Re: Daily Check in May 17 2018
Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 10:54 am
Good morning,
I have been busier than an entire hive of bees. Trying to spend every effort sifting through MIL/FIL's belongings, throwing things away, putting like items together, making huge bags of donation items, trying to clean that dusty old house. I am worn to the bone but I can see I am just about finished with what I can do. I have been putting so much effort into getting it ready for our own estate sale and trying not to become sour about the fact that I am doing entirely ALL the work to make this happen with absolutely ZERO help from the retired sister-in-laws who just can't seem to come into town. Found out that my BIL will be the one who will come into town to do the estate sale but wants to do only ONE DAY, on a Friday. Neither of the SIL's will bother with it (too busy). I suspect a one day sale on a Friday will virtually sell nothing as most people are bargain hunting on the weekends. Like I said, I am trying not to become bitter about it and trying to think that the SIL's are just too freaked out to deal with this and have basically "checked out" of the whole thing and dumping this in our laps. I am going to make this sale happen and then I am going to call the Union Gospel Mission and have them come haul away the rest and be rid of it. It is all I can do at this point. I have been spending so much effort and time on the main house getting it put together than I am starting to neglect my own home.
I have been so busy but I have put together a menu list for the week. I have really used up a lot of food in the freezer and am going to have to start to hunt around for meat bargains maybe next week. I went to bake a sausage quiche last night and the youngest daughter showed up with her boyfriend and said they were having problems with his car. Hubby went to check it out and found they are starting to lose a head gasket in the engine as he could see water mixed in with oil on the dipstick. Those poor kids don't have the money to send that old car in to be fixed and the car isn't worth that much. Hubby went down to the auto parts store and got fresh oil and a can of something that you pour into the engine that is supposed to fix (temporarily) a leaking head gasket. I hope it works. They changed the old oil and poured the can of motor fix in it, gave that old car a blessing, and told them it is all he could do for now. It was about that time I realized that my quiche should have been done and I ran back into the house to find it a little too brown on top but still edible. Darn it all! Oh well. The kids left and went to run errands and I made a salad and Hubby and I ate dinner.
I get paid tomorrow so I sat down early this morning and caught up on my ledger and banking and made sure everything matched the way it is supposed to. I don't have to be to work until 11:30 this morning so I am going to take a load of donation items to the Mission. It is going to take a couple of trips so I will do some today and also next week. I sure am tired but am hanging on, just got to get over this major hurtle and get the house emptied and then we have to take stock and decide what remodeling we are going to do before we decide to move in. Taking it one day at a time! Take care everyone
I have been busier than an entire hive of bees. Trying to spend every effort sifting through MIL/FIL's belongings, throwing things away, putting like items together, making huge bags of donation items, trying to clean that dusty old house. I am worn to the bone but I can see I am just about finished with what I can do. I have been putting so much effort into getting it ready for our own estate sale and trying not to become sour about the fact that I am doing entirely ALL the work to make this happen with absolutely ZERO help from the retired sister-in-laws who just can't seem to come into town. Found out that my BIL will be the one who will come into town to do the estate sale but wants to do only ONE DAY, on a Friday. Neither of the SIL's will bother with it (too busy). I suspect a one day sale on a Friday will virtually sell nothing as most people are bargain hunting on the weekends. Like I said, I am trying not to become bitter about it and trying to think that the SIL's are just too freaked out to deal with this and have basically "checked out" of the whole thing and dumping this in our laps. I am going to make this sale happen and then I am going to call the Union Gospel Mission and have them come haul away the rest and be rid of it. It is all I can do at this point. I have been spending so much effort and time on the main house getting it put together than I am starting to neglect my own home.
I have been so busy but I have put together a menu list for the week. I have really used up a lot of food in the freezer and am going to have to start to hunt around for meat bargains maybe next week. I went to bake a sausage quiche last night and the youngest daughter showed up with her boyfriend and said they were having problems with his car. Hubby went to check it out and found they are starting to lose a head gasket in the engine as he could see water mixed in with oil on the dipstick. Those poor kids don't have the money to send that old car in to be fixed and the car isn't worth that much. Hubby went down to the auto parts store and got fresh oil and a can of something that you pour into the engine that is supposed to fix (temporarily) a leaking head gasket. I hope it works. They changed the old oil and poured the can of motor fix in it, gave that old car a blessing, and told them it is all he could do for now. It was about that time I realized that my quiche should have been done and I ran back into the house to find it a little too brown on top but still edible. Darn it all! Oh well. The kids left and went to run errands and I made a salad and Hubby and I ate dinner.
I get paid tomorrow so I sat down early this morning and caught up on my ledger and banking and made sure everything matched the way it is supposed to. I don't have to be to work until 11:30 this morning so I am going to take a load of donation items to the Mission. It is going to take a couple of trips so I will do some today and also next week. I sure am tired but am hanging on, just got to get over this major hurtle and get the house emptied and then we have to take stock and decide what remodeling we are going to do before we decide to move in. Taking it one day at a time! Take care everyone