8-9-13

8:05am

My back isn't feeling too swift this morning.

I knew I was going to pay the price for

picking up such heavy boxes yesterday.

Just being stubborn wanting to get things done.

Still have a crap load of laundry to bring upstairs.

Above my washer and dryer I have a long

metal bar to put my hangables on after removing

them from the dryer so they don't wrinkle as much.

I had a small rolling rack before that and now use

it to hang jackets on.  We have too many jackets.

Hubby gets one or two every year from work and

there's a ton of sweat jackets I found this year

that were really nice from Abercrombie,

Hilfiger and American Eagle.

Plenty stocked up on them that's for sure.

Plus I have a lot of sweaters that aren't even

included on this rack.  I get cold easily!

I think I found this rack at a yard sale for a couple dollars.

Had to put it on the shortest length because with

the weight of the jackets it kept sliding down!

Got a cabinet moved into my laundry room yesterday

to store all of our towels in.  I have a ton of those also, lol.

I removed all the shelves and put them on top the cabinet

and put two stacks of towels in there.

I still have 4 more towels in the bathroom

and 3 beach towels hanging outside drying, lol.

The cabinet I got free many years ago from a move out.

Don't ask where the other knob went.

It's been through several moves.

We use towels for everything from spills,

hot car seats, beach & pool, dry the cars off after being washed,

for baths/showers, rugs, picnics, animals, older towels with

holes get cut up into rags for cleaning.

I have a laundry basket under my kitchen

sink that I use to put rags in and we use those instead

of buying paper towels.

The only paper towels we buy are used for windows.

Each day in the basement I try to set a goal.

One of today's goals is to organize this shelf

with school supplies on the upper two shelves

and then put house and spray paints

and whatever car supplies that can't be stored

outside during the Winter like waxes, cleaners, body putty, etc.

on the bottom shelves.

I keep telling hubby

 I would make him a place in the basement

to store his car stuff and are just now getting

around to it.

Then I still want to work on organizing the overflow

of kitchen items and get them all put in the storage room

on shelves.  I don't have a very big kitchen to store

them all upstairs and need more storage for

small appliances, bakeware and things that are

only used for holidays.

9:50am

Got the ac off, well not off but the temperature in here is below what it is set for at 79 degrees.  It's 76 degrees in the house with the fans and windows open.  If while I am working in the basement

and hear the ac kick on then I will go around

and close up all the windows.

For now I'm saving on the electric bill!

2:00pm

I swear I think I'm still trying to snap my back in half.

I went through most of my books, cookbooks,

magazines and cooking magazines and got rid of

over half of them.  I swear I must of owned the entire collection

of Taste of Home and Simple and Delicious magazines!

I still kept my little checkout cookbook magazines

like Pillsbury though.  I have a ton of those little books.

Sending the rest down to mom's to give her something to do.

I tried to put all the books and magazines into smaller

containers but they still are some heavy suckers.

I think I have 3-4 boxes and 2 laundry baskets full

of them going out!!

Then I brought a large tote into my kitchen

and went through stuff that I could store

in the basement to give me more storage space in my kitchen.

I'll end up having 3 bookshelves full

of cooking and baking stuff in the storage room.

6:00pm

I don't know where this energy is coming from

but I'm going full steam ahead captain.

I got my storage room done, 

about 3/4ths of my laundry room done

(didn't get the rest of the laundry brought up, oh well),

got the school supply, paint and autmotive shelf done organized,

got supper done of spaghetti with

leftover bbq pulled pork spaghetti sauce

and garlic bread,

while that was cooking and baking I went through

two of my cupboards,totally cleaned them out, 

got rid of stuff and organized them better.

So much more room now!

10:00pm

Went out to Reynoldsburg to check 

out the old cars.  Mopar Nationals is out at

National Trail this weekend.

From there we headed to Groveport to visit a friend.

Brice Rd.

And this is about how I felt once we got home.