~The Daily Grind~ 12/7/09

[ddavis860]

“Housework done incorrectly still blesses your family.” ~ FlyLady
"You Can Do Anything for 15 Minutes!" ~ FlyLady

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It's Christmas Countdown Time!!!


18 shopping days

~The Daily Grind~ 12/7/09

Welcome to Monday again!!


My list for today:

Caffeinate

This repeats every day!!

Swish and Swipe... everyday!

Work till 3p

Home to
house blessing

Dinner... leftovers

Have a Great Day Everyone!!

 

[StitchIsOurHero]

Good morning, everyone!! Another Monday! I've got big lists this week--gotta start getting everything together!

Here's my list for today:

1. Up
2. Caffeinate
3. Clean my bathroom
4. Clean DH's bathroom
5. Pack lunches
6. PM Holly
7. DS's food & clothes together
8. DS up
9. DS to mom's
10. DS's stuff to mom's
11. Work--testing starts today! Want to get test 1 of 4 completed, and 2 of 4 prepped for Tuesday!
12. Get P365 journaling cards for lunch
13. P365 journaling during lunch
14. Remind DH to call for June ADR's
15. Order P365 pics
16. Order November/December (so far) pics
17. Get Christmas card addresses
18. Finish Christmas cards
19. Help Mom order her card--put on hold while we have a "discussion" about it
20. DH--make sausage balls
21. Prep carpet for DH to clean
22. DH--clean carpet
23. RSVP to party we can't attend
24. Change sheets
25. Wash/fold/put away laundry
26. Borrow Mom's camera
27. P365/December Daily pics
28. Watch DVR'd episode
29. Collapse

Sorry to bore everyone with my long list. If I don't keep up with it and/or feel obligated to check back in here, I won't do the stuff on the list!!

I hope everyone has a terrific Monday!!

 

[Lisa]

Monday again?! Oh drats, #@!

My to do list:

Make bed
Fold clothes from the dryer
Put clothes in the washer into the dryer
Get DD up and ready for school
Put wood into the woodstove
Feed kitty
Clean out his stinky pete box
caffeinate
Email friend to wish her Happy Birthday
Send friend an early Christmas card
Work
Lasagna for dinner
Take DD to Special Olympic swim
Oversee tubby time

 

[PinballFamily]

I know what you mean about the lists - posting them helps keep me on track (and honest!) about getting stuff done! Truth be told, I've always been a "list girl!"

Good luck to those with doctors appts today - my neurology one is tomorrow...fingers crossed all is ok for all of us!

Monday:
Kids up and out
Walk dog - yea! 4 miles today in 35-degree temps!
Make test batch of maple peanut brittle (recipe off the Internet - rethinking all these greeting card sets - eep...not making as much progress as fast as I'd like...) yummy!
Work on Disney pin board - DH ran out of energy, so I'm taking over
Put away new ACM clearance paper and ribbon (cough...cough - "but honey, it was REALLY on sale!")
Do advent calendar/activity with kids - today is "handprints on Christmas tree skirt" - we've been doing this since 2001, many colors of fabric paint are on it now - we all really look forward to this...seeing how the kids have grown! Agggghhh - has to wait
Make bread
Call back people who called/left messages because they got our Christmas letter/photo in the mail this weekend
Deal with mail piles
Strip everyone's bed linens and put on fresh ones
Homework and music practice oversight - this might slip, since our kids will have off on Tuesday - local schools will be closed because of the primary election to fill Senator Kennedy's seat in Washington DC (schools are the voting places)
6:30 p.m. Report Card conference with teacher at DS's school - these always run late, ugh.
Dinner: breakfast - to cheering from the kids! - French toast or pancakes
Meds and bed

 

[TinkerBean]

Monday...Ugh

Up - clean 3rd floor bathroom
Shower (in nice clean bathroom)
No breakfast or coffee for me - Dr.s appointment annual physical and fasting blood work (hopefully I will be able to get the H1N1 shot as well)
Kids up, fed, lunches and out
Mail off packages (may ask dh to do this)
Think about dinner (have to go pick it up at grocery store)
Go through gift closet and take inventory
Prepare Health Flex Care Reimbursement (why do I always wait until dec to this)
Figure out what the Advent Calendar event or gift will be
Address Christmas Cards
Figure out how much/what kind of postage I need
Confirm playdate for the bean on tuesday
Call Nanny (didn't do it yesterday)
Call Sis to see if she retrived my BOSE sound dock
Laundry (didn't do it yesterday)
Pick up in dd's bedroom
Finish Christmas Journal
Check DD's christmas list and see if I will brave the American Girl Store in Natick - or pay to have it shipped (at this rate I am thinking the latter)
Print pics for journal
Call Gastro for appointment (major issues going on)
Call women's center for appointment
Call Hospital center for appointment
Call to make a Hair appoinment - I'm looking a little shaggy and gray
Pick up Bean from school
DS off of school Bus
Afternoon snack (they've been demanding more of a meal type "snack") cheeze-its just aren't doing it for them anymore...
Homework duty
Dinner
Crawl into bed

Have a great day everyone - wish me luck with getting into/through my appointments - I have to figure out what is going on with me (even though I think I already know - just in denial...)

 

[ZeroToHero]

Good morning everyone. I need to stop taking naps!

Today:
Up
Read for class - need to do those papers!I read on the bus... that worked just as well.
Remember to pack razor heads for Lou - why he can't do his own shopping, I don't know.. but he's been out of razors for months, and has been using his sister's. Seriously?
Go to school
Class #1
Lunch- Lou's taking me out for sushi on Beacon Hill
Class #2
Work
Home
Pancakes/French toast for dinner! Woohoo!
Homework!!!!!


Good luck getting into the crawlspace for the treeskirt........ hahahahaha. You don't know what it looks like up here! It's like it blizzard'ed clothes and Snuggies all over the place! And then Oreo keeps stealing my socks... I don't know how he finds them when I can't...

 

[AlexWyattMommy]

Caffeinate - I am so tired for some reason.
Shower
Get kiddos to school
Go to grocery store
Put it all away
Bag up swap
Run to post office
Finish laundry
Figure out and fix dinner
Homework
Dinner
Clean scrap room

 

[DisneyIsTerrific]

Good Morning Everyone!!!!

TB, good luck with all your appointments.

My list for today:
Make DH's lunch
DS up and off to school
Laundry
Update checkbook/pay bills
Prep dinner (lasagna hotdish) and leave final cooking instructions on the counter for whomever gets home first
Tidy living roomScrap
Work
Come home to dinner on the table
Go through stack of magazines I found and tear out bits I want to keep
Work on Christmas shopping list

Have a great day everyone!

 

[AlexWyattMommy]

UGH!!
We have the white stuff falling. It wasn't supposed to start until tonight! Stupid weather man. I would have gone shopping last night if I knew that.

Will switch up the laundry and shopping. Hopefully the roads will be clear after lunch and I can go then. Or DH is bringing home the milk.

 

[party of 3]

morning everyone!

tinker-good luck with the appts. make them today!!!!!!!
i'll pm you later.

it's cold this morning. i can't seem to get rolling today.
i have my annual ICKY dr appt at 11:15. hate this one.

ds up dressed breakfast bus
(dress warm)
work before appt
said appt.
back to work
supper? who knows. never made my meal plan yesterday.
laundry
homework
fill in calendar for the week for what's what.


have a great day everyone. have fun.

 

[morgansmom2000]

Danica is sushi payment for the razors? I'd bring him razors if he bought me sushi!

Sigh, it's Monday AGAIN! Where do the weekends go? I'm so sick to death of filing.

Princess has NOTHING on the calendar tonight, so we are having chicken pot pie and salad for dinner and maybe we'll watch a movie or something together. Feel like we've been moving in 30 different directions lately. It would be nice to spend some quality time together. I should run over to the Container Store after work, but I may not have the energy with all of said filing.

Tomorrow is the big day! Harry Potter!!!! I'll be at Best Buy when they open at 10:00 to get my movie!

Good luck at the doc, Holly. Definitely not the most fun you'll have lying down

Hope everyone has a good Monday!

 

[Arizona Rita]

Morning!
Woke up at 5 this morning, always have problems sleeping in December cuz the brain wont shut off. But I'd rather go to sleep earlier and wake up earlier than the opposite.

TB~good luck with appts! Please make them and take care of yourself.
AWM~ is this your first sn*w of the season?
ZTH~ is Oreo a cat or dog? Padfoot finds socks too, he's a dog.

I would like to share something with everyone if you all dont mind.
Unfortunately, like in many other communities, we have a school for the homeless in Phoenix. I say unfortunately because in a perfect world there would be no need.
For the past several years my GS neighborhood have been putting stockings, actually bags, together and giving them to a group and last year we gave them to the afore mentioned school.
I called in October to see if they would like us to do this project again and if there was anything they would like to have in the bags.
The office worker in charge said they were very grateful and what they needed most in the bags were hygiene items. I asked how many students and she told me that they would love 300 bags!
"Oh ye of little faith" here thought theres no way Im getting 300 especially with the economy. But I told her I would do what I could.
I have to tell you that on my list today is the second trip down to the school.
The first trip I delivered 100, today Im taking 125 and my son who gives up his room for this project floor is still pretty full, and so I can honestly say we have done over 300 bags!
"Ask and it shall be given".
I just wanted to share a nice Christmas story and as we all go into this very crazy time of shopping and everything else to let you know to keep faith in humanity even though someone might take that last parking spot you had your eye on!
I am very proud of my neighborhood!

List~
Delivery of bags
Christmas cards! (need I say more! Anyone remember the old song "The 12 Pains of Christmas"?
Have a great day!

 

[PinballFamily]

Good luck getting into the crawlspace for the treeskirt........ hahahahaha. You don't know what it looks like up here! It's like it blizzard'ed clothes and Snuggies all over the place! And then Oreo keeps stealing my socks... I don't know how he finds them when I can't...

Hey, DISboard folks...want free cool clothes, Snuggies and socks? The last are probably a bit smelly if the dog is after them, but hey...they're free! Maybe I'd even pay you to cart the stuff away...! (Wouldn't it fix your hiney, if anyone came to haul these mountains away???)

 

[rlovew]

Good Morning!

Tinkerbean- good luck with all the appointments!!
Everyone Else- good luck with all the long lists!

Today:
take some photos- done
clean off dining room table- started
walk the dogs at the park
put away things in scrap area- started
clean kitchen counters
empty dishwasher- done
fold and put away laundry
begin pulling stuff for event/out of park swap
make list of items needed for them(to buy)
dinner- chicken

Rebecca

 

[PinballFamily]

AR - what a lovely family you are! What a marvelous difference you are making in the lives of many, many people!

The more I learn about you, the more of a truly remarkable woman I find you to be.

Pam

 

[rlovew]

AR- that is an awesome thing to do! It is wonderful that you got so much stuff and can complete them all.

Rebecca

 

[rlovew]

AR- that is an awesome thing to do! It is wonderful that you got so much stuff and can complete them all.

Rebecca

 

[party of 3]

Good luck at the doc, Holly. Definitely not the most fun you'll have lying down
!

you are so right there!~
i can think of other things to b doing!

 

[party of 3]

AR- what a nice story. hugs to you for doing such a good deed!

 

[morgansmom2000]

It's amazing what can be done when you put your mind to it. The scouts in town do "Scouting for Food" every year. They thought with the economy that the response would be low this year, which was hard, when the economy is affecting so many...They got TONS (literally) more food than they have in past years. I know myself that we could "afford" a couple jackets this year. While I would have loved to give more, I know the two I bought were definitely needed.

What's the statement, "there but for the grace of God go I?" I think people realize that there is a very fine line between a secure job and not.