Postby helia » Tue Sep 18, 2018 11:54 am
Hi all! This is my low-key day of the week and my only open evening in 7 days. Technically, I had an open evening last night -- no meetings scheduled -- but with getting home from work at 6, dinner around 7, done with clean up around 8 - there's not much of an evening left for me these days. And then we skyped with dd20 for an hour, so that was about it.
I'm also glad you saw a Dr., Kathryn.
Thinking of you with so many holidays this month, Twins. Are you hosting any events for Yom Kippur?
I'm glad you had a nice birthday, blessed.
Does that work in your toilet, nancy? We have some water stains in ours. Dh uses a water softener; I don't know if that helps or not. . .
It is sunny and warm here. We're enjoying the (probably) last days of summer.
My current life: It feels like I'm living the adage, "When it rains, it pours." Right now, I'm trying to protect my time to work on this talk I'm giving next Friday (the 28th) to the women of our church. As it is, I have about 25 hours of payroll per week; 16 of those are in the classroom. The rest of the hours are grading, copying, other meetings, prep, and course development. My evenings are all full as I noted above; next week's evening schedule is the same as this week's. And in the meantime, several additional things have come up that will eat the limited time I do have to prep for the talk. . . ..
(1) There's a church leadership meeting/conference thing that meets Friday evening and Saturday 9 - 3. My weekend is gone.
(2) For this meeting, I need to answer a bunch of Qs and turn in that info.
(3) Last night, I discovered a red spot on Maia's foot. She's going to the vet tomorrow a.m.
(4) My fault -- I agreed to help the moms group child care Thursday morning this week, so that slot of time is also gone.
(5) Initiated and led by dd20, the kids have concocted a plan to apply for Dutch passports when we visit dd20 in NYC sometime next month. For this to happen, they need an apostille for birth certificates and our marriage certificate. Birth certificates are already the originals with raised seals, etc. I'm not exactly sure what an apostille is, but I think we need to take documents to our state's SOS. And I don't think our copy of our marriage license is an original, so we need to make phone calls and figure that out as well. Dh may do this, unless it can wait until after 9/28.
{6) I finally picked up dd20's glasses, so I need to put those in the mail to her. A small errand but just another thing I need to do. . . .
Next:
- s2s and self care
- lunch and qt
- get dd20's glasses in the mail
Later:
- payroll: grade quizzes
- payroll: prep GSL
- payroll: teach GSL
- payroll: edit paragraphs
- weekly vacuuming
- work on talk
- dinner: tuna pasta, green salad. Dh, me, and M.
- after dinner clean up done
- garbage and recycling to the curb
- work on the Qs for the leadership weekend
Done today:
- dogs
- email; checked web sites
- RSVPed for weekend
- tea
- kitchen reclaimed
- back exercises
- jogged the arb hill
- made an appt. for Maia tomorrow
- emails the Th. dinner crew
Well, I should probably get moving instead of sitting here. That would help me the most!