Small Tortoisehell Butterfly Tuesday

[Bama]

Good afternoon

Stay warm LAnn. Storms are some good sleeping weather.

Trissie, hope your stomach settles down. Isn’t it nice when the clueless suddenly get a clue lol.

Dogged, you can resist the siren song but why would you? Or enjoy all of your flour possibilities.

Helia, big score on the taxes. I’m sorry about your friend.

Make mushroom coffee in French press
Weigh
Water
Bible
Emails
Mail
Sign up for cruise activities, flight seats? Waiting for email
Breakfast
Lunch
Wfd? Texas Roadhouse
Pet chores
Pet extras
Walk dogs am pm
Spot clean floors
Dust
Vacuum
Glass
Repot inside plants in larger pots - find pots
Laundry:
Dry couch covers, fold/put away
Kitchen:
Unload dw
Pledge cabinets
Try a wine
Clean 3 bottles, soaking to soften dirt
Dining:
Patch floor spots w putty
Living:
Clear mantel, decorate for Easter in progress
Yard:
Pull up gardenias
5 minute weed - tried out grandpa weeded
Lay down barrier and mulch
Find mulch under briars, after berry picking is over
Moms:
:30 declutter and fill trash can
:30 pw
Play daily games
Weeklies
Monthlies:
Something fun and crafty
Daily habit thread - arm wts, sit to stand 10x, walk at sunset
Tuesday -
Thrift shop - found cubist pitcher to match glasses
Car registration - take total loss pw, I have to go back and sign
Request total loss form from insurance
Beyond:
Passports - make appointment
Make wasp nests out of paper bags to scare away carpenter bees (find paper bags)
Find rx and order glasses, dh making eye exam appts
Schedule atv service
Shop for new range
Empty and dry out jars after they get left on back of truck and rainstorm last night filled them w water
Load jars for florist
Use florist gift cards
Find boarding kennel, ask vet for referral?
Taxes - gather paperwork, last years taxes

[trissie]

Coffee is absolutely necessary for the start of a good day, helia! I wish I were able to get up at 5:15, though, it would make my day much smoother (my alarm is 5:30 and I never pull myself out of bed before 5:45)
Bama, so the SHEM thing, like, you post it, when one person makes three posts in a row? I'll have to go back to yesterday's thread to get the context!

My beliefs are being tested. Just the other day, I was thinking about my attitude towards my kids' grades. Like, apparently other parents make a fuss if a kid brings a bad grade? I don't - I ask "why did you get a bad grade?" and act accordingly (like, if they got bad grade because the don't understand how to calculate square root equations or the weight of a cube made of iron, then we need to explain and review the topic - if they got bad grade because they forgot about a history test and didn't study for it at all, then we need to work on a system for recording due dates, or talk about possible extracurricular work to make up for the history grade, but no amount of yelling or grounding is going to change the grade).
Anyway, they are both likely getting D's on civics test. I'm not happy about the D's, but having reviewed their class notes and compared them to the scope of the test, I am even less happy about the education they are getting in civics, which is like super important if you want to make good, wise choices when voting and have reasonable and realistic expectations about your government. It does, however, explain some things about the society as whole! I always tend to forget that not everybody is properly educated either from school or from their own effort to learn things, and uneducated people do fall for sweet lies with bitter endings.
Anyway, I do foresee some dinnertime politic talks in the near future!

TaDas
- morning routine
- clean master bathroom
- mop MB balcony (first time this year!)
- mop DBD's balcony
- dusting in master bedroom
- fold laundry from dryer
- load of colors running

ToDos
- midday routine
- start dinner
- clean master bedroom

[helia]

My friend/ coworker CM is the most calm and positive person I know! She's amazing!! The future looks bright for her so far; apparently, she can receive chemo and it will not affect the growing baby. Everyone totally understands why she's leaving our school. She was the academic director, though she lives in a different city now. AC will become the academic director. I will help AC, kind of like the assistant Academic Director, which was AC's title before this. I don't have a title, but that's OK with me. I'm actually not highly ambitious at this point in my life. Also, I don't want too many hours as I want to be free to travel to visit my dgbaby! And to go on other fun trips with dh.

trissie, that sounds wise regarding grades. Grades may not be a good measure of how much a kid has learned - of if they've learned the most important/ best/ (correct?) information if the teacher isn't teaching that. Civics-minded conversations with their parents might be super helpful! -- I don't think I could get up at 5:45 and function well all day.
Glad you could sleep through the storm, L Ann. DD33 is very resourceful! Did you get snow?
Ooh, that's a lot of flour, Doggedly. Are you making anything with it today? Resist the sirens!
Bama, so, do you have several wines at your house that you're sampling? Or did you go to a winery?

I got home about an hour ago - meetings and conversations from 10:30 until 2:45. I did have a break as I drove from the coffee shop to the school. LOL! I've decompressed a bit, make a Kroger order, and now I'm heading out to get some grocery items, mainly fresh produce, from WF.

Today is pretty scheduled.
10 - KS2J get together
11 - at payroll; help set up for S3 intro meeting; review slides
12 - in person lunch together; saying good bye to CM who is leaving the school (pregnant and receiving chemo for breast cancer at the same time; she lost her first baby at 18 months to SIDS - and discovered she had cancer less than a year later; the day after receiving her diagnosis, she learned she was also pregnant again. . . .)
1 - Instructor meeting; I am leading a section
2 - Do I need to meet with any teachers to try to help them?
6:30ish - host MZ for dinner

Other things:
- Can I exercise?
- Get groceries - work in progress
- Postal place?
- Set up Telegram group for IW
- Make slides for IW D1?

Next:
- WF
- put away groceries
- make bed

Later:
- make the bed
- some qt?
- exercise at gym
- WF trip
- put groceries away
- dinner: quinoa+ beans, rice, green salad
- 6:30 host MZ for dinner
- after dinner clean up
- garbage and recycling
- payroll: Telegram group
- payroll: start slide prep
- payroll: details to GC
- duolingo
- update health apps
- read??

TaDas!
- up; weighed self - same
- coffee
- email deletions + weather website
- reclaim kitchen
- back exercises
- s2s and self care
- squeegeed and wiped down shower
- gathered materials; otd late
- 10:40 - 11:10 KS2J get together
- 11:25 - 12 payroll: reviewed slide show with AC; checked the book piles for teachers
- 12-1 payroll lunch with speeches and gifts for CM - and dessert of course!
- 1-2:15 payroll: instructor meeting; I helped lead parts of it
- payroll: message to 1 teacher I was scheduled to meet with - but he left early
- more conversations at payroll
- home; decompressed a little; put away all the packages that had arrived; went through mail
- Kroger order

[helia]

Just adding - we've had wintry weather today too. It was 17F this morning with 1F (-17.2C) windchill. Dh still went for a run. We've had flurries off and on all day but no accumulation. It's currently 25F (-3.9C), 15F (-9.4C) with windchill. However, there's not much wind.

[Kittykatt]

Hello everyone!

I'm glad you're having a good time with your DD, Bama.

Helia, that's very tough for your friend, losing a child and then having to deal with cancer treatment while being pregnant. WTG getting your taxes done!

L.Ann, LOL at DD sleeping with her headphones on!

Dogged that's a lot of flour! What kind did you order (cake or bread flour?)

Trissie, I so wish my parents had been like you regarding schoolwork! If I didn't come in the top three, I was either shouted at, or they constantly stressed how "disappointed" they were. (And they overused that last tactic so much, that I ended up no longer caring if people were disappointed - I figured that was their problem!)

Today's been busy and surprisingly social. I had a long chat with Dnextdoorneighbour C, followed by an even longer chat with the first candidate for the local elections (due in May!) to come canvassing in person. I've fed Cookie jer breakfast and supper,.dealt with an anxious message from S asking if she could possibly.ask.for a parcel T was expecting today to be delivered to us? Yes, of course. Apparently it's a new battery for his motorbike. I did a.bit in my garden, but the wind was still cold, so hopefully I can get more done there tomorrow. The sitting room is clean and.tidy, and our cats have been fed. I need to spend 15 minutes on paperwork and unload the DW, then hopefully I can think about an early night.

[Kittykatt]

To do:

Appointments:
Tuesday:
DH WFH
At home for me
Feed Cookie am pm
Wednesday:
DH to office
At home for me
Feed Cookie am pm
Wrap cake for MQ - do I have candles?
Put by front door so I don't forget!
Email church administrator reenu for parish lumch
Final touches to Waitrose order no later than 9pm
Thursday:
DH WFH
Feed Cookie am pm
10.30 am church
REMEMBER CAKE FOR MQ
Any errands to run?
Can I hoover the car?
Pick up Jude's YuMove.from vet - (the supplier sent the dog version.last week! )remember Petplan
6-7 pm Waitrose delivery
Friday:
DH WFH
Feed Cookie am pm
9.30 hair cut -me
3.45pm. (leave at 2.30pm because traffic) mammogram - me
Saturday:
DH??
9am. Women's breakfast at community shop and café
Feed Cookie am pm
Text DF E re coffee tomorrow
Sunday:
Church 9.30 am
Feed Cookie am pm
Last orders for pariH lunch (ask for announcement on notices)
REMEMBER SR HAS SENT HER CHOICE BY EMAIL- ADD TO LIST
Visit DF E for coffee
Laxapet Jude and Matilda
Set up new Waitrose delivery
Collate menu choices and prepare to email to oub

Future dates to note:
2/4 weight check -Jude
31/3 bloods/Solensia health check under sedation -Fred

Sometime when it stops raining - roofer L will work on Garage roof and small house job
11/5 (this may get pushed back if the rain doesn't stop, but J will contact me the week before) - painter J to paint outside of house and clean fascias./downpipes etc

Outstanding deliveries: eBay

Extras:
Order coffee for church
30 minutes on my response to DEFRA consultation ( they estimate it will take 4 hours. I've already read through the material and had a good think about some of the issues raised, so hopefully it will take less time, but I'm still allowing myself plenty of time. Responses have to be submitted by the end of March, but I dont want to leave it until the last minute!) #1#2#3#4#5#6#7#8
Order new orthotics - WIP
Can I do 15 minutes of decluttering each day?
Digital decluttering- Google Photos for 2024 and 2025
Pick up my footprints
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?)

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 for his walk
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
Put draught excluders away for the summer

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
Topdress roses in pots #1#2#3
Repot that rose that needs it
Mulch roses in borders with FYM - front garden done back garden
Feed roses their special food
Slow release fertiliser on borders
Feed lawn
Think about what I'm going to grow in *that* patch, which is sloping and shaded now the climbing hydrangea is gone. Montbretia at the back are fine, with supports so they don't flop everywhere, and I can keep an eye on them to make sure they dont spread into everything. There is a hardy geranium that's looking sad, but it might do better with less competition and more light? Maybe I could just sow some low growing hardy annuals and see what happens?
Buy some more pansies?
April (depending on weather!).buy geraniums (work out how many I'll need in advance!


Financial:
More work on budget WIP- look at discretionary payments this week 30 minute sessions #1
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[Doggedly]

Right the first time, with SHE-M, trissie. (SHE Motivation)
How irritating to have coworkers who leave things to the last minute and then all come to you at once.
Your dkids are very lucky to have you teach them about civics. I'm not sure where I learned it, as it was not a subject at school when I went.

I'm not sure exactly what kind of weather we were getting here, L.Ann, but I was listening to the wind during the night and today they reported a lot of power outages outside of the city. It's nice to look at from inside my apartment.

You know me well, Bama. No siren songs were resisted.

You are back to your busy days, helia. You are wise to decide how far you want to go in taking on extra tasks.
I'm glad that your DF is managing with all that she is facing.

It's just all purpose flour, Kittykatt. I expect that most of it will end up as bread and brownies.
Your parents inadvertently gave you a great life lesson, if you started already understanding that other people's opinions of you are their issue and that you don't have to make it yours. Even if that was not the lesson that they were trying to teach.

Tuesday
Received delivery from Costco
Put Germane’s food out of reach
Gave Germane her heart pill. Started timer.
Breakfast for Germane
Had a good talk with the vet about her test results.
Scrubbed out sink and basin
Washed a few basinsful of dishes
Cleaned up after dog
Wiped down rice cooker and put it away
Dried dishes and put away
Washed more
Cooked some salmon for Germane

[L.Ann]

Apparently I missed several trees from one house over that knocked down while I was sleeping. I think these are my last 2.

1-FACE
2-quick house pick up

Menus
Wednesday-DD33 out/me leftovers
Thursday-pasta and garlic knots
Friday-curried Chicken and roasted sweet potato jumble
Saturday-fajita spiced shrimp and grain bowl
Sunday-sweet Thai chili salmon with carrots and zucchini


Events
Wednesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9-3:15, DD33 w/PS 3-8, 11:45 lunch out with friend, drop off DM’s taxes
Thursday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9-3:15, 10:15 virtual genetics appointment, Little Bit late
Friday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9-3:15
Saturday-1:00 Annie

Weekly House Blessing-
Detailed cleaning of dining room-scrub dining room
Death book-update DD33’s pages, call lawyer for appointment to review will and DD33’s POAs
Phone calls-call my tax person
Taxes-contact 1 tax person

Accomplishments
-stretching and knee exercises
-breakfast for dog and me
-dress and pick up bedroom
-DD33 meds and temp
-walk a mile
-refill bird feeder
-longer walk
-eye appointment
-pick up dinner, prescription pick up, drop off stuff at the food pantry, pick up library books
-lunch
-fill out paperwork for new drivers license now I have my eyes checked
-FACE
-read
-pick up DD33
-mail letter
-pick up Little Bit
-take DD33 to get her hair cut
-drop DD33 off at home and take Little Bit home
-dinner eaten and kitchen cleaned up
-meds for DD33, DD33’s lunch packed for tomorrow
-diet site

[Doggedly]

Lucky that it was at your neighbour's house and not yours, L.Ann!

I am all clean and sparkly and ready for my dental appointment tomorrow.

[Bama]

Dogged, good luck with your appointment. Happy baking afterward.

LAnn, I hope the trees didn’t do any damage to property.

Kittykatt, you’ve had a full day.

Helia, brrr. Spring is coming and you can thaw it soon. While grieving mom, I liked to buy wine in pretty bottles but I don’t really drink alcohol lol. This is my reminder to try it and toss it, or drink it if I like it, but I usually don’t like them. And stop buying more.

Trissie, you’re a much more patient mom than most. Your kids will appreciate that.

Bama, so the SHEM thing, like, you post it, when one person makes three posts in a row?

Yep, but it was already in place when I got to the she’s so I don’t know how it started, it just stuck in my brain.

We had a good day. Dh and dd went to the courthouse with the proper form but I have to sign it which means another trip, but I have a year to do it. Dh and I will go back one day when we are running errands in that area.
I cooked corned beef hash, did my chores and got a shower while they were out. If I’d known I was needed I would have made them wait. Oh well.
Once they returned home we went to a thrift shop that has totally redone their booths so it was like walking through a new to us store. I found a pitcher to the drinking glasses I’ve been collecting and got that. Then we went to Texas Roadhouse for supper. Stopped by the dollar store for a binder for her car paperwork and I got chocolate bunnies to send back with her as I don’t know if they will be coming back for Easter. Dd left after that to head back to Tuscaloosa so she doesn’t have to rush for work tomorrow.
Now we are chilling and I’m ready for bed.