Let's Get Motivated

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

:T WELL DONE Highland Fling :T & thanks for the encouragement :T

Did get dressed today - Ha-Ha :rotfl: DH filled the bird & squirrel feeders, set up a new peanut feeder in our olive tree & helped me in reaching high shelves in kitchen (6’2” as opposed to my 5’6” :rotfl:) - I am donating my, unused for 5 years, almost complete tea service to the CS. The space created has been filled with the Kilner jars my DH treated me to (which I hadn’t unpacked from their delivery box )

SUNDAY’s LIST

Baking - plum crumble & fruit cake
Wash & dry bedding & remake bed as I only have one set of winter bedding - DONE
Go out with DH weather permitting - POSTPONED UNTIL WEDNESDAY regardless of the weather
DH to finish working on his motorbike
DH to mend my wardrobe
DH to put up picture in bedroom
DH to put up blind in his office

MONDAY’ s LIST

BAKING - PLUM CRUMBLE & FRUIT CAKE
Write menu plan for the week
Drop off bag of donations at CS, post letter & do a small sm shop
Write Christmas cards for the neighbours I do not know by name
Put up light in shed
Go out with DH weather permitting - POSTPONED UNTIL WEDNESDAY regardless of the weather - Destination confirmed - Borough Market!
DH to finish working on his motorbike
DH to mend my wardrobe
DH to put up picture in bedroom
DH to put up blind in his office

MrsSD

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Monday was mostly dry but very cold so I didn’t go out

DH spent time in the garage tidying up & getting together stuff for a Tip run on Tuesday, then off to do my shopping while I have lunch with an ex work colleague

MONDAY’ s LIST

BAKING - PLUM CRUMBLE - DONE & FRUIT CAKE
Write menu plan for the week - DONE
Drop off bag of donations at CS, post letter & do a small sm shop
Write Christmas cards for the neighbours I do not know by name - DONE
Put up light in shed
Go out with DH weather permitting - POSTPONED UNTIL WEDNESDAY regardless of the weather - Destination confirmed - Borough Market!
DH to finish working on his motorbike
DH to mend my wardrobe
DH to put up picture in bedroom
DH to put up blind in his office

I will finish the rest on Tuesday :rotfl:

MrsSD

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Tuesday and Wednesday ended up being ‘ME’ days:rotfl:

Tuesday I went out for lunch - sorry drinks :T with an old friend. Had a good old chinwag

Wednesday DH & I DID go to Borough Market :T Spent quite a bit of money & I have had to redo my menu plan DH treated me to a venison & cranberry sauce burger in a bun, whilst he had wild meat sausages in a baguette. Soooo tasty ��
Then we spent a couple of hours in a pub :beer: putting our world to rights :rotfl: Have not done that in a while but we made up for it



MONDAY/Tuesday/Wednesday LIST

BAKING - PLUM CRUMBLE - DONE (& FRUIT CAKE - not made yet )
Write menu plan for the week - DONE
Drop off bag of donations at CS - moving to Friday’s list; post letters - DONE & do a small sm shop - DH DID :rotfl:
Write Christmas cards for the neighbours I do not know by name - DONE
Put up light in shed
Go out with DH weather permitting - POSTPONED UNTIL WEDNESDAY regardless of the weather - Destination confirmed - Borough Market! - DONE
DH to finish working on his motorbike
DH to mend my wardrobe
DH to put up picture in bedroom
DH to put up blind in his office

I will finish the rest on Tuesday :rotfl: - FAT CHANCE

THURSDAY’s LIST
As it is DH’s birthday today - he has been let off doing any jobs :rotfl:

Wipe down inside of fridge & Sort out contents - check dates etc
Sort out vegetable basket
Make chicken & chorizo casserole for the weekend
Make paprika flavoured pumpkin soup for lunches
Go out for birthday dinner - Turkish restaurant

FRIDAY’s LIST

DH to finish working on his motorbike
DH to mend my wardrobe
DH to put up picture in bedroom
DH to put up blind in his office

Put up light in shed
Make fruit cake
Knitting - try to finish baby blanket for cs

MrsSD

monnagran

Sorry, I've been missing for a few days. I'd like to say it was because I was too busy. Honesty forces me to admit that I've been sunk in lethargy.

Anyway, I'm back and today have done a pile of ironing, washed the floors down stairs and written a letter. I think that will do for today.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

monnagran - what a marvellous word ‘lethargy’ but you did make up for it ! I also like ‘ennui’ lol
THURSDAY’s LIST
As it is DH’s birthday today - he has been let off doing any jobs :rotfl:

Wipe down inside of fridge & Sort out contents - check dates etc - DONE
Sort out vegetable basket - DONE
Make chicken & chorizo casserole for the weekend - STARTED
Make paprika flavoured pumpkin soup for lunches
Go out for birthday dinner - Turkish restaurant - DONE - We had a lovely time & I am becoming a fan of Long Island Iced Tea :rotfl: reminds me of Forrest Whittaker’s character in Species

FRIDAY’s LIST

DH to finish working on his motorbike
DH to mend my wardrobe
DH to put up picture in bedroom
DH to put up blind in his office

Put up light in shed
Make fruit cake
Knitting - try to finish baby blanket for cs
Drop off bag of donations at CS

MrsSD

monnagran

Today I want to give my bedroom a good sort out. I don't know who gets in here to mess it all up, as far as I am aware I live here alone. Apart from the dog, but she has denied all knowledge of any messing up activities.
You remember the fairy tale about the gnomes who visited a house while the inhabitants were asleep and did all the housework? Well I have a small army of private detectives out searching for these gnomes. No luck so far, but here's hoping. Instead I seem to have a posse of goblins who get in while I'm asleep and create chaos.

So....in the absence of the cleaning gnomes and the reluctance of the American Boxer to get her paws dirty, it seems to be down to me.

My bedroom.....to be cleaned.

Shopping... to be endured.

a few Christmas cards....to be written.

knitting.........to be plain and purled.

Graciefields

I've not been very good this past week. I've been a bit overwhelmed with life and have done some serious procrastinating. Hopefully back on it today.

So finish off kitchen and bathroom and clean floors.
Make something for tea.
Pick up greenhouse glass that was blown out the other night with the wind.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

monnagran - so that is what happened to the ‘bedroom berserker’ :rotfl: he moved into your place :rotfl: At least you don’t have the ‘dining room disrupter’or the ‘bathroom bandit’ :rotfl:

Graciefields, you do know that procrastination can be serendipitous :rotfl:

FRIDAY’s LIST almost completely ignored :rotfl:

DH to finish working on his motorbike
DH to mend my wardrobe
DH to put up picture in bedroom
DH to put up blind in his office

Make chicken & chorizo casserole for the weekend - STARTED - FINISHED Friday
Make paprika flavoured pumpkin soup for lunches - DONE Friday
Put up light in shed
Make fruit cake
Knitting - try to finish baby blanket for cs
Drop off bag of donations at CS

What we did do Today - DH did a bit of gardening & a bit more office & garage tidying.
I made a pot of vegetable soup which is delicious 😋 but the pumpkin soup is bland even with extra paprika & some pepper added - will have to figure out what else to add to give it some oomph
I have also started knitting the 3rd Square of the baby blanket.

Saturday’s & Sunday’s lists are blank :rotfl: - I will report on what is done :rotfl: & go back to proper lists starting on Monday

The hm spicy vegetable soup from the freezer was delish 😋

MrsSD

monnagran

Mrs SD, when I have a bland soup I usually lob in a glug of pesto or, more often, mint sauce but I'm not sure they would go with pumpkin. Sorry, apart from spices you've got me there.

Well, I did tidy up part of the bedroom which now looks much better. Unfortunately the part that wasn't tidied looks much worse because it now contains all the stuff ejected from the tidy bit.

You just can't win, can you?

Saturday now so I will make a massive effort to finish the bedroom.
And write the letter I've been putting off for a week.

That will be quite enough. It's the weekend after all.

-taff

Mrs SD, try some harissa...It's fairly easy to make your own too, I used to, it's quite nice in a soup, I used to chuck it in the celeriac soup a lot.