September 2012 Week Two

My major accomplishment for last week was dealing with the fluid bags. I did finally get all of them drained, bagged, and taken to the dump. Yya! Then I came up with a system for dealing with them. I got a cheap sytro cooler, punched some holes in the bottom, and set it up on a couple of wood blocks. Now I take the bags out the back door, hold them over the cooler and ship some drain slits in the bags and then just drop them down. On trash day I take a bag out and put ever how many are in the cooler into the trash bag - done! The only problem so far is that we had a storm the afternoon I had taken trash ... so I had to chase down the fly-away cooler! LOL!

I went around the porch, looking for the small bits and pieces that had accumulated, and got all of that out of the way. It's been extremely hot and humid here, so any thing else on the porch (or yard) will have to wait at least another month.

For the list part, I did well. I settled on what plan I will use (Holiday Grand Plan), and combined things until I have 2 notebooks. One is the "main" Christmas Planning book. But I'm keeping a second one only to track the cleaning.
I have most of the lists done, and have gotten many things plugged into my calendar. I have 3 "main" calendars. One I created in "Print Artist", and have already reprinted several times as I add in things. One is a "planner calendar" - 2 page spread per month - where I initially jot down things. Then part of each week's plan (Sunday morning) is to enter the week's events/appointments/plans into my Google calendar, so that I get reminders.

We are now moving on to Week Two. This is "question" week (which for me means I have an extra week to work on lists), and "Living Room" week. Over the last session of "The Plan" I cleaned out the book cases, the built in desk, and a big cedar trunk. There is no TV or any other electronic equipment, so this should be an easy room. The main focus will be getting some "deep" cleaning done ... such as, get the pictures off the walls, clean them all, wipe down the walls, moldings, baseboards, etc. My calendar looks full ... but actually, there's only one half day appointment and one all day one. And there's a half day of errands, that might be combined with the half day appointment.

I started making some Christmas quilted table runners last year, and never finished. I have added working on those to my calendar as well. I'm hoping that at least the reminders will keep me on track. I need to try to complete one a week this month and next. I have other projects to do too, so I had to remember to add those in to the schedule. And I had to at least preliminarily(my computer says that isn't a word - it is now! LOL!) block in baking days.

And because I *needed* another project, I bought something just for fun that I've wanted for many many years. I bought a doll house! It's a big wood one, 3 stories, and has a lot of furniture and things. First thing I had to do was find a place for it to live! I ended up clearing everything off a dresser in the guest room and putting it there. That may not end up being it's permanent home, but it'll do for now. I'm taking my time going through the little things with it. Then I need to get to the barn (that will have to wait for cooler weather!) to find the small stash of miniatures I have tucked away. It needs some serious cleaning and decorating, but I can tackle that one room at a time.

I think today will probably be a bit on the lazy side - considering it's already after 1:00! LOL! I have gotten a few things done; but I think I pulled a muscle in my back yesterday getting a big chair (recliner) in here, and it's uncomfortable today. I have runners to pin, lists to make, books to read ... lots to do today. :)

I would love feedback / comments on how y'all are doing! :)