Tansy Tuesday

[Lauralind]

Morning all. I should get more motivated than I am. I need to do some straightening again. My whole house feels like I should rip apart every room Take everything out and start over again. I don't know what it is. Maybe cause my furniture is needing a replace.. dilapidated cat trees so well used and coming apart. It really isn't that messy just feels like it to me.

I work early. Tomorrow is a wash except it hopefully will be productive. Have to go to the city with dad and sister. Legal stuff for dad. We tried to go small town but no... because he didn't do poa before mom couldn't agree now we have a complicated process . It won't be complete tomorrow just helping dad understand and decide what to do with the end result being take mom's name off the assets so he can sell. I don't want to go along but I better.

Another dog question.. I've never had one on meds before. The pills are easy. Barely notices them buried in cheese string. He seems normal and if I can tell right it looks like he's improving. Question is do meds make them feel a little off sometimes? First taste of his new food he gobbled it up. I had it on the shelf the pantry and the cats tipped it off and spilled it. He very willingly cleaned up the remnants off the floor. Then I mixed it with his remaining usual food and he now seems not to want to eat much. He's always been a little slow at his food. I buy him good stuff. Lamb based cause chicken didn't agree. Did it affect his appetite or is he just feeling off from himself. He's acting his usual mischief self . Hopefully improving.

[helia]

kitkat, it was 15F this morning, but it's supposed to warm up to around freezing! I think jogging in upper 20s is comfortable, especially if there's little wind. Sounds like a busy day for you. How do you do going to the gym in the evening? I tend to melt into a sedentary blob in the evenings.
Ugh, L Ann. I hope you can get new shoes soon. Did the knee surgery help? (I think you had knee surgery.)
Hi Lauralind. I hope the POA and processes with your dad go smoothly tomorrow. We had labs who always loved food - except for Maia, our last lab, who had some food allergies. But she was never underweight; we managed OK with her. She stopped eating much toward the end.

Done prepping for class. I have about an hour to get ready to leave the house.

Next:
- back exercises
- s2s and self care
- squeegee and wipe down shower

Later:
- some qt
- back exercises
- s2s and self care
- squeegee and wipe down shower
- make the bed
- pack a snack
- 10:45 gather everything and otd
- 11-1 payroll: teach AR D4
- 1:30 - 2:45ish KS2J @ J's house
- WF
- put groceries away
- dress to jog
- jog
- dinner: egg wrap, mixed veggies
- after dinner clean up
- garbage and recycling to curb
- writing time?
- reading time?
- other things?

TaDas!
- up; weighed self -- up!! I think the weekend goodies finally hit.
- kitchen reclaimed
- coffee
- email deletions + weather website - the sun may appear this afternoon.
- payroll: slides for AR D4
- payroll: quizlet vocab
- payroll: printed out practice midterm

[Doggedly]

Hello, all. We are up and Germane is sampling her slow cooker stew. So far, she has thrown a piece of potato on the floor, but eaten others. The carrots get eaten, as does the pork. I think that after the fat's been skimmed, I'll mix rice into the broth.

LOL, Kittykatt, nobody gets to look in Germane's mouth, as she is muzzled for the vet, so Matilda looks like a model of comportment from here.

Ah, yes, helia: girl dinner when the hubby's away. Enjoy!

I hope that the shoes help, L.Ann.

Lauralind, do you think that it's the spring cleaning urge that has fallen upon you, even though your house is already clean?
I am well out of my depth talking about medication effects. You are talking to the person whose dog is removing potato from her homemade stew and dropping it on the floor, so what do I know?

It's -16C her with a windchill of -25C, helia, so I guess that we are not weather buddies today.

[Bama]

Good morning!

Kittykatt, love the theme this week. I’m still amazed that marsh mallow is a plant, not just some man made oil “treat”.

Dogged, stew sounds good. Looks like we are both here in the morning time, are we in sync now lol?

Helia, love breakfast for dinner. Eggs are so good for you any time of day.

Laura, maybe the newness wore off? If his appetite is the same as before maybe he’s just not hungry? If he needs to eat it maybe add some shredded cheese? Not sure what the goal is… to eat more or …?

LAnn hope the shoes help with the pain.

Kitkat howdy.

I’m easing back into routines this week. Seems I rotate in and out regularly so this is a good thing.

Done:
Up! always a good thing
Dogs out and in
Spot clean floors foyer, living room
Litter scooped
Inside pets fed, watered
Laundry - mop head out of washer to air dry
Throw out of dryer, folded and put on chair
Can’t weigh, scale died last week, new one arrives tomorrow
Water - in progress
Wfd? Made sloppy Joe mix yesterday when I split up pack of ground beef, ate the other half in a hamburger soup last night, so just need to heat and eat, will cook sweet potatoes to go with, yum
Breakfast ate and logged
Took supplements (fiber, ashwaganda)
Emails
Played game
Messaged guy on fb selling property near dh’s old home for information, then sent it to dh
Now working on water and chilling before I pack up donations

[Gma]

A quick good morning, as I start a full day.
It will get up near the freezing point here today (0C, 32F). I'm feeling for htose on the east coast who have had a large dump of snow, at least so I have heard.
DS, his wife and sisters, and the brothers-on-law are at a resort in Mexico, on the Yucatan peninsula, enjoying the weather. I hope they are far from the violence incurring after a drug cartel lord was killed. I'm not following the news much, but heard about it at exercise class yesterday.
My neighbor is getting new siding - the men are actually working outside in this weather! pounding early woke me up, but I had gone to bed well before midnight, so it was OK time to wake up.
Many years ago, my father wrote a history of several banks, and was paid by one of them partially in bank stock, which I have now inherited. So I have a shareholders meeting this morning
then have to set up special checking and savings accounts for managing mother's house - tried yesterday. AFter 90 minutes decided it was time for the bank to close for the day and try again today - after I speak with the president after the meeting for more details!
There is a musical group visiting my city that is dedicated to medieval, baroque music. They have a special program at the livrary this afternoon, showing off their "triple harp" whatever that is. The event is free, open to the public, so it's on my lsit for today.
And I was notified that a cousin of my mother's died, her funeral is on saturday (100 miles away), so I am making plans to go, and have to get sympathy card, plus 2 other sympathy cards, plus return some closthes I bought for dfBS to try on. That will be mid afternoon, between banking and harp.
I had a really wonderful weekend with MrVKM! We had such a good time being together.
Gotta get dressed and off to the meeting!

oh, I'm working on weight loss. I'm down 5 pounds since my trip to see my cousins, but did eat too much yesterday and am up a pound, even tho I went to exercise class yesterday. I'll be "good" today.

[L.Ann]

It is my other knee, helian. I just got it checked in January so it isn’t a big problem. I thought the knee was aching because of the position for radiation and walking on ice but since it is still hurting I am trying the shoe angle.

Since I had success with my long call to the bank yesterday, I am going to try calling social security today.

1-call social security
2-read nonfiction book
3-short walk to stretch

Menus
Tuesday-ground turkey and black bean chili
Wednesday-DD33 at PS/leftovers me
Thursday-Middle Eastern chickpea bowls
Friday-eat out on way home
Saturday-shawarma turkey lettuce wraps

Events
Tuesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3
Wednesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, me doctor 10:40
Thursday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3
Friday-Hopkins@10:30

Weekly House Blessing-mop bathroom
Detailed cleaning of dining room-scrub dining room floor, polish furniture, clean light fixture, wash window, wipe down woodwork, wash door
Death book-update DD33’s pages, call lawyer for appointment to review will and DD33’s POAs
Phone calls-call social security to figure how to get DM’s form
Taxes-finish DM’s income so I can figure out what I still need(last paper done on 2/28)

Accomplishments
-stretching and knee exercises
-breakfast for me and dog
-put in Target order
-diet site
-finish making DD33’s lunch, put away dishes
-pick up bedroom and dress
-meds and temp for DD33
-pick up Little Bit
-Breakfast Little Bit
-mop bathroom
-declutter jelly cupboard
-take Little Bit to school
-feed birds
-set up laundry for tomorrow

[kitkat]

Lauralind - it could very well be a med issue.. Are you able to text/call vet's office? They might have suggestions.
Do you leave the bowl down after feeding? Some doggies can drag it out for hours... (We have no such issue with my current pup
Slowing her down is the challenge...)
Maybe mixing in some bits of treats to keep it interesting? Adding broth (no salt)?

That's all the wisdom I have at the moment.
Waving to all other DSHEs
Will CUOP on my break.
Need to start WHB!

[L.Ann]

1-clean kitchen
2-wash window

Menus
Tuesday-ground turkey and black bean chili
Wednesday-DD33 at PS/leftovers me
Thursday-Middle Eastern chickpea bowls
Friday-eat out on way home
Saturday-shawarma turkey lettuce wraps

Events
Tuesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, DD33 cooking@6:30
Wednesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, me doctor 10:40
Thursday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, go to social security
Friday-Hopkins@10:30

Weekly House Blessing-mop kitchen
Detailed cleaning of dining room-scrub dining room floor, polish furniture, clean light fixture, wash window, wipe down woodwork, wash door
Death book-update DD33’s pages, call lawyer for appointment to review will and DD33’s POAs
Phone calls-
Taxes-finish DM’s income so I can figure out what I still need(last paper done on 2/28)

Accomplishments
-stretching and knee exercises
-breakfast for me and dog
-put in Target order
-diet site
-finish making DD33’s lunch, put away dishes
-pick up bedroom and dress
-meds and temp for DD33
-pick up Little Bit
-Breakfast Little Bit
-mop bathroom
-declutter jelly cupboard
-take Little Bit to school
-feed birds
-set up laundry for tomorrow
-call social security
-read nonfiction book
-short walk to stretch
-lunch

[kitkat]

LAnn - that's a lot of accomplishments. WTG on successful calls!

Gma - hopefully, dson and fam. are far away from the violence...
Sorry to hear about yet another death in the family.

Bama - WTG on the car purchase. That's a big thing off your list.

Dogged - the irony with those little dogs... The only one I had to muzzle was my (oversized) Maltese (likely a cross).
I had to do it every time I gave him his insulin...

helia this tends to be the season when I gain a couple of lbs... I stopped worrying about it- I lose it by summer.
Evening gym? Not my favourite thing as I'm tired by then... but it's my fav. class / instructor so I go:) The other bonus: I'm done with most of the stuff by then.

I can't claim a lot in WHB... but,
I vaccumed the sofa, dining room chair, pup's bed, front mats
Washed floors (main)
replaced felt pads on counter stools (long overdue)
gathered garb/rec

Next:

take out garb/rec
take jars for return to car
vacuum car

[Doggedly]

I think that we are in sync, Bama. I am also feasting on the efforts of YesterMe: Pork chop and potatoes for breakfast. I saved the rest of that chop for later.
--I wrote this, and then forgot to post it

Gma, I have the impression that the narcos have made their point and are withdrawing back into the shadows, so I expect that your dfamily can enjoy the rest of their vacation.

Nothing like building on a win, L.Ann. I hope that your phone call goes well.

Go, kitkat!

Tuesday
Breakfast for dog. She sampled her slow cooker and pronounced carrots and pork good, potatoes are will she won’t she.
Cleaned up after dog
Put away dishes
Mini grooming session for Germane
Reorganizing the shelving unit by the bed so that I can return the globe and lamp I had moved off to make room for new modem and router, and to give tech room to work. The globe and lamp then blocked the horizontal space I needed to move off boxes from entertainment unit, which in their turn block the image from the projector which stops me from setting up the new TV service.
Watched a couple of lessons on my course
Set up new TV app on projector: it installed but went into error every time I tried to start a show
Set up new TV app on my phone: working properly
Realized that the projector is connected to my other wifi
Got the projector set up for new TV app. It works now. Not usable in the afternoon because of the sun, but that’s a projector issue.
Spiffed self
Quick scrub of tub