Showing posts with label Housekeeping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Housekeeping. Show all posts
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Amish Cinnamon Bread, Day 10
Today is the day I'm supposed to bake this bread. Of course I'm working today and don't know if I'll have time when I get home. Think it will be okay for one more day?
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Amish Cinnamon Bread, Day 4
I am on day 4 of making 10 day Amish Cinnamon Bread. I just added a cup of flour, a cup of sugar, and a cup of milk to the bag which is just to sit on the counter until day 10. Did you hear me? I just put milk in a bag to leave on the counter for 6 more days. I'm having issues with this.
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
A Confession
...I hate e-mail.
Not as much as I hate voice mail but enough that I never EVER want to open my e-mail.
There's always so much ... CRAP ... in there.
Stuff I don't remember signing up for. Or stuff I had to give my e-mail to in order to get the ONE thing I wanted even though I've never gone to that website again. Or even stuff that I really would like to read and educate myself about if only I had an extra 14 hours in a day.
Today I am at work and it is slow so it was the perfect day to go into my e-mail and clean it out. There were over 600 e-mails in there! So I just went as fast as I could. I put everything in alphabetical order by sender, clicked on the first e-mail of each sender that I did not want to ever see again and scrolled down to "unsubscribe here." I did not read the e-mails and as soon as I unsubscribed from the first one, I deleted all the other e-mails from that sender. I also moved the old work-related and bill-payment-related e-mails to their respective "Save" folders. And I got rid of over 400 e-mails that way. YAY!
Of the not quite 200 that are left, a lot of those are from family/friends (like my MOM) and most are old or have a conversation thread several e-mails long. So next, I will go through all of those to make sure there is no pertinent information (like new cell numbers) and I will either delete or move them to their save folders. I imagine most of them will be deleted ~ not sure why I still have e-mails discussing last Thanksgiving's get-together, but, whatever, we'll be taking care of those shortly!
After that, hopefully, my e-mail will not be so crowded and I will not mind going through my new e-mails so much. I will probably have to do the unsubscribe thing again in a week or so to catch any I missed this time. Other than that, if this doesn't work, I'll be starting over fresh with a new account for friends and family only!
UPDATE:
I now have only 70 e-mails. Still too many but over half are for the kids' 4H and I will have to actually read those. And I'm done for the day so they can wait!
Not as much as I hate voice mail but enough that I never EVER want to open my e-mail.
There's always so much ... CRAP ... in there.
Stuff I don't remember signing up for. Or stuff I had to give my e-mail to in order to get the ONE thing I wanted even though I've never gone to that website again. Or even stuff that I really would like to read and educate myself about if only I had an extra 14 hours in a day.
Today I am at work and it is slow so it was the perfect day to go into my e-mail and clean it out. There were over 600 e-mails in there! So I just went as fast as I could. I put everything in alphabetical order by sender, clicked on the first e-mail of each sender that I did not want to ever see again and scrolled down to "unsubscribe here." I did not read the e-mails and as soon as I unsubscribed from the first one, I deleted all the other e-mails from that sender. I also moved the old work-related and bill-payment-related e-mails to their respective "Save" folders. And I got rid of over 400 e-mails that way. YAY!
Of the not quite 200 that are left, a lot of those are from family/friends (like my MOM) and most are old or have a conversation thread several e-mails long. So next, I will go through all of those to make sure there is no pertinent information (like new cell numbers) and I will either delete or move them to their save folders. I imagine most of them will be deleted ~ not sure why I still have e-mails discussing last Thanksgiving's get-together, but, whatever, we'll be taking care of those shortly!
After that, hopefully, my e-mail will not be so crowded and I will not mind going through my new e-mails so much. I will probably have to do the unsubscribe thing again in a week or so to catch any I missed this time. Other than that, if this doesn't work, I'll be starting over fresh with a new account for friends and family only!
UPDATE:
I now have only 70 e-mails. Still too many but over half are for the kids' 4H and I will have to actually read those. And I'm done for the day so they can wait!
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Time to Clean
Today I had this uncontrollable urge to go thru the basket of magazines. I have a large basket on the piano to stash my magazines in. The plan was to have them in one place so I could read them when I got the urge. The truth is I hardly ever get the urge to read a magazine at home. So they've been stacking up. There were probably close to 100 in there. And I don't subscribe to many magazines so they've been there awhile.
I kept the "Country" magazines and the "Taste of Home" but got rid of all the others older than this year. Except for the "National Geographics." I thought maybe if I put them on the bookshelf, the kids would read them. Then I thought again and decided they really would not ever read them but I couldn't just throw them away so I put them in the donate box instead. Hopefully, someone will enjoy them.
I kept the "Country" magazines and the "Taste of Home" but got rid of all the others older than this year. Except for the "National Geographics." I thought maybe if I put them on the bookshelf, the kids would read them. Then I thought again and decided they really would not ever read them but I couldn't just throw them away so I put them in the donate box instead. Hopefully, someone will enjoy them.
Monday, March 4, 2013
I Give Up
I give up. I quit. I admit defeat. I cry "Uncle!" already.
Ugh. None of my children will use the top sheet on their beds. I wash sheets and always put the top one on and make the bed all nice and pretty and the top sheet always ends up on the floor or squashed between the bed and the wall. My Type A personality is completely offended by this.
However, upon further review, I have decided this battle is not worth fighting. So, today, after I washed the sheets, I put the bottom sheets on the beds, and just folded the top sheets and put them away.
Another plus is now when I wash the kids' sheets, I will save an hour since I will only have to do one load instead of two. Yay!
Ugh. None of my children will use the top sheet on their beds. I wash sheets and always put the top one on and make the bed all nice and pretty and the top sheet always ends up on the floor or squashed between the bed and the wall. My Type A personality is completely offended by this.
However, upon further review, I have decided this battle is not worth fighting. So, today, after I washed the sheets, I put the bottom sheets on the beds, and just folded the top sheets and put them away.
Another plus is now when I wash the kids' sheets, I will save an hour since I will only have to do one load instead of two. Yay!
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