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Post by puppybox on Jul 11, 2024 23:38:52 GMT -5
I thought i posted again but maybe I imagined it.
✅laundry ✅the 2 big dead plants in living room. 🛑pick a surface in the hall and conquer it ✅practice music
✅dust coolers and move to bedroom ✅clean yucky corner 🛑bookshelf 1 tidy
I really can’t let new dog people in tomorrow as I haven’t done anything in the kitchen which is just to the right as you come in. It’s fine I will just tell them no. But I might end up saying they can come in in a week. That should be ok (to an incredibly low standard, I don’t care if they think I’m grungy, or judge me in some ways, i don’t care, but I don’t want them to think I’m too crazy to watch their dog way. I don’t want them to feel all uncomfortable and unsafe. Hoarders make others feel unsettled.) If I can keep making daily progress as I’ve been doing I will be ok.
I Need nothing bad to happen for a week. Or nothing at all really as I need to put in the time. Also I’m missing a piece of ID I need, if anyone can wizard that out of the front hall piles that would be great.
Oh I texted this to some friends who didn’t understand:
“I’ve decluttered enough so far that I can see how cluttered it is”.
Tomorrow: 🛑remember you have laundry in the washer 🛑recycling: gather and take out. 🛑dog’s bag of stuff including brush
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Post by TwinkleToes on Jul 12, 2024 5:12:36 GMT -5
Good morning!
“I’ve decluttered enough so far that I can see how cluttered it is”.
I completely understand that concept! You have made so much progress this week and have been working hard. Way to go! I will ray yu find the ID. My missing checks popped up last week when I stopped looking for them. Crazy how that works.
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Post by TwinkleToes on Jul 12, 2024 5:17:31 GMT -5
I am a bit frustrated with the company that is coming from out of town. They are staying in an air bnb which is GReAT. And they let us know months ago that they wanted to see us while here. Fine. Dandy. However, here it is Friday morning (day of their arrival) and they have yet to tell us WHEN they are coming over. For me, it’s a huge deal if it’s going to be this afternoon, tonight, tomorrow evening, or when. I still have the foyer, living room, sitting room, guest bath, and guest room to clean. Plus my front porch needs a reset. Yes, I am going to be stashing and dashing some stuff, but if I knew what they were doing it could really help me plan! Ugh.
With all of that said, I am going to get up and get busy, one thing I have learned this week is that I greatly overestimate how difficult things are - this leads to a lot of unnecessary overwhelm.
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Post by TwinkleToes on Jul 12, 2024 6:42:22 GMT -5
DONE:
Took meds Ate breakfast Stretches Bible study and prayer PUPA master bath Made bed pUPA half bath Laundry in wash (only one load today) Handwashed dishes Cleaned sinks Cleaned sandals Wiped counters Wiped stovetop Dusted foyer (including getting cobwebs) Swept floor in foyer Mopped foyer floor wrote out get well card for Uncle D
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Post by TwinkleToes on Jul 12, 2024 8:23:31 GMT -5
Really struggling physically today, so I mentally broke my living room into quadrants. Taking a break between each quadrant. I have one quadrant left and the living room will be done. Yayyyyy!
DONE:
Took meds Ate breakfast Stretches Bible study and prayer PUPA master bath Made bed pUPA half bath Laundry in wash (only one load today) Handwashed dishes Cleaned sinks Cleaned sandals Wiped counters Wiped stovetop Dusted foyer (including getting cobwebs) Swept floor in foyer Mopped foyer floor wrote out get well card for Uncle D Laundry in the dryer Quadrant 1 on living room dusted and decluttered took out kitchen trash and replaced liner Quad 1 of living room vacuumed Quad 2 of living room decluttered and dusted Quad 2 of living room vacuumed Quad 3 of living room dusted (will declutter books another day) Quad 3 of living room vacuumed
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Post by desposito on Jul 12, 2024 8:37:38 GMT -5
Good morning TT! Did you ask your guests when they are coming? Did they just say "we don't know"? Tell them you have errands to run and you need to know how to plan your day so you'll be home when they arrive. I hate when people give you 2 minutes notice on things.
So, today's Walmart delivery scheduled for between 8 and 10 arrived at 8 sharp! All items in stock, and all items included. And I got $15 off the order because of the credit they sent me, so...a good start to the day.
Today I want to continue on paper, and also write several letters. On Sunday the postage goes up from 68 cents to 73 cents--that's a big leap considering they now raise it twice a year! So I will save 5 cents a letter by writing them today! ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/1879832/images/GuBQQkiwyXxnHbJKesLq.gif) Actually some of the stamps I have are forever stamps so they will always cost the price I paid when I bought them, but still--psychologically it will feel good to get my mail in before the price goes up. I have lots of old postage that I use on the military and nursing home letters and those have denominations on them, so on those I have to add them up to the current postage price.
I did my hour in the yard, I cleaned all the bird baths and water bowls, weeded and pruned, and dug a little hole to plant the other zucchini plant that I grew when the first one died. The second big plant out there looks terrible--leaves are not healthy looking, and after the first zucchini that I picked when it was only about 4 inches long, it has only produced a few tiny ones that dried up. Maybe there's something about that spot in the yard that isn't good for squash plants--it's a good thing that I wasn't counting on it to feed myself--I planted them more for the way they look with giant leaves reaching across the ground. But the zucchini was a nice side benefit.
Diane
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Post by bree on Jul 12, 2024 9:08:39 GMT -5
Diane I did not know postage was going up! i have forevers too. TwinkleToes I think Diane has a good plan, tell them you'll be in and out puppybox I think the person is sadly more tending towards dumb than evil. I think it is fear based on their part. I'd order pizza too BTW in fact that might be our dinner tonight! mylittlescholar that poem is so sweet, I love quotes from Milne. Can you get a room air conditioner yesterday was a busy, productive work at home day. You have all so patient with my chaos stories but here is a classic! yesterday I had a meeting that she organized popped on my calendar. was recheduled. no background provided. meeting is only a half hour, with a client. so a group of us zoom on and wait six minutes late Chaos joins She opens the meeting and asks me to give an update on some project work So I do, some conversation ensues meeting end time arrives Chaos says sorry I have to go but Bree and others can stay on and she exits So I quickly wrapped it up and got out of dodge. UGH for lunch yesterday, I took puppy to the pet store as we needed her food. puppy is so sweetly shy and excited at the store. at one point she was laying on her back with three employees gathered around her, petting her and telling her she was a good girl and anyone would be afraid of a guinea pig (Puppy was spooked when she saw one!). so cute and sweet. DD walked puppy last night, it was finally mild temps I posted a dorm room thing on marketplace yesterday and I have a buyer coming today! i almost got scammed, I had an immediate response and the person asked me to receive a code so I could send it to her and give her my cell number. I googled and this is a big scam so they can get in your g mail, I guess. i said let's keep the convo to marketplace and the person disappeared! their facebook profile was empy and just openned so it was a scammer for sure. today I fed the tribe, took puppy to daycare, and did some emails. off to a bunch of meetings one with bad vendor ugh
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Post by TwinkleToes on Jul 12, 2024 9:33:12 GMT -5
I did ask, and my husband asked to. And the answer was, “We don’t know yet. We’ll let you know.” I am hoping they just invite us to their air bnb this evening! That would be great.
DONE:
Took meds Ate breakfast Stretches Bible study and prayer PUPA master bath Made bed pUPA half bath Laundry in wash (only one load today) Handwashed dishes Cleaned sinks Cleaned sandals Wiped counters Wiped stovetop Dusted foyer (including getting cobwebs) Swept floor in foyer Mopped foyer floor wrote out get well card for Uncle D Laundry in the dryer Quadrant 1 on living room dusted and decluttered took out kitchen trash and replaced liner Living room PUPA - switch some decluttering Dusted living room Vacuumed living room
Started on sitting room - I can’t even see the carpet or most of the furniture in there, so it’s quite a task. And the stuff in there is more random then I remembered, so to put things away, I am having to walk to several different rooms. I did find some frames I had misplaced and really needed!
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Post by desposito on Jul 12, 2024 9:33:12 GMT -5
Good morning bree! I so wish I could meet your puppy, she sounds so endearing.
From the things you say about chaos, it sounds like she has a big ego, but some of the things she does sounds like she's insecure and wants to make herself look more important--like scheduling all the meetings, as though to show that you guys could never manage to do your work without her constant input and presence. Or else she just is totally scatterbrained and forgets why she scheduled the meetings in the first place.
Good thing you recognized the Facebook scam. I recently got a payment request on Paypal, for $299.99. The requesting person's first and last name were a jumble of letters. Okay, I know people are gullible, but who would okay a request for that much money without looking to see who it was from? You'd think they would at least make it look more legitimate--I guess there are stupid scammers, just like stupid people in other occupations.
TO DO:
Call decluttering client Put groceries away Restock water in fridge Delete 10 hard emails
Diane
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Post by desposito on Jul 12, 2024 10:39:12 GMT -5
Well TT, I hope they give you adequate notice!
Next:
Choose names for military letters & cards 10 minutes on old paper Put phone on charger Delete 10 hard emails
Diane
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Post by TwinkleToes on Jul 12, 2024 11:44:39 GMT -5
Me, too!
DONE:
Took meds Ate breakfast Stretches Bible study and prayer PUPA master bath Made bed pUPA half bath Laundry in wash (only one load today) Handwashed dishes Cleaned sinks Cleaned sandals Wiped counters Wiped stovetop Dusted foyer (including getting cobwebs) Swept floor in foyer Mopped foyer floor wrote out get well card for Uncle D Laundry in the dryer Quadrant 1 on living room dusted and decluttered took out kitchen trash and replaced liner Living room PUPA - switch some decluttering Dusted living room Vacuumed living room Furniture and floor are cleared in sitting room! Yayyyyyy! folded the laundry
threw away some stuff as I went but didn’t feel like sorting everything exactly correctly. Lots of stuff for my booth inventory just went into big bags with handles. Cleanin* out the sitting room resulted in making other issues in rooms I felt finished in … found a sink full of dishes and now a whole bunch of bags are sitting in the laundry room waiting to go out to the garage. Ugh. And two bags in foyer to take out to car ( donations). It’s okay … I am making progress. All I have left to do In sitting room is dust and vacuum. Woooo hoooooo. I am proud of myself because the sitting room hasn’t been to zero for a very, very, very long time (April of last year, I think)
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Post by desposito on Jul 12, 2024 11:46:53 GMT -5
Next:
Write 3 military letters
Diane
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Post by bree on Jul 12, 2024 12:17:48 GMT -5
Diane I wish you could meet puppy. You would just love her and she would love you!! I think biggest problem of Chaos is that she is incredibly unorganized and has no natural planning skills. everything is last minute w/out any idea of how it impacts deadlines and outcomes. Today, she asked for a change in a project, I said we don't have time to do X, she said yes we do -- no we will not make deadline....so now I am scrambling to find a solution when in reality it is just fine as it is and could be done!!! TwinkleToes - do your guests know they are being kind of rude?? I am so happy the morning at work is done! hopefully the marketplace person will show up and buy this item. (They did!) this afternoon, I have no meetings!! just a lot of busy work it would be good to get done. I will intersperse with little chunks of my lunch time to do some chores. so happy it is FRIDAY!!
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Post by CourageouslyLion SeeksSerenity on Jul 12, 2024 12:46:46 GMT -5
yesterday, I took puppy to the pet store as we needed her food. puppy is so sweetly shy and excited at the store. at one point she was laying on her back with three employees gathered around her, petting her and telling her she was a good girl and anyone would be afraid of a guinea pig (Puppy was spooked when she saw one!). so cute and sweet. ![:-*](//storage.proboards.com/1879832/images/vZ0HuRWschwKZFRsoqOW.gif)
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Post by desposito on Jul 12, 2024 13:14:43 GMT -5
Hello lion!
I stopped for lunch but would like to also take a short reading break--this day is going by so fast! I have lots of mail still to prepare.
Diane
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