At the new location even! Now instead of weird long urls anyone can go to my main website and immediately get my blog which will include photos and new stuff.
It will take me a while to catch up with everything that has been happening with me in the last several months, but the quick highlights include: rearranging the house, having my mother move in with us, working for the U.S. Census Bureau for a couple of months, revamping the garden with my mother, and grounding the children for their inappropriate use of texting on their cellphones.
Post date: March 26, 2009
I have been a reader of Apartment Therapy for a few years now. I came really close to participating in the Spring Cure last year but could not decide what to do so I skipped it. Well this year because of a variety of circumstances I am going to participate. Mainly because if I don’t take some before and after pictures I might forget what all things were.
In the next 2 months (hopefully less) we are going to be drastically rearranging our entire house. The back room/computer room is going to end up being gutted even more than it has been. Our bedroom is going to be trimmed and streamlined and put into that room. I am also going to be emptying out my things from the upstairs bathroom which includes finding a new place for my dressing table. The dining room is going to be tweaked as we are still unhappy with how the storage has worked out in that room. The end result should be a much more livable arrangement.
The main purpose for this is that we are making room for my mother to come and live with us. We are very excited but we know that the decision was not easy for everyone. It is for the best but there is a lot of work involved in making this happen. I am proud of how much she has been already doing.
Of course there is much more happening in my life but a start is a start for blogging again. I will be taking some “before” photos.
I have a deadline of a few weeks to make as much happen as possible because I am taking a temporary job for about 2 months.
Post date: April 18, 2007
I don’t know how old many of you were before you learned to tie your shoes. I was 5 and almost in Kindergarten before I mastered it. I remember the neighbor lady teaching me a different method than the one everyone else used too. I was left-handed and just could not figure it out. I struggled my entire life with keeping my shoes tied. It was terrible because at times I had to have Devin tie my shoes because I had tied them 4-5 times already in the last hour.
However tying my shoes has completely changed for me in just the last 2-3 days. It was one of those follow a link from another site type of thing. Here is the stream that happened to change my life. A. I was looking up features to keep in mind while looking for luggage, B. I then looked at rolling laptop bags for Devin, C. Then was looking up suggestions for travelling light, D. Where I found a link to a website by some guy called Onebag.com for travelling around the world with only a carryon bag. E. Where when reading through his fascinating information he talks about learning to properly tie your shoes…. I think What? You mean there really is a correct way to do this chore that I despise? He gives a link to a gentlemen’s website Ian’s Shoelace Site. So I take a stroll down there and he has a lovely illustrated set of directions that tell you how to tell if you tie your shoes correctly or not. Well I discovered that I don’t! So he also gives the easiest directions in the world for how to fix your “granny knot”. So after learning to cross the starting knot the opposite of how I have my entire life, I then learned how to do Ian’s Secure Shoelace Knot. My shoes have never stayed tied this long in my entire life. I tie them when I first put them on and they don’t ever come undone. Plus the bows are nice and even and don’t travel all over the place.
Such a simple thing but truly it has made the biggest difference. So how many of you don’t tie your shoes correctly?
