Fabulous Friday Fruity Hat Conga PWYC

[Twins' Mom]

Oy vey. I've been doing some much needed cemetery emails and a DPC. I can't get anyone to answer emails and move forward. I called the maintenance co and told them to go ahead with some work that the chair hadn't followed up on, and then called him to tell him that I authorized it. He thought it had already been done somehow? The cemetery has needed this maintenance since we met last August! I think he can't remember stuff. I also reiterated to him that if needed to step down we would "figure out something." Which probably means me doing it.

[Nancy]

I have used my mower again for a bit in the back by the fence.
Learning a bit more with each time I use it!
Got myself some new hefty pruners that will come in handy!
Others are not as heavy duty and I got them 2nd hand.
Did not buy plants today.

Rested and knitted some got past the edge stitch k2 p2 ~ now I can do stockinette stitch except for the outter edges same border
stitch as I mentioned for the bottom & will be on all outer edges.

Wore a hat a visor actually on an around the block walk for ddoggo.
Got my steps in for today.
I'll go about front and mow again or at least on one side.
Got some of the grass wet when I used the hose earlier.

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Mowed the front again at this lower setting before rains tomorrow.
Got 9+K steps in now. =D

I remember the 1st moon mission splash down too!

[Lady Maverick]

Home finally. I am ready for a break.

DD14 was the talk of the family doctor office when they saw her test results. Apparently her brain tests results greatly exceeded the normal. I'm not familiar with these tests so I'm not sure exactly how high. They told me 85 was normal score and DD14 scored 121. >>>shrugging shoulders<<<< When DS17 scored at the bottom of normal it prompted a discussion of him taking ADHD meds. DD14 scoring way higher than normal didn't prompt further follow-up.

I bought groceries on the way home so we are fully stocked.

DD14 is spending the night with DD49 so we only have DS17 and DGF16 here.

I realized today that DD14 will take drivers ed classes this summer. Eeek! She can get her learner permit in June. We will have two teenage drivers. .....

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[Harriet]

Careful, Twins'. Just make sure you don't really want to say "no", okay?

So happy Orion splashed down safely. Off to the hospital soon to all be evaluated, but it looks like everyone's okay.

[lucylee]

Hello, everyone. It's me, serving as the bad example again...
I have NOT been congo-ing today.

DGS still showing signs of stomach virus -- went to doctor yesterday, mainly to get doctor's excuse since he is missing 2 days of state testing. DDIL thought school might be a little stricter about excusing absences. I went to get him after he woke up and he wanted a stuffed potato for lunch.
He ate EVERY BITE of it, potato skin and all (pork, white sauce, chives, and bacon bits) and was quite active for an hour or so afterwards, playing a Nerf basketball game with himself, running up and down the hall. Then he threw up again. Then it wasn't hard to convince him to settle down a while.
He spent the rest of the afternoon in my bed, playing on his phone and drinking Gatorade. DDIL came and got him when she got home from work.

At the moment, unfortunately, dgd is asleep on the same pillows he was using. I did spray Lysol on everything and put a blanket between her and the covers he used, but she has managed to get the cover off the pillow. However, he may have had another pillow (my silk pillow) actually under his head. Maybe she is safe.
DDIL is suggesting that they might stay apart the rest of the weekend... which will mean dgd will be here all day tomorrow, and Sunday afternoon, AND that I will likely have to teach dgd's Sunday School class again, which is not really on my list of things I want to do.

I did the school pick up for dgd and took her to ball practice. We ate at Subway for supper and she has been less demanding than usual. She was worn out after practice, plus extra play time at school -- teachers rewarding them for the testing time.

I typed the (very short) minutes from a church meeting and emailed them to those in charge. Otherwise, I have been pretty lazy today. Still coughing, but I have a lot more energy than I did a couple days ago.

I've also spent some time with Directv... smh... The person I had on chat wanted ME to buy a 6 meter pole, 2 inches in diameter, for the man to put the dish on, so it could be removed from the roof. I talked to ds about it -- knowing I would need his truck for this -- and then realized that even with an 8 foot bed, a 20 foot pole is NOT going to transport very well. What are these people thinking of??? Plus, it costs $200 at my local hardware store. I have an appointment for a technician to be here Sunday afternoon, and if he can't work with what I have here, and hopefully just move the dish to the gable at the end of my house, then it will just have to go back on the roof when the roofers are finished. They are supposed to start Monday.

I have felt uneasy all day, and it probably has a lot to do with this snafu. Directv sent me an email confirmation which sounds like they think I am a new customer, also. It had my "first month" charges laid out and they were about half what I am paying right now. So I got back on chat and another person confirmed that there would be NO changes to my programming.
Sunday will be two years since dh died. Generally, I think I'm doing really well... but then I type that, and the tears start again. And making decisions about this roof business has not helped one bit.

WOW -- good for dd14, LadyM! And WOW for dgd 15 -- oh my -- I would be scared to death to do what those flyers do -- and scared to death if dgd ever had to do that! Oh my goodness. Maybe mine will stick to softball. I wish I were brave like your dgd, though. BTW -- I think you are doing an amazing job with your dgrands!
Driving permits are going to be scary too. At least I'm a year behind you with dgs... he will not be 14 until this June. He's pretty cautious, but somewhat absent-minded.

So glad to hear things are going well for Twins' dd, too! It IS so nice when things are going well for adult children.

I am certainly proud of the man ds has grown up to be, but if I were doing mothering over again, I would certainly try to instill routines and neatness in him... OTOH, it could be that dh's obsessiveness with both caused ds to react in going overboard in the other direction. AND if he had married someone like dh, they would probably have not been able to live together. But my goodness... every time I go over there I just have to bite my tongue sooo hard.
At least their azaleas, my late dmil's pride, are still blooming -- at least half of them. Beautiful, huge white shrubs with one pink and one red on each end. There used to be more, but they are only showing on one half of the front of the house. If I won a million dollars, one thing I'd do is hire them (and myself!) a gardener!

I am s2s, hair washed, and I believe I will get in bed and watch Boston Blue. Maybe that will calm my nerves a bit. (LOL. Crime shows -- calming?)
If not -- in a couple hours my man Dale Robertson will be there, saving the world for Wells Fargo. I hope Oklahomans are as taken with him as I am, LadyM.

I did spend some time on my to-do list, but just prioritizing it, not actually getting anything done.

Mystery -- this is ME. Maybe if I keep improving, I can manage to actually do some of these things too. I have sooo much I know I need to be doing, and it really hard to know exactly where to start.
Thinking in threes might help, like some of you mentioned.

Some of the things that really are weighing on me that I just can't seem to get started on --
* setting up the NOK box (Next Of Kin) a file for all the things people need after a death
* organizing photos -- I have a LOT of photo folders from Shutterfly, in different sorts of boxes and baskets... just a mess... and albums are not the answer. The albums are already taking over the space allotted to them and ds and ddil definitely do not have space for them when I'm gone
* scrapbooking -- a big stack of papers that basically just need to go into page protectors in loose-leaf binders. I am not talking about cutesy designs and things, just keeping track of ds' career and happenings with the dgrands
That's my big three -- PROJECTS -- I guess you'd call them. How would YOU get started on that sort of thing?

Then of course, I struggle with the WHB and Zones. Always have. Can't blame that on dh's passing. If anything, I should be doing a thousand times better -- I have no distractions at all during the school year.
I told y'all -- I'm just a lesson in What Not to Do.