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I don’t even know how many days we’ve been here at the new house… the whole end of July and now the beginning of August is all just a big blur. Honest to God… the other day, I couldn’t find the box that had all our bathroom stuff in it,, so I ended up washing my nappy hair with DOVE facial soap…   Not to mention I’ve been wearing the same clothes over and over and over again because I REFUSE to dig through boxes…. I feel like it’s wasting time.  I really need to start using my new awesome antique dressers that I found on Craigslist…   But because they are so old and beautiful and awesome, the rails on the bottom of the drawers need to be candle waxed…….  or so thats what the dude told me… to make em slide a little better.

The house is slowly getting unpacked. I hung a few things on the wall the other day. My office is still looking like a bomb went off. My office at the old house had a big old closet where I could stash my paper trail etc….    so i guess I need to head to IKEA and get myself some shelving and such to hide all this crap. It doesn’t bother ME really,, but I know, beyond a doubt that it’s starting to bug the hubby. Just like the amount of clothes that man owns BOTHERS me..    He owns more clothes than any woman I have ever met. He’s the kind of guy that had to get a tshirt at every concert, every touristy place etc…. and still MUST keep them.  Not to mention our garage. We didn’t have a garage at the old place. So all of our shit was wayyyy up in the attic, or stored neatly in some nook n’ cranny over there. Well… now it’s ALL in the garage.  I know for a fact that he is so stoked about having a garage.  I doubt he’ll ever throw another thing out… and just throw it on the already growing pile of crap in there. One of the things I loved about this house was that it “had” a two car garage so that on one side we could store stuff, perhaps park a car in there … yah sure… and then the other side would be for my 1970 VW beetle that I’m restoring. It’s pretty much restored, but I was so excited to get it out of the elements here in Oregon and undercover. Well….. I think it’s finding it’s way back outside due to the amount of SHIT that we are already accumulating…   Seriously….   I’m going to stand my ground tho’….   fist on hips…   That side of the garage is for MY bug…..   Whatever else he can jam up on the walls is fine,, so long as yard tools, regular tools, long pole-ey, jamming stuff isn’t near it.

My daddy just left the other day too….  he had been here for around 3 weeks. Not necessarily here,, but he flew up from California to go fishing up near Idaho with his buddy Bill, for a week and 1/2, and then he stayed here before and after the trip.  You have NEVER met a more handy dude than my dad. He knows everything there is to know about electricity, plumbing, a/c and heaters, gardening, cars, woodworking, you name it… he knows it. He basically saved us a TON of money doing all the last minute things over at the old house that we are renting out. And he fixed our A/C here at the new house, he installed my awesome pimped out lighting in my new workshop, and just a million other things… I can’t even recall the list. The best part about working side by side with my dad is the entertaining language that flails out of his mouth. I don’t recall him being as much of a potty mouth as he is now… but at times, I was laughing so hard that the “thing” I was holding for him to complete the job,, I had to just drop because I was holding my guts dying of laughter……   sore guts… still my abs are sore from laughing..  He is a true gem……   Daddy… I know you don’t even know how to read on a computer, let alone SEE the screen,, but boy howdy,, I hope mommy passes on my biggest of THANK YOUS to you….  you make my life complete…..   don’t ever die….   please…

The kids are adjusting pretty well.  Their new rooms are a shade bigger than they were at the old house. Which, to me, is a waste of square footage. Why do bedrooms have to be all big and gargantuous? I’d rather have bigger living space… like a bigger kitchen…   not complaining,, but they never spend time in their rooms,, so what’s the point of having big ones??  Same with our master bedroom… just huge….   waste of space. I could do three cartwheels in the thing and still have room to fall on my face…  waste…

Anyways,,, I’m launching new products this next week. You can see them in the pictures. La Vintage Line and Affirmation Circles…   The Affirmation Circles will have the option of having a natural stone (lapis, amethyst, jade, corralium or  beach glass from Rhode Island) drilled and hung in the middle. I’ve had all the inventory to start making these forever, but just now getting around to sending all the info to my awesome media team.  Launching new products is so exciting….. it’s like fishing…..    throwing new bait on the line, to see if anything will bite…..    I’m sure that La Vintage Line is going to do well…..   I wear mine proudly all over the place and get stopped every 5 mins…..   “where did you get that?”     I love getting to answer, “I made them myself”….

Must run for now.  Maybe I’ll unpack a box er two…..   or maybe I’ll go wash n’ wax my bug….    The weather up here in Oregon has been unusually hot these past two weeks. Breaking records from the 1960’s…..    unbelievable heat….  and today we’re cruising at a whopping 86 degrees….   New house has central air……   it’s a beautiful thing..   Good thing the renters are moving here from Alabama…..   they are totally used to the heat…….

Happy Hump Day tomorrow….

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