Monday, February 3, 2025

Monday: short tasks

Today's goal was to get rid of as many of the items on my to-do list as possible, which meant doing the short ones.   I got rid of a delta of 21 items!  I think I only put one or two items on the list throughout the day, so I'm counting it a huge win.  I haven't been this low since last June.

Yesterday I also found an army man in the Lego Space Shuttle.


Sunday, February 2, 2025

Sunday: Isaac's home

Well, Joshua fully enjoyed this weekend with just his parents.  His bad part was that Isaac came home.

Isaac had a great weekend!  I heard a lot about the fun parts and not much about the Jesus parts, but that's ok.  Sledding Friday night and Saturday was apparently amazing...it was a little bit icy and there was a big hill.  It also sounded like there was a lot of games.  He also made healthy food choices.  Well...at the least he didn't drink tons of pop.

Joshua and I finished listening to Bert and Ernie's Sing-Along while working on our puzzle.  There are bunch of mini-pictures in the puzzle and we finished all the borders of the mini-pictures.  And I had Big Bird's "yes...love is a really good feeling to have!" in my head all day.


Saturday, February 1, 2025

Saturday: but wait! There's more!

Joshua and I were working on our puzzle and I said, for some reason, "but wait!  there's more!"  I say this often.  So then we started talking about the song that it's from and Joshua didn't know who the Count is.  So we found a video, but it was the wrong song.  

Then I found the song on the internet, and as we listened to it I realized that there was a story associated with it.  And I realized I knew all the words.  We started listening to the sing-along from the beginning.

And so, if you'd like to listen to it too, here's a link for the ...record?  tape?  ...here's the link: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ys81r





Friday, January 31, 2025

Friday: O:CtH - storage room

I'm continuing to remove stuff from the storage room.  I had about thirty minutes to clean stuff out, and that included a crumbling piece of drywall.  The drywall was on the floor and we've just been walking on them for a while.  I got the drywall to the trash can and then had to vacuum up all the little pieces that fell off while I was bringing it upstairs.  I also vacuumed up some sand that had fallen out of a decorative piece.


Joshua doesn't want to get rid of the easel, but we haven't used it since the pandemic.  We compromised on I'll keep it around for a bit and see if anyone uses it.  I mean, it'll take me a bit before I bring everything to a donation center.  

Overall, the storage room doesn't feel much cleaner than yesterday, but ...it is.


Thursday, January 30, 2025

Thursday: another normal day

It was another rather normal day.  The first class had a few bumps because I moved some content around and didn't dot my i's and cross my t's.  It wasn't a big problem, but it was annoying.

I got a fair amount of work done in the afternoon.  Sometimes I get tired but I actually got up enough and so I got a lot done.

My travels around town to taxi kids around went a bit faster than normal.  

Karate was just ok.  The class I like was co-opted by stretching and information instead of exercise.  Then we had self-defense and it isn't my favorite.  But I don't have to pick Isaac until 6:30 and Isaac really likes a few extra minutes after his practice so I've stayed the whole self-defense class.

The evening has been nice as always.  Some computer stuff, some quilting.

Wednesday: more normal

I love the normal days, although they aren't very interesting to blog about.  I mean, doing three loads of laundry is pretty good, but for once they all got dried and separated too!  I even put 2/3 of my laundry away.  We had cheddarworst for dinner and it was not as filling as I expected.  The cats had their vet appointment and are doing well.  Both cats weigh exactly the same as last year.  We were hoping Horizon would lose a bit of weight, but the vet was happy with no increase.  Isaac had a lot of homework, but worked on it well after school.  The snow is melting, sadly.  Both cats escaped while I was re-hanging* the bird feeders, but they didn't get very far.  They're willing to walk on snow but not to go in the deep stuff. 


*There was a wind advisory the last two days so I put the feeders on the deck.  One is really heavy and I didn't want it toppling over and the other is really nice and I didn't want it falling to it's doom.

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Tuesday: homework 5

It was a normal day.  I went out to lunch with Natalie, which was really nice.  The only thing of any note is that I finished a rewrite of homework 5.  I've needed to rewrite this homework for several semesters but have just kept putting it off.  So hurray!