Snow Angels Sunday

[L.Ann]

Morning all!

1-help DD32 with shower and meds
2-errands-Staples and Kohls


Menus
Sunday-left over enchiladas
Monday-left over chicken curry
Tuesday-chicken burrito bowls
Wednesday-left overs/DD32 out
Thursday-pesto chicken salad wraps
Friday-out on way home
Saturday-Little Bit spending the night, Hospice open house with Clydesdales, tuba Christmas@1
Sunday-eat out at party

Events
Monday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit to school 9:15-3
Tuesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit to school 9:15-3
Wednesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit to school 9:15-3,lunch withbfriends@10
Thursday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit to school 9:15-3, DD32 dinner Christmas Party 3-6
Friday-Little Bit 7:40-9:15, Hopkins
Saturday-Little Bit spending the night, Hospice open house with Clydesdales, tuba Christmas@1
Sunday-barn Christmas party with DD32’s group, brunch with Santa@10


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


Accomplishments
-stretching and knee exercises
-breakfast for dog and me
-finish book
-diet site
-dress and pick up bedroom
-walk with friend

[Doggedly]

Good morning/afternoon, all. I am up and drinking my coffee, and I have the SADD light on to make up for the sun being stuck behind a grey sky. There is lovely soft snow coming down. Windchill of -17 C, so Germane will stay warm and happy on her bed in the bathroom.

Thank you for starting us off, Kittykatt. I remember the fun of making snow angels when I was a child.

trissie, you paint a hilarious picture of the tree-lighting ceremony. You could turn it into a comedy.

That looks like a fun movie, FrenchFly. I hope that everyone enjoyed it.

I had to change my boots last year, helia. I was using steel-toed rubber boots with removable felt liners, but last year I was having a lot of trouble balancing while I forced one foot in. Then I realized that I don't have a dog who requires me to walk through conditions that need a boot like that. I bought boots that sound like yours. They are so much easier to get into, LOL.

I love The Search For Spock, trissie. Christopher LLoyd as a Klingon, LOL. Your boots look very warm and practical.

Hi, L.Ann. WTG on getting your exercises and walk in.

[trissie]

Dogged, I do try to view my life as comedy. A rather black one at times, but a comedy nevertheless! My work, for example, is an absurd comedy. My bestie at work, the company's CFO, says that some people would pay to see something like that, and we are even getting paid for observing it!
there's a lot of leftovers on the menu this week, are you eating out of the freezer, L.Ann?

Downstairs is a cookie baking mess! There's flour, sugar, sprinkles and cookie pearls all over both the kitchen and the dining table. So that is a priority before I can start dinner!

TaDas
- afternoon routine
- set up kids with gingerbread cookie decorating
- load of cleaning rags
- bake 2nd batch of vanilla rolls

ToDos
- rescue kitchen
- homework and backpacks
- start dinner

Braindump
routines
- evening routine
food
- dinner
- bake something sweet
- freezer cooking
- feed breadstarter
organization
- update land contract
- house insurance status?
- rework contract with DS14's therapist
- homework and backpacks
- DBD's speech therapy
- 15 on filing
cleaning
- spiff up twins' room
- spiff up DBD's room
- spiff up DS13's room
- spiff up master bedroom
- spiff up master bathroom
- spiff up kitchen
- spiff up living room
- spiff up office
- spiff up downstairs bathroom and hallways
laundry
- ironing
- folding
- mending
- laundry put away
me time
- 15 of exercise
- Bible study
- reading
Christmas preps
- assemble walnut cookies
- bake 3rd batch of gingerbread cookies, including a nativity
- gingerbread cookie decorating
- something with the 4 egg whites in the fridge? - now there's 10 of them and that's after I made an omelette!
- 15 on wrapping session
- decorate with DBD
House&Holidays - I kinda really should do something about it
- week 1 deep cleaning - office
- week 3 deep cleaning - DBD's room
- week 6 deep cleaning - twins' room
- week 7 deep cleaning - master bathroom
- week 9 deep cleaning - living bathroom
- week 10 deep cleaning - kitchen
- week 11 deep cleaning - pantry
- week 13 deep cleaning - storage spaces
- week 14 deep cleaning - public spaces
- week 3 Christmas tasks
- week 4 Christmas tasks
- week 5 Christmas tasks
- week 6 Christmas tasks
- week 7 Christmas tasks
- week 8 Christmas tasks
- week 9 Christmas tasks
- week 10 Christmas tasks
- week 11 Christmas tasks
- week 12 Christmas tasks
- week 13 Christmas tasks
- week 14 Christmas tasks
- week 15 Christmas tasks

[L.Ann]

The fridge tonight and tomorrow, Trissie. The enchiladas always make enough for 2 days and DD32 brought home enough curry the other night that I can add to tomorrow.

1-make Christmas food shopping list
2-dust
3-wrap 2sweaters for DD41

4-pick a new book to read


Menus
Sunday-left over enchiladas
Monday-left over chicken curry
Tuesday-chicken burrito bowls
Wednesday-left overs/DD32 out
Thursday-pesto chicken salad wraps(DD32 out at party)
Friday-out on way home
Saturday-Little Bit spending the night, pizza?..
Sunday-eat out at party

Events
Monday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit to school 9:15-3
Tuesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit to school 9:15-3, cooking class for DD32@6:30
Wednesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit to school 9:15-3,lunch withbfriends@10
Thursday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit to school 9:15-3, DD32 dinner Christmas Party 3-6
Friday-Little Bit 7:40-9:15, Hopkins
Saturday-Little Bit spending the night, Hospice open house with Clydesdales, tuba Christmas@1
Sunday-barn Christmas party with DD32’s group, brunch with Santa@10


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


Accomplishments
-stretching and knee exercises
-breakfast for dog and me
-finish book
-diet site
-dress and pick up bedroom
-walk with friend
-help DD32 with shower and meds
-errands-Staples and Kohls
-help DD32 make cookies
-lunch

[Peaches1000]

Good afternoon!

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

Extras:
-Tasks - (empty vac)(unload dishes)(amex activity)(DH reim)
-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

-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
-DS car issues
-Texts DH
-This & that

[helia]

Oh no - I just lost a post with long chats to most of you. I'll have to keep it short now.

FFB, did ds7 come help you make cookies? It is a little hard for me not to be running - is that what you meant? It's mainly hard on my weight as I've been very slowly gaining. I'm not sure the benefit was mainly burning calories. It may have been more the feeling of being strong and able-bodied and having that "I can do it" attitude.
trissie, I guess it's better to laugh than cry! Your dark comedy at work reminded me of how we felt at the end of our time at our last church and then the year or so afterward every time we heard of a leadership (the elders - not the pastors) foible. It was kinda dark comedy - though at the time when we decided to leave the church, it felt more like pure darkness, not comedy.
Doggedly, glad you don't need steel-toed boots to walk Germane.
Hi Peaches!
You're steaming through Christmas preps, L Ann.

These are the shoes I got - in black. I'm trying them out. So far, they're warm and comfy. I'm not sure I'd go for a long walk in the snow in them, but maybe I would! They're great for everyday wear - payroll, 30 minute walks in the neighborhood, church. . . https://www.skechers.com/skechers-slip- ... 7_BLK.html

I just discovered there's a waterproof version; I didn't see that when I ordered these.

Next:
- load and run the dw
- WF: odds and ends
- pick up my footsteps from yesterday

Later:
- back exercises
- payroll: make midterm test
- 1 Mem. thank you
- empty dw
- 3:30 - 6 CG2
- 6 - ? host Sunday dinner (6th dinner event in a row. . . I'm getting tired of this. Friday was a restaurant with just dh - but we went to the Kindlefest -->a multiple hour outing)
- duolingo
- update health apps
- anything else?

TaDas
- up; weighed self
- coffee
- email deletions + weather website
- walked while dh ran
- s2s and self care
- out 9:50 - 12:25 church
- lunch
- signed up for gifts for church charity; ordered them

WEEKLY ACTIVITIES
Sun 10 - 12 Church/ 3:30 - 6ish CG2- at B and L's place/ 6 - 8ish host Sunday dinner

Mon 1-1:30 payroll: instructor mtg/ 1:30 - 3:30 payroll: teach AAS D7 - midterm test
Tue Dh out for the day - business trip/ 10-12ish KS2J get together (will I host?)
Wed 1:30 - 3:30 payroll: teach AAS D8/3:45 6-ish Drive with AC to GR/ Dinner out in GR: me, CM, and AC
Thu 11 - Brunch with AC and CM/ other adventures in GR?/ Drive home
Fri 8:20 Dr. appt. check up/ 1:30 - 3:30 payroll: teach AAS D9/ Dinner date with dh?
Sat 5 - ? CG1 (will we host?)
Sun 10 - 11:45ish Church/ say good bye to dh

December Brain Dumps
This Week - House
- towel laundry

This Week - Deskwork
- make appointment with optometrist
- Memorial thank yous
- call pavers for driveway?
- reach out to JK

This Week - Errands
- get Mom's bags of stuff to the charity

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

Mom
- go through bag of Mom's knick knacks

[trissie]

lucky you, L.Ann! My fridge is rather unhelpful tonight
hi Peaches!
helia, black comedy is fun from distance, be it space or time. Absurd comedy... well, you have to have British sense of humor to enjoy it!

I made latkes for dinner - well not latkes, but "bramboraky", which is almost the same thing but with different spices (latkes have onions, and bramboraky are well spiced with garlic, marjoram and caraway seeds) - DH was surprised that I would willingly do something so time intense on a day like today, but they require very little space to make and I knew I'd be in the kitchen washing dishes and putting things away so pouring and turning the bramboraky was not that much of a hassle.

TaDas
- rescue kitchen
- homework and backpacks
- start dinner
- packed and put away vanilla rolls

ToDos
- evening routine
- assemble Linz cookies
- 15 on laundry

Braindump
food
- bake something sweet
- freezer cooking
- feed breadstarter
organization
- update land contract
- house insurance status?
- rework contract with DS14's therapist
- homework and backpacks
- DBD's speech therapy
- 15 on filing
cleaning
- spiff up twins' room
- spiff up DBD's room
- spiff up DS13's room
- spiff up master bedroom
- spiff up master bathroom
- spiff up kitchen
- spiff up living room
- spiff up office
- spiff up downstairs bathroom and hallways
laundry
- ironing
- folding
- mending
- laundry put away
me time
- 15 of exercise
- Bible study
- reading
Christmas preps
- assemble walnut cookies
- bake 3rd batch of gingerbread cookies, including a nativity
- gingerbread cookie decorating
- something with the 4 egg whites in the fridge? - now there's 10 of them and that's after I made an omelette!
- 15 on wrapping session
- decorate with DBD
House&Holidays - I kinda really should do something about it
- week 1 deep cleaning - office
- week 3 deep cleaning - DBD's room
- week 6 deep cleaning - twins' room
- week 7 deep cleaning - master bathroom
- week 9 deep cleaning - living bathroom
- week 10 deep cleaning - kitchen
- week 11 deep cleaning - pantry
- week 13 deep cleaning - storage spaces
- week 14 deep cleaning - public spaces
- week 3 Christmas tasks
- week 4 Christmas tasks
- week 5 Christmas tasks
- week 6 Christmas tasks
- week 7 Christmas tasks
- week 8 Christmas tasks
- week 9 Christmas tasks
- week 10 Christmas tasks
- week 11 Christmas tasks
- week 12 Christmas tasks
- week 13 Christmas tasks
- week 14 Christmas tasks
- week 15 Christmas tasks

[Smile*Lee]

Happy Snow Angels Sunday!
*waving to all!

Looks like my last post was on Monday. Thought I'd pop back in and not let this run into a month-long absence again.
It's been a crazy, busy week meeting with contractors & vendors - back & forth, back & forth with samples & measuring. I'm almost to the end of my decision making for the townhouse. Just have a few stragglers left. Will finish those up tomorrow.
1. Changed my mind on some carpet in places - from plush to a low-loop Berber like style.
2. Need to pick out tub for master. I want to go to the showroom and try out lengths & styles of their free standing tubs.
3. Pick out light to go above.
4. Change vanity color in hall bath from white to navy.
and I think that's it!
Contractor says they can get it demo'd (however you'd spell that ) in December, and then start the updates in January.
Can I just say (again! ) how extremely overjoyed G was that he didn't have to make any of these decisions?

Yesterday....
Li'l H had an Irish dancing competition. I loved the competition itself, but Omg... 4 hours on bleachers. Next year - portable stadium seats! Then we went out to lunch with ddil/R's parents. They're super sweet. It was nice spending some time with them.

This afternoon...
Need to finish up Xmas decorating. I haven't been back to it since last Saturday when Li'l H & Ddil/R were here.

Okay.... I'd better get to it! Changing into some comfier clothes first.

[Kittykatt]

Hello everyone!

Trissie, you're right and we don't usually have enough snow for snow angels, but during the winter of 2018 we actually got around 10 cm snow, so the local kids managed reasonable approximations!

FFB, I remember being about DS 9's age when I was given a Stamp album, with pages to stick the stamps of different countries. You're right, of course, that far fewer people send letters these days. You used to be able to buy (cheaply) multipacks of miscellaneous used stamps from different countries, which were useful if you had pages of an album to fill! Of course, you never knew in advance exactly what you would end up with!

Helia, those shoes look very warm amd comfortable.

L.Ann, how nice to be able to eat out of the fridge for a few days!

Dogged, I'm going to confess my favourite Star Trek film is the Voyage Home. I know it's almost certainly not "the best one", but it has those little moments, like when Spock "turns off" the obnoxious punk on the bus .

Smilelee, your townhouse is certainly taking shape! WTG on making all those decisions. Having read about the carpet, I did feel I should ask if have you any pets? I don't think I remember you mentioning any, but it's just that claws can easily get caught (unintentionally!) in looped carpets, and then the animal pulls to get free and then ... well, you can imagine!

Hi, Peaches!

Today has been good and also relaxing. A good service at church followed by coffee with DF E, where we exchanged Christmas cards. Today's lunch was roast lamb rump, roast potatoes, gravy, mint jelly, cavalo Nero, carrots and peas,. followed by Greek yogurt and lemon curd fool.

I've folded laundry and PA, and also washed my coat and gilet. (I dont need to go anywhere smart for the next couple of days, so everything has time to dry properly.) I've also had some time in my front garden - it's ridiculously mild ATM at 16C, so I was picking up leaves in just a t shirt today. Freddie has had his walk, and I've had a nap on the sofa. Watching Poirot now with DH, and with Matilda on my lap.

[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 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
15 minutes in tiny front garden
5 minutes in back garden
Dish up lunch
Walk Freddie
Lap time with Freddie
Lap time with Jude
Cuddles 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:
Work on photographs?
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