Thumbs up on Thursday PWYC

[Twins' Mom]

Thumbs up for the day we have before us! Let's make it count in a big way - and don't forget the self-care if you're feeling stressed over overburdened.

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote,

“The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.”

[Lady Maverick]

Good morning

My day is off to a good start. Teens are at school and work. DH is dressed and enjoying a cup of coffee.

I've ordered two 13"x9" pans of chicken spaghetti from a local cook for the family and their friends. This is a dish that is well known by locals and greatly enjoyed so they are excited. I originally was going to order just one 13"x9" pan because she stuffs it full and there is A LOT of food. The teens begged me to order two pans and guaranteed that it would be eaten. DS17 volunteered to pick them up on his lunch hour today. ANYway, having the family food taken care of gives me an opportunity to focus on myself. I have my meals planned and prepared for today and am looking forward to eating it.

DH has another brain test this morning so we will be leaving soon for that appointment. While out & about, I want to take DH for a haircut and get cash for next month from the bank.

[CathyS]

Happy Birthday to RamblinRose!!

Thank you for starting us off today Twins' Mom!!

I saw a lot of tiny ants near Baby Cat's dish yesterday. This morning the bathroom counter where the dry food bowl and water dish are, was COVERED in teeny, tiny ants. I've dealt with that. Then I discovered even more of them on the floor where Baby Cat gets her treats. No wonder she wouldn't eat her treats today! Now that area has been dealt with as well. Now I've got all the dishes in water that I boiled in the kettle. UGH! I hate these ants. Now dh is in there wiping things off again. One of the cats is meowing at him in a desperate tone of voice. ("Daddy, I'm STARVING!! I will fade away to nothing if you don't give me my dry food right this minute!") She's a very dramatic cat.

Dh has had his coffee. My tea is in the microwave again.

I need to get moving to go to a new Thursday knitting group.

[MysteryWoman]

Good morning! Quick post — I will probably have to start breakfast for DC if they’re not down in the next five minutes. One more week, and that’ll be only once for each class (at most — one of the classes may have a final project/paper rather than a final exam).

Happy birthday, Rose!

Did not visit my brother yesterday. Should try today, but that means getting up momentum after bringing DC home; they only have one class, and the turnaround is too quick to squeeze in a visit.

Otherwise, same old, same old. Have a great day, everybody!

PS: Cathy, have you seen the meme of the cat Miette? “Jail for Mother! Jail for Mother for a thousand years!”

[Harriet]

Happy Birthday to Ramblinrose!

I will try to be "thumbs up" about a trip out to pay a lot of money for a tough med today. I've been making light to everyone about the taste, but I would not care if it tasted worse if it just didn't have such potential for making me feel bad. I may have no effects, but many are common. Nothing awful, but there certainly is a list. It seems every prescription has such a list ... .. ugh.

Otherwise, there are rumblings that HRH might feel like looking at some more plants or going to an actual booth at an actual restaurant. Not holding my breath. He is allergic to both, I think, lol. (Well, he does have reasons.)

I haven't been as industrious as I was yesterday morning, but do have laundry finishing up and the kitchen is in shape.

[Nancy]

Birthday greetings Ramblin'

Harriet I used to go to a home improvement type place for plants w/ LH and he would look at guys stuff and I would
meander in the plant section!
The it was off to a near by fav. food place.
Now the LH and food place both gone.

I've got sheets in the dryer. Low Bs today up at 4:30 to deal with that but I was so glad I'd done the p.m.
routine and had stuff at the ready that I needed and clear place for my place and coffee cup plate etc.

Had bfast protein just now hydration day for me.
I got out some knitting binders for insp. and have been browsing in them today.
QT was great looked outside and saw two turkey hens in the front yard.
Finches in the back yard eating dandelion seeds for the win as well. Yea!

UPdate / also got sheets out of dryer and back on the bed.
Walked

[Harriet]

Mystery... ..

"Glad to hear that we are all in agreement that cats talk like disparaged Victorian children."
- Unyanizedcatboys responding to a thread of appreciation that the old 3-word-sentences memes for cats seemed to be over.

Oh, what a terrible moment Tobias had last evening, though, when his parent (me) set off the smoke alarm with her questionable cooking, and then herself jumped and squealed at the sound. We couldn't find him. He had nothing to do with us for about 15 minutes, while HRH searched every nook and cranny. Treats, sweet talk, etc.

Nancy, I will suggest that - surely he NEEDS to consider tools, etc. They say turkeys will help get rid of bad insects.

[Twins' Mom]

Ah, finally a day that I'm not committed to a lot of other stuff. I got through yesterday - rare for me to have four things on calendar. The temple finance committee was at five instead of six and the guy drove me crazy going line by line items. The webinar at eight a.m. was informative. I need to do prep work for being at the ACPL (Allen Co public library - a large genealogy library) the end of May.

I'm getting a late start - I only have my workout today - and dh is out tonight and I'm at a point I can think about the logistics of getting to the beach. And the webinar at 8 last night meant that I didn't do any planning last night. On second thought, I also need to go by temple and perhaps the cemetery.

Also talked to the temple office manager/admin re grave digger backfilling a older grave, and moving the big pile of dirt on a tarp left beside last week's burial. Saw that yesterday and had forgotten and it's pretty unsightly. I think I need to cancel the maintenance work that the company was supposed to do next week. It included backfilling a couple of graves (grave digger will do once) and leveling a stone - and I don't know where the stone is or the condition (and would monument co we use be a better alternative?) and I don't want to just ask them to trim shrubs, some are trimmed up as shrubs but are weedy things that have grown up. I'd like to mark the trimming that needs to be done. The genesis of the phone call with her is that she won't be there this afternoon when I was dropping off a check, so I don't need to do that.

Incomplete PODA for today:
2 p.m. workout
walk through cemetery?
dh out this evening
Roomba is going
beach lists printed
beach bag clean up, inventory sunscreen
Get ferns on porch into clay pots instead of plastic
what else

[CathyS]

I did more adulting this morning. I went to the pharmacy and bought needles for dh. They finally have a less expensive brand so it's only $50 for 100 needles.

I was up before 6, so I'm going to "stretch" as dh calls it. Somebody wake me up at 4.

[lucylee]

Happy birthday, Rose!

I am up, d2s, did my morning stretch routine, made the bed. I am ready to go out for my haircut --
Plus
-- order flowers for dh's cousin's service
-- get fruit trays for meal at church tomorrow (and misc items I'm running out of)

After that, my day is pretty clear. I've been listening to a webinar on year two of widowhood. No great insights there, just "permission" to feel like you feel. There is no "finish line" to mark when a person is done with grief.
I do not feel like I am struggling, for the most part. I am functioning very well, within my own cocoon. I cannot even imagine a future where I would include someone else, or where I could travel alone (or with others!) I think I am just kinda content with being alone. But when I allow myself to think about this, or to talk about dh, tears do start to flow. So --

I am sorry if I put some clouds in the clear blue skies of our little village. I am going to miss dh's cousin. But I have to smile when I think of all the people who were there to greet her when she arrived in Heaven. DH, a few other cousins, her parents, her best friend. Lots of sadness here, but lots of rejoicing in Heaven.

OH!
I allowed ddil to put me on Life360 with them. I want to know where they are when they take their big trip to Washington and Gettysburg this summer. So I guess they will have to know where I am now at all times. I'm not hitting the night clubs or anything like that... but sometimes I still want to stop and visit OG's grave, and it is out of my normal drive -- unless I was on my way to visit daunt. But it's not like I go all the time -- I haven't been there since Christmas, when dmom and I stopped. He was a life-long friend of hers (and her middle school boyfriend) and she had never visited his grave.