Out with the Old, In with the New...

                                                                               

Well, it's Monday, and here I am, back at the ghetto with my coffee at my side...

This weekend I was far too busy to sit and do an entry, let alone, work on my ant video.  With all the fuss over this silly video, you'd think it was a real big deal---it really isn't you know..  I don't want you guys to get all worked up over it, okay?  I DID manage to FINALLY copy my pictures on to a CD, on a program I have from HP that is on my computer..and this is good, considering that I have lots of pictures to copy...  After that is done, then I plan to do some fun stuff, and make a few with music in the back ground so the family out in the "Old Country" can put in their DVD players and watch like they would do a film.  All of this will be put on hold for a few weeks, because my computer has been re-located from downstairs to upstairs in my room..

We have been doing some remodeling around the home, and my husband, aka: Mr. Fix It Man, has almost complete finished our new wall!  One side of the wall is completely done and painted, and we now have a little den area where the children can do their home work, or lay back and watch some T.V...  Now my front room is almost completely empty, awaiting my new dining room set... HURRAY!!!  :)  The couches in that room have been sent down to the family room, and the old couches that WERE in that room are sitting in the garage awaiting Salvation Army pick up.  I was SO HAPPY to see those boogers (the old couch and matching chairs) leave the house.  It sure took a lot to get them out the front door of course--heavy boogers they were. 

Now I can sit on my sofa without a past...  When I say the old sofa and chairs had a "past" it means that they once belonged to my husband when he was still married to his first wife.  I never really thought about it, and really didn't bother me too much, but it definitely reminded me of the couches I HAD when I was married to my first husband.  These couches must have been purchased at the same place, during the same year---obviously a very popular "look" for the time.  You know those late 1980's style, light colored/pueblo Indian southwestern look?  The cushions were ripped in places, and there were stains (that would not come off) on the arm rests.  Nicholas I think peed on it or threw up on it more than once, and you know, no matter how many times I took the covers off and threw them in the washing machine, you always wonder what germs may be left behind in that couch..  Eeww..  Of course, when my daughter pointed the fact that his ex wife was probably was rolling around on it before...  Just that visual made me want to loose my cookies; if you know what I mean.  Oh well, they were around for 20 years; time for a change. 

We moved my mom's old dining room table out of the new room.  This table has been with me for years...literally, years.  If you look underneath it, you will see writing under the table done in crayon:  "Julie was here, 1977, age 11."  If only that table could talk.  It was with my brother after he first got married, and then it came to me after I got married, (1986) and has been following me ever since.  It went through my first marriage, a divorce, and countless moves from my condo, to a house, back to my parent's home, back to the condo, back to my parent's home, and back here...  It's on it's way back to my mom's but I just may have to write somewhere under that table, "Julie was here, 2007, age 41."