Domestic Geek

When Marcus and I get around to moving again, I'm going to check out the local water before we settle. Aurora has got some of the hardest water I've ever had to deal with. Thank goodness for that CLR cleaner (Calcium Lime Rust) or I'd be screwed. Every couple of months I have to soak the shower head to get it to flow, run it through the coffee maker, etc. Combine those mineral deposits with the soap scum in the shower and its a nightmare. I hate to see what the inside of our water heater looks like after four years of this. I just soaked the head of the sink sprayer because I noticed yesterday while filling Skippy's water jug how little water was actually coming out of it. Byers and Colorado springs has had the best water of any place we've lived. It never took a whole day to clean the shower at either of those locations. Deer Trail's water wasn't hard, but it smelled like sulfur. Ick, I hated how I smelled after showering there.

Not in a sports sense like Floyd Landis did that one day in the Tour de France, but I actually hit the wall of my bedroom. Anybody who has slept in a waterbed knows how you have to hoist yourself over the edge to get out of it. Well, that's how I've gotten out of bed for years. The new mattress sits up above the frame. It takes a little jump to get into bed. Well, when I got up yesterday, I gave myself that little hoist and sent myself flying into the wall. Whoops! I almost did it again this morning. This is going to take some getting used to!

Well, we went to Denver Mattress and got ourselves a new mattress. We were toying with the idea of getting a Select Comfort bed, but after reading lots of bad reviews on epinions.com, we decided that they're just too much money to spend on something that might suck. I hope this one works out. We went there because Marcus had a Furniture Row credit card. Turns out they've changed banks since he last used it and he had to end up reapplying for a new card anyway. Would've been nice if the company had sent him a letter or something telling him the account was no longer valid.

Denver Mattress had a waterbed insert in stock from their Doctor's Choice series so we wouldn't have to get a frame. I'm in the process of putting the protectant on it, then we'll see if our sheets fit. I'm a little concerned that they won't. I really didn't want to have to get new sheets, too. *sigh*

Marcus also got us a couple of new pillows. Yay for new pillows.

I've had my stuff in various storage places ever since I was in college back in the late 80s. Even though Marcus and I are in the process of moving all of our crap out of our current storage unit, there will come a time in the future (when we finally get our house moved onto land) that we will need one again.

There's a great online Self Storage Directory - Moving.bz that has an extensive list of storage facilities all over the United States. I like the feature where you can get online quotes and compare various facillities all from the comfort of your own computer chair. Honestly, who really has time to shop around by going to the individual businesses to get the rates? The site also features links to sites that sell packing supplies, real estate services, mortgage resources and listings for moving companies and truck rentals. It's a one-stop portal for all things moving related.

Waaaaaah! All of my Flash skills are gone, as well. I opened it up last night and can't remember how to do a danged thing. This so totally sucks monkey ass! *sigh* So much for making a quick flash header for my design website. If I can find some spare time in the next week, I'll cram from one of my books. If not, I'll have to take that off of my resume as a skill. Argh!

I'm learning Filemaker Pro at work. The owner of the company bought server and 10 licenses for work and I volunteered to implement it. I really just wanted to learn to use it on company time and then get it for my own business later.

I've spent the day throwing stuff out. A LOT of stuff. I had things stuffed in my bedroom closet that I haven't seen since we moved into this house. Actually, I found that old Camp Fire Girl Indian gown I was wearing in that photo I posted last week. I don't know why I've been hanging onto it. It holds no meaning except for a huge waste of my time, so out it went. Clothes I've been holding onto hoping that someday I might fit into them--out they went (when would I have an occasion to wear an early '80s pantsuit anyway?). Mom's old wrapping paper box where all of the ribbon is stained with niccotine and the paper still smells like cigarette smoke--out it went. Huge box of VHS tapes--out it went. I also threw out a plywood reindeer woodworking project that I started over 5 years ago. When I have a house with a garage to work on it and a basement to store the finished project, I'll try again. In the meantime, they're in my way and they give me splinters everytime I try to move them.

I'm changing my craft room into an office (where I can close the door to get some freelance work done), moving a bunch of my craft stuff to the bunny room, and hopefully finding room to store some of the storage stuff in the closets here. If we could save some money by having a smaller off-site storage unit, it would help a little.

OK, that's enough of a break. Back to it.