Monday, June 20, 2016

Goals for WB 06-19-16


GO AND DO
Post office
Doctor's appt - June 23
GARDEN - M, W, R, F
Visit and babysit with Evan - 

ROUTINES

Home:
  • Make Your Bed (Do this as soon as you get up.)
  • Get Dressed Down to Your Shoes
  • Swish and Swipe
  • Start Your Laundry
  • Decide on Dinner
  • Check Your Calendar
  • Start the Day off with a Shiny Sink. Don’t leave the breakfast dishes sitting.
School:
  • Keep track of time!!!
  • Check into some summer activities and make a plan to do some of them.
 Afternoon Routine:
  • Eat Lunch
  • Clear off One Hot Spot
  • Reboot the Laundry
  • Declutter for 15 Minutes (Be sure to have your children declutter, too.)
  • Drink Your Water
Before Bed: (This starts right after dinner.)
  • Check the Calendar for Tomorrow
  • Lay out Your Clothes for Tomorrow (Have your children lay their clothes out, too.)
  • Put things at your launch pad
  • Shine Your Sink
  • Clean Off a Hot Spot
  • Go to Bed at Decent Hour
HOUSE
  • Zone 1 - (Monday)
    • Super Fling Boogie - Do missions 1 - 4
    • Zone
    • WHB
  • Zone 2 - (Tuesday)
    • Kitchen
      • Super Fling Boogie - Missions 5 - 11
      • Zone
      • (Pantry and list )
      • WHB
  • Zone 3 - 
    • Bath - (Wednesday)
      • Super Fling Boogie - Missions 12 - 19
      • Zone
      • WHB
    • Laundry Room - (Wednesday)
      • Super Fling Boogie - Missions 12 - 19
      • Zone
      • WHB
    • Sewing room - (Thursday)
      • Super Fling Boogie - Missions 12 - 19
      • Zone
      • Finish Zone and rearranging
      • WHB
  • Zone 4 - My room - (Friday)
    • Super Fling Boogie - Missions 20-27
    • Zone
    • WHB
  • Zone 5: 
    • Living Room
      • WHB
    • Study
      • WHB
  • Paperwork - 
    • M, W, F
GARDEN - M, W, F
  • Plant
    • Sweet corn (1/2)
    • Roots like turnips, beets, kohlrabi
    • Coles (probably have to buy in seed)
  • Weed garden
  • Water garden
  • Harvest - daily - at least 1-2 lettuce
  • garden tools - clean and mend
DEHYDRATE
  • FOOD PREP - W, F
  • PREP - T, R
KITCHEN
  • Spark People
    • Keep track online.
    • 1500 calorie/day max
    • Keep up with Realistic Challenges and New Member challenge
  • Breads
    • whole wheat bread - Monday
    • Pita - Monday (and freeze)
    • Challah
  • Soups
    • Turkey vegetable and freeze most of it
  • Salad in a jar
    • tossed salad, super salad
  • Crockpot - turnip greens and meat (turkey) - Monday
EDUCATION
  • EXERCISE
    • Yoga - routines 1, 2, 3 (alternate over 3 days)
    • Strength - arms, legs, core (alternate and paired up with yoga routine)
    • Cardiovascular - dancing, walking, marching, housework
  • RUSSIAN - M, T, W, R, F - 22-26 Review; 27, 28
  • MATH
    • Algebra - M, T, W, R, F - to L 5
  • MUSIC
    • Rachmaninoff - S, M, T, W, R, F - Section 1 - timing
  • RELIGION
    • Torah - S, W - 
    • Hebrew - M, R
    • Holiday - T, F
  • EARTH
    • Pre- Camb - M, W, F (EH), (TOL), (LOE)
  • HANDWRITING - M. T. W. R. F (14-18)
  • CREATIVE WRITING - M, T, W, R, F (3-13 to Day 9)
  • SCIENCE (doing review of some of work)
    • Botany - S, T, R (R 4; College text)
  • LEARNING TO LEARN MODULE
          
    • S, T, R  (R 1-4, 5 + tips)
  • ART - M, W, F (L4)
          QUILT
          • TAKE PICTURES and post them!!!!
          • STASH REPORT (Sunday)  catch up year's amount
          • DESIGN WALL (Monday) Take pix of all projects since beginning of year
          • FINISHINGS - Bindings + movies, spiced tea, hot cider or hot chocolate (Friday at Open Sew)
          • BINDING - 
            • Baby quilt
            • Baby quilt - #2 
            • Valentine - Lace trim
          • QUILTING 
            • Baby quilt - sampler 1  free motion quilting.
            • Baby quilt - #2 - walking foot AND free motion quilting
            • Valentine - FMQ or embroider Valentine sayings.  
          • Other Projects:
            • Awful Ugly Slippers - piecing, quilting, binding
            • (VERY tempted to quilt up a storm - FMQ AND Walking foot!)
          • PIECING
            • Eons old swap - finish ASAP and post  Deadline - 3 weeks - then turn remaining blocks into flimsy for charity
            • Awful ugly slippers
          • Orange Crush - 
            • It is a quilt along with Wendy!  Currently ready for Step 5!!!!
          • Jamestown Landing (goal would be entire flimsy - HOWEVER I will be overjoyed to get this ready for the outer border  (5 gazillion blue strings in border marching around the center!)
            • Inside border 
            • Blue string border
          • Four Patch Re-Visited - LE until end of June

          Sunday, June 05, 2016

          Goals for WB 06-05-16



          GO AND DO
          DONE Post office
          DONE 10 AM - Button, Widget, Scrappy - groomer
          DONE GARDEN - M, W, R, F
          DONE Visit and babysit with Evan - R

          HOUSE
          • DONE Zone 1 - WHB
          • Zone 2
            • Kitchen
              • DONE Zone
              • DONE WHB
          • Zone 3 - 
            • DONE Bath - WHB
            • DONE Laundry Room - WHB
            • Sewing room
              • DONE WHB
          • DONE Zone 4 - WHB
          • Paperwork - 
            • DONE F
          GARDEN - M, W, F
          • DONE Weed garden
          • DONE Thin veggies
          • DONE Water garden
          KITCHEN
          • Spark People
          • Breads
            • DONE whole wheat bread
            • DONE Challah
          • Soups
            • DONE Turkey vegetable and freeze most of it
          • Salad in a jar
            • DONE tossed salad, super salad
          QUILT
          • DONE  - steps 1 - 4 Orange Crush - it is a quilt along with Wendy!
          • Jamestown Landing (goal would be entire flimsy - HOWEVER I will be overjoyed to get this ready for the outer border  (5 gazillion blue strings in border marching around the center!)
            • DONE Frog 2 upside down rows
            • DONE Re-do those 2 rows.
            • DONE Put rows together

          Stash Report for Week 23 - WB 06-05-16



          2016  06-05-16 - Week 23 (I think!) - LOTS new! (at least for me it is lots!) (and the first report this year!)
          It's June already!  FWIW I don't remember whether or not I ever counted yardage on the Log Cabin Flimsy. and KNOW I didn't count yardage on Buckeye Beauty.  I don't think I'm going to count yardage on flimsies anymore - just count when the quilt is DONE DONE!  

          Plus - I am hopeful of backtracking all the way to January.  Hopeful anyway!  So for now - I am reporting JUST this past week - nothing more! Although I will have YTD and MTD totals run.

          Oh - and this does NOT count the Tobacco Road Flimsy completed (to flimsy), Charleston baby quilt, nor Jamestown Landing flimsy!  Why?  They aren't Done Done - Yet!

          STILL nothing finished this past week!!!! This HAS to change - if only because I do NOT want to be queen of the UFOs - and I'm #5 in the Queen's court right now!

          Used This Week: 0 yards
          Used This month (June): 0 yards
          Used Year to Date: (still totalling up the yards - 1 ginormous quilt and 1 Big boy quilt (bigger than a baby quilt, smaller than a twin!)

          Added This Week: 0 yard
          Added This Month:0 yards in June
          Added Year to Date: 0 yard

          Net Used for 2016: + (Yup - I'm definitely in the black - just don't know how much in the black!) yards

          Menues for WB 06-05-16




          SUNDAY
          B:Omelette
          L:Grilled Cheese
          D:Leftovers
          S:

          MONDAY
          B:Cracked Wheat
          L:Turkey Vegetable soup
          D:Garlic Chicken
          S:

          TUESDAY
          B:Pancakes
          L:Super Salad
          D:Pita Turkey
          S:

          WEDNESDAY
          B:Pan American Fried Eggs
          L:Tuna salad sandwich
          D:Leftovers, ,
          S:

          THURSDAY
          B:Homemade granola - banana-raisin
          L:leftover casserole
          D:Pepper steak
          S:

          FRIDAY
          B:Biscuits and gravy
          L:Leftover luncheon menu
          D:Spice Island Halibut
          S:

          SATURDAY
          B:Doughnuts
          L:Moroccan Chicken
          D:Salmon salad, lokshen
          S:

          Sunday, May 29, 2016

          Goals for WB 05-29-16 - Sunday


          GO AND DO
          Post office
          GARDEN -
          Visit and babysit with Evan - R

          HOUSE
          • Zone 1
            • Front Porch 
              • Zone
              • WHB
            • Entrance and 2nd floor landing
              • Zone
              • WHB
            • Back Stairs
              • Zone
              • WHB
            • Side Porch
              • Declutter
              • Zone
              • WHB
          • Zone 2
            • Kitchen
              • WHB
          • Zone 3
            • Bath
              • WHB
            • Laundry Room
              • WHB
            • Sewing room
              • WHB
          • Zone 4
            • Bedroom 
              • WHB
          • Zone 5: 
            • Living Room
              • Zone
              • WHB
            • Study
              • Zone
              • WHB
          • Paperwork - 
            • M, W, F
          GARDEN - M, W, F

          • GARDEN - plant - peas,Re-plants bird hit veggies (greens, coles)
          • GARDEN - Weed garden
          • GARDEN - Water garden
          • GARDEN - garden tools - clean and mend
          DEHYDRATE
          • FOOD PREP - W, F
          • PREP - T, R
          KITCHEN
          • Breads
            • whole wheat bread
            • pizza dough (whole wheat)
            • Challah
          • Soups
            • Turkey vegetable and freeze most of it
          • Salad in a jar
            • tossed salad, super salad
          EDUCATION
          • EXERCISE
            • Yoga - routines 1, 2, 3 (alternate over 3 days)
            • Strength - arms, legs, core (alternate and paired up with yoga routine)
            • Cardiovascular - dancing, walking, marching, housework
          • RUSSIAN - M, T, W, R, F
          • MATH
            • Algebra - M, T, W, R, F
          • MUSIC
            • Rachmaninoff - S, M, T, W, R, F
          • RELIGION
            • Torah - S, W
            • Hebrew - M, R
            • Holiday - T, F
          • EARTH
            • Pre- Camb - M, W, F
          • HANDWRITING - M. T. W. R. F
          • CREATIVE WRITING - M, T, W, R, F
          • SCIENCE (doing review of some of work)
            • Botany - S, T, R
          • LEARNING TO LEARN MODULE
                
            • S, T, R
          • ART - M, W, F
                  QUILT
                  • STASH REPORT (Sunday)  catch up year's amount
                  • DESIGN WALL (Monday) Take pix of all projects since beginning of year
                  • FINISHINGS - Bindings, movies, spiced tea, hot cider or hot chocolate (Friday at Open Sew)
                  • BINDING - 
                    • Baby quilt - sampler 1
                    • Baby quilt - sampler 2
                  • QUILTING 
                    • Baby quilt - sampler 1
                    • Baby quilt - sampler 2
                    • Awful Ugly Slippers
                    • Above is what I definitely PLAN - however - there ARE several others hoped for - BEFORE end of May!!!!:
                      • New Year's (2010) (January UFO)
                      • Charleston Baby blanket (2015) 
                      • Yellow Brick Road
                      • Summer Breeze (tie quilt)
                      • Valences (yes, these need quilting)
                      • Apple Cider quilt
                      • Lilacs in Bloom
                      • Hearts Around
                      • Hurricane Sandy
                      • Mondo Bag
                      • Cinnamon Stix and January table runner
                      • It's all about hearts table runner
                      • Luck of the Irish
                      • Snow people and Valentine TR
                  Any or all of the above completed before 05-31 will be GREAT!
                  • PIECING
                    • Eons old swap - finish ASAP and post  Deadline - 3 weeks - then turn remaining blocks into flimsy for charity
                    • Swaps - Caught up through JULY!!!!
                    • Jamestown Landing (goal would be entire flimsy - HOWEVER I will be overjoyed to get this ready for the outer border  (5 gazillion blue strings in border marching around the center!)
                      • Frog 2 upside down rows
                      • Re-do those 2 rows.
                      • Put rows together
                      • Inside border (Dark blue?)
                    • Four Patch Re-Visited - New and temporary LE only until 05-31!
                      • working on square in a square Leader - Ender method
                    • Orange Crush - LE
                      • LE in June - until all June projects completed!!!! - it is a quilt along with Wendy!
                    • Allieterre - still a vision on the FAR horizon! - IF and ONLY IF Orange crush is DONE DONE (quilted and bound!)

                  Menu for WB 05-29-16 - Sunday



                  SUNDAY
                  B:Fried eggs
                  L:Turkey Burgers
                  D:Leftovers
                  S:

                  MONDAY
                  B:Cous cous
                  L:Soup
                  D:Baked Stuffed potatoes
                  S:

                  TUESDAY
                  B:Biscuits
                  L:Super Salad
                  D:Lo country Beef and Rice
                  S:

                  WEDNESDAY
                  B:Hard boiled eggs
                  L:Cheese sandwich
                  D:Leftovers
                  S:

                  THURSDAY
                  B:Cold cereal
                  L:leftover casserole
                  D:
                  S:

                  FRIDAY
                  B:English muffins, Jelly
                  L:Leftover luncheon menu
                  D:Blackened salmon
                  S:

                  SATURDAY
                  B:Doughnuts
                  L:Crockpot Italian Vegetable Stew
                  D:Pizza
                  S:

                  Wednesday, May 25, 2016

                  Goals for the rest of WB: 05-22-16 Sunday (and this is Wednesday!)



                  GO AND DO
                  DONE Post office
                  Called and cancelled GARDEN -Groomer Appointments?
                  DONE Visit and babysit with Evan - DONE M, DONE W, DONE R, DONE S
                  HOUSE
                  • Zone 3
                    • Bath
                      • DONE WHB
                    • Laundry Room
                      • DONE WHB
                  • Zone 4
                    • Bedroom 
                      • DONE  Zone
                      • DONE WHB
                  • Paperwork - 
                    • DONE T, DONE W, 
                    • DONE Bills
                  GARDEN - M, W, F

                  • GARDEN - plant - peas, DONE bought in plants, squash, cucumbers, sweet potatoes
                  • DONE GARDEN - buy in remaining plants
                  EDUCATION
                  • EXERCISE
                    • DONE Cardiovascular - dancing, walking, marching, housework
                          QUILT
                          • PIECING
                            • Jamestown Landing (goal would be entire flimsy - HOWEVER I will be overjoyed to get this ready for the outer border  (5 gazillion blue strings in border marching around the center!)
                              • DONE Complete Rows
                              • MOSTLY DONE Put rows together
                            • Four Patch Re-Visited - still sitting there!  New and temporary LE!
                              • DONE working on square in a square Leader - Ender method

                          Monday, May 23, 2016

                          Whu-u-ups! It's MONDAY - and almost the end of MAY - and I haven't posted my menues!


                          SUNDAY
                          B:Baked eggs, milk, coffee
                          L:Hot Turkey sandwich, salad, tea, fruit
                          D:Leftovers or Pancakes
                          S:Milk, fruit

                          MONDAY
                          B:Couscous, brown sugar, milk, coffee
                          L:Green beaSoup, toast, tea, fruit
                          D:Mexican torta, milk
                          S:Milk, fruit

                          TUESDAY
                          B:Muffins, milk, coffee
                          L:Turkey salad, fruit
                          D:Pasta Turkey Satay, Baked sweet potato, salad, tea
                          S:Milk x 2, fruit

                          WEDNESDAY
                          B:Scrambled Eggs, w wheat toast (homemade bread), milk, coffee
                          L:Cheese sandwich, Milk, fruit
                          D:Leftovers, or Turkey burger
                          S:Milk x 2, fruit

                          THURSDAY
                          B:Cold cereal, milk, coffee
                          L:lo casserole, fruit
                          D:Black and White Checkered chili, corn muffins, spinach salad, tea
                          S:Milk x 2 , fruit

                          FRIDAY
                          B:French toast, honey, milk, coffee
                          L:leftovers from lunch, tea
                          D:Pan-roasted chicken and potatoes, Carrot coins, spinach salad, tea, challah
                          S:Milk x 2, fruit

                          SATURDAY
                          B:Coffeecake, milk, coffee
                          L:Orange chicken (turkey, subst)(crockpot), coffee or iced tea, challah
                          D:tuna salad, challah, milk, fruit
                          S:Milk, fruit

                          Sunday, May 15, 2016

                          Trying ONCE again!!!!! Sparkpeople - I'm ba-a-a-ack!

                          Today I didn't even bother to climb onto the scales!  I KNOW I'm overweight - WAY overweight!  When I put my arms down at my sides and the pudginess keeps me from feeling my ribs - I am too entirely fat!  Not just overweight, not pudgy - but FAT!

                          The emphasis these days is to love yourself regardless of what weight or size you are.  Fine, well and good!  However when I'm FAT - I have increased problems breathing, problems standing and walking, my knees pop out more, my chronic fatigue makes itself known once again and my metabalic rate plummets!  I also feel bad!  WAY bad!

                          So - I need to tackle this problem.........  I don't know how others do it - but I DO know how I do it and what can work for me (IF I stick to it!).
                          1. EXERCISE!  Yoga for sure - especially if I enjoy walking, standing, sitting without pain.  And Strength exercise - my muscles are going in the wrong direction for now - and definitely need to be built up!  Especially if I enjoy the walking, standing, sitting activities for which Yoga has given me the flexibility!

                          Cardiovascular activity - uhm - IF I keep up the above - this one follows almost automatically - usually in the form of walking around the house, dancing (although it can - and has in the past led to knees popping out of joint again!)

                          2. STAY AWAY from coffee.  or at least stay away from more than 1 cup a day.  Tea is fine - to an extent - just not strong tea!

                          3. No dieting per se - but re-figuring my food intake options - and going for healthy food choices - and yes, I do like the Spark people diet.
                          a. Limit fat intake.
                          b. Limit sugars
                          c. More fiber
                          d. Veggies - esp raw ones are good - just watch the sauces
                          e. Make sure I consume 3 glasses milk daily - OR the equivalent
                          f. One helping
                          g. REGULAR times for eating.  Breakfast at 7. Morning pick me up at 10. Lunch at 12:30.
                          h. at 8 PM - evening snack - which is figured as part of day's caloric intake.
                          i. at 3 PM - afternoon snack - also part of day's caloric intake.
                          j. Weigh and/or measure EVERYTHING!
                          k. Make friends with salads!

                          4. Ummm - I SHOULD be journaling the diet - but considering that I spend too much time sitting and being on the computer anyway - that can be a problem.  Consider planning - and then following the plan!

                          5. Weigh in - uhm - this gets to be a problem and then I hyperfocus on foods and overeat or binge eat.  Consider losing inches rather than weight - and decreasing clothing size!

                          6. Rewards for each week?  hmmm - at this point a reward for each DAY would be nice!  should be something fun and NOT food!  Must think on this!  I definitely am too food oriented - and, no - hot fudge sundaes will NOT work as a reward! Neither will adding to my overly abundant stash!

                          May's quilting goals - and what I'm doing!

                          (Pix to come - eventually!)

                          Egads - I'm up to Number 20 (and probably a lot closer to #1 by now~!) on the UFO Queen's list on Stashbusters - something to NOT be proud of!  Trust me on that one!  Ah well, never mind - I'll have a week before I have to pay in a FQ should I hit the #1 spot!  And I have the little baby quilt that would be just right for it!

                          The numbers for May on the Numbered UFO list are - #12 - which is Four Patch Revisited and #53 which is Jamestown Landing, both Bonnie Hunter's patterns!.  I truly do NOT expect to be at the final quilting on either of these - but will be instead be glad to get them to the flimsy stage!~  I'm still at the practice a lot on the FMQ - and choose to do my practicing on table toppers of some description and baby blankets!  Hence the baby blankets!

                          As for pictures of either of these - well, ulp!  I don't have any yet - but I WILL have them!  and WILL update my flimsy gallery as soon as I get the pix taken!

                          Mostly though I'm working on Jamestown landing - and considering that prior to this month I only had 35 string blocks out of the 168 needed and that my dd and I have been doing swaps with her portion being 500 blue and white HST which would be coming my way 100 at a time (I need 840 of these doodads!)......  well, all of a sudden things started moving faster - and Wendy sent 400 to go with last month's 100 and I got busy on paperpiecing the remainder of the string blocks!  Currently I'm putting together the alternate rows (the star rows are DONE!) and will be making the remaining blue and white HSTs after I figure out exactly where I am with what!

                          Originally I had thought of changing the color of the intervening unit block to green - or gold - or red - because I was afraid there wouldn't be enough color in there!  ROFLOL!  Even though the string blocks are "light" - they are comprised of ALL KINDS of lights and I just love them!  Definitely enough color in there with the string blocks looking "light" from an onlooker point of view!  Love this quilt!
                          ..............................

                          Re the Four Patch Revisited - I have ALL the little blocks leftover from when I downsized Bodacious to a baby quilt which I gave Evan.  While I don't have any double pink like Bonnie used - I do have several other pinks and am switching my LE to attaching the triangles for the square in a "square" (the tiny Bow-dacious 4 patch blocks)!  Still need to figure out what other color to use!  This will probably be a quilt for my bed - uhm - an alternate winter quilt????  not sure! (My Log Cabin is first choice!)   This is the LE as stated - HOWEVER since it is also a May quilt - it is of short term duration - and LE will revert back to the Orange Crush quilt once Jamestown Landing is done!

                          ................................
                          Jamestown Landing is a Bonnie Hunter quilt - and found in String Fling.
                          Bow-dacious is also a Bonnie Hunter quilt - and is found in Adventures with Leaders & Enders.
                          Four Patch Re-visited is also a Bonnie Hunter quilt and is also found in Adventures with Leaders & Enders.
                          Orange Crush is a Bonnie Hunter mystery and is found on her blog: quiltville.blogspot.com  Quiltville's Quips and Snips.

                          Needless to say - I'm a Bonnie Hunter fan and I LOVE scrap quilts!

                          Menu for WB 05-01-16 - Sunday



                          SUNDAY
                          B:Cheesy eggs, toast
                          L:Hot turkey sandwich
                          D:Leftovers
                          S:

                          MONDAY
                          B:Rolled Oats, brown sugar, butter
                          L:Green bean soup in turkey broth
                          D:Turkeyetti (with veggies)
                          S:

                          TUESDAY
                          B:Pancakes
                          L:Egg salad sandwiches
                          D:Succotash soup
                          S:
                          WEDNESDAY
                          B:Poached egg on toast
                          L:Turkey sandwich
                          D:leftovers
                          S:

                          THURSDAY
                          B:Cold cereal, milk
                          L:tuna salad
                          D:Asian Burrito
                          S:

                          FRIDAY
                          B:Waffles
                          L:leftovers from lunch menu
                          D:Mediterranean fish, baked potato, sour cream (lite), spinach
                          S:

                          SATURDAY
                          B:Muffin
                          L:turkey pot pie (crockpot)
                          D:Noodle kugel, veggies, fruit
                          S:

                          Goals for WB 05-15-16 - Sunday


                          GO AND DO
                          DONE Post office
                          DONE Medical Appointments
                          DONE Visit and babysit with Evan
                          HOUSE
                            • Sewing room
                              • DONE Zone - am rearranging room - ugh!
                          • Zone 4
                            • Bedroom 
                              • DONE WHB
                          • Zone 5: 
                            • Living Room
                              • DONE WHB
                            • Study
                              • DONE WHB
                          • DONE Paperwork - F
                          GARDEN - M, W, F

                          • DONE GARDEN - plant - beans, bought in plants, 
                          QUILT
                          • PIECING
                            • DONE Swaps - Caught up through JULY!!!!
                            • Jamestown Landing (goal would be entire flimsy - HOWEVER I will be overjoyed to get this ready for the outer border  (5 gazillion blue strings in border marching around the center!)
                              • DONE HSTs - the rest of them made up - 168 I think
                              • working on it Complete Rows
                              • SOME ARE DONE Put rows together
                            • working on it Four Patch Re-Visited -Leader - Ender method
                            • Orange Crush - this will be a quilt together with Wendy - on hold until both of us are ready for it
                            • Allieterre - still a vision on the horizon!

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