Christmas Star Sunday

[Peaches1000]

Good afternoon!

Next:
-Refill water
-Check weather
-Check email
-Update Toodledo
-Check bank accts/Amex
-Files/Med Info/Papers/Emails - 10 min

Extras:
-Dr P - notes/clothes/checklist
-Refill pill box
-Wash hair/brush/clip
-Bill pay process
-Update Amazon GC
-Tasks - (Toodledo tasks)
-Declutter/organize/clean - 10 min
-Files/Med Info/Papers/Emails - 10 min

Routine:
-Gather dirty laundry/sort
-Laundry #1 to washer
-Laundry #1 to dryer
-Laundry #1 hang/fold
-Put away laundry

-Foyer Bath - pupa/restock
-Cat - brush/food/water/litter
-Vacuum something
-6pm Eat
-Close blinds
-Open & sort mail/file
-Prep for next day (clothes/calendar)

Done:
-Bedroom - pupa
-Dress/ready
-Fresh food for kitty
-Open blinds/get water
-Medicine/vitamins
-Phone DH
-Catch up DS
-This & that

[Kittykatt]

To do:
Cuddles and snack for Matilda, Jude and Freddie
Bible reading and meditation
Update latest Waitrose order
Cup of tea
Get up!
Scrub out litter trays (DH)
Change sheets on bed
Shower/wash hair/moisturiser and sunblock/ clean and floss teeth
S/S bathroom
Physio exercises
Get dressed in casual clothes
Give everyone fresh water
Cat breakfast and meds /supplements
Breakfast and meds /vitamins for me
Hang up towels that washed overnight
Hang up sheets to dry
Quick kitchen clean up
Load DW
Quick PUPA downstairs
Quick dust and Hoover downstairs
Change into smarter outfit
OTD to church
Coffee with DF E
Back home again, change back into casual clothes
Meat in oven + not today, we had cold cut
Coffee with DH
Put potatoes to roast
Put up my vitamins and supplements for the week
Weigh out Jude's and Matilda's dry food for the week
Quick PUPA upstairs
15 minutes in tiny front garden
15 minutes in back garden
Dish up lunch
Walk Freddie - not today, it's too cold for him,
Lap time with Freddie, Jude and Matilda
Head rubs with Freddie, Jude and Matilda
Play with Freddie, Jude, Matilda
Fold laundry and PA
Run DW when full
Unload DW
Post list with my plans for the week
Clothes laid out for tomorrow

Extras:
DH's phone?
Update 2026 kitchen wall calendar
Update my filofax for 2026

[Doggedly]

I'm glad that you found some Christmas music, Gma. You are right; most of us would rather listen to Christmas music between Christmas and New Years, rather than in November.
I'm glad that you are safe back home, and can control your heating to stay warm.

That sounds like a fun program, L.Ann.

You can't beat those Christmas leftovers, Kittykatt. Easy Sunday lunch for the win!
WTG on getting year-end paperwork done. You can face Hogmanay without panic, LOL.

Hi, Peaches


Sunday
Gave dog her Benedryl
Took pills
Put away clean dishes
Emptied out dw
Gathered sewing supplies to send to basement
Cleaned up after dog X 2
Changed out kitchen cloths
Wiped down accessible surfaces
Tidying in kitchen
Filled slow cooker with dog-safe vegetables and water
Checked the slow cooker: it is cold.
Checked the fuse, it had blown. Reset it.
Washed a few basinsful of dishes
Downloaded my db’s Tesla game
Swept
Treats for Germane
Washed floor
Played the Tesla game for a little

[Kittykatt]

Dogged, you've reminded me, that I need to ask DH what he wants for supper on Wednesday. I've stopped going to New year's Eve parties, as I really struggle with late hours, and for the same reason I don't stay up to see the new year in either. But it's still nice to do something a bit special. If I suggest to DH that we have steak, then he will want me to cook it - another win for me!

[Kittykatt]

Getting ahead for the week!

To do:

Appointments:
Monday:
DH having a day volunteering on the heritage steam railway
At home for me
Tuesday:
DH??
At home for me
Wednesday: New Year's Eve
DH??
9-10 am Waitrose delivery
PA groceries
Clean kitchen
Hoover car?
Laxapet for Jude and Matilda
Thursday: New Year's Day
DH off work
No church today, so at home for me
Friday:
DH off work
At home for me
Saturday:
DH??
At home for me
Text DF E - not this week
Sunday:
Church 9.30 am
Visit DFE for coffee? Not this week, we're doing coffees after church
Laxapet Jude and Matilda
Set up new Waitrose delivery

Future dates to note:
7/1 order inhalers
6/1 Freddie - Solensia 8.30 am
8/1 Jude weight check 2 pm

Outstanding deliveries:

Extras:
Email NW when I have a reply from RP
Put pictures back WIP
Order new orthotics - wait until ankle settles
Can I do 15 minutes of decluttering each day?
Digital decluttering- Google Photos for 2024 and 2025
Pick up my footprints
House tasks: Replace the bit of mortar that's fallen out of the edge of the roof (I think its called the verge? Can this wait until we get the house painted when a roof ladder will be in place?) I need for it to stop raining before I ask anyone to come and look!
Verge and ridge tiles on garage roof
Sort out cabinet that wobbles - does the back need some sort of bracing ? MJ will sort it out in the new year
Take up and hem those thick winter curtains for the kitchen
Book eye test for me
Sort prints and put in albums (this will probably be an activity to do on wet days!) WIP I am now working on 2025
Think about setting up Guardianship for F,J and M - looked on Cats' Protection, I need their microchip numbers, approximate DOB, colour and markings and useful information about them. Bookmark link with local recommended solicitors (also ask DF CW?)
Change health centres to the one nearest us? We're going to do this in January

To do:
Early morning:
Cuddles and treats on the bed with Matilda, Jude and Freddie
Cup of tea
QT
Lightbox session
Make bed
Shower / wash hair/ moisturiser and sunblock/ clean and floss teeth
DH launched
Physio exercises and back exercises
Proprioceptors exercises X1 x2 x3
S/S bathroom
Get dressed
Breakfast and meds / supplements - me
DRINK WATER #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8
Check bank account
Go for my walk

Garden:
15 minutes in tiny front garden
15 minutes in back garden

Cats:
Cats’ breakfast and meds / supplements
Fresh water in cat bowls
Scoop cat trays
Check Jude’s bowl
Check Matilda's bowl
Walk Freddie
Lap time with Jude, Freddie and Matilda
Play with Jude, Freddie and Matilda
Head rubs with Jude, Freddie and Matilda
Cats' supper

House:
Rubbish down to wheelie bins
Kitchen clean up
Unload DW
Load DW
Run DW when full
Unload DW
PUPA downstairs
Quick dust sitting room
Quick hoover downstairs
PUPA upstairs
Quick dust bedrooms
Quick hoover upstairs
Lunch
Supper
Lay out clothes for tomorrow
Journal three things I am thankful for today
Hand cream

Extra house tasks:

Monday:
Clean bathroom
Clean spare room
Clean bedroom
Wash spare room throw and cat blankets

Tuesday:
Clean hall
Clean sitting room
Clean stairs
Empty hoover before starting work
Wheelie bins back when dustmen have been
Filing paperwork for 15 minutes

Wednesday:
Clean kitchen

Garden extras:
Water pots
Feed pots weekly

Financial:
More work on budget WIP

[Peaches1000]

Next:
-Refill pill box
-Update Amazon GC
-Enter auto bill pymts in PT/reconcile accts
-Pay Amex via online bank/update PT/update excel

Extras:
-Dr P - notes/clothes/checklist
-Wash hair/brush/clip
-Bill pay process
-Tasks - (Toodledo tasks)
-Declutter/organize/clean - 10 min
-Files/Med Info/Papers/Emails - 10 min

Routine:
-Gather dirty laundry/sort
-Laundry #1 to washer
-Laundry #1 to dryer
-Laundry #1 hang/fold
-Put away laundry

-Foyer Bath - pupa/restock
-Cat - brush/food/water/litter
-Vacuum something
-6pm Eat
-Close blinds
-Open & sort mail/file
-Prep for next day (clothes/calendar)

Done:
-Bedroom - pupa
-Dress/ready
-Fresh food for kitty
-Open blinds/get water
-Medicine/vitamins
-Phone DH
-Catch up DS
-This & that
-Refill water
-Check weather
-Check email
-Update Toodledo
-Check bank accts/Amex
-Files/Med Info/Papers/Emails - 20 min

[helia]

Popping in. Hello all! I can't give individual greetings now. It's been a full day - and it's not over yet. 10 people popping in and out. R, myself, and J12yo have been camped out in the living room writing poems most of the afternoon. AND we're traveling to WA tomorrow morning. Of course! I think packing won't happen until tomorrow.

I got my 2 poems done! I now have about 30 minutes before I need to help with dinner. I'm going to wrap those last gifts. And I forgot - I was going to get beef bones for Raven; I can walk over to WF and still do that.

Next:
- finish unloading dw and reload
- finish wrapping gifts
- WF - if I can
- am I needed to help record a "lullaby" for one of the surprises?

Later:
- some qt -
- make bed
- tidy MBR
- last 2 thank yous
- WF run
- finish wrapping: dh - 3, dd27 - 1, J12yo - 1, baby I - 1
- finish folding and putting away towels - wip
- get beef bones for Raven - gift
- make salad for 10 people
- help dd27 make 10 letter cookies
- 6ish dinner: pannekoeken, salad - for 10 people
- after dinner clean up
- poems and surprises
- open gifts
- clean up

TaDas!
- up; weighed - trending down. The increase in exercise and watching my food intake is seeing results!
- coffee
- email deletions + weather website; it looks like we'll have a couple days of sunshine in WA!
- welcomed dd27 and Fable; dd27 is here helping dh make poffertjes
- put away groceries
- progress folding and putting away towels
- leaves in the table - RH and KE
- made a bowl of blueberries and strawberries
- 9:30 poffertje breakfast - 10 people
- after meal clean up
- organize the poem writing
- back exercises
- s2s and self care
- squeegee and wipe down shower
- conferring with dd27 over the change in dd30's surprise
- write dd27's poem
- lunch
- write dd30's poem
- help J12yo a little bit
- various other conversations

[L.Ann]

Sidetracked once again. Next up the dreaded kitchen clean up.

1-kitchen clean up
2-coffee set up, evening meds
3-diet site

Menus
Monday-one pot kidney bean and pepper soup
Tuesday-bang bang chicken
Wednesday-DD33 out/leftovers for me
Thursday-fondue
Friday-chorizo enchiladas
Saturday-Thai sweet chili glazed salmon
Sunday-rest of enchiladas


Events
Monday-Little Bit 7:40-5, fasting bloodwork for DD33
Tuesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, breakfast with friends @8:30, 10:30 library storytime
Wednesday-Little Bit 7:40-2:30, 10-1 New Years Celebration at museum, DD33 w/ PS from 3-8????
Thursday-
Friday-DD33 has center
Saturday
Sunday

Weekly House Blessing-mop dining room
Extra stuff-

Accomplishments
-stretching and knee exercises
-breakfast for me and dog
-delete email
-review credit reports
-start laundry
-read
-dress and pick up bedroom
-walk outside
-meds and temp for DD33
-mop bathroom floor
-diet site
-lunch
-reboot laundry
-recycling to dump
-walk outside
-read both nonfiction book and fiction book
-clean off table
-find acorn squash recipe
-quick fridge clean out
-make DD33’s lunch for tomorrow
-fold laundry
-dinner prepped and eaten

[Doggedly]

Mmmm... steak, Kittykatt. I am eating roast beef leftover from Christmas dinner, and it's so good!

Go, Peaches

That sounds like a very busy day, helia. Enjoyable, though.

Good luck with the kitchen clean up, L.Ann. I hope that it goes quickly.

I have washed my hair. I'd like to get a loaf of bread going in the breadmaker. And then... it's really not as high a priority as other things, but my desk is bugging me. I would like to do a complete clean up of it, even if it means stuffing papers into a box to go through later.

[Gma]

Doggedly, I have been thinking about my desk/ office for quite some time. My first filing adventure has been just to put things into monthly file folders as they came in. I guess that's almost like putting them in a box to go through, as there are no categories.
I came up with about 15 categories. I already had file folders, so I marked them, and I found a box sort of the right size , close enough.
As I went through papers, I filed each in the proper folder. Or the recycle bin if it was something I didn't need - like a charity requesting money. I think I need to start just throwing those away when they come in, instead of mulling over whether or not I should consider donating. I discovered that the more I send, the more they want, plus they must share my name and address with others, because they multiply!
All for the current (2025) year, since I am way behind on it. I also found some things from prior years, and they just went into a separate container for old stuff, that I will deal with later. Category 15 was "other" for those things I hadn't thought of, and if/when that file gets several things in it, I will see if other categories emerge. On the label, I actually defined it, too: like utilities includes landline, cellphone, heat, city (our city bills for water, sewer, electricity, garbage all in one) because I have had trouble in the past deciding does the homeowner's insurance bill go into household or insurance? Do explanations of benefits go in medical folder or insurance folder? I made the decision ahead of time what the answer would be, and wrote in on the label - because what is important seems to be consistent.
I'm no expert - in fact, I'm an expert of failing Filing 101 - but I'm giving this a try for everything laying around that is 2025. If it works, I will start with a repeat for 2026. My brother said this should work for me. (He prefers to file everything in his computer - I'm not ready for that - I can't find files in my computer very well.
That was a longwinded suggestion....

I have spent the past several hours dealing with the papers on my grandmother's antique sewing machine that I inherited about 50 years ago. After a time I gave it to a cousin who enjoyed having it until she died. He daughter let me have it back, and it had become just another surface to put things on. So today that was my project: To get it completely cleared off, get a doily on it. And since I hadn't had time to get my manger scene out, and it's just the 4th day of Christmas, I decided to set it up.
Now I'm on to the papers on the piano bench and the top of the piano. Yes, true confessions, I have papers on every surface in the house. I am making headway!
As soon as I hit submit, I am going clsoe the computer, then pay the bills that should be done before he end of the year, then get back to those papers.
We're still in a blizzard here. Hot tea makes a nice companion. I'll have plenty of snow removal to deal with tomorrow!