Tambourine Tuesday

[Kittykatt]

Triple Dog Dare!

Pick 3 things
Do them
Post your TaDas!

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Don't think about it. Just do it!
~~ I Triple Dog Dare ya! ~~
Good Morning!
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[Kittykatt]

The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zills". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though some variants may not have a head. Tambourines come in many shapes with the most common being circular.

Tambourines are often used with regular percussion sets. They can be mounted, for example on a stand as part of a drum kit (and played with drum sticks), or they can be held in the hand and played by tapping, hitting, or shaking the instrument.

The origin of the tambourine is unknown, but it appears in historical writings as early as 1700 BC and was used by ancient musicians first in Ancient Egypt, the Ancient Near East and eventually to Greece and other places.The tambourine passed to Europe by way of merchants or musicians.Tambourines were used in ancient Egypt, where they were known as the tof to the Hebrews, who mainly used the instrument in religious contexts.

The word tambourine finds its origins in French tambourin, which referred to a long narrow drum used in Provence, the word being a diminutive of tambour "drum," altered by influence of Arabic tunbur "drum". from the Middle Persian word tambūr "lute, drum".

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[Kittykatt]

Good morning everyone and happy Tuesday!

Dogged, I find very often when cleaning or decluttering that things often look a lot worse before they look better. But eventually there comes a point where you do see signs of improvement. Cheering you on with all your progress.

Gma, your supper sounded delicious! When do you start your road trip?

So, it's back to work Tuesday here. DH is frustrated as it's now very evident he won't be retiring at the end of September as planned. He is on a.chort.of.around 500,.and so far,.JR and the pension department have managed to process a grand total.of exactly one. (apparently they are short staffed. If that is the case, I've no idea why they don't recruit some more pension experts on a temporary basis. I'm sure any agency would be able to oblige.) I'm sure it will.work.out in the end, but I'm not the one who is continuing to work when they'd rather be doing something else.

Still, September has an aura of new beginnings (maybe tied in with the start of the new school year here?) so I need to look forward , and enjoy these autumn days.

[Kittykatt]

SHEM:

"A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in."
Frederick the Great

[Kittykatt]

To do:

Appointments:
Tuesday:
DH WFH
At home for me
Wednesday:
DH to office
At home for me
Final touches to Waitrose order
ORDER MILK FOR CHURCH
Thursday:
DH WFH
10.30 am church -
Can I hoover car?
Any errands to run?
Check if community café will be open on September - book parish lunch for 24/9
2pm Jude - weight check
6-7 pm Waitrose delivery -
Friday
DH WFH
At home for me
Saturday:
DH ??
Text DF E re coffee tomorrow - not this week
Bake something?
Prep lunch for tomorrow
Sunday:
Church 9.30 am - we are doing the coffees after the service
Visit DF E for coffee ? - not this week
Laxapet Jude and Matilda
Set up new Waitrose delivery

Future dates to note:
2 /9 2 pm Jude - weight check
15/9 Freddie Solensia 8.45 am
August / September (depending on weather!) work on verge of house by roofer L and team
19/10 9.30.am.flu jab me

Outstanding deliveries:

Extras:
Order sealant
Order stain for garage door?
Send out updated list of contacts for coffee rota
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 - on hold until roof is sorted out!
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 for his walk
Physio exercises and back exercises
Proprioceptors exercises X1 x2 x3
S/S bathroom
Get dressed
Breakfast and meds / supplements - me
DRINK WATER
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 bedroom & spare room rugs

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
Water roses in front garden
Liquid feed roses in front garden

Financial:
More work on budget WIP

[helia]

Wow Kitty. Just one? That seems beyond a matter of being short-staffed.

I'm popping in quickly. I'll be otd in 10 minutes to do the school drop off today; dh can't do it because he's running.

On the schedule today:
7:35 otd to school drop off (yesterday both drop off and pick up were crazy, backing up the school drives and the road the school is on)
10 - 12ish (I'm guessing) window washer guys here
sometime this morning: KS2J get together here
pay gardener KJ - she'll be here at some point too
get groceries for Tuesday dinner - 8-9 people
do a little cleaning and help dh cook: 12 -13 people (he's making extra to bring friends tomorrow)
6::30 - 8:30ish host Tuesday dinner - 8-9 people

[helia]

Yes, Gma, I'm taking a break from jogging for a week or so and switching to walking -- on the flat. Hills are painful. I'll continue to go to my personal trainer AS for my weekly strength work outs, but I think I'm going to ask him not to do any activity that would engage my glutes/ hips/ hamstrings. I've thought of PT, but I think I'd need to go to my PCP first to get a referral (though maybe not with new plan?), and I think it's not quite that bad. It's in the back of my mind, though.
trissie, we have our niece and her best friend. You asked at some point who was with our niece here.

Back home. I'll put a list up.

Next:
- back exercises
- s2s and self care
- finish reclaiming the kitchen

Later:
- some qt
- make the bed
- cup up some fruit for K, S2, and J
- prep check for KJ gardener
- make a grocery list for Kroger
- write up the menu plan
- window washer guy here - walk him through the house
- KS2J here
- pay window washer guys
- move everything back that was moved for them
- lunch
- after lunch clean up
- park: walk on the flat
- Kroger
- put groceries away
- progress wrapping baby gifts
- read chapter in book? MM
- update timesheet
- other things?
- s/s main bathroom
- bake cornbread
- make a salad
- put leaf in table
- help set the table
- 6:30 - 8:30ish host Tuesday dinner
- after dinner clean up
- duolingo
- update WW
- update MFP

TaDas!
- up; weighed self - a little lower
- coffee
- email deletions
- confirmed haircut tomorrow
- replied to carpet cleaner re: prep for tomorrow
- communicated with K, S2, and J
- school drop off
- K and SP unloaded the dw! (I didn't realize this until I got home.)

WEEKLY ACTIVITIES
Tue 7:45 school drop off/ 10 window washer guy here/ 9-12ish KS2J get together here/ 6:30 host dinner crew -8-9 people + 1 dog
Wed 8 - coffee with AA/ 10 - haircut / 1-2ish carpet cleaner here/ 3 school pick up/ prep and bring meal to Rs?
Thu 8 - WW/ 11:30 - 12:30 payroll: academic ci mtg/ 2-3 work out with AS/ 3 school pick up?
Fri NO SCHOOL FOR THE GIRLS/ 9:15 walk with MM/ Date night with dh?
Sat 5:30 - 9ish CG1?
Sun 10 - church/ Host CG2 @ 3:30 - 6/ 6-ish host dinner for up to 10 people?

Mon HOLIDAY/ dinner with dd28 and dd30/ bonfire and smores at the girls' house?
Tue 7:45 school drop off?/ morning KS2J get together? /11:30 - 3ish payroll: S8 Prof Dev prep and meeting
Wed 3 school pick up?
Thu 8 - WW/ 11:30 - 12:30 payroll: academic ci mtg/ 2-3 work out with AS/ 3 school pick up?
Fri Dinner date with dh?

8/24 - 8/30 Dinner Menus
M - early - leftovers
T - dinner crew? chili, rice, corn bread, salad
W - teriyaki salmon, rice, asparagus
Th - K and SP cook: potatoes, chicken, broccoli
F - OUT with S and K? Or a date night for dh and me?
Sat - CG1 potluck
Sun - dinner for 10? Or 7 if the Cs can't make it: pizza, bread, rot. chicken

August Brain Dumps
This Week - House
- spend some time decluttering in MBR - need to do more
- clean sheets on the bed
- laundry: offer to do girls' laundry too

This Week - Deskwork
- Writing progress - wip
- figure out another knitting project - after our trip
- order baby gifts: dniece's 3rd baby + BD gift - baby I
- message SS, JK, MM when home
- call back carpet cleaner - wip
- menu plan and groc. lists
- write baby cards: CM and M

This Week - Errands
- WF groceries
- Kroger groceries
- put baby gifts in the mail: CM and M

General Brain Dump
- progress decluttering clothes - wip
- transfer info from old to new laptop (will require a trip to a specialist)
- new running shoes

[Lauralind]

Morning all. Hmmm seems like even if I put on the remember me setting I have to sign in every time almost. Oh well it's just a couple more clicks.

Kittykat that is really odd that dh word of retirement date isn't just that's when I am done but on their timing?

Helian I hope you heal from the sore muscles. My neck and headaches are more again than for a time. Tomorrow is another physio day. I didn't have to go to dr first for this one but I'm in a different country...

I have to figure out how to get dd classes set for him. Maybe I will call the school during the day. Do I book in to see the scheduler or maybe talk to him on the phone? Or go there tomorrow? I feel like ds would do better setting it up on his own with them. With a bit of a heads up to what happened in summer from me.

In other news -- my mom is moving. Finally after 9 months she is going to the official long term care home. It's just across the street from the hospital. The nurses have done such a wonderful job caring for her but in her own room without seeing others much outside the times of the day program. She'll likely have her own room but meals and day time is often out in common areas. Activity and people coming and going. So much better. We need another whole wing on that place for the wait list here. And the sad part it always means someone else passed away to make room .

Anyway I need to do a few routines and get off to work.

[L.Ann]

Morning All. I am sure that is frustrating for your DH, kittykatt. Looks like you will have a busy new schedule, helian. I have to keep signing in too, Laura. I am sure it will be good to have your DM settled. How is your dad doing?

I got my longer walk in thankfully since it is already hot and muggy.

1-diet site
2-read essays
3-Shutterfly

Menus
Tuesday-bbq chicken and veggies
Wednesday-DD33 out/ me leftovers
Thursday-three bean chili
Friday-Monday out of town

Events
Tuesday-Little Bit 7:40-8:45
Wednesday-Little Bit 7:40-8:45, DD33 PS 3-8, 9:30 oil change
Thursday-Little Bit 7:40-8:45
Friday-leave for cabin@1, Little Bit 7:40-8:45

Weekly House Blessing-mop dining room
Death book-update DD33’s pages
Phone calls-
Extra stuff-
Shutterfly- Christmas card, Becca book, Little Bit’s book, Little Bit last school year book, calendar, art book, magnets, coasters, Hawaii book

Accomplishments
-stretching and knee exercises
-breakfast for dog and me
-meds and temp for DD33
-dress and pick up bedroom
-start laundry
-diet site
-walk
-go to Little Bit’s house, get ready for school, read with Little Bit, walk to bus stop
-walk
-reboot laundry

[Doggedly]

Thank you, Kittykatt. It would be easy for you with your excellent organization to be impatient with those of us paddling in the shallows, but you are consistently kind and encouraging. Now that we are in September, I am in pre-vacation mode, and some of that is extra motivation to get my surroundings organized better for work spaces.
I feel for your DH! I remember how I felt when I realized that I could retire at least temporarily on my pension. It was such a relief, like the clouds parting and the sun coming out.

(((helia))) I hope that the break from jogging will help your legs to heal.

Lauralind, that is wonderful news that your dm is moving to a residence that can give her the best possible care.
I hope that the school bookings are easy to sort out.

I'm glad that you got your walk in while it is still comfortable, L.Ann.

Tuesday
Put on a pot of coffee
Cleaned up after Germane
Heart pill and peanut butter for Germane
Made pre-vacation grooming booking for Germane