I carry a wristlet. My keys are on the strap so, no, I couldn't lock the door if I left it in the car.

I really like Numi golden chai. Or just some hot apple cider. Mmmmmmm.

I wholeheartedly agree. :ack2:

I did have pain 7 days a week before I got my thyroid under control and got off gluten. Now, I only ever have the self-inflicted kind, after a hard workout or that one time I went on a gluten binge. Then, I had burning pain in pretty much every joint in my body. I also had pain in my hands and feet/legs when I had little ones. It was pure sleep deprivation. But, man! It felt like I had slept with my body bound. I'm sorry so many of you are living with chronic pain. :( those periods of my life sucked.

Thanks, Erica! I love Leo, and subscribe to his blog, actually. I just looked up Getting Things Done in our library's catalog. Bonus: they have the audiobook on CD!! So I can listen while I do stuff! I think I looked at the GTD iphone app, too. I should really just look at these things online, so I can get better info while not going blind. :D

That, or have him use graph paper for such things. Understanding a bar graph is a valuable skill, but who draws them freehand? (ok, probably Bill does) (and, yes, I thought we were going to be talking about something with higher peaks than your son's mountains :D )

Me, too! But I would have said: Rain Blossoms Tree Bushel Apple Pie

No lie! And I can't imagine you'd have time to talk to her if you did, what with all the people in Nigeria who just need a sponsor for their perfectly valid inheritance/settlement/who knows what else ringing you up! Seriously. You choose whether to answer your phone. You choose who you reply to from your email. Facebook comes with the option to ignore on multiple levels for a reason. These are the type of people from whom it is always messy and ugly and stressful to extricate one's self. To be all hip: DO NOT PUNCH THE TAR BABY! (which, in this case, would be hitting "reply")

I make my own. I double this recipe and make an 8 oz jar (the squat, flat kind). It's worked better than anything else I've tried, for me and for my husband who gets up in the middle of the night and gets in people's personal space (as a paramedic, not some kind of whacko). In fact, he got one of the guys at the firehouse hooked on it, too. I use coconut oil instead of the shea butter, though. Smells like a Mounds bar in the jar if you don't scent it. :D

Thank you for crawling out from behind that hedge and sharing something! I actually looked at that in the app store. I'll have to eyeball it some more. I'm not actually looking for inspiration or direction for cleaning the house, though. Here's what I have on deck: Educating the kids - normally, we have school from 8-12 M-F (this could vary based on any particular day's lesson plans, motivation of the students, etc.). They also have PE 30 minutes away on M/F afternoons. Husband's work - he works every 4th day, for 24 hours, so he left for work at 5 this morning, will get home at 9 or so tomorrow morning, and then will do it again Saturday My work - I work a few days a week, early in the morning, plus I have personal training clients, wellness consultations (basically one time PT), calls/emails to make for both of those. Field trips - I also direct an umbrella group. We provide HS reviews instead of the county, and our reviews are done on field trips. Household recurring tasks - feeding, cleaning, etc. I have (literally) done 7 loads of laundry today. The last one just dinged. I've been up since 5 and the only time the washer and/or dryer wasn't running was when we went to work so I could meet with a training client this afternoon. Finish cutting down a damaged tree in the back yard. It's a 30' Bartlett pear with main limbs separating from the trunk, which was (of course) made worse by the hurricane. It's more stable now, with 2 of the main branches down, but it's always windy here and we've been on a rain bender, so that's waiting for completion. Install new flue liners and two new wood stoves, which we intend to heat the majority of the house this year instead of $4/gal oil. 'Nuf said finish remodeling the one full bath we have - because a dripping faucet has become rip it down to studs, undo the scary, criminally stupid work the previous owners did and put it right, but that means we will first have to stack the washer and dryer and install a knock-down shower in the laundry room so we're not all showering at the Y. The problem is that some things take me 30 minutes away in one direction (fetching the stacking kit I ordered for delivery to the nearest Sears store... that's more like 40 minutes), some take me 30 minutes in the other, like PE, picking up our food order, etc. Somehow, I need to put all of this, location/route inclusive, into a <fill in the blank> so I can get it all done without losing hours and hours driving back and forth past my house, dropping the ball on my appointments, etc. Something that will smash all the crap together and plot it out, that I can take any given thing and say "that's not important/urgent, reschedule it". Oh, and if there's an app for that, well, I might plotz. You know, like HST+, but for my life? Am I tilting at windmills here?

You people cannot ALL be so naturally on-task that you don't have any tools that you find helpful! I'm not buying that. :001_tt2:

My sink is in the 96" island. There's only the dishwasher on one side, and cabinets/overhang for seating on the other. It's off center within the island and compared to the stove across the aisle. Doesn't bother me in the least. And I'm the kind of persnickety that saw that the bulkhead was 1/8 of an inch off across a 10' span walking through the door when my husband was framing it. ;)

If I'm in gmail in Chrome, and I hit "view" it opens in Google Docs. If I download it, or I'm in IE (at work), it opens in the native Acrobat Reader or a different tab in IE with its plugin. I sort of like having things open in Docs. Then I can access them from my iPhone.

I need to figure out a new way of getting things done. Between house, educating the kids, job1, job2 and various "pleasure projects" (think knitting projects), things keep sliding off the daily list. Slide a couple times and they fall off the page completely, and then I'm scrambling to catch up. So I'll do what I always do when I need a quick multi-mind map: ask the hive. (Hive mapping is so much more efficient than trying to figure it out myself.) What are your favorite apps/software/methods/books that help you get it all done?? :bigear:

Bread knife in the dishwasher?!?!?!?! :eek: :svengo:

Yup, that's what I do. It's easier to not have to scrutinize every piece on the table. Now, if I set a place for someone who didn't turn up, I'd probably just put everything back...

I had to drag 2 of the 3 out of bed this morning at 7:30. I actually find that the whole household starts having trouble getting up on time in the weeks before a time change. It happens in the spring, too, so it's not that it's getting light out later, just a strange phenomenon in our house.

It's like the driver's seat in the car! I came out of a convenience store one day and called to Mia to get back in her seat, she can't drive, her legs are too short and she has no thumbs... Two old farmer guys looked over, kind of shocked, and then cracked up. They thought I was talking to a kid.

We have days here when the children are not allowed on the furniture. the dog, however, sleeps on the couch. Or her dog bed in front of the door or wood stove, or the floor... She doesn't jump up and down on the furniture, though. No issues with destruction from her. We vacuum. And wash the coverlet on the bed (where she sleeps at night). She's around 40lbs and sheds like a yeti.

When I was a kid and started school, the principal found my mother sobbing on the steps and gave her a job in the media center. That was the mid-70s. My oldest daughter went to public school. I was never, ever told or given the impression that I was unwelcome in the schools. Obviously, there is a time and place for everything, and I'm quite certain parents who just up and disrupted class on a regular basis to visit with their children would be spoken to, but I've never heard of a parent doing that.

In my experience, 6 weeks with one nursling, 6 months with two. :glare:

I used to travel with my coffee maker (no, seriously.). We bought an inverter for the car so I could plug it in. When I traveled for work, my coworkers would make fun. But they would sure be happy not to have that 2 cup deal and the pod that went with it when the got up in the morning. We have a camping percolator. Water, grounds, fire, and you have enough coffee so there's no smackdown amongst the adults while waiting for the next round. The coffee is good enough that we switched to a percolator at home, too, but it's electric because our burners are too big for a stove top model. Even fairly cheap coffee tastes good from the percolator.

My husband had a call for a kid with a zip tie around his neck, I think before the 10y.o. was born. It was so tight, he and his partner - two big guys - could barely get the scissors under it. And, you know, flesh moves! That kid was ok. My husband, on the other hand, hasn't looked at zip tie the same since. They are, literally, under lock and key at our house, in the highest cabinet in the (locked) garage.

That would be reason #937 for why we homeschool. Other people do not get to dictate the terms of access to my children.

TOTAL. ABOMINATION. :ack2: