Emma Thompson Tuesday

[Kittykatt]

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[Kittykatt]

Dame Emma Thompson (born 15 April 1959) is a British actress and screenwriter. Her work spans over four decades of screen and stage, and her accolades include two Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. In 2018, she was made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to drama.

Born to actors Eric Thompson and Phyllida Law, Thompson was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she became a member of the Footlights troupe, and appeared in the comedy sketch series Alfresco (1983–1984). In 1985, she starred in the West End revival of the musical Me and My Girl, which was a breakthrough in her career. In 1987, she came to prominence for her performances in two BBC series, Tutti Frutti and Fortunes of War, winning the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for her work on both series. In the early 1990s, she often collaborated with then-husband, actor and director Kenneth Branagh, in films such as Henry V (1989), Dead Again (1991), and Much Ado About Nothing (1993).

For her performance in the Merchant-Ivory period drama Howards End (1992), Thompson won the BAFTA Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1993, she received two Academy Award nominations—Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress—for the respective roles of the housekeeper of a grand household in The Remains of the Day and a lawyer in In the Name of the Father, becoming one of the few actors to achieve this feat. Thompson wrote and starred in Sense and Sensibility (1995), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay—making her the only person in history to win Oscars for both acting and writing—and once again won the BAFTA. Further critical acclaim came for her roles in Primary Colors (1998), Love Actually (2003), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Late Night (2019), and Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022).

Other notable film credits include the Harry Potter saga (2004–2011), Nanny McPhee (2005) (which she also wrote), Stranger than Fiction (2006), An Education (2009), Men in Black 3 (2012) and the spin-off Men in Black: International (2019), Brave (2012), Beauty and the Beast (2017), Cruella (2021), and Matilda the Musical (2022). Her television credits include Wit (2001), Angels in America (2003), The Song of Lunch (2010), King Lear (2018) and Years and Years (2019). She portrayed Mrs. Lovett in a Lincoln Center production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in 2014. Authorised by the publishers of Beatrix Potter, Thompson has also written three Peter Rabbit children's books.

[Kittykatt]

Good morning everyone and happy Tuesday!

Just a quick CI as I need to be up and OTD early for Fred's appointment.

Ha e a good day, everyone!

[Kittykatt]

SHEM:

"Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success." — Swami Sivananda

[Kittykatt]

To do:

Appointments:
Tuesday:
DH WFH
8.30.am vet - Freddie - Solensia injection
Make his next appointment
Remember to pick up food and meds
Remember Petplan
10 am GP appointment - me
Wednesday:
DH to office
At home for me
Thursday:
DH WFH
10.30 am church
Any errands to run?
Can I hoover the car?
2 pm weight check - Jude
4.15 pm nurse appointment
6-7 pm Waitrose delivery
Friday:
DH WFH
At home for me
Saturday:
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:
30/4 weight check -Jude
28/4 bloods/Solensia -Fred

21/5 (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

Replacement.of glass on patio door by MJ - date TBC

Outstanding deliveries:

Extras:
Wrap those latest items for sale on eBay, so there isn't a huge rush when they sell: #1,#2,#3, #4, #5
Wait for date from MJ to replace pane that's blown on patio door
Think about ordering window vac for us
Email reply to SR
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 finished with 2025 for the cats, and.stsrt3d.on the garden
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
Make bed
Shower / wash hair/ moisturiser and sunblock/ clean and floss teeth
DH launched
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
15 minutes in back garden

Cats:
Cats’ breakfast and meds / supplements
Fresh water for cats
Scoop cat trays
Walk Freddie
Lap time with Jude, Freddie and Matilda
Play with Jude, Freddie and Matilda
Head rubs with Jude, Freddie & 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
April (depending on weather!).buy geraniums (work out how many I'll need in advance! - 24?)
Buy begonias - enough for 2 round bowls
Buy a new broom

Financial:
More work on budget WIP- look at discretionary payments this week 30 minute sessions #1
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[Doggedly]

Thank you for starting us off, Kittykatt. I like Emma Thompson. I think that she was my favourite Beatrice.
I hope that Freddie's appointment goes well.

[kitkat]

Good morning and thanks for the start, Kittykatt!
Hope all goes well with Freddie and you get answers at your appointment.

Sleep well Dogged

Rainy and cool today. I guess the flowers need it...
I did not get back yesterday b/c I got "lost" in my closet... but made a LOT of progress there. Hoping to continue today.
My back is a bit sore - either due to the closet adventures or the yoga class. Heating pad should do the trick.
(I often think of my dmom how she used to take "heating pad breaks")

Will start with the usual.
BIAB

[helia]

Thank you for the interesting start, Kitty. I know and like Emma Thompson quite a lot. I hadn't realized all the awards she has won! I had forgotten she was in the HP movies - ah, yes -- Trelawney!! I hope Freddie's appointment went well.
See you soon, Doggedly!
WTG on your closet adventures, kitkat! I hope your back feels better. Did the heating pad do the trick?

It's quiet here. I'm not up particularly early. It is 7:48 as I type this. I'm feeling tired and a bit grumpy (I don't know why) and working on my coffee, hoping that will help. I'm getting about 7.5 hours sleep a night, which should be enough.

Last night, M, our renter, sat down and joined us for dinner -- again. That's the 3rd evening in a row. It's kinda sweet in one way, but a little annoying in another. We think she doesn't realize that dinner is really our main time of connecting as dh works all evening -- or we have evening events. Once in a while is absolutely OK, but three times in a row. . . She just took up most of our one-on-one dinners that we had available this week. We're worried that if we tell her, we'll really hurt her feelings. We'll let it be for now; she's out of town today - Thursday so we at least get Wednesday dinner to ourselves. (Dinner guests tonight; Thursday, I need to be across town at 6, so I'm not sure we can eat together).

Today: I have the weekly KS2J friend get together at 9:30 a.m. at K's home. Then, I'll go in to payroll for about an hour, just to be present. I also need to get an exam from one teacher. This afternoon, I need to get groceries, go for a jog, do laundry, and spiff the house for dinner guests tonight: a past grad student of dh's + his wife + his Labrador retriever.

Next:
- some qt
- back exercises
- s2s and self care

Later:
- payroll: morning announcements
- make the bed
- reclaim the kitchen
- gather things and otd by 9:15
- 9:30 - 10:30 KS2J get together
- 10:45 - 12ish at payroll
- payroll: other jobs as things come up
- payroll: update gradelink
- payroll: start prep for AI AS D4
- home; lunch
- dress to jog
- JOG
- WF
- put away everything
- spiff bathroom
- strip MBR bed
- lights: w d f pa
- run steamer for some clothes
- remake MBR bed
- tidy living areas
- dust living areas
- help make dinner: gnocchi with sausage and peas, roasted veggie medley, bread; mochi for dessert?
- 6:30 dinner guests here; eat and visit with them
- after dinner clean up
- duolingo
- update health apps
- finish fun book?

TaDas!
- up; weighed
- coffee
- email deletions + weather website
- email reply to CK: coffee on Friday?
- email reply to cousin j

WEEKLY ACTIVITIES
Tue 9:30 - 10:30 KS2J get together/ 10:45 - 11:45ish payroll: Office Hours/ 6:30 - host dinner with a past student of dh's + his wife
Wed 11:40 payroll: phone call w. director / 12 and 12:45 payroll: announcements in writing classes/1:30 - 3:30 payroll: teach AI AS D5
Thu 11-12 CA check in mtg with AC? - maybe not since she'll be in Germany / 11:30 - 1 haircut and highlight? / 4-5 work out with AS/ 6-7:30 Vol. ESL class
Fri 9:30ish? coffee with CK/ 12:45ish payroll: announcement in writing class/ 1:30 - 3:30 payroll: teach AI AS D6/ dinner date with dh
Sat 8 - 5K run/ 5 - 9ish CG1 (we host?)
Sun 10 - church/ 3:30 - 6ish CG2/ 6 - host Sunday dinner

Menus:
M - tuna pasta (fr. freezer), green salad
T - gnocchi with sausage, roasted veggie mix
W - something with chicken - chicken fajitas? (I have tortillas to use up) and salad (again?)
Th - quick - I get home at 5 and need to be otd to the next event at 5:40 pm
F - dinner date with dh
Sa - CG1 - we host?
Sun - we host up to 8 people: bread, rotisserie chicken, pizza

APRIL Brain Dumps
This Week - House
- remake guest bed
- can I spend some time decluttering in MBR?

This Week - Deskwork
- menu plan and groc. list
- Writing progress - wip
- order wedding gift: V + J
- write BD card to DS

This Week - Errands
- groceries: Kroger
- groceries: WF
- buy pillows?

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

[helia]

The website is a little glitchy for me today. Is it just me?

[L.Ann]

It was glitching yesterday too, helian.

1-reboot laundry
2- take Little Bit to school
3-errands

Menus
Tuesday-chicken enchiladas from DD33’s cooking class
Wednesday-DD33out/me leftovers
Thursday-Southwest 3 bean chili
Friday-spicy bang bang chicken spinach salad
Saturday-southwest shrimp tacos

Events
Tuesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, 3:45 hair cut DD33, cooking class DD33@6:30, go to Target and cancel eye appointment
Wednesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, DD33w/ps from 3-8(cheerleading)
Thursday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-11:45, DD33’s tsa appointment @10:10, bocce 4:30 for DD33
Friday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, swim registration for Little Bit
Saturday-eye appointment DD33

Weekly House Blessing-mop dining room, bathroom, kitchen
Detailed cleaning of bathroom-swish and swipe, scrub tub, scrub tub walls, wash shower curtain,scrub floor, wash walls and woodwork, windex
Death book-update DD33’s pages
Phone calls- cancel eye appointment
Extra stuff-pick up prescriptions, submit insurance papers for next year of coverage, change DD33’s pcp appointment


Accomplishments
-stretching and knee exercises
-dress and pick up bedroom
-breakfast for me and dog
-diet site
-meds and temp for DD33
-start laundry
-walk a mile
-pick up Little Bit
-call pcp and reschedule DD33’s appointment
-more breakfast for Little Bit