WHAT'S BEEN GOING ON AT MY PLACE...

Remember my last post where I whined about all the work I had to do here in the apartment? Here's some photographic evidence of my labors. All the stuff you see piled over there in the corner is from my pantry shelves. Well, that's giving them a far grander name than they deserve. Actually, they're cheapo plastic shelving from Walmart, but they work for me. All my canned goods and dry goods are in that pile, and that's my blender under the quilted cloth cover there in the middle foreground. Now I get to put all that stuff back in there. Eventually. Not tonight. Not tomorrow. Maybe not even Friday. Probably Saturday. Perhaps.......

I am going to Mountain View again with my sister, zztop, to take her granddaughter back home to her Mom. We'll be gone overnight, and I should be back home Friday sometime. Sooooo......all this stuff will be waiting for me when I get home. I do have some good news to report. My landlord did get everything done today that he was supposed to do. I have a new thermostat...Sorry the picture is not any better, but I still have some issues with my camera and the computer, and this is the only one that would open. Take special note of the black marks all over the wall around the new thermostat. That's from the landlord's son's dirty hands. Nice, huh?

And he did put in a new water heater. Wanna see? Glad you asked....If you look closely you'll see more black marks from the landlord's son's dirty hands.

He also fixed the stopper doohickey in the bathroom vanity sink, but that's kind of hard to illustrate with a photo, so you'll just have to take my word for it without photographic proof this time. The stopper wouldn't raise and lower because the hooky thingy was rusted out on it. That's a technical term, hooky thingy, did you catch that? Lamar's been stuffing a washcloth down in the drain to keep water in the sink to shave. Gets tedious real quick, and I told them about it in December. Prompt service, let me tell you.

I hated to have all this work forced on me, but I'm glad to get it done all the same. At least hubby and Jessica were out of my hair while I was working. I have always been a let-it-go-then-work-on-it-until-it's-all-done binge cleaner, but mercy sakes, it's hard on an old fat girl to try to do it that way anymore. I've worn out the "Tard" thing, so I guess tonight I'm exhausted. Or as BooMama and Sister say, I'm plumb knocked.

Speaking of BooMama, I promised her I would post a picture of a homely homemade bookshelf that my Daddy and I made when I was a young teenager. Yes, I am from genuine Southern Redneck stock. We took an old TV cabinet and pulled out all it's innards, and put a shelf in it made from a culled dining table leaf. Back then, TV cabinets were made from REAL WOOD. In this case, solid wood, not veneered. Unheard of nowadays, but common back then in the 70's. This thing is built like a brick outhouse (*you thought I was going to say something naughty, now didn't you?!*) and would probably stand up to a 1 megaton nuclear blast. Well, it will hold me up, and that's saying a LOT.

Anyway, I brought the homely bookcase with me when I got married, and have used it ever since. I have some bookcases that zztop made me and some others that are more aesthetically pleasing, but I treasure that bookcase, as ugly as it may be to anyone else. It represents time that Daddy spent on me, and with me. As I've mentioned before here, Mom and Dad's house burned in 1987, and they lost everything they had except the clothes they were standing up in. This ugly bookcase is precious to me, because it's one of the few things I have left from my childhood and from BTF....Before The Fire.

It's going on 1 am and I still have to sleep sometime tonight and pack for tomorrow, so I'm going to post this and try to get my packing done and maybe a few more things. I'll be checking on the blog tomorrow some, then I'll be gone till sometime Friday. Wishing everyone a great week, friends. :-)