Dogged, isn't the skip the line ticket how Disneyland works as well? L.Ann, a 90 minute walk? What is the weather like?
hi Peaches! Frenchie, yay for an easier transition! kittykatt, husbands sometimes take a lot of time to notice something!
TaDas
- afternoon routine
- 15 in living room
- 1 task from holiday cleaning list - clean doors
- start dinner
- chase kids to finish homework and backpacks
ToDos
- evening routine
- 15 on laundry
- DBD's speech therapy
Mmm... Kittykatt, I think that I would eat cardboard if you toss it in flour and then roast in a butter / olive oil combination, with a little honey drizzled over. That sounds delicious!
I'm happy to help! With our weather changing all over, we can all look to one another for advice.
That is great strategy to get DH's office decluttered and its cleaning done before DH retires.
I expect that you are right about Disneyland, trissie, but I think that we have always seen the Disney empire as catering to the rich. For most of us, our local ski hills were not the fancy resorts for the rich, and the line ups were a "We're all in the same boat together" kind of thing. They were usually locally owned, by a single person or family. To see it change into the same callous wring-every-last-dime-out-of-our-customers enterprise is a bitter pill for those who remember better days.
Sunday
Cleaned up after dog
Gave dog her Benedryl
Moved big air fryer into kitchen
Detailed cleaning of big air fryer
Wiped down air fryer’s table
Wiped down accessible surfaces
Dried air fryer and moved it back to table to dry out
Started new laundry bag
Checked laundry and put away dry tshirts
Made breakfast: rice and frozen vegetables. After heating it all, splashed too much soy sauce on. Fixed it by adding the rest of the too bland pea soup. Result: excellent dish that is somewhere between soup and porridge. I am calling it Pease Porridge Hot, Pease Porridge In The Pot, Some Days Old.
Wiped down the standing desk as it is a dust magnet
Scrubbed out sink and basin
Washed a few basinsful of dishes
Put pots in to soak
Appointments:
Monday :
DH to office
At home for me
Tuesday:
DH WFH
8.30 am Freddie - vet appointment -Solensia injection (DH to drive me there and carry Freddie in his carrier if it's still icy underfoot)
Remember Petplan
Book Fred's next appointment
Can I book Matilda's Wellness Check?
Wednesday:
DH to office
At home for me
Thursday:
DH WFH
10.30 am church
Any errands to run?
Can I hoover the car?
Friday:
DH WFH
8.30 am hygienist appointment - me
9.45 am hair appointment -me
Saturday:
DH??
9am women's breakfast group?
3pm DF E's 100th birthday party
Text DF E - not this week - it's her 100th birthday party
Sunday:
Church 9.30 am
Visit DFE for coffee? Probably not, as she'll be tired after her party
Laxapet Jude and Matilda
Set up new Waitrose delivery
Future dates to note:
7/1 order inhalers
6/1 Freddie - Solensia 8.30 am
8/1 Jude weight check 2 pm
Outstanding deliveries:
Extras:
NHS certificate thing
Email NW when I have a reply from RP
Order new orthotics - wait until ankle settles
Can I do 15 minutes of decluttering 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 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 ? MJ will sort it out in the new year
Book eye test for me
Sort prints and put in albums (this will probably be an activity to do on wet days!) WIP I am now working on 2025
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? We're going to do this in January
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
DH Launched
Physio exercises and back exercises
Proprioceptors exercises X1 x2 x3
S/S bathroom
Get dressed
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
15 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
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
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
Financial:
More work on budget WIP
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Sunday-rest of enchiladas
Monday-spicy gochujang noodles with broccoli and carrots
Tuesday-ginger chicken and rice bowls
Wednesday-DD33 out/left overs me
Thursday-cranberry thyme chicken
Friday-black beans and rice
Saturday-sausage with pepper and onions
Sunday-eat at winter celebration
Events
Sunday-Little Bit’s family coming to put up bird feeder, walk w/ friend @9
Monday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit’s School 9:15-3
Tuesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit’s School 9:15-3
Wednesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit’s School 9:15-3, DD33 PS3-8, haircut@3
Thursday-9:30 orthopedic appt me, 3:30 DD33 physical
Friday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit’s School 9:15-3
Saturday-
Sunday-Winter Celebration 2-5, walk with friend @9
Weekly House Blessing-mop dining room, kitchen and bathroom
Extra stuff-send one email to college roommate, send letter to friend of DM
January paperwork-my bedroom-file boxes, Little Bit’s art work—spare room- DM’s papers, organize shred box——-cabinet in living room- binders
Electronic paperwork- delete email boxes, delete apps on my phone and DD33’s
Death book-updates, call lawyer for appointment to review will and DD33’s POAs, check POD on one account
Accomplishments
-stretching and knee exercises
-breakfast for dog and me
-pick up bedroom and get dressed
-upload family pictures to Shutterfly
-walk with friend
-visit with DD39 and family and help set up bird feeder
-lunch
-store with DD33
-vacuum
-2 more binders
-read
Sunday
Cleaned up after dog
Gave dog her Benedryl
Moved big air fryer into kitchen
Detailed cleaning of big air fryer
Wiped down air fryer’s table
Wiped down accessible surfaces
Dried air fryer and moved it back to table to dry out
Started new laundry bag
Checked laundry and put away dry tshirts
Made breakfast: rice and frozen vegetables. After heating it all, splashed too much soy sauce on. Fixed it by adding the rest of the too bland pea soup. Result: excellent dish that is somewhere between soup and porridge. I am calling it Pease Porridge Hot, Pease Porridge In The Pot, Some Days Old.
Wiped down the standing desk as it is a dust magnet
Scrubbed out sink and basin
Washed a few basinsful of dishes
Put pots in to soak
Dried/rearranged some dishes to make room
Wiped/put away one dish drainer
Brought out breadmaker
Looked up recipe for cornbread
Filled breadmaker
Refilled flour canister. Normally I would wash it between fillings but I can’t get near the clean canisters until the laundry rack is put away.
Finished the jar of yeast.
Tried to open the new jar. Couldn’t.
Dug in the Thing drawer and found something called Robotwist that I don’t remember owning.
Robotwist opened the jar. Yay!
Robotwist would not stop trying to open jars. Tried hitting the one button, tried walking around with it waiting for it to stop, tried googling various forms of Robotwist won’t stop, finally just took the batteries out.
Finished filling breadmaker and started it
LOL at robotwist getting g carried away with it's success ,Dogged..I'm glad you were able to assume authority and out it in its place by removing its batteries. I have something called a jar key which sounds similar, but ihas.ko batteries, so hasn't got our of control. Yet.
I'm in bed now, so see everyone tomorrow. Night night!
LOL, I love my jar key, Kittykatt, but it and I are defeated by mason type jar lids, whereas the robotwist locks onto them and twists. And twists and twists and twists. It is now stored in the drawer in a bag with its batteries beside it.
Have a good night!
I have lost a couple of hours, I think, on two very simple tasks: transfer an antiviral software license to another computer, and set up a second user on that computer. Microsoft keeps moving things around and renaming them, so you have to learn all over again with every operating system. I still haven't gotten around to restricting the new user's permissions. That will be a job for later.
1-upload receipts, checks to cash
2-dry and put away dishes
3-review recipe site for January
Menus
Monday-spicy gochujang noodles with broccoli and carrots
Tuesday-ginger chicken and rice bowls
Wednesday-DD33 out/left overs me
Thursday-cranberry thyme chicken
Friday-black beans and rice
Saturday-sausage with pepper and onions
Sunday-eat at winter celebration
Events
Monday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit’s School 9:15-3
Tuesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit’s School 9:15-3
Wednesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit’s School 9:15-3, DD33 PS3-8, haircut@3
Thursday-9:30 orthopedic appt me, 3:30 DD33 physical
Friday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit’s School 9:15-3
Saturday-
Sunday-Winter Celebration 2-5, walk with friend @9
Weekly House Blessing-mop dining room, kitchen
Extra stuff-send one email to college roommate, send letter to friend of DM
January paperwork-my bedroom-file boxes, Little Bit’s art work—spare room- DM’s papers, organize shred box——-cabinet in living room- binders
Electronic paperwork- delete email boxes, delete apps on my phone and DD33’s
Death book-updates, call lawyer for appointment to review will and DD33’s POAs, check POD on one account
Accomplishments
-stretching and knee exercises
-breakfast for dog and me
-pick up bedroom and get dressed
-upload family pictures to Shutterfly
-walk with friend
-visit with DD39 and family and help set up bird feeder
-lunch
-store with DD33
-vacuum
-2 more binders
-read
-mop bathroom
-delete 2email boxes
-FACE
-read
-laundry rebooted
-exercise video with DD33
-put away play house and Christmas tree
-dinner prepped and eaten
-help DD33 with hair washing
-diet site
-kitchen cleaned up
