Seb Coe Sunday

[trissie]

See, you really are an inspiration, L.Ann!
helia, I've been making the beer pancakes frequently, the kids love them! I eat them with a big dollop of sourcream or sweetened curd cheese for added protein.
Dogged, now I will have to google Ryan Wedding!
Frenchie, I like your idea of creating a list of things to do for me time so that the "thinking part" is done in advance!

Done for the day, onto my last set!

TaDas
- debone chicken and start chicken carcass soup
- change / oversee changin all bed around the house
- deliver folded/ironed laundry
- dinner
- load of linens running
- homework and backpacks
- evening routine
- DBD's speech therapy

ToDos
- bake bread
- 15 minute on downstairs pick up
- 15 on stretching exercise

Braindump
food
- bake something sweet
- freezer cooking
organization
- pay bill
- update land contract
- 15 on filing
- check the dates on seeds and note what to buy
cleaning
- clean office
- spiff up DBD's room
- spiff up twins' room
- spiff up DS13's room
- spiff up master bedroom
- spiff up downstairs bathroom and hallways
laundry
- load of towels
- load of cleaning rags
- ironing
- folding
- mending
- laundry put away
me time
- 15 of exercise
- Bible study
- reading

[L.Ann]

The menu list keeps me sane, FFB. DD33 wants to know what is for dinner several days in advance of actually eating it!

1-walk
2-wash 2 windows in DD33’s room(maybe )
3-dinner prep


Menus
Sunday-salmon w/roasted sweet potato and broccoli
Monday-red lentil soup
Tuesday-spicy king pao chicken
Wednesday-left overs me/DD33 out
Thursday-cantina shrimp tacos
Friday-chicken and Greek salad stuffed pitas
Saturday-black bean and rice bowls
Sunday-eat out on way home from bball

Events
Monday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 11:15-3
Tuesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, bloodwork for DD33
Wednesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, DD33 PS 3-8
Thursday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit no school, storytime@10:30
Friday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, 1:00 radiation
Saturday-
Sunday-9-12 bball tournament


Weekly House Blessing-mop dining room, kitchen, bathroom, dust
Detailed cleaning of DD33’s room-detailed vacuuming,wash window #1, wash window #2, polish furniture, wipe down woodwork
Extra stuff-send letter to friend of DM
January paperwork-my bedroom-file box, L—spare room- DM’s papers
Death book-updates, call lawyer for appointment to review will and DD33’s POAs
Phone calls- call and make dermatology appointment, call about medical bill

Accomplishments
-stretching and knee exercises
-breakfast for dog
-dress and pick up bedroom
-meds for DD33
-breakfast with friend
-diet site
-meds for DD33
-finish detailed cleaning in spare room
-make sure last policy has bebeficiaries
-figure out the email I used for the medical portal and submit request for renewal
-walk a mile
-read
-talk to guy about dishwasher installation

[Kittykatt]

Back again - this week's Poirot has just finished. (Murder on the Orient Express) I've watched this David Suchet version (IMHO he's *the* Poirot) but this time I noticed a small but significant feature I'd never noticed before!

I hope you have a good phone visit with your DBro, Dogged.

Have a nice time with DH at the coffee shop, Helia!

Are you walking inside today, L.Ann?

Trissie, I discovered years ago that if I make am "appointment" with myself to do something for *me* (and honour it just as I would another appointment) then it's easier to actually do these things. (It doesn't always work, as life happens, but, for me, it's better than not achieving anything!)

FFB, yes, I make my own profiteroles, choux pastry is quite straightforward, and over the years I've learnt that I get the best results when using extra strong bread flour ( the extra gluten really helps) and using my hand mixer to beat the mixture to encourage more air, so the profiteroles rise in the oven nicely. When they're cool I ice them with coffee glacé icing, and when we're ready to eat them I fill them with slightly sweetened whipped cream.


I need to post my list for the week, so I start Monday morning a bit better prepared!

[Kittykatt]

Getting ready for the week!

To do:

Appointments:
Monday:
DH to office
At home for me
When will MJ come to finish the kitchen cupboard?
Tuesday:
DH WFH
8.45 am Freddie vet appt - Solensia
6 pm DH -choral society
Wednesday:
DH to office
At home for me
7 pm - DH to see performance of JCS at local school with some friends (I think A's DD has an important role?)
Final touches to Waitrose order no later than 9pm
Thursday:
DH WFH
10.30 am church
Any errands to run?
12 noon parish lunch
Can I hoover the car?
2pm Jude weight loss clinic
6-7 pm Waitrose delivery
Friday:
DH WFH
At home for me
Saturday:
DH??
Text DF E re coffee tomorrow
Sunday:
Church 9.30 am
Visit DF E for coffee? - not this week, she having lunch out with friends
Laxapet Jude and Matilda
Set up new Waitrose delivery

Future dates to note:
30/1 order inhalers
2/3 order my meds
24/2 Matilda - boosters

Outstanding deliveries: eBay #1 #2, #3, Amazon

Extras:
Work on deep cleaning and decluttering kitchen 15 minutes at a time #1#2#3#4#5#6
Order new orthotics - WIP
Can I do 15 minutes of decluttering 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? Also check the hidden gulley on one side of both dormers - WIP - Emailed L
Verge and ridge tiles on garage roof - WIP sent an email to L Update, L has had a look now waiting for a quote and am start date
Contact JE to see if he will come.and paint the outside of the house
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 2025
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?)

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 dresses
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
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
Wash spare room and bedroom rugs

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 WIP- look at discretionary payments this week 30 minute sessions #1

Extra spring cleaning tasks:
Still to do in kitchen:
Clean and declutter tall cupboard one shelf at a time #1#2#3#4#5
Clean out /declutter junk drawer
Wax kitchen floor

[helia]

Doggedly, as far as I'm aware, the Lyme disease is gone from my body. . .
WTG with the lists to prep for the week, Kitty.
Exercise is a "todo" for me too, FFB. That's a nice idea to have a list handy for "me time". I've been purposefully spending more time reading this year, and I'm enjoying it! Usually, it's no more than a 20 minute time slot, but it's still something, and I'm slowly making progress in my book.
Nice idea to add protein, trissie. I suppose the chicken soup is for another day.
WTG on washing windows, L Ann. Inside only?

I walked the usual loop I walk in my neighborhood. It's only a 25 minute walk. I enjoyed the sunshine and the birds. I saw and heard a group of nuthatches "beeping" at each other and a woodpecker pecking on a tree. It may have been a hairy woodpecker.

I'm at a coffee shop with dh now. Next will be payroll - editing BRE answer key to match the edits to the exam. Then, I'll spend some time writing, which I haven't gotten to this weekend at all.

M is cooking dinner for 8 of us! That's very generous of her. She's making a red wine beef stew. I'll make some rice and heat up some bread to go with it.

Next:
- payroll: edits to BR Exam Answer Key
- writing time
- new lists for the month and week

Later:
- make the bed
- back exercises
- NY cards progress
- payroll: edits to BR Exam Answer Key
- writing time
- new lists for the month and week
- make sure bathroom is OK
- 6 - ? host dinner for up to 8 people: M is making a beef stew, rice, bread, cheese
- after dinner clean up
- duolingo
- update health apps
- read for fun

TaDas!
- up; weighed self - very very high after a disciplined day of eating and exercise.
- coffee
- email deletions + weather website
- reclaimed kitchen
- scheduled out day
- s2s and self care
- church - left late; out 9:55 - 12:30
- lunch
- kitchen clean up again
- rescheduled out day
- walked in neighborhood; trying hiking boots to see if they're OK on my feet (looking toward hiking trips this summer)
- gathered stuff and am at coffee shop

[kitkat]

Kittykatt - your lists are overwhelming to me:)
trissie I guess I have to rise to the occasion in my immediate family... ( I can "hear" DH saying, I have no idea how to do it - it seems to work for everything)
helia smart doctor - lucky!
Dogged I'll go with that... Hope you had a nice chat with DB.
LAnn that menu list has given me ideas in the past:) It's a good thing.
FFly a dfriend always said to me, "everything in rotation". YOu will find the time... For crochet, a more achievable project like a hat or scarf might work. If you don't mind the assembly, you can always make squares..
At the time, I was super busy with family plus, taking care of dmom full time, I would sit down at night, in front of the TV and work just one or two rows of crochet. That was how I made dmom's b-day present: a shawl. Hope that is helpful.

Just back from a book store walk and a REAL park walk. We had to keep the latter to 15 minutes as the -5 C was not as balmy as it seemed from the car:) but still! It's a start.

DGkids are here so I'd better go.
see you all later:)

[L.Ann]

I have been walking inside for a week, kittykatt and 10,000 steps in a small house is super boring. I need the temps to at least get into the 30s. My windows tilt helian so I can do the inside and outside from the inside.

1-dinner eaten
2-kitchen cleaned up
3-dust

Menus
Sunday-salmon w/roasted sweet potato and broccoli
Monday-red lentil soup
Tuesday-spicy king pao chicken
Wednesday-left overs me/DD33 out
Thursday-cantina shrimp tacos
Friday-chicken and Greek salad stuffed pitas
Saturday-black bean and rice bowls
Sunday-eat out on way home from bball

Events
Monday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 11:15-3
Tuesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, bloodwork for DD33
Wednesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, DD33 PS 3-8
Thursday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit no school, storytime@10:30
Friday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, 1:00 radiation
Saturday-
Sunday-9-12 bball tournament


Weekly House Blessing-mop dining room, kitchen, bathroom, dust
Detailed cleaning of DD33’s room-detailed vacuuming, polish furniture, wipe down woodwork
Extra stuff-send letter to friend of DM
January paperwork-my bedroom-file box, L—spare room- DM’s papers
Death book-updates, call lawyer for appointment to review will and DD33’s POAs
Phone calls- call and make dermatology appointment, call about medical bill

Accomplishments
-stretching and knee exercises
-breakfast for dog
-dress and pick up bedroom
-meds for DD33
-breakfast with friend
-diet site
-meds for DD33
-finish detailed cleaning in spare room
-make sure last policy has bebeficiaries
-figure out the email I used for the medical portal and submit request for renewal
-walk a mile
-read
-talk to guy about dishwasher installation
-walk
-wash 2 windows in DD33’s room(maybe )
-dinner prep

[L.Ann]

1-FACE
2-diet site
3-last 1000 steps

Menus
Monday-red lentil soup
Tuesday-spicy king pao chicken
Wednesday-left overs me/DD33 out
Thursday-cantina shrimp tacos
Friday-chicken and Greek salad stuffed pitas
Saturday-black bean and rice bowls
Sunday-eat out on way home from bball

Events
Monday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 11:15-3
Tuesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, bloodwork for DD33
Wednesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, DD33 PS 3-8
Thursday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit no school, storytime@10:30
Friday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, 1:00 radiation
Saturday-
Sunday-9-12 bball tournament


Weekly House Blessing-mop dining room, kitchen, bathroom
Detailed cleaning of DD33’s room-detailed vacuuming, polish furniture, wipe down woodwork
Extra stuff-send letter to friend of DM
January paperwork-my bedroom-file box, L—spare room- DM’s papers
Death book-updates, call lawyer for appointment to review will and DD33’s POAs
Phone calls- call and make dermatology appointment, call about medical bill

Accomplishments
-stretching and knee exercises
-breakfast for dog
-dress and pick up bedroom
-meds for DD33
-breakfast with friend
-diet site
-meds for DD33
-finish detailed cleaning in spare room
-make sure last policy has bebeficiaries
-figure out the email I used for the medical portal and submit request for renewal
-walk a mile
-read
-talk to guy about dishwasher installation
-walk
-wash 2 windows in DD33’s room(maybe )
-dinner prep
-dinner eaten
-kitchen cleaned up
-dust

[helia]

Oh, nice! I remember now you said your windows were like that L Ann. Our bathroom window is like that. But - Wow. You've been getting your 10K steps inside the house? That's amazing.
I like that kitkat - "Everything in rotation."

Next:
- duolingo
- lists in notebook
- maybe start a meal plan for the week?

Done:
- dinner: burgundy stew, rice, bread
- after dinner clean up
- updated health apps
- figured out dates for backpacking trip (in MI) with dh and dd27

[Gma]

I'll just stope by for a quick, hello, I'm back from my Florida vacation. My cousins were the most amazing hosts. We did so much, I need to rest from my vacation. They pampered me, I did rent a car and did some driving, but not much. It was horrible to drive in a place where I did not know the roads, had no concept of direction (hooray for GPS and smart phone directions! ) and traffic was more than I have ever experienced. 4 lanes each direction, and a toll road of 2 more lanes each direction, making a total of 12 lanes! Whew was I ever happy to get back to my home town for driving purposes at least!
I woke up this morning to new snow to shovel, but none had fallen while I was gone (yes, it can be too cold to snow). Although the weather was cool for Floridians, it was 50 to 100 degrees warmer than what I had left. Only one day felt like summer, but the rest were OK for a sweater or sweatshirt (no long underwear, gloves, hat, heavy jacket). The flight south was first delayed, then delayed 3 more times, then cancelled and rescheduled for the next late morning. The flight home was delayed 3 hours, so I was lucky to get home on the last shuttle bus of the day.
Tomorrow I can tell you more, but I have a suitcase to unpack, and need to get to bed.