Busy, Busy, Bee!

Nov 18, 2006 Author: The Domestic Diva | Disclosure | Filed under: Commercial Break

I’ve been soooo busy the past couple of days that I’m utterly exhausted. The week started off with plumbers. You see we’ve been renting this house for 6 months now and not once have we been able to use our master bath. Why? Well, it has been clogged with something unknown to us. We told the landlord for day we got here and he said to try the stuff at the store for unclogging drains and if that doesn’t work then to let him know. Finally, we got fed up and after trying every product at the store, we told the landlord. He couldn’t fix it because of the 5 inches of standing water in our shower so he FINALLY CALLED A PLUMBER! They came out on Monday and looked at the problem and said they had to come back the next day to “snake it”. Fine, whatever. Next day they come and finally get the shower drain fixed so we can finally take showers in our master bath. GREAT!

Wednesday, I get this major urge to put up all of the christmas decorations. I usually wait until Thanksgiving night but I just couldn’t help it. I promised myself that I would go ahead and put up all the decorations but wouldn’t light the tree until Thanksgiving night. So I’ve have the tree up and decorated, stockings hung over the fireplace with care, and an urge to buy garland to go on the mantel above the fireplace. Ahhh, christmas!

Thursday, I spend the majority of the day creating my own business website. Thanks for the encouragement from Ro, I’ve decided to go into business for myself. Alot of people have always commented on my freezer paper art and have always suggested that I sell them so now I actually am. So to go and check out my business site, go here…

http://craftique.thedomesticdiva.org

And btw, thank you Ro for coming up with a name also. I just love it! If anyone has any questions, comments, or suggestions about the new business please drop me a line at:

thedomesticdiva[AT]gmail[DOT]com

Friday, the biggest day of the week, was shopping day! Shopping for maternity clothes, shopping for Thanksgiving dinner, shopping, shopping, shopping! *Please note that if you have tendonitis of the knee please where your goofy looking knee brace so you don’t have to be hobbling around the next day with a swollen knee.* Eight hours of shopping isn’t fun for the tendonitis. In fact, it just makes it mad and inflamed. Heed the warning.

Out of all the places that I bought maternity clothes not one of them had any decent looking pants. They were all old lady looking or had that big belly pouch thing. I like the demi-bands, not the belly pockets just because I don’t like having to pull my pants up to my boobs. So all I got in the way of maternity was alot of shirts [majority long sleeved, some short in case I get really hot whenever I get fat-er] and one pair of pants [black with demi-band, and too big for me to wear now].

So since I won’t be able to see my family, for the first time in my life, for thanksgiving I’m going to make my own family thanksgiving dinner. I’ve never cooked a turkey before so to avoid Turkey Day Disaster I got one of these turkeys that have all the preparations done and all I have to do is thaw him out and stick him in the oven. Shopping for all the comforts of a home-type turkey dinner quickly became extremely frustrating. One thing that is a must at my turkey dinners are Candied Yam Patties. No store in my area has them nor have they even heard of them. Everytime I asked they looked at me like I was crazy and pointed me to the yucky canned yam section. Then they didn’t have any pork boulion, it makes your green beans taste like pork without buying a ham hock, just chicken and beef. Typical. So then I was on a search for ham hock. Three stores later I finally find some! Sheesh!!! This state is full of good food deprived people. Oh and don’t get me started about them not having Reeses Sticks, my absolute favorite candy…EVER!

I also purchased some supplies for my first order over at Craftique. I should get the shirts done today and shipped off on Monday. I can’t believe I have a customer already. And to the customer, you know who you are , many, many thank you’s.

So after such an exhausting week, what do you think I’m going to do today. Well lets see…

take a nice long bath
finish watching Season 3 of the L word [while p-nut naps]
let pnut watch Over the Hedge [he thinks the squirrel is hilarious]
While pnut watches his movie, I get to create my first order for Craftique
Tonight we will watch Click since It is Saturday, nothing comes on TV so it is Movie ~~night~~ day at my house.
Make Rice Krispy Treats
some where in there I need to do the dishes, makes lunch and supper, do my makeup and hair, and finish up the laundry.
then Work at my other job any spare time I get after that