Mashed Potatoes Monday @ TDD - C&C

[Kittykatt]

To do:

Appointments:
Monday: DH to office
12 noon MJ is coming to look at table
Tuesday: DH WFH
At home for me
Wednesday: DH to office
At home for me
Laxapet for Jude and Matilda
9 pm Final touches to Waitrose order
Thursday: DH WFH
10.30 am church followed by coffee and chat
Hoover car first thing? ( Weather permitting!)
Bring blue crates up from garage
6-7 pm Waitrose delivery
Laxapet -Jude and Matilda if not yesterday
Friday: BIL.arrives.for the W/E
At home for me
Saturday: BIL staying
*Text DF E re coffee tomorrow* not this week
Sunday: DH's birthday
Church 9.30 am
Lunch out to celebrate DH's birthday with BIL and a couple of his friends
BIL hopefully leaves
Laxapet Jude and Matilda
Set up new Waitrose delivery

Future dates to note:
15/12 order HRT
6/1 Freddie - Solensia 8.30 am
8/1 Jude weight check 2 pm

Outstanding deliveries:

Extras:
Order my meds!
Reply to DF CW's WhatsApp
Put pictures back WIP
Order new orthotics - wait until ankle settles
Can I do 15 minutes of decluttering in the bedroom 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 next year when 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 ?
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 2024
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? On hold ATM , but I'll leave it on my list so I don't forget. Were 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 - not today it's raining

Garden:
5 minutes in tiny front garden
15 minutes in back garden - too wet today!

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
Reload 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

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
Set up new card for Amazon payments
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[helia]

Dh is the mashed potatoes master at our house. He makes them with sauteed garlic, full cream, butter -- and his secret ingredient: nutmeg. A hint of nutmeg in potatoes is surprisingly tasty, imho. Dh and his sisters have talked about all the different sorts of potatoes one can get in the Netherlands. There was even a potato identifying game at the wedding of one of his sisters. Potatoes are a serious thing there too. LOL! However, dh doesn't care much for potatoes as he claims he ate so many of them growing up. He balks at boiled potatoes because that is what his mother made too often. However, he DOES like mashed potatoes and baked potatoes. We're having seafood paella for Christmas dinner, though, so no mashed potatoes.

It sounds like the new place (condo?) is coming along, Smile! Will you try for a nap today? That's quite a list!
You've got a lot going on today, Kitty. You're using your time well, as always.
Absolutely, Gma - no potato flakes. I don't think we've ever had those in our home. Although, they could be a time saver if needed.
Thank you for an interesting start trissie. I hope payroll is going well.

Last night, there were 5 here for Sunday dinner + 2 puppies racing around our house. It was nice to see dd30 again! She was in FL for a month? visiting a friend. Then, I got an email from our ex-pastor that his wife (CG) was in the hospital with rather alarming symptoms that started with a bad headache on Saturday. A CT scan showed a 2 inch mass in her brain. She became unresponsive, was intubated, and it wasn't clear if she was going to make it or not. Lots of communication with the Cs and Rs and dh who is in Mexico was followed by my joining the Rs at the hospital to sit with him + 1 of their sons + her mother while she got an MRI. The upshot is that it is a meningioma, a tumor in her meninges - and not in her brain. She has been sedated until she can have surgery to have it removed. Doctors are not promising anything, of course. CG is in her 40s, I'd guess. Their kids are about 10 years younger than ours, at universities still. The nurse told him to go home and rest. We all prayed together before leaving. No word this morning, so I assume she is still stable and sedated. I think he'll let us know when the surgery is. I got to bed around 12:30 and was up this morning at 7:30 to get ready for pest control, who arrived at 8:20 a.m.

I'll join you all with a long list of todos today.

Today: The pest control guy is still here, and he found 3 more flying squirrels in his traps in our attic. I'm so sad to kill the flying squirrels; they're not common here. But, they can't live in our attic. I have payroll, preps and then teaching 1:30 - 3:30. I also need to review my own final exam. I also need to make progress on Christmas as the deadline is closing in. We're exchanging gifts on the 27th, which buys me a couple days, but even that timeline is getting shorter. There are always Memorial thank you cards, towel laundry, guest bedding laundry -- and I would like to get in another work out. I did make it to the gym yesterday afternoon.

Next:
- some qt
- payroll: prep AAS D10
- payroll: grade HWs turned in

Later:
- s2s and self care
- squeegee and wipe down shower
- make the bed
- towels w d f pa
- Mem. thank yous
- lunch
- 1:30 - 3:30 payroll: teach AAS D10
- will I stop by the hospital again?
- gym: cardio
- dinner: frozen beef bolognese and broccoli
- after dinner clean up
- duolingo
- update health apps -- get back to MFP
- Cmas progress - order dh's gift
- Memorial Thank yous
- Can dh and I decide on dd30's gift??
- Order J12yo's gifts?
- read for fun?

TaDas!
- up; weighed self
- checked messages
- email deletions + weather website - 15F now and will stay pretty steady all day and night until tomorrow morning, when temps will start climbing again
- coffee
- reclaimed kitchen
- pest control guy was here
- dd27 was here to borrow a book

WEEKLY ACTIVITIES
Mon 8-10 pest control here/ 1:30 - 3:30 payroll: teach AAS D10
Tue 9:30 - 10:30 payroll tour of possible new location/ KS2J get together 10 - 12ish?/ EMG test 3-4:30
Wed 1:30 - 3:30 payroll: teach AAS D11/ 4-5 payroll: administer exit test online
Thu 2-3 work out with AS/ RH arrives - guest room ready/ dh returns
Fri 1:30 - 3:30 payroll: teach AAS D12
Sat
Sun 9 - Cmas drama at church/10 - 11:30ish church service/ 6 - ? host Sunday dinner for 8? / 8:15 - 9:30 family zoom call

Mon 8-11 window - chimney sweep/ 1-1:40 instructor mtg./ 1:40 - 3:30 payroll: teach AAS D13 FINAL EXAM
Tue 10 - 11 haircut/ KS2J get together?/ host dinner for dd30's friend L + family/ shoes - night 1
Wed Cmas Eve service? / shoes night 2
Thu Cmas dinner for 8?/ light the candles and read stories/ shoes night 3
Fri date with dh?/ shoes night 4
Sat SINTER KLAAS - breakfast and planning session/ write poems all day/ evening - celebrate SK!

December Brain Dumps
This Week - House
- towel laundry
- guest bedding laundry
- can I scrub the tile in our shower?

This Week - Deskwork
- make appointment with optometrist
- Memorial thank yous
- reach out to JK?
- text MM

This Week - Christmas prep
- wrap dniece's gifts
- wrap other gifts
- order zoo certificate for dniece
- Finish shopping: dh, dd30, J12yo; 1 more gift for dd27?
- order seafood for the paella
- prep the bedroom for RH
- clean M's bathroom for RH (depending on how it is this may jut be a spiff)

This Week - Errands
- get Mom's bags of stuff to the charity
- buy more wrapping paper and labels
- buy more yarn
- postal place: dniece's gifts in mail

General Brain Dump
- progress decluttering clothes - wip
- new phone eventually

Mom
- go through bag of Mom's knick knacks

[L.Ann]

Morning all! For some reason they delayed school for 2 hours. We had a little snow yesterday but the roads are fine and were fine yesterday. So sorry to hear about your friend, helian.


1-walk inside
2-wrap one gift
3-pick up Target

4-drop off Little Bit
5-post office drop off

Menus
Monday-pesto chicken salad lettuce wraps
Tuesday-sweet and spicy shrimp ramen stir fry
Wednesday-leftovers for me/DD32 out
Thursday-chicken burrito bowls
Friday-Sunday away for weekend

Events
Monday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, dentist for me@3:20
Tuesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, radiologist for me@12:30, breakfast w/friends @8:30
Wednesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, me surgeon@2:40, PS for DD32 3-8
Thursday-Little Bit’s program 9:30
Friday-Sunday away for weekend, Little Bit all dayon Friday

Weekly House Blessing-mop dining room
Detail cleaning of dining room-scrub floor
Extra stuff-take paper to lawyer

Accomplishments
-stretching and knee exercises
-breakfast for dog and me
-dress and pick up bedroom
-meds and temp for DD32
-walk a mile
-pick up Little Bit
-lots of snacks for Little Bit
-puzzle work
-clean up kitchen

[Bama]

Good morning!
I’ve been cuops from the weekend. Y’all are busy! Does no one take off to rest for the weekend lol.

Kittykatt, thanks for the comfort food start. I’m glad the fence is a more neutral color. I haven’t seen any brightly colored ones and I hope that trend doesn’t catch on here. They seem nice but a lot of maintenance.

Hope you’re well rested today gma. No potato flakes here either. Although I have used them to thicken potato soup before, a trick I learned from a she years ago.

Smile, nice tub option. I never understood the tub away from the wall option but all I see is hard to reach spaces that I would have to clean. Yours is nice and tucked in but with the same look as the other. Hope you find the right shade of floor for you.

Helia, I’m so sorry to read about your friend. Scary that it was so sudden. Hope you can find and seal off the squirrel entrance to your home.

LAnn, hope the school delay worked in your favor. Here it seems they close for bad weather that doesn’t materialize (thankfully) or wait too long in a bad situation. They can’t win.

Dogged, Germane’s menu preferences definitely differ from yours. I’m glad you got her meds in her. Rex, our German shepherd who passed a couple years ago, was no easy patient when trying to medicate. And why are dog meds always large, untasty chews, at least they were in his case, he would spit them out of his food and they were too large to massage down his throat. Even those pill pockets aren’t liked by my dogs and they are supposed to be enticing.

Lol at the cat stories. Cats will be cats. Gotta love them.

French, good to read about you although sorry I missed being here while you were posting.

Laura, hope ds is able to work things out.

Kitkat, glad you got some grandbaby time.

Trissie, I am so relieved you got a nap. I was beginning to wonder if you ever sleep. Good to hear a review on the movie, I enjoyed the first one, can’t remember if I enjoyed the second one or not now.

Hugs to everyone I haven’t mentioned. Blame my old memory.

We ran errands Friday, chilled the rest of the weekend. This week’s focus is cleaning and prepping for the family Christmas party on Sunday. I’ll be back in a bit with a list and a smile.

[trissie]

I'm just jumping in where I am, because life is happening and all of that!
prayers for your friend, helia!

TaDas
- morning madness
- day at work
- email to bank
- dollar store for a jar for homemade gift for DH
- pick up DBD from school
- talk to all kids
- morning routine
- load of lights sorted and running
- long chat with sister because things are escalating again

ToDos
see where 1 hour will take me

Braindump
- midday routine
- afternoon routine
- clean master bedroom
- clean master bathroom
- have kids started on homework
- start dinner
- deliver folded and ironed laundry
- load of towels
- 10 in DBD's room which is a nightmare
- 15 on laundry
- make coconut balls
- sit down with mulled wine and flip through Christmas recipes

[L.Ann]

1-dinner preprep
2-read
3-pick up DD32

4-pick up Little Bit
5-meet with DD39
6-dentist

Menus
Monday-pesto chicken salad lettuce wraps
Tuesday-sweet and spicy shrimp ramen stir fry
Wednesday-leftovers for me/DD32 out
Thursday-chicken burrito bowls
Friday-Sunday away for weekend

Events
Monday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, dentist for me@3:20
Tuesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, radiologist for me@12:30, breakfast w/friends @8:30
Wednesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, me surgeon@2:40, PS for DD32 3-8
Thursday-Little Bit’s program 9:30
Friday-Sunday away for weekend, Little Bit all dayon Friday

Weekly House Blessing-mop dining room
Detail cleaning of dining room-scrub floor
Extra stuff-take paper to lawyer

Accomplishments
-stretching and knee exercises
-breakfast for dog and me
-dress and pick up bedroom
-meds and temp for DD32
-walk a mile
-pick up Little Bit
-lots of snacks for Little Bit
-puzzle work
-clean up kitchen
-walk inside
-wrap one gift
-pick up Target
-drop off Little Bit
-post office drop off
-drop off paper at lawyer’s
-lunch
-walk outside and inside

[Peaches1000]

Good afternoon!

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

Extras:
-Tasks - (DS storage)(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

-1pm Eat
-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
-Foyer Bath - pupa/restock
-Fresh food for kitty
-Open blinds/get water
-Medicine/vitamins
-Phone DH
-Check weather
-This & that

[trissie]

TaDas
- midday routine
- afternoon routine
- start dinner
- have kids started on homework
- clean master bathroom
- lights flipped to dryer

ToDos
see where 1 hour will take me

Braindump
- clean master bedroom
- deliver folded and ironed laundry
- load of towels
- 10 in DBD's room which is a nightmare
- 15 on laundry
- make coconut balls
- sit down with mulled wine and flip through Christmas recipes

[Peaches1000]

Next:
-Pull bill file/sort
-Update bill excel
-Review Nov/confirm/update Toodledo
-Check main bank accts last deposits

Extras:
-Tasks - (DS storage)(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

-1pm Eat
-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
-Foyer Bath - pupa/restock
-Fresh food for kitty
-Open blinds/get water
-Medicine/vitamins
-Phone DH
-Check weather
-This & that
-Check email
-Update Toodledo
-Check bank accts/Amex
-Files/Med Info/Papers/Emails - 15 min
-Kitchen - 5 min
-Texts DH

[Kittykatt]

Hello, everyone!

Praying for your DFriend, Helia.

I hope the two hour delay wasn't too inconvenient, L.Ann.

Trissie, a glass of mulled wine while looking at recipes sounds a very good way to relax!

Bama, if you're struggling to medicate animals, a compounding pharmacy may be able to help to produce more palatable solutions. Gabapentin, which is naturally quite bitter tasting is usually available as a small pill as a larger capsule - fine fore Freddie, who will eat anything, but challenging for anyone with a more refined appetite. Enter the compounding pharmacy, who can produce it as a chicken flavoured liquid, which will satisfy the more discerning Matilda!

Hi, Peaches!

Good news, I now have a fully functioning dining table. MJ is a real find, and he's also going to be able to fix my cabinet that wobbles sometime in the new year. Upstairs is now clean and tidy, and although I didn't get any wrapping done, I'm still calling today a success.