mayamade soap now available at hampton park coop http://tiny.cc/ftyjP on raymond ave. in st. paul starting monday! come on in and check it out

first showing on the house, open house tomorrow. :woo for selling it asap, please.

it went fantastic. the spring fling party at my hosue today went over so well...

fun was had by all. everyone stayed later then we thought, everyone ate tons of great food, we had a fine wild and crazy egg hunt were all the kids got quarters, candy, and a little toy.
ians dad stayed for hours, friends from ians school and my volunteer place came, plus in "home friends" as ian calls them. god we had a great time. and later on i will fill in the details. mostly i just wanted to say what a success the party was.

tomorrow i will deal with the death of a good friend, tomorrow. cos i don't wanna think about it today.

we had our first house showing yesterday. it went okay.

if nothing else i have cleaning an amazing amount and purged almost all of my former belongings. new gifts out into the world for people. all to the freestore. they see me coming and are thrilled. it was tough finding a freestore that didnt make people pray before getting the items they are in need of. tough i tell you. but after several hours of calling various places i found it. so they are the recipients of all my former belongings.


in other news the only other thing i seem to be thinking about i threw away musta been 11ty hundred garbage bags of stuff. the trash collector made comments to his buddy. okay he was training the guy in so they werent comments about the HUGE pile of garbage. and it felt GOOOD to get rid of that stuff. sooo soo good.

someday i will post pictures of my work. someday.

the housing inspector comes in two hours.

ask me if i am done cleaning.
i'm not. i spent 6 hours cleaning the young teens bedroom yesterday. a developed nation complaint for sure, but still. i found a HUGE stash of silver ware and books to give to a friend with a kid alittle younger then young teen. the books, not the silverware.

now its on to my room. which really isn't bad. i just have to throw some clothing into the closet and kinda straiten some stuff out. prolly should make my bed too.
the front room and dinner room are done, the kitchen is almost there.

this guy is just looking around for structural problems, do the fire detectors work, etc. monday the first perspective buyer comes. it really has to look nice by then.

the day before yesterday i got a phone call from younger teens dad, he said "what are you doing right now? are you busy? i need a huge favor." i said, i am working but its no biggie. i don't have 200.00 dollars. what is it?"

he said "i split my pants working at Eric's (he and his wife own renaissance tree care and ds dad works with them) can you bring me a pair of pants."

i manage, barely, to stifle a laugh. and say sure

next thing i know i am driving to the house with pants. get there are hell if he hasn't completely busted out the ass of his pants. funniest thing ever.

it looks like were moving.

not just because of that but in part, i am getting rid of as much stuff as possible. today's load to the used book store was five orange boxes (not boxes orange in color but boxes that used to hold oranges from the grocery store.) four cloth shopping bags, and one plastic shopping basket i accidentally liberated from target.
Yesterdays stuff was three huge garbage bags of clothing and other miscellaneous wearable items like purse and stuff.

today we go see the house were looking at, i already drove past it and looked at the outside. its darling. today we get to look at the inside. the realtor were working with says it need work like painting and incidentals. nothing like the amount our current very well loved house needs.

i am amazed at how much i can to in a day. and equally amazed at how overwhelmed (her words not mine) and unable to do anything my mom is. now look i know what its like. i am overwhelmed too. but ive been dealing with her "someday the revolution will come and we will need________" obviously fill in the blank. lemme tell you we wont need 100 phillips screw drivers. ever.

nor will we need 37 toaster, 2000 books on aircraft history, building, fliers etc. two clothes washers. ever. ever ever. ever.

so its all leaving. to find good homes.

at least the airplane body that was in the backyard found a new home several years ago.

this new house is going to one of those houses that only has the necessities, things the people who live there love and use.

court was yesterday and i managed to completely and throughly so confuse the judge that he just sat there shaking his head and saying "i've never seen

this before...".
because ian's dad and i didn't argue the traditional ex partners way. the man/non-custodial parent saying its my money! and the woman custodial parent saying i need more child support!

instead i asked for ian's dad child support obligation to be reduced, its in my benefit, his drivers lic. restored and for the arrears to be eliminated.

it worked. we confused the family "justice" system thoroughly. and walked away better friends and happier people. it was worth every penny.

i also opened my hyena shop
it was a metric ton of work for write the code for that. esp. since i have less the no knowledge about how computers work or how to write code (that's what they call it, ya know writing code. don't i sound like a pro-freshion-al?)
i found a test site for hyena carts and a site for the codes for colors and an open source software thingy for making thumbnails of photos. i feel so successful!

i did something i never thought i could do. and it saved me 70.00 or so dollars to have someone else do it for me. yeah me! i test stocked one item, but over the weekend i plan on stocking tons of stuff. like soap, flower remedies, i have a couple of ideas for stuff too. i think it'll work out really well.

on an etsy note the ***big spring fling*** raffle is coming along nicely. the loverly ad that goes into mothering message board soon is really nice. the woman who did it is really talented. i cant wait for the sale to start. just a few more days.

i volunteer at the coop tomorrow, i am working up the nerve to ask helen, the woman who runs it, to put my items for sale. well see how it goes. although i dont understand the tax sitch with something like that. it might be more work then its worth...
tonight we go out to cy and rachels for a pot luck dinner, our contribution is brownies. hmmmmm... brownies. i think it'll be fun. i cant wait for out csa share from their farm to start. hmmmmm... csa.

i think that's about it for now. more later.