Fab Friday PWYC

[Harmony]

Good luck, Blessed, with all the coming changes.

RRose, I gave several suggestions when you asked about cabinets for a garage, but I'm not sure you saw my post that day, and I'm not at all sure they would be helpful either.

Harriet, so happy you found your address box. Such a good idea to put your address on 3X5's. I would be lost without my address book. Though I have taken pages out (it's a ring binder, 5x8 size) and added pages when people keep moving around, and several times I have wished I would have had the old addresses for some reason (can't remember now why). I actually have 2 no 3 new addresses to add to the book. GFriend's son and fiance are having a baby next week and I asked for their address so I could send them a gift. Just for Blessed, they are living now in Bartlett. I called DD to wish her happy birthday as she turned 50 today and I asked how it was going with the sale of her house. Oh yeah I hadn't told you...house is sold...and we are in a furnished rental (new address) and the house we are buying we'll be into 1st week of March (another newer address).

So all of the above was my chore for today on the way home from our Study. First I got gas because I was riding on E and the gas station was mobbed with people. Then I went to the mall and looked for a gift to send DD. Seems I couldn't spend money in that store! 1st gift ended up 80% off with no sign where it was displayed...oh, now I'll look for something else, 2nd gift ended up 50% off with also no sign! And I looked at baby gifts there and just couldn't justify spending their prices and went to another store. Walked in under my umbrella in pouring rain...and got 3 onsies (so cute, the patterns) and a sleeper, and a set of booties. I'll get everything in the mail Monday.

I guess that's about all of my day. Gee, I came home so tired. Sure wish I had more energy these days. I have a letter to answer and a thank you note to send. Should make a to-do list for tomorrow. And then take days to do them all!

Kathryn, I had no idea a beater bar could be made to turn under wind power like that. I hope it fits on your pole and works nicely for you. It looked like it worked on low pile or indoor-outdoor carpet. Anyway, who has shag carpet these days? Our other vacuum likes to suck the throw carpets up and stick to the head and make a huge noise. Even the little sweeper does that. I need to run a vacuum around here...or start making sand castles. DH ran something in the laundry room a couple nights ago for me as I'd mistakenly left a Kleenex in a pocket and it looked like snow in there. Vacuuming is not my favorite job these days.

[lucylee]

My Friday has been "okay," but not what I would call Fabulous. We did get gumbo from local restaurant and ds and dgrands ate with us.
I am hoping tomorrow will be fabulous, though.

Tomorrow I have to get dgs signed up for baseball, then he has a basketball game at 5:00 pm, and THEN, we are planning to surprise dgs with a trip to Nashville to see Bobby Osborne at the Ernest Tubb Midnight Jamboree. (A misnomer, because it is recorded at 10:00 pm, then replayed on the radio the next week.)
For those who don't follow bluegrass music, Bobby Osborne and his brother Sonny were the first to record "Rocky Top," now one of the state songs of Tennessee and the fight song for the University of Tennessee. He is probably dgs' favorite Opry star, and dgs has been singing "Rocky Top" with ds and dh since about the time he (dgs) started talking. So, at the Midnight Jamboree, the performers do a show and then they will sign autographs and sell CDs and talk to people after the show, and we thought dgs would enjoy getting to meet him. It will be a late night, but it was my idea and dh is now excited about surprising dgs, and of course, ds will go with us so that will help about the driving.

DGD is spending the night here tonight but she is eating and watching YouTube right now. . She just "grazes." She did not want to even TRY the gumbo, although she loves shrimp and crawfish, so I don't know why she wouldn't try shrimp and crabmeat gumbo... but she has had peaches, Cheerios, a tangerine, and a popscicle.
She'll be ready for her shower soon and I am hoping I can bring myself to vacuum the bathroom while she is in there.

I really need to try to focus hour by hour like you are doing, LadyM.
My morning and bedtime routines are pretty well set. Sometimes I skip a step, like my stretching exercises, or I put off Bible reading from morning till night, but I follow those routines very well.
In the middle of the day, when the actual WORK needs to be done... THAT'S when I fall apart, into a heap in the recliner and then think what a lazy bum I appear to be.
Maybe if I had one focus per hour, I could accomplish a little more.
On my checklist, after morning routine is completed, I have the following tasks:

* START SOMETHING* *FIVE MINUTES ON TASK* *CHECK CARDS*
Daily/Weekly/EOW
Monthly/Zone
One from Extras (These are the things that are not weekly or zone tasks, stuff like "hem pants" or color hair, etc.)
Paperwork/Projects

Maybe that is too vague? But if I focused on each thing, one per hour, I'd normally have time to cover each item before supper.
For example today, after I got back from the post office, I could have done
Vacuuming at 1:00
Focus cleaning at 2:00
Hemmed pants at 3:00 and
Work on photo albums at 4:00.
I'm going to try that next week. None of those tasks would take an hour, and if I just promised myself the minimum 15 minutes each, I would probably see some progress around here. It's not that the HOUSE is such a mess, it's that Ifeel like a mess, because I don't feel like I accomplish ANYTHING most of the time.

Actually, I have 4 hours before I'll be ready to go to bed tonight. I should start NOW and let y'all know how it goes. I may not cover all four areas, because dgd is here, but I will make an effort at it.

BTW -- I am sooo glad you found your address box, Harriet! I need to update mine. I have cards in a file in my nightstand, but they haven't been updated in a long time. I've kept my master list of addresses on the computer since dparents' 50th anniversary (2011) so the extra info you mentioned is missing.

And blessed (((BIG HUGS))) -- I am so glad you had a visit with a friend today! Also glad to hear things are looking up with dh, so far as not needing the oxygen, one less worry for you. Hang in there.

Someone here mentioned black gutters the other day. I meant to say, there are two new houses within a half-mile of my house, and both are white siding, black roofs. One has white gutters, one has black. They both look really nice. I would have thought the black would be distracting against the white walls, but it kinda sets it off and looks good. But I had to look really closely to see that the other house even has gutters. So it's really personal preference, I guess.
My rule of decorating is, if you like it, it will be right for your house. I don't care one bit about what is in style or trendy, or what some interior decorator recommends. No one has to live in your house but YOU and your family. Paint it all white, paint every room a different color, all that matters is what your family feels comfortable with.

[Kathryn-in-Canada]

Harmony: thanks for mentioning the beater head. I'd forgotten it was coming and just went to the door to find it had been delivered sometime after I got in at 3:30. The crevice tool was shipped today and is due some time next week. They are figuring 5 days delivery despite it being sold by Miele Canada.

I counted out the newsletters (by weight, 20 = 94 grams so I just kept sectioning them off in groups of 20 and then stacked up what was needed for each building, and delivered the ones to building across the street. It is friggin cold, despite basically 2 layers on everywhere, my ankles were cold within the first 100'. Feet and calves weren't cold but my ankles were. By the time I made it across the street (3 minutes), all of me was cold. When I came back, I was inside for 10 minutes and then pulled out my scissors that had been in the bag with me and they were ice cold still.

I had my time with the grands, then we decided to have pizza and a movie but the movie we picked sucked so we gave up on it. We were 30 minutes into it and so the next one we picked would leave it to be too much down time, so we skipped a movie tonight and will have one tomorrow night.

I surfed on my tablet for a hour and then cleaned up the kitchen. I'm having decaf tea now and winding down from the day in which I did precious little. I still need to drop off the newsletters for the other two buildings (an indoor job) and possibly help with delivery.

Basically, I wasted today. I knew I would waste a day this week, I just wish it was after I had got a bit more done.

[Nancy]

I thrifted an oak recipe box today and an armless chair that the the granny square throw I made fits on perfectly!
I painted a small-ish shelf I "found" today as well.
Having a great day off.
Dinner is done / no dishes as it was take out got two on special today! Luv deals!
Got fabric prepped and some cut for my new sewing time.
Got a #3 weight so used that for arm work out. I just do one arm then the other works great for me.

I was considering getting a 2nd vac. for the basement but remembered I could take the canister off and
that made it manageable to carry back upstairs.

[Harriet]

Harmony, happy birthing day HOWEVER it is outrageously hard to believe that you have a child of that age.

I am deep into the Sewing Area Declutter days plan now (A,C and N). There are 21 "days" of two short sessions each, but several of them are re-assessing what you've done so it's not really that long and can go for less or more.

General efficiency idea of hers for long projects:
Write "Squirrels" at the top of a notepad and jot down every good idea you have about that area during all the days of your project, like a brain dump. Items might be "to-buy" items, books to check out, other work you think of, creativity, etc. Don't act on ANY of them while you're still in your project. You're not chasing squirrels... yet. Go back and re-read the notepad only after the full project you planned is over, and then decide if some of the squirrels are worth the chase. Of course, this could send me in search of a sticker with a cute squirrel, or I could stop and see if I know how to draw a squirrel ( ) or could check out how to draw on youtube. But the idea is sound!

Hoping Dee and family are okay and things aren't too rushed and pressured.

I didn't get as much done as I wanted today because I have had some nausea and napped.

[lucylee]

Guess what? I got all the pictures for August - December 2021 into the photo album. All except Christmas and that’s because I ran out of pages!

That was all but I am proud of me!