Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Quick Re-Cap of What is going on at the Janzen House

  • Fitness = Up: I'm going to punish myself this month for the past year of slacking.  Me writing this is holding me to it.  Jodi is on a subtler approach.
  • Cooking = Healthy and Good: I take advantage of Sundays to make most of the meals for the week.  We also got a new crockpot and it rocks.  Just made the best split pea soup ever and it was so simple.  Chx stock, peas, celery, carrots, onion, Ham hock....thats it.
  • Work = SSDD: Same $#!& Different Day
  • Money = Outbound: Property taxes, Christmas bills, Insurance, DVM registration, Car Repair, and a new front door is killing me right now
  • Cats = Diet: Mandy is taking comfort crunchies to a new level.  She's on diet crunchies and not happy.  Last Friday she ate a hole in the side of the bag to get more.  Nothing some Duct tape couldn't fix.  I love Duct tape!
  • FJ40 = Smoged: I can't believe she passes smog.  She also got an Oil change.  I'm hoping to register it in another county this year so I no longer have to smog it.  Then I can have fun with the motor.
  • Man Den = Coming Along: It's a constant struggle to keep clutter out of my garage but I fee like I'm wining.  I've got some new pictures up and the home gym is in place.  All I need to do next is build some more storage.
  • Lost = Caught up: This darn show is more addictive than (Insert weakness here).  We are all watched up through season 4 so we can start season 5 which kicks off this month. preview
  • Yard Projects = War Zone:  I just finished digging a giant hole in the yard for my new pond.  This was sitting under the house up in Arnold so I decided to put it to use.  It's about 2ft. deep by 6ft. long.  When all is said and done I hope to have fish, a waterfall, water plants and a perimeter of landmines to keep Raccoons out.

1 comment:

Randy said...

Felt like I needed to respond to this. Partly out of sympathy, and partly to tell you to quit your whining.

Money = Outboud: Just wait. Just wait. Nothing sucks money better than a kid. And lets not even mention looking up your house on Zillow!

Cats = Diet: Our two cats are little fatties. Yet they still feel the need to tear into the bag of food. So what happens? I go to refill the smaller container and the food starts pouring out of multiple openings in the bag.

Man Den: Here is a typical conversation at our house.

Wife: "I don't want that in the house."

Man: "Ok, but there is nowhere else to put it."

Wife: "In the garage."


Our garage still has stuff in boxes from the move. But we are getting closer to finding homes for it all. If it wasn't for a lot of photo albums and books, I'd say that if we haven't needed it in 2+ years, we probably won't miss it.

Lost: I love that show.

Yard Projects: I have a hard of enough time just keeping the weeds out.