Archiving my pictures

Pictures. I got a TON of them. Here, there and everywhere.

Anything from 2005 to the present are burned to CD's, the CD's are labeled with what is on them. As of last year (2008) I have been printing an index print with the CD's to keep with the CD. (awesome idea!)

And now I have slowly started moving everything from my hard drive to a site I love called Shutterfly. They are awesome, have a free service that I can upload all my pictures to, and even a website I can share with family, so they can see my pictures on a fun site!

Not to mention I make a yearly photo book for both grandparents of each kid (to save on money, Bagel's is for Christmas, and Weaky's will be on Mother's Day)

See my issue with not keeping my pictures on the computer, is when I want to blog, or pull up a picture, I love to just search my files for the pictures. BUT pictures take up a retarded amount of space that my 6 year old computer is not up for holding. (it gets slower with every month of pictures I dump into her!)

So if everything is on Shutterfly, I can just go get them there! Hooray!

I am off to upload this months pictures there now!!

18 lonley socks

This is kinda funny, well only to you. I am still sorting laundry, from three hours ago... Here are my stats so far...

Started at 1:30 pm it's now 4:19 pm

Started with an approx. pile of clothes 7 feet by 5 feet and, no shit, knee deep in my bedroom.

I am now able to see my bedroom floor, there are still piles to hang, and deliver to the kids rooms.

Socks... I had a pile. I sorted the pile, Spaghetti and the kids all have there socks matched... I have 18, yes 18 un matched socks. Where the eff did they go?

(possibly in the 9 laundry bags in Weaky's room?!?)

Not sure what bug got up my ass, but I am doing it. Little bits at a time...

Go me!

5 Days

Holidays are OVER!

5 Days.

Five days till my new year.

My 2009.

Whatever shall I do with it you ask?

Well I will tell you...

• Potty train Bagel
• Work on projects the month or a few months PRIOR to when they are due (not days before!)
• Since I am in the card making business it is silly that I do not send out fun cards. My new year shall consist of a small list of people that will appreciate home made cards. Make them cards for V-Day, Easter, Mothers Day, Father's Day, 4th of July, Halloween, and Thanksgiving. Also send out birthday cards to lots of people, and anniversary cards to weddings I have attended. Just a simple idea... but I need to organize the idea.
• Organize pictures. I am pretty good at this as of late. But prior to the last 6 months I have 8 photo boxes FULL of pictures. I need to organize, scrap and move on. Possibly scan some all time favorites to disk. But I do have the last 2 years on labeled disks, with most of them having the index prints also with the disk (get the index prints for the extra .99!)
• Good god organize my paperwork, files, and plug in and use the shredder!
• Separate the Stampin' Up! business paperwork from the home.
• A big one is to pick up after myself! I suck at this SO BAD!

Lots of house work to keep up with, I think if I had a weekly schedule, a basic one to go by, I would not be so overwhelmed by the house.

I also need to get laundry together, get a good system for that, and keep it in effect.

My mom wants to organize her art room (shocker, my mom also has an art room) all in pinks, so I am going to help her with that too.

Oh I want to do some painting in the kitchen, and the mud room (not a real mud room (I would love one!!) but the area by the garage door is made for shoes and coats, I want to paint that a light bright color.

Lots of plans, gatta get to work!

update on the bags of clean laundry

I did not shine my sink last night, I actually left it full of dirty dinner dishes, and did not clean off my hot spots. But I did wake up, and fold and put away two baskets of clothes!

I guess I am doing much better at washing clothes, I have only 1/2 a load to wash, it's all clean, but oh it's not all put away. Yep still got those 10 bags in the closet in Spikes room... obviously we don't need all those clothes if we have gone almost 2 weeks with out them!! Yikes!!

Well off to clean some more!

They ran away...

I didn't think Spaghetti would take me seriously. I told him yesterday at 4:30 if he took the kids and ran away, I would clean all night... they were gone to his mom's house by 5:00...

So I cleaned. Alot. Now I am not at the moment into decluttering, since we are having a house full of guests on Sunday, I will be gone today, and Saturday at family events. So that leaves me tomorrow to clean.

I mean surface clean, like just make it look pretty, and yes this means the kids rooms too, since some people haven't seen them. So the loft is a freakin' zoo. I mean it was insane!

So I spent most of my energy there last night. And with 4.5 hours to work, I did good. I didn't file papers, I found a big basket and just dumped it there for another hot date of shredding and filing.

I also cleaned the front t.v. room, took out the big coffee table, most of Bagels toys, put in a HUGE new area rug (well new as in, it's from my parents old house, new to this house) I am excited about my rug! Spike can crawl, or whatever on the floor now (hardwood otherwise) and I put up the tree yesterday, lights too. No ornaments yet.

We had a cute family moment, it was right before Spaghetti left with the kids, it was dark out (yep 4:45 and pitch black out) Spaghetti was holding Bagel, and I had Spike. And I noticed how pretty the tree was all lite up at night time. So the 4 of us stood around admiring the tree. Awww. A family moment...

ok back to the cleaning story. So it's still bizarre around here. I need Spaghetti to help me move the monster coffee table (it's going under the pool table for now) and to move out the beloved office chair my big butt is planted in right here every day. But it's too big, and heavy and is jacking up my floors (yes even with the heavy plastic floor mat) so my dad, Carrots, gave me his old chair for his desk.

Oh and that is a funny story, I traded my mom two tables for an office chair and an area rug. Either way it's lookin' good around here. I am trying not to just shove shit everywhere, I am trying to clean up.

Hope I can get it all done!

Fucking Laundry.

Fuck the laundry.

Fuck the white tshirts I can not find.

Fuck the dress shirts, dress pants, clean underware, hoodies, socks, sleepers, and bras that I can not find clean.

It's all fucking dirty. I care. I want it all organized.

But what I really fucking want is a nudist colony for a family, or disposable clothes. Fuck the environment on this one. Well, no... ummm... how about biodegradable clothes.

Whatever.

I fucking hate laundry. I suck ass at laundry. I do not enjoy it.

I don't even enjoy when it's all put away. I just know that it will be all back in the dirty clothes pile again. or on the floor, up to my fucking knees in clean-what-the-fuck pile of laundry.

FUCK it. GD laundry... BAH!! Grrrrrrrrrr.....

Update

I swear I have a good reason for not posting here... I have been cleaning. Yes if you read my other blog, you will think I just read Twilight. But I have been decluttering and organinzing like a nesting freak!

It's looking good in some rooms, great in others, and yes there are some you still can't see the floor. I will post again soon.

Crying babies!