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If time were a luxury, I’d do all the necessary maintenance and cleaning in a house in a heartbeat. But, as it happens, I’m a working guy with a lot more priorities than cleaning house. I’m at work up to eight hours a day, add the commute time and the time I need to spend on breaks on top of that, and you’ll see that I really don’t have much time to spend as I used to have when I was younger.

Way back when I was in college, I kept a very clean living area. I was in college, living in a dorm room with a roommate and I took pride that we had the cleanest place in the whole building. As it happens, I couldn’t study if my surrounding space was dirty, so I always made sure that the room was always dirt-free. Even the bathroom was kept as clean as the rest of the room, as my roommate and I frequently cleaned it.

Things are different these days. While I now have my own place to stay in right here in Richmond, my busy career life prevents me from cleaning the place as often as I want to. That said, I still find ways, and perhaps once a month, I turn the place inside out to remove all dirt and grime.

In the home, I find that cleaning the bathroom is the most challenging of all. It’s quite unlike the bathroom in the old dorm room, which I could clean often; I could only clean this bathroom once in a month. Within this time, all sorts of dust, dirt and grime had settled inside the grout, which was unreachable with my scrub brush. It was downright frustrating.

I did what was logical; I called in professional tile and grout cleaners that were advertising around Richmond. I need a place where I can relax and kick back, and if I can’t do it (time constraints or otherwise), I would gladly pay someone else to do it. It’ll be worth every cent, so I can rest at home without a care.

In Minnesota there will be the second year Alpaca Expo. This Expo will be held on April 4 to April 5, 2009 that will showcase the Four Season Centre in Owatonna. The online registrations open last January 2009 because of the success the exhibitors and organizers had last year this was shown by the early sell-out they had.

Minnesota offers a one of the kind event that is considered as the Level IV Halter & Level I Fleece Show. It is a guarantee that you will experience hundreds of Alpacas, Huacaya, and Suris in the expo. Other activities will also be available like the Fiber Arts, Photo Contest, First-time Fleece entries and all Production Classes. There will be a Simon Says game hosted by Vicki Trimberger where the children can enjoy the game.

For all Fiber Art enthusiasts, one of the many highlights of the Alpaca Expo is the Fiber Art Competition. If your fiber art is using 50% or more alpaca fiber then this contest is for you! Your art work is a good promotional material to support the utilization of alpaca fibers.

For the Fiber Art Contest there are a lot of divisions that an artist can qualify. The first division is the Fiber Artist Beginner Junior is where you are younger then 18 years old and have worked less then one year as a Fiber Artist. The Fiber Artist Beginner Adult is for adults older then 18 but has worked more then one year as a Fiber Artist. The Artist Intermediate is for Fiber Artist that has worked for more that one year. Then there is the Fiber Artist Advanced where the Fiber Artist has worked for more than one year and has gained 90 points or more within a given class.

There are three Fiber Arts Categories: (1) All Handwork ” 100% handspun yarns with 100% handmade construction, and/or 100% hand-felted. (2) Part or Non- Handwork ” the use commercially spun yarn and/or knitting machine, and/or 100% hand felted. And (3) Partial or Non-Handwork ” less than 100% hand-felted.