Happy Monday my friends. How was your weekend? Mine was busy, fun and fast! For some of you it may still be the weekend. My kids are off school today, but it’s a business day at simplify 101, so I’m ready to call the weekend a wrap. Here’s my update:
Play List
- Movie night. Check!
- Boot camp. Check!
- Dinner with friends. Check! We tried a new restaurant in town and loved it! So fun when there’s a new, yummy place in town!
- Holiday card project. Check!
To Finish
- Update the family cleaning schedule. Check! We are going to try cleaning during the week. Everyone agreed that cleaning on the weekend is quite the bummer, so we’ll see how it goes fitting it into the week night routine. We’ve divided the house, and divided the family into two teams, one adult and one kid per team, with each team getting one floor of the house. So that’s the plan — now to make it happened!
- Enter to-dos in Remember the Milk. Check! Some of you asked about Remember the Milk. I’ve just started playing around with it, and so far I’m really quite happy with it. First of all, I like the clean interface, the colors, and the cute little cow icon. Plus, it uses a handwriting font, which I love, too. As for functionality, my initial impressions are good. It allows you to keep separate lists for various types of tasks (personal versus business, for example.) And it has a place to keep notes associated with your tasks. So far so good. At this point I don’t intend to use it to actually remember the milk (grocery lists) but rather for managing all the other lists in my life (things to do, books I want to read, etc.) If you’d like to learn more, here’s the place: remember the milk.
- Set up 2012 files in my office. Check! (Though I still need to tidy up my office a bit, and I need to pick up a few more file folders. But I did finish the piece of this project that I planned to finish this weekend.)
- Get and wrap a birthday gift. Check!
- Clean house. Sort of a check. In light of our decision to clean during the week, I just did a little bit of cleaning and will do the bulk of it tonight.
- Select 2012 goals and write goal statements. I thought about this a lot…but didn’t put everything into writing yet. I know what some of my main goals are for 2012 (in my mind) and made progress on them this weekend. So, things are moving forward. Hooray!
- Laundry. Check! The last load is in the dryer as I type.
- Plan weekly meals. Check! And I cleaned out the refrigerator.
- Go to Michael’s. Check! And luckily they still had the yarn I needed from the same dye lot as the half done scarf I’m working on. Whew!
I hope you had a fantastic weekend! I’d love to hear all about it in the comments. As always, I’m thankful to you for joining me for Finish It Friday. Each week your participation gives me more commitment and determination to get things done…and have some fun.
Have a great Monday!
Fun:
Read – finished 2 books
Shopping – did get out for a bit but didn’t get everything accomplished – got tired and called it a day
Rest – check
To Do:
Pay Bills – finished this morning
Bank – check
Library – check
Wash – check w/help DH
Update Switching Email Accts. – check
Return Sweater -check-so glad to have this done
Bonus:
Computer Guy out and updated computer
Set Up Nook
Cleaned House-thanks to DH
Wow Aby you made a lot of progress. Good luck with the new cleaning schedule. We used to clean on Thursday evenings and then have our weekends free. Might have to think about going back to that. Have a great week everyone!
Good luck with the cleaning schedule, Aby. I look forward to hearing about how it goes.
FUN:
*Family movie/pizza night – CHECK!
*Lunch with husband – CHECK!
*Start a new puzzle – got the old one cleared off the table, but have yet to start a new one
*Continue taking photos for year-long scrap project – CHECK!
*Finish 101 Dreams list (only 3 to go!) – CHECK!
*Spend time in classroom forums (Time, Goals, Roundup) – CHECK!
TO-DO:
*Hair color – CHECK!
*Make haircut appt – CHECK!
*December bookkeeping (2 hrs) – no (this is a priority for today)
*Post checks for January (30 min – 1 hr) – CHECK!
*Plan menus for next two weeks – got one week done
*Clean out freezer – CHECK!
*Grocery shop – CHECK!
*Lesson plans – CHECK!
*Prepare for bible class – CHECK!
*Declutter (30 min to 1 hr) – CHECK!
*Grade writing assignment – no (this is the “frog” I really need to eat!)
*Hang coat rack in daughter’s room – CHECK!
*Clean out purse – CHECK!
*Finish laundry – CHECK!
*Saturday errands (bank & return movie) – CHECK!
*4H/ALPA work (30 min to 1 hr) – no
to do:
* set up 2012 tickler file and finish updating new diary ~ check, and am also using Aby’s get organised checklists as a template to create my own version
* laundry ~ still doing it today
* store returns ~ check
* food shop ~ check
* high chair research ~ started but now feel confused. more to do on this
fun:
* take baby swimming with daddy ~ check
* movie ~ check
Finish:
Clean bathrooms -DONE
Vacuum – DONE
Laundry – DONE
Dusting – DONE
Sweep + mop kitchen floor – DONE
Finish tidying up my side of the closet – DONE
Tidy up email in-box – DONE
Help my older two finish up their Christmas thank yous!! – DONE!
Drop off glass recycling – in car, will do this week
Fun:
Family movie + pizza night – Fun!
Saturday am run – Done
Bball practice for my daughter on Sat afternoon – Fun
Reading -Some, would have liked more
Bake cookies – Yummy
Come up with something fun for Monday’s day off of school – Went to the bounce house + lunch with friends
Target return – Didnt get to Target
Aby ~ Thanks for the info on remember the milk. I checked the app out over the weekend. It’s pretty cool. I have been using cozi which I love.
Fun:
1. My grandaughter is coming for lunch tomorrow.. CHECK Had her all afternoon and we had such fun.. it’s amazing how quickly little ones recuperate
2. Start again on my Photo Organizing Class NOPE.. 🙁
To Do:
1. Weekly housework (dust, vacumn, bathrooms, sheets, etc…) CHECK
2. Food Shopping CHECK
3. Only nine things left on my ‘finish up’ list so I’m going to do those tomorrow and then I’m free to start on a project CHECK and now I’m starting on the second tier (mid length projects)
4. Organize work projects (very overwhelmed with work and getting organized can only help) CHECK didn’t actually accomplish much besides organizing things but it’s amazing how much better I feel.
5. Finish organizing and uploading photos from the wedding I shot a few weeks ago always glad when this is done because the brides are always so anxious to see them ALMOST CHECK.. will finish tonight and tomorrow
Have a fun, productive week everyone
A note on Remember the Milk:
If you like to save gas by doing errands in batches, the location feature is excellent. For instance I get my pantry staples, work supplies and gas on one side of town, but I buy all my produce in a completely different area. I categorize all my tasks by sections of the city.
It’s very nice to be able to look at an area and see what specific things I need to do in that area. Also very convenient if you shop sales at multiple grocery stores.