SHEs Organized

Good morning. It's the first Monday of a new month! Time to get moving.

If we look at the calendar, most of you have Thanksgiving coming up and December holidays loom in the future. Plus that 'end of year' deadline if you set 2014 goals for yourselves.

There's still almost 1/6th of the year left. What can you start/continue/complete today that will help you feel that 2014 was a good year?

My week's distractions from work around here:

Monday: class tonight

Tuesday: 10:45 Financial guy coming so I have to get the apartment show ready and it would be a good idea to go over a year's worth of statements and at least know where we stand.

Wednesday: afternoon meeting downtown at the church where the 'festival' will be.

Thursday: Nothing outside the apartment!

Friday: From the afternoon onwards I've got the festival - setup and then concert in the evening.

Saturday: Workshops all day, concert in the evening.

Sunday: off chasing after the Moderator in order to hear him speak (since I won't be able to attend his workshop on Saturday and may be busy through the worship.)

That's depressing (given my tummy is already acting up, today.)

My toast is in me. Green tea doesn't settle my tummy (black sometimes does but I can't have it in the morning because I put milk in it.) I still have to work my way through the berries. If I can get that done by 8:15, I'll be able to take my pill at 10:15 and that means lunch between 12:30 and 1.

Haven't decided if I'm swimming but since I still have at least 10 minutes more of eating, I can't see making it into the pool by 8:30. So I'll give up on that today. Maybe Wednesday.

Just cuop from yesterday. We'll celebrate with you, Kathryn, next Monday. Hope you then have no further need for medication!!!

Guess I never posted yesterday other than starting the November Joys & Concerns thread. Did a lot of dozing -after a not so good night Saturday. Slept pretty well and was up nice & early today -but it was probably my usual time, not unlike Lady M. But maybe I can start getting up earlier.

Dh is doing the dishes from yesterday and I'm trying to get some odds 'n ends done. Have a lol in the dryer twin and have to fold that shortly. Had an email from our church's Trustee chair I had to deal with. She'd forgotten to recontact ds-A about the church plowing. Since it's under construction the plowing will be a bit different until we're back there for worship each week. But it will have to be plowed for the construction crew no doubt and the driveway on the office side will be used almost daily and that has been enlarged by putting down stone. That also presents a different problem. All the drives have been paved heretofore.

Going to go spend my 10 minutes in the office. Will eventually have that up to snuff -though it's a WHOLE lot better than when I got here.

Dh got here late Saturday afternoon. Announced that was the last time he'll try to make it with only one layover. He's been exhausted. Of course he was already 'there' by the time he left NY. The last week or 2 at the campground is really intense. They finished blowing out the water lines about 2pm on Thursday. He left ds-A's about 4:10 Friday morning. He knew part of the way he was too tired to be driving.

At least dh is here safe and everybody else who was around him.

The health care info I have been waiting for in the mail (we only have from today through November 14th to enroll -not the Dec. 7th that everyone keeps telling me I have. I knew better. But lo' and behold when I went to dh's company benefits today all the info's there so maybe, just maybe I can decipher it. But my thought is, it's going to be real tough. Our medicare advantage program has gone 'away'. We can get BC/BS with it but it will be considerably more. I'm really confused and hope to find somebody who can walk me through it. Have a gal from the campground who said she'd help me but she's now in Myrtle Beach. Will work on it later today.

We're headed for dbil/dsisil's soon. Dh has a bunch of stuff to load in the car to take over.

I've done nothing on my to-do list although I did clear out another 40 emails (I have a standing "clear out 50 emails" task on my to-do list now until I'm down to under 50.)

I also printed off the schedule for the workshops and the individual workshop descriptions. They are available online but I wanted paper. I'm hoping that when I show this to the organizers on Wednesday, they'll come up with a version that can be printed off the website. No-one has to preselect workshops so I'm guessing there will be a lot of people trying to make up their minds at the last minute.

I need to s2s and strip and remake the bed now. Then I'll be able to cross a few more items off my to-do list.

I also have to figure out how I'm going to get 10K steps today. I get 4.5K for my walk to school but I'll need either to spend time on the treadmill while I work today or to go run an errand or go for a stroll at some point or else I won't get enough. Already, I've dropped to 54th (my goal is to be around 50th by the end of the month.)

kathryn I hope your tummy starts agreeing with you. You have a busy week... hope it's lovely!
dee I am happy your dh is home and helping - insurance is confusing! best wishes

Good morning to all here and all that can't be here today...

We filled on our ballots mail in county here so those are ready. I got a couple of sample ballots at the court house and that helped to use that. U.S. folks don't forget to vote!

I am thinking I want to order an unbrella swift this week that is what I wanted for Christmas. the swift is on sale! Happy for that.

I have 12" or less to do on the pink prayer shawl hoping to finish it this week. I have some other projects to consider. saw some lovely lavendar yarn I want to get and maybe used with a cream color not sure for what yet however.

I have a plan for dinner make stew.
next up breakfast then dishes.

Good morning, villagers ~
I got up to do chores at usual time, but after the weekend's activities I'm tired enough that I am almost ready for a nap. DH is taking a vacation day to, as he put it, "make up for losing Saturday." He is not up yet and will probably sleep until noon.

I've been doing some work in the kitchen which I will document in the Decluttering thread.

Today's goals:
* Bring things from DMIL's house in from the car and find homes for them
* Laundry
* Begin October financial reports for the library group
* Begin October financial reports for the sewing group
* Clear a bunch of junk mail from my Inbox
* Continue decluttering

Ah, DH is up earlier than expected, possibly because we are adjusting to the time change. I'm still going to take a nap though, or I will risk falling asleep at the movie.

Guardians of the Galaxy has finally moved from the first run theater to the "cheap" theater ($4 for 2D movies, $5 for the 3D version), and we've been waiting for it a long time. All the reviews I read of it were positive. It will be nice to sit and relax there for a couple hours, and then go somewhere for supper in The Big City.