Matcha Tea Monday @ TDD - C&C

[Kittykatt]

To do:

Appointments:
Monday:
DH to office
At home for me
Tuesday:
DH WFH
At home.for 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?
2pm weight check - Jude
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:
4/6 weight check -Jude
23/6 Solensia Freddie

Outstanding deliveries:

Extras:
Wait for reply from roofer L
Start of month banking
Parish lunch - print menu and sign up sheet for church, email menu to those on mailing list, request an entry in this week's newsletter
Trim and file fingernails
Check status of Petplan claims for F and M
Think about ordering window vac for us -
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 started 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
Wash cat blankets and throw on spare room bed

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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[L.Ann]

Our medical thing is a chest X-ray for DD33 to make sure her pneumonia is actually gone. They apparently do a chest X-ray 5-6 weeks after finishing the meds. I hope your DS is better FFB. It is often hard to tell how kids or DD33 actually feel when they first get up. Enjoy your day, kittykatt. Hope you are sleeping Dogged. Thanks for getting us started, Trissie.

1-dress and pick up bedroom
2-meds and temp for DD33
3-walk

4-pick up Little Bit and take dog

Menus:
Monday-freezer leftovers- black bean burger and turkey burger with salad or roasted veggies
Tuesday-pasta or stir fry
Wednesday- DD33 out/ me leftovers
Thursday-turkey enchiladas verde
Friday-sweet Thai chili salmon with carrots and zucchini
Saturday-birthday
Sunday-birthday
Monday-turkey and Greek salad lettuce wraps
Tuesday-leftovers

Events
Monday-Little Bit 7:40-6, Little Bit camp 9:30-2:30, pick DD33 up at 2:10, chest X-ray for DD33, bank call about CD renewal, pool@4:30
Tuesday-Little Bit 7:40-6:30,Little Bit camp 9:30-2:30, pool @4:30, breakfast@8:30
Wednesday -Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit camp 9:30-2:30, 11:20 doctor appointment for me, DD33 PS3-8, (haircut 3:45, cheerleading 6-7)
Thursday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit camp 9:30-2:30, bocce 4:30, take cake decorations to the bakery
Friday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit cooking class 9:30-11:30
Saturday-Little Bit’s party, pick up birthday cake
Sunday-dinner out for Little Bit’s birthday

Weekly House Blessing-
Detailed cleaning of dining room- scrub floor
Death book-update DD33’s pages
Phone calls-
Extra stuff-make sure mower works before donating


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

[FrenchFlybebe]

L.Ann I hope the x-ray brings good news.

Dogged a doctor visit after a long time without any visits, is certainly a good thing.

kittykatt You will probably have to train your DH, when he retires, to allow you some alone time. Or just close the door Are husbands harder to train than cats ?

So DS7 has a bacterial angina. He is supposed to take amoxicillin, but right now he's really not hungry so I will wait a bit, as it's supposed to be taken together with food. He could be contagious but the DR thinks he can go to school tomorrow if he feels up to it. I hope he does, it's hard to get anything done with h im around so I might as well be at payroll and earn some money.

TADAs
entertain my not really sick kid
doc appt at 11.45
pharmacist, then prepared the powder and water mix
photobook is finished and paid for
ate a bit

TODO
eat a bit more, convince DS7 to eat, give him a dose of antibiotics
send dooctor's certificate to payroll (or bring it tomorrow)
maybe fill tax form online?
some cleaning and putting away that hasn't been done during the weekend
a session of dandelion destruction ?
prepare dinner
maybe other productive things

[kitkat]

Good morning to my hard-working friends:)

Thanks for the start trissie - I haven't tried Matcha ... maybe this is a sign? How was your weekend?
FFly first time I heard of 'bacterial angina' - had to look it up. Hope Ds is over it soon. Strep infections are nasty. (I caught it from my DD once - be careful)
I guess, cooler is desirable now, Kittykatt?
Dogged - I'm glad you found a dr. It IS hard.
LAnn - hope DD is fully recovered

Monday - my fav. day of the week. Somehow, magically, my house will get back to order - all my routines will be in place, the day will be 48 hours long - there will be time for everything...

Back to reality:
I need to start MR,
drop off pup
(the-never-ending) laundry
bake tempeh
do have a chat with Dfriend on zoom at noon
cook dinner (cauliflower?)
need to get baby gift
pu pup
go to gym

[Lauralind]

Morning all. Oh no I hope ds7 keeps recovering. I think I missed him being sick. Here they would rather them home too but nothing says they have to so he should be fine tomorrow. With ds16 though he's still really hard to tell if he's actually sick. Many days if he's late on his getting up routine and looking like not moving fast he's gonna resist going. I think it's just the autism and sleep issues and he says he doesn't know why he's so tired . Just a few more weeks then we have to sort out summer.

It's hard to find a dr here too. One really good one and the rest are ok but need several more and for them to want to stay in rural northwest.

Anyway yesterday was church. Home for lunch and then I did up most of my flowers. A few more to do yet I have enough for one more pot that I think is gonna try to be a little creative. Maybe. Plus the sensitive marigolds etc . Maybe Wednesday?

Oh and last band for a bit. One more at Canada day. Fun but now I have a challenge... he gave me a piccolo. Yikes. Switching back and forth is fun. The piccolo is so tiny and high and takes a different tension to get that clear high sound but I did it. Not so much on the one super fast song lol. But O Canada works .

Finish qt and routines. Probably 900 shift. And figure out supper cause we missed our small group prayer time a couple weeks so we're gonna make it work tonight. Little later shift means I need to be organized.

[helia]

Oh - we're very familiar with matcha tea and flavors here, trissie! I like it; many of our friends love it. There's a sizable Asian community here, and many of our friends are Asian - the Cs are Korean American; AC (my supervisor) is Indonesian American; M our renter is Chinese American. Half of CG2 and more than half of CG1 are Asian (Korean, Taiwanese, Chinese, Vietnamese backgrounds). LOL @ that SHEM!
I love your positivity about Mondays, kitkat! 48 hours - wouldn't that be nice?
I hope ds7 feels better soon, FFB.
Crossing my fingers that the chest X Ray will be clear for DD33, L Ann.
It feels good to get a bunch of small admin tasks done, Kitty. WTG!
Glad you seem to have gotten enough sleep, Doggedly.
Wow, Lauralind, you can play the piccolo too? Do you have training on the flute?

I survived my social and busy Sunday. Seeing baby I on the zoom call was great. She was SO cute and very active - and I think she understood when we started talking about her. She stopped what she was doing and looked at the screen, giving "us" (or the screen?) big smiles. I think she's quite a happy baby! I can't wait to see her again! She'll be here (with her parents) on June 11.

It's nice to be home and to have a relatively low-key week before me. At least payroll won't be as busy. The weather is really lovely, so I can get out and get a lot of exercise.

I need to use this week to start getting things in order as we'll be hosting a houseful of guests June 11 - 15: our son and his family and one of dh's sisters and her eldest DD - flying in from Germany. Our dd30 is having a religious ceremony on June 13, pledging herself to singleness and celibacy (150 years ago, she would be taking orders to become a nun - if she were Catholic), and family is coming to celebrate with us. Our friends the Ks are also coming from Texas, but they're not staying with us - but we want to make sure that we spend time with them.

Next:
- back exercises
- dress to jog
- jog

Later:
- dog park with dd28?
- s2s and self care
- squeegee and wipe down shower
- some qt
- make the bed
- 12-12:20ish - payroll: phone call with director
- lunch
- after lunch clean up
- 1-1:30? zoom call re: fall plans for the girls
- payroll: collection bin - move
- payroll: curriculum review
- payroll: S4 GGT progress
- unpack
- what's for dinner?
- towels: fold and p/a
- call venue re: cans of drinks
- other things?
- dinner: TBD
- after dinner clean up
- duolingo
- update health apps
- update goodreads
- read

TaDas!
- up; weighed self - did I really gain 2 lbs. over the weekend?
- coffee
- email deletions + weather website
- reclaimed kitchen
- rewashed a bunch of dishes (the Sunday dinner crew overloaded the dw)

WEEKLY ACTIVITIES
Mon 12- payroll: phone call with director/ 1 - zoom call with dbil, dsil, and mother of dniece's friend (re: fall plans for the girls)
Tue KS2J get together - a.m. / 1:30 - 2:30 school enrollment appointment for K (dniece's friend who will stay with us for 8 weeks in the fall)/ 6:30 - ? Host dinner crew?
Wed 12-2 tree guys here
Thu 8-8:30 WW/ 9 - 9:30 payroll: EPT interview/ 11-12 payroll: CA ci with AC/ 4-5 work out with AS
Fri Dinner date with dh
Sat 8 - 5K run
Sun 10 - 12ish Church/ 12:30 - 3:30 church - new member orientation

Mon (1-1:40 payroll: instructor mtg -- not sure I need to go since I'm not teaching this session)
Tue 6-7:30 Christian academics cook out
Wed (move CA ci meeting with AC to this day?)
Thu 8-8:30 WW/ 11:30 - 12:30 haircut in other town/ 2:30ish pick up MP and LP from airport (dsil + dniece)/ 4-5 work out with AS? / 7-ish pick up ds+ family from airport/ dinner for 6 people - in shifts? MP and LP will be jetlagged and ds + fam will arrive late-ish for dinner.
Fri 1-2 school enrollment appointment with MP (the mother of SP who will be staying with us in the fall)/ 3 - set up at park farm - site of reception/ host dinner for 11 people.
Sat more set up/ 3 - church ceremony/ 5 - 10ish reception/ post-reception clean up
Sun 10 - church? / dinner - cook out at the girls' place

6/1 - 6/7 Menus:
M -
T -
W -
Th - on my own
F - dinner date with dh
Sa -
Sun -

JUNE Brain Dumps
Hosting Prep
- order more coffee pods
- buy pillows
- make 2 guest beds upstairs
- spiff upstairs guest room
- clean play room --> guest room with double bed for ds + fam
- car cleaned
- polish kitchen counters
- back table: tidy
- (maybe) experiment with bread recipes
- reach out to Ks
- ask Cs re: borrowing a high chair

This Week - House
- can I spend some time decluttering in MBR?

This Week - Deskwork
- Writing progress - wip
- figure out another knitting project?
- 2 snail mail bills (lawn guys + tombstone co. - they finally finished engraving dmom's tombstone)

This Week - Errands
- buy pillows
- Kroger
- WF

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

[trissie]

Jumping in where I am - I'll try personal replies later, but it's 5:30 and I only just got home!

TaDas
- morning madness
- morning routine
- load of lights sorted and delay-started
- snacks for kids
- everybody off the door on time
- day at work
- therapy apt over lunchbreak
- pick up DBD from school
- drive girls to vaccination apt

ToDos
- midday routine
- clean master bedroom
- water flowerpots

[L.Ann]

Quick post and then I need to walk. Busy day today.

1-long walk
2-lunch

Menus:
Monday-freezer leftovers- black bean burger and turkey burger with salad or roasted veggies
Tuesday-pasta or stir fry
Wednesday- DD33 out/ me leftovers
Thursday-turkey enchiladas verde
Friday-sweet Thai chili salmon with carrots and zucchini
Saturday-birthday
Sunday-birthday
Monday-turkey and Greek salad lettuce wraps
Tuesday-leftovers

Events
Monday-Little Bit 7:40-6, Little Bit camp 9:30-2:30, pick DD33 up at 2:10, chest X-ray for DD33, bank call about CD renewal, pool@4:30
Tuesday-Little Bit 7:40-6:30,Little Bit camp 9:30-2:30, pool @4:30, breakfast@8:30
Wednesday -Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit camp 9:30-2:30, 11:20 doctor appointment for me, DD33 PS3-8, (haircut 3:45, cheerleading 6-7)
Thursday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit camp 9:30-2:30, bocce 4:30, take cake decorations to the bakery
Friday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit cooking class 9:30-11:30
Saturday-Little Bit’s party, pick up birthday cake
Sunday-dinner out for Little Bit’s birthday

Weekly House Blessing-
Detailed cleaning of dining room- scrub floor
Death book-update DD33’s pages
Phone calls-
Extra stuff-make sure mower works before donating


Accomplishments
-stretching and knee exercises
-breakfast for dog and me
-dress and pick up bedroom
-diet site
-dress and pick up bedroom
-meds and temp for DD33
-walk
-pick up Little Bit and take dog
-shots for dog
-refill bird feeder
-journal entry with Little Bit
-drop off Little Bit at camp
-bank, sign paper at lawyer’s
-groceries bought and put away

[Bama]

Good morning! Quick hi while I try to cuops. Waiting in dh to get labs done, run some errands, and then hope I have the energy to start my Monday and first of the month chores when I get home.

Poa:
Labs
Public works
Housing
Vote (tribe)
Sail center
Meat store
Eat somewhere
Place grocery order
Check on wheelchair, handicap placard, pay, bills, etc…

[FrenchFlybebe]

Hi Bama, you have a long list of errands.

trissie what a long day. I hope you can re-load some energy before the next round.

helia, so happy that you have a happy granddaughter !

laura it's hard to tell here too, I really thought DS7 could go to school if we insisted. (but no, he slept most afternoon). Is it easy to play the piccolo ? I have no idea what it sounds like.

kitkat LOL at the way you envision your Monday. Aren't all mornings like that ?

DS7 spent most of the afternoon on the couch, emptied his already empty stomach a few times. Not fun at all. Didn't manage to keep the antibiotics in for more than an hour...
Meanwhile I missed a phone call from the job I applied for, a few weeks ago, wanting to talk for a bit about my profile. They called at 4pm and I saw it at 6pm, to late to call back. MrNG suggests I stay home tomorrow as well and I can phone them quietly during the morning. I may do that. I need to prepare what I'm going to say.

TADAs
DS7 slept, didn't want to eat, so I ate alone
DS7 had a dose of antibiotics
then vomited it all an hour later
spent 15 mns in the attic organizing a bit
started dinner prep

TODO
get dinner ready
manage to give DS7 a real dose of antibiotics
send doctor's certificate to payroll (or bring it tomorrow?)
re-read job offer
maybe fill tax form online?
a session of dandelion destruction ? -> tomorrow ?
bed early