Category: Daily Life

These are my daily rants, stories, and what not.

Toothbrush Tale

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I’ve spent the last two weeks visiting my parents. Not quite the visit we expected. Three days into the trip we were all sick with COVID. Girls got over it pretty well, but it lingered in the adults for a week or so.

However, that second day we ran into a little toothbrush incident.

Sam and I went to Target to get a few things we needed / forgot. We brought a reusable bag that we had used to pack clothes on the way there. So, we kneeled down looking at some clothes for Marceline, and when we picked the bag back up off the ground, we saw Marceline’s toothbrush on the ground.

We knew it was hers because Marceline’s toothbrush is a red toothbrush, that lights up, and has a 1-minute timer.

We picked it up from the ground, brought it home, rinsed it off under some hot hot water and blammo, Marceline was brushing her teeth that night.

Except, a day later we found a red toothbrush, that lights up, and has a 1-minute timer among our bags waiting to be unpacked.

Soooooo…. we just had our daughter brush her teeth with a random toothbrush.

But in our defense, what was the odds that the exact toothbrush that Marceline had would be on the floor of a Target, right where we had dropped our bag on the ground to do some shopping?

Anyways, we had her brush her teeth with a backup toothbrush we had brought for the rest of the trip.

Notebooks

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I have started to pear (pare?) down my notebooks. Or at least use them up. So I finished a Bullet Journal I started a while ago. Now I I am moving to a half finished notebook from several years ago. The address in it says Lake Ave, where Sam and I lived last in 2016. So not quite a decade, but for some reason I stopped using it and moved on.

While most of the notes in it reflect work and aren’t anything important, but I have some great old drawings in there. So why not have some great drawings here.

Vacuuming

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I have a love hate relationship with vacuuming. I actually like vacuuming. I find it relaxing and sometimes ridiculous how much our vacuum picks up.

We have four cats. Now anyone who knows me knows that I am not a fan of four cats. But when Sam’s mother passed we inherited two cats, that do not get along with our two cats. Its been 3 years and they still don’t get along. But they can all agree on how much they like to shed.

I vacuum almost daily. We are mostly hardwood flooring (or tile, or snap flooring) with lots of area rugs. And those rugs get trampled, laid one and beaten up daily. We spend most of the day playing on those rugs. And when I vacuum it pulls an obscene amount of hair off of them every time.

I didn’t used to think that, our vacuum works well just in normal mode, but I started using the power mode recently. Kills the battery, but like I said, we’re just doing area rugs not the whole floor. And that sucks up a full container of hair every time.

I don’t look forward to vacuuming now. I always think, this is the third, fourth, fifth day in a row, I should stop getting as much dirt and hair. But nope. Still coming.

Perry Nuclear Power Plant

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Sam’s father used to work at the Perry Nuclear Power Plant. I thought it was pretty interesting that he was a nuclear engineer.

And while we have more coffee mugs than we know what to do with, when we were packing up her parents house this was just too interesting of a mug to not take.

It actually says Perry Nuclear Power Plant Emergency Response Team on the front of the atom symbol

Paint Colors

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There are a few things I care less about than what color my house is. Which isn’t really true. I don’t want something outrageous like bright red and neon, or anything like that. Apart from that, who cares?

But because we’re having the side of our house, we’re done with stucco. We have to pick a color for our house. Sam is settled on a blue grayish color tint. So really it’s narrowing down exactly what kind of blue gray.

The contractor wants us to narrow it down to a few colors so he can get some swatches for us and eventually buy the paint, even though he has a couple more coats of stucco before he can paint the house.

And he’s been asking for over a week.

So last night Sam and I sat on the couch and looked at paint online. Specifically colors of paint that are designed for stucco.

I’ll be the first to admit I don’t have a great eye for color. There is not a lot of color in my wardrobe. And give me two tints that are similar and I’ll just shrug my shoulders.

I only see a minor difference between Teton Blue and Quay Blue. Especially when we’re living with it long-term. I’m not sure we notice any difference. But those are the two that we’ve settled on.

Pretty sure the sketch today shows  how much Sam and I really looked forward to sitting down and staring at a computer screen and our phones to look for paint colors. The sly smile hidden behind the tired eyes is quite accurate.