Get It Done Weekly Challenge

mothernerd

DS1 turned up this morning so the gutter is mended (took him all of 5 minutes), all the thick concrete is broken up and the shed is roofed and waterproof (need to start next job list as can now move things out of the house/ garden).

Would have done the laminate in the front room but after 4 1/2 strips we added up and even using every scrap of our free laminate we would have been 5 + pieces short. It will go in the bedroom I am in at the moment (elderly cat was repeatedly sick and worse on the carpet in the 3 years before she died). Tried to scrub it several times, got all the mess out but small black spots left behind so had to get the council to take it away - allowed 3 free items per year.

Front room is going to be sanded - by DS1.

dannie

The C.V. task is being tackled each day so this means surplus paperwork is being recycled. A mixed experience, however, in terms of "visiting" the past, through seeing these details. Fitting in some leisure activities during the week when possible too.

mothernerd - sorry to hear about your health news. Me too, "plodding on" and doing whatever is possible.

mothernerd

Didn't feel like doing much yesterday (aching from day before) so decided to tackle a horrid job - de-gungeing the u bend under the kitchen sink. Had to ask DS3 to unscrew but it wasn't too bad - used a cloth on a stick from both ends. Then put everything (bar 2 items) back under the sink. Had 2 bottles of cleaning stuff I didn't know about and still a good stock of scourer/ pad type things. Flea spray and ancient baby bio are on ledge by front door - will take them on Friday and pass on to people who can use them.

Plodding on with weeding, gardening, moving chunks of broken concrete into rubble sacks. Now need to add moving mattress and dis-mantling bed to next week's list so that DS1 can help with laminate as well as doing sanding. Need to go to old house (Ds2 rents it) to see if my jig-saw is there. DS1 went but couldn't find it but we have already searched here - 3 drills, 2 sanders, can't find jig-saw. Did offer to buy another and give it to DS1 for his Christmas present but given current finances it would be silly when we know I have one somewhere.

Lots of these type of decisions to be made - cost of jig-saw is negligible compared to savings on free laminate (older much higher quality laminate) and 'free' labour (bought him a sandwich, bottles of coke and let him take some steak and mushrooms home - he wanted to cook for his gf and was running out of time). Jig-saw speeds up the process so more time for other jobs.

Sunshine isn't suiting me - it seems to take so long to do the simplest tasks - appointment for scan is on August 5th at 8.30am (may need to stay up all night).

dannie

dannie wrote: »

From last Sunday until end of Saturday -

Sunday - tidying up and planning the week ahead (done).
Monday onwards - two themes which are to continue to look at my C.V. file and also do activities that balance out "work and leisure."

Hope anybody doing lists are doing okay (or if just following this thread) finds anything useful?

Have progressed with updating my C.V. which had been incomplete for years. Still more work to do on this as it is more like a C.V./autobiography.
How to balance "work and leisure"? Too much hard work keeping well last week meant less time to either enjoy or do "lighter" stuff. Did little bits however which did help.

Today will be a tidy up day and a plan for the oncoming week. List to follow soon as possible.

dannie

From Sunday until Saturday -

1) Continue updating the C.V.
2) Miscellaneous gardening tasks - sowing, transplanting, houseplant care and sort out prunings. Most will produce food for free/produce compost.
3) Food freezer - use new cooking ingredients with existing food items, use up perishables and empty another freezer drawer which is needed for free blackberries (season). Make diet more varied (mainly with present "stocks").
4) Decide what to do with several old pairs of glasses.

dannie

dannie wrote: »

From Sunday until Saturday -

1) Continue updating the C.V.
2) Miscellaneous gardening tasks - sowing, transplanting, houseplant care and sort out prunings. Most will produce food for free/produce compost.
3) Food freezer - use new cooking ingredients with existing food items, use up perishables and empty another freezer drawer which is needed for free blackberries (season). Make diet more varied (mainly with present "stocks").
4) Decide what to do with several old pairs of glasses.

1) Continued with this but hard to fit into the day.
2) More seeds sowed, planted free potatoes, transplanted cut off celery base that had grown roots, put free mint plantlets outside, tomato plant fertilised and prunings either composted or to council bin.
3) Made good use of present food items so another freezer drawer emptied for blackberries. (Probably not purchase any fruit or veg this month). Did make diet a little more varied and feel healthier but continually working on this.
4) Glasses stored away. Apparently, it should be cheaper to re-use them with a new prescription; maybe not a big saving and only per particular opticians that will do this.

So today will be tidying up and planning additional tasks.

mothernerd

Sorry for lack of posts. Some work done - mainly gardening. DS1 came and started on the sanding. Sander was faulty - he fixed it with twine. Then it broke completely. he ended up helping with digging - not his favourite job but I kept telling him he can do more in an afternoon than I can manage in a fortnight.

New sander has been purchased as he is coming back on Monday. The old one was older than him - he's 29, so will be happy if this one lasts as long. Cheaper to buy (budget but not cheapest) than to hire one for a day.

Have drawn up a new job list but it ran to 3 pages - mostly going through old lists/ notebooks and transferring the ones still not done. I am going to pick out a few little jobs to do this week - scan is on Tuesday but expect they will tell me to see my own doctor for the results (in 10 days?).

De-cluttering and weeding out old paperwork going well - have to have something to do when I can't stand up any longer.

I usually donate my old glasses to vision aid (keep two most recent pairs and have lenses changed alternately). Vision aid sends the the spectacles to third world countries but they are checked and repaired in needed by prisoners in this country - so rehabilitation, doing something useful which benefits others and learning a trade which might help them keep out of trouble in the future. Many opticians have a box - you just drop them in, it doesn't need to be your regular optician (useful to know if clearing out after a death even if it isn't for you - the more stuff we can keep out of land fill the better).

mothernerd

1 Clear my bedroom floor (mostly done but have since swept out everything lurking under the bed). Also some tools which need to be conveniently placed.

2 Clear my bed. Floor and bed need to be clear before DS1 and I can lay laminate flooring (bed also needs dismantling). Will not be done (flooring) this week but need to get ready.

3 Clear the sofa in the front room and move it out. Not a big job (if I can find somewhere to put things) but stuff I have already moved out of the room (shelves, lamp etc) needs to move out of the hallway/ kitchen to make room. Therefore:-

4 Start on dining room - dumping ground. All the tools that aren't in use elsewhere, washing in various states of dryness, garden stuff that hasn't gone out yet, sewing machine + material for new front room and dining room curtains. Need to make a start.

SMALL JOBS (Some are part of the big jobs broken into component parts)

5 Last years business receipts filed away.

6 This years business receipts stapled in order.

7 Any stray old business receipts and tax paperwork filed (oddments were tucked away usually attached to student funding applications, some may be photocopies - doesn't help that student loans and tax credits want different years figures).

8 Domestic receipts gathered (Done 3/8/14).

9 Domestic paperwork together (in red file - threw away old gardening stuff last week). Done 3/8/14

10 Move carpet/ laminate edge strip from DS3's doorway to tiny bedroom doorway.

11 Clean top of bathroom tiles (ladder dependent - mostly done just the bit at the top).

12 Remove old bathroom fitments (tooth mug holders - no mug? and old towel rail support - no towel rail)

Lots more to do but will return if this lot gets done and report on anything extra next week.

Keep plodding.

dannie

Hello, sorry for the delay mothernerd/anybody interested in this particular challenge,

1) Sunday, tidy up day and planning the next weekly tasks were almost done.

From last Sunday until the end of Saturday also:-
2) Mend the bicycle (puncture repair and general maintenance).
3) An online grocery order to be completed for this month.
4) To minimise unnecessary spending, update food left from July, acquire garden edibles and foraging.
5) Maybe send some personalised homemade cards to people i.e. "thanks"/"thinking of you" types.
6) C.V. again whenever possible to reduce paperwork/filing system.

dannie

mothernerd - thanks for your posts. I also have various sources of lists and listing it all would be very time consuming! Would love to clear out much paperwork. Thanks for the interesting info regarding "Vision Aid". Good luck with your present tasks.

(Thinking of you today; scan day).