Let's Get Motivated

VfM4meplse

MMF007 wrote: »

Tjp70, I made cinnamon biscuits. After mixing the dough you roll into thick sausage shape and put in the fridge for about 45 mins to 'set' then you can cut along the sausage to get little discs.
They were just the right crispness (light and crispy not hard and crispy,, iykwim) but they were a bit too sweet for me. I shall adapt the recipe for the hampers. DH is happy to scoff the trial batch and they'll keep nicely in a tin so HE DOES NOT HAVE TO EAT THEM ALL AT ONCE :rotfl:

Recipe please?

I do generally clock up 10,000-13,000 steps every day but am impressed that you run 10k (which for me is about 14,800 steps). Perhaps that should be a challenge I set myself next year? I enjoy walking and my pace is fast, I just find myself lacking time so that would be the incentive to speed it up a bit. I’ve never been a runner though: just get puffy and uncomfortable. I’ll be on flat ground so that should make it easier.

MandM90

Last night:

OH descaled shower door. Could do with another go, but looks MUCH better
I did 1/2 of my French homework - took about an hour
made enough curry for three meals for all of us
cleaned kitchen
Made dinner
OH did laundry

On top of a day working/commuting 7-7 it's just about all I can be bothered with.

VfM4meplse

MandM90 wrote: »

On top of a day working/commuting 7-7 it's just about all I can be bothered with.

Its more than I would do! My priority is cup of tea, then exercise, then sandwich if I can be bothered to make it, folllowed by coffee and chill time. But when I do get motivated to do thehousewrk I just power through it. Having said that, I'm pretty certain that's not why God created Saturdays

tori.k

Early start for me today means with a 4 pm finish I have no excuse not to grab the shopping on the way home.
Task today is wrap the christmas gifts, it not a big thing in this house hold and with the kids grown it's money given with just a few bits to open.
Hopefully everyone will have a productive day.

Nelski

My 6 hot picks for the day

Book a hair and nails appt for the 15th Dec
Set up an online shop for day before Christmas eve to grab the slot
Sort out at least 20 bits of paperwork that are sitting being ignored atm
General tidy of kitchen and utility room and DW on
Bins out and disposal of mattress and printer (20 quid for the pleasure)
Tidy lounge and hall

MandM90

Last night was bust.

Was in office 7.30am-5pm, managed to get home by 5.20 by the grace of some sort of benevolent traffic god, popped rice in InstantPot, went to get DD from Judo, back at 6pm, heated up curry, then ate with one hand and finished my French homework with the other. French class was 7-9pm, back at 9.20ish - collapsed into bed with a cup of valerian tea* and watched an episode of Les Revenants (highly recommended) on Netflix.

Tonight I'm in London until about 11pm so nothing will get done. Tomorrow I need to get on a train back into London at about 9, so I'm hoping before then to:

Eat healthy breakfast
Clear/clean kitchen
Process laundry
Plan meals for week (for shopping on Sun am)


Just looked at my work diary and I'm interviewing someone in the morning, then nothing. Might zip home at 12pm and WFH - then I can get a load of laundry on etc over 'lunch' (instead of chatting mindlessly at the coffee machine!)

*Valerian tea knocked me out after an hour (usually brain is buzzing from French class) but led to me hallucinating that a firey, poker hot, 1/2ft wide tarantula was hovering over the bed and screaming hysterically whilst trying to escape. DH had to hold me down until I calmed down! A quick Google reveals I'm not alone! Haven't had that much excitement since I visited Amsterdam at the age of 18.

Wednesday2000

1. Load of laundry in tumble dryer at the moment.

2. I have to use up the last of the polish later.

3. Clean the bathroom.

4. Read some more of a new book. I have started putting a book next to my laptop instead of upstairs in a box and it has worked as I'm reading more each day.

5. Recycling went out when I woke up this morning, really early. I have to wait in for a delivery today and I was worried about falling back to sleep so I just got up at 6.

MandM90 wrote: »

*Valerian tea knocked me out after an hour (usually brain is buzzing from French class) but led to me hallucinating that a firey, poker hot, 1/2ft wide tarantula was hovering over the bed and screaming hysterically whilst trying to escape. DH had to hold me down until I calmed down! A quick Google reveals I'm not alone! Haven't had that much excitement since I visited Amsterdam at the age of 18.

Eek!:eek:

tjp70

Hi everyone. Better late than never.


This morning I had to get up early because I had to pop into work (I don't work Fridays but I had something to do at the office). I wanted to get in bright and early before they got too busy.


I have done the weekly food shop, laundry, sorted out our budget, returned a duplicated present, walked to the Post Office and cleaned the kitchen. Plus running DD around for college.


MMF007 your cinnamon biscuits sound lovely. My family absolutely adore biscuits. Every time I cook any they disappear pronto, so it's not just your husband that is a cookie monster.


Off to spend some quality time with DD.


tjp

PipneyJane

What an excellent idea for a thread! Thank you. I may not participate much but I will read with interest.

Am I the only one who finds that they’re better organised in their work life than in their home life? For work, I have timetables/calendars with deadlines (usually printed off and stuck up beside my monitor), then a To Do List, which I update as necessary and re-write at the end of each day for the next day. (The latter tends to be written up in an A5 notebook.)

In my personal life, during the week I find that if I don’t do it before work, it usually won’t get done. Things that fall into this category include: exercise, learning French using Duolingo, cleaning the kitchen (including washing up and emptying the dishwasher), planning - and occasionally prepping - dinner, and cleaning the bathroom. Cooking dinner and the laundry are about the only things that reliably get done in the evenings.

From somewhere, I picked up the idea of “just do 10 minutes”. For example, when I walk into the kitchen in the morning, the first thing I do is set the kitchen timer for 10 minutes. Then I’ll put the kettle on, empty anything that has been soaking, fill the sink with hot water and load it with dishes, put away anything that’s still in the drainer/dishwasher, wash-up things that aren’t dishwasher-able (knives, pots and pans mainly), wipe down the stove, clear off the kitchen table, etc. Whatever can be done in 10 minutes. If something is still in the sink when the time goes off, then it gets washed; if not, then it won’t get done today. (NB: if I’m the one cooking dinner, then I’ll empty the dishwasher and drainer before I start cooking. My DH just leaves them when he’s cooking.)

My intention next week is to get back to exercising in the mornings. I haven’t done it reliably since I broke my foot last year. Sticking to my Just Do 10 Minutes philosophy, I’m going to do a 7 minute high intensity interval workout each day from an app I have on my phone. That’s the only goal I’m setting myself.

Nelski

PipneyJane wrote: »

Am I the only one who finds that they’re better organised in their work life than in their home life?

Yes thats me so I am currently testing using my work system in my home life. I have a huge brain dump Master to list which includes any goals big and small and everything else I can think of from clean the fridge to write a book Then every day I have another list of my 6 hot picks from Master If I finish the 6 I just keep picking one more till Im done. It does seem to be working better now and things tend to get done which works for me

6 Hot Picks for Saturday


Clean fridge and utility
Empty and refill the DW
Tidy lounge and hall
Sort out corner cupboard in kitchen
Read 2 chapters of book club book
Hunt down christmas cards ..see if need to buy more