Whitney Houston Wednesday @ TDD - C&C

[Kittykatt]

Good morning, L.Ann! I'll be joining you in the kitchen later today. ATM I'm wrestling upstairs into some sort of order. For some reason my energy levels drop when it rains, so I might treat myself to some of DH's fully caffeinated coffee (I usually drink decaf) and see if that gives me the boost I need!

[helia]

Lost a post - so starting over.

Thanks for another blast from the past, trissie.
Congratulations on conquering the government website, Doggedly! It must feel good to have that done.
lucylee, there are a few Europeans who post in this thread, which is one of its perks, in my opinion!
Gma, when are you celebrating your mom's birthday? I hope the dog enjoys the chicken thighs. You're taking such good care of her. (I think the dog is a "her".)
Did the caffeine help, Kitty? It is gray and drippy here, and I also feel a dip in energy because of it. Hoping my coffee helps.
WTG on the walking, L Ann.

Yesterday, I got transportation for my mom's Dr. appointment next week scheduled - after about an hour of phone calls. Her insurance covers non-emergency transportation 100%; I hope it works out OK. Now, I need to confirm that the nursing home can have her up and ready to go out by 8:15 a.m. If not, I'll reschedule.

Today on the calendar, I just have payroll - and it's the final exam, so after I administer the listening section, I'll have some time to sit and work while the students do the same. Other things I'd like to do: go for a jog, get groceries (store or order online), visit Mom after payroll, and continue laundry.

Social events added to my calendar yesterday: (1) Dfriends KY and SY from Texas will be visiting us in June! I'm so excited!! There was a flurry of messages yesterday to arrange it. (2) And a couple of emails --> informal wedding shower for BG (in CG1) this Monday, Memorial Day. This is her 2nd marriage, and she is in her early 60s. He may be 70? His wife passed away a few years ago. So, they aren't doing things too formally.

My weight this morning was back up to a number I haven't seen for quite some time. It's OK; it's a good reminder that I need to be much more consistent with eating well and keeping active.

Main Goals today:
1. Payroll: prep and teach AAS D13 (final exam)
2. Visit Mom
3. Jog
4. Get groceries
5. Laundry progress
6. Dinner: lentils, rice, roasted broccoli

Next:
- some qt
- back exercises
- dress to jog

Later:
- jog
- s2s and self care
- squeegee and wipe down shower
- reclaim kitchen
- make the bed/ strip the bed
- (clean sheets on bed?)
- menu plan and groc. list
- get groceries -- order or go to Kroger
- put groceries away
- payroll: slides for AAS D13 (not many needed)
- payroll: print out final exam
- lunch
- otd ~ 1 pm to find parking in campus garage
- 1:30 - 3:30 payroll: teach AAS D13
- visit Mom
- dinner: lentil stew, rice, roasted broccoli
- after dinner clean up
- bring bins back to the house
- duo
- update health apps
- call NH re: getting Mom ready for her Dr. appt.
- NH - work on errors in document to be signed
- NH - can I figure out how to fill in the survey?

TaDas!
- up; weighed myself -- very high #
- coffee
- email deletions + weather website - gray, rainy, cool -- not very inspiring

WEEKLY ACTIVITIES
Wed 1:30 - 3:30 payroll: teach AAS D13 (FINAL EXAM)/ grocery store/ dinner: lentils, rice, roasted broccoli
Thu 8-9 trainer work out / dinner: TBD
Fri 1:30 - 3:30 payroll: teach AAS D14/ Dinner date with dh?
Sat 8 - 5K? / dinner: leftover chicken cacc. + Malaysian chicken, rice, fingerling potatoes, salad
Sun Church (out 10 - 12:45/1) / 3:30 - 5:30 CG2 @ L+B's / Host Dinner for up to 7?

Mon 10-12ish wedding shower for BG/ grocery store
Tue 10-12ish KSJ get together/ (I'm going to assume I won't have a payroll class -- but I might.)
Wed8:15 - be at NH for 9-10:30-ish Mom's appt. with geriatric clinic
Thu 8-9 trainer work out
Fri Dinner Date with dh
Sat 10-12 payroll outing? / 2-4 L's bday and housewarming party (near big city)/ 5:30 - ? CG1
Sun Church/ 2-6? JE grad party stop by/ 6 - host Sunday dinner for up to 8 people

May Brain Dumps
This Week - House
- clean fridge
- get 2 guest beds remade with clean sheets
- polish kitchen appliances
- possibly, polish stone counter tops
- repot my little orchid

This Week - Deskwork
- Mom's change of address cards
- update goodreads

General Brain Dump
- progress decluttering clothes - wip
- new phone eventually
- buy queen bed frame + mattress + box springs for dd26's room - wip

MOM
- send change of address cards
- put up pics in her room - Dh is always busy or burnt out; can dd26 help with this?
- shelves for her room?
- keep on sprucing up her wardrobe - pants
- find a neurologist - wip
- check with NH re: time ready on 5.28
- NH survey
- NH document to be signed

Brain Dump - Mom and Trust
- get fire safe box for Mom's documents
- email church about the tools in Dad's workshop; Dad would have loved for the church workshop to have them

[L.Ann]

Another rainy day here too, kittykatt. I think we are going to the coffee shop playroom. I need to figure out when to fit in some different kind of exercise, helian. My body is used to what I usually do and keeping my weight down is getting harder every day. The pool has exercise classes 4 nights a week this summer. I am hoping I have enough energy at 6 to do them at least once a week.

I am headed back to the car in the torrential downpour because a very cute almost 4 year needs her milk cup.

1-exercise video and finish to 4000 steps
2-wash the other half of the kitchen cabinets

Menus
Wednesday-DD32 out/leftovers me
Thursday-pasta
Friday-ground turkey lettuce cups
Saturday-Mexican black bean and quinoa bowls

Events
Wednesday-Little Bit 7:40-5:00, DD32 cheerleading and PS 3-8
Thursday-Little Bit 7:40-6:30, DD32 bocce@5, program@marine museum@10:15
Friday-Little Bit 7:40-5:00

Weekly House Blessing-
Detailed Cleaning of kitchen-wash cabinets-1/2 done, scrub floor, clean oven
Extra Stuff- work on last Shutterfly book
Little Errands- thrift store drop off, Little Bit overnight on Thursday, buy plant for birthday gift

Accomplishments
-knee and stretching exercises
-breakfast for dog and me
-diet site
-dress and pick up bedroom
-meds, temp and breakfast for DD32
-walk a mile
-pick up Little Bit
-get Little Bit breakfast

[helia]

You're such a nice grandma, L Ann! I would find it hard to exercise at 6 pm. Maybe a class would be fun and motivating, though.

[L.Ann]

I am hoping,helian! I figure since they have them 4 nights a week I should be able to manage 1!

1-read library books
2-go to coffee shop playroom


Menus
Wednesday-DD32 out/leftovers me
Thursday-pasta
Friday-ground turkey lettuce cups
Saturday-Mexican black bean and quinoa bowls

Events
Wednesday-Little Bit 7:40-5:00, DD32 cheerleading and PS 3-8
Thursday-Little Bit 7:40-6:30, DD32 bocce@5, program@marine museum@10:15
Friday-Little Bit 7:40-5:00

Weekly House Blessing-
Detailed Cleaning of kitchen-scrub floor, clean oven
Extra Stuff- work on last Shutterfly book
Little Errands- thrift store drop off, Little Bit overnight on Thursday, buy plant for birthday gift

Accomplishments
-knee and stretching exercises
-breakfast for dog and me
-diet site
-dress and pick up bedroom
-meds, temp and breakfast for DD32
-walk a mile
-pick up Little Bit
-get Little Bit breakfast
-exercise video and finish to 4000 steps
-wash the other half of the kitchen cabinets

[Lauralind]

Morning all. Lots of activity here this morning. I come in almost at the end of the European day since I am in the far western side of Canada. It's so spread out.

I have to figure out my day. I think it will be planting here today. Once I get caught up in the house. I'll do routines before bible study. I wanted to Shampoo the rug so we'll see how far I get. Energy and motivation are needed. I feel like the rug is once too much. Also depends on weather. Will it rain at the wrong time. Then I will clean and plant inside

I have seeds spread on the coffee table deciding if they need pots or ground. And here or dad's. Dad has the bigger garden space. Mine is raised bed not deep enough for root vegetables. He has the effective greenhouse that is warm enough .

Priority list

Basic routines
Kitchen clean
Vacuum living room and couches
Bible study
Buy soil for pots
Plant herbs
Plant bedding plants


Today's tada list

Shower
S&s both baths and start laundry
Tidy laundry room some

Empty and reload dw
Finish tidying kitchen all the way
School run

[trissie]

lucylee, I am the Central European Time Zone (CET), which is ECT minus 6 hours. Generally, I get the post up between 6am and 6:30, because the kids need to leave house around 7am (and so do I on the days I work from the office) so 6:25 a.m. is generally my last quiet time till the evening
We're weather twins today, kittykatt, it's raining here too!
now I wonder, gma, what makes that chocolate cake special?
who is getting a plant for their birthday, L.Ann?
are you teaching over summer, helia?
Yay for getting the paperwork filed, Dogged!
oooh, planting time for L.Ann! My veggie garden officially sucks. When the garden architect planned it, he didn't anticipate the neighbours having 10ft high Northern white cedar fence 5 feet away from the veggie patch, so it gets very little sunshine. And the dirt is too heavy for root vegetables, I can grow barbie-sized carrots and that's it!

I am exhausted! We didn't get to bed till after 1am and the taxi driver woke us at 3:22 calling to ask if the 4am pick up was still in place. That cost me 8 precious minutes of sleep, plus the phone ringing scared me and I wasn't able to fall back asleep after DH left. He's on his last leg of the trip now, and he should be landing around 10pm our time - I don't think I'll make it till then! But I made it through the work day (the weather was not helping, atmospheric pressure dropping drops me too) and the drive home, and since DS13's scout session got cancelled, that means no more driving for me today! I really worry about microsleeps - lost a friend, a young father by then, who fell asleep behind the wheel on Friday night after a very exhausting week at work.
Anyway, I may take a 15 minute nap to restart, and then get going again. Routines, dinner, homework and clean kitchen will count as success today, anything else is a bonus!

TaDas
- up since ungodly hour
- saw DH off
- morning madness, double as it is just me now
- dropped off DBD at school
- somehow survived day at work, not as productive as usually, but still managed to fake it enough to actually get two difficult analyses done (I had to time doing them for those times slots when I wasn't falling asleep at the keybord )
- ordered new tires for DH's car, as one of his blew last night (just the kind of drama I need right now!)
- pick up DBD at school
- playground time with DBD
- talk with DS re school

ToDos
- morning routine
- clean kitchen
- put away yesterday's laundry

[Peaches1000]

Good morning/afternoon!

Next:
-Update Toodledo
-Check bank accts/Amex
-Office - pupa/declutter - 10 min
-Refill pill box

Extras:
-Orders - pants/undergarments/chair
-DS - (cat fountain)(outdoor - vinegar/pest)
-Toodledo tasks - Amex activity/DH reim recon/other
-DH birth certificate - hldg

Routine:
-Gather dirty laundry/sort
-Laundry #1 to washer
-Laundry #1 to dryer
-Laundry #1 hang/fold
-Put away laundry

-Files/Med Info/Papers/Emails - 5 min
-Kitchen - 5 min
-Declutter/organize/clean - 5 min
-Cat - brush/food/water/litter
-Vacuum something
-Close blinds
-Make list for next day
-Update log
-Open & sort mail/file

Done:
-Fresh food for kitty
-Bedroom - pupa
-Open blinds/get water
-Foyer Bath - pupa/restock
-Medicine/vitamins
-Check email
-This & that

[Lauralind]

Ok well ds wants to help with the garden so that can be after school. I'll go get soil after bible study. Going to finish the kitchen and then tackle the living room far as I get.

Priority list

Basic routines
Kitchen clean
Vacuum living room and couches
Bible study
Buy soil for pots
Plant herbs
Plant bedding plants


Today's tada list

Declutter tables etc
Sweep everywhere
Move easy stuff in lr
Vacuum
Bible study

Shower
S&s both baths and start laundry
Tidy laundry room some

Empty and reload dw
Finish tidying kitchen all the way
School run
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[Gma]

We are having issues with the NH, having turned off the heat, and its 45 degrees outside. Mom is cold.
She needs a refill of a med - the prescription expired no April 30, so the pharmacy has to contact the physician.
I have to take the dog in for an appetite shot, give it myself and be supervised, and take home 4 syringes so Ican givee one a day to her while we are gone.
Get gas in car
get gas cards at church for my sisters' cars
get dollar coins at bank so we can go to laundromat to wash all the sheets from 6 beds in huge load, instead of one load at a time in my washer at the cabin, so we can leave earlier in the day on sunday
Find out phone numbers for Walgreens drugs near cabin so if dr wants to treat bacteria in urine, I know where to have prescription sent. A urine sample was sent Monday but needs repeating TODAY, and of course results won't be back befoer we leave early tomorrow morning! I guess I will have to take my computer after all - I was going to leave it at home, but messages come through the portal via computer. oh well.
meet with PT at NH to work on getting in and out of car
Think, pack, plan, load car.
(medicate dogs eyes, feed her, carry her out to potty, carry her in, wipe her feet...)
whatever else comes up