What's keeping you busy these days?

By joy

@MGjhaud (23240)

Philippines

February 7, 2023 1:46pm CST

I haven't posted a discussion in far too long. In the middle of last year, we started renovating our main house. It was major, so we had to move next door to a smaller house and stayed there until early December. I was the one who did most of the planning and went to multiple hardware stores. It was indeed the most exhausting year I ever had in a very long time, but it was well worth the effort cause everyone was extremely pleased with the results. This whole makeover is almost complete and if I don't post here again, I'm most probably offline restoring some of our old furniture and deciding what to hang back up on our walls. The photo above was taken in November, just as they were about to finish repainting the walls. I'm actually thinking about what to do with the paint cans, there are plenty more that aren't shown in this photo. You might have some great ideas. So, what about you? What have you been doing lately?

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John nyambegera

@thebos (5960)

• Kisumu, Kenya

7 Feb 23

As for me I have been studying, but I usually spare some time to be in mylot

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@MGjhaud (23240)

• Philippines

8 Feb 23

I started posting here when I was still in school, that was a very long time ago. I used to come here whenever I had time between classes. I hope you're enjoying mylot.

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John nyambegera

@thebos (5960)

• Kisumu, Kenya

10 Feb 23

@MGjhaud I'm really enjoying here, It's like making friends

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@MGjhaud (23240)

• Philippines

10 Feb 23

That's good to know. I love it here.

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@kaylachan (69714)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

7 Feb 23

Living life and altering my routine to consider with my husbands retirement status.

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@MGjhaud (23240)

• Philippines

8 Feb 23

That's very thoughtful of you. Congratulations on your husband's retirement.

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@kaylachan (69714)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

8 Feb 23

@MGjhaud Thanks. He's much happier to.

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@DianneN (247186)

• United States

17 Feb 23

I'm so happy to see you back here. I was gone for months at a time due to landscape and house projects which left me exhausted. I can imagine what you have been through. Our painters take the empty cans away with them. Some paint, hubs keeps for touch-ups, and others can be disposed of at our town facility. Enjoy your new renovations and let us see photos!!!!

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@MGjhaud (23240)

• Philippines

18 Feb 23

You have a lovely home and your lawn is an inspo.

We're currently working on narrowing ours cause my mom is getting too old to water all of her plants every day. I'll share some more photos soon.

I thought it was going to be easy breezy but even the planning stage was exhausting.

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@MGjhaud (23240)

• Philippines

22 Feb 23

I too am old

and I feel old.

@DianneN (247186)

• United States

21 Feb 23

@MGjhaud Thank you. We had an irrigation system installed finally, but I still have to use a hose or watering can for my garden and flowers. I'm getting old, too!

I agree that from planning to completion of any project is exhausting and time consuming but worth it in the end.

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Valerie J. Routhieaux

@just4him (317064)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

10 Feb 23

You've been busy. I'm an author, so I'm always working on a book. I have two coming out this year.

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@MGjhaud (23240)

• Philippines

10 Feb 23

I saw one of your book covers here before. I wish your books were available in my country. My brother-in-law gave me some books on Christmas that I have yet to read.

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@MGjhaud (23240)

• Philippines

10 Feb 23

I just checked on Amazon and it's possible but the shipping cost will be roughly three times what we would pay if it were sold locally.

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Valerie J. Routhieaux

@just4him (317064)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

10 Feb 23

@MGjhaud You can't get them on Amazon in the Philippines? I'm so sorry.

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@Neil43 (3314)

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8 Feb 23

I am busy with a lot of things, my regular work, my part time, my pets, my doctoral, and so many more.

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@MGjhaud (23240)

• Philippines

8 Feb 23

You live a very busy life. How do you spend your weekends?

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@Neil43 (3314)

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9 Feb 23

@MGjhaud I also spend my weekends working.

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@MrDenata (12248)

• Indonesia

7 Feb 23

I know how tired doing this for a period of time. Last week, i did repair some part of the house and it was so tired because i did it by myself ordering and make sure everything on control. Thank God, its over now. And i can imagine, moving to another house because you have a major renovation, i hope everything goes well with your plans and good morning from Indonesia

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@MGjhaud (23240)

• Philippines

8 Feb 23

We are grateful that we were able to find a skilled lead carpenter who did an excellent job. Thank you, and I hope so too. The heavy jobs are done and I'm taking my time with the remaining tasks.

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@jstory07 (139717)

• Roseburg, Oregon

8 Feb 23

We have a collection place here where you can take them.

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@MGjhaud (23240)

• Philippines

8 Feb 23

I'm also thinking about taking everything to a junkyard but the money I'll spend on gas is more expensive than the money they'd pay me for it so maybe i'll just wait for them to come and collect cause they do that on rare occassions.

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@sol_cee (38219)

• Philippines

8 Feb 23

Oh wow! Joy the master planner! I have been a minimalist for quite a long time now and all my artistic ideas have abandoned me

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@MGjhaud (23240)

• Philippines

9 Feb 23

Next-level adulting.

I was initially aiming for a minimalistic style but I soon realized how so many things mama kept over the years and she considers everything, as in every thing, to have sentimental value omg.

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@Deepizzaguy (102848)

• Lake Charles, Louisiana

7 Feb 23

I have been working on sharing good news stories on this site as well as working on surveys and doing housework in taking out the garbage inside of the home.

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@MGjhaud (23240)

• Philippines

8 Feb 23

I belong to about 2-3 survey sites and participate in them on occasion.

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Anindita Sengupta

@aninditasen (16395)

• Raurkela, India

8 Feb 23

My puppy Kittu is keeping me busy these days.

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@MGjhaud (23240)

• Philippines

9 Feb 23

Oh, how nice and what a cute name. What kind of dog do you have?

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@porwest (90917)

• United States

9 Feb 23

Welcome back? lol. I only say welcome back since you suggest you might just be popping in. But glad to see things are looking up for you. Maybe we chatted in the past here, but sometimes I get names and people tangled up, so if I have forgotten about you, my apologies in advance. As for paint cans, here we just recycle them.

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@MGjhaud (23240)

• Philippines

10 Feb 23

Oh, you're fine.

I just haven't posted a new discussion since 2020, though I've been commenting on others' on occasion since.

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@Treborika (17681)

• Mombasa, Kenya

19 Feb 23

I hope you did a very amazing job till the house was fully renovated. Congratulations.

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@MGjhaud (23240)

• Philippines

19 Feb 23

Thank you, Trebor. I keep thinking that it's almost done but there's so much more to do.

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@MGjhaud (23240)

• Philippines

19 Feb 23

Yes it isn't but the major ones are.

@Treborika (17681)

• Mombasa, Kenya

19 Feb 23

@MGjhaud Do you want to tell me that the renovation is not yet done?

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