Tailoring a Tuesday for Your Home

[Harriet]

About that 5x5:
Recycling, to include some large pieces DONE
Extra laundry loads of drip dries and bath mat 1/2 Done, yielding to a load HRH wanted to do
Photos into Snapfish (not to meet deadlines) NOPE
Progress on sewing DONE
Dust in bedroom 1/2 Done

Also, I'm going to put some glorious sticker (smile) on yesterday's planner space DONE - happy little bear skating

HRH and I took all the trash out, mailed the Desk Day I'd also DONE, and went on to a drive-through for a sandwich. So that was our lunch date.

Later, when ddolder got home from her day at univ, she called and we decided I'd come pick her up and she'd help me with getting the recyclables out. HRH already had some at the door. I carried the flimsy little set of drawers I should have let go long ago, and she carried the rest. Her boys had done all hers.

The progress on sewing was getting the sewing area ready for patchwork on the machine. By the time I realized it had taken so long to get things the way I wanted, I'd lost the light. So, it's all set up for morning. The only thing I haven't done for that is to get down in the floor on my back and plug in my new iron behind the desk. I may take a mirror there with me tomorrow morning and maybe a flashlight! Maybe what i really need is a power strip, but I'll cross that bridge later.

[lucylee]

I must say, Tetris Tuesday might fit my home better today. * Whew * I am putting away Christmas, and I swear, I feel like I am in a real, life-size game of Tetris. WHY do the boxes never go back in the closet like they came out? * I should take a picture, except there is one poor Santa who missed his box... and I don't have an extra empty box, so I don't know where his "home" is. He's just going to sit on the shelf for a year.

I'm taking a little break, watching the AU/Texas A&M ballgame, and I still have to get the tree in its bag and the hearth houses put away.
Probably going to be paying for my late evening nap because I also have to put sheets on the bed before I can sleep. I was just sitting here falling asleep while doing a Sudoku puzzle, and I decided to enjoy the tree lights for one more evening, so I turned off all the lights and napped her on the couch-- for a couple hours, I think!

I'm still doing well with morning routine though. Still not making it to the post office by 11:30 as my Chat Friend suggests, but I am not wasting the time before. Yesterday, I colored my hair, and today, I spent my time delayed by calls to daunt and cousin re: funeral arrangements for my great-uncle.
-- In short -- no arrangements as such. He was cremated and they are burying his ashes with his wife, no service at all, and they "may have a celebration of life later, and if we do, we will let everyone know." I figure this will be the last we hear from them. Kinda sad to say, but as I said, it's my great-uncle, and although I have seen them periodically all my life, I have never been super-close to them. And when a man is 94, and has lost his wife and all his siblings... it's hard to mourn too much, you know? He also has an infant in Heaven that's been waiting for him about 60 years.

So Tuesday is supposed to be the most productive day of the week? Hmmm...
I'm so glad you're feeling better, Harriet!

(((Blessed))) You definitely need to take time to breathe Every Day. Maybe just walk around the perimeter of your yard once a day, try to think of things to be thankful for. (Do as I say, not as I do, LOL. But I know outdoor fresh air can help us get a grip on things sometimes.)

I was up before seven a.m. - Is what Lucylee has contagious?

Twins, I am ROFLOL! THAT is NOT a statement often seen here, is it? And in all honesty, it would take a LOT to get Lucylee up before 7:00.
Whew.
Tomorrow, I will be setting the alarm for 9:00 however -- gotta get started back into chair yoga at church. And the real test will come when we see what I do with my day afterwards. Of course Chat Friend says if I am out of the house by 11:30, it's a win.
I bet I'll wish for a massage after that exercise. I haven't been in a month because we skipped the last two weeks and I skipped the two before that! Y'all would be surprised how physical simply sitting in a chair and stretching can be. It is also very relaxing, which lends itself to napping afterwards.

Hello to Nancy, Cathy, Rose, Mystery -- glad to see your DC is jumping on the bandwagon with the morning people, LOL.

(((LadyM))) (cash situation)

Cathy, dmom had a plumber come today to unclog her kitchen sink. Very simple fix, only took a few minutes, and he said, "I'm only going to charge you the service call." Guess what -- a service call is $99. All he did was take the pipe off under the sink, take it outside and clean it out, and put it back on.
BTW -- my top loading washer is kinda picky about the size of load too. Doesn't like it too big, not too small... must be Just Right.

nothing in a 60 year old home is perfect.

So true, LadyM. My mother's constant complaint -- keeping up her own 60 year old home and my grandmother's 50 year old home. And my 40 year old home is showing its age too!

I must say, I never even noticed the asterisk! I think I will continue doing my own numbering; this looks complicated.

Oh my... let me see...
Tomorrow's PODA --
[*]1. Chair yoga
[*]2. Post office
[*]3. Vacuum

That's too much trouble, even if worked.

EDITING --
LOL, obviously, it did not work. I didn't do it right.

[lucylee]

12:56 a.m.
THE TREE IS IN ITS BAG IN THE CLOSET
CLEAN SHEETS ARE ON THE BED

Hooray for those small victories.
The little houses are still on the hearth and the ceramic tree Dfriend made years ago is still sitting out. I told it it had one more night.

I still need to do Bible reading (skipped this morning because was so distracted talking to daunt and cousin.
And I lost the tv remote while putting sheets on the bed. (Luckily I have two in the bedroom.)
I will have to shower in the morning, which is not my best plan, but I will give it a try. I think I can get up at 9:00 and make it to yoga by 10:00.

OH -- I forgot to tell y'all -- this morning I woke up to a message from the acquaintance/friend who was supposed to be sending the poster for DS. He said it is on its way and should arrive by Friday.

Also, found out today that DGS will have a scholars' bowl match in Big City (about an hour away) on the last Saturday of this month... and the students are going to have to provide their own transportation... and DS is going to be out of town. I am hoping ddil and I can both go, but as y'all know, I wish DS could go with us. DDIL might want me to keep DGD -- but her mom might be able to do that. It's at some school that neither ddil nor I have ever been to, but I suspect they will all meet at dgs' school and follow each other. I don't know why the school cannot provide transportation, but OTOH, I am really hoping I get to go and watch. DS was in scholars' bowl in middle school and I went to most of their matches. It's kind of like watching Jeopardy.