Fennel Friday

[L.Ann]

Morning all! Hoping for good medical news, FFB. That sounds like a “difficult” solution, Trissie to an even more difficult problem. I was just thinking about the jet fuel issue yesterday when DD39 and I were talking about the hantavirus. Morning kittykatt. The doctor didn’t hear any rattling when she listened to DD33. Well do a chest X-ray the first week in June to make sure it’s gone.

I don’t have Little Bit today. Her dad is dropping her off because we have a lawyer’s appointment and her mom is taking her home after their Mother’s Day tea.

1-meds and temp for DD33
2-refill bird feeder
3-appointment with lawyer to double check my will and add DD41 to DD33’s power of attorney’s

4-errands-look for dress for DD33, farmers market, maybe pharmacy and library

Menus
Friday-garlic ginger salmon and rice bowls
Saturday-spicy Peruvian chicken
Sunday-chicken enchilada filling with rice and salad
Monday-stir fry chicken and rice


Events
Friday-No Little Bit, 9 lawyer appointment
Saturday-
Sunday-walk with friend???


Weekly House Blessing-mop dining room
Detailed cleaning of my room-detailed vacuuming, polish furniture, dust woodwork
Death book-update DD33’s pages
Phone calls-
Extra stuff-


Accomplishments
-stretching and knee exercises
-breakfast for dog and me
-diet site
-dress and pick up bedroom
-walk a mile

[kitkat]

Good morning!
A whole lot going on here already!
Thanks for the start kittykatt - glad you are feeling better. Gentle walk sounds about right:) Enjoy the fresh air.
FFly - hoping for good results. The waiting is always the most stressful.
trissie - realistically, are you able to get some help with DMIL? I really hope you can. No matter which way you look at it, it's a LOT. Having her there with you cuts out the traveling back and forth but adds to your dailies.
LAnn - no rattling sounds like good news.

I was away yesterday: got my hair done and a bunch of other errands done.
Today is another day.

Need gym time (I missed it yesterday)
There is stuff to do outside (nice and sunny)
DDog will need her walk
More calls
DGD pick up from school - maybe walk to library?
laundry

I shall start with MR

[helia]

Hello lucylee!! I hope you had a good night's sleep.
trissie, everyone else has said what I have thought. Your life and home are already so full; we're wondering how you could fit another big responsibility into it. We'll be here for moral support and to cheer you on. It is very kind and caring of you and your dh. I hope you can still take your solo trip to Berlin! And your family vacations.
FFB, hoping for good medical news. I miss having a needle craft too. I should figure one out. Happy 3 day weekend to you and trissie!
I hope the lawyer appointment goes well, L Ann. Glad DD33 is clear so far. Dh and I need to rewrite our wills.
So glad you're feeling better, Kitty. I see the cats' ploy to prevent your housecleaning was successful.
kitkat, your hair is beautiful! Enjoy the gym time.

I really like fennel! We have a pork chop recipe that uses it. Dh is not a big fan.

Today: I slept over 8 hours last night and got up late this morning. It is sunny and cool-ish, 46*F right now. I'm heading otd in about 30 minutes to meet dd27 and Fable at the dog park! I have payroll class today and some other payroll tasks I should try to address. At 4:15, AC and I are having dinner together on campus, a fav restaurant that is a 5 minute walk from our payroll building. Later, dh and I are trying a new bao bun restaurant close to our home. He'll order; I might just have a taste. Eating dinner at 2 restaurants in a row is not really conducive to weight loss.

My life suddenly feels more open. I don't know if that's true - or if that's just my perception. Whichever - I'll take it.

Next:
- back exercises
- s2s and self care
- make cup of tea
- 9 - meet dd27 and Fable at dog park; J12yo will join later?

Later: (too much for today - but a reminder)
- refill bird feeder - the birds here remain very hungry - or we're creating bird feeder dependency
- some qt
- reclaim kitchen
- make the bed
- payroll: prep for AI AS D8
- payroll: grade HW5
- payroll: touch base with teacher LH re: AIW course pack edits
- payroll: touch base with teacher CM re: past exam errors
- payroll: touch base with teacher CM and AC re: my notes on IW course pack
- payroll: work on updating the exam record?
- payroll: exam prep - start LH's IR exam
- go for a walk
- lunch at some point
- after lunch clean up
- 1:30 - 3:30 payroll: teach AI AS D8
- payroll: work on updating the exam record?
- payroll: exam prep - start LH's IR exam
- 4:15 dinner with AC
- 6:30 ish? dinner with dh
- Mother's day card for F
- BD card for ds
- duolingo
- update health apps
- order wedding gift for V and J?
- finish fun book - I've been within 10 pages for 2 weeks now

TaDas
- up; weighed self - trending a smidge down
- coffee
- email deletions + weather website

WEEKLY ACTIVITIES
Thu 8 - WW mtg/ 11-12 payroll: CA ci mtg. with AC/ 4-5 work out with AS/ 6-7:30 Vol. ESL class
Fri 1:40 - 3:30 payroll: teach AI AS D8/ dinner date with AC/ dinner date with dh
Sat 8 - 5K run?
Sun 10 - church/ 6- host Sunday dinner? (up to 5 people)

Mon 1:40 - 3:30 payroll: teach AI AS D9/ 6 - meet with K gardener
Tue am - KS2J get together?
Wed 8:10 dentist/ 1:40 - 3:30 payroll: teach AI AS D10/ 4-5 help with MLA testing?
Th 8 - WW mtg/ 11-12 payroll: CA ci mtg. with AC/ 4-5 work out with AS
Fri 1:40 - 3:30 payroll: teach AI AS D11/ dinner out with the Os
Sat 8 - 5K run/ 5 - 9ish CG1 (we host?)
Sun 10 - church/ 6 - host Sunday dinner for up to 8 people

Menus:
M - chicken chili (fr. freezer), rice, mixed veggies
T - Tuscan shrimp, rice, salad
W - kima, rice, roasted broccoli
Th - teriyaki salmon, rice, steamed asparagus
F - dinner date with AC - early enough that then I'll also join dh for his dinner at another restaurant (Hobbit like behavior this evening)
Sa - leftovers: kima, rice, green salad
Sun - we host up to 5 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
- Writing progress - wip
- order wedding gift: V + J
- write BD card to DS
- figure out another knitting project?

This Week - Errands
- buy pillows?
- weekend groceries?

General Brain Dump
- progress decluttering clothes - wip
- new phone eventually
- buy pack 'n play for baby I

[Lauralind]

Morning all. Oh wow so much going on here. Hope you feel better now kittykat. I read you were sick.

Frenchie hoping the best for mrng. Definitely concerning.

Trissie that's huge taking her in. Yes way easier than her that far away but making room in the house and the schedule for her needs. And making sure you have help and time for you and dh and the kids. Caretaker is work. Depending on her condition. You know all that.

I need to get moving. Some routine stuff before work. No school today is just as well ds missed yesterday with some sort of cold bug.

[trissie]

Have fun at the dog part, helia! Are you teaching less this semester, or are you classes scheduled in a way that works better for you? that would certainly add to the feeling of having more life to yourself!
kitkat, I kinda really should schedule a haircut too - with thick wavy hair, it's pretty forgiving, but I do like to keep it shoulder lenght and my last haircut was in June
L.Ann, I am beginning to wonder if the pattern is pandemics-war-war, rinse and repeat (so we will have a pandemic now and then two wars), or if it's pandemics-war-war-pandemics, in case, we will get a pandemics from cycle1 and then a pandemics from cycle2 before the two wars. You gotta either laugh about it or cry about it, and I am the laughing kind!
kittykatt, everything is complicated with MIL. Moving her from one place to another often would probably kill her, so that's not really on the table.
Frenchie, I would have loved Rome - never been there, even if Ancient Rome is like my most favourite era - but the heat was a thing I was considering. The initial plan was actually London, for the British Museum and West End shows, but I promised DS I would go to London with him for his 15th birthday.
Do you celebrate Victory in Europe in Canada too, lauralind?

We have this grey will-it-rain-or-not weather that is totally unproductive! I ended up taking a nice nap after lunch - I only got under 5 hours of sleep on all work-nights this week, and 6.5 last night, so I was really tired.

TaDas
- mop kitchen
- clean living room
- clean downstairs bathroom and hallways
- prune radishes
- 15 on folding/ironing
- lunch
- midday routine
- load of colors
- nice nap

ToDos
- 30 outside
- 15 on laundry
- afternoon routine

Braindump
routines
- evening routine
food
- dinner
- bake something sweet
- bake bread
organization
- homework and backpacks
- DBD's speech therapy
- update land contract
- 15 on filing
- plan for May
cleaning
- clean office
- clean out / reorganize attic
- spiff up DBD's room
- spiff up twins' room
- spiff up DS1's room
- spiff up master bedroom
- spiff up master bathroom
laundry
- ironing
- folding
- mending
- laundry put away
garden and outside - weekend
- spray roses
- repot seedlings I bought
- weeding in veggie garden
- weeding in front garden
- work in raspberry patch - pruning, fertilizing, replanting
- prune fruit trees - blooming pit fruits
- prune bushes
- prune/tie/shape climbing roses
- pick up - front garden / porch
- pick up - backyard
- start cleaning out the carpool
- fertilize fruit trees and bushes
- fertilize conifers
- start oiling garden furniture
- fertilize vegetables
me time
- 15 of exercise
- Bible study
- reading

[trissie]

TaDas
- 15 on laundry
- afternoon routine
- weeding in veggie garden
- pruning of bushes
- dealt with part of the pink disaster - a thunderstorm and then a hailstorm happened just as our huge sakura tree was starting to shed blooms

ToDos
- 30 outside
- dinner
- evening routine

Braindump
food
- bake something sweet
- feed breastarter bread
organization
- homework and backpacks
- DBD's speech therapy
- update land contract
- 15 on filing
- plan for May
cleaning
- clean office
- clean out / reorganize attic
- spiff up DBD's room
- spiff up twins' room
- spiff up DS1's room
- spiff up master bedroom
- spiff up master bathroom
laundry
- ironing
- folding
- mending
- laundry put away
garden and outside - weekend
- spray roses
- repot seedlings I bought
- weeding in front garden
- work in raspberry patch - pruning, fertilizing, replanting
- prune fruit trees - blooming pit fruits
- prune bushes
- prune/tie/shape climbing roses
- pick up - front garden / porch
- pick up - backyard
- start cleaning out the carpool
- fertilize fruit trees and bushes
- fertilize conifers
- start oiling garden furniture
- fertilize vegetables
me time
- 15 of exercise
- Bible study
- reading

[L.Ann]

Hi Laura and helian. We made a few minor tweaks to my documents and the lawyer gave me a list of things I can do. She recommended reviewing the will every 5 years.

1-long walk
2-read
3-finish dusting in my room

Menus
Friday-garlic ginger salmon and rice bowls
Saturday-spicy Peruvian chicken
Sunday-chicken enchilada filling with rice and salad
Monday-stir fry chicken and rice


Events
Friday-No Little Bit, 9 lawyer appointment
Saturday-
Sunday-walk with friend???


Weekly House Blessing-mop dining room
Detailed cleaning of my room-detailed vacuuming, polish furniture, dust woodwork
Death book-update DD33’s pages
Phone calls-
Extra stuff-


Accomplishments
-stretching and knee exercises
-breakfast for dog and me
-diet site
-dress and pick up bedroom
-walk a mile
-meds and temp for DD33
-refill bird feeder
-appointment with lawyer to double check my will and add DD41 to DD33’s power of attorney’s
-errands-look for dress for DD33, farmers market, maybe pharmacy and library
-lunch
-answer lawyer’s question about probate account

[Gma]

kittykatt, I am so happy that you are feeling better.
FFB, thanks for sharing your concern about dh. We are all hoping for the best, and will be support for you whatever it is.
I'm happy you all think that the shawl is pretty, I'm eager for a yarn sale so I can get started. It will be fun to work on! I hope it goes quickly.

Goals for today:
I had a good breakfast, so I think I can go for a while without eating. I have a couple errands to do first.
then yard work, a little here, then mother's. I have a beautiful yellow, lemon northern lights azalea to plant,
and annuals to plan, buy, and plant both her house and mine.
Time to get my jeans and work boots on and get started. (I am woman, I have work boots!)

saw this SHEM
Loneliness isn't the absence of people around us, but the inability to express what truly matters within us. Carl Jung

This forum is partially a remedy for loneliness. thank you all, dear SHE friends, for all the listening and sharing that happens here.

and I see several posted while I was typing, but I have to get outside and get to work.

[L.Ann]

1-pick up kitchen
2-dinner preprep
3-meet DD39

Menus
Friday-garlic ginger salmon and rice bowls
Saturday-spicy Peruvian chicken
Sunday-chicken enchilada filling with rice and salad
Monday-stir fry chicken and rice
Tuesday-dinner out me/ something for DD33
Wednesday-DD33@PS/leftovers for me
Thursday-chicken burrito bowls
Friday-middle Eastern chickpea bowls
Saturday-kale chicken Caesar
Sunday-

Events
Saturday-
Sunday-walk with friend@9
Monday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3
Tuesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, dinner out@5:30, 8 virtual genetics appointment
Wednesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, lunch out for me, DD33 PS 3-8, cheerleading 6-7
Thursday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, DD33 bocce 4:30-5:30, DD33 late for dance, Dsis coming, 1 or 8 summer book review on zoom
Friday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, DD33 dentist 11:20, marine museum 5-8(boat ride@5) Little Bit beach day
Saturday-
Sunday-


Weekly House Blessing-mop dining room, bathroom, kitchen, vacuum, swish and swipe, trash, dust, windex
Detailed cleaning of my room-detailed vacuuming
Death book-update DD33’s pages
Phone calls-
Extra stuff-


Accomplishments
-stretching and knee exercises
-breakfast for dog and me
-diet site
-dress and pick up bedroom
-walk a mile
-meds and temp for DD33
-refill bird feeder
-appointment with lawyer to double check my will and add DD41 to DD33’s power of attorney’s
-errands-look for dress for DD33, farmers market, maybe pharmacy and library
-lunch
-answer lawyer’s question about probate account
-long walk
-read
-finish dusting in my room
-update lists

[L.Ann]

1-diet sites
2-clean kitchen

Menus
Saturday-spicy Peruvian chicken
Sunday-chicken enchilada filling with rice and salad
Monday-stir fry chicken and rice
Tuesday-dinner out me/ something for DD33
Wednesday-DD33@PS/leftovers for me
Thursday-chicken burrito bowls
Friday-middle Eastern chickpea bowls
Saturday-kale chicken Caesar
Sunday-

Events
Saturday-
Sunday-walk with friend@9
Monday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3
Tuesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, dinner out@5:30, 8 virtual genetics appointment
Wednesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, lunch out for me, DD33 PS 3-8, cheerleading 6-7
Thursday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, DD33 bocce 4:30-5:30, DD33 late for dance, Dsis coming, 1 or 8 summer book review on zoom
Friday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, DD33 dentist 11:20, marine museum 5-8(boat ride@5) Little Bit beach day
Saturday-
Sunday-


Weekly House Blessing-mop dining room, bathroom, kitchen, vacuum, swish and swipe, trash, dust, windex
Detailed cleaning of my room-detailed vacuuming
Death book-update DD33’s pages
Phone calls-
Extra stuff-


Accomplishments
-stretching and knee exercises
-breakfast for dog and me
-diet site
-dress and pick up bedroom
-walk a mile
-meds and temp for DD33
-refill bird feeder
-appointment with lawyer to double check my will and add DD41 to DD33’s power of attorney’s
-errands-look for dress for DD33, farmers market, maybe pharmacy and library
-lunch
-answer lawyer’s question about probate account
-long walk
-read
-finish dusting in my room
-update lists
-pick up kitchen
-dinner preprep
-meet DD39
-dinner prepped and eaten