Gaia Weiss Wednesday @ TDD - C&C

[Kittykatt]

To do:

Appointments:
Wednesday: DH to office
10 am? Cup of tea with C and pick up her shopping list
Laxapet for Jude and Matilda
9 pm Final touches to Waitrose order
Thursday: DH WFH
10.30 am church
Any errands?
12pm parish lunch at community café
3.15pm podiatrist -me
Take chocolates and card to vet to say thank you
Can I book Fred's next Solensia and Jude's next weight check at vet?
Hoover car? ( Weather permitting!)
Bring blue crates up from garage
6-7 pm Waitrose delivery
Laxapet -Jude and Matilda if not done yesterday
Friday: DH WFH
9.30 am hair appointment -me
2pm take C her groceries
6.30 pm drive out with Dnextdoorneighbour C to listen to DH's concert
Saturday:
*Text DF E re coffee tomorrow*
Sunday:
Church 9.30 am
Coffee with DF E?
Laxapet Jude and Matilda
Set up new Waitrose delivery

Future dates to note:
29/9 order HRT

Outstanding deliveries:
Boots the Chemist

Extras:
SORT OUT PREPAYMENT CERTIFICATE FOR PRESCRIPTIONS ON 1/10
Order new orthotics
CAR INSURANCE cancel old policy do by 3/10 at the latest -preferably earlier
Can I do 15 minutes of decluttering in the bedroom each day?
Digital decluttering- Google Photos for 2024 and 2025
Pick up my footprints
House tasks: Replace the bit of mortar that's fallen out of the edge of the roof (I think its called the verge? Can this wait until next year when we get the house painted when a roof ladder will be in place?) I need for it to stop raining before I ask anyone to come and look!
Verge and ridge tiles on garage roof
Sort out cabinet that wobbles - does the back need some sort of bracing ?
Fix garage guttering that's loose at one end and bending down. Dneighbour R2 may fix? He's done it!
Fix dripping kitchen tap (new washer ?)- DF E has given me the phone number of her plumber . I think DF CW also has a plumber she is happy with?
Take up and hem those thick winter curtains for the kitchen
Book eye test for me
Find picture hanging equipment for DH
Sort prints and put in albums (this will probably be an activity to do on wet days!) WIP I am now working on 2024
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?)
Change health centres to the one nearest us? On hold ATM , but I'll leave it on my list so I don't forget.

To do:
Early morning:
Cuddles and treats on the bed with Matilda, Jude, and Freddie
Cup of tea
QT
Lightbox session
Make bed
Shower / wash hair/ moisturiser and sunblock/ clean and floss teeth
Physio exercises and back exercises WIP
Proprioceptors exercises X1 x2 x3
S/S bathroom
Get dressed
DH launched
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
60 minutes in back garden

Cats:
Cats’ breakfast and meds / supplements
Fresh water in cat bowls
Scoop cat trays
Check Jude’s bowl
Check Matilda's bowl
Walk Freddie
Lap time with Jude, Freddie and Matilda
Play with Jude, Freddie and Matilda
Head rubs with Jude, Freddie and Matilda
Cats' supper

House:
Rubbish down to wheelie bins
Kitchen clean up
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 throw on spare room bed and cat blankets

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
Buy and plant pansies WIP
Plant my free daffodil bulbs
Plant foxgloves and return tray and pots to Dneighbour R
Either repot or top dress bulbs in pots and feed
Prune roses - 10 done, 16 to do (the totals might change as this time of year I assess what hasn't done well, and whether it gets another chance, or whether it's time to say goodbye!)

Financial:
More work on budget

Things that need to happen at home before DH retires!
Reorganise office WIP DH still needs to deal with a crate of "stuff" He's just about done, although there is a crate of "stuff" in the garage which needs his attention - I've picked out a few things that need to come up to the house! I've managed to fit everything in the cupboard -It needs a good sort out and tidy.

Declutter bedroom 15 minutes at a time!

Parish Christmas Lunch:
Date and venue booked
Caterers booked
Email parish administrator re printing tickets and poster
Email parish administrator again
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[helia]

Interesting to hear the different funeral customs! I've been to a variety here and 2 in the Netherlands, dh's parents. I coordinated my father's funeral with the help of the pastor and am now doing my mother's by myself -- and I had to do both from afar. When my father passed, I was out of the country, in the middle of a 4 month sabbatical in Israel. We needed time to travel back to the USA to bury him. We had the memorial service 2 months later when we were done with our stint in Israel and ds in WA state and family in KS could travel to IL. For my mom, she needs to be transported back to IL. The funeral home is doing that. Ds + F will fly in from WA state; it's unclear if a cousin or two will come from Kansas. We will obviously drive down from MI. It feels like we're getting things set up very quickly - within 2 weeks; everyone has busy complicated schedules I'm trying to work with. I can't imagine doing this all within a couple days. Maybe if I had some help and everyone was local, I could do that.

Visitation just made it all too complicated, so we are not doing that, and the church did not mention that as an option either. Dad was found a couple days after he passed, so no open casket for him. My mother looked horrible at the end. I'd rather remember her as she looked when she was healthier.

Kitty, in the NL, the order for both dh's parents' services was: memorial service at the church, crematorium service, and then wake. For my father, the burial service was separate from the memorial service by 2 months because we were living in Israel at the time. For my mom, the order will be: burial service, memorial service, and then reception/ wake. If we did the burial service after the memorial service, I think we would lose half or most of the guests before the wake. . .and I'm anticipating there won't be many guests as it is. The cemetery is out in the countryside, and I don't think the elderly will make their way out there. --Glad you are enjoying time on your patio! That's nice that you could have a visit with C.
Interesting Catholic customs, L Ann. You're getting a lot of rain. Could you walk outside?
Hope you got a good night's sleep, lucylee. In some cases, like my father's, an open casket is not an appropriate option. I do find them a little creepy.
Wow, trissie, yes, I'm also impressed by Gaia's multilingual abilities!
Sounds like you avoided lava last night, Doggedly. Was it decaf coffee since you went to sleep afterward?

Yesterday, we got a date and time for the services, so I can now call the caterer and spread the word. Dh and I looked at bnbs for our family this morning, and I've booked one.

Next
- payroll: check HW
- payroll: prep IW D4
- s2s and self care

Later:
- squeegee and wipe down shower
- reclaim kitchen
- make bed
- some qt
- gather everything and otd by 10:30
- park in campus parking garage
- 11-1 payroll: teach IW D4
- home; lunch
- call SSA
- call SURS
- call caterers
- email mem. service date and time to EP for her parents
- message DF with mem. service date and time
- edit obituary; find photo
- call funeral home and order more DCs
- start writing cards - those who sent my mom cards in the NH
- go for a walk
- bins back from the curb
- Kroger order
- dinner: peanut chicken, rice, zucchini
- after dinner clean up
- duolingo
- update health apps

TaDas!
- up; weighed self
- back exercises; I hurt it more by twisting to get some TP while going to the restroom in the middle of the night
- coffee
- reviewed bnb options with dh and booked one
- email deletions + weather website - sunny and high of 83*F today; high of 87*F tomorrow!

WEEKLY ACTIVITIES
Wed 11-1 payroll: teach IW D4
Thu 1:20 payroll: phone call with director/ 2-3 work out with trainer
Fri 11-1 payroll: teach IW D5/ date night with dh
Sat 8 - 5K?/ 5:30 - ? CG1
Sun Church/ 6 - host Sunday dinner

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

This Week - Deskwork
- card to AR
- card to CM

This Week - Errands

General Brain Dump
- progress decluttering clothes - wip
- new phone eventually
- buy queen bed frame + mattress + box springs for dd27's room - wip

MOM Funeral
- call SSA
- call SSN
- get caterer
- email EP with details for her parents
- text DF with details
- ask trustee - can expensive hotels for cousins be paid for by the trust? - not sure it's needed
- edit obituary
- communicate dates to family and friends
- cards to those who kept in touch with Mom in the NH

[Bama]

Good morning!
It’s another beautiful day here. 3 deer in the yard when I let the dogs out, 2 looked a little smaller, so maybe a mom and babies? Hunting season starts soon so I wish they would all hide in my yard. Which reminds me I was going to order and plant some clover seed for them.

I never know what sort of chat I will find when I sign on lol. I’ve learned funerals can be very customizable.

Trissie, thanks for the start. I too am impressed with being able to learn so many languages. In high school that was a goal of mine and I have barely managed to speak my own since then, sadly. My kids will throw new words (slang) at me all the time and it’s hard to keep up.

Kittykatt, I can remember when my Tux was diagnosed with kidney disease and I was scared to death. Your calm sharing of information kept me from a lot of worry. Thank you so much. And thanks for the funeral information. It does seem like a lot of traditions are fading away.

Hi, Lucylee. Cheers to finished laundry.

Hi LAnn. I’m hungry so all I keep seeing is “breakfast” in your post lol.

Doggedly, coffee and a nap, of course, makes perfect sense. Hope Germane is fast asleep and you are too.

Helia, I remember when all of that was going on with your father. Are the temps there usually cooler now? We are low 90s daytime/high 60s at night here right now, low humidity, and I’m loving it.

More of the same here. I’m nailing the cleaning part pretty much, I seem to be stuck on the decluttering. So today’s goals are laundry and declutter in every room, plus my car. It has empty boxes that need to go to mom’s as well as some wood pieces we picked up out of a trash pile ( a perfectly good tree and a pumpkin made out of wood boards). Didn’t need it but hated to see it go to the dump so I’ll find a use for it or give them to the girls to use.
Dd1 has decided Mississippi is not for her so she is moving in with dd2 in Alabama. They can share rent and I am comforted knowing they will keep an eye out for each other. They’re still far from me (about a 4 hour drive) so I’ll take what I can get. At least visits will be easier than going in opposite directions to see just one dd like it is now.

Done:
Up
Weigh
Bible

Do:
Send birthday wishes to db and his wife
Get dressed
Bathroom - wipe counter and sink, clean toilet, scoop litter, collect trash
Order clover

[Lauralind]

Hi all. Yes there are so many different ways of doing funerals. Most of the ones we've done for grandparents have been within the week. Many do it months later. I have a coworker who's mom said she did not want them to do one for her. So they didn't. I don't know if dad did what he said but he was going to go to the village and pay for plots for him and mom as he does not want cremation. Ok well we know that. Good. One less thing to think about.

I'm very happy my pets are all in fairy stable condition atm meaning less treasure hunts and smells. Not always the case.

I should get up and do something. Yesterday I did an error on my schedule and overlooked the late shift written in. I could have refused but on my bad and I didn't discover it till it was too late to go home. I worked 8 till 6. Long shift. Oh well. I won't do that very often but it left them with 2 at days end if I wouldn't have stayed. Home and ds had started supper. A Casper walk that ended just at dark. Gonna have to get used to dark walk or do it different. It keeps getting earlier.

Today I am driving almost 2 hours for a post gc surgery check up. I just want to know it all stayed where it should have. It's at noon so I think I will leave after getting gas when I drop ds off at school. There's a few stores in that town I would like to check out. The appointment will probably not take long. Oh wait I should maybe see if I should check on a couple parts for dad's rv as well?

I need to get in the shower and do some routines. Then maybe see what the weather is when I get back. Can I stain my shelving outside. ... and organized maybe some garden stuff.

At least I'm making progress on my health goals.

Shower
S&s both baths and reboot laundry
Tidy laundry room and master bedroom some

Empty and reload dw
Finish tidying kitchen all the way
Pick up a few footprints
Eat something
School run
Gas car
Drive
Appointment
Shopping
Rv sales for parts ???

[Peaches1000]

Good morning!

Next:
-Medicine/vitamins
-Check email
-Update Toodledo
-Check bank accts/Amex
-Laundry #1 start dryer
-Declutter/organize/clean - 5 min

Extras:
-3:00-4:00 HH OT
-Tasks - (laundry)(cat fountain)(Amex)/(DH reim)/(food options list)/(move desk area chargers)/(addtl)
-Declutter/organize/clean - 10 min
-Files/Med Info/Papers/Emails - 10 min

Routine:
-Laundry #1 hang/fold
-Put away laundry
-Gather dirty laundry/sort
-Laundry #2 to washer
-Laundry #2 to dryer
-Laundry #2 hang/fold
-Put away laundry

-10am Eat (ensure)
-1pm Eat
-Cat - brush/food/water/litter
-Vacuum something
-6pm Eat
-Close blinds
-Open & sort mail/file
-Prep for next day (clothes/calendar)

Done:
-Bedroom - pupa
-Dress/ready
-Foyer Bath - pupa/restock
-Fresh food for kitty
-Open blinds/get water

[trissie]

Good afternoon to euro-SHEs, and good morning to New Continent SHEs! I'll try personal posts later, but consider yourself greeted and hugged as needed!

The show yesterday was... fine, I guess? It's kind of a cultural phenomena here, if you wanna learn more, you can google "Jara Cimrman" - it's like if Monty Python had all their sketches based around a single fictional person. Same kind of humor, a satirical, intellectual comedy and all that jazz. It's very Czech, everybody knows the quotes... but I'm just not too much into comedy, it seems. It did make me smile or even laugh a couple times, but it was funnier when I was younger (I did see two of their shows live). But DH had never seen them on stage and we got the tickets for free from my bank customer program (they are pretty impossible to get, think Black Friday US mall type of camping queue the night before next month's tickets go for sale), so we went. The kids and my mom managed just fine in our absence

I am home from work and I've already dropped off DBD at her scout session. Need to get going again, it's 5:15 and there's so much to do!

TaDas
. morning madness
- day at work
- return books to library and pick new ones
- pick up DBD at school
- ready her scout stuff
- drive DBD to scout session

ToDos
- morning routine
- clean upstairs bathroom
- convince DS to finish his homework and ready his scout stuff

[trissie]

Starting at the beginning:
we're kitchen twins today, kittykatt! Wednesday is my weekly kitchen clean day!
lucylee, so, did you do it?

TaDas
- morning routine
- clean upstairs bathroom
- convince DS to finish his homework and ready his scout stuff
- load of darks sorted and running

ToDos
- midday routine
- clean kitchen
- homework/reading with DBD (DH is picking her up)

[Peaches1000]

Next:
-Laundry #1 hang/fold
-Put away laundry
-Office - restock supplies
-Files/Med Info/Papers/Emails - 10 min (software)

Extras:
-3:00-4:00 HH OT
-Thursday 12:00-1:00 HH Nurse
-Thursday HH PT?
-Tasks - (laundry)(cat fountain)(Amex)/(DH reim)/(food options list)/(move desk area chargers)/(addtl)
-Declutter/organize/clean - 10 min
-Files/Med Info/Papers/Emails - 10 min

Routine:
-Gather dirty laundry/sort
-Laundry #2 to washer
-Laundry #2 to dryer
-Laundry #2 hang/fold
-Put away laundry

-10am Eat (ensure)
-1pm Eat
-Cat - brush/food/water/litter
-Vacuum something
-6pm Eat
-Close blinds
-Open & sort mail/file
-Prep for next day (clothes/calendar)

Done:
-Bedroom - pupa
-Dress/ready
-Foyer Bath - pupa/restock
-Fresh food for kitty
-Open blinds/get water
-Medicine/vitamins
-Check email
-Update Toodledo
-Check bank accts/Amex
-Laundry #1 start dryer
-Declutter/organize/clean - 5 min

[Doggedly]

Good morning, all. Thank you for starting us off, trissie. I hadn't heard of that actress, but she seems very impressive.

Even if it was strategy on his part, I think that we can say that your vet has earned his break, Kittykatt.

lucylee, I hope that you are having a good sleep.

L.Ann, I feel like I have sprung out of bed in the middle of night, and you already have such a full list of accomplishments. WTG!

I heard Germane stumbling around so I jumped out of bed to guide her until she seemed to know what she was doing. I had a cup of coffee while I waited for her to settle somewhere. She has done her business and eaten well, and taken herself off to sleep in the bathroom now so I can go back to bed.

Wednesday
Woke up to dog stumbling around, turned on light and put her on pee pads
Treats for dog
Gave dog a probiotic with a plateful of food
Cleaned up after dog
Mini mini grooming session for dog who was committed to resistance
Treat for dog
Cleaned up after dog
Gave dog her breakfast
Cleaned up after dog
Gave dog treat for using her pee pad
Dog pooped all over the kitchen while I was dishing up her treat.
Cleaned up after dog
Researching falafel takeout in Quebec City

[Bama]

Quick cuops so I don’t sit too long …
Welcome back Doggedly, I haven’t had a falafel in forever.
Waving to Trissie, Laura, Peaches and all beyond or just reading.

Done:
Up
Weigh
Bible
Send birthday wishes to db and his wife
Get dressed
Bathroom - wipe counter and sink, clean toilet, scoop litter, collect trash, tidy dh’s stuff on counter
Order clover
My closet - put empty hangers together, donate one article of clothing, gather and wash tops
Dh’s bedroom - tidy, make donation box and put some items in it, pu floor, clean spot on floor, put some fall decor out in lr that was just sitting around
Pets - fed, watered, litter scooped
Ate breakfast
Water
Wiped down kitchen
Spray Daisy with water bottle bc she won’t leave others alone

Do:
Log breakfast
Add detergent to grocery list
Dw