Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Cleansing and Purging

The weather has been awful and wet lately. We are having some brickwork repaired on our house and the contractor had started the work, then it started raining on and off. It's frustrating.

K has been taking every opportunity to practice his driving skills. He does seem to have a knack for it. And I still haven't booked him in for proper lessons yet.

L will move back home in a few weeks and we're also making preparations for the move into a rented townhouse for the next school year. I'm already gathering a few supplies and planning furniture because I don't like waiting until the last minute like she does. So saying, her dad and I had no such help in our university days. This is the entitled generation.

I've been thinking lately that one shouldn't panic at bad news because it seems there is always some good that can come out of it. For example, our refrigerator stopped cooling after groaning for a few days. It forced me to clear the food out of it ( luckily we have another refrigerator in the basement). The good of it is that I was forced to throw out a lot of old stuff, cleansing and purging the main fridge so we could look into having it repaired. Have you looked at everything inside your fridge and freezer lately? You might be surprised at what you've been saving!

I found some cute videos for you to watch today:

Kohler Numi High Tech Toilet (video)

Walking the Dinosaur - here's a cute video for the little kids

Apple Store Dance - K loves this one

6 comments:

Kathy G said...

When you're gathering things for L, why not take the opportunity to offer her your old things and buy some new for yourself :-)

mewangibooks said...

My son W will turn 17 early May and that is when he can get the licence. So by then it would be legal for him to drive and he would want his own car. The entitled generation like you said.

I have to clean up my refrigerator. Thank you for the reminder! ;)

miruspeg said...

Christine I enjoyed the videos here today. The Dinosaur would probably get me screaming too if he got too close. And the other two were fun too, although I don't think I will ever have a toilet like the one in the video.

I clean my fridge regularly for this very reason. Food doesn't take long to get old and moldy.

Hope your weather brightens up soon.
Peg xxxxxx

Christine said...

I'll see what I can do Kathy. Thanks for the suggestion.

Ocean Girl, try not to get him a sports car!

Peggy, so glad you liked the videos. I was hanging onto some old jams, pickles and sauces that I would never use again. Even found a tube of wasabi, no memory of why I even had that.

Pete said...

Hah, fridge cleanup....find any long ago leftovers inside?.....LOL!

Kay said...

You're right about the fridge! I should go through the stuff that's just sitting in there.