Who's going to tackle Thursday with me?

[Jean in Newcastle]

laundry of actual clothing

more vacuuming

wash a wall in the Schoolroom of Doom

[TravelingChris]

• reheat the oven baked blueberry pancake I made yesterday and cook bacon to go with it
• coffee and meds 
• figure out where my coffee maker is in transit
• allergist appointment
• call to primary care re- written famotodine script, and new script for nystatin swish
• another call to neurologist
• fax medical reports to neurologist
• podiatry???
• pick up library books at two branches
• order or pickup lunch
• another walk at the Botanical Garden today with my husband
• Bible Study
• Chicken dinner

Edited May 7, 2020 by TravelingChris

[ScoutTN]

Good morning! Spectacular spring day here! I've been out enjoying it before my people are up. 

• Proctor Dd's Geometry exam
• YNAB
• Tutorial registration
• Drive to drop off several things at someone's house ✅ 
• Bake bread  ✅ 
• Beef into fajita marinade (freeze the rest - large portions from Costco)
• Walk! Getting in a walk (or not) seems to be making a 10-12 pt difference in my fasting blood sugars. 
• Weed a little? Not today.
• Tutoring prep
• Tutor ✅ 
• Have kids call mom
• AHG leaders' meeting in Zoom this evening. 
• Read - starting Crime and Punishment for my "intimidating" book on the 20 for 2020 challenge. 

Edited May 8, 2020 by ScoutTN

[MysteryJen]

Good morning! We have another lovely day here- though it will be windy in the evening. Just going alone- more of the same. Scout- I hope you will love Crime and Punishment! I did and my dd1 loved it as well. She and her best friend in high school- spent an entire practice discussing it when they were at the wall. The coach actually read it after that practice!

• coffee/paper
• electronic chores
• clean kitchen
• weed/check garden
• may finish with transplants today
• more general clean-up
• read  a little
• Not sure what else needs to get done

Have a great day!

[TravelingChris]

Adding to my plans for the day--- Go see the AF reserve flyover 

[math teacher]

It's a beautiful day here-supposed to rain tonight. My plans for the day-

Weed-done

Go work in my classroom-work

Clean and polish shoes and get them back in the organizer-done

Inventory freezer-done

Continue deep clean in kitchen

Water plants and flowers-done

Clean bathrooms

Exercise

Call parents-done

Fried pork strips for dinner-done

Edited May 8, 2020 by Math teacher
update

[Selkie]

Good morning!

Done:

• sent the manure samples to town with dh early this morning - he dropped them off to the vet and picked up thyroid meds & Bute
• washed and folded two loads of laundry
• fed animals & dh
• went through emails & voicemails
• other electronic chores
• froze 15# of bananas

To do:

• office work
• contact Staples about missing items from our order
• should be getting a few deliveries today - Schwan's (a couple things that were out of stock last week) and our produce box
• should also be getting the tomato & pepper plants I ordered from Etsy - will wait to plant them, since it is still below freezing at night
• vacuum 
• clean main floor bath
• thrush treatment for Snorri
• dinner: maybe leftovers, or I might make tacos

Edited May 7, 2020 by Selkie

[readinmom]

Morning, all!  Try as I might, I could not get this site to load yesterday. Grateful it does today!

I'm sad because I can't go to our school's graduation ceremony today...doctor says absolutely not.  Parents drive student up, kid gets out, walks across stage, gets diploma, teachers go crazy...I haven't missed a graduation in forever.  But it is 5 hours today and tomorrow, 97 degrees outside.  

To do:

• coffee, watch devotional
• continue packing china
• keep drinking water to reach goal for the day, helps with blood sugar levels (it's high 90s here, makes my numbers crazy high)
• call storage place for unit sizes
• make sure dd has checked in with classes
• email siblings
• yoga
• laundry
• not sure for dinner, but probably my low carb tortilla pizza creation.  It's actually pretty good.  Oh, and of course, salad.
• Read...

Have a great day!

[Jean in Newcastle]

Apparently dh is now on vacation for the next week or so.  I hope that I can survive this. . .   (We were supposed to go on a trip but of course that was cancelled.  Now he's trying to get things done around the house.)

fasting bloodsugars - bah humbug

fed Neko and Juliet

fed myself

medicated myself

medicated Juliet

made bed

dressed

brushed teeth

logged food and carbs

[ScoutTN]

9 minutes ago, Margaret in CO said:

And home from the doc--my A1C is even lower--at 4.8! Philmont is a go! Well, that's assuming it's not cancelled. I'll probably wait to pay for the conference for another week or so. 

Hooray! I am glad you get to go!

Edited May 7, 2020 by ScoutTN

[Selkie]

16 minutes ago, Margaret in CO said:

 But now bad news. Dan, the old dressage horse is dead. I think he was 27. He needed to get put down in a month when the flies came out as he has a big scar on his leg that won't heal--the flies would get into it. But he got into the ditch and couldn't rise. Dh had to shoot him, and is now off burying him. He was dd's last show horse. This will be very hard on her. Youngest saved a bunch of tail hair. We had a bracelet made from his hair 10 years ago, but it finally wore out and we did another. He was the one that used to spook at petunias! We have a hysterical picture of him, in a dressage test, at a HUGE show, jumping sideways, eyes wild. Someone said later--oh it must have been the swans. Nope, it's horse-eating petunias! He was quite the character. RIP WD Dapper Dan

So sorry, Margaret. It is hard to lose an old friend.😢

[TravelingChris]

So when I came home from lunch, I got a call from the business office of one of our local hospitals.  I called back and tried to find out who owed a bill- tried me first since I am the one who has the most medical procedures, then dh, then dd2 who just moved out in Feb, then even tried dd1 who lived here at our house three years ago but thinking hospital could have gotten mixed up with phone numbers.  I tell the lady that she lived here with her dh but I don't know his birthdate.  She asked is his name Scott?  

 

No, no it isn't.  That is the name of the notorious deadbeat who gives our phone number everywhere or claims it is still his.  We have stopped getting calls from law firms and creditors since both Comcast and now Google Fiber have gotten better at stopping such calls but apparently he is giving that number at the hospital or its clinics.  He hasn't had this number since at least 2010.  Can you guess that I despise this man???  Anyway, I told them they should flag his account for cash payment and it is definitely flagged that our number is not his number.

[Hedgehog]

So... my week fell apart early on, and it's taken me a few days to put things back together again. All because of the moon. 🌝

This is totally a thing - being affected by the moon. I get insomnia really badly sometimes, and I have discovered that it's almost always tied to the phases of the moon. I'll be ticking along in life, and seem to slide into a patch of sleeping really badly, and everything goes to pot. I suddenly think.. hang on, is it a full moon or something? and lo and behold, it is. This week we've had a supermoon (I think?) and that seems to have made it worse. I can feel it receding slightly now. Boy, will I ever be glad to get a proper night's sleep again. I am feral without decent sleep!

I didn't even set myself a list of things this morning. However, I did manage to:

- Teach an English student for an hour without losing my mind

- Correct some work from my tutored students and from my kids

- Take part in a bible study group with some youngsters.. not too difficult, since they are great and mostly carry it themselves

- make tea. Okay. It was store-bought pizza. But I still cooked it. 

Hopefully I'll get better sleep tonight, and tomorrow will be easier.

Hope y'all are doing okay. x

Edited May 7, 2020 by Hedgehog

[Jean in Newcastle]

Load #1 in washing machine and then dryer 

load #2 in washing machine 

washed, dried and put away dishes, knives and pans.  
 

wiped down counters and stove and microwave.  
 

picked up detritus that had fallen in the dining room. Got rid of 90% of it. (Old paperwork). 
 

vacuumed the dining room. 
 

fixed the vacuum cleaner. 

[Jean in Newcastle]

I am psyched that my last two key staff are excited to come to camp. IF we can legally do it. 
 

made dinner 

apparently dh went to Costco. 
 

folded and put away load #1

[Jean in Newcastle]

Folded and put away load #2

load #3 is in the washing machine 

dd helped me to put a rubber mat under my desk to protect the carpet there from the bunnies. 
 

made and put away dinner 

dh is almost done with the new flooring in the Schoolroom of Doom