Miserly Monday September 20

[mauimagic]

I am tightening by belt and am taking a miserly approach to today - definitely need to watch the pennies even more so.

However, I am getting a massage this afternoon - and this is one reason I'm inching pennies - a monthly massage really helps my body work so much better and easier.

I want to stop by the grocery store before school tomorrow to pick up ingredients for lunches for the week - Safeway cottage cheese (red and white container) with chopped apples. Need to bring coffee to make at school also.

So after school I am off to take care of a few errands, then to physical therapy for an hour and finally my massage!!

Also need to pick up the ingredients for dinner.

In the evening I want to work on appliqueing my quilt - I really think that I can complete that part by the end of October!!

What does your Monday look like?

[Lady_V]

Mine looks light... and steamy... and sugary - Oh wait, that's my coffee. That's all I can focus on right now... coffee (Starting to think the Zombie apocalypse will occur when the world runs out of coffee beans).

I already grabbed a load of laundry out of the dryer and tossed one in (Lovely neighbor monopolized the machines until 9pm last night and I didn't want to use the dryer overnight).

It's now 6am... and I have nothing I must do for the next 23 minutes (drink more coffee)

~ Fold laundry
~ Get Diva up for school & help her get dressed (running low on cast friendly shirts)
~ Make breakfast
~ School run
~ Avoid all stores on the way home (must not shop)
~ Light candles and chant while looking at my ebay sales list (nah, just seeing if you are paying attention)
~ Tinker in the kitchen
~ Remember to get Diva from school at 1:15 (no point keeping her there for gym since she can't take it)
~ Homework help
~ Dinner prep & cooking and all that happy stuff

That's my day in a nutshell... in between I am going to try to knit. TRY

I don't know what I will be like later, it's suppose to be dreary and rainy all day... so not fibro-friendly

[Neeley]

Lady V, too funny! Yep, I was paying attention.

My day is going to be filled with...
...a nap
...making some more dinner reservations for our vacation (trying to get a Candlelight Processional dinner package for the time frame when Trace Adkins will be doing the narration)
...and finally DS's JV football game tonight.

[smores]

Just found these forums yesterday, so I'm excited to really read them today!

My day:

- work
- meal planning for the week
- continuing to sew christmas ornaments (I'm making tiny felt owl christmas ornaments in bright colors - hope to have 30 done by the time we need to put up the tree! I just started and have 3 done...)
-clean our room and do laundry
- have dinner with DH when he finally gets home from his conference late tonight

[gapeach]

I need to clean the house this morning. This afternoon I have a haircut appt and then I'm off to work. When I get home I need to plan the weekly menu and start laundry.

[McD]

Let me know if the ritual helps you sell V!

So far:
-Up at 5:30 with an angry Moo Cow.
-Switched clothes from washer to dryer, started new load
-Folded and put away towels
-got both kids to the doctor for their second round of flu shots (quite the drama filled production, Wesley was very unhappy...very vocally unhappy)
-brought leftovers for lunch

Plans for the rest of the day:
-work
-swap out laundry when I get home
-do dishes
-supervise Wesley while he cleans his room
-make dinner (mostaccoli casserole--it makes a double batch, will freeze the other to deliver to a friend who is recouping from surgery later in the week)
-knit.

Unmiserly of me: I did swing through the McD's drive-through as a special treat for Wesley and picked him up a hashbrown and chocolate milk. I had a pop and a bacon/cheese McGriddle. Poor kid needed a pick-me-up after the trauma of the doctor's office.

[mslolsalot]

Hi All. I've decided to try posting on daily threads- just to stay focused.

I'm off work with a sicko kid today. The teachers are so paranoid about anyone coughing or snotty- not that I blame them.

So, I'm not happy about missing work, but I'm using the time to get stuff done. The plan:
-wash extra loads of laundry (1 done already)
-plan work wardrobe for rest of the week
-"shop" the cabinets & use what's there to cook 3 supper meals for the week
-bake cookies for kids lunches
-return some jeans and a lunch bag my mom got me for my B-day & stash the cash for my fun fund
-other than that, chill on the couch with my sicko

I would love a no-spend day today, but I will need milk, eggs and butter.