Daily Project round 8

[SpiritOfEdna]

A brand new shiny thread. Whether you want to do one extra thing a day, or a brain dump of what you have to do this is the place.

morning - coffee and cake sounds fab! @mumofoneAloneandwell Everytime I see a meme on MN I have a quick look to see if it is you 😄Back from Cornwall and back in the throes of work-related woes; luckily I have lots of annual leave left to take so I might mitigate some of the pain...I was back at pilates this morning and scraping the car off at 6am was not pleasant 😄
Tasks for today

• couple of questions re the bathroom quote we got yesterday - will sort out today
• Find out when the floor guy is coming - although the bathroom quote means the floors will have to wait a while as we also need new gutters at the front of the house....
• find my debit/credit cards - they are in the house somewhere - I keep wandering away from my desk adn coming back to a another world falling down message :-)
• plants need watering

Right, need to find those cards, although every time I look, I find something else that has been 'lost' and get distracted, have a good one, SoE

and they are found 😄

😭😭 i'm addicted to finding the perfect one @SpiritOfEdna

I get you @mumofoneAloneandwell

Morning! I'm eating breakfast. Tinned mackerel with chopped salad ( I know, weird) Won't have time for lunch so it's sustaining. Otherwise I'll resort to chocolate later.
Writing a list which includes but is not limited to: put up mum's Christmas tree, iron work tops and trousers, wash bedding.
Emails to write and respond to. Clean out car. Carwash. Horses. Run work errands.
Big cat is In as it's damp and miserable. Little cat is always In. She's elderly and barely leaves her bed. Just the occasional constitutional. She likes to shout at birds out of the window and threaten violence.
Neither are hunters but they like to throw their weight around and pretend.
Must go. Have a lovely day all 👋

Interesting breakfast choice @WinterFrogs! I don’t think I could do salad for breakfast.

Not sure what I’m achieving today. Had PT session this morning. Did dishwasher and put some washing on. Unpacked some Amazon deliveries for the kitchen - new dish drainer and sink tidy etc. Mine were dark gray and seem very obtrusive and keep getting full of limescale. I got ChatGPT to suggest some kitchen tweaks yesterday and that was one. But the drainer arrived damaged so have arranged for that to go back. Then my phone rang as I’d forgotten to go to an appointment to get my eye brows tinted. Rearranged for tomorrow.

Yesterday I washed the floors in the dining area in preparation for putting a new rug down but it was way too pale in colour so sent that back. Now hunting for a new rug.

Also wanted to put some plates up on the wall but there is a plug socket in the way so need a rethink. Well ChatGPT needs a rethink!

Hope everyone is well.

I love tinned mackerel. On lots of hot buttered toast with salt. Mmmmm.

I had banana cake for breakfast. A friend of mine who is from the Cyprus has chopped tomatos, cucumbers, olives, lemon, olive oil and feta on sour dough every morning for breakfast. She looks incredible in her late 60s and every now and then I try and follow her regime. But maybe not this time of the year!

I've achieved nothing today. Car to garage for MOT. £700 of repairs later.

Hope everyone is well!

[face palm] 'from the Cyprus'.

Now I am watching Wine Country on Netflix. I seem to have discovered the entire Tina Fey oeuvre very late in life!

Ouch to car repairs @FourSeasonsLobelia. Your friend’s breakfast sounds delicious. But not at this time of year as you say! Although it could be with eggs as an omelette. I often to chopped red onion, peppers, cherry tomatoes and feta in a omelette.

Your friend's breakfast sounds lovely @FourSeasonsLobelia. In fact so does yours! 🍰
I can't eat bread so i end up being quite imaginative @Peridot1 😂I made it home at 3.30 so I have had a bit of lunch but the mackerel did keep me going till then.
Big cat is still asleep on the sofa where I left him at 8am. It doesn't look like he's moved at all. Can't blame him, left to my own devices I'd have had a duvet day myself, with this miserable weather!
I'm a little bit knackered now. I have not achieved many of the household tasks I set myself, and instead I'm am on the sofa with cat and coffee.
Your day sounds quite disjointed @Peridot1 Things appear to have conspired against you 💐

Oh yeah! Good idea! Omelette. Lovely. :)

aaah sofa cat and coffee @WinterFrogs . I turned the electric blanket on for DCat about an hour ago. She came in from outside and it's that kind of mizzle outside that you don't feel at the time but makes you sodden in about 5 minutes. She was pretty sodden.

Hey everyone

Just popping on - no school for dd today after a blood test this morning, so we vegetated in bed with sweets and snacks. Gonna have to do something with her this weekend as we can't have any more days in bed!

Achieved nothing today 😄 but tomorrow I want to take dcat for a walk and to unbox my kitchenaid to check its all there and working, before boxing it back up for next year.

This weekend will be a christmassy one with dd, will find some activities for us to do 💪🎄

@FourSeasonsLobelia sorry about your car repairs 🥺 - I imagine your friend having amazing skin with her diet 👀

@Peridot1 ive decided to embrace ai after shunning it, must download chatgpt and try it, how amazing that it can suggest ideas for your reno

@WinterFrogs your afternoon sounds lovely and well deserved after a busy morning x

I never eat breakfast myself, unless its a full English on a weekend. Dd is over her phase of having a greggs sausage roll in the car every morning before school, so need to find something else for her (found a gross pile of them down side of the car 🤢😅)

Love to all always - is it officially winter now? xx

Loving the breakfast and cat chat. 😍
I can definitely eat lunch for breakfast. Years of training meant many meals of brown rice, evoo, egg or salmon and veg at any time of day.

Had Havoc to school this morning. Left baby sleeping and watched by my mum.

Did Costco shop right after school and lunch when groceries unpacked (chicken, fresh pineapple, fresh figs, cottage cheese; chai spice cake for afters).*

Going to take a look at bed frames. Will buy if sales are good.

*stole your phrase 😁

Morning all.

I have just finished (thanks to @Peridot1 )my mega Greek-inspired omelette with peppers, tomatos, spinach, muhsrooms, feta. Delicious. And filling. I don't usually eat so early but could not resist!

Hope you have a wonderful Christmassy weekend @mumofoneAloneandwell , it sounds great.

Good luck with bed-buying @Mumtobabyhavoc

Hoping to pick the car up today. Then need to bank some cheques. (The latter requires a bit of driving to the only bank left open in our area). School event this evening. Hoping for a quiet and pottering type of day between those events.

Your breakfast sounds great, Lobelia. 😋 Hope you have a good day and fun tonight. ☺️

Took advantage of both kids being asleep to check over gifts I have so far for them for Christmas. I like to make sure I know how things work, make sure it does work, remove excess packaging, what ever is needed to make sure it's easy for little hands to open and use without trouble. So, I've got three presents ready to wrap and one sitting on the charger. I found the pump for the soccer ball, coloured tissue paper for wrapping and ribbons and a few bits of Easter chocolate. 😂
I've ordered balloons for baby's birthday.
Oh! Just remembered I've got new jammies for both kids hidden in the trunk of my car. 🤦‍♀️

Did a Christmas craft with the kids today. It was great until one caught fire. I smelled burning while I was in the bath; quickly rinsed; jumped out, quickly, but barely, towelled off and ran into hall, removed the lights, grabbed and wet an old towel then popped the burning part into the wet towel. 😅
Opened up the door, turned on the fan, took batteries out, put it all outside.
All while still naked. 😂
The kids were pretty excited with a million questions. 😵‍💫
I wonder if anyone saw from the street? 😂
Managed a video of the unit on fire.
Called Amazon. Refund and pick-up sorted.
Need to re-paint a bit of the wall and baseboard now. 🤦‍♀️
Watching an episode of Parenthood, but I really need to get to bed.

Wow @Mumtobabyhavoc - how scary. Thank God you got to it before anything worse happened.

@FourSeasonsLobelia - I think I might have that for lunch later sounds delicious.

I’m feeling fragile this morning. Woke up on Wednesday during the night with a headache and feeling sick. It finally passed and I went back to sleep. Same happened last night and I finally figured it was migraine. Was worse last night and it didn’t go until I was actually sick - sorry TMI. I don’t get migraines very often and there never seems to be a trigger but I’ve never gotten them in the middle of the night before. Last night I had had a bath before bed and the night before I had a shower just before bed so I wonder if that was it. Afraid to go to sleep tonight in case it happens again.

Started post and then had to nip out for an appointment- back now.

Not sure much will be achieved today as feeling tired and cold and a bit shaky.

Peridot! That sounds awful. I'm sorry. Considering your other symptoms, could you actually be coming down with something? Please take care. 🩷💐

Oh my goodness @Mumtobabyhavoc I have to say I chuckled at your description, but seriously, I am so glad you were able to deal with it safely!
I hope you feel better today @Peridot1 💐
That omelette sounds delicious @FourSeasonsLobelia 😋
I went for greek yoghurt, blue berries and ground flax and gojiberries yesterday morning. Might do a brunch omelette today!

👋 @mumofoneAloneandwell I hope you and DD have fun doing your Christmas projects. And walking the cat, which sounds very cute. Didn't you get a sling for her, or am I misremembering? Or will she go on a lead?

I am feeling a lot more ok with early Christmas stuff this year for some reason. I think putting a 'brightening up dark days' spin on it has helped. My mother was thrilled with her table tree, but she's now a bit muddled and crosser than usual so they tested her urine and it showed up a uti, and now she's on antibiotics. Old age can be so cruel 😔
I realise now I was very out of sorts through accidentally eating wheat in the after dinner sweets at a restaurant last week. Luckily I realised before making any life decisions which would impact anyone else 🙈 It tends to hit me a couple of days later so it took me a while to make the connection. I only learnt for certain yesterday that wheat flour is in the ingredients list for this particular sweet.

Oh thinking of which @Mumtobabyhavoc I think afters is only used by the very posh. My boarding school brothers would sometimes say what's for afters, Mother? in a fake posh accent when they came home for the holidays. My ex mil always said dessert or sweet, for what I call pudding.
And while we're on English weirdness, I variously call our evening meal supper, dinner or 'our tea' depending on who I'm talking to. Grew up calling it supper though.

Another stream of consciousness for you all. Must be the weekend!

Have a lovely day everyone 😊

Happy weekend everyone! How are you feeling @Peridot1?

we ended up having a quiet thanksgiving as DH returned home with a stomach upset from his travels. Hopefully something he ate though it's taking a while to clear up fully ☹️.

we had a nice day for his birthday on Friday (not Thursday, lol, last year his birthday was actually on thanksgiving so I got confused).

i managed to leave a piece of chicken and some expensive steak in the car after grocery shopping where they were identified by the smell a few days later 😖

more grocery shopping today!

I’m not too bad thanks @Aria999. I did get another migraine last night though. Am taking it easy today. Mainly because I’m fed up and sulking! Hate migraines. No idea why I have a sudden spate of them Hope DH is on the mend. Such a shame he was ill. And yuck to the chicken and steak in the car!

I have done the bare minimum today. Dishwasher and some laundry. We were planning on getting the Christmas stuff down from the loft but hopefully we will do that tomorrow.

Morning all! December here we come 🎄

Oh dear @Aria999 poor DH. What a shame over the holiday. I hope he's feeling better and hasn't shared it!
Really sorry to hear about the migraines @Peridot1 😔 Have you consided whether you are grinding or teeth or clenching your jaw when you sleep, as they are happening at night? I was waking with intense pain in my head, from this.
Wild and windy here today. Just off out and hoping not to get blown away. My project job is clear and clean the top of a chest of drawers today.

Winter, so much to comment on re your post!
First, sorry your mum isn't well. Hope meds work fast.
I tend to feel some anxiety and get wound up over holidays, but so far just enjoying things with dc. Find what works for you. 🩷
We pretty much just say dessert here. I like all the different expressions you have there.
Evening meal is typically dinner here. I grew up saying supper, though.Tea is not used except for the drink.

Peridot, hope you are ok.

Aria, yuk re rotting food in car. I did that with tomatoes that rolled under the seat once.
Hope your dh is better.

Had dc to the lantern parade at the Christmas market today. They had fun, but geez it is poorly organized. 🙄

No major tasks to report, but the to-do list is looong.

-just a few more presents to buy
-one hour call to Amazon today to sort refund and got bumped to compensation dept. 🤔

I seem to have fallen off this thread a bit - hope everyone is ok on this wet and windy Monday morning!

Morning all. And evening to @Mumtobabyhavoc!

Dull and wet morning here too @petalpower. Hope all is well with you.

I don’t know about the teeth grinding @WinterFrogs. Possibly. Although I got the one on Friday night before I went to sleep. Anyway - I haven’t had one since. Fingers crossed. I took a couple of aspirin and a coffee on Saturday morning as I thought I might be getting one and then another two aspirin going to bed and seem to have been fine since. I’m one of four sisters and we all get them. All generally hormonal. Although I’m way past menopause. Fingers crossed they have buggered off now!

Im just sitting with a coffee recovering from putting down a new rug in our sitting area which involved moving two sofas. I can move the coffee table back in now too. Today’s plan is a general clean of the kitchen/dining and sitting areas. And DH to put some plates up in the kitchen.

We took the Christmas boxes down from the loft yesterday but I want to get the place cleaned and tidied before I start putting trees up etc. And I’m still planning on keeping it pretty simple this year!

I managed to order a couple of presents for DH yesterday so that’s a tick. Both garden related. And DS thinks he might like a new coat/jacket.

Have a great day all.