Sarah Bernhardt Peony @ TDD - C&C

[trissie]

BWTG on the interview, Frenchie! And as to DH going to a crowded store with the kids... well the longer it takes him, the longer you have a quiet house, so where's the problem?
helia, you must have a GINORMOUS dining area to host 20+ people! Yay for Baby Isa (no baby I, I am a grown up all the time, thank you very much! well... let's not talk about... let's leave it at that! ) giving gma cuddles!

TaDas
- lunch
- strip and remake DBD's bed
- first half of the 30 minute garden rescue
- darks flipped to dryer
- load of colors started
- midday routine
- bread dough started

ToDos
- second half of the 30 minute garden rescue
- water all flower pots
- one batch of strawberry jam

Braindump
work - didn't finish it yesterday so must get to it over the weekend
- finalize CC the report and send it off for peer review
routines
- afternoon routine
- evening routine
food
- dinner
- bake something sweet
- bake bread
- jam
organization
- pick up kids after 3pm
- homework and backpacks
- DBD's speech therapy
- update land contract
- 15 on filing
- plan for June
cleaning
- clean office
- clean out / reorganize attic
- spiff up DBD's room
- spiff up twins' room
- spiff up DS15's room
- spiff up master bedroom
- spiff up master bathroom
- spiff up kitchen
- spiff up living room
- spiff up downstairs bathroom and hallways
laundry
- load of towels
- ironing
- folding
- mending
- laundry put away
garden and outside - weekend
- run pool vacuum cleaner
- 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
- work on cleaning out the carpool
- work on cleaning out the garage
- fertilize fruit trees and bushes
- fertilize conifers
- fertilize vegetables
me time
- 15 of exercise
- Bible study
- reading

[Lauralind]

Morning all. I'll keep this shorter. Really weird.. I have to work today. Grad for several.. plus a wedding that includes several staff. Meaning a weird day. I don't have much time. Leaving in an hour..

Frenchie that is so hard. Not having all the information. But way to go on the interview.

I need to straighten. Honestly I feel a little better about my house. Living room looks way better with a clean rug.
Just have to add a bit of pupa and attempt to keep what was tidy there. There's a few more spaces to deal with. But if the done ones can stay...plus water outside. And get ready for work.

[helia]

Coming back through; I'm having some lunch.

LOL trissie! So, you did read my comment about my humorous misreading of your post. We do not have a ginormous dining room. I think they squeezed about 12 people around the table. I ate outside with 3 others. Some sat in the living room which is connected to the dining room. Some came late enough that others had gotten up from the table. . I think S sat on a bar stool at the kitchen counter. It worked out.
Too bad you had to go to work, Lauralind. I hope it is a good day. WTG on the clean rug!

I just need to shower and spiff myself - and order a special GF meal for dd30 - and then I'll be ready. I have 45 minutes before we leave.

Next:

Later:
- back exercises
- s2s and self care
- maybe, go for a walk?
- make the bed
- refill the bird feeder
- spiff the MBR
- make sure everyone has what they need - constant wip
- order GF Korean food for dd30 to pick up before the reception (She will not eat at the reception; the catered food is GF but still from a restaurant which she feels is not super careful about cross-contamination)
- 1:45 pm leave to go to the church - in M's car or my car which ds + fam are borrowing
- practice
- 3 pm service
- pick up GF order for dd30
- 5 pm - 10pm+ reception
- clean up

TaDas!
- up; coffee
- mix up the pans of cornbread and get them in the oven
- print out the quiz; stapling
- cut up 4 pans of cornbread
- empty dw and tidy kitchen
- finalize speech with dh
- loaded and ran the dw
- go to reception venue; dropped off corn bread, butter and honey; set out quizzes on each table
- dd30's house - picked up my black shoes that dd28 had borrowed
- Walgreens: picked up script + pens
- back to the reception venue; set out pens on each table (for the fun quiz)
- home
- some lunch
- niece LP unloaded the dw
- tried to order the meal for dd30 for delivery; it wasn't working.

[trissie]

lauralind, is the wedding and the graduations an event that you want to visit, or ones that are related to work?
helia, a dining room for 12 is still kinda ginormous to me, given that our dining area consists of an area of about 10x11 feet

Outside is beginning to look nice. Not "there" yet, but doable in time for DH's party next Saturday (due to a work event, he won't be able to take Friday off the way he does every year to get the garden ready, so it needs to be done this weekend).

TaDas
- second half of the 30 minute garden rescue
- water all flower pots
- two batches of strawberry jam
- pick up DS and DBD at train station
- bread shaped and proofing

ToDos
- dinner
- afternoon routine
- evening routine

Braindump
work - didn't finish it yesterday so must get to it over the weekend
- finalize CC the report and send it off for peer review
routines
food
- bake something sweet
- bake bread
organization
- homework and backpacks
- DBD's speech therapy
- update land contract
- 15 on filing
- plan for June
cleaning
- clean office
- clean out / reorganize attic
- spiff up DBD's room
- spiff up twins' room
- spiff up DS15's room
- spiff up master bedroom
- spiff up master bathroom
- spiff up kitchen
- spiff up living room
- spiff up downstairs bathroom and hallways
laundry
- load of towels
- ironing
- folding
- mending
- laundry put away
garden and outside - weekend
- run pool vacuum cleaner
- 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
- work on cleaning out the carpool
- work on cleaning out the garage
- fertilize fruit trees and bushes
- fertilize conifers
- fertilize vegetables
me time
- 15 of exercise
- Bible study
- reading

[Kittykatt]

Hello everyone!

Trissie,. Mmm homemade strawberry jam.WTG on the garden rescue!

Congratulations on your job interview, FFB. Adding you, Mr NG and both DSs to my prayers.

Helia, you sound very busy with everything and everyone! Enjoy Baby I, and I hope DD's service goes well.

I hope work isn't too exhausting today, Laura.

It's been a lovely day, the first warm, sunny day for ages . I spent some time just sitting in my garden, and then did some dead heading. My new geranium is significantly smaller than the others,.but hopefully it will soon catch up. The meal with friends this evening was lovely,.we went to a family run Turkish restaurant, which also cooks Greek and English food, and it was very good to catch up with everyone.

[Kittykatt]

To do:
Cuddles and treats with Matilda, Freddie and Jude
QT
Update latest Waitrose order
Cup of tea
Get up!
Shower/wash hair/moisturiser and sunblock/ clean and floss teeth
S/S bathroom
Physio exercises
Get dressed in casual clothes
Make bed
Scoop cat trays and give everyone fresh water
Cat breakfast and meds /supplements
Breakfast and meds /vitamins for me
Quick kitchen clean up
Load DW
Quick PUPA downstairs
Quick dust and Hoover downstairs
Wind clock
Quick PUPA upstairs
Quick dust bedrooms
15 minutes in tiny front garden
15 minutes in back garden
Go for my walk
Walk Freddie
Lap time with Freddie, Jude and Matilda
Head rubs with Freddie, Jude and Matilda
Play with Freddie, Jude and Matilda
Run DW when full
Unload DW
Lunch
Cats' supper
Our supper - out at the Dinosaur
Sort out lunch for tomorrow
ice cake I made yesterday
Slice flapjack and wrap
Text DF E re coffee tomorrow do this earlier texted and rang but no reply -. Left a message
Towels in machine
Towels hung up to dry
Clothes laid out for tomorrow

Extras:
Try and get hold of Petplan - their claims team were.supposed.to contact me.in the last two working days (Thursday and Friday) and they haven't.
Find out from DH what time he wants to leave and let Dnextdoorneighbour C know
Book engineer / plumber to fix overflow pipe that has started dripping just a tiny bit,
. I suspect we may need a new washer / valve.etc.on one of the header tanks in the loft (DH said to leave it, but in my experience these things don't just go away, they suddenly get worse. ATM it's just a tiny drip every 30 minutes or so, out onto the patio, which I'm catching in a watering can,.so as not to waste the water. I do *not* want to end up like Dnextdoorneighbour D who had a waterfall down the back of her house! And this is covered by our Homecare contract, so why not make the most of it.)
Trim and file fingernails
Assemble and hang up outfit for tonight

Garden extras:
Bring up geranium I planted yesterday to patio
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[Doggedly]

Greetings, all. I had a nice phone visit with my db and took Germane for a leisurely walk. It's a beautiful day. I'm happy that the heat wave is over. And now I hear thunder, so we timed that walk well.

I can see that people here are really busy. Summer activities and life in general.

[Lauralind]

Hi all. Home again. Yup I'm tired. Busy day again. The wedding is a friend of the manager and a couple of girls. I don't know them. Then we have two students graduating plus one with a grandkid or something. Grad is always hard let alone when someone picks the same weekend. If I had not worked it wouldn't have gone well.

It's a beautiful day here too. Except I'm ready to fall asleep i my chair. I need a get up and find supper.

[Doggedly]

We can celebrate that you got through your day, Lauralind. When I read your first message, I thought that you had to attend a wedding and the graduations yourself and work as well. As busy as your day was, I'm sure that it worked out better this way.

[Lauralind]

Haha maybe it came across confusing. Nope just work. Just too many off for those events but who can help someone not involved in grad to pick that wedding day... I have got to figure out how all my energy doesn't have to be used up at work.

I tried playing piano. No go too tired but I am trying not to be asleep too early. I'll find music tomorrow morning.