it.  Mom just got a 20% off coupon in the mail so we hit Bed, Bath and Beyond on Saturday and picked this up!  Here it is:

So in the end this lovely picture was FREE TO ME!!  I think this is going to go into our computer room/guest room!!!  Wooohhhoooo, loves it.  The problem is that it is so big I had no place to put it here.  So, it is now hanging out in mine and Ryan's soon to be bedroom at mom and dad's!!

Raccoons, raccoons they are EVERYWHERE!!!

Wow, just when I thought I was done with my raccoon encounters they keep popping up EVERYWHERE!!   I walked into work today and the first thing I noticed was a new picture on my office door.  Normally I have a few pictures one of my rockin' co-workers put up on my door of me running my first marathon last year that she took while cheering me on.  When I came in this morning one of my other super fantastic co-workers put up a new picture on my door.  Are you ready for it....here it is!!

Hahhhaha if you look very closely at the bottom left you will see a raccoon sticking it's tongue out at me as if it is saying na-na-na-na-nana!!!!!  All I can say is good one girls!

Then as if that wasn't funny enough.  Wait til you see what was loitering outside the main entrance of our building today.  I really think I am some sort of weird 'coon magnet or SOMETHING.  I dunno call me crazy but everywhere I turn I see them!!!

I mean come on, who WOULDN'T climb into a garbage can for a quarter pounder???

Ok just let me say SICK!!!  I have had all of the raccoon fun I could handle for a lifetime at our house for the last 4 days and now I gotta worry about them jumping on my face as I leave work at the end of the day!!

Ok so we have an open house on Sunday and a showing on Monday so LOOK OUT this baby is gonna be sold by next weekend.  I can feel it.  I will share some more sweet pictures tomorrow of my open housee preparations.
Oh and I am going to Costco tomorrow to get some fresh flowers for the open house.  Good lord have you ever gotten some flowers from Costco?  They are the best EVER and sooooo reasonable.  I really got my membership for the flowers (insert blushing emoticon)!!  I will be sure to share some pictures.