Living a Blessed Life

Where to begin? Jeepers! So much to do, and the time just keeps moving. We all have the same number of minutes in a day, it's just how we choose to use them that makes us productive / successful or not. I must constantly remind myself of this, as I often feel that being lazy would be a better option. I have a running list of the daily tasks needing completion, which never seems to dwindle. On Monday I decided I would rake the front lawn. There were so many leaves that I couldn't stand looking at it anymore. So, I brought out the rake with the intention of raking half on Monday and finishing on Tuesday. Well, I just couldn't stop in the middle, so I have multiple piles of leaves hanging out and rotting in my front yard. On Tuesday I started bagging the leaves, only to have a neighbor stop over and inform us of our other neighbor across the street's passing. His name is Dick Cook, and he and his wife, G.J. are amazingly nice people. He will be missed even though we did n...

After a long bout of trying to rectify a situation with American CarpetMaster , they have been completely unwilling to work with us, and downright untrustworthy. I write this in hopes that when other people search for a Carpet Cleaning company or Carpet Repair / Restoration company, they will find a bit of helpful advice. This company was hired and paid to patch two areas of carpet, only to leave the job unfinished and looking much worse in one area than before. They were unwilling to fix this problem and after filing a complaint with the BBB, they lied about the situation and were not willing to come to a decent resolution. This is very unfortunate, as I prefer to support small business and local companies, but I cannot recommend them, and would advise anyone looking for local repair or cleaning services to avoid American CarpetMaster at all costs . They may have the lowest price, but clearly, you get what you pay for.

Here I am - all alone at work today. It's a semi-strange feeling, and I am trying to think of things to do, but really, I'm pretty well caught up. So, I decided to update my blog since it's been about a week now. TIME FLIES! House Update: We are almost finished with the major projects we had going on. We still have some minor touches to work on, but the big stuff is complete. My mom called yesterday and told me that she purchased some nice curtains for our living room - What a wonderful surprise!! I am really looking forward to hanging them. :-) We have yet to prime the basement bathroom and paint it up. Once that is complete, we will have the biggest projects out of the way. The next large one will be the living room and dining room flooring. I think we are going to lay laminate in the the dining and kitchen, and repair the living room carpet. I'm not sure when that will happen, however. We have all new windows in the upstairs, back of the house. What a relief that w...

Oh My Goodness!! I am SOOOO Excited!!! (Can you tell)? The MN Twins baseball team has tied for 1st place in their division, and we will be attending the tie-breaker tomorrow! Woo Hoo! Yesterday we had the privilege of attending the 'last regular season game' in the Metrodome. Now we can look forward to outdoor baseball next year. The program after the game was great, as we saw many former players and re-lived some of Baseball's greatest moments in the metrodome. Now, we can look forward to possibly play-off games... Cheer Loud! Win Twins!!