I Like Thursday #51

Another Thursday is on the horizon.  I can't seem to grasp how quickly time seems to fly lately.  Welcome to my 51st installment of I Like Thursday.  Thank you to our encourager LeeAnna at Not Afraid of Color to find things in our world we like weekly.

I was thinking I didn't have anything to share this week.  Not that I don't have anything I like, love, adore.  I was just thinking I hadn't taken any pictures.  Imagine my surprise and delight when I discovered I had been taking pics.

I love daffodils and narcissus, they are one of the first real pops of color as winter is waning.  Imagine my delight when at the grocery store they had a pot of these beauties.

They bring a smile to my face.  I will say after Christmas sales extend to plants sometimes.  I got a super cute Norfolk pine for $3 too and it is a couple feet tall. 

During the holidays I don't get many cards, but the few I get I like to display.  I bought the red and white baker's twine, and using command hooks strung some twine on the wall.  But how to hang some of the cards?  Then inspiration hit.  I found these tiny clothes pins, and SQUEE how super cute.

I see myself using them for other things too.  I have  huge bag. 

Poor Bobbin has a pretty robust collar for training but the downside to it is it rubs her little neck raw in a spot.  So I decided to get her a new collar and be still my heart!  It had hearts.  I think it goes fabulous with her fur too.  No more rubbing and I still have the control I need.

Finally a funny story I shared with a few people already. 

I had been kind of dating, but never really met someone I saw more than once.  This guy started talking to me right after Thanksgiving.  I looked at his profile and was well 1.  You are 10 years younger than me.  2.  You have kids still living at home. 3.  I don't want to be a mama again.   He was so cute about it.  His answer 1.  Age is just a state of mind.  2.  Yes my kids live at home I won custody and I adore my kids.  3.  I don't need a mama nor do my kids.....Darn it I just want a beautiful woman who is smart, witty, to go out with on my weekends when they go to their mother's house.  An adult to talk to. 

We met for dinner one afternoon at 4....we closed the restaurant down.  He invited me to lunch one day, LOL he had to clean his house he didn't want me to see it and think he was a total loser.  He does pretty good for a guy, I will say I am duly impressed. Then I invited him for dinner one evening at my house.  When the words came out of my mouth all I could think of what in the world was I thinking?!?!?!  Unfortunately he accepted before I could rescind the offer.  Which meant....  I had to clean...really clean my house.  I had to get organized, carry boxes and boxes of fabric upstairs and put away, clean off tables, counters, OMG my house is amazingly clean.  I will say it must have paid off, we have went out several times since.

Anyway since my house is pretty clean now.....except for the bedroom with the charity stuff.  I have been trying to clean at least one tote, box or drawer a week.  Yes I know not a lot but there are times emotionally it can be very challenging.  This week I tackled the first aid drawer--this was the great aunt and uncle's first aid drawer.  I wish I had taken a before picture.  This drawer was so packed with adhesive bandages, gauze pads, gauze bandages, and other stuff that you couldn't open it, and you could never find what you needed.

This is the drawer cleaned up.  I am down to 2 boxes of gauze pads, 3 boxes of gauze bandages, and a zip loc sandwich bag full of adhesive bandages. Oh there are 2 boxes of butterfly band aids too, but they are 2 different sizes. 

These are the 13 boxes that I emptied, condensed, broke down and threw away.  I am mighty proud of myself.  Boxes are being emptied, getting broken down and taken to the garage, and Bobbin has room to run like the wind from the front of the house to the back, knocking over garbage cans, running into cabinets, and just being her crazy happy self. 

Now head over to LeeAnna's and check out the other I Like Thursday posts.