Sting and The Police Saturday

[trissie]

kittykatt, I read somewhere that Sting wrote the song while going through a very bitter divorce, so he was rather surprised when he discovered people were playing the song at their weddings!

Mowing the lawn was a challenge! It's DH's job normally, so not something I'd normally do. The mower would not start, no matter what I tried. Called our neighbour to help, turns out the cable is not functioning. He borrowed me his, but then the mower started smelling funny after about 15 minutes. Let it cool down, went to finish the mowing, it did it again. So there's something wrong with it, but if I will only use it for 10 minutes or so at a time, I may be OK? Also, once I was able to reach DH (he's -8 hours from me, so communication windows are rather short), he told me he normally used a different cable. I think I remember that we had issues with a cable, but I thought it was long disposed of, not in a prominent place in the garage! DH is REALLY bad about getting rid of things that don't work (or don't work properly) after he gets replacement. Next set will depend on the weather! There were a couple rain drops while I was mowing, but the sky is clear now.

TaDas
- morning routine
- mow the lawn
- start lunch
- load of darks in washer

ToDos
- midday routine
- drive Katie to another birthday party
- 30 in veggie garden OR 30 on laundry

Braindump
routines
- afternoon routine
- evening routine
food
- dinner
- bake something sweet
- feed breadstarter
organization
- homework and backpacks
- DBD's speech therapy
- make medical apt for all kids - eye check (Monday)
- make medical apt for me - obgyn
- 15 on filing
- amendment to rental contract
- rental accounting
- pharmacy order
- order clothes stand for bedroom
- deal with insurance
cleaning
- clean office
- spiff up DBD's room
- spiff up DS13's room
- spiff up twins' 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
- load of cleaning rags
- load(s) of outgrown stuff
- ironing
- folding
- mending
- laundry put away
me time
- 15 of exercise
- Bible study
- reading
garden
- plant treatment - pest
- plant treatment - mold & funghi disease
- clean out carport
- oil furniture for MB balcony
- weeding
- watering of flowerpots / windowboxes
- tree and bushes pruning
- general pick up in garage
- general pick up around the house
- weekly fertilizing

[Costumelady]

Kk do you have a house guest? Why were they both up so early? I often wakes 5:30 to 6 am EST and we are usually in bed by 10 ish. I am officially retired. I must go back in Tuesday to clear out 2 drawers that I forgot and I must find room in my storage room for a few boxes for a year until Cameron gets his first class. Taking numerous boxes this.morning to teacher's warehouse and goodwill. We have a second hand teacher store that is free to teachers in our district. They will get more of these supplies in a year just.not ready to part with it all yet. I gave many things away.

My chat, Gabe, helped me write a poem about school it is on my Facebook page.

I need to create a new routine. I will start back to the Y on Tuesday. Monday is Memorial Day.

I want to focus on organizing and some house tasks this month.

We are collecting for a church yard sale later in summer.

Need to organize and declutter the following

My closet and drawers
Bathroom cabinets
Bookcases in mbr
P needs to.do his desk
Mbr declutter
Pantry cabinet
Fridge and freezer
Gift closet
Drawers in LR
Kitchen cabinets and drawers
My study closet
My study bookcases
My study desk
Laundry room
Garage P helps
Storage room
Sew grad robes that need repair
Work room, p's job

House looks tidy but storage is getting full.

I just need to pick one a day to focus on. 18 items. I should be able to do that possibly before we leave for England on June 17.

We need to figure out how our finances change after my last check in August. Meeting with 2 financial advisors soon. More where it come from every.2.weeks like a paycheck so it doesn't screw up system.

[trissie]

Did you retire at end of school year, or when you became eligible, CostumeLady?

Siting down with a cup of coffee. It's hot and sunny with big grey clouds looming all at the same time. The low this morning was 3C. We really have some strange weather this year!

TaDas
- midday routine
- drive Katie to another birthday party
- 30 in veggie garden
- darks flipped to dryer
- running a load of outgrown sleeping bags

ToDos
- afternoon routine
- 30 in carpool
- process rhubarb and herbs harvested from veggie garden

Braindump
routines
- evening routine
food
- dinner
- bake something sweet
- feed breadstarter
organization
- homework and backpacks
- DBD's speech therapy
- make medical apt for all kids - eye check (Monday)
- make medical apt for me - obgyn
- 15 on filing
- amendment to rental contract
- rental accounting
- pharmacy order
- order clothes stand for bedroom
- deal with insurance
cleaning
- clean office
- spiff up DBD's room
- spiff up DS13's room
- spiff up twins' 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
- load of cleaning rags
- load(s) of outgrown stuff
- ironing
- folding
- mending
- laundry put away
me time
- 15 of exercise
- Bible study
- reading
garden
- plant treatment - pest
- plant treatment - mold & funghi disease
- clean out carport
- oil furniture for MB balcony
- weeding
- watering of flowerpots / windowboxes
- tree and bushes pruning
- general pick up in garage
- general pick up around the house
- weekly fertilizing

[helia]

LOL! Every breath you take is kind of creepy stalker-y -- but it's another song I really like in spite of the lyrics.

trissie, is dh in the US right now? WTG tackling the lawn mowing. That was nice of your neighbor to lend you his cable.
Kitty, I hope the party is fantastic! I suspect it will be with you at the planning helm.
CL, are you excited about creating a new routine for retirement days?
Happy Birthday to your mom, Gma! That's amazing - 101! I'm glad the party went well and I hope the next one does too.
Doggedly, your house must smell divine! I love chicken shawarma!

We were awoken this morning around 6:15 a.m. by a noisy wild turkey in our yard. We sleep with the window cracked open 365 days/ year - dh's preference. A European thing? A Dutch thing? The turkey eventually quieted down and we fell back asleep.

I have a lovely 3 day weekend with nothing extra on the schedule, other than an informal wedding shower Monday morning. Even better -- it is finally sunny again! I SO need this time!

I don't think I got back here yesterday. I did everything for payroll - except end of session tasks. I stopped by to see my mom -- super short. I ordered groceries and put them away. Once again, I didn't jog; I could have probably squeezed it in before dinner, but dh needed to be done early to go shopping with dd26 for a new backpacking backpack. (REI was having a sale.) Planning to jog late in the afternoon is just a bad idea. I need to reoganize my schedule to get away from that; I'm tired after payroll.

Today: I have a little payroll to do - end of session tasks and edit the argumentative essay chapter. I WILL go for a jog - no excuse today. And I will visit Mom. I think I'll make a list of todos for the long weekend and hopefully, I can get to some of those. Dh and I are going on our weekly dinner date tonight; we ate at home last night bc of dh's shopping trip with dd26.

I'm still sore from my work out with the trainer on Thursday.

Goals for Today
1. Jog
2. Visit Mom
3. Clean sheets on bed
4. Progress with change of address cards for Mom
5. Progress with Mom's stuff in our house
6. Payroll: end of session tasks
7. Payroll: edit argumentative essay chapter
6. Dinner date!

Goals for Weekend
1. Repot baby orchid
2. Mom's change of address cards
3. Go through pile on desk
4. Go through Mom's stuff in our room
5. Can I get to the knitting store?
6. Exercise significantly (Jog/ long walk) ___ ____ ____
7. Payroll: end of session tasks AND edit argumentative essay chapter
8. Update goodreads
9. Monday - wedding shower
10. Sunday - Church
11. Sunday - Host dinner for up to 6 people?
12. Order shelves for Mom's room
13. Clean sheets on the bed

Next:
- back exercises
- dress to jog
- jog

Later:
- s2s and self care
- clean sheets on bed
- WF: we need milk
- lunch
- payroll: end of session tasks
- payroll: edit chapter
- go through Mom's stuff
- go through pile on desk?
- progress: change of address cards
- maybe repot baby orchid?
- ~ 3:30/ 4 pm visit Mom - drop off more yogurt
- dinner date with dh!
- duo
- update health apps: WW and MFP
- start reading fun book
- update goodreads

TaDas!
- up; weighed self - still high
- coffee
- tomato plants outside in the sun (I adopted them from DE at payroll)
- email deletions + weather website

WEEKLY ACTIVITIES
Sat dinner date with dh
Sun Church (out 10 - 12:45/1) / Host Dinner for up to 7?

Mon 9 - 11 ish wedding shower for BG/ grocery store / Dinner: TBD - grill for Memorial Day?
Tue 10-12ish KSJ get together/ 1-3 Prof Dev Meetings
Wed8:15 - be at NH for 9-10:30-ish Mom's appt. with geriatric clinic
Thu 8-9 trainer work out/ 6:30 - 8-ish? Host dinner for young couple we met at church
Fri Dinner Date with dh
Sat 10-12 payroll outing? / 2-4 L's bday and housewarming party (near big city)/ 5:30 - ? CG1
Sun Church/ 2-6 JE grad party stop by/ 3:30 - 5:30 CG2 @ L+B/ 6 - host Sunday dinner for up to 8 people

May Brain Dumps
This Week - House
- clean fridge
- get 2 guest beds remade with clean sheets
- polish kitchen appliances
- possibly, polish stone counter tops
- repot my little orchid

This Week - Deskwork
- Mom's change of address cards
- update goodreads

General Brain Dump
- progress decluttering clothes - wip
- new phone eventually
- buy queen bed frame + mattress + box springs for dd26's room - wip

MOM
- send change of address cards
- put up pics in her room - Dh is always busy or burnt out; can dd26 help with this?
- shelves for her room?
- keep on sprucing up her wardrobe - pants
- find a neurologist - wip
- NH document to be signed

Brain Dump - Mom and Trust
- get fire safe box for Mom's documents
- email church about the tools in Dad's workshop; Dad would have loved for the church workshop to have them

[trissie]

helia, yes, DH is in the USA right now. Somewhere in Colorado? I think? I mean, they flew in to Denver, is all I've been told. They will be all over the place this time, and I haven't been giving the itinerary yet Enjoy the long weekend!

TaDas
- afternoon routine
- 30 in carpool
- process rhubarb and herbs harvested from veggie garden

ToDos
- final 30 in garden
- 30 on laundry
- start dinner

Braindump
routines
- evening routine
food
- dinner
- bake something sweet
- feed breadstarter
organization
- homework and backpacks
- DBD's speech therapy
- make medical apt for all kids - eye check (Monday)
- make medical apt for me - obgyn
- 15 on filing
- amendment to rental contract
- rental accounting
- pharmacy order
- order clothes stand for bedroom
- deal with insurance
cleaning
- clean office
- spiff up DBD's room
- spiff up DS13's room
- spiff up twins' 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
- load of cleaning rags
- load(s) of outgrown stuff
- ironing
- folding
- mending
- laundry put away
me time
- 15 of exercise
- Bible study
- reading
garden
- plant treatment - pest
- plant treatment - mold & funghi disease
- clean out carport
- oil furniture for MB balcony
- weeding
- watering of flowerpots / windowboxes
- tree and bushes pruning
- general pick up in garage
- general pick up around the house
- weekly fertilizing

[helia]

Maybe the Denver area is a techy area, trissie? I don't know. How long will he be gone?

Next:
- back exercises
- get out for a jog! Will I do a 5K? I think I'll see how I'm feeling around 2 miles. I haven't jogged for 2 weeks.

More done:
- some general pupa: coffee table, hot spot
- found and put new lead in mechanical pencil
- some qt

[Lauralind]

Morning all. Yikes on the noisy night. I hope you got a little sleep. Didn't think you were usually up that early. That's too bad the guys seem to be not worried about crashing around all the time at night when he visits.

Trissie isn't that always how it goes when dh is away. Something doesn't work like it should. You have enough on your plate besides mowing.

Helian I hope you enjoy your less scheduled weekend.

Cl congratulations on retirement. I am sure it feels odd being done and clean out the classroom after doing it so long.

Well I need to plan my day. It was kind of a long dark night. A planned power outage from 10 last night and it just came back on 650 am. Major work on it I think. Waking up at night and felt my way to the bathroom. In the morning no water no coffee. Dh skipped his shower cause no time before his opening shift. And I finally went and got my own armload of firewood cause the electric heat didn't go at night. Brrrr. It's dribbling rain and overcast so not very warm.

I hope it's going to get nicer in a bit. The plan was to go take the stuff and plant dad's greenhouse and garden. I would rather a slower day as i worked too hard this week and my body is complaining. Freight was big and both Tuesday and Thursday. Wednesday was my rug and my garden.

Oh and then tonight the kids I think are planning a movie night here so house full of 20 somethings most of them. Gone from the young adult teen bunch to mostly couples. All got married or about to lol. Good bunch of kids. Not sure how many are coming.

Oh well. I will take a slower morning. Call dad in an hour or so if he doesn't call first. I'd like to wait till after lunch but I'm sure he wants morning. I'll drag ds along to help. But first thing first routines and more coffee now it's made.

Priority list

Basic routines
Kitchen clean
Floors
Go to greenhouse before and see what they have for a couple more plants
Plant greenhouse
Plant potatoes
Plant seeds of other veggies

Today's tada list

S&s both baths and reboot laundry
Tidy laundry room and master bedroom some
Empty and reload dw when done
Finish tidying kitchen all the way
Call dad if he doesn't call first

[FrenchFlybebe]

Hi everyone, quick CI, the day flew by so quickly.

Wishing Kittykatt a happy and successful party tonight !!

Special congrats to Gma's DM on her 101th birthday !

And hugs to all.

I hope to be here tomorrow morning... I managed to be busy all day so as not to think about yet-another-unpleasant-event at payroll. Not sure I want to elaborate. Let's just say, either my manger's manager is a total a**hole himself when it comes to managing people, or she (my manager) tricked him into believing something untrue and I had to go through a very unpleasant 15 minutes in his office - including yelling. And no, even for French people, yelling is not allowed between people at work (or anywhere else), despite some clichés I've heard about us French people.

Interesting discussion about the lyrics of the song being very creepy. There's this other song that I used to like, that now feels a bit creepy : When your heart is weak (by Cock Robin). There must be dozen others songs like that.

[L.Ann]

Afternoon everyone. We had a busy morning so I need to figure out what I did and what I still need to do. You have big plans, Trissie. It is a holiday on Monday so I don’t have Little Bit. Enjoy your party, kittykatt. Happy Birthday to your DM, GMA. My last check was the end of June when I was teaching, CL and then the retirement check didn’t show up until the end of July. Getting used to being paid once a month wasn’t too bad but I am blessed with a really good teacher retirement. I entered the system before they started changing the retirement system and then didn’t switch to the cheaper one when it was offered which most people did. I am sorry to hear about the work drama, FFB.

1-walk outside
2-vacuum
3-have DD32 dust

4-FACE
5-start second loaf of bread

Menus
Saturday-Mexican black bean and quinoa bowls
Sunday-eat crabs at relative’s house
Monday-chicken strawberry salad bowls
Tuesday-curry spiced chickpea wrap
Wednesday-Cajun tilapia and roasted veggies
Thursday-pasta or street cart chicken and rice
Friday-Thai coconut curry chicken
Saturday-picnic(pasta salad/Crumble cookies)

Events
Saturday-Farmer’s Market, strawberry picking@10
Sunday-walk with friend????
Monday-
Tuesday-Little Bit- 7:40-5, grocery shopping, colorful playground
Wednesday-Little Bit- 7:40-5, library program @10
Thursday-Little Bit- 7:40-5, bocce @5, go see DM
Friday-Hopkins-11 bloodwork, 11:45 doctor
Saturday-picnic 1-4

Weekly House Blessing-mop dining room, bathroom, swish and swipe, dust, vacuum
Detailed Cleaning of kitchen-scrub floor
Extra Stuff- work on last Shutterfly book
Little Errands-

Accomplishments
-knee and stretching exercises
-breakfast for dog, me, DD32
-start loaf of bread
-dress and pick up bedroom
-meds, tempt for DD32
-walk a mile
-go to pick strawberries
-go to Farmer’s Market
-text to see if my friend can walk
-prep strawberries and veggies for storage
-lunch

[Peaches1000]

Good afternoon!

Next:
-Update Toodledo
-Check bank accts/Amex
-Office - declutter/organize - 20 min

Extras:
-Office - declutter/organize
-Orders - pants/undergarments/chair/my birth certificate
-DS - (cat fountain)(outdoor - vinegar/pest)
-Toodledo tasks - Amex activity/DH reim recon/other
-DH birth certificate - hldg

Routine:
-Gather dirty laundry/sort
-Laundry #1 to washer
-Laundry #1 to dryer
-Laundry #1 hang/fold
-Put away laundry

-Foyer Bath - pupa/restock
-Files/Med Info/Papers/Emails - 5 min
-Kitchen - 5 min
-Declutter/organize/clean - 5 min
-Cat - brush/food/water/litter
-Vacuum something
-Close blinds
-Make list for next day
-Update log
-Open & sort mail/file

Done:
-Fresh food for kitty
-Bedroom - pupa
-Open blinds/get water
-Medicine/vitamins
-Check email
-Eat