Feeling inspired

I am beginning to see a pattern in my blogging. It seems to happen once weekly and when I am needing to procrastinate. I have just recently returned from the grocery store where I feel I spent too much money and quite possibly on things we really don't need. Well, what to say. I stayed away from my two current favorite stores today, so I think that is some progress.

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I am still in the process of cleaning and organizing. It has been on my list for over 3 weeks to work on the garage, but alas, there the mess still sits. One day I will get to it, perhaps when I am on vacation in 4 weeks.

I had a lovely visit with Gilaine last evening. Gilaine is my former co-worker at Mala and I miss working with her. We met for greek food at Bravo in Duncan and shared some stories. It was great talking with her and catching up on what is going on at the Cowichan campus and catching her up on my job. She is heading off to Turkey for a month in a few weeks, so I wish her a safe trip and to take lots of pictures!

I will be looking at two new places/condos on Monday after work, but am feeling that my heart is still at the place in Sooke. I just don't want to close any options, just in case.

I am hoping to make some gingersnaps this weekend, as long as it doesn't get too hot. I really don't like have the oven on during the hot weather. My gingersnaps aren't the hard ones, but they are a little firm on the outside but super soft on the inside. Yum. Hmm, maybe I will get to making some, haha.

Geoff cleaned the bathrooms before heading off to work, so that leaves me with the kitchen, livingroom, diningroom and laundry. Not too bad and I think I can handle it :) Geoff is finding it a bit hard this semester as he is taking three regular classes, one independent study and one audit class, plus working 4 shifts a week. He thinks he may be losing two of his shifts because the person he is taking over for is coming back the middle of October. I think we are both really looking forward to December when he is done school and he can possibly quit working at his current job. He really is not liking working for this company. If we move to the Victoria area, he can find quite a bit of work in his field, possibly even with his degree. Wouldn't that be nice. He is playing around with the idea to go to UVIC to get his master's, but online is not out just yet. Guess we just wait and see.

Well, I should get at putting things away. Until the next post....

Saturday

Taking a break from cleaning and organizing, my usual procrastination. I was up this morning around 5 am, more than likely due to the fact that that is the time I get up to go to work. I tried to go back to sleep, but my mind was racing with all of the things I could get accomplished today. Hmm. I went out for a bit this morning looking at some used furniture places, i.e. "Belongings" (downtown Duncan) and "Oh my gosh" (at Whippletree). I love their stuff! They bring in old things, fix them up and sell them for somewhat reasonable prices. I found a great bedside table (I am looking for two) at "Oh my gosh", but it was $249.00, but it is an antique and it was originally from Cowichan Station. The owner did say that they get things like that in all the time but they are pretty much one of a kinds, which is cool. I'll have to talk about it with Geoff and see what he thinks. I'd also like to get a sleigh bed for our room, but that is a little out of our price range at the moment. I'll need to save my loonies and twoonies for that!

Both of the places that Geoff and I like in Sooke have come down in price quite a bit in the last week. I hope this is a good sign for us to buy soon. I have an appointment with the bank at the end of the month to see what our prospects are like. I need to keep remembering to pray, so that we can be led where we need to go, not just where we want to go.

I'm thinking of changing the furniture around in the living room again. I get bored every so often with the layout, so will see what I can come up with today.

I have requested vacation during the week of Thanksgiving and the first week of December. I am hoping that during that week of Thanksgiving to not only indulge in turkey, but to also purge our house of some more of our clutter (might be a time to have a garage sale, might be too late in the year, but will wait and see). I took the first week of December off, so that either I can be working on our new pad (I hope) or to get the Christmas decorations out and about or both! I love the season and usually decorate on the 1st of December.

Well, I think I have had a long enough break for now. Should get back at the cleaning and organizing!

The Weekend

Well, I was able to relax some on the weekend and also procrastinated and built something. Not bad for a long weekend. I spent most of Saturday organizing my Partylite closest in the office. I have separated the current from the past products and feel somewhat prepared for my next Partylite Open House. I did a Partylite show on Sunday afternoon and did okay. Got 3 more bookings, so that is always good, helps with a little extra cash. Most of the extra cash just goes to more candles! I am so thankful that Geoff likes candles, otherwise it all may drive him crazy! ha ha. After the show Geoff and I went out to Mom and Dad's for BBQ which was good and we also got to try out their new outdoor fireplace. I love the smell of campfire! I didn't bring any marshmallows though :(

Today was spent putting together our new Buffet and Hutch! Yeah! Sold our old one on Saturday, so could hardly wait until the new one was put together. And I did it all by myself. Geoff made dinner. Geoff made a funny comment today. He thought that the roles were definitely reversed in our home. I was building something and he was in the kitchen. We are okay with the reversed "roles" as we for the most part don't believe in the women and men 'roles.' Although I am quite content for him to take the garbage out! Ha ha. I am very pleased with the buffet and hutch, it has so much more storage than our old one. The one thing that I do miss though is drawers for cutlery. I think I may see if I can find a nice basket to put the cutlery in.

Well, I should go and do some things to get ready for work tomorrow. Next Saturday I hope to tackle the garage and get it ready for a garage sale sometime in the future! Wish me luck!