#92 Buy filing cabinet and file patterns in craft room

I've been neglecting you over here. I have been doing things on my list but I have been keeping them secret...

I have created a database and filed my patterns in the new filing cabinet for the craft room. I also put my scrapbooking scraps in there, organized by color.

Why Slovenia?

Cheryl asked.

The long and weird answer is that when I was five, I told my parents I wanted to ride the bus for my birthday. I was fascinated by the city buses but had never ridden one. This was my big chance. My parents, completely perplexed by my desire to ride a bus, thought big. My dad took me on a Greyhound bus to Boston so I could see the Lipizzaner horses.

Well, the Lipizzaner horses are from Lipica, Slovenia. So, it's like going home again. Except I get to ride in a big plane.

Other reasons include: it is the size of New Jersey, so we can see most of it in the week we have to travel. It has beaches, mountains, and an incredible cave system (karst). And I know a woman who keeps going back to Ljubljana because she's so in love with the place. She has me swayed.

You gotta love a city whose every "L" has it's own "j." I'm a woman of simple pleasures.

Leavin' On a Jet Plane

We bought tickets! We are going to Slovenia for my 40th birthday (pause here so you can argue that I am not really 40. Go ahead, everyone else does.) We go October 6 and return October 15.

I'm too excited to sleep!

#76 Remove carpeting downstairs

Well, we put the whole gang to work! On Sunday, my sister, cousin and her husband and two kids, came and helped the dude and I rip up carpet. We decided to cut the job in half, just taking the carpet out of the living room and dining room. I thought we could do more, but it turns out the dude knew exactly how much of this we could take.When we pulled up the carpet in the living room, the pad had stuck and left color and crap everywhere. We developed an elaborate system of swiffering and scrubbing on our hands and knees to get the stuff up. Fortunately, the job was a lot easier in the dining room which had the better quality mat.

The dining room also got the treatment from my cousin. While she was occupying the kids in the dining room so we could work in the living room (the one with the TV) she painted the window trim and then hung the blinds! So that's another thing off the list, but I didn't do it. Does that mean it doesn't count??? (photo missing)

Sunday we all went to Hershey Park. I rode the carousel and nearly barfed. I haven't been on rides in ages--I think almost ten years. Then I went on the SooperDooperLooper, the Great Bear, and the Claw. So I was back on form. Before we left, I painted the trim in the living room so we can put up the drapes tonight. It's like I got a new house.And aren't the neighbors glad it's trash day. We're bringing down the property values--that pile of crap has been in front of our house since Sunday. And it's not even all of it!