Thanks to all...!

I am so thankful to my family and friends that helped me yesterday to paint the downstairs and help move my desk to the other corner. I have a bad case of tennis elbow so today I am so sore I shouldn't even be typing this. While the men were watching football and occupying Ella, the rest of us women were downstairs (all three of us) painting. With their help I was able to finish the one corner enough to move the desk to that corner. Overall, the downstairs is over half painted. So happy! Would be happier if I wasn't so sore after doing all that work.

Now everyone is napping and I am debating if I even want to venture out of the house to look for a nice winter jacket that will fit me better than the ones I have. My brother is watching Jeff Dunham on TV, great comedian.

Its one of those days where I want to do absolutely nothing, but at the same time there is a lot of things I want to do. I could be downstairs cleaning and moving more furniture or out braving the crowds on Black Friday. Did that last year. Left the house at noon and lines were still wrapped halfway around the stores to check out at 1pm. Oh well, there isn't really anything I want to go out to get. I could order things online, but there isn't really anything I need. Trying to figure out certain Christmas gifts. Easier said than done.

Oh well off to figure out the day. Wish me luck! Happy Black Friday to all!!! Hope your Turkey day was wonderful too!!!

Progress

I am making progress on getting the downstairs cleaned and organized and fit for living in. The downstairs was J's domain and her responsibility to keep it clean. Let's just say it was anything but clean. I am so thankful that we have a steam carpet cleaner. It makes me willing and able to walk on the floors without shoes. We plan to repaint the living area and the bathroom. They both need major touchups and we are going to go with a different paint scheme. The bathroom is also getting new flooring and new curtains for the shower and closet. It will look so different. We plan on getting rid of our 32 inch hulking heavy TV set and getting a flatscreen to put up on the wall. That will free up some floor space and look much better.

I feel loved...

It has been an interesting couple of days. It's all been building for the last 3 years or so. Finally everyone is seeing how hard it has been for me to live in a household with a teenager that refuses to listen to anything I say and to obey the household rules. She operates to her own agenda. If it doesn't benefit her, then she wants no part of it.

Basically all started when I went downstairs at midnight on Wednesday (school night) to find her still on her cell phone instead of asleep. Rule is in bed asleep at 11pm. When I told her to get off she basically said she will stay on the phone all night if she wants to. What she neglected to say at any point was that she was talking to her best friend (whose boyfriend just broke up with her - nothing new) and that her friend had cut herself. If J had just said what was going on instead of turning into a snotty little bitch and not having any respect for me, none of this would have happened. Hell we would have been in the vehicle driving over to this friend's house to talk to her parents to let them know what's going on. But J felt she could control all situations and this is what happened.