Days 552 and 553

Thankfully no termites again, 

But they are coming over to spray for them and put some stuff in the walls to prevent them from coming back. So I was cleaning and organizing the house, and I always put the comforter on when people are coming over (No, Mom, I do not make my bed completely every day... Sorry to disappoint you)

So When I got the comforter out , I saw this! Mr must have been on here while we were away :( Bad cat

after talking to my sister about it, she gave me an idea of how to fix it and I did

it doesn't look perfect, but it looks much better than a string hanging out!

days 544- 546

Since being home I have been mostly catching up on laundry, yes I did some while I was at my parents house, but I'm pretty sure Josh did none! 

But I also am headed back to the gym, and this is my view while I wait for my friend to pick me up in the morning.

And we are back to Mexican food :D yum, we went to the Empanada place, so delicious.

Days 532 and 533

Josh is still out of town, but Mr and I have been doing chores

He is so helpful

 

Days 523 - 526

We have been getting back into the groove, and doing chores, but Mr has a new bad habit...

Sleeping anywhere I am

And I've been craving candy, and we have a random bag of Mexican candy so I thought I would try something

This is a candy bar with marshmallow with jam on top and dipped in chocolate

Day 520

Today I went to water my cacti...

I think it died.

Day 481

We did a lot of packing!

This is my sewing room, 1/2 packed.

And we got the keys to the new house, 

where Josh left me at to get some cleaning done, while he went and grabbed a load of already packed things, we have a long road ahead! Lots of cleaning, we started with mopping the living room floor so that we could just move everything into the living room and then disperse as we went.

Days 433 & 434

Sunday was spent hanging out at home.

 On Monday I finished my November block.

Trimmed some bushes

I ran into some trouble with my bobbin, I've been having a TON of trouble with my bobbins that I have been buying, I have been buying Singer brand and everything.

After switching to an old bobbin I was able to finish my December block as well.

And now all of my blocks are finished!!!! Only 4 months too late.

Day 405

Mr spent most of his day on his new red square

And I oiled the front door! 

It turned out really nice, the desert air really dries out the wood.

Day 399

So on my rotation of cleaning it was time to clean the guest room, I washed all of the bedding, and then I started dusting and cleaning the closet. And I found this.

Apparently my cat is now a closet puker. Ugh...

Then later he helped me with my quilting, I finally got to sewing on the outside borders of my client quilt

Days 302 and 303

More chores around the house.

Nothing exciting for our Sunday.

Monday Josh went to work, and the. Around 7:15 everything in the house beeped, then went silent, the power went out. Right after the power went out I heard sirens and a fire truck horn... I knew there had been an accident. I told Josh about the power and his assistant called to check on it, because we wanted to make sure that it wasn't some other reason our power was out, and in fact it was because of the accident, so I had to think of things to do with out power, 

Usually on Mondays I do laundry and cleaning, not today!

So I decided to trim my quilt.

And I just love it!

Here is a close up of some of my quilting.

I can't fall in love with it more everyday, it will be hard to give away.

After I trimmed it I thought, well maybe I could do some cutting, but no, everything needed ironing, so I decided it was a perfect day to read, so I opened the blinds in my bedroom and read for most of the day, around 2:30 the power came back on and I had to get back to my chores.

Days 262 and 263

We hung out at home did some cleaning around the house, using the new vacuum, the rugs are so much cleaner it's so impressive!

Seriously our old vacuum was doing NOTHING! We had to empty the canister after every rug. I was a little grossed out.

I worked on trimming and Mr thought he would help by napping on my fabric.

And I finished pressing

Then I had a super hard time sleeping because the layout was bothering me, how to make it all random, so I laid it out and after like 3 tries I think it looks ok.

And somehow I was 2 squares short! 

Day 261

While Josh was at work I started pinning the binding on the MIL quilt.

When Josh got home we went shopping.

Good news, right next to your brisket you can pick up cow tongue and stomach... Barf

We finally got a real vacuum, I've never been happier, although I miss my Dyson, this is much better than the Mexican vacuums!

And now serving chips and salsa in my new telavera wear :)

Finally I went for a run, with my new shoe charms my friend gave me while I was home.

Day 242

Today I did laundry, paid bills and cleaned the laundry room.

I even gave Josh a hair cut.

And I found cockroach number 3 dead in the office bathroom, yuck!

For dinner we made chicken nuggets.

They were ok, but not great.

But while making them we had 2 eggs left and I read the directions and I thought I was supposed to mix the eggs and flour together, nope, you are not... So I had to run to the store and buy more eggs. Then when I ran out of flour in my dipping bowl , Josh dumped in more... Except if was the powdered sugar... This is the third time he has thought the powdered sugar was flour lol... All because they don't bleach the flour here lol... 

Days 192 & 193

We had a pretty low key weekend,

After hanging out at home and going to the gym Saturday, we didn't feel like cooking so we ordered Pizza Hut, it was close to the same, but still different.

On Sunday Josh mowed the lawn, and I cleaned the pool, and we hung out at home.

We did make dinner, a dish called Italian wonder pot, similar to our chick en lo-mein one pot dish, but worse, it was not delicious at all.

And now we are stuck with leftovers :(

Day 189

To be honest I feel like the day got away from me.

I talked to my parents and my sister,

I did dishes and ironing, a little sewing, but nothing amazing, oh and they finally took our screens to be redone after the hail broke through them!

Day 11

So I did a few more loads of laundry, one of which was sanitizing the pad for the steam mop, Josh had steam cleaned some things before I got down here.

So I was excited to use the steam mop for the first time.

Meet our steam mop.

Notice all the dirt on the pad? This place is dusty! I had mopped the bathroom, closet, bedroom and living room, and it got quite dirty! Then later I knelt on the living room floor and my pants were all dusty again! How will I keep up with this dust!?!?!

But the steam mop is really nice Nice and quick, I had heard about them because my sister inlaw had one, and really liked it. The downfall is no cleaning solution can be used... So you will need to bleach mop occasionally... 

I also washed the sheets, so I made up our bed with all the decorative pillows and etc. I am in LOVE with our new bedspread set!

And our lamps :)

I tried out mexican gummy bears, I think they are actually panda bears...

They were good!

I skim the pool everyday, and I saved this guy while cleaning the pool, he spent the rest of the day hanging out on the patio.

Then, we ate left over ham and cheese sliders, and made mashed potatoes that are supposed to be like apple bees mashed potatoes.

They took some work, and were ok, but Josh and I agree, they were not worth the effort.

And the Spanish lesson for the day, crema acida is spanish for sour cream :)

Day 161

As you know I do laundry every Monday.

And I own a ton of laundry baskets...

But this is because I separate my laundry very methodically (thanks for this mom)

In addition to sheets and etc. these are the loads I do

Blacks

Cold water blues

Warm water blues

Cold water reds

Warm water reds

Undies

White t-shirts

Cold water whites

Towels

I think that's it...

Do you separate yours into this many loads?

Oh and Mr. Says hi.

Day 24

I woke up early, way too early, 4:30 or so...

And I had a stabbing pain my my lower back, so after dealing with it for a few hours I decided a nap was the only thing that would make it better, I was right! When I woke up it was so much better!

So I did more laundry, Scrubbed more cupboards, and enjoyed the nice weather!

Day 23

Another day in the life of a house wife/maid :)

Laundry, and I scrubbed out more cupboards, and lined some since we picked up lining this weekend! I don't know what the last people did in this house, but there was some seriously gross stuff in the cupboards, and how do you not clean the out when there is a massive sticky mess? 

Then Josh came home, and cooked us dinner! (I am making no attempts to learn how to cook on a grill) 

It was delicious...

Day 17

Today started out slow, a few loads of laundry, a load of dishes,

But when I went to wash dishes, and let some water out if the sink, the drain overflowed into the cupboard behind it, so gross!!!!

So I cleaned that up, the scrubbed out the cupboards on the side by the stove, and lined them with grippy stuff.

Then finally I had some sewing time.

I basted this Christmas present :) hopefully I have time to quilt it soon.