Surtsey Sunday

[Kittykatt]

To do:
Cuddles and snack for Matilda, Jude and Freddie
Bible reading and meditation
Update latest Waitrose order
Cup of tea
Get up!
Scrub out litter trays (DH)
Change sheets on bed
Shower/wash hair/moisturiser and sunblock/ clean and floss teeth
S/S bathroom
Physio exercises
Get dressed in casual clothes
Give everyone fresh water
Cat breakfast and meds /supplements
Breakfast and meds /vitamins for me
Quick kitchen clean up
Hang up towels that washed overnight
Load DW
Quick PUPA downstairs
Quick dust and Hoover downstairs
Change into smarter outfit
OTD to church
Coffee with DF E
Back home again, change back into casual clothes
Meat in oven
Hang up sheets to dry
Coffee with DH
Put potatoes and veg to roast
Put up my vitamins and supplements for the week
Weigh out Jude's and Matilda's dry food for the week
Quick PUPA upstairs
5 minutes in tiny front garden
15 minutes in back garden
Dish up lunch
Walk Freddie
Lap time with Freddie
Lap time with Jude
Lap time with Matilda
Head rubs with Freddie, Jude and Matilda
Play with Freddie, Jude, Matilda
Fold laundry and PA
Run DW when full
Unload DW
Post list with my plans for the week
Clothes laid out for tomorrow

Extras:
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[helia]

Thank you blessed! It's nice to see you. I hope all is well. How is your Mom? I know sometimes she's a challenge.
Thank you Harriet.
It looks very green and lush, trissie. I guess you don't have to worry too much about the German test then.. . or not?
I hope the music at church went well, Lauralind.
You're doing great with your two boys, FFB. Some computer games are educational.
Which movie are you watching, L Ann?
Hi Peaches.
Kitty, your Sunday lunch sounds scrumptious as usual. Glad church was good! Nice your church held a vigil.

I'm now at a coffee shop with dh and the girls. I don't think I'll get to WF; maybe M can do it? She had offered. Dd27 made some pumpkin bread for me.

Next:
- payroll: grade HW and update gradelink
- payroll: prep IW D3

Later:
- make bed
- payroll: prep IW D3
- payroll: grade HW and update gradelink
- WF run
- 3:30 - 6-ish CG2?
- 6 - ? host Sunday dinner for up to 7 people
- after dinner clean up
- duolingo
- update health apps -- get back on this

TaDas!
- 4:30 phone call from NH nurse followed by 6:30 a.m. phone call from hospice nurse
- up; weighed self - trending up. I guess I can't eat cheese and crackers every day.
- coffee
- email deletions and weather website (high of 82*F and sunny)
- call girls
- call dbro
- text KS2J + CG2
- email CG1
- email cousins
- email trustee
- message ds + F
- message to group chat including Cs and M
- reclaimed kitchen
- dressed to jog
- back exercises
- phone call with funeral home in IL; she's going to call back tomorrow when I'm hopefully better able to engage in the coordinating process.
- short jog
- messages from payroll
- home; lunch
- s2s and self care
- squeegeed and wiped down shower
- gathered stuff; @ coffee shop with girls and dh

[Bama]

Good afternoon.

Oh helia, I’m so sorry for your loss. Anticipatory grief is so hard, now the real deal was almost a relief for me. Grieve in your own way for as long as you need. Sending love and prayers to you and your family.

I tried to cuops so random comments: cue the pink panther theme when dogged was trying to sneak to the laundry room without germane Friday night.
Dd2 worked at Nike last summer. The clothes were like walking through a child’s clothing store. My arm might fit in a legging. Even dd, who is small, would be forced into larger sizes, I can see how young people get anxiety and disorders. My day wasn’t much different, only there weren’t plus size stores.
I do hope churches were filled to the rim today. A good result from a bad thing. God is good always.
Gma, I hope your mom isn’t having any ill effects today. My mom had difficulty walking to the bathroom the last month due to her sciatic nerve issues so we got a toilet for the living room. At first she was disgusted, then it got to the point where she would go while watching me mow her yard and yell for me to come empty it lol.
Doggedly, that show sounds so interesting. I remember being a nanny a lifetime ago, working my way through college, and having to take very young children to tennis and swimming lessons. It was a class thing back then. Now everyone has access. I don’t know what the upper class does here to separate themselves now.
I remember Tom hanks on some show decades ago bragging about a huge flat screen tv with surround sound he had just purchased for some ginormous amount of money. Now it’s in most homes.

I just came to post a list so I don’t get distracted lol so let’s get at it!

Cook brunch
Cook supper (crockpot)
Mow
Laundry - dh’s clothes, my clothes, lr covers, dh’s bedding
Walk, brush dogs
Trim gardenia bushes
Pull up bridal wreath x2
Trim others in front flower bed
Make hummingbird feed

[FrenchFlybebe]

trissie thanks for the picture. This year the only tomatoes we have eaten are the ones growing in buckets. Remind me to share a picture if you want. The tomatoes in the soil are growing too, but getting attacked by slugs / snails, or just too busy doing leaves, there are green tomatoes but it looks like they will never ripen. Sorry about the German test for your DS. Maybe just having a look at the previous lessons can help ?

helia glad you were able to spend time with family today.

Kittykatt thanks for sharing your Sunday menu

Have a nice Sunday Bama !

Have a good time at church laura !

Hi Peaches, Harriet, blessed ! Hi to anyone else I forgot.

Kids are in bed, dinner is cleaned up, dishwasher is running, my resume and letter have been sent, a few veggies were harvested in spite of the rain, homework was done, the kids' clothes are ready for tomorrow... So the day was rather successful. Not many house chores were done. No time in the Zone today. And I still intend to spend a few minutes checking the fall-winter tops in my tiny closet, I'm afraid most are wrinkled, maybe some need some cleaning, before I can start wearing them. And I need to clean all the short-sleeved ones before putting them away for the colder months.

TADAs
vacuumeds bedrooms upstairs
applied for job
time in garden
dinner done, cleaned up
kids in bed, before bed routines done

TODO
weekly to-dos for next week
quick look at long sleeved tops in my closet : are they ready for the colder months ?
before bed routine, relax, bed early

Have a peaceful evening and night everyone !

[Peaches1000]

Next:
-Files/Med Info/Papers/Emails - 20 min (misc papers)
-Medical - print past appt info - 20 min
-HH Speech - text about appt
-Close blinds
-Restock fridge
-Office - change trash

Extras:
-Monday 3pm Dr B Appt - Telehealth
-Tasks - (Amex)/(DH reim)/(make food options list)/(move desk area chargers)/(addtl)
-Declutter/organize/clean - 10 min
-Files/Med Info/Papers/Emails - 10 min

Routine:
-Cat - brush/food/water/litter
-Vacuum something
-6pm Eat
-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
-Check email
-Update Toodledo
-Check bank accts/Amex
-Files/Med Info/Papers/Emails - 45 min
-Laundry #1 hang/fold
-Put away laundry
-Kitchen - 25 min
-1pm Eat (ensure)

[Twins' Mom]

Helia, I'm so very sorry for your loss, and will keep your family in my thoughts. I'm glad she didn't suffer longer. May your mother's memory be a blessing.

[Kittykatt]

Just a quick CI as it's late and I'm in bed.

WTH getting your job application done, FFB.

Bama, over here, "class" and " money" are not necessarily the same thing. It would not be upper class to buy a huge TV, (ostentatious and vulgar) and certainly not to brag about it. That's the kind of the thing the "nouveau riche" would do, or, at the other end of the scale, something that had been bought on credit.

True story, a number of years ago, there was a move to end the policy of having the money for people's council tax benefit simply transferred from one council.accout to another, as this was considered to be "degrading" and, instead, paid into the claimant's bank account for them to pay the council. There was one lone voice from a wise councillor who said he felt people might be tempted to make "unwise choices" with all this money suddenly deposited in their account. (Remember this wasn't actually the individual's money, it was a benefit paid to them for the sole purpose of paying a bill.) Over the next few months, the number of huge flat screen TVs sold went up, as did the council tax arrears. There were also several requests from people actually asking to return to the old system, as they could budget better, and also their partner couldn't drink or gamble away the "extra" money. And the kind hearted and realistic council workers actually made this happen for those people.

Waving to anyone I've missed!

Night night, everyone!

[Kittykatt]

Getting ahead for the week!
To do:

Appointments:
Monday : DH to office
11am coffee with DF PL at community shop (she wants to finalise the arrangements for C while.she is away)
Tuesday: DH WFH
8.30 am Freddie to vet for Solensia injection and bloods under sedation.(And a nail clip!)
Remember Petplan documents
Can I book Fred's next Solensia and Jude's weight check
Order Flea control for Fred? (I haven't had the text reminder)
Wednesday: DH to office
10 am? Cup of tea with C and pick up her shopping list
Laxapet for Jude and Matilda
9 pm Final touches to Waitrose order
Thursday: DH WFH
10.30 am church
Any errands?
12pm parish lunch at community café
3pm podiatrist -me
Can I book Jude's next weight check at vet?
Hoover car? ( Weather permitting!)
Bring blue crates up from garage
6-7 pm Waitrose delivery
Laxapet -Jude and Matilda if not done yesterday
Friday: DH WFH
9.30.am hair appointment -me
2pm take C her groceries
6.30 pm drive out with Dnextdoorneighbour C to listen to DH's concert
Saturday:
*Text DF E re coffee tomorrow*
Sunday:
Church 9.30 am
Coffee with DF E?
Laxapet Jude and Matilda
Set up new Waitrose delivery

Future dates to note:
16/9 Freddie - vet Solensia & blood tests

Outstanding deliveries:

Extras:
SORT OUT PREPAYMENT CERTIFICATE FOR PRESCRIPTIONS - TODAY
EMAIL DM RE PARISH CHRISTMAS LUNCH - TODAY
Order new orthotics
CAR INSURANCE cancel old policy do by 3/10 at the latest -preferably earlier
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 ?
Fix garage guttering that's loose at one end and bending down. Dneighbour R2 may fix? He's done it!
Fix dripping kitchen tap (new washer ?)- DF E has given me the phone number of her plumber . I think DF CW also has a plumber she is happy with?
Take up and hem those thick winter curtains for the kitchen
Book eye test for me
Find picture hanging equipment for DH
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.

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
Physio exercises and back exercises
Proprioceptors exercises X1 x2 x3
S/S bathroom
Get dressed
DH launched
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
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

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
Buy and plant pansies WIP
Plant foxgloves and return tray and pots to Dneighbour R
Either repot or top dress bulbs in pots and feed
Prune roses - 10 done, 16 to do (the totals might change as this time of year I assess what hasn't done well, and whether it gets another chance, or whether it's time to say goodbye!)

Financial:
More work on budget

Things that need to happen at home before DH retires!
Reorganise office WIP DH still needs to deal with a crate of "stuff" He's just about done, although there is a crate of "stuff" in the garage which needs his attention - I've picked out a few things that need to come up to the house! I've managed to fit everything in the cupboard -It needs a good sort out and tidy.

Declutter bedroom 15 minutes at a time!

Parish Christmas Lunch:
Date and venue booked
Caterers booked
Email parish administrator re printing tickets and poster
Email parish administrator again

[L.Ann]

I don’t have strong feelings either way about screen time, FFB. I was probably somewhere between the two as a parent. I just try to go with whatever each family does when I have their kiddos. I unfortunately managed to raise three nonreaders despite being a voracious reader. Of the older grandkids we have one reader and one who would prefer not to.

We went to Downton Abbey helian. It was great if you like the Downton movies.

1-vacuum and DD32 dust
2-make lunch and set up coffee
3-FACE

Menus
Monday-ground turkey tacos
Tuesday-red lentil soup
Wednesday-DD32 out/leftovers for me
Thursday-DD32 out/leftovers for me
Friday-out after Hopkins

Events
Sunday-walk w/friend@9, Downton Abbey @1, DD32 to Toy Story with DD 38@11:30
Monday--Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-11:45, urn pick up
Tuesday--Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-11:45, 10 dentist me crown
Wednesday--Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-11:45, DD32 PS 3-8, lunch w/friends at 12:15
Thursday--Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-11:45, DD32 32 PS 3-8, fall book preview@8
Friday- Hopkins

Weekly House Blessing-mop kitchen, dining room, vacuum
Extra Stuff- work on last Shutterfly book, fix dress for DD32’s dance, make wrapping paper with Little Bit
Little Errands-drop off DM’s driver’s license, send email and documentation to delete DM’s Facebook accounts, mail package to Utah, bank
Phone calls-pick up urn

Accomplishments
-stretching and knee exercises
-breakfast for dog me and DD32
-temp and meds for DDD32
- dress and pick up bedroom
-walk with friend
-email to DD32s doctor
-take DD32 to her sisters for the movie
-maybe run a couple of errands before my movie
-movie
-out to dinner

[Bama]

Kittykatt, your old money is probably older than ours but we have old money and new money here too. Old is quiet, reserved, and new money (Hollywood, business people) is pretty garish to me. Of course I know nothing of either other than what is online or those entertainment type shows which I avoid. When I worked at hospital I met some awesome doctors (not huge money by world standards but very well off for living here) and am still friends with some. Most newcomers aren’t friendly and have an attitude I don’t care for.
I grew up in Mobile, birthplace to Mardi Gras, and some of the older crews were very nice. These days it’s all about parties and drinking. Not the same at all. Or maybe I’m just more aware of behind the scenes now. My first 2 jobs, one for the city and one for a company that was started by old Mobilians, taught me a lot about people.
Sweet dreams.
The mower wouldn’t cooperate, the belt kept coming off, so I’m back inside.