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(Lame) Excuse: “But I Don’t Have a Nail . . . “

October 16, 2012 By Dana White 2 Comments

I almost changed the title to “But I Lost the Nail . . . ”

Except that’s actually true.

And the point of this post (as it was being written inside my head yesterday) is that my excuse isn’t really an excuse.

This time, it’s a lie.

I’d been telling myself that I didn’t have a nail, so for months I’d had a missing picture from my dining room wall.

An OBVIOUSLY missing picture.

The truth was, I had lost that one specific nail when taking the pictures down for one of my webisode filming sessions.

But I did have a nail.  And it was about seven feet away from where the picture was sitting for months.

And months.

I just hadn’t bothered to look for it.

Even though it bugged me that the picture wasn’t on the wall.

Even though I knew that we keep nails/picture-hanging-do-lollies in that drawer.

So, last week . . . I looked.  And found a perfectly good picture-hanging-nail.

And put the picture back on the wall.

Lame excuse/lie exposed and refuted.

 

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(Lame) Excuse: “But It’s Just ONE Load . . . “

October 15, 2012 By Dana White 7 Comments

It’s Monday.  Sooooo, obviously . . . it’s Laundry Day. The best/smoothest/make-me-feel-like-I’ve-got-this-homemaker-thing-down Laundry Days begin on Sunday evening. So last night we gathered and sorted last week’s dirty clothes and I started a load of towels. (Towels are my favorite Sunday Night Start Load because I can put them in the dryer and they won’t […]

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(Lame) Excuse: “But It Doesn’t Fit in the Dishwasher . . . “

October 14, 2012 By Dana White 12 Comments

  This goes along with my post from last week.  Actually, I took the pictures on the same night. See . . . in my mind there’s doing the dishes. And then there’s doing the big dishes. For some reason, they’re two separate things. Even though they’re not. Because even if I “do the dishes” […]

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No Excuse to Not Help Raise Money for Cancer Research!

October 13, 2012 By Dana White 4 Comments

I really love working with the North Texas Chevy Dealers as a Chevy Girl.  All of their promotions are fun and easy to blog about. But this one is easiest of all because it’s for an important cause.  And they have helped eliminate any and all excuses to not help! October is breast cancer awareness […]

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(Lame) Excuse: “But it’s a Hassle . . . “

October 12, 2012 By Dana White 16 Comments

When my oldest was between the ages of 3 1/2 and 4 1/2 (I know because we were living in our rent house), he came to me with some exciting news. He had figured out something cool. Something that would surely be a new and exciting revelation to his mother. Because he knew, for a […]

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(Lame) Excuse: “But No One Will Go in THAT Room . . . “

October 11, 2012 By Dana White 6 Comments

Crazy day today. My appliances are being delivered!!! To say I’m excited is an understatement. I had a hard time sleeping last night. The delivery was scheduled for 8 a.m. and yesterday was my busiest day of the week. And I was out of town last week. And Monday was spent with my family on […]

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(Lame) Excuse: “It’s Just One Hanger . . . “

October 10, 2012 By Dana White 8 Comments

One hanger on the floor doesn’t bother me. Twenty-five hangers on the floor do bother me. 2, 8, 16 or 24 hangers . . . somehow I don’t see those. I used to think I didn’t see the first one, but I’ve realized that I do see it. I see it and think, “One hanger […]

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Decluttering: The Master Bedroom Saga Part Five (Getting EVERYthing Out!)

October 9, 2012 By Dana White 15 Comments

Part five was on day three. Which shows how big this project really was. (If you’re reading by email, click here to see the webisode.) In my journal, I wrote: Yesterday helped me see that it IS possible to get through this project.But today, I struggle with the donwannas. This work is physical.  It’s August, […]

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(Lame) Excuse #7: But I Missed a Day . . .

October 8, 2012 By Dana White 12 Comments

I didn’t post yesterday. It was only the seventh day of October, and I already failed in this 31 Days of (Lame) Excuses thing. I could quit. But I won’t. Failure and quitting aren’t the same thing. I can’t go back in time and write a post for yesterday.  Technically, the challenge to post every […]

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