Category: Miscellaneous

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Ten Things in My Car

This week on the Tuesday Ten, Lisa from The Golden Spoons and Rabia from The Liebers want us to tell you 10 things we would find in our cars if we cleaned them!

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This is my ride these days.

 
10. Water bottles: We have a lot of reuseable water bottles and somehow they all end up in the car–empty. So when we are actually driving in the car and are thirsty, we have many water bottles yet no water to drink. Kinda reminds me of the phrase, “Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink!”

9. Maps of Midwestern states: we love a good road trip! When we stop at a rest area, we always grab a map of that state. Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan….

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8. The latest Walmart Atlas: We love it! I think we are behind though; we have the 2013 edition right now.

7. Candy wrappers: I cannot get those kids to stop throwing wrappers on the floor!

6. Windshield sunshade: It has been several months since I pulled it out, but in the summer months a sunshade is a must have!

5. Crayons: Kids strike again!

4. Dance bags with dance shoes: The girls like to keep their dance shoes in the car so that they don’t forget them on dance day.

3. Rocks from the Upper Peninsula: We drove up to Michigan with my in-laws for a vacation, and my father-in-law picked up some rocks he thought were interesting. He put them in the far back cup holder…and they’ve been there since 2009.

2. Cell Phone charger: a vital piece of equipment, since the outlet charger quit working on me.

1. Empty CD cases: CDs currently in the CD player right now are: Taylor Swift Red (the girls’), The Wailin’ Jennys Firecracker (mine) and of course, the Frozen soundtrack. (Isn’t this in everyone’s car right now?)

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What music is playing in your car these days?

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Bathroom Fixer Upper {Spin Cycle}

Last Spring, I decided I needed to do something about the ugly wallpaper in our main bathroom. Whoever decided to wallpaper our bathroom had no idea what they were doing. Instead of using a straight edge and a sharp razor to trim the wallpaper, it seemed like the applier had used a scissors. It was jagged and torn in some places. As I tackled the walls, some of it was easy to take off, and other parts held on for dear life. Taking down wallpaper is a horrible job, but this wallpaper NEEDED to come off!

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I even made a vlog for Mama Kat’s Vlogging Prompts, showing how to remove wallpaper! Watching this made me remember how hard I worked in that bathroom…

I made some discoveries as I was removing the wallpaper; there had been two other wallpapers before this one, and there was dark pink paint under this layer of wallpaper.

Right in the middle of my project, the April floods hit Chicago. My basement was flooded and my sewer wouldn’t drain, so my project was on hold.

Fortunately, the bathroom was still useable, it was just gosh-darn ugly.

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After I finished patching the walls
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Ugly paint, toilet and floor!

At the end of May, I finally put my bathroom project back on the calendar. I patched and painted, and bought new towel racks and outlet covers.

But the floor! The floor was still ugly shiny pink stick-on tiles. This was a project we wanted a professional to do. However, it was harder than I thought to find a floor guy for a bathroom. After we finally found someone to do the floor, a funny thing happened. The roof to the floor company’s building collapsed (fortunately no one was hurt) and the work was postponed.

By November, we finally had a new floor in all our bathrooms.

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New paint on ceiling and walls
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I still want a new light fixture! And ignore the mess, please.
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New floor!

I’m not done yet; I still need to put a frame around the mirror and redo the vanity. I’d also love a new light fixture! It’s not the dream bathroom I’d love; the bathtub, toilet and vanity are still old. But for now, it’s much better than it was!

Up next…my laundry room…the washer and dryer are down where the spiders live and it floods every Spring…

 
What needs fixing upping at your place? Link up your blog post and visit other people’s stories! Then come back on Monday for a new Spin Cycle prompt.
 

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