Time for an update of week 1!
Price new washing machine.Done. I am panicking because I have no money for this.
Personal admin including budgeting, SARS & some banking stuff. Have done admin, budgeting and banking stuff. Didn’t make it to SARS.
Finalise Christmas card list. Done
Book hair appointment. Done.
Sort some stuff for a friend who is getting married (there are 3 parts to this task).Done, done and done.
Start reading 365 nights book. Not done. I read something else instead.
Start knitting blocks. Not done.
Finish lining bag – any ideas on how to do this?. Not done. Have decided to outsource this to someone who has a sewing machine.
Email woman from scrap-a-doodles. Done.
Appointment with Teacher – child 1.Done.
Appointment with Teacher – child 2.Done
Set up evening tidy up roster and study roster for child 1.Done
OT appointment – Child 2. Postponed.
Attempt to MAKE CHRISTMAS CARDS! I started this and left it. Will blog.
Saturday guitar lesson. Decided not to go as I was taking strain.
I did have an impromptu walk (Muizenberg to Kalk Bay) followed by a dinner date, followed by watching fireworks on the beach with my DH on Saturday night which messed a bit with my plans but, I am living in the moment and it was ALL GOOD! Had lots of fun.
I think I did well enough, though I do see now that I overdid it with what I was expecting for myself.
So for Week 2:
This week I am getting a day off. This is what I plan to do on that day off:
Breakfast by myself
OT follow-up.
SARS.
Movie by myself. Any suggestions?
These things need to happen as well but NOT on my off day:
Start new book – Mmmm….maybe I will wait for off day for this too. Could work when I’m sitting in the SARS queue.
Start knitting blocks – This will happen tomorrow – we have officially started a knitting/crochet group at work and will be meeting on Tuesdays starting tomorrow.
Do some more research on making Christmas cards. I started and they flopped. Obviously I am WAY TOO AMBITIOUS!
Re-attempt Christmas cards
Go to my friend who is getting married and give an update of stuff that I needed to sort for the wedding – I’m thinking Saturday evening.
Guitar lesson on Saturday afternoon.
There are a few more things but I feel comfortable to leave them for next week.
How are your November goals coming along?
My main goal is to get through the Funrazor event in one piece. But I am feeling confident that everything is falling into place. I also need to get on with the kids’ advent calendar boxes and November is already moving so fast!
You can do it! And yes, things do seem to be falling into place so nicely for Funrazor. It’s going to be FANTASTIC.
HI Julia,
I might have a washing machine you can use till you have the money for the new one. Email me if you are interested.
Thank you for your offer. I will let you know.
Hey Baglady, Your email keeps bouncing back. Do you want to forward me another address please? Send it to julia dot webber at gmail dot com Thanks.xx
Hi Julia,
I emailed you.
I think you did rather well girl. Me, too scared to write them down.
Write them down! Just 5 items. You will feel much better for crossing off 5 things than for not keeping track of anything…
I love it when you sound like me!!!
You are doing far better than I am doing. I don’t even have a to-do list (except for work) I have only one goal at home and that is to have it back;-)
Am holding thumbs for you that you get your home back ASAP!
i hated the panic i felt knowing htere was a ‘to-do’ list on my blog, so for me I have them in my head for november and that is going well.
i have also decided not to beat myself up if something doesn’t get done. There is TONS of house stuff that I want to do , but i know that when the time is right it will happen. right now i’m just LOVING my new kitchen!
What about taking a family photo – here is a link to mine last year ( http://shaynes-timeout.blogspot.com/2010/11/ho-ho-ho-not.html ) – and then printing out a million and pasting them onto card folded in half – that is what i do every year and it’s actually fun. And you get a family portrait out of it too!
First I thought of doing the photo and then I decided that I wasn’t going to waste my money. Child1 is corky around cameras and Child2 is just whiney. Then I read Cat’s post and I figured that I should just do it already! We don’t have a family portrait and even if my kids come out looking ridiculous, at least it will be a memory. So, it looks like I will go the photo card route. And I am just LOVING your new kitchen too!
I like the idea of catching a movie on your own, I think I must do that sometime.
Leigh, you HAVE to try it sometime. It is FANTASTIC!
I am doing awesome on some and not-so-awesome on others
Also I want to say …. please don’t feel caught up in comparison. I decided I’m doing only a few normal, boring Christmas cards from Clicks (R8,99 for 8) – after all, my words are the thing that matters, right
And for very special people, they will get a pic of us too.
You are doing very very well (Connor’s new thing is the double “very”) – “Mummy, Connor very very naughty”
You are very ambitious – that is more or less what my quarterly list would look like! I think my goal for November was something in the line of sleeping more – I’m working on it!
Looking good! The way I’m running around at the moment I’ll be lucky if I get two things crossed off my list this month.