The 'complete this challenge' challenge...suitable for all!

scrooge2008

I love your posts, you have a great joie de vivre and always make me smile. Thanks.

scrooge2008

Morning

Plan for today

Early morning cleaning job - Done
DH salad made - Done
Kitchen tidy - Done
Wash on and out - Done
The Shred

DS and I are spending the day with my mother-in-law decorating her spare bedroom and helping her tidy her house in time for visitors at the end of the month.

She is actually doing me a favour. I have friends from Essex who usually go on holiday to five star, all inclusive holidays in exotic places, but they have been credit crunched like a lot of us.

Fortunately for me they are coming to stay here instead. My friends and their two boys are staying with us, and her mother and father are staying with my MIL.

Must dash.

wilf55

rest of the week
couple of cheap items of clothing for me
arrange practice rounds
phone caravan place
maybe find one night accomodation
chase up golf clubs
practice round tues night
thoroughly clean tidy and put away
ring police
letter for dd2 bf
phone bank for friend
pay all bills that need paying when we are away
pack
buy food for dd2 and us while we are away

today
flylady list
golf comp
package ebay stuff
going for a golf practice round (tonight)
shopping (small)
could do with some sort of fitness and weight loss stuff myself but struggle!!

micron_2

scrooge2008 wrote: »

I love your posts, you have a great joie de vivre and always make me smile. Thanks.

Scrooge, thank you. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said "happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself".

As well as inspiring me, I have no doubt that you are inspiring many others on the MSE forum. :A

micron_2

Wow, scrooge as usual you got a lot done first thing this morning. I'm sure you and your DS will enjoy spending the day with MIL. It is always much more fun decorating/tidying for other people than it is doing it at home.

Wilf, your weekly list sounds like it will keep you busy this week. Regarding the weight loss/fitness yep we are all aiming for that but at least you are keeping active doing lots of other things so remember that is another form of exercise.

Enjoy your day everyone.

x

micron_2

Was going to list what I would like to get done today but it was getting longer and longer and realistically I knew I wouldn't get through it so I am going to list my plan for the week with the intention of having it all crossed off by Saturday evening. Here goes!

Plan for the week

- Call Uncle Thomas
- Call Barbados
- [STRIKE]Register with sparkpeople[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]Valet car [/STRIKE]
- The Shred x10
- De-clutter bedroom - clothes, shoes, toilettries, books, dvds
- Update vision board
- Lloyds Banking
- ING banking
- [STRIKE]Call Mum[/STRIKE]
- Garage door sensor dealt with
- [STRIKE]Call Pip[/STRIKE]
- Insurance paperwork
- Contact Alfa Romeo re car warranty
- Clear The Oval post
- Blog/journal on track
- Deal with MSO
- 6 month budget/savings plan
- [STRIKE]Look into meditation classes and book[/STRIKE]
- Go over yearly goals
- [STRIKE]Back up ipod[/STRIKE]
- Yoga twice a week
- Write myself a letter to be read in ten year's time
- Book residential swimming lessons
- [STRIKE]Dermalogica deep cleanse facial[/STRIKE]
- Contact Citypoint Spa re vouchers
- Set up BlueMe in car
- [STRIKE]Email CB[/STRIKE]
- Finish reading the Book Thief
- [STRIKE]Call BG[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]Email BH[/STRIKE]
-[STRIKE] Email LW[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]Email RWE[/STRIKE]

That's approximately 6 things per day. Sure would love and feel much much better if I see all of them crossed off by Saturday evening. I am determined to give it a good go.

Ciao for now.

x

wilf55

hi

i feel that i havent got anything done

i am soooo tired

i feel i waste so much time


anyway
this morning have
sorted golf comp
paid bills
shopping list for whilst we are away
wm x 2
washed up
packaged ebay
petrol in car

going to dye hair this pm
school run
post office
golf with ds
tidy tip!

sleep for 15 mins if i can!

micron_2

wilf, I hope you get your 15 mins nap. You will be surprised how much energy a power nap can give you to enable you to cross off more from your list.

You may not feel like you have done much (I always feel that way) but you have... just look at what you have achieved so far. I think you need to acknowledge and give yourself a pat on the back for all you have been doing especially by helping your DS to achieve his golfing dreams/goals. :T:T

wilf55

thanks micron -

scrooge2008

Hi,

It looks to me like you both had very productive days yesterday.

I was going great guns. DS and I made a lovely job of painting MIL's spare room, and I should have stopped there. However, I was on a role and when she asked me if I could lay some vinyl for her in the bathroom there was no stopping me, despite DS's misgivings.

Anyway, I made a complete hash of it. Although I used the old vinyl as a template, I managed to cut out the sink and loo in the wrong place and no amount of stretching would get them to fit.

I bet you would have made a good job of it wilf, where did I go wrong?

So, i'm going to buy her some new vinyl and get it professionally fitted this week, which is going to cost £130.00 . Added to this is the £200.00 insurance excess that we are going to have to pay for the dining room window to be replaced (DH was practicing his golf swing in the back garden and lobbed a golf ball through it). That's a total of £330.00 unplanned expenditure this month, already, that could have been avoided.

Onwards and upwards.

Plan for today

Grapefruit detox day 1
[STRIKE]Dress to shoes[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Wash on and out[/STRIKE]
Sparkpeople
[STRIKE]Kitchen tidy[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Lunches ready[/STRIKE]
Invoices to AS and Tern
[STRIKE]Order new vinyl for MIL[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Drop DS off at MIL - spending day with his cousin[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Accounts job[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Meet up with friend, who's just back from holidays, for a coffee.[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Small shop at Lidls[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Fill up with diesel[/STRIKE]
DS holiday project work - tidy house
Send more information to Solicitors re: client
[STRIKE]Collect parcels from P/O[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Collect headed paper and cards from printer[/STRIKE]
Work on action points for IC
Check IC has paid me
Check accounts
[STRIKE]Check progress report on DS bike[/STRIKE]
Organise appointments for AS
[STRIKE]Scallops for tea[/STRIKE]
Chill - Body pump class/Jacuzzi/Sauna - LTPJ -- FTC