I was dreaming about Dh uncle when my alarm went off this morning. Then I remembered it was a school day and I didn't want to get up.

I had some coffee and cried a little. There is snow. It is supposed to keep snowing until early afternoon, but not accumulate too much. Still, there are closings and delays. But not us. We never seem to close.

I am silently begging the admin to close. Please, we need a break. Give us a snow day. I do not want to teach children about bears. I want to stay home and take down my Christmas tree.

Road, I'm so sorry to hear about your bout with covid. And your poor son! So miserable.

I know the thrill of impulse items. And yes, those infomercials are speaking directly to you!

I'm still not buying anything and I'm keeping it that way til mid-February. I want a month with my credit card down.

My friend came for dinner last night and I tested just before she came. Unfortunately, mom had a fall where she banged her head so I was with her until the EMTs came and took her to the hospital. She got home today. Luckily she's okay. But the poor thing. My friend just hung out here til I got home and hen she made me dinner. We had three dinner choices, and she chose the one she could make easily for us. I have three pieces of old plaster mounding for my bookcase, fireplace object and I could get two to be under my bed but needed to remove a tote for the third one. So she took out the tote and unboxed it (has my mother's antique glassware). So now there's room for the last piece of plaster (it's so beautiful). I was glad she waited to eat once I got home.

That's the news. I'm tired but I'm doing laundry. Have one in the dryer, one in the washer, and one hanging to dry.

Road,
I'm so glad for your son. And I think yes - the chances of you getting sick again or making someone else sick in the first few weeks after you recover are effectively nil. Once you test negative - try to go do something fun.

Maybe not recreational shopping. And try to avoid infomercials.

I bought 4 books at the used book store the other day when I went in for a calendar. But I did not buy a calendar because I had waited so long they didn't have any I liked. I will just use the free one from the feed store. Then I will get a 16 month one in August. Some days it feels like august will be in about 5 minutes anyway. (Other days it feels like March 2020 will never be over.) anyway, I had a gift card, so I spent under $9. Three of the books were hardcover.

Still just trying to do the best I can, and looking forward to Saturday, when I can sleep.

Hi guys,

Just checking in to see what's up and give a little update. The H is well and back at school now. I think I got away with a little extra fatigue and a few days of a Stupendous headache. My son did end up t3ting + and he's miserable right now the way you are with a bad cold. Red nose, rosy cheeks, runny nose, and tonight he had a very bad headache. I gave him cold medicine and everything The sinus pain was keeping him awake. But he's sawing logs now. Hope he feels better tomorrow and this is the worst of it.

So it's kind of funny, but I'm wondering if we can act invincible now for a few weeks. Dine out, shop recreationally, go to a concert?! Fly on a plane somewhere?! None of those are that likely actually but next week is a turning point for my son. He's basically been out of all recreational stuff for 2 years. He would have started back with basketball this fall but he got that X-ray of his neck that excluded him from participation. But now next week he will start a virtual cooking class, a virtual karaoke, an in person dance, and soon, bowling. He's basically been out of school for two weeks now so next week he will start back to school and then have activities almost every day after school! Kinda like the old days.

My brother was all set to host the family Sunday but we had to call it off since we both saw him up close and personal on Thursday and John got his result Saturday. Sounds like he is either negative or has very mild symptoms. He was just about to go to lunch at my parents when we got the email so that was lucky. As you can guess my room is in the same state as it has been, and I also had a little flurry of depression induced buying. Bought two new charts, two new pieces of linen, and 3 used textiles books. About $150. Mostly the linen. Have also " taken care " Of some misc other shopping that needed doing or half needed doing but that stuff always adds up. Gulp. I paid $50 for a bottle of vitamins after watching an infomercial because my pain is so bad right now. I am really hoping this does something. I feel disabled at this point. The month of January and I are not on good terms.

Well, group - I am gonna tip toe back through the thread and see what I missed!

My Dd sent mom a video and mom sent it on to me. Heart grandson duct taped the wagon the the back of the toy riding tractor so Bean could pull his dolls around. Then heart gs pulled Bean, and Bean said "choochoo" I love those boys so much!

I am tired, but I am ok. It's winter. Winter is hard. Covid is hard. Spring will come. My Dh is taking really good care of me.

Hello everyone!

I hear the weariness in your voice, SubC. I can hear it and I'm worried.

I just tested negative and friend is on her way. I showered and dried my hair and now I'm in some pretty comfortable pjs. Fire is burning and I feel pretty good. Trying to warm up my apt for my friend.

We are having bagel sandwiches with lox, cream cheese, capers, and English cucumbers. Raspberries too.

I am in desperate need of a haircut. Only three haircuts in two years. I think I mentioned that after the last haircut, all the color was gone and my hair feels so good. Not as much grey as I was hoping but pretty big streak in the front. I feel so fancy. Until I remember that I'm in pjs and wearing slippers that don't match.

Shout out to Road!

Yay for computer feet!

Lila, I'm glad you got more trash out. Don't give up! Does your Dh work from home! (Or is he retired? Or?)

That is very cute that Tot was excited about her clothes!

I hope you enjoy your business trip.

And that Tatoulia has fun with her friend.

It is 6 degrees F here. I haven't been out to the barn yet. I stopped at the farm store on my way home to get some things including more heat lamp bulbs. I saw one other mask - around the neck of my cashier. My state set another record for deaths yesterday. They put the traffic deaths up over the highway periodically. Based on last year's average, currently, for every person who dies in a vehicular accident in my state, 51 people die of covid. The state vaccine rate is 56% I feel like everyone around me is speeding down the highway, drunk and short on sleep.

One of my last year students stopped by yesterday. He looked ragged. He is struggling with health issues (unrelated to covid) and with college. Some days I wonder if anything I do makes any difference. And if it's a positive difference.

And then I feed the cat - just so I have one sure thing on my list. He is very glad to have me. It is 6 degrees outside.

Safe travels, dear Lila. And yuck on the toilet seat. Just gross beyond belief.

I'm heading to bed, a bit early. Hoping my acid reflux leaves me alone. It's so painful.

My friend Emiko is coming over for dinner tomorrow night. I have a few choices of things to make for her. I may try to sneak out midday to grocery store. We are expecting big snow and I suppose that half the country is. It's due this weekend, I believe. So hopefully lunch time at grocers won't be too bad. I just have to motivate and actually leave the house.

I woke up this AM and showered right away. It felt really good. I never did dry my hair but that's okay. I did what I could do.

Thanks Tatoulia! I hope you enjoy your tea. I am on prescription meds for GERD right now but they want to wean me off soon. It was causing a lot of issues.

Today I went over to see my sweet little Tot, and she was so excited to see the clothes I brought her and try them on. We had a nice little visit. Then I ran to the bank and went home.

While dh was gone I took one bag of trash out of the family room and consolidated several boxes, and in that room I found a box with a USED, Broken, DIRTY old toilet seat... WHY?? I remember him saying months ago that the toilet seat downstairs had cracked and he was replacing it. WHY would anyone save a cracked toilet seat with pee still on it?? Anyway it is now in the trash, yuck. But the family room is a bit better now. Some of it just needs to have him sort it and get rid of things. It was not as bad as I thought. I guess I did declutter it a month or two ago.

I got the calls and emails all finished up. Paid a bill, cancelled a service. Got my suitcase out of the garage and made a list of things to bring. I need to do laundry at the last minute but some of it is done so I can start packing tonight.

Lila, you have great energy! Wow! I'm such a slug!

Thanks for looking at my pictures. I bought the fabric for my shower curtain. My cleaners sewed it for me and then they made me covers for some occasional pillows. Pretty nice.

That's great that you got your day back!

I'm going to make myself some tea. I have bad acid reflux (thank you pandemic). My cleaner took care of my house today. Makes me very happy!

Okay off to put the kettle on!

Ooooh, I just found out dh is going to be gone for 2-3 hours this afternoon! I will be going into the dungeon and getting rid of any old food, trash, etc as much as I can in a short period of time. I only get a chance to do this once every 3 to 6 months or so. If I did not do this, his hoard would take over the entire family room. It is about 60% full right now and I will try to get it down to 35%. Wish me luck!

I am so excited about the Instagrams!! Tatoulia, I found yours too and love it! So many pretty inspirations. The bird shower curtain is wonderful. When I get back from my trip I am going to make an Instagram so I can share some pics, although mine will look more like piles of junk than anything. But the afters will be good, and you can see my happy spaces and my furniture.

I had forgotten I had to take my teen to a doctor appointment today that is about a 3 hour round trip. So that would have taken about 5-6 hours out of my day plus prepping to go and coming home to decompress. I remembered last night and was trying to figure out how on earth I would get everything done, since I leave on my trip Weds evening. But the Doctor office called this morning and cancelled. So I got a whole day back!

SubC, I actually got about 90% of the list done. I'll finish up today. I trimmed pup's front paws but not back. And I did not get the dog toys sewn but that was not a priority. A couple of the calls/emails did not get answered so I can try again one more time today.

I have a Zoom meeting tonight also.

My second pair of pants came in the mail so I will try those on today. I probably need to do laundry and start packing.

I admit my house has also gone downhill while I was doing all that writing last week, SubC. We can get caught back up together.

Very quick drive by before heading to quilting

I found computer feet for my laptop! 💻 And I found them at a smaller hardware store not far from where I live, which is nice because I want to support them staying in business. They are not "official" computer feet, merely little stick on rubber circles, but they get the job done. And it took me < a half hour to go and come back. A win all around.

Lila, there is a way to make a satellite Instagram off your main one. I have one for Barbies and I may make others. I don't think anyone can connect it back to your main one. I like before and after clutter/clean pics too but like you am careful about letting just anyone see them.

This week is getting overscheduled and fragmented a bit. I hope I can keep from getting frazzled. Wish me luck.

Road, how are you feeling?

CM, I am glad you have found a way to work with your computer again.

Tatoulia - good job on the table!

And Lila, I can't believe you got through your whole list! I did not think it didn't look like much!

I'm glad you guys like my goats. 🙂
Bean liked them fine, but he mostly seemed astonished by the idea that there were "baby" - word that means small child "goats" - animal that is large. He would say "baby. Dote" and then get this look of wonder. What he was most pleased about was that I trusted him to carry the big "Big!" scoop of feed all the way from the bin and pour it into the mama goat's feed pan all by himself.

I was too tired to come back last night. All the things I didn't do while I was focused on evaluations came crashing down on my brain and I was just too tired. I'm not going to make a list, but things are definitely worse again here. My counter is totally buried.

My Instagram for us is Susie.7010. I'll try to post some pictures.

Lila I have an Instagram just for you all here. I'll figure out what it is and share it with you. I'll also upload some more recent photos of my place.

Okay I have 1/3 left to do on the dining table. I did stop to write out some notes and postcards while clearing the table. I haven't been keeping in touch and it buoyed me. There is a small area for shredding tomorrow. Cannot shred late at night in an apartment.

I'm going to read your posts then go back at it.

They are beautiful! Ooohhhh SubC thank you for the picture of the goats. I know Bean is going to love them. It's like you are the best grandmother in the world. You, too, Lila. Not leaving anyone out here.

Okay I'm going to clean off my dining table now. My cleaners have asked to come a day early.

Thanks SubC, the goats are a happy picture! I will look at ways I might be able to share as well.

I am leaving in a couple days on a business trip. The pants that came yesterday fit, but not ideally. If nothing else arrives in time I will wear these. I ordered 3 pairs of pants and plan to return the ones I don't like. I hope another comes tomorrow so I have a choice, but at least I do have these if I need them.

My son and I cleaned the puppy's ears with ear wash. Then we washed his paws and muzzle with anti itch wash. Then gave him a toy to play with so he was happy. I still need to put the cream in his ears and clip his nails.

I got the whole dogs' yard cleaned up and there is no poo out there anymore! I made some calls and texts. Now I am tired. I will do a couple emails and then maybe sew dog toys.

Hi Lila,

I recently joined an international board based in Australia. It's membership only and you have to explain why you want to join. But when I posted the picture of the goats, I realized that they host their photos through a third party and it looked like you might not have to sign in to see them if I lifted my photo link off the private board. I assume you are going straight to that third party site, which I don't know how to do or what the financial arrangements are for the hosting. The membership board bans a bunch of types of photos - including any photo with any minors in it.

But I just wanted you too see the goats.

Back later.

Probably.

oops, forgot to post..

last night I did update my planner for 2 weeks, made and enjoyed soup and cleaned up the kitchen.

This morning I put a few clean dishes away, had son put the box of notebooks for my office and 2 bags of clothes for Tot in the car, and had him empty my stick vac. Ate cream of rice, am finishing my coffee and trying to get motivated.

On my planner for today is a TON of stuff to get done:
phone calls
emails
edit a photo
finish cleaning up dog waste from the dogs' yard
clean puppy's ears and paws with anti itch stuff
trim puppy's nails
sew dog toys. These are some newer/favorite toys of his that have seams that broke open, and are the ones I deem worth my time to sew them and not toss them.
return an item teen ordered and doesn't want, if it's not too late

okay see, when I type it all out it does not seem like that much, really. It seemed like an impossible amount looking at the planner, but I bet I can do it. If something has to wait, it will be sewing dog toys.

I just finished my coffee and have energy, so will go clean up the dogs' yard now. Then when I come in, will find something to declutter. When I am tired I will sit down and make calls. When I am tired of people, I will do the emails. Oh, I will feed the dogs before I go out, too.

Hope you all have a good, restful and/or productive day!

Aww SubC!! The baby goats... so adorable! How does that link work? Like do you have to make an account and then can share pics on there by a link? Are they public or only who has the link?

And CM, love your IG with all the cute bunnies and cats, and nice to 'see' you too! I have a seldomly-used IG that is only used for church stuff, but it is in my real full name and I am terrified of someone in my real life finding out the state of my house. I would love to share with you guys though, so I think I either need to make a hidden/anonymous new IG or use that link SubC showed the goats on. I have often thought, it would be so impressive to have before and after shots while I am working on decluttering. But I would not save them on my phone because I don't want anyone else seeing them. Yes I have shame about this stuff. Even though I look at my living room right now and I am happy - I see the new furniture, and very nice neat bookshelves and wall shelves and no piles - in all honestly I would NOT want anyone in here as it is. If someone was coming over I would have to do a stash and dash. Everything would fit in a laundry basket though... a few items that don't belong on end tables... actually, it would all fit in a small 1 foot box! Hey it's not as bad as my brain thinks! Plus of course I need to pick up ten million dog toys, lol.

Anyway yes CM you CAN do it. If I can anyone can. We just have to pick a thing and start. It is hard sometimes but this forum does motivate me to keep going so I can share what I did each day. Do something, post it here. We can keep supporting each other on good days and bad. Also, as much as I like to support local and brick and mortar stores, I find they often trigger buying. So I do a lot on Amazon. This may help you. I just searched on Amazon for "laptop foot pads" and a whole bunch of options came up. Take a look, it might save you on the shopping sprees!

Awww, SubC, the goat babies are lovely.

I'm working on my laptop - this is a good thing. I've neglected doing so for months and months. I think the pandemic is mostly to blame because of my roommate needing to work remotely in the same space, with meetings and phone calls taking place.

And in this house, and with the clutter, finding another spot is not easy. However, I'm working on a solution. I had bought a very small portable yet sturdy computer stand last year for $25. And the other day I received a laptop cooling fan thingy I'd ordered. It's so cool, like a gaming type with rainbow LED light around the edge. Artsy me likes colorful things like that! 🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣

😁

But my computer is missing a foot. A little black rubber thing that is necessary to keep it from sliding off the cool colorful fan platform, which is rather slick. Computer feet may be harder to find these days - remember when you could probably go to Radio Shack and find something small and obscure like that? But maybe if I can't find the exact ones I can improvise with pieces of rubber and double sided tape.

It's the sort of thing that can send me on a wild goose chase shopping expedition that takes me away from what I really should be doing. Yikes. Trying to resist that urge. You know, the "Well, I could check at Best Buy and Walmart, and while I'm out in that area (since nowadays all the big stores have moved to the burbs) I might as well also stop at X, Y, and Z for various other items that have crossed my mind (and which have nothing to do with computer feet)..." Fun With ADHD, Episode 3,795

Anyway, I'm being good to some extent, working on getting the bunny club social media taken care of with the personnel changes. Facebook sure has gone and added a zillion settings and it's no longer simple just to look at who your admins are in a group and remove someone. But I think one of them left the group anyway, so that's that.

I'm also needing to line up my Master Planning - this is a book/computer project akin, I suppose, to these bullet journals or whatever that are trendy, only more my style (aka nerdy). Dividing my life into big basic areas - Spiritual, Health, Creative, Practical, Community - or whatever names I settle on, those are just ideas - and under each one listing the things I've had going so I can finally keep better track of them all.

And then keeping track of them all, and making progress in each area! Now, I know not everybody is into lists and some would say it's excessive, but I know what I'm like when I try to wing it without the lists. Because as the T-shirt my roommate gave me for Christmas says, "My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open." ROTFL!

Can't sleep - which is ridiculous.

CM, I'm glad things are resolved anyway. And of course you can make progress! We're here when youre ready.

I wanted to try something - this is hosted on another board, can you guys see it?

https://ibb.co/RPcmxBc

Copy and paste the link.

P.S. Lila what I meant to say with regard to Instagram was that if you have one and want to show us your cool new furniture, we'd enjoy seeing it! 😉

Hi all

Just decompressing. Bunny club had board meeting this afternoon, which saw the (expected) resignations of three who had not been happy and there had been an ongoing rift. Now we can move on. These situations are never easy. People perceive things in different ways, and certainly there's nothing wrong with discussing different options yet at some point you need consensus of some kind.

The Covid and people's individual life stresses played a part too, and in some cases had we realized that someone was upset earlier we might've been able to work it out. Everything has been so disrupted. I think it's actually a miracle that we were able to keep going as well as we did and find homes for some bunnies through it all.

Slow, tension releasing sigh...

Congrats on the baby goats, SubC.

Tatoulia, coffee clinks!

Road, feel better soon.

Lila, your posts are making me feel like I can make progress again even though stuff has gotten piled up. We were some of us doing Instagram of areas we'd tidied, and whatever misc. we wanted to share. Mine is BunnyPlanetQueen. I have flower photos on there too, and the bunnies and cats, and a few dolls from my Barbie collection. Even one of me in my improvised Steampunk cosplay garb from pre pandemic days.

Have a great start to the week.

Road, I hope you all get off easy!

Lila, good for you claiming your downtime!

The evaluations are done. I will proofread those last 28 and upload them tomorrow. They are due "by the end of the day" since it is not a work day for us, I guess that means midnight? Anyway, I will do it in the morning before I go get Bean.

Tomorrow I give him baby goats!

oh two babes, nice SubC! We were posting at the same time I think.

I'm glad you are chipping away at those reports. You've got this!!

Road, good to hear from you, but sorry you may have Covid. I hope if you have it, it's mild. Let us know how you're doing.

People want me to come over tonight, but I am so not feeling it, and just want to be alone, so I probably will. I am about to make some soup for dinner.

I also sorted 2 bags of clothes someone gave me for my grandd, who I will call the Tot because I have called her that when she was a baby, and Bean is such a cute name. The board grandbabies can be Bean and Tot. I saved out 2 pants and 2 tops for when she is here if she has an accident or spills on herself, and the rest are going into my car to drop off at her house. I am also having my son put a small box of notebooks in my car to take to my office this week.

I've not done much of anything else, as I am very tired, but the pants came today and I will go try them on after I get the soup made. Then I will work on my planner for the next 2 weeks so I know what is going on before and after my trip.

Two more!

I did the bad grades. (And ate dinner) off to do chores and then finish this off with a couple of good students.

I'll proofread and submit in the morning.