Accountability Thread 8/8-8/14

[Critterfixer]

Morning. It's going to be hot all week. I foresee a lot of watering and ice deployment in the immediate future.

Today's goals: 

House: chores, groceries, kittens need a bath and a room cleaning as they are messy little monsters.

Cooking: grilling today. I have a couple meats to do, and we'll have potatoes, cauliflower, and fruit salad. I might bake banana bread for breakfasts this week.

School: none, schedules done yesterday.

Garden: watering

Writing: journal stuff, then revisions all day. I've got some feedback to go through today. 1000 words of drafting time as a reward.

 

That's about it. Trying to stay mostly cool, trying to stay healthy, and monitoring my depression level which isn't great at the moment. Fall is coming, though.

[HomeAgain]

Good morning!

Today is a short, but long list.

• Finish unpacking/cleaning camping.
• Make dinner
• Prep for tutoring tomorrow
• Practice violin

 

 

[Critterfixer]

Morning. Today's goals:

House: chores

Cooking: grilled cheese and maybe potato soup

School: usual

Gardens: watering

Writing: continue revisions, some drafting time as a reward

Extra: errands in town and dentist

[serendipitous journey]

Evening!  hope you are healed up, Critterfixer, and re-balanced after last week's weirdness. 

Today was the usual hectic Mondayness, capped by hosting & running our RPG and augmented by some drama at DH's work.  This week he's traveling (!!!) and so PTSD/anxiety management will definitely be a thing. 

Hope to hit the ground running tomorrow AM with school for boys, planning for me, and time for fitness all around. 

[HomeAgain]

Good morning!

Today:

Make bingo draws (I'm loaning out my cards by don't feel comfortable loaning the only set of cards to use with)

Violin

Wash the camp kitchen stuff

Take ds across the bridge to look for new shoes*

Work on grammar worksheets for ds this year

 

Okay, I'm seriously getting annoyed at the new shoe ordeal.  I'm not asking for much.  I want him to have a solid sole, not ultralight cheap foam.  I want a supportive top, not lines painted on in vinyl.  And I want them to last through the first part of fall, so I need them to not be fishnet on top.  He will be outside in them and needs sufficient protection against light rain, accidental puddles, and tree climbing.  Frankly, I want a shoe meant for an active child's lifestyle.

We went to 5 stores yesterday.  In 3 there was only the cheap things above.  In the last two, there was literally nothing his size.  The one store (Kohl's) had filled their boys' department with an overflow of women's shoes.

Today: L.L. Bean, J.C. Penney, and Olympia. Wish us luck here, because I will have exhausted resources at the end of this trip and will need to drive upwards of an hour if I find nothing.  And yes, I'd love to order online, but for this kid that only works if it's a shoe he has had and loved before.  Since we go through this every 3 months.........we're still waiting on that magic moment.  Oldest ds found a shoe he loved at age 16.  6 years later, he's still wearing the same model, buying 3-4 pairs at a time just in case they change it before he's ready.

[Critterfixer]

Morning. Yesterday wasn't too weird. I'm able to hide in my writing again, which is good.

Today's goals:

House: chores

School: usual

Gardens: watering

Cooking: pizza night

Writing: Work through about five chapters today--but I'm getting into the redrafting part, which may slow me down. Writers' meeting tonight.

[serendipitous journey]

Evening.  Hope shoe shopping & writers meeting went well (and everything else, too!). 

Today we didn't get done the school I'd aimed at, but got some fitness in; I planned some school stuff; we hit the library & got lunch outdoors at a cafe, which was fun; and everybody is sane despite DH traveling.  So that's a win. 

Tomorrow: kick it off with fitness for the boys, 1 planning chunk for me and then piano & school.  Have younger finish about an hour of piano practice before any electronics time; and hit our enrichment stuff.  Cleaning, planning, and keeping the garden going are on the docket.  Dinner will be takeout. 

[Critterfixer]

Morning. Today's goals:

House: chores

Cooking: taco meat.

School: none (scheduled day off)

Gardens: all the watering

Writing: problem chapters today--see how much I can get through, then tackle another two chapters with comments for revisions.

[HomeAgain]

Shoe shopping was mostly a success.  We couldn't find one medium pair, so now he has a set of almost-hiking shoes for outside play and terribly thin inside ones for physical training.

Not my preference, but they'll work.

Today:

met with new homeschooler

laundry

gardening

violin

worked on grammar

 

Now to make dinner.  We're having "better-than-Arby's" Big Beef and Cheddars.  The nearest Arby's is 8 hours away, so we make our own at home.  No curly fries, though. 😞  The store was out.  Just straight seasoned fries instead.

[serendipitous journey]

Evening!  still here.  Left to do: boys & myself to bed. 

Setting stuff up for tomorrow:

• Start with fitness again.
• migraine prevention, yoga for me
• piano for younger, coding + WWS for elder
• planning time for me
• lunch -- pasta, German, poetry, ideally read-aloud
• afternoon: some school; run if the boys didn't run already; general catch-up
• sometime: make dentist appt, handle e-mail stuff, do some game prep
• dinner:  ???????
• and after Mystery Meal: online piano for younger. 

whew.  🙂

[Critterfixer]

Morning. Early start here due to some snoring and an overactive kitten.

Today's goals:

House: chores, ice deployment

Cooking: leftovers probably

Gardens: watering

School: usual

Writing: continue working through the problem section, which may be less of a problem than I thought, keep revising commented chapters, journal, maybe some reading.

[HomeAgain]

Good morning!

I feel like it already should be afternoon, lol.  So far I've gotten done:
-violin

-set up tutoring bag

-printed out 100 Easy Lessons cards

To-do:

-pay bills

-clean the living room

-hope the rain holds off so we can finish cleaning the tent

-work with ds on a tricky spot in violin

-work on grammar program

[Critterfixer]

Morning. Last day of the week, and I'm feeling like I need a few extra days myself.

Today's goals:

House: chores, wash linens

Cooking: probably do breakfast for dinner

Gardens: all the watering

School: usual

Writing: continued rewriting the trouble section (making slow progress) and revising through the MS for content and clarity. Plan is to get through it all by this time next week so I can spend the week after that doing line edit stuff. Journal. Reading.

Only extra stuff today is ice deployment. But they say it could be cooler weather soon.

[serendipitous journey]

Morning! 

Good luck to everybody wrapping up the week.

Here, I need to kick it out of the park RE planning: get my "subjects and resources" section done, which is probably the most time-intensive for me. 

Other than that: fitness; music; some schooly stuff; stay sane; prep elder to hop on a plane tomorrow. 

Dinner: homemade pizza. 

[Critterfixer]

Morning. It's not quite as horrible as far as heat today, so we plan to go to the lake.

Today's goals (other than lake)

House: chores

Gardens: watering

Cooking: grilling burgers tonight

School: none

Writing: continue rewrite section today--aiming to be done by Wednesday with that part, continue revisions through midpoint and be done with that by Wednesday. After that, it should be fairly quick through to the end which I've already revised. Then we'll read on Thursday and Friday and see how well I did pulling everything together.