I feel like I have overextended myself with the whole Lent thing. Perfectly heathy eating, perfectly sober six weeks, perfectly clean house, perfectly sane hygiene schedule is all too much expectation of perfection.
I remember changing my Lent commitment here once before. Perhaps I should have realized it was too much. So I am going to change my commitment to something more reasonable. I’m going to eat well most of the time. I’m going to drink a lot less and limit it to a night or two a week. It’s still a priority because without eating and drinking properly I can’t muster the Herculean energy it talks to clean the shack up dunk myself in the bath box regularly.
The cleaners came yesterday. And when they come, it seems to accentuate the things they don’t do. Today I am cleaning the walls and doors and baseboards and window sills and archways in the living room. They are supposed to be white except for the walls that are supposed to be a fairly pale yellow. I’m not even halfway done and I am exhausted. Then I stopped to clean the fan. The fan is very close to an uncovered air vent (calm down Trho, I’m working on it) and the vents are dirty so the heat/air comes whooshing out with dust and the shit literally hits the fan and the dirt and dog hair and whatever else is flying around hits the walls. Since I am in serious cleaning mode, I am trying to actually clean the fan instead of just sort of wiping it down. The thing is there is a stupid ball-shaped thingy on the end that has all of these cut outs that collect dirt. I can’t get it to screw off as the screws are probably rusted in from the water/bleach from prior cleaning. And of course the whole damn thing is white and my new area rug is underneath. So this is my current predicament. Anyway, I am about to get back to it.
I just wanted to give you guys a place to chime in about how things are going for you! I’ll be back to update later. I’m going to lose daylight soon and want to get as much in as I can until then.
My good news is that the sun came out for the first time in four weekends today. I don’t think we’ve had five days of sun in 2018. So I am making the most of it. What’s your good news?
When you can actually see and address dirt on trims, light fittings and fans, etc, you know you are nearly there!! You must be feeling fantastic – and the sun is a wonderful bonus!! Nothing else so energizing!! You’ve got it girl! Meanwhile I am slowly continuing to zig zag downwards with my weight. Success all round I say. ?
I gave up arguing online for Lent. It’s gonna be a long time til Easter.
My head may explode
Oh dear. That is a big one. I can’t do tha.t. I tell people they are full of shit for a living
Awesome TT. Simply awesome!
I agree about the sun. The sun has been shining in London since Wednesday and I’m already in a good mood. This afternoon it was the brightest I’ve seen it in months. Automatically puts me in a good mood. My good news is that I’ve finally paid off a ridiculous high interest loan that I took out for my abusive ex aged 21. 5 years later I’m finally out. I cried tears of joy when I saw the direct debit left my account on Tuesday, and today I got the letter to say my account has now been closed. I feel lighter spiritually and emotionally and may sound like a cliche, I feel free. It’s an amazing feeling. Hope everyone is having a lovely weekend.
CONGRATS Chelle! That is a major accomplishment worthy of much celebration! I work very hard to stay debt free. There is no feeling like it. No one can take my house, my car, or my anything. It’s why I live where I do FOR NOW, and drive what I drive FOR NOW. lol. I really have to do some things to the car though. It is ten years old with just over 20K on it. I have a whole list of things when from when I went in to get a new battery. I don’t have a garage so apparently my tires are DRY ROTTING. and I need new front brakes among other things according to the dealership. Le sigh. If I do all of this, I think I might get a new paint job to make it look new again.
Someone recently invited me to a party at her house where I was reasonably sure there would be valet parking. And in addition to having nothing to wear… well… the Civic needs a makeover. lol.
Uber it!
That is hardly broken in at 20k ! You obviously don’t do a lot of driving ! Doesn’t it make you feel great when you do some purging and cleaning . I have to tackle my closets , I have been threatening this for a few yrs though ! Lol
Happy for you!! Celebrate! Buy yourself a little treat or some self-care is always great: getting nails done, a facial or massage. You deserve it!
I completely forgot and ate some cake yesterday. Realized what I had done right after I finished eating it. But I did work out today; I did 45 minutes on the elliptical when I had only planned on doing 30. Like Forest Gump, I just kept going. Then my legs started feeling wobbly so I stopped. So a mixed first week for me.
My hyacinth have started blooming. I have two light pink ones blooming and it looks like a hot pink one will be next. Can’t smell them yet, but once they are all in bloom you can smell them as you walk up the walkway to my front door. Yay for Spring!
OH! I envy your hyacinth! I just ran to the Publix because I needed paper towels. I swear cleaners will use ALL of how ever many you have. And I need to do windows tomorrow and I find they work best. When I left the house I realized my daffodils are blooming today, and the jonquils in the street dividers are all in full bloom. It motivated me to keep the spring cleaning going. I think we all need a fresh start.
I’m in yet another pair of clean jammies and freshly showered and looking forward to sleeping in my bed again. I desperately need a new mattress. Taking care of things around the house and the car and ADULTING in general is starting to get expensive. I’ve also cleared the path to where I can buy a fridge and and stove now. But I want a new floor in the kitchen. Don’t I have to do that first?
Clean jammies and fresh sheets are my favorite thing. I recently got a new mattress and it just makes clean bed day feel like I am in a great hotel! Highly recommend the new mattress thing. Expensive but worth it. I didn’t have a choice. My bed actually got ruined.
Tamara, next time you are in Publix or Whole Foods, get one of those forced hyacinth bulbs in a pot. It will make your whole house smell like Spring.
I say buy the other stuff in whatever order makes you happiest. I do vote for a new mattress, though. I have always said that a good mattress and good shoes are two things people should invest money in. Both have such a huge impact on your body. A good night’s sleep on a good mattress will do wonders for you.
Beginning Wednesday here, Aldi has forced hyacinths in the glass bulb vase for $2.99. Not trying to flog for them, I just love those beauties.
I noticed that to in the Aldi ad. There’re on my list. They’re an instant mood lifter.
Thank you Maxie, I went to Aldi yesterday and picked up 5 of them!!!
You’re so welcome. The more flowers, the better.
Speaking of flowers, if you are in the ATL area, the Japense Magnolias have all popped out and are spectacular right now.
I was just looking at our saucer magnolia today and wondering if it will bloom, since the cold weather has done so much damage. Usually it has big fat buds by now. Time will tell.
Awwh! I miss magnolias! Lived in Augusta for a handful of years, my crocuses haven’t even broke through yet!
I’m going to have to get some forced bulbs too!
The Japanese Magnolias just came out of nowhere. The weren’t blooming just a few days ago at all. It’s too early for the regular magnolias.
I meant to pick some more daffodils to bring in the house but got tired.
I noticed today that the cherry blossoms have started blooming here. They weren’t blooming yesterday, but suddenly this morning a group of cherry trees near my office are covered in blooms.
Isn’t it just the best?
Work with me here, it’s been rough week and I need to celebrate whatever I can find. 🙂
I got a new mattress for Christmas. It’s amazing and totally worth it. I put it off for a long time and I shouldn’t have. It’s one of those things you know you need but keep putting off bc it doesn’t seem like the biggest deal in your life. You can always think of better ways to spend the money. But it’s totally worth it and makes an amazing difference.
Buy yourself all the hyacinths you want. You are worth it.
I am through my first and will pick up another this week.
After they bloom, just plant them in the yard.
so proud of you and all the work you are doing! Did you unscrew the vent cover and get in there with a vacuum? So satisfying! I did it once…
I have left the frozen tundra of NY (where apparently it is currently snowing) and spent the day on the beach in Florida, and now am sitting by the pool with an adult beverage. This is the BEST! Even if it is too cold to swim, the warm sun just brightens my life.
Swoon! Lady C is at a beach somewhere. I hope she is enjoying her time unchained from the radiator. She is still stuck doing Drag Race so please go check out her latest post and encourage her to enjoy her vacay for all of us!
http://tamaratattles.com/2018/02/17/rupauls-drag-race-all-stars-all-stars-snatch-game/
i finally saw the gay pedo movie and it was pretty much exactly as I expected.
Armie Hammer is way too old for the part of Oliver. He is supposed to be a 24-year old graduate student. Armie looks every bit the full grown 31-year old man he is. And trust me, there is nothing wrong with looking like Armie.
Timothée Chalamet looks very young. Arguably he looks more 15 or so than 17.
So you have what seems to be a man in his 30s having sex with a high school freshman. 24 dating 17 already breaks the 1/2 your age plus 7 rule, which EVERYONE should abide. But 31 dating 15-17 is frankly gross. This is not to say that Elio lacked agency or that the movie was rapey in any way. It wasn’t. I just think the actual plot/movie changed because of the casting, which is unfortunate.
Once (if) you get past that, the movie is breathtakingly beautiful. I’d still highly recommend seeing it. It’s really well acted. I guess Chalamet is nominated which made sense to me.
“And trust me, there is nothing wrong with looking like Armie.” There is a shit ton wrong with looking like Armie. His posture is like someone with a fused spine. He’s awkward and skeevy. If you were not married ( and by really married, not imaginary married to me in my head) I can see I would have to approve all of your dates. You are WAY hotter than Armie. Timothy is beautiful, but he is young and you are um, not quite as young so that’s a toss up.
Armie’s existence distracted me from the setting. As did the completely pristine streets and sidewalks.
When I stay in Paris the garbage truck comes multiple times a day outside my window and EVERY MORNING they was the streets. Like, WASH THEM. And the shop owners keep the sidewalks neat. But this EYEtalian city seem SUPER DUPER clean.
The scene with the peach also made me really uncomfortable.
(1) it suggested that poor timmy is massively under endowed.
(2) all that juice on sheets in summer in Italy. It’s like the mold, er, mildew on your walls.
Look, I may have married well with you, but if you continue to have such shitty taste in furniture, wallpaper and movies, I am not sure it is worth it.
And everyone calls it the peach scene buy I was there and it was a nectarine.
And it mad me feel uncomfortable and then I felt like maybe I was uncomfortable because I am some sort of homophobe and then I remembered that I am a fag hag and by then the scene was over.
AND IT IS MILDEW! And it is not on my walls (though it is on the exterior siding (please don’t look up what siding is) and mildew had nothing to do with the movie so you just brought it up to BE MEAN TO ME!
Also the fact you randomlying brought up my walls means I am turning you.
There was definitely a good sugar walls joke in there.
I’m crawling out from under my rock to ask who Armie Hammer is! The only thing with a name like that sits on my refrigerator shelf absorbing odors.
He IS part of the “Armand Hammer” family, lol!
Your failure to get that vent back in the ceiling has literally given me anxiety. I hope you’re happy now.
The mold post made me catatonic for 1/2 day.
IT’S MILDEW YOU DAMN YANKEE! MILDEW, NOT MOLD.! If it was mold I would be dying when you could have sent Banjo and I to the Four Season and had the mold removed! He could have gone to the doggie spa and I could have benn luxuriating in well something . I’m really not sure what the Four Seasons is like but still.
And as for Trho, I do not understand what is wrong with taking the cover off. It’s the only way I can stay warm/cool when the vent is set to hit the 132 degree WINDOW PANE before circulating.
Rich People are SOFA KING judgey.
Did you forget that you took it out to turn it around? If that’s not possible, get a deflector.
Now I have to take an Ativan. I am pathologically focused on your goddamn hole in your ceiling. Good thing that’s not unhealthy and bizarre.
Ativan just takes the edge off, if you want to fix the OCD, we can talk. lol
The Four Seasons in Buckhead used to be really nice though. So there’s that.
The only cure for OCD is sweet sweet Morpheus. Can you tell I failed my class on sending a message of Hope And Healing? Ssts
I remember when you liked me. Also I was recently broken up with by a west coaster whose constant liberal propaganda I put up with THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN AND THROUGH THE FIRST YEAR OF TRUMP before I lashed out about another issue that just pushed me over the edge. Then she went ballistic and reminded me of how much she’s put up with from me, Like the time I flew out to take care her, and the time I flew out to her child’s graduation, and such.
So your failed ability to hope and heal is well not acknowledged . Especially since there was an element of everyone hates you anyway involved. AND I HAD TO ENDURE YEARS OF THE ELECTION AND THE AFTER EFFECTS ALL DAY EVERY DAY.
And you love me.
EDITED TO ADD…
The “failed attempt of everyone hates me” was from her, not you as it appeared to read above.
DID YOU NOT READ WHERE I TRIED TO TURN IT AROUND AND IT DIDN”T FIT?
Then I gave up.
Because I can’t make new holes holding my arms up over my head. I can;t even get the new fire alarm installed. I handed the male cleaner the box and told him to do it (he doesn’t speak English) and he was all like I don’t know how to to that or something because HE DOESN’T SPEAK ENGLISH.
I know have the ring almost up, but I am an old woman and cleaning fans and other thing s that require me being physically unable to complete the task.
I would like to point out that it took me ALL DAMN DAY to clean a ceiling fan properly and i is whisking around above my head looking super clean.
LET ME HAVE MY MOMENT. The hole in the ceiling nearby I am hoping will be fixed when I hire the vent cleaner.
I do not understand the issue with this.
Are you yelling? Why are you yelling? Lol
I wasn’t then but I am now because I can’t find my last post and where it was supposed to land.
It was about the “everyone hates me thing” being from someone other than you.
She seems a little stabby. I hear mold will do that.
IT IS MILDEW!
I am dying at these posts LOLOL!!!! Thanks for making my morning!
Me too! Woke up crying. Now I’m laughing through my teras. God, I love MOLD humor.
Congratulations on being able to keep your goals manageable and not just bailing on the whole thing. I don’t attempt anything life changing this time of year. I work long hours every day. It’s all I can do to stay positive and get out of bed every day.
You can pick something small like never going to bed with dirty dishes in the sink. Or drinking Three liters of electrolyte water a day…
Good point and thanks for the suggestions! I’ll look for things that I can do while I’m working 12 hours a day. I’m supposed to be having some kind of green drink daily to get more veggies. Gack.
LOL at first because Im dead, I thought I was the West Coaster until I remembered we were not that close.
As to a fan with the bulb bottom with ‘holes” think you are talking about the motor housing. It doesn’t come off like that, just suck out dust with a vacuum.
Dirty vents can also come from your heater needing a new air filter.
You can lightly sand and spray paint vents to look like new.
Most local fire depts will come out and install alarms plus you get to look at hot firemen.
Oops I read were you already changed filters
Wow it has been so so so sunny here a lot. We have had a cloudy snowy day maybe a handful of times in the past two months. Still we have pretty chilly days but the weather in colo rado is crazy. 18 one day and 65 the next. No one gets it unless they live here. Anyway I’ve been working so so so much. Can’t wait to do something fun as a family tomorrow. I have been eating shitty lately. Not drinking but only because I haven’t felt great. Ugh. No energy to clean. I used to keep my house spotless. I’ve chilled out on that the past few years. I think it makes my family happier. Happy weekend TT and all.
Oh and your above memes are funny. I chuckled. I’m watching Shark Tank on Hulu pigging out. Every once in a while thinking to myself, “these guys are idiots. I need to invent sometjing…Ugh no energy to do that..” adulting is too hard sometimes. :/
I just learned that a can of Reddiwip only covers one pint of blueberries and one of strawberries. 37 servings per container my sweet patootie. My house got and stayed a whole lot cleaner after I quit smoking. I am a big fan of 3M Filtrete filters, the 1600 series purple ones. Really improved my air quality.
I have a new one in, and another new one on standby because if I don’t get my vents cleaned Trho is going to keel over. My Brazilian fake cleaner did stick his hose up there though. IJS.
The sun was out today, annuals planted, and my daffodils and hyacinths are in bloom. The yard work is done as well as the housework, there is no feeling like it!! Sat outside this afternoon (California) and watched my two Dutch bunnies frolicking while I enjoyed a cocktail on the patio. (Sorry animal lovers, can’t deal with indoor pets. I tried but I’m too ocd) Life can be good. Who knows what tomorrow will bring, but had a great day today! Hope everyone has an occasional perfect day since most days are not so fabulous.
#LifeGoals
I pulled into the driveway at dusk a day or three ago and THERE WAS A BUNNY!
Dust bunny? (Sorry Trho cover tor screen so you can’t see lol)
I am sitting at Special Olympic basketball ptactice with my17 year old grandson and am hysterical laughing again at theses comments. (I’m being stared at lolol)
Thanks for the motivating posts. I’d not been eating as well as I should and your post, plus the comments a friend made about how carefully he eats got me started. I’ve managed to stick with it and it’s not as difficult as I’d thought. No sugar, etc. I’ve need to get this started so I owe you one.
Good for you Maxie. I’m cutting myself some slack on some of the eating and most of the drinking because I just need to focus on my environment for a bit. I am so close to having the house to where when Trhro comes to visit she’ll be only moderately appalled I can taste it!
Wish you well. I’ll keep up with these posts so we can all encourage each other. I’m eyeing some clothes that have been in the too small section of my closet and hoping.
It’s raining again. /Heavy Sigh
I woke up to a blanket of snow, maybe an inch or so, and a coating of ice under it because last night it hailed first, then changed to snow. Tuesday is it supposed to be 72 degrees here – go figure.
Read your post TT and decided rather than cutting out alcohol entirely for lent, I will partake on Saturdays only, much more reasonable….6wks seemed like an eternity…… hiccup .
But, what about the Dorit hand to nose drinking game? Surely….?
Snowing like crazy here in central PA. So far, there’s about 6 inches out there and it is still coming down. It’s the heavy stuff. I cant shovel it. Have very little use of my right arm. Scheduled for surgery next Friday, the 23rd. Trying to get rid of this bronchitis. If it’s not significantly better by Thursday, they will cancel the surgery. It’s already been canceled once before back in Dec. In a lot of pain. I’m not able to work, so this winter really stinks and is dragging along. In PA, we have long winters. Gee, sorry I’ve got crappy news. Hope I didn’t bring anyone down. That’s my update.
I’m in Southeast PA. We got maybe an inch which is 4 inches less than predicted thank goodness! ‘m sick of winter
I’m glad you didn’t keep those crazy goals which are impossible to obtain. My Lent has been going fine. Drinking a little outside of the weekend, but I’ve been experimenting a lot with vegan food. There seems to be so many new products at Whole Foods that are vegan now! I really want to open a food truck or trailer someday since I’ve been busy recreating vegan junk foods lol
Wow. It was a noble effort, but you tried to take on way too much. Sure, all of those things help to kick out at the depression, but when all 1/2-dozen prove impossible to sustain, it can feel like a really harsh defeat.
Or in my experience at least. My 8th antidepressant Rx in a 12-year span doesn’t seem to be helping, so for “Lent,” I’ve decided to switch to (very conservative amounts of) medical MJ instead of booze. Could just be aged nostalgia, but after a lot of years that sucked, weed made me FAR more settled during the 1st two years in HS. After quitting in Sr year though,I turned into Moaning Myrtle.
I’m not a shrink but I play one on the Internet. And I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE YOU to drink SO VERY MUCH electrolyte water, Like at least 3 liters a day, and stop eating processed foods. In as much as you can eat the foods your great grandparents ate only and organic when possible, Just eat food. There are fun foods to eat, Like cheese and chocolate if you eat the organic ones. Don’t eat the processed stuff.
I an not a medical doctor but if you have been on 8 antidepressants..,and none have worked.. IF IT WERE ME… I’d wean off and never return to your shrink, find another, or a yogi (not kidding, yoga helps) . Start an exercise program ( I know I suck at doing that too) and VERY SLOWLY WORK YOUR WAY OFF THE MEDS.
Preach!
Not likely that anyone checks this well after the initial open forum, but I think I have a similar but opposite (?) issue.
I have never taken meds of any kind (other than alcohol, which I know is a med in its own way). I was raised by a mom who said meds were a way of men controlling women and other such shit. She is now diagnosed bipolar; I’m in my late 30s.
I think I am legitimately depressed or something in that for years I have experienced episodes where I literally cannot get out of bed for days at a time and have to make up increasingly elaborate excuses as to why. While I have become creative over the years in my job as to why I can’t be there for 3-4 random days, I have had episodes where I’m in bed, hating myself, all day, at the potential risk of a job, for about a decade. Normal shit is just avoiding people.
But but but — I’m a happy person to those who know me! I’ve been married for 10 years, lots of friends (who I just increasingly avoid), and truly do myself up before attending social events so folks don’t think I’m weird. The only potentially outwardly weird thing about me is that I don’t have kids – which I do not want, largely because I strongly suspect I have a problem.
I think / know my first step is to talk to a professional. Which I have never done. I’m not seeking meds – the opposite! I’m afraid of meds! But I was pretty successful in my young life when it came to tests and things and I’m afraid of “failing” a mental health test, I suppose.
This is already TMI so I will stop for now.
Hi Susan. We do read these all the way until the next one is posted on the weekends. 🙂
I recently discovered the importance of being hydrated. I like coffee, tea, co-colas and alcohol and all of those things are dehydrating.
When I cut back on those as much as possible and drink TONS of electrolyte water I do much better. I try to focus on what I am putting into my body. It is a simple fix that is almost impossible to do.
A good shrink is hard to find. If you are in Atlanta I can tell you the ones to avoid. The good ones do not take insurance so it can be really pricey.
Oh and there is no test. If they gave out a crazy test they would have locked me up right away. 🙂
Not bad advice at all! Am too fat for cheese and the like now (except palak paneer, cause NYC delivery rocks!), but have never been a processed food person. It’s the endless freaking hopscotch game of meds. Though Game of Meds would possibly be an awesome Reality Show ;).
Does it help? I want to try it for anxiety but MN is very liberal in everything except MJ
Follow Tt’s lead. Stay hydrated,eat well, accomplish something. See people, laugh with them. Keep your seritonin levels up. I have been there, it!s hard to get out of and easy to get into.
If your doctor is guessing at the right med ir combo f meds, get a new doctor.,
MJ may not be the best solution. It eases anxiety but the feeling goes away. Xanax does the same thing. No long term solution. Not only that but it can keep you in your seat just chilling. The opposite of what you need. BTW, alcohol is A depressant.
Taking off my scrubs now. I only wanted to comment to try to help with my experience
Just don’t become dependent on anti-anxiety benzodiazepine ones like Ativan and Xanax. They have a very short half life 4-5 hours and the detox is awful. They are only temporary bandaids. Learn alternative coping skills if you can
If you have actual panic attacks, Xanxax is the best thing for them. I have been taking it for years. a prescription of 30 lasts me over a year. When I need one I need one when I don’t I don’t take them or feel withdraws. It is not intended to be a daily medication.
Couldnt agree more. My doctor prescribes 30 Diazepym a year for situational anxiety. I dont believe panic attacks needs daily meds
I am waitng to see. Less uncomfortable than most of ny meds ever were, but my experiment is mainly for persistent lower backpain, with some hopes for depression.
Am still playing with doses, but have seen some small improvement in back and brain. Granted YMMV. It helps if you have prior experience (even in HS it seems). My aim is more an attempt to function withiout overdoing to a point where you get hit by the psychoactive effects. So far, so good.
That’s way too many meds. A side effect of all that bouncing is actually DEPRESSION. So be careful. You may need to let everything get out of your system completely. A clean slate. Marijuana can be effective for some, but doesn’t mix well with antidepressants. Just be careful….
Really no good news here.
Firstly, the shit hole that shot up the school here in Parkland has really fucked everyone up. Everyone knows a family, or knows a kid, or knows the parents. My facebook feed is a literal nightmare.
My diet has been shit all week. I’m currently sitting on my sofa (still haven’t replaced) eating dill pickle potato chips and peanut butter stuffed pretzels.
I’m still doing Orangetheory twice a week and love it.
Tomorrow morning I’m going to Orangetheory, come home, drink mimosas all day and clean the house and wait for the hubs to get off work so we can have date night. At the rate I’m eating, I’ll be shoe horning my fat ass into my jeans.
That’s it, that’s all I got.
No words, this has hit the nation hard. I have a 16 y/o in HS and we get those scary lock down calls about once a week…last year more …long story.
Enjoy your evening with the hubs! Maybe wear a dress so you don’t have to worry about a shoe horn? I really like hearing someone say they’re looking forward to a date night…you are lucky girl! I’m going to wager your “hubs” thinks you’re beautiful in everything!
Aww, thank you for the kind words!
Peanut butter pretzels are great❣️
I heard they are making a remake of Jesus Christ Superstar. BIG shoes to fill with that one. John Legend is playing Jesus….we will see.
I got my license and got to drive MYSELF home yesterday!! This was huge for me. I had been sick for a long time and 2 yrs ago I was diagnosed with liver cancer and NASH which is a liver cirrhosis unrelated to alcohol/drugs. About 2 months after chemo, my vision went and they found cataracts in both eyes. Unusually aggressive. So I was supposed to have those taken care of about a year ago while I was waiting for a liver transplant. But the world had other plans and I got really sick and septic and my organs failed. I was on life support in a coma for last April. When I woke up, I was too sick and unstable for a transplant or eye surgery. Eventually I got a new liver and it’s been great. However, I had to wait 6 months post transplant for cataract surgery. I couldn’t see a thing for almost 2 years. I had the eyes done at the end of 2017. I have been waiting for them to stabilize and just got glasses Thursday that allow me to see very well! I renewed my license and have the all clear from all doctors to drive again.
Now I need a car…and maybe a winning lottery ticket…. but I am really excited for Part 2 of my life.
For Lent I am trying to “give up” staying home all the time. I know it’s a bit of a stretch for Lent. It just feels like it is time I get my life back and rejoin the world. (A little scary-really afraid of germs/flu because of my immunosuppressants) It seems there are quite a few people on this site with similar issues. It’s nice to hear other stories because I don’t know anyone else who has struggled that way. It can be isolating.
Good news Aimee
Awesome!
I am happy for you, prayers on your road to good health and normalcy, you deserve it.
Congrats Aimee.
Amazing! Some of the comments on Tamara Tattles are so inspirational. They definitely make me realize how someone else’s life can be many many times worse than I think mine is. And yet your spirit didn’t seem to break, and here you are after being in a coma, having multiple surgeries, probably spending tons of money on your health, and your Lenten goal is to spend more time out and about and enjoy your life, as opposed to feeling crotchety and pissed at the world for puting you through so much.
Hugs to you Aimee ! What a lot to go through ! Hope you never look back !
There is a blog/ news?? Sute I read that I have given up for Lent. I noticed that this site and it’s sister sites would blind or kill people off if they were over 60. They were making most of the stuff up or copying from someone else when it came to reality tv d-look sters.
This really isn’t much of a sacrifice is it. Maybe I will give up popcorn until Easter. That would be a good one.
BUT The Wine stays!
In less than ten minutes you went from comprehensible to WTF are you taking about. I’m guessing there is more than wine involved.
A little bit, but I’m much better now
I forgot to think of something. What can I say – I should probably just convert to Judaism and call it good. Is trying to see all the Oscar Best Pic nominees plus the Shorts something you can do for Lent? Because if that is a thing, that is what I am doing. My Movie Pass finally works!
FYI… I’ve not seen the Oscar Shorts: Documentaries yet, but I can absolutely say that if you are an Oscar watcher, you should try to go see the Animated and Live Action Shorts. Think of it this way – in less than 2 hours, you see an ENTIRE category!!! They are REALLY good too.
After 8 straight days of rain we finally have sunshine! It’s cold outside but the sun is gorgeous.
After many months stuck in my house some friends took me out to dinner last night at a fantastic steak house that we love. It was amazing. I haven’t laughed that much in months. I love those people so much. I took a bath and put on a clean dress. I even put on makeup and a bra and rolled my hair. It was raining miserably here all evening and cold. Even that couldn’t dampen my mood.
I am paying for the outing this morning with leg pain from Hell but I don’t care. For breakfast this morning I had part of my leftover filet and some homemade french toast from the freezer. Yum!
Thanks to all of you and especially you TT for the humor I needed to get through this past year.
Thanks for a wonderful long line of entertaining conversation. Mildew or Mold – damn Yankees get it right! Lol. Ok, so while most dont have a clue who I am, after a few (3+) years of lurking I will share more than you wanted to know! Right. Now. I am in full menopausal – cant sleep at night because either insomnia or nightsweats keep me up… but I sure can drop in the middle o the day for 3 hours! I have a fitbit(tch) that constantly nags at me to get up and move when I’m trying to nap and tells me every day I’m not sleeping enough. Not to mention, last Thursday my cleaning was about as manic as reading TT post of cleaning and my husband just smiles. Lol. So thats that. Nice to finally engage with all you folks
Nice to hear from you. This is a wonderful place to rant, ask questions, or just read what is going on in everyone else’s lives. Hope to hear from you more. Welcome.
Thank you for the nice welcome… I do have a question that I have been wondering about… I recently binged watched 90 Day Fiancé (s) – whatever happened to that AH Mohammad from 90 day Fiancé? I saw *somehwere (short term memory) that JOrge got arrested for trying to sell weed.. Again, thank you for the welcome and I’m glad to have finally decided to speak up!
Hi Anonymously_Me! I believe AH Mo is still lurking in the US with his brother or something. He kept saying he was going to go back to Tunisia(?) but he’s such a liar!
Hate to admit it, but I thought Jorge looked really good (well, for him!) in his mug shot. I honestly didn’t recognize him. Can NOT believe he and Anfisa (I call her Assface!) are still together. She really wants the money, LOL.
Oh that guy not only gave me the creeps but you could tell he was just cold. I caNNOT believe Jorge stayed with HER. I liked how his sister just went for Anfisa. I cannot imagine how his family feels watching that train wreck unfold…
Tamara, congratulations on all your hard work, I know it is very satisfying to see the light at the end of a moldy tunnel. I have my house superficially cleaned, would love to have it deep cleaned but my health says no to that. Decades ago my mother was dying from breast cancer and I went to her house armed with my best vacuum cleaner and assorted tools and cleaners and deep cleaned her house over a few days. I was exhausted when I was finished. She called me to her bedside and kissed me and said ” I love you and thank you,I feel much better now”. I cried in her arms. Now that I am older I realize how the simple act I did for her really meant. I am so glad I shared that moment in time with her. Deep cleaning cleans the spirit as well as a house.
My back is killing me today and I spend the morning coughing up all the dust and dog hair I ingested yesterday.
I need to make some coffee and see if that motivates me to at leas finish the rest of the livingroom and the painted part of the bathroom. The mind is willing but the flesh is weak.
Did the coffee work?
The sun is shining and I need to do some yard work but instead, here I am.
I have a hyacinth blooming. It was in a pot and I thought I killed it last year. Twas a pleasant surprise.
I attended a wedding at the Four Seasons Atlanta several years ago. The bride’s father booked 2 floors of rooms for traveling guests and the ballroom for the reception. Fuck, were they loaded. I lost my boyfriend and later found him slobbering all over a bridesmaid. Then I married him, because I am an idiot. I’ve never been good at catching red flags thrown directly at my face. It’s a talent.
It’s freeezzzinnnnggg here. I balmy 27* atm, and its been snowing most all day. So cold that even the wild geese I feed out back buckled down and sat on their food stash…
I love hyacinth but can barely grow wild weeds, so I enjoy everyone else’s green thumb talents…
I had to LOL “Then I married him because I am an idiot”…. I think dang near every woman Ive ever known has a life story that includes “then I married him because I am an idiot”. Lol – I know I have TWO!
Hey Sam, That was a in your face red flag. I had multiple red flags, still proceeded with the relationship and stayed in it for years. Looking back, I think, not certain, I did not really care enough.
Tree removal coming Tuesday, costing more than my first car. They charge almost double to take the wood logs and chip the brush. No one wants pine or cypress firewood anymore, can’t give it away.
Hi all, I’m quite sick right now with an odd mix of symptoms. I keep hearing that many people are sick this flu season and I wanted to ask, if you, or someone you know, has been sick recently, what have their symptoms been like? Mine are:
Very early morning on day one: acid reflux wakes me up. My stomach hurts a lot, I feel like bile is rising into my throat.
The rest of day one: very bad stomach cramps, feeling nauseous, can’t eat, head ache, and body cramps, especially behind my knees. Super tired. Had to call into work. Couldn’t stand upright. Fever around 101.
Day two: stomach feels much better but head and body hurt, throat hurts very badly like it’s swollen and full of glass, fever around 101.. Tired.
Day 3 (today): very painful, swollen throat, fever of 100, headache and sore body. Tired.
It seems like a crazy mix of flu and cold/strep throat symptoms and yet about a month ago my employer had this same mix of symptoms. She’s been better for weeks though, so I don’t think I got it from her. The other day I watched a sick toddler who coughed on me and had a very runny nose I had to keep wiping, but I don’t have a cough or runny nose. Has anyone else had my symptoms? Is this what’s going around?
I actually just came out of two weeks of being down, stomach- head and major acid reflux. I was down for 4 days solid, and still feel very tired and generally fatigued. With all your throat stuff tho…. it sounds like you have strep AND the flu :o( Have you called the doctor in yet?
That’s weird you would mention that – I’ve had exactly the same symptoms. Feel wiped out. Hope you’re feeling better. I’m kicking back today (well, every day actually) and looking forward to watching Sister Wives tonight. Can’t stand Kody, the husband, or the newly married couple, so it’s always entertaining.
My daughter also had it… I, too, hope you are feeling better. I have Sister Wives recording on Amazon. I have this terrible OCD demand that my seasons be complete prior to watching. I’m addicted to a good binge.. I’m with you – cant stand Kody (but at least he isnt flipping his hair as much as he did the first few seasons!). I used to feel really bad for Mary, but now I’m over it. And honestly, Sobbin-Robin also gets on my nerves.. lol.. but I do love Janelle – I think (right now anyway) she is my favorite wife. With all the kids I’m getting the feeling that the next five years will be seasons of marriages and tiresome newly married stuff… I’m just waiting for the day I see one of the wives actually leave.. I always thought Janelle would, but Mary is too afraid and insecure to try – Now, Sobbin RObin – yea once the cameras go away I would bet she will too… I guess I overshared there! Lol.. sorry about that. Ive been talking to my husband about all these shows and I see the vacant glassy stare that greets the names I offer up…so it’s cool to actually talk to someone who KNOWS who I’m talking about!
I’m beginning to feel better. My fever is down to 99 and I am have occasional bursts of feeling almost normal—usually after taking some aleeve and having a nap. My throat is not as painful right now as it was earlier in the day, but it seems to be at its worst when I wake up in the morning or am coming up on the time to take more medicine. If I’m not feeling g better tomorrow, I will go to the doctor. I keep looking in my throat for white bumps—bc I remember someone telling me that those were a symptom of step—and I don’t have any white bumps yet.
I am so glad you are on the mend, even in small bouts- normalcy is a sign you are kickin it :o)
My husband had the same symptoms (except for the bile thing). Sore throat and cough lasted a week. Feel better!
The bile was such a weird and random 12 hour entrance to the dick was which ended upmorphing to become more of s throat thing and less of a stomach thing. Now it’s day 4 and my throat is still super swollen and painful but the bile and stomach symptoms never came back after the first half of day one.
Entrance to the Sickness which ended up morphing*
Geez! I wish we had edit buttons for our comments.
LOL. No comment. But, I am wondering if when you had the bile and stomach problems if the bile didnt back up and burn your esophagus near your throat triggering the domino affect you are having. Sometimes with GERD that will occur as well…. If you arent getting any better today and only evolving, me thinks it’s truly time to go to the Dr
The day started out sunny and then the sky fell out again. I have yet to even motivate to eat. I looked at delivery menus and then didn’t order anything. I have no appetite and nothing sounds good. I just made a turkey pot pie I need to go eat.
The only thing I did today was bleach the bathroom walls down, It’s a tiny bathroom so it didn’t take long at all. It’s mostly tile but the painted part really needed a good wipe. So hey, at least I did something. I’m still sitting in the living room looking at spots I missed yesterday and things I should have done today.
I’m about to be busy with work again, so I’m just going to watch some things on DVR before RHOA and listen to the rain. Again. It has literally rained all year. I feel like I live in Seattle.
Hey you may have “only” bleached the bathroom, but after all youve been doing – thats plenty! Heck girl you did more than I did today. I got up, rode my bike, sat on my ass, took a long nap, and ignored the cat litter that needs vacuumed off the laundry room floor, and cuddled with my dog.. lol… that is the extent of my efforts today! So kudos to you! It always rains in the Northwest – we dont tan here – we rust… lol…
I was forced into early medical retirement and just finished my BS in CJ and LE out of boredom. So atm my days are filled with “Now what?” I think I wanna go back out in the work world, but at 49 it’s a lot different than 19. Anyway, again with the overshare.. I understand the waves you ride intimately, as I ride very similar one… and now because I really WANNA be a health nut I have a Fitbit that highlights my activity and in the process highlights my manic-ness – it’s so F.U….. well starts with an F and a U but isnt FUN. Hope your day brightened…
PS If I havent said it, thanks for all the entertainment over the years
Congrats on your degree! What a cool accomplishment to get your degree after you’ve retired.
Tamara, hoepfully your lack of interest in food isn’t some kind of illness beginning. (I’m hyper vigilante when it comes to illnesses this week)
Thank you TT. I didnt wanna mention the lack of food – only because I dont wanna speculate, but I will say that when I go through my manic-ness I lose interest in food for days on end. For you, I am hoping it will be the same reason and not pending illness!
Oh! I forgot to mention, yesterday I came home from Publix past the house where I Tonya was filmed. I don’t normally go down that street. THE ENTIRE HOUSE IS GONE and nothing is left but the foundation.
So weird. They usually only pay a couple thousand dollars a day for filming. I figure they might have gotten #50K in total. If they got a brand new house out of it, I’m going to be pissed I didn’t let them use mine. Sigh.
Did they ask?
I thought it was filmed in Virginia?
It sure as fuck wasn’t filmed in Portland, Oregon, and that was SO GODDAMN distracting.
Get a good mattress topper-expect to spend about $150. They are life-changing. In the past year I stopped using narcotics and lost 15 lbs. I am STUCK. Had a party I was invited to yesterday at people I really like I could have played music (I’m a musician) -but I didn’t go. Was invited to a good friends but didn’t go. 6 or 7 weeks ago I was put on half second shift half third shift and it’s fucking with me. They hired someone to take over the 2 nights the regular guy does audit (so I thought!!) now she tells me we will switch off. I love my job but am putting a resume together tomorrow at the library cause I don’t have computer. I thought I had some “tenure ” having been there the longest besides her and the asst. mgr but guess not. Having owned my own business for 22 years I’m sure I can get a better job than front desk clerk. Geez. Sorry guys-I had to unload
We just got one of those sleep number beds a few months back, and boy howdy! You are right on with life-changing just by changing what we are sleeping on! COngrats on the stopping of Narcs but sorry to hear about the work stuff. Wishin you the best of luck!
But I did clean out front room that I swore I was going to paint like a month ago!!
Just yesterday I got the paint out of the storage area to repaint our hallway… I planned on painting it last month, but so far that is the extent of my efforts. LOL. I have promised myself that THIS is the week, no, really, THIS is the week I’m going to start with the re-fresher coat….seriously. Really, I am…
This is partly why most of my walls are painted a dark or very saturated color—it doesn’t show dirt and doesn’t need a refresher coat nearly as often or ever. Plus, I think the combo of my dark walls with my white windows, crown and base molding, and other trim is quite stunning. I have some artwork hung that has a thick white matt and it’s really set off against the dark walls. Lots of people were scared by my choice of super dark, nearly black grey walls when I told them about it, but the amount of people that come through the house and don’t even seem to notice the wall color—they see it more as a neutral than anything else—is interesting considering how they were the same people who made a very shocked face when I told them my paint color. People notice the navy paint in the dining room more than the charcoal paint in the living room, even though it’s lighter. I think it’s bc it’s a color.
Long rant just to stump for dark paint colors! If any of the readers have always wanted to but have been too worried to take the leap, I say try it! I personally love it.
It sounds really cool! Never thought of Charcoal color for walls before…
But I did clean out front room that I swore I was going to paint like a month ago!!
You need a new cleaner. They’re supposed to do baseboards, window sills, ceiling fans, etc and bring supplies! If you buy a new mattress, or even if you don’t, get an adjustable frame. Life changer.
Set out to do 30 minutes on the treadmill, did 15. The sun came out and I loaded the pups, opened the sunroof and took a ride (with the heat on). All in all a very good day. Mildew is REAL in the South.
I am also skeptical of tamra’s cleaners who seem to want to switch which day they come on, use up all her paper towels, and don’t clean parts of her house. Could she be being taken advantage of? Honestly though, I’d almost be okay with being taken advantage of if at least some part of my house got cleaned. I feel like seeing other people cleaning might motivate me to clean, and if the cleaners did some of the big main stuff like the bathrooms/kitchen and vacuuming and dusting, I would be able to get to those lesser things like ceiling fans, banisters on stairs, and the inside of the refrigerator.
My cleaners are not professional cleaners and are very cheap. I am pretty sure I am their only clients.
You can get a company to come in and do a deep clean for about 200 then start fresh.
It’s amazing how much better you’ll feel. That’s a lot of money for me at one time but I only do it a couple times a year. Much easier to maintain once the big stuff is done.
TT congratulations on the big steps forward. That is cleaning on a level I aspire to.
Buy the hyacinth. We need the smell and the beauty.
My good news is the family cold is getting better. It included a bevy of weird symptoms including gut issues. Fun! Homemade chicken soup, herb tea, vit c, rest and homeopathic flu remedy helped.
And the myriad symptoms I have been struggling with for decades has a name: silent migraines. Everything but the headache. God, what a relief! Yes, anxiety is a symptom. This has given me great hope.
Hoping everyone had a wonderful weekend. We are watching ice dance.
KathyD, I am currently fighting a strange mix of cold and flu. Is this what “the flu” is this year? Is it a strange mixture of stomach problems with fever and cold symptoms like swollen, sore throat? It appears that I am not the only one fighting a mixture of “traditional flu” and cold symptoms, so I wonder if this is one big bug that is going around this year, as opposed to two different illnesses hitting at the same time.
What is homeopathic flu remedy?
I don’t participate in lent, but coincidentally just started a lifestyle change a couple weeks ago. Trying the new WW program which pushes fruits and veggies. Side note (not an endorsement), I started on Fenugreek supplements and my blood sugar dropped 30 points within a week. It has made me downright giddy to feel that I’m gaining control.
Are you doing online or do you have to go and weigh yourself with a group??? How much is it a month?
Thanks anonymously me!! I’m sitting in my living room (instead of hiding in bed) first time in 6 weeks and looking at how little it would take to finish painting my apartment!! Wish we could help each other!! Had to lose a lot of friends due to the pill thing -sometimes a job is a 2 person job but my sister paints a room by herself in a day. Too bad my large Irish catholic family is in the Northeast where I’m from. Ok let’s do this painting thing!! (Maybe I need a text from Teddy!)
Nancy- Gladly! My large Irish non-catholic heavy drinking family is close, but, well, heavy drinkers ;o) lol – I will definitely keep you posted if I actually get the paint brushes out next… lol…
Um theses posts are about ACTUALLY FOLLOWING THROUGH, Anon!
/Give you my stern teacher look.
#PeerPressure #YouAlreadyCommitted #PickUpTheFuckingPaintbrush
In other news, the paint probably isn’t any good anymore. Don’t ask me how I know this.
I am sorting through my bathroom closet at the moment while watching TV. Many moon ago when I was a sane. outgoing girly girl, I had an obsession with THE CONTAINER STORE and redid this closet with super cute and very expensive baskets of all sizes. I’m sorting them out and trying to at least organize if not purge.
I’m oddly stopping to paint my nails with my new OPI nail polish collection while I am in a scrubbing deep clean Lentil (lol) season. I don’t know what is odder, the whole walk down memory lane with hundreds of dollars worth of cosmetics I never wear, or the fact I am sticking with this whole cleaning thing. Like, I’m seriously going into all the nooks and crannies in an attempt to get out of her, and the more the house looks like I envisioned it, the happier I am right here.
Life, and the “Lentil season” is weird.
Ok this is how bad my thinking was when I read this post TT. First, I thought – Shes right… and if I order NEW brushes from Amazon, well I wont have to start for 2 more days lol! But then when you brought up the age of the paint, well, now I have no choice but to hit HDePo today – which means no excuse to order from amazon either.
Did you purge everything out? And were you able to do it without ruining your beautifully newly painted nails?
Ok, alas, the day awaits
In other news, I am actually shaving my legs again. I gave up because I went a long while without and could not find a decent razor. Then I found Target Up & Up Store brand triple blades. Work on any forrest or bush in your Congo. IJS. Plus now that I am a regular groomer, I have enough razors to last for the Apocalpse and need to go back to prepping. I need more duck tape, but I have heavy duty plastic sheeting for all my windows under my bed. Doesn’t everyone? Hello?
I shaved yesterday too! I’m leaving Wednesday to go to Anaheim to visit an old college friend (hence the shaving.) He bought the plane ticket and I couldn’t refuse. Extremely nervous and excited. Last time I saw him was 25 years ago. (Don’t tell anyone, but I’m hoping to get lucky! TMI, sorry.)A
Imposters marathon on now. Looks like Maddie is with the others for season 2.
I’m conflicted, I was ready to call the evil Comcast and get rid of my cable. Anyone know if I can stream Bravo without having cable?
Tamara-you are right!! Pick up the paint brush!! Gee, why didn’t I think of that?? Ok, will report back when I have actually applied paint to a surface. Thanks for all the encouragement!! We/I need it!!
So Tuesday is trash day in the ghetto. That means I try to get the trash out on Monday night. So because it is the season of eating lentils and whatnot. I am trying to make the most of my overpriced trash service. So I got two huge bags of stuff out to the curb today. My bathroom closet is now all organized and it’s amazing that the more exhausted I get, The faster I just throw everything away.
Here is what I have learned. Today I threw out a lot of Shalimar (shut up Trho, I like Shalimar it smells like Tripoli kind of) bathsalts. I don’t take baths because my tub is sort of a disasterous cast iron mess. And I don’t have a good plug for the tub. I miss baths terribly but this tub just sort of sucks,
Anyway, Today I finished off cleaning out the bathroom closet and the medicine cabinet. It really wasn’t much, but it was for me and I am so bone tired it’s embarrassing. I do have one thing that hangs on the back of the closet door that need going through, and under the sink that might need something (or not) but I think the bathroom is very close to being done.
The thing is I tend to mess up other clean rooms while cleaning. So I have to clean off my coffee table again since that is where I did the toss or keep thing mostly last night and I still need to get the coffee table back together. And the kitchen is getting behind again. And I am not well physically.
I’m not sure what is going on with me physically, Today my lungs hurt and there was a swollen kind of place on my chest. When I took a shower tonight by boobs were a bit purple in places. When I was recapping my left side of my neck was feeling like it was on fire. My hands have been in bleach for days and my right hand has not fingertips left.
I picked four daffodils today and brought them into the house.
Anyway, I guess what I am not saying is I feel like I am cleaning the house because I’m dying and I don’t want to leave it in a mess. That is my anxiety talking right? Clearly, I am crazy in the head.
But I really do have weird symptoms every day. Cleaning is REALLY hard. Y’all. It’s literally making me insane. I’m inhaling a lot of fumes. Please pray I get my beach house before I die.
I’m not being all dramatic. Even though I am being all dramatic. I’m just telling you ANXIETY is a real thing. I’m having skin rashes and freaking out about random shit. My body just isn’t used to working this hard every day. I suppose this is what Lent is all about. And I am working hard and making progress and you should too.
Even if we die, it’s worth it. LOL.
Are the purple marks itching too? Sounds like it could be an allergic reaction.
Try wearing dust mask and gloves, take a shower (even just to rinse off – brush your hair beforehand if you aren’t getting your head wet), and if those purple marks are hives? Take 4 or 5 Pepcid or Tagamet (not the z one, those two brands or their specific knock offs). Pepcid and Tagamet are great hive treatments. I carry or have near me a bottle of Pepcid from Costco pretty much 24/7 for that reason.
If your throat starts to itch or feels like it is closing… get yourself to a hospital ASAP! Take said pepcid or tagamet or a benedryl!!!
Skin is back to a normal color today. Except for my fingertips. I have no fingerprints on my right hand from all the bleaching so I figure it is a really good time to commit some sort of crime.
I’m pissed, taking off the switch covers, finished painting my kitchen last week, hated the color once it dried, doesn’t match a thing, so dragged my rear to Home Depot again but only bought sample size paints…here I go again! At least everything is clean so I just have to take stuff down and return once the paint dries..hopefully one of these colors works and I can repaint the kitchen tomorrow, again! Waaaahhhh!
So I picked a color pretty quickly then the daughter and “DH” came home..might I add when my daughter came home after I JUST finished painting last week, she asked me if I wanted pink walls? All (this) momma could do but to remain calm and remind her that SHE talked me into this color palette! (Plus she had promised to help paint and was excited to help, until she helped and it was work…!)
“DH” is undiagnosed color blind. He NEVER see’s green as green, it’s always grey! Of course he thinks he knows what color matches and I WAS the fricking Art Major…until I ran out of money ran off and joined the Army (like every Art major does!..heh heh, not!) I’m not asking for opinions anymore. Picked my color and I’m sticking to it!
Do i have to drive to your house and beat the color out of you? WHAT COLOR DID YOU PICK WOMAN?!!!!
please don’t say red.
You’re welcome anytime!
I’ll meet you half way..
“Shoreline haze.” If I hear one more person suggest “Navajo white?” I’m going to loose it! Kinda green gray that goes with the counters and cabinets. Half our physical distance somewhere in TX.
Up nawth it’s call that subtle shade institutional green.
Oh dear! Oh well, it matches my counters and cabinets and it’s not pink.
I approve Shoreline Haze and that is all that matters.
Amen!
After buying our 1st house Navajo White was recommended by MIL. Husband said do it bc his Mom had painted a lot and I’d never waste time over paint colors. I came to hate Navajo white. Depressing color, but I do other shades of white.
Woke up to snow, already have a couple inches, I need to go to HD , the struggle is real!
Did it! (Didn’t want to!) Walls repainted and as much as I wanted to not do it again? I did it!
I have a lot more to do. Thank you for starting this spring cleaning forum. Timing for me personally couldn’t have been better.