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I’m a jewelry junky.

I admit it.

I’ve had a “serious” problem with it in the past, however, in the essence of saving money–or rather–not having the excess to spend like usual (lol), I’ve stayed away from the shopping malls, the boutiques, and the QVCs of the world.

As an alternative, I’m pulling out earrings that I’ve had for a long time–favorites that haven’t been worn for a while. I’m polishing them up and wearing them again. It’s been a lot of fun! Some jewelry has a story–got this from Mexico, got that from Ireland, made three other pair of earrings ‘just like that’ for my friends.

But wait, it gets better.

Dan was looking for something in the garage and found a little bin of jewelry that I had growing up as well as some 80s jewelry. You know what I’m talkin’ about. Big chunky silver stuff, right?

My daughters LOVED going through it! Kass isn’t as big into jewelry as Jordan and will wear something on occasion. But Jordan is my retro girl and loves anything from “a long time ago”.

Does that mean I’m vintage?

Gosh, I hope not!

But in addition to the jewelry, I had to get my computer fixed. Came home from a weekend trip to Idaho last Saturday night and it wouldn’t turn on . . . no matter how many times I waved my magic fingers at it, pleading with it to turn on . . . the curse-ed thing wouldn’t budge.

Ack!

Luckily a guy I work with thought it might be one of two things. And luckily it was the cheaper of two evils. I had to buy a new power supply and he put it in for me. Good. Only a $30 fix and my computer is as good as new again. Better back it up though because it’s been a month.

But this is the most glorious thing of all . . . MY LAPTOP IS WORKING AGAIN!!! A couple years ago it crashed–speaking of not backing up. Since CompUSA–where I bought my laptop AND warranty–went out of business, I didn’t want to send it off to get repaired and lose the hard drive in it (they said they keep it).

So there it sat.

And sat.

And sat.

Until one day I bought a new hard drive and asked our resident guru neighbor if he could help.

And I got it back yesterday.

My pal.

My friend.

We’ve been through many a things together.

It’s traveled with me all over the world–Scotland, Amsterdam, Mexico, Hawaii (just to name a few).

It’s provided hours of entertainment in the car before we had a dvd player.

I’ve spent many many hours on that thing creating art for my Cricut cartridges, sitting at the kitchen table away from the kids in the living room during summer vacation.

I’ve missed it terribly.

I’m excited to be mobile again and not be glued to my little corner of the world all the time.

Sweet.

Just taking it a little easy during this spring break. I say that relatively as I’ve been cleaning as well as working part of the time.

Got a good chunk of Zach’s room done over the weekend. Listened to conference while working on it Saturday.

Funny that some of you had the same kind of plans as me last weekend too. :)

Cleaned my side of the bedroom up. The “collect-all” dresser is almost clean too.

The girls have been overhauling their rooms.

Now we need to work on the rest of the house.

Did a little spring shopping with the girls. An alternative to Easter candy.

Took the girls to see a local–and clean–production of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels last night with my buddy Kristy Banks and her son Jory. Lisa (Bearnson) had seen it twice already. One of the customer support guy’s at work, Darick Pead, played the Steve Martin role and was absolutely hilarious! We were all laughing quite hard. Lisa had seen him perform the first time, found out that it was someone I knew and knew which nights he performed, and made sure she went back to see him again because, as she said, “he made the show.”

Going to see Alice in Wonderland today.

Taxes. (ugh!)

More cleaning.

Tomorrow I get my hair done. Yahoo! Too much grey showing right now.

Just mixing business with pleasure all this week, you might say.

Trying to stay away from the computer with the exception of when I’m working.

Feeling lighter (but not weight-wise–dang it) than I have in a very long time.

Feels good.

Feels rejuvenating.

Still need to share Jordan’s OK pictures . . . but here’s one in the interim. This is her and “Curly” and “Judd
Frye”–the two boys fightin’ over “Laurey”.

So we actually have today off from work for Good Friday. Our parent company is based in California and this is a holiday they chose to allow their workers to take time off for. Having been working like crazy lately (never seems to stop, does it), I can’t tell you how excited I am to have this day off . . . and I’m not even going to work on it either! lol And next week is spring break, my girls are out of school all week, I’ve taken a little bit of time off during the week, and I can’t tell you just how excited I am . . . and I’m not even going anywhere!
 
What on earth would I take time off for?

Well, first and foremost, I want to be able to spend some time with my girls while they are home all week–especially since this is my senior’s last spring break. Maybe go see Alice in Wonderland, go out to lunch, we’re going to see a play where one of my co-workers is one of the leads . . .

. . . but also . . .

and this is where it gets weird . . .

I’M EXCITED TO CLEAN MY HOUSE!

I know, crazy right? But it’s been so neglected. Today I start by cleaning Zach’s room . . . the dungeon, if you will. It’s the “down-down” (stairs) of the house and has also become the dumping ground for many a-things. That’s my project this weekend. He’s been gone a year and we haven’t touched it since he left. Kind of that whole “out of sight, out of mind” thing. No one goes down there unless they need something from the storage room. My husband was having a panic attack that we’d never get it done until the day before Zach comes home. lol

All day yesterday I just had this peaceful feeling. A “lightness” of sorts. Excited. Nothing weighing on my shoulders. I haven’t felt that in a very long time.
 
Felt good.

Spring is “around” . . . may not be here at the moment, but I have seen it a day or two.

Everything is feeling fresh and I need my house to match that.

Can’t wait to get organized and clean everything up.

It’s been a long time coming.

And don’t you just love to dwell in the one room that’s clean? Makes a person feel all-so happy, eh?
So, I know I’m not alone. What quirky things make you happy? :)