d lady - get a nest camera that will send you a video notice for your d mom.
That is an excellent idea,
blessed! I have no idea how expensive those things are, but that would be great -- for a lot of reasons at your dmom's age,
LadyM. The "riff-raff" friends would be my biggest fear, I think, so it might be very nice if you and your dh could see all who were coming and going at her house. As you said, even dgs could be a danger if he was on drugs when he arrived.
On a happy note, so proud of your ds9! Good for him to be out and about independently for a bit!
Harmony, I have wrapped and wrapped and wrapped today, too!
Actually, I was inspired by
Twins' Best Self Journal to fill every hour and see if I could use my time a little better.
I wasted my
first hour by scrolling through FB...
But I did make one DPC (allergy doctor, who says I should get the meds they promised this week by NEXT week... sheesh... I'm going to have to go through desensitization again if they don't hurry!)
but after that, I did
*
45+ min wrapping, with a 15-minute break for Suduko, breakfast, and looking in to see what y'all were up to here... and
*
45+ min doing cards (pics came in today).
By that time I
HAD TO s2s so I could get that out of the way before I started supper.
*
Supper* DGS's school play -- so cute...
Followed by
* quick stop at grocery store and
* ATM. Probably we were out of the house a little less than
3 hours. (We got to the program early so as to get a good seat. But we chose wrong and sat in the chairs; bleachers would have been better.)
And now we're home, I've been sitting in this computer chair approx
90 min, and I have to wash the dishes I left sitting in the sink.
For those who haven't checked, the BSJ didn't say one had to be doing WORK every single 30 min block of the day, just that one should PLAN and know WHAT one is doing every hour/half hour of the day -- am I paraphrasing well enough,
Twins? It suggests that without that structure, one might fritter away the time and never get to the things she really wanted or needed to be doing.
So... even on my ridiculous schedule here,
living on Elvis Standard Time... I saw that I could spend my
first hour on morning routine (Bible, breakfast, etc) & exercising
second hour s2s/etc
and have at least 3 hours left before I had to even think about supper.
Those 3 hours could be emergency stuff like today's Christmas HAVE TO DO things, but on normal days, that could be one block for daily, one block for weekly, and one block for zone tasks. If I can't make an improvement in that length of time each day, I don't know that there is any hope for me.
Supper -- cooking/eating/clean-up should take less than 2 hours, and that leaves me with NINE hours to do whatever I please, right?
NINE HOURS to ...
organize photos and compile scrapbooks...
review/declutter journals...
write dfil's autobiography for dh/ds...
read real books and magazines...
The problem with this is that it is difficult not to just veg out after eating supper, but if I could discipline myself to be a little more productive in the evening hours, I could accomplish a lot, I think.
So yes, I've been THINKING on this THURSDAY.
Scanned a family historical document. It took 10 minutes. I've put that off for over a week!
Sooo often that is the case, isn't it,
Kathryn? I know I do things like that all the time!
Waving to
ALL!!!