People could learn a lot from the little girl in the video that I'm about to link to because Blogger is being just totally awesome and not letting me post videos right now. She appears to be around 4 or 5 years old and has some definite ideas about the decisions that she is going to be making in her life later on. Her main point is that she will not and is not going to get married until she has a job. And she is adamant about it, too! She doesn't even care if her needing to have a job first makes the man go away. She says, "Fine. I'll just find a different man! This is my life." I'm telling you, I know people that need to listen and learn from this kid. She could give seminars to a select segment of society. Granted, they are that select segment of society mainly because they don't appear to listen to anyone, nor do they learn from their own mistakes. But that doesn't take away from the fact that she could give them all a very good talking to. Click here to check the girl out. Encourage people you know who could benefit from such wisdom to take a gander at it. It can't hurt. Thursday, February 24, 2011
She Needs To Have A Job First
People could learn a lot from the little girl in the video that I'm about to link to because Blogger is being just totally awesome and not letting me post videos right now. She appears to be around 4 or 5 years old and has some definite ideas about the decisions that she is going to be making in her life later on. Her main point is that she will not and is not going to get married until she has a job. And she is adamant about it, too! She doesn't even care if her needing to have a job first makes the man go away. She says, "Fine. I'll just find a different man! This is my life." I'm telling you, I know people that need to listen and learn from this kid. She could give seminars to a select segment of society. Granted, they are that select segment of society mainly because they don't appear to listen to anyone, nor do they learn from their own mistakes. But that doesn't take away from the fact that she could give them all a very good talking to. Click here to check the girl out. Encourage people you know who could benefit from such wisdom to take a gander at it. It can't hurt. 
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
How To?
My nephew left a brand new gallon bottle of clothes detergent on top of the washing machine. Unfortunately he didn't secure the lid and the vibration of the washing machine knocked the detergent bottle off. This is the mess I had to clean up.
How do you clean up liquid detergent on brick floors? The floor is not a flat surface. We do have a sealer on the brick but all those nooks and crannies?
I thought about it for a minute and then decided to gather up some towels and try to sop as much up as I could. If my floor had been a flat surface, I would have tried a dry sponge mop or squeegee and a dustpan to sort of squeegee up as much as I could but that wouldn't work on an uneven surface like a brick floor. I had to use dry towels because once you add moisture it's going to suds and be harder to get up.
After I used up the towels, I threw them in the laundry sink. I didn't want to just throw that much detergent in my washing machine so I rinsed the towels out as much as I could before tossing them in the washer. Meanwhile I blotted up as much as I could with paper towels. Once I got it as dry as it was going to get, I used my sponge mop and water. I mopped and rinsed, mopped and rinsed, mopped and rinsed. Fortunately my laundry sink is right there. I didn't even have to make a step. So I mopped and rinsed in the sink with clear running water. But, the wet mop made it sudsy.
So I changed my strategy a little. I mixed some vinegar and water and poured it on the floor in little bits. This seemed to really help with the sudsing. Kept it from foaming up. So I continued to pour some vinegar water on the floor and mop it up and kept rinsing the mop out and doing it again.
After I got as much up with a mop as I could, I did my last thing. I pulled out the wet/dry shop vacuum. I made sure the vacuum bag was out and then I poured vinegar water on the floor, used a soft brush to brush it around and then vacuumed it up. I figured this would be sure to get it out of even the nooks and crannies of the brick. I did this for about 2 gallons of water/vinegar.
So it was a little bit of a process, but it worked and my floor is good as new. It just smells a little like a soapy salad in there but that will pass. LOL!
How do you clean up liquid detergent on brick floors? The floor is not a flat surface. We do have a sealer on the brick but all those nooks and crannies?
I thought about it for a minute and then decided to gather up some towels and try to sop as much up as I could. If my floor had been a flat surface, I would have tried a dry sponge mop or squeegee and a dustpan to sort of squeegee up as much as I could but that wouldn't work on an uneven surface like a brick floor. I had to use dry towels because once you add moisture it's going to suds and be harder to get up.
After I used up the towels, I threw them in the laundry sink. I didn't want to just throw that much detergent in my washing machine so I rinsed the towels out as much as I could before tossing them in the washer. Meanwhile I blotted up as much as I could with paper towels. Once I got it as dry as it was going to get, I used my sponge mop and water. I mopped and rinsed, mopped and rinsed, mopped and rinsed. Fortunately my laundry sink is right there. I didn't even have to make a step. So I mopped and rinsed in the sink with clear running water. But, the wet mop made it sudsy.
So I changed my strategy a little. I mixed some vinegar and water and poured it on the floor in little bits. This seemed to really help with the sudsing. Kept it from foaming up. So I continued to pour some vinegar water on the floor and mop it up and kept rinsing the mop out and doing it again.
After I got as much up with a mop as I could, I did my last thing. I pulled out the wet/dry shop vacuum. I made sure the vacuum bag was out and then I poured vinegar water on the floor, used a soft brush to brush it around and then vacuumed it up. I figured this would be sure to get it out of even the nooks and crannies of the brick. I did this for about 2 gallons of water/vinegar.
So it was a little bit of a process, but it worked and my floor is good as new. It just smells a little like a soapy salad in there but that will pass. LOL!
Spring Cleaning Has Started
The last couple of weeks, the weather has been beautiful here. It's made me feel better and energized me to start Spring Cleaning. But it is only February. I have the dreaded yellow pollen season coming up that usually lasts a month. There is no use doing a complete cleaning when yellow, dusty pollen will coat everything.
So I hold off on washing walls, windows, etc. During that pollen season, I won't even open my windows to try and keep as much of that dust out. But there are things that I can do in my Spring Cleaning efforts. Inside closets, cabinets and drawers I can clean. So I got started last week.
I have extensive china and crystal that I've collected over the years. I've purchased some and I've inherited some. I have a set for each season of the year. I have a Winter set, Fall set, Christmas set, Spring set and Summer Set. I also have punch bowl, cups and plates, crystal and silver. I have 4 china cabinets, 2 are built in oak cabinets, in our dining room.
It took me 3 days to take everything out of the china cabinets and wash them. I ran the dishwasher the whole time and I hand washed the stuff that was too delicate or old for the dishwasher.
I polished my silver. As long as it stays in the cabinet, it doesn't tarnish badly. I used to have it on open shelves and I would have to polish the silver every quarter, but since I've put it in a closed cabinet I polish once a year.
Before
After
My Spring Cleaning Lists.
So I hold off on washing walls, windows, etc. During that pollen season, I won't even open my windows to try and keep as much of that dust out. But there are things that I can do in my Spring Cleaning efforts. Inside closets, cabinets and drawers I can clean. So I got started last week.
I have extensive china and crystal that I've collected over the years. I've purchased some and I've inherited some. I have a set for each season of the year. I have a Winter set, Fall set, Christmas set, Spring set and Summer Set. I also have punch bowl, cups and plates, crystal and silver. I have 4 china cabinets, 2 are built in oak cabinets, in our dining room.
It took me 3 days to take everything out of the china cabinets and wash them. I ran the dishwasher the whole time and I hand washed the stuff that was too delicate or old for the dishwasher.
I polished my silver. As long as it stays in the cabinet, it doesn't tarnish badly. I used to have it on open shelves and I would have to polish the silver every quarter, but since I've put it in a closed cabinet I polish once a year.
Before
After
My Spring Cleaning Lists.
RhoDeo 1108 Goldy Rhox 15
Hello, no Aetix yesterday as my connection was down, it's still shaky, troubles should be over next week, meanwhile RhoDeo Roots Toumani is fully present and i hope i'll get by the rest of the week.
Todays Goldy Rhox mystery album was released 40 years ago ( April 1971) and has sold over 7 million units worldwide, making it the bands best selling album. In 2003, the album was ranked number 337 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In the Q & Mojo Classic Special Edition Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock, the album came #7 in its list of "40 Cosmic Rock Albums"
The first side of the album contains several character sketches, including two of people of questionable repute and two autobiographical tracks . The second side, "My God," contains three tracks that address religion in an introspective, and sometimes irreverent, manner. However, despite the names given to the album's two sides and their related subject matter, Anderson has consistently maintained that it's not a "concept album".
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Todays Goldy Rhox mystery album was released 40 years ago ( April 1971) and has sold over 7 million units worldwide, making it the bands best selling album. In 2003, the album was ranked number 337 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In the Q & Mojo Classic Special Edition Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock, the album came #7 in its list of "40 Cosmic Rock Albums"The first side of the album contains several character sketches, including two of people of questionable repute and two autobiographical tracks . The second side, "My God," contains three tracks that address religion in an introspective, and sometimes irreverent, manner. However, despite the names given to the album's two sides and their related subject matter, Anderson has consistently maintained that it's not a "concept album".
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Don't Name Your Kid That!
I'm very happy for the folks in Egypt that their revolution was successful in getting their dictator to step down. Congratulations! Go out and celebrate, Egyptians! But don't get all carried away and start naming your newborn children wacky names after social networking sites may have played a pivotal role in all of the revolutionizing, OK? Dude that named his daughter Facebook, I'm talking to you.
That's right. According to the Daily Mail, some Egyptian man named his new daughter Facebook. Her full name is Facebook Jamal Ibrahim. Yeah, that's pretty. Um, but seriously now. Facebook? That's not a name! That's a thing! And even if it was going to be a person's name (and it is not), it certainly wouldn't be a little girl's name. That's an asinine boy's name if I've ever heard of one.
But apparently the thinking of the little girl's father 
was not along the same lines as my own thinking. Shocking, I know. See, "He is said to have called her Facebook because he was so happy with the role played by the site in organising protests in Tahrir Square and other cities throughout Egypt." OK, then. Couldn't he have commemorated the events by naming her Tahrir? That's kind of a cool name, actually. I wouldn't mind being named Tahrir and then being able to tell people about why I was named that. I would absolutely mind being named Facebook and then having everyone look at me funny when they first heard my name. Hey, wait a minute! Why is the father the only one who I am hearing about being the one to name her? Wasn't there a woman attached to the uterus that this child popped out of? Doesn't she have a say in any of this? What's that? Oh. Right. They're not quite like that. Dictator or not. Bummer. Sorry, little Facebook.
was not along the same lines as my own thinking. Shocking, I know. See, "He is said to have called her Facebook because he was so happy with the role played by the site in organising protests in Tahrir Square and other cities throughout Egypt." OK, then. Couldn't he have commemorated the events by naming her Tahrir? That's kind of a cool name, actually. I wouldn't mind being named Tahrir and then being able to tell people about why I was named that. I would absolutely mind being named Facebook and then having everyone look at me funny when they first heard my name. Hey, wait a minute! Why is the father the only one who I am hearing about being the one to name her? Wasn't there a woman attached to the uterus that this child popped out of? Doesn't she have a say in any of this? What's that? Oh. Right. They're not quite like that. Dictator or not. Bummer. Sorry, little Facebook.But I guess it could have been worse. She could have ended up being Facebook Twitter Yahoo! News Ibrahim.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Visiting Kings Mountain National Park
Mom and Dad, Stan and I made a trip to Kings Mountain National Military Park. We enjoyed a picnic and then visited the living history area and went on to walk the Battlefield Trail.
Here is the living history area.
Outdoor kitchen
Cotton Gin
Cane Press
Corn Crib
Stan
Overmountain Men may have worn clothes like this.
British Redcoats would have worn uniforms like this.
Kings Mountain National Military Park Trail
For more check out my post on The Battle of Kings Mountain.
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