St Lucia Day Sunday

[Kittykatt]

Ooh, a gingerbread house sounds fun, L.Ann!

I need to post my list for the week. I discovered today that one of the leaves on the dining table has a broken spring, so I'm not confident about its ability to bear any weight! Finding someone to sort that out is a priority for this week.

[Kittykatt]

Getting ahead for the week!
To do:

Appointments:
Monday: DH to office
At home for me
Tuesday: DH WFH
6pm Womens Advent meditation, possibly followed by a meal?
Choral practice for DH
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
PARISH CHRISTMAS LUNCH
REMEMBER TO TAKE MILK
Help with setting up/ clearing up
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: DH WFH
9.30 am hair appointment me
Collect order from M&S
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:
1/12 order meds
15/12 order HRT
9/12 Freddie - Solensia 8.45 am
11/12 Jude weight check 2 pm

Outstanding deliveries:
Aimed, Healthspan

Extras:
WRITE CRITIQUE OF CURATE S'S SERMON
EMAIL ABOVE TO HER
Update calendar for December
Find someone to fix leaf on table (Job Quote website/Nextdoor)
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.

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

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
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
Change sheets on spare room bed
Wash throw and cat blankets

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

Parish Christmas Lunch:
Remember to take Milk!
Help with set up and clear away.
Ensure DF E has someone to get her food for her
Liaise with MD if I have any more questions or if anything changes

[Peaches1000]

Next:
-Refill ice/water
-Files/Med Info/Papers/Emails - 10 min

Done:
-This & that
-Check email
-Update Toodledo
-Check bank accts/Amex
-Open pkg/confirm/put away
-Paperwork - gather/sort medical - 20 min
-Phone DH several times

[Smile*Lee]

Wtg, Peaches!
kitty ~ yummy lunch! mmm...
L.Ann ~ Gingerbread houses are so much fun! they're kind of hit & miss around here.

tomaaaaato gravy!
tomaaaaato gravy!
*inmates pounding fists on the table*


okay.. back to it.. whatever that is...

[helia]

trissie, well, I'm just showing how little I know about major Christmas baking! It wasn't such a thing in my home. My mom would bake homemade cinnamon rolls for Christmas breakfast and might make a homemade pie or two. I don't remember her getting into homemade cookies so much. Interesting. . .
Hi Peaches.
I hope you can find someone to look at your table, Kitty.
It sounds like you're making great progress with Christmas prep, L Ann. Nice that DD32 can face time with your Utah family.
I'm hoping to get lists for the week done today too, Kitty. I have some things to add to the lists I have made.
LOL Smile! I had that once in a while too as a kid too, banana and Miracle Whip on bread. Maybe that was a Central Illinois thing?
Doggedly, I too think that sounds pretty tasty.
That's as far back as I can scroll. . . But Bama - did you introduce the mysterious. . . "tomato gravy"?

How did I miss "tomato gravy"?

The day has remained gray. I have not been very productive. I have snacked almost half of the day's points.

I'll start helping with dinner prep in 45 minutes.

Next:
- make lists in notebook
- gather Memorial thank you info
- write Memorial thank yous
- dw: unload

Later:
- get a load of laundry going - tomorrow
- strip bed - tomorrow
- make lists in notebook
- make a list of Memorial thank yous
- write at least 1 thank you card
- payroll: slides for tomorrow
- payroll: update gradelink
- other things?
- dinner: bread, rot. chicken, Dutch cheese, pizzas
- after dinner clean up
- duolingo
- update health apps
- enjoy a fire in the fireplace

TaDas!
- up; weighed self - same
- coffee and now tea
- email deletions; weather website
- ordered a wool sweater for myself -- opted for a L so I can layer underneath. I hope it's not too baggy.
- back exercises
- s2s and self care
- squeegeed and wiped down shower
- finished folding and bagging last load of Mom's stuff
- made bed
- lunch
- cleaned kitchen a.m.
- ran dw
- afternoon church
- communication with work re: covid test - they seem pretty chill since I'm feeling pretty OK
- WF - picked up cold chicken
- Walgreens - got more shampoo since we're completely out
- snacked too much

[Doggedly]

These happy culinary accidents that we discover in our youth, Smile*Lee, can bring us right back to those times.

Lunch sounds delish, Kittykatt. Which Poirot did you watch?

It's starting to feel like Christmas, L.Ann.

Go, Peaches!

It's very grey here too, helia. I'm sure that counts for some lack of motivation.

I have been messaging with my db. Last night I had gone on the web site for the SPCA of Quebec City, which is mysteriously called SPA de Quebec. Society for the Prevention of Animals? I guess if they offer spay/neuter service, it fits...
Anyway, I saw a gorgeous grey (blue?) cat with a name like Normade. My db messaged me that he adopted a grey male named Nomad so I went back and checked the site, and his picture is gone. My db confirmed that's the one. He really is a beauty.


Sunday
Went down to car and brought up the dog food that I forgot in the previous load so that it doesn’t freeze
Cleaned up after dog
Checked tshirts. Put away the dry and spread some more around the apartment to dry better.
CUOP
Emptied out wastepaper baskets
Put on a pot of coffee
Scrubbed out sink and basin
Washed dishes
Put more dishes in to soak
Breakfast
Checked dishes and put away dry
Started new milk jug
Washed the soaking dishes
Dumped the water
Checked phone bill: nothing due
Started putting away groceries.
Reorganized cookie jars to fit the new ones
Filled the jasmine rice canister in order to fit new rice in the food bin
Filled the potato bin
Put away dry dishes
Contacted db about phone visit

Going to focus on things that I want to do before settling in for phone visit with db.

[L.Ann]

It was an unsuccessful one, Smile*Lee. DD32 bought it by herself and the pieces are too small to hold together easily while they harden. I will have to look and see if I can find an easier one.

Fatigue is hitting so I want to try to finish up and read.

1-kitchen cleanup, coffee set up, meds
2-vacuum and mop kitchen
3-clean dining room table


Menus
Sunday-
Monday-garlic lime chicken
Tuesday-fiesta chicken(in freezer)
Wednesday-DD32 out/leftovers me
Thursday-chorizo enchiladas
Friday-chipotle honey salmon with veggies
Saturday-sheet pan Mexican shrimp tacos

Events
Monday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit to school 9:15-3
Tuesday-breakfast with friends@8:30, Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit to school 9:15-3
Wednesday-DD32 3-8, Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit to school 9:15-3
Thursday-8:30 appointment with radiologist, Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit to school 9:15-3
Friday-2:00 appointment with financial advisor, Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit to school 9:15-3


Weekly House Blessing-mop dining room, kitchen
Detail cleaning of dining room-scrub floor
Extra stuff-waiting for paper for lawyer


Accomplishments
-stretching and knee exercises
-breakfast for me
-reboot laundry
-clean off top of dry sink
-diet site
-dress and pick up bedroom
-windex
-read if time
-work on art book for Little Bit
-dust
-Target order
-15 minutes cleaning up dining room
-walk inside
-meds and help DD32 with shower
-Kohls order
-get Christmas things out of the spare room closet
-mop bathroom floor
-unpack bin of Christmas stuff
-FACE
-errands
-lunch
-read
-walk outside
-help DD32 with gingerbread house
-get out tree
-put up tree
-finish gingerbread house
-early dinner
-decorate part of tree
-walk outside
-FACE

[Smile*Lee]

helia ~ I have no idea the origins of the banana/miracle whip/white bread sandwich. Both my Deep South relatives & Michigan (north) relatives loved Miracle Whip. I was in high school before I ever had real mayonnaise. My dad - from Alabama - REALLY loved them. Yes, Bama threw tomato gravy out there - and just left us high & dry. I might have to go internet diving.....
Doggedly ~ gray and white sounds very regal.
L.Ann ~ aww.. I'm sure it was very disappointing to have a faulty gingerbread house. Last year, we hot glued the ones we wanted to last awhile - and then made one to eat.

I've done a little bit of Christmas shopping online. Walmart annoyed me. I'm already signed in - and then they want me to "verify" by texting them with my phone number. They just want to annoy me with all the other spammers. So, no thank you. I'll run over tomorrow and look for the item. We have 3 within 10 miles. Surely, one has it.

Okies.. off to fix some supper.

[Smile*Lee]

Found this ...
I love that whisk thingie he's using

tomato gravy


ooo... this looks like deluxe tomato gravy

tomato gravy plus!

[Bama]

Aw Nomad sounds so pretty/handsome! Sometimes we must help the cat distribution system along. lol at spa, sounds ominous.

Tomato gravy, basically brown gravy (flour and bacon grease or sub of your choice) with diced tomatoes added, s&p to taste. Yummy for adult tastes, I hated it as a kid, thought it was gross.

Sorry we were eating and now watching the og grinch cartoon on dh’s last day home before we go back to routines and work.

Done:
Make tomato gravy
Cook sausage
Send dh to get biscuits so I don’t have to cook it all they didn’t have any so subbing toast and it was delicious
Make coffee
Ate and logged brunch
Dust
Dw unloaded
Waiting on dh to eat, he decided to get gas while out and now he’s unloading recyclables from his truck before he comes in (the recycling place was closed yesterday when he went)
Emails
Ordered vinyls for the girls (wicked, idkhow)
Watch Dear Santa with jack black
Pet chores -Feed, Water, Litter
Garden - Water greens
Self - Shower and shampoo
Ate and logged supper
Watched The grinch who stole Christmas
Now watching the dog show from Thursday. The German shepherd placed 5th woohoo. Another type shepherd won first, a gorgeous black shepherd that I can’t remember the rest of the breed name.
Dh wasn’t interested in dogs (he’s prolly afraid I’ll go get another one lol) so watching Shakespeare & Hathaway.

Later:
Vacuum
Mop
Pets -
Try dry shampoo on dogs
Brush
Laundry -
Laundry room
Kitchen
Dining Room
Living Room
Bathrooms
Bedrooms
Porch -
Toss dead plants
Sweep
Yard -
Declutter around tables
Vehicles -
Wipe out inside
Mom’s -
Toss dead plants
Planner/Paperwork