On my mind…
I actually did some planning last night – goals for the coming year – as directed in my new planner. (I wrote it all down on a sheet of paper from my spiral-notebook journal though, b/c I didn’t want to “mess up” the planner. How silly…)
I’m trying not to set myself up for failure – as in: Lose 15 pounds. I’m trying rather to set goals I know I can control: Walk outside some time each day, exercise 15 min each day, drink water daily… etc.
There’s a lot of stuff I really do need to start focusing on. I’ve been retired 5 ½ years now; I need to get my act together and quit drifting through each day at the mercy of everyone else’s schedule.
I know family needs have to come first, I mean, that would be my first priority anyway – but… I tend to have no “plan” even when family is NOT in need. So I am hoping to exercise a little more self-discipline (physically and otherwise) in the new year.
Today dgd and I returned keys to the ass’t living center, stopped at the cleaners, and went to the post office. After that, we sorta vegged out and watched our college team in the bowl game and * wonder of wonders * we WON. By an AMAZING score. The men in the family were at the game – dh, ds, dgs, dbil, and dnephew – so I bet dgs had a BALL. I believe the score was 63-13?
Dgd has been very good all day and played and had a nice time and it’s really been a pretty quiet day around here.
I got the laundry finished – except I need to fold and hang up a few more items – and I s/s the baths and cleaned dh’s shower. This was HUGE, b/c with Christmas and my own bout with the crud plus dmom’s post-Thanksgiving crisis, NOTHING has been done around here in quite a while.
I had to vacuum the kitchen yesterday b/c a glass jar fell off the refrigerator. * sheesh *
I think it just vibrated and got to the edge of the refrigerator before I realized it. Suddenly there was a VERY loud BANG… and there it was, all shattered. I was pretty sad, b/c it was an older canning jar, the kind with the wire that goes over the top to secure the lid… and I think I got it from my great-grandmother’s when duncle sold my grandparents’ house. * sigh *
Messy weather here last night too, but it cleared off today – here at home and at the ballgame – and the temperatures weren’t too cold either. Lots of flooding on the local news, but no problems right here that I’ve seen in my outing today.
Oh – guess what – dgs’s Christmas ornament – that I realized too late was coming from CHINA – arrived yesterday, so he was able to get it on this year’s tree, just a few days late… and yes, the parking pass finally did arrive, yesterday afternoon, so all was well that ended well.
Did I miss
Norma’s birthday too? Happy birthday – AND happy anniversary!
I may have missed
Twins’ birthday too… Happy birthday,
Twins!
I guess we are organized with paperwork, but it is mostly dh. He kept the tax notice lying out in plain view on the kitchen counter from October till the first of December, I think, and then I paid it. I pay in person also, Harmony. There’s no incentive to pay early here though – they should do that.
Oh, I lose stuff ALL the time… right now I am missing a pair of reading glasses. Very cheap dollar-store reading glasses, but still… I wish I knew what happened to them. I’m glad
LordM found the checkbook though! That would be nerve-wracking, especially when it involved other people’s property, too. That was like dmom finding her keys in the pocket of her coat.
LadyM, hope y’all have a great trip. Will y’all be watching the big ballgame tomorrow – the one with your state team and my state team playing? I’m pulling for YOUR team you know… makes my dmom so irritated with me, LOL.
DGS was watching a football game Christmas evening at dmom’s – it was the University of Rhode Island and somebody, but the score was really small on the screen and he thought the URI was UAB. He came into the kitchen where we were still eating and announced, “I’m pulling for UAB because Alabama hates them so much!” Of course, there sat dbro, an Alabama grad, and my dmom, a lifetime Alabama fan. We just LOL. (Dbro is so NOT into sports, he probably doesn’t even know who Alabama plays tomorrow, or what time the game is.)
Well, my crew should be home soon, and I haven’t washed the dishes that have been in the sink since Tuesday…
But my bathrooms are clean and the laundry is done.