Miss Mole Monday

[trissie]

So how was the Turkish chicken, L.Ann?

TaDas
- water garden
- pack clothes for me, DH and DBD
- gooseberry jam

ToDos
- lunch
- spiff up upstairs
- have big kids pack their clothes

Braindump
- spiff up downstairs
- pack entertainment - board games, books etc
- pack food - take some frozen meat from freezer? we'll go shopping later today or tomorrow

[helia]

Enjoy your walk, L Ann. Here's it's in the 60s right now, pleasant for a walk, but will warm up to 92 this afternoon.
trissie, I hope you have a truly lovely time at the cottage!!
Kitty, it is disturbing that people express their disagreement with such violence. I hope you have a good day!

I was supposed to get up at 6:30, but I had some trouble sleeping last night and got up at 7:30 instead. SO, I'm off to a late start. I need to be otd to payroll by 10:40 a.m., and it will be tight to get everything done before then.

Yesterday was not nearly as productive as I would have liked. Church was all morning, I did get prepped for my tutorial but not for my class. CG2 was good, and I got home from that around 6:35 to the Cs and M and dd28 sitting at our table eating dinner that M had made. Cs and dd28 were here until 9:15 pm ish. At that point, I was really too tired to do more.

Today, I'm "on" teaching or helping lead a meeting from 11-3:30 straight, no break. I'll eat some lunch during the meeting. I need to get a few grocery items, and exercise would be good. Since I'll need to exercise after work, the gym is the only possibility as it will be in the 90s by then.

Next:
- payroll: figure out AAS midterm test
- payroll: make AAS practice text
- payroll: prep slides for AAS D5

Later:
- some qt
- back exercises
- s2s and self care
- squeegee and wipe down shower
- make bed
- reclaim kitchen
- make a lunch
- gather stuff and otd by 10:40
- 11-1 payroll: tutorial
- 1-1:40 payroll: teacher meeting (take notes)
- 1:40 - 3:30 payroll: teach AAS D5
- get some groceries
- gym: stair master
- dinner: spinach ravioli, homemade tomato sauce, green salad
- after dinner clean up
- duolingo
- update MFP
- update WW
- pay 3 snail mail bills
- update lists
- menu plan and groc. list for the week
- Call Dr.
- grad card + check ready for the mail for AR
- other things?

TaDas!
- up; weighed self
- coffee
- email deletions + weather website

WEEKLY ACTIVITIES
Mon 11-1 payroll: tutorial / 1:05 - 1:40 payroll: instructor mtg./ 1:40 - 3:30 payroll: teach AAS D5
Tue 9-12ish KS2J get together?
Wed 11-1 payroll: tutorial/ 2ish take dh to colonoscopy appt.
Thu 8 - WW/ 11:30 -12:30 payroll: CA ci mtg with AC/ 2-3 work out with AS
Fri 1:40 - 3:30 payroll: teach AAS D7/ travel to other city for J12yo's swim meet
Sat cheer on J12yo at swim meet/ drive home
Sun 10-church/ 6ish host Sunday dinner

Mon 11-1 payroll: tutorial / 1:40 - 3:30 payroll: teach AAS D8
Tue 9-12ish KS2J get together?/ Host Tuesday dinner group:
Wed 11-1 payroll: tutorial/ :40 - 3:30 payroll: teach AAS D9
Thu 8 - WW/ 11 - haircut in other town/ 11:30 -12:30 payroll: CA ci mtg with AC - WILL NEED TO RESCHEDULE/ 2-3 work out with AS
Fri 1:40 - 3:30 payroll: teach AAS D10/ Dinner out with the Rs
Sat 8 - 5K run/ 5:30 CG1 - will we host?
Sun 10-church/ 6ish host Sunday dinner/ 8:15 family zoom call

7/13 - 7/19 Dinner Menus
M - spinach ravioli, homemade tomato sauce, green salad
T - on my own for dinner
W - olive chicken, rice, veggie TBD
Th - TBD
F - on the road/ in other city
Sat - chicken mole', rice, mixed veggies?
Sun - NO group dinner (I think)

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

This Week - Deskwork
- pay 3 snail mail bills
- graduation card + check written to AR
- call Dr. re: med to help with altitude sickness
- figure out if I need to check with hotel re: dd28 + Fable staying with us next week
- check with hotel if needed
- Writing progress - wip
- figure out another knitting project?

This Week - Errands
- car wash - badly needed
- return another pair of shoes
- can I return wrong coffee pods?

General Brain Dump
- progress decluttering clothes - wip
- new phone eventually
- set up new laptop

[kitkat]

Good morning Kittykatt !
Miss Mole sounds like an interesting novel. Interesting: our best vet EVER was from Romania. Her skills were amazing and she was very humble. I miss her.
trissie it looks like you have a busy day. (I remember literally falling into my seat on a plane when we went on vacation, after spending the day(s) packing for everyone, and getting things in order...) I hope cottage time will be relaxing. I think you'll need it.
Gma Enjoy Dbro and sil's visit!
helia I think we are sharing the same heatwave? Tomorrow, we'll reach 97F (not factoring in the humidity!)
LAnn you are so disciplined with your exercises!

Got some sleep - fell asleep early as I was exhausted from going up and down our stairs... I did not have much reading time, even though my book is VERY good . (Violeta by Allende)
Woke up with a headache, dismissed it at first, then I had to take a Tylenol. Tried to sleep: my knee and my hip would not let me... Got e-mail from waterproofing company - unfortunately, it's just reassurance that he'll come to see me - but no indication as to when... The good thing is that the puddle is dry(ing up) - but I still need to know where it's from.

Today, I promise to treat myself more kindly. I really need to feel better than this.
There is a lot to be done though..

weed before it gets hot
walk pup b/4 it gets hot
DPCs
bathrooms
cook
bake
finish laundry (if that's even possible)

For now:
take med
D2S
walk

[trissie]

yikes, helia, that's a long time to be teaching without a break!
kitkat, yeah, I tend to fall asleep on the plane! Hoping the headache will go away soon!

And I am at the end of the list!
My list, that is. What is DH and the kids doing, is another question!

TaDas
- lunch
- spiff up upstairs
- have big kids pack their clothes

ToDos
- spiff up downstairs
- pack entertainment - board games, books etc
- pack food - take some frozen meat from freezer? we'll go shopping later today or tomorrow

[L.Ann]

The chicken was really good, Trissie, but really spicy. You have a busy day, helian. If I don’t do the exercises first thing I end up not doing it, KitKat. At least this way the minimum definitely gets done. You are really good at exercising too. I am hoping to add at least one exercise class at the senior center when Little Bit starts kindergarten in late August.

1-take out meat to defrost
2-read
3-vacuum

Menus-
Monday-garlic lime chicken
Tuesday-chicken and veggie curry
Wednesday-DD33out/me leftovers
Thursday-pasta
Friday-chicken fajita lettuce wrap
Saturday-turkey enchiladas verdes


Events
Monday-Little Bit 7:40-6:30, swim lessons@11
Tuesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, swim lessons@11, breakfast w/friends@8:30, 9:30 sign papers at lawyer’s, Dsis and brother in law visit
Wednesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, swim lessons@11, DD33 PS 3-8, fasting lab work for DD33
Thursday-Little Bit 7:40-??? swim lessons@11, Little Bit overnight, Sponge Bob the Musical @7
Friday-Little Bit 7:40-5, swim lessons@11

Weekly House Blessing-mop dining room, bathroom, vacuum
Detailed cleaning list for DD33’s room-wipe woodwork, detailed vacuuming
Death book-update DD33’s pages
Phone calls-
Extra stuff-

Accomplishments
-stretching and knee exercises
-breakfast for dog and me
-meds and temp for DD33
-dress and pick up bedroom
-walk
-pick up Little Bit

[kitkat]

IKWYM LAnn - that is why I try to take pup first thing- it's my current "non-negotiable" habit. By the afternoon, I'm tired...

Today, it was just about 20 minutes. It was getting hot already. She also had her tummy " issue" - searching for grass everywhere. I could not let her, so I corrected. We had the BEST walk after that... (Maybe the trainer had a point with the corrections? )

Thanks trissie, my head is better post coffee/tylenol.

Accomplishments:
pup out/in
D2S, caffeinated
lol in /baskets sorted
breakfast for me
Sink shined
Second cup

Next:
rest a bit

take down DH's lol
start a load/adv/etc
PUPAs main (looks chaotic)

[Gma]

We are in a "heat advisory" and I have been feeling my age this summer - I don't tolerate the heat like i used to, even tho I enjoy not being cold.
This mroning, before to much heat and humdity outside, I did 30 more feet of the fence. What is left now is to go to mother's (where I have some chemicals) and apply the root killers - within 15 minutes of cutting the stems, so that is for another day. There is a huge patch of stinging nettles just on the other side of the fence; they keep creeping to my side. There are "baby trees" that will eventually break the fence and require much work to remove, so to cut them and apply root killer while they are young is appropriate. The bottle syas the BEST time to do it is inthe autumn when the sap is returning to the roots, but I did kill some, or at least stunt them, in mother's yard earlier this spring. They are not growing. Now is when I am finding the time.

partial List to hep me think:
bank - which debit card is active?
grocery store - stock the fridge for dbro, and a few things I need
mother's - get supper out of the freezer to thaw.
get the chemicals from her garage
come home, boil eggs for egg salad sandwich for my lunch

[L.Ann]

1-mop bathroom
2-finish cleaning kitchen
3-read

4-pool

Menus-
Monday-garlic lime chicken
Tuesday-chicken and veggie curry
Wednesday-DD33out/me leftovers
Thursday-pasta
Friday-chicken fajita lettuce wrap
Saturday-turkey enchiladas verdes


Events
Monday-Little Bit 7:40-6:30, swim lessons@11
Tuesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, swim lessons@11, breakfast w/friends@8:30, 9:30 sign papers at lawyer’s, Dsis and brother in law visit
Wednesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, swim lessons@11, DD33 PS 3-8, fasting lab work for DD33
Thursday-Little Bit 7:40-??? swim lessons@11, Little Bit overnight, Sponge Bob the Musical @7
Friday-Little Bit 7:40-5, swim lessons@11

Weekly House Blessing-mop dining room, bathroom
Detailed cleaning list for DD33’s room-wipe woodwork
Death book-update DD33’s pages
Phone calls-
Extra stuff-

Accomplishments
-stretching and knee exercises
-breakfast for dog and me
-meds and temp for DD33
-dress and pick up bedroom
-walk
-pick up Little Bit
-take out meat to defrost
-read
-vacuum
-swim lessons
-pick up yard, refill bird feeder
-lunch
-talk to yard guy

[kitkat]

Sounds like a battle w the nettle, Gma! DGD calls them "stinking nettles"
Taking your good example, LAnn : sitting down to read...

pulled the monster weeds (they really aren't weeds, technically, just an invasive plant...)
trimmed the ivy near walkway - while dpup watched me from a Down/stay from the top of the stairs.
cut back Solomon's Seal. It's ginormous this year.
fed the washer,
Sw/Sw main bath

Reading break
then:
lol cont'd
upstairs bathroom
pup out/in
gather branches, weeds in bag.
Garb/rec OTD

[Doggedly]

Hello, all. Thank you for a fun start, Kittykatt.
I'm glad that your street party was a success, and that you are coping with the heat.
I'm sorry about your weird neighbours. Might they be Ceaușescu orphans who have aged out of the orphanage?
Thank you for the information about Ann Widdecombe. It will be interesting to learn more about the killer's motives.

I suspect that by the time that I get this posted, trissie will have already left for the cottage. Have a wonderful, restful time!

L.Ann, I suspect that what I am calling heat is just another day for you, as I find 30 C/humidex of 37 C more than hot enough for me, LOL.

That brings me to the end of Page 1. I have coffee brewing and paperwork coming up.

Monday
Put away dry laundry
Gave Germane her heart pill and peanut butter
Organized whiteboard
Created new procrastaccomplishments list
Prepared a pot of coffee because I was halfway through setting it up when I remembered that I was folding laundry and wandered into the kitchen to warm up my coffee from yesterday’s pot
Put away dry laundry
Cleaned up after dog
Put away dry dishes
Fresh water for dog
Scrubbed out sink and basin
Washed a couple of basinsful of dishes
Wiped down accessible surfaces