Happy Mardi Gras, Ramadan and Chinese New Year!

[L.Ann]

Thankfully no, Trissie, but with measles on an upswing it is more of a concern than it used to be.

1-read
2-doctor
3-Amish for honey, recycling to dump

4-read
5- pick up Little Bit


Menus
Tuesday-southwest shrimp tacos
Wednesday-DD33out/me leftovers
Thursday-pasta
Friday-chicken burrito bowl
Saturday-turkey and Greek salad lettuce wraps


Events
Tuesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, 12:40 mole check for me
Wednesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, lunch out with friends @11:45, DD33 out w/PS3-8
Thursday-Little Bit 7:40-6:30, Little Bit school 9:15-3
Friday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-11:15
Saturday-bball practice 9:30
Sunday-walk with friends

Weekly House Blessing-mop dining room and kitchen
Detailed cleaning of bathroom-wash floor
Death book-update DD33’s pages, call lawyer for appointment to review will and DD33’s POAs
Phone calls-
Taxes-

Accomplishments
-stretching and knee exercises
-breakfast for me and dog
-diet site
-meds and temp for DD33
-dress and pick up bedroom
-walk a mile
-pick up Little Bit
-breakfast for Little Bit
-take Little Bit to school
-wash bathroom walls
-walk
-snack

[Doggedly]

Hello, all. It is a bright grey day here today...so, winter, LOL. It is up around freezing, so a good day to bring Germane outside. I can't go out between two and five, in case the new ISP sends a tech, though I don't think that they are going to. I think that they are going to do their part remotely, but can't be sure so staying in. I'll see if Germane would like to go out for a carry later on.

I'm like you, Kittykatt. I can't remember getting the measles vaccination specifically, and my family moved so much it's possible that we slipped through the cracks, but because it was public policy and done through schools, it's very likely that I have had it.

It took me by surprise that all three holidays came on the same day this year too, helia. I just happened to see it on Facebook, so thought I'd share here.
WTG on getting your NY cards done!


(((L.Ann and DD33))) I sincerely hope that your DD33 is never exposed to measles by people who have chosen not to vaccinate.

Thank you for that, CathyS. I wasn't aware.

Have a wonderful birthday dinner, trissie!

Stay safe, kitkat. On the radio, they were talking about checking the sump pumps in Southern Ontario, as a sudden melt over frozen ground means that water will run along the top and flood instead of sinking into the ground. We're that bit colder where they are still talking about snow for us.

That is quite the tightrope to walk, but you got this Bama! This is just not the weekend bring in outsiders and you have very practical reasons why. And if she insists on bringing a friend this weekend, then we are delighted to see her but we will put off car shopping for another time and if she reaches the end of her paid car rental then she is an adult and will have some decisions to make.

I am at the end of Page 1, and had better head to the shower. I don't want to be in it, if the ISP actually sends a tech during their service window of two to five.

Tuesday
Breakfast for dog. She did a lot of will she won’t she but ate it in the end.
Made my usual breakfast of vegetables and rice. Dog begged hard for pieces of carrot from my dish.
Cut up Apoquel for pill organizer
Apoquel and new container of dog food for Germane: rejected
CUOP

[Kittykatt]

Hello, everyone!

WTG finishing the cards, Helia!

Enjoy your birthday dinner, Trissie -you deserve some time to celebrate you.

L.Ann, I do hope DD manages to stay away from any exposure. One of my friends has to take immunosuppressants, so she is also vulnerable.

Cathy, thank you for reminding us it's also also WI day. My Dnextdoorneighbour C is a member,.and enjoys the meetings, the talks, and especially the lunches!

KitKat, I hope you stay safe and warm.in the storm.

Bama, I'm sorry about the difficulties with DD's attitude. It's possible you had measles.when you were young, but were asymptomatic - apparently this is rare (it's usually a nasty illness!), but it can happen.

Dogged, I think it's highly likely you either had the vaccination or you caught measles, as it's so very infectious. I discovered yesterday that our government launched a campaign at the end of January to vaccinate as many people as possible whose vaccination status is "unknown". I'm fairly sure this is in response to the outbreak in London. Apparently if you've already been vaccinated or exposed, you can still have the MMR, and it means that any side effects from the vaccine are likely to be less. My personal feelings are that I had the vaccine as a small child, but in the current climate I can't see anyone letting me do the blood test as it takes time and money and isn't strictly necessary. So if I can't find any original paper records I'll just take the jab and get it done with. But I am going to query why those other vaccinations are missing from my record, as I do have physical proof of them (a small scar for each).

Today has been cold with some sun, and above all, dry! DF CW is off work this week, so I helped her in her garden this morning, and we also had a good chat. There was also time for me to tidy my garden and quickly give the lawn a light strim to tidy it up after the winter, before lunch. This afternoon was housework. Now DH has gone to choral society, and I'm procrastinating sorting through that box file, which will hopefully have the documents I'm looking for.

[Kittykatt]

To do:

Appointments:
Tuesday:
DH WFH
At home for me
6pm DH - choral society
Wednesday:
DH to office
9.45 am DF PM to give me lift to church for Ash Wednesday service (no communion wine for me)
Final touches to Waitrose order no later than 9pm
Thursday:
DH WFH
10.30 am church
(No communion wine for me)
Any errands to run?
Can I hoover the car?
3.30 pm podiatrist (again!) - me (check time!)
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?
Laxapet Jude and Matilda
Set up new Waitrose delivery

Future dates to note:
30/1 order inhalers
2/3 order my meds
18/2 Ash Wednesday - DF PM to give me a lift to church at 9.45 am (leave house at 9.30 am and walk down to main road)
24/2 Matilda - boosters - remember her vaccination certificate and passport
Sometime when it stops raining - roofer L will work on Garage roof and small house job
11/5 (this may get pushed back if the rain doesn't stop, but J will contact me the week before) - painter J to paint outside of house and clean fascias./downpipes etc

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

Extras:
Di d.my.birtj certificate
Mind our marriage certificate
Look for my childhood vaccinations records ( not overly optimistic about this, but I have to try!)
Start list of menu choices people have made (IC and DF E so far)
Put Matilda's vaccination certificate ready to go
30 minutes on my response to DEFRA consultation ( they estimate it will take 4 hours. I've already read through the material and had a good think about some of the issues raised, so hopefully it will take less time, but I'm still allowing myself plenty of time. Responses have to be submitted by the end of March, but I dont want to leave it until the last minute!) #1#2#3#4#5#6#7#8
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
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 for his walk
Physio exercises and back exercises WIP
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
60 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

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
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[Bama]

Thank you for agreeing with me, Dogged. My family thinks I’m mean. Whatever.

Kudos for food eaten, Germane. Now work up that appetite for seconds. Umm enjoy your winter I guess… it’s already spring here, it will be close to 80* this weekend ugh. (26 Celsius)

Kittykatt, stay safe from those germs. Dh has had shingles before and I definitely don’t want that. Sounds horrible.

Done:
Weigh
Breakfast - coffee and yogurt logged
Clean floor in living room
Gave cats some canned food so they stop following me
Scooped bathroom litter
Wiped down bathroom
Dogs out, in, fed
Wfd? Pancakes and bacon probably, maybe scrambled eggs
Emails
Pet chores
Changed pads under litter boxes yuck
Fold and leave on bed dh’s clothes
Re washing shirt that still had soap on it
Drying chair cover
Water in progress
Set out stuff to make pancakes later
Tossed old lunch meat
Fed Lola outside cat who was staring at me from the steps
Set birdseed outside so I can refill feeders when I walk
Listening to book club while charging phone as I fold clothes

Gather up cat food and turkey feed and set outside so I can feed them while out
Heading out for a walk

[Doggedly]

I am all clean and sparkly and ready for what comes next. I have checked the ISP's web site to see if there are updates/additional instructions and there are not, so I will wait until the end of the activation window (5:00 pm) and then install the equipment and test it. Yes, this means that Doggedly gets to play with gadgets.

L.Ann, my bathroom walls are looking at yours and saying that they could use some attention too, LOL.

Kittykatt, I wish that we had vaccination records like our dogs and cats do. Every visit to the vet gives you the list of vaccinations and when they need to be renewed printed right on the receipt. Wouldn't that be handy?
I think that a day where you got to work in TWO gardens is automatically a good day.

Bama, that is why we need one another. To confirm our sanity, LOL.
Wow, 80 degrees. I can't even imagine it. Here, we are satisfied for winter to continue. What we really need in a spring is days above freezing and nights below. It melts the snow a little at a time and gives the ground a chance to start thawing out, so that it can act as a sponge. It gives the plants a head start, and minimizes flooding. It is also necessary for a good sugaring off (maple syrup harvest.)
Enjoy your walk!

[kitkat]

Thanks for good wishes for storm... It's tomorrow - keeping an eye on it.

Back from shopping - took forever...
Did Health food store, Juicery, Pet foods, Whole Foods, Bakery.
I also vacuumed the car, got rid of garb/rec.
Covered back seat for Dpup:)
Pushed out as much snow/ice as I could from driveway
Got rid of snow from (part of) deck
Still need to get gas, but had to come home to eat something. (It's past 3 p.m.)

Next:
adv. laundry
get gas
get pup

[helia]

Kitkat, we're forecast to get a lot of rain tomorrow morning. Maybe it will become snow when it hits you?
Have fun with gadgets, Doggedly.
Ooh, two gardens for Kitty! And a nice visit with your friend - it all sounds nice.
Enjoy your birthday dinner out, trissie!
Enjoy your walk, Bama. Did you say it is 80*F where you are?
Wow, L Ann, that must be concerning re: lack of immunity to measles. I've never heard of vaccines not working in that way. I hope the Dr. was quick and easy.
I didn't know that CathyS. Thanks for the information!

It's 3:15 and I just finished lunch. I need to do one more thing for payroll and then go out for a jog. Lucky for me - it's 55*F and kinda sunny! First though, I need to call back the census bureau. Our household was chosen this year. They call monthly and I try to answer their Qs re: work schedules and other randome topics for everyone in this house, including M, to the best of my ability.

Next:
- return call re: census bureau
- payroll: make new session exam checklist
- payroll: do I need to do edits to the reading exam checklist first? --Maybe I can do it later.
- dress to jog
- JOG

Later:
- towels: w d f pa
- tidy MBR
- 15 minutes decluttering
- dress to jog
- JOG
- payroll: finish GGT spreadsheet
- message AS - new work out time
- dinner: eggs and toast? (I'm getting tired of eating chicken. . .)
- after dinner clean up
- garbage and recycling gathered and to the curb
- duolingo
- update health apps: WW, MFP, Finch
- read for fun
- writing time?
- put up weekly list here
- deposit Mom's check?
- other things on brain dump?

TaDas!
- up; weighed self - up
- made the bed - so much easier with only 1 person sleeping in it
- coffee
- email deletions
- payroll: finished prep for AR D2
- payroll: gradelink week 1
- some qt
- finished reclaiming kitchen
- back exercises
- s2s and self care
- squeegeed and wiped down shower
- gathered stuff and otd at 10:45
- payroll: checked S1 final exams for GGT
- 11-1 payroll: teach AR D2
- post office -- cards in the mail
- home; lunch
- after lunch clean up

[Bama]

Stay safe kitkat.

Helia, it’s 69 and a little cloudy right now with the sun shining through but not hot. I did outside chores and didn’t sweat which is wonderful lol.

And you smell good too, Dogged. You’re very appreciated here.

Done:
Weigh
Breakfast - coffee and yogurt logged
Clean floor in living room
Gave cats some canned food so they stop following me
Scooped bathroom litter
Wiped down bathroom
Dogs out, in, fed
Wfd? Pancakes and bacon probably, maybe scrambled eggs
Emails
Pet chores
Changed pads under litter boxes yuck
Fold and leave on bed dh’s clothes
Re washing shirt that still had soap on it
Drying chair cover
Water in progress
Set out stuff to make pancakes later
Tossed old lunch meat
Fed Lola outside cat who was staring at me from the steps
Set birdseed outside so I can refill feeders when I walk, done
Listening to book club while charging phone as I fold clothes
Gather up cat food and turkey feed and set outside so I can feed them while out, all fed
:35 minute walk
Filled outside dog bowl and they’re on the porch drinking it up now
Ate, logged lunch
Wash 2 more furniture covers
Inside plants watered
Top shelf of console in foyer emptied, dusted, rearranged with some old items and some new, added twig bunny
Washed stone balls and container that were on console, put on tub in bathroom for now to see if I like it there
Washed glass pot that sits on mantel
Took cat art from laundry room, wiped clean, and put in bathroom
Put 2 pcs of art from bathroom in closet for now
Hung Monet art in laundry room, debating whether I like it there or not, tbd
Inside plants watered
Mopped

Break time!

[L.Ann]

Just a mole check, helian on one mole I was concerned about. It is fine. I heard a podcast from Hopkins at some point during covid where they talked about getting the measles vaccine but not titering that you have had it. They think that some part of your immune system will still recognize the disease and be able to handle the exposure. Hopefully we don’t have to test out that theory.

1-take Little Bit home
2-dinner prep


Menus
Tuesday-southwest shrimp tacos
Wednesday-DD33out/me leftovers
Thursday-pasta
Friday-chicken burrito bowl
Saturday-turkey and Greek salad lettuce wraps


Events
Tuesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, 12:40 mole check for me
Wednesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, lunch out with friends @11:45, DD33 out w/PS3-8
Thursday-Little Bit 7:40-6:30, Little Bit school 9:15-3
Friday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-11:15
Saturday-bball practice 9:30
Sunday-walk with friends

Weekly House Blessing-mop dining room and kitchen
Detailed cleaning of bathroom-wash floor
Death book-update DD33’s pages, call lawyer for appointment to review will and DD33’s POAs
Phone calls-
Taxes-

Accomplishments
-stretching and knee exercises
-breakfast for me and dog
-diet site
-meds and temp for DD33
-dress and pick up bedroom
-walk a mile
-pick up Little Bit
-breakfast for Little Bit
-take Little Bit to school
-wash bathroom walls
-walk
-snack
-read
-doctor
-Amish for honey, recycling to dump
-read
- pick up Little Bit
-snacks
-dinner preprep and kitchen clean up