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Wargod
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07-16-2001

Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 2:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Well Flylady has a Mission for Thursday posted. Don't think that'll be getting done here, lol!

I've got my nieces tonight (figured since sis was doing most of the cooking it was the least I could do) and promised her I'd get them in the tub before bringing them home tomorrow. My morning will consist of cooking a decent sized breakfast since lunch (big meal) will be somewhere around 2 and trying to figure out how to get all five kids plus me and Darren in the shower and dressed!

I'll have some work at my aunts tomorrow...her hospital bed came today. She's not happy with the way we arranged the furniture so we'll be moving things around and I have to make the bed (sis tried tonight and couldn't figure it out, so did the best she could.)

We're planning on going to Disneyland Friday (that could change, but right now that's the plans) so tomorrow evening I'll be cooking chicken and making potato salad and packing picnic lunch and dinner (lunch will just be sandwiches and fruit) to take with us.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Friday, November 28, 2008 - 12:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Friday's Mission

Plans haven't changed and we're all ready to go to Disneyland tomorrow. The weather is supposed to be decent and the kidlets are excited. The only thing to change is that we're going to buy dinner cuz Darren thought it'd be better to have a hot meal since it'll be cooler once the sun goes down. Sounded like a good idea to me, especially since it means I didn't have to cook chicken, lol.

Sis and I are giving each other a day off from aunt care this weekend. I get tomorrow, and she's taking Saturday. Both of us need a break.

I hope everyone had a great day and has a terrific weekend!

Skootz
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07-23-2003

Friday, November 28, 2008 - 6:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Skootz a private message Print Post    
Have a great day War....say hi to Mickey from me.

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Friday, November 28, 2008 - 2:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
Wargod, have a ton of fun at disneyland, you deserve a break!

Skootz, hoping you are doing well!

I just started my turkey roast and will be starting the stuffing and sides shortly. Yes, LOL, I am a day behind and loving it.
I have sorted some laundry not sure if I will do it today, and have swish and swiped. I think I am going to move my file cabinet, it isn't working for me to file so I will trade it with the printer table.

That's my plan.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Saturday, November 29, 2008 - 2:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
OMG, do ya'll know we didn't see Mickey once today??

We went to California Adventure to see the High School Musical show (Dakota's a huge fan) and while we were there we saw Pluto. The characters there, when they come out, they're only out for a while and then they have to go back and someone else will come out and take their turn. I've heard that the costumes are so hot they're pretty strict so when their time limit is up, they have to go...can't wait for kids who may have been waiting (not sure if that's true or not, just what I've heard.) Anyways, we'd just gotten off the tower of terror and Caleb was buying something and we saw Pluto. Dakota whipped out her autograph book and told me to bring my camera. Well before she could even get in line, Pluto and his handler waved and started to leave and she was quite upset she didn't get his autograph or a picture. I told her we'd probably see him at Disneyland...we didn't.

Funny thing is, when we got to Disneyland, she had no interest in hunting down characters...they were more interested in rides and looking through the stores! The only other character I saw was Buzz Lightyear and it was the funniest thing. I was heading towards the bathroom and he was just leaving from meeting kidlets. There was this little boy, maybe 3 or 4 years old, in front of me and he called out to Buzz, Buzz stopped just long enough to reach out and shake his hand. That kid was so excited, lol, he turned around, "MOMMY MOMMY! Did you see? Buzz Lightyear shook my hand!!!!!"

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Saturday, November 29, 2008 - 9:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
What a cool story! It sounds like you guys had a lot of fun. I think it is a little odd you didn't see Micky, don't they have several of them out at the same time, or just one of each character. It is such a big park I would expect there to be many of each, just with certain territories, LOL.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Saturday, November 29, 2008 - 11:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
They do have several and he probably was there, but we didn't search him out. Also realized this morning we stayed out of some of the big areas for Mickey and his friends (Toontown, Small World, etc) and we skipped the parades so didn't see him in those either.

It was a very different experience last year when sis, bil and their older two girls went with us. My middle niece had never been so a big part of our visit was Mickey, Minnie, and every princess in the park, lol. Guess my kidlets are getting old enough that they're not such a big deal anymore, which just makes me sad!

I got absolutely nothing done today in the house. We slept in then got up and lazed about the house a bit. Darren and I did a little shopping at Target, they had something on sale we wanted but it was gone by the time we got there. That was just about it.

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Sunday, November 30, 2008 - 1:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
I got up early, have stripped the bed, washed the mattress cover, completed three loads of laundry. I will finish making the bed after the kitties finish their naps on the warm laundry. Peanut loves the smell of laundry, so I try to have stuff I can leave on the bed for a nap, she seems to understand when I tell her there is clean laundry. got the recycling out while waiting for the laundry to dry, need to clear the dining room table so I can put my Christmas stuff there. I have to did out some gift bags, we have Adopt an Angel at work and I need to take stuff to the office to wrap and package, I had the gifts I bought online delivered there.

Waiting for my Safeway delivery, dug out the christmas cards, I even have some left over stamps. How much is postage now, I will probably need to get some one centers.

Hopefully this fog will burn off and it will be warm enough to hang the lights on the patio, plus bring up my tree. This means, of course that I have to clean the floors where the tree will sit. I hope to get everything done today, plus some online gift purchases.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Sunday, November 30, 2008 - 11:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
.42 cents Dipo. LOL, I wouldn't have been able to answer that (I have several books of the forever or whatever they're called stamps) except that I picked up a book of Christmas ones the other day and it was $8.40.

I went grocery shopping, cleaned the kitchen, living room, and den and also did 3 loads of laundry. Would have done more but I ran out of laundry soap and that was something I hadn't picked up.

Also ran to my aunts and did a few things there. I was supposed to go to Darren's moms tomorrow, but she called and asked me to come Tuesday instead. I find myself with tomorrow free so I'll start my winter cleaning (need to clean carpets and wash curtains/windows etc.)

Christy358
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07-10-2007

Monday, December 01, 2008 - 12:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Christy358 a private message Print Post    
My apt has gone down the drain this last week... I have only the clean sink to keep me going. Tomorrow is a day off from work, but I have to deal with car issues (someone ran into me) and such. I am hoping to get at least one kitchen counter back!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, December 01, 2008 - 1:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Monday's Mission

Baby steps Christy. Cars more important right now. Sometimes you just have to do what you can do and put off the rest til you have more time for it.

Since I have tomorrow morning free I am going to do some holiday cleaning. The mission is a good one for me, plus I need to clean the bathroom and should spend some time in my bedroom. And try to get the carpet and curtains cleaned.

The rest of the week is going to be nuts...Tuesday I need to go and help my mil out (I'll be spending time out there a couple days a week helping with whatever she needs help with,) Wednesday I have to take my aunt to the doctor and it's her banking day, Thursday is an awards assembly at Kota's school (not sure what award she's getting) and Friday it's back out to my mils. Thursday afternoon or evening, since Darren is in school, I'll clean my aunts and try to get her in the shower.

Sia
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03-11-2002

Monday, December 01, 2008 - 6:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sia a private message Print Post    
Dipo, you're getting a lot accomplished! I am trying my best to get things straightened around enough that we can do some Christmas decorating. I really hate to drag out the boxes of decorations and the tree when the house is totally destroyed, but my DH and kids pitched in over the Thanksgiving weekend and helped me rearrange the major pieces of furniture in our master BR/living room. Our old house doesn't have a separate living room. Oh the agonies of having a house that is 140 years old! If I posted pictures of the current chaos, you'd turn me in to Peter Walsh!

I do have all the Christmas shopping done and some of the wrapping for the gifts for my husband and kids. I'm typing on my big gift from DH (an HP laptop), so there is no wrapping necessary for this item.

When I get enough of the debris sorted in my bedroom (as I've learned is necessary from all the home improvement shows I've watched), I will feel it's okay to take out the Christmas decorations.

You're all doing marvelously. Bravo for all your efforts and accomplishments!

Skootz
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07-23-2003

Monday, December 01, 2008 - 7:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Skootz a private message Print Post    
you are all doing well, like war said, baby steps, only do what you can. Me, I am down to one crutch but cannot do what I would fully do and my house is not neat or tidy in any way shape or form. I have now learned (hard way after over doing it since surgery) I have to take it slow and easy. Do what I can and that is it. I have my Christmas decorations in the living room, about 1/4 up and the rest just sitting there will do it when I can and in baby steps with the rest of the items I have to do.

So for the rest of you, do what you can...if you can only fit in 15 min. or just enough time to do the mission, so be it. Christy a clean sink is a very good start. Remember, deep breaths and our houses didn't get the way they did in a day, so it does take more than a day to get it back in order.

Sia
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03-11-2002

Monday, December 01, 2008 - 9:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sia a private message Print Post    
I'd better shine the sink before DH gets home. Dishes in the sink drive him nuts, but my kids have never learned to rinse them and put them into the dishwasher. DH says he wishes he'd never bought it. I like it, myself.

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Monday, December 01, 2008 - 12:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
Christy, LOL, I know that problem. I only have one area that is neat and clean. I hope to get through all the stuff on my dining room table tonight, then I will have two areas neat and clean.

Sia, sounds like you are making progress.

Skootz, sounds like you are feeling better and have figured out that you must be the director and not the doer!

Wargod, I am with you, todays mission is perfect for me, LOL.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, December 01, 2008 - 1:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Seeing Christy talk about her clean sink and no clean counters and Sia about her living room/bedroom, let me ask a question. Is there any part of your houses that are hard to keep clean & clutter free and why?

I struggle with three areas...the dining room table, which is sitting in the entry way to the house. Because of where it sits, everyone walks in and hangs their jackets/coats on the chairs and whatever they have in their hands ends up on the table. Like Flylady with her shiny sinks, that's how I am with the table...if it's cleared off, I feel like I'm off to a good start, if it's not I actually feel stressed.

My other hot spots are the den and the kitchen counters. The den is where everyone hangs out normally. The kids have a small toy chest, a book case, their tv and couch and we have the computers. I think cuz everyones always in here it gets cluttered very quickly and it's also easy to let it go cuz when company comes we're in the living room and they can't see the mess. The kitchen counters are a daily struggle...anything that doesn't make it to the dining room table makes it to the kitchen. One of the things the kidlets are horrible about is when they're getting food, they leave everything out. Cereal container on the stove, empty milk carton on the counter, etc. Those are the three areas that if I don't clean up daily can seriously get out of control fast.

Christy358
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07-10-2007

Monday, December 01, 2008 - 2:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Christy358 a private message Print Post    
The path from my door to the computer is always a problem. I walk in the door in work clothes and usually with at least a bag or two and by the time I hit the computer, I am in my comfy clothes and carrying nothing.

However, I have reclaimed my entire kitchen, even wiped out the fridge, and am cooking a southwest version of a shepherds pie for dinner and to freeze for lunches later.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, December 01, 2008 - 2:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
LOL Christy, I used to do the same coming home from work, except it was diaper bags, bra, and shoes. I'd hit the couch and there'd be a trail behind me.

I did the entryway and table. Need to go pick up the rest of the living room so I can vacuum. I'm doing a cheesey potato, brocoli soup for dinner. Same reason really, will have left overs for Darren to take to work this week.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, December 02, 2008 - 2:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Tuesday's Mission

Tomorrow I have to run errands (pharmacy and post office) then head out to my mils for the morning. I think when I get home I'll sweep up the driveway, our leaves have finally fallen off the trees. It also just dawned on me since she has a drs appt Wed. morning I need to try to get her in the shower sometimes Tuesday.

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Tuesday, December 02, 2008 - 12:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
Lets see, last night I finally assembled my tree, it has 3 parts, LOL. Got all the decorations out of the boxes (I don't have that much) and put away the boxes. Ordered my sister's gifts and gathered all the stuff I needed to wrap my presents at work (Adopt and Angel).

Today I have purchase MY christmas presents, LOL. Got a potless Coffee Maker ($30), stainless steel garbage can ($129), Queen sheets, 500 thread count wrinkle free ($70), new jeans ($20) and some new shoes ($45). I was happy, all of it on sale at jcp.com and I had a promotion as well so got some more savings.

We decided to go to lunch at work instead of individual presents, I am so glad, that was a pain since I don't know what any of them would like and candles get old.

Tonight I will finish clearing my dining room talbe, got my island clear, so now have 2.5 clean and neat areas of the house.

Wargod, my place is small so I don't really have hot spots until I start to do somthing like Christmas, then it seems the whole house feels compelled to get involved. When I get home I have a landing area in the foyer for my stuff - purse, keys, etc. and then I got straight to the closet and change into my "home" clothes, so I don't end up with clothing everywhere. And then I guess my office area does sometimes turn into a hot spot.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, December 02, 2008 - 3:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
LOL, ya know the only online shopping I've done was order some beads from Auntie's Beads yesterday!

I spent the morning at my mils helping her with a few things. Will be going back Friday. Later this afternoon I need to go by my aunts to help her shower and lay out clothes for her drs appt tomorrow morning. Not sure she's going to let me get her in the shower, her new shower chair hasn't come yet, and she's afraid she'll get in and won't be able to get out with the old. She's been washing daily in the sink since coming home from the hospital, but I think a full shower would do her so much good.

Haven't done a thing at home and really not planning too, lol. The winds blowing so sweeping up my leaves would be dumb right now.

LOL Dipo, I think Christmas decorations are a pain on keeping things non-cluttered! I love it, but I spend the month feeling like stuff is just everywhere! Since we're already shopping, I have decided not to put presents under the tree right away. I'm going to put them in boxes and leave em in the closet until closer to Christmas, that should cut down on some of the feeling of cluttered-ness.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, December 03, 2008 - 1:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Wednesday's Mission

Tomorrow is another busy day for me. Aunt didn't want a shower, doesn't want one tomorrow but wants help washing her hair in the sink (she'll be giving herself a sponge bath.)

I'll be over there first thing in the morning getting her ready, then off to her appt, then it's banking day...need to write some checks for her bills and balance her check book. I also need to go to the post office since I didn't make it there today. I'll do just a quick clean up around my house but that's about it.

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Wednesday, December 03, 2008 - 12:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
I got all the recycling out last night, and my dining room table is clear, unfortunately my kitchen Island isn't, LOL. I will clean up the kitchen tonight figure out what to do with the stuff on the island and run the dishwasher. That may just be it.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Thursday, December 04, 2008 - 2:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Thursday's Mission

Can you come do my recycling, Dipo? Darren's starting to get grumpy at all the bags of cans in the garage cuz I haven't taken them in in a while, lol.

Today was not a good day. My aunts PT showed up early and then I showed up to get her ready for her appt. By the time we were walking out the door, she was so exhausted. Then she refused to use her wheelchair and her walker, so I had to help her walk, plus carry her purse and bag of meds and haul her portable oxygen tank behind me. By the time I got her in the car, then out, parked the car, and helped her into the office, we were half an hour late for her appointment. It just went downhill from there.

The drs office was packed so it took forever to see the dr. The bright point, her lungs sound really good and the doctor thinks she's doing well overall. She did order another chest x-ray but just to compare to the last one from the hospital. At this office, they send you back to the waiting room while the nurse writes out prescriptions and drs orders then they call you up to get them. So we waited a few minutes, then got called, I grabbed the paperwork and started to walk her out. We'd made it out of the door when the nurse called me back, she'd forgotten one prescription. Luckily there was a guy sitting next to the door who hopped up to give my aunt an arm while I ran back to get it. By the time I got her home I wasn't sure I'd be able to get her out of the car. That was the most exercise she's had since leaving the hospital!

I asked Darren this evening if he thought the dr would consider it elderly abuse if I whap her over the head next time and put her in the wheelchair! I'm only joking about whapping her over the head, but stubborn refusal or not, she's going to have to start using the wheelchair for outings like this, it's too hard on both of us for her not to.

Then went to the bank for her. When I left, I handed her the phone (they call to verify I'm supposed to be getting her cash) and called sis from the bank to get her to go make sure aunt answered the phone. When I got to the window and they called, she didn't answer. Argh. Had to get ahold of sis and have her get aunt to call the bank.

Got that all straightened out and I did go and do her Costco shopping tonight (lots of meat and frozen veggies.)

Tomorrow is the only day this week I'm really home for the most part. I have to run a few errands, but plan to spend a good part of the day cleaning my house and doing laundry. Darren has school tomorrow night so I'll probably finish up aunt's grocery shopping and do some cleaning at her house too.

Sia
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03-11-2002

Thursday, December 04, 2008 - 12:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sia a private message Print Post    
Wargod, you are wonderful to take such good care of your aunt; it sounds exhausting, however. It is so difficult to give up one's independence, even if it's a gradual thing, and your aunt must dislike having to accept help with more and more things as time passes. You seem so extremely patient with those issues; I really applaud you.

Dipo, I just want to give up. It's all so overwhelming, and DD is starting to get sick. She stayed home from school today and isn't being of much assistance. At 10 years of age, she is very capable and is normally a bit help--and much more helpful than her 12-yr-old brother! Today, though, she just wants to watch cartoons! She had a bad cough this morning and complained of a sore throat, but she seems to feel sooo much better now. I think she was afraid to face her language teacher with a few questions unanswered that she hid from me last evening when I was helping her with her homework. We knocked out the few unanswered questions (review of parts of speech, so it wasn't bad) before the bus came, but she hadn't gotten dressed yet, so baby girl stayed home. There are many kids sick the past couple of weeks at the school, so my baby's not the only one staying home today. It's not the flu, not strep or anything, just your garden variety cold, I guess, but it is going around.