My resolution to get my house clean and organized by the end of January is well on its way. I have done nothing but organize rooms, closets, shelves, and cupboards for the last 26 days. I've learned a few things during this process, and found a few lost items too.
I have learned that I hate stickers, and feel that the person who invented them should be hung. I have scraped stickers off of windows, cars, puppet theaters and walls. Why is it that every time we go to the grocery store, doctors office, dentist, piano lessons etc etc. people give us stickers. There is no value in a sticker. You can do nothing with it, expect stick it where it doesn't belong and let your mother scrub her head off. I do however, feel the person who invented the magic eraser should be knighted. I personally plan to find out who it was and send them a big box of cookies.
I have also learned that my grout is really light grey, and not black, as I had originally thought. However, as I was cleaning out the bottom of a closet I noticed the grout was white. Alarming, isn't it. Upon further inspection I realized the builder was just too lazy to finish off the closet, so I think we may be safe with the light grey after all. Lucky for me, I have a good friend who just so happens to periodically read this blog, who owns a handy dandy grout cleaner machine. Don't you think we could have good times sipping lemonade and reminiscing while we scrub grout.? Pretty please.
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I remember being young and having my mom get so frustrated with t-shirts that went through the wash with stickers on them. This is why we have a strict hand/paper policy when it comes to stickers. The kids usually stick them on their hand and get annoyed with them after a few minutes and then they are in the garbage. Hooray!
by the way, I love the new look of your blog. It reminds me of your Chritmas card and you know how I loooved that!
Christmas card? What Christmas card?
Will she bring her grout cleaning machine to AZ???
Oh, and stickers, honey, you are speaking my language. I spent, no lie, 2 hours just on my kid's bed alone with "Goo Gone" getting stickers off their bed. And don't get me started on the giant Hannah Montana stickers on the back side window of my van - darn you doctor's office!
I am glad to know that I am not the only one who loathes the mass distribution of stickers. As far as I'm concerned they may as well pass out permanent markers. And Charlene, I'll gladly trade a Christmas Card for a grout cleaner. Don't take it personally, I never send cards to local friends because I figure they see me everyweek, why would they want a picture of me, but if I can just organize the office I may be able to find an extra and send it to the best sunbean teacher on the planet. And then Meghan won't have to worry about sendng you one, because conveniently they are identical. And no it wasn't planned, it's just that great minds think alike.
hi jen
your brady bunch story was pretty good, and i hear ya with magic erasers and the grout. (I was kinda wondering if there was something better than scrubbing--not that i've tried yet!) but the dinosaur valentine story made me laugh so hard. Ah, elementary school love life--funny!
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