Work Work Work

Lots of stuff happening this week... and the past week as well.

Friday our computer went on the fritz. I was trying to work on the farm 2008 financials (I've done a temporary year end on 2007 till I'm sure I don't need to work on it anymore... which is pretty much now already) and the computer would go through a shut down process without me telling it to. Weird. After awhile, Chuck just unplugged it. He later tried to start it up again, and just plugging it in caused the fan to start running... but the power button wouldn't work and the computer didn't seem to be starting up. We brought it in and found out the motherboard and processor were fried. It's been around for 4 years now... so I guess it makes sense. We got a new tower, with 4x the memory and 2x the speed of the old one. We got to keep our old hard drive too. It also has a DVD writer which our other one didn't have. And we got a fire wire and cable right away as well. Total cost: just under $600. To just fix the motherboard (with labor fees) would have been $450-$500. I think it is well worth it. And we kept all our info. I started cleaning up our documents again today. I want to put more of our pics on a CD, then when there's enough of them, re-put them all onto a DVD so we have duplicate copies right away.

Throughout the week I've managed to clean the vertical blinds, the roller blinds, the garbage cans, bake apple crisp, etc. My mom had a Partylite party on Friday and I ordered something for my 3-wick candle (hexagon 3wick/tealight holder), along with 3 dozen tealights for a total of $35 (the three wick holder was $60 normal, and the tealights were on sale from $10/doz to $8 for all three... and I had a $50 for $10 coupon from mom booking at my party). I already cleaned up the spot for that 3-wick...

Today I cleaned house again like normal, but this time I did extra vacuuming: behind and under the couch, moving any smaller furniture to get underneath, taking the small attachment to the areas right along the walls, cleaning the baseboards, cleaning the closets (this didn't include just vacuuming, but organizing and dusting as well), and then I also remembered to dust above the fridge and the two really high "shelves" in my kitchen so I don't have to worry about them next week. Whew. Hauling that vacuum around is tiring. I also did laundry... again... and made brownies for Chuck. I printed up a good copy of my cleaning schedule and put it up in my cleaning closet. It has a mini calendar on it for the next 12 months.

That's all for now. Maybe... just maybe.... I'll clean my fridge tomorrow. I have to say, I dread that job.