*~*Good Morning Ladies it's Thursday the 22nd*~*

Glad to hear you're feeling better, Jilly! Hope you all have had a good day.

Today's the first day of half term, so I'm at home all day (other than getting the children out for a walk. DS will spend the entire time on one electronic gadget after another other than the bit where I haul him out kicking and screaming to get some fresh air, but DD will probably want to spend at least some of the time playing. Let's see... what do I want to accomplish with the day?


Specifics I need to get done

Empty dishwasher
Get DD ready (hair brushing, breakfast, make sure she gets some clothes on)
E-mail childcare place
E-mail son's new school about a couple of details
Get into town to get haircut for son and take DH's glasses to be repaired
One educational credit
Exercise
Dinner tonight (nothing complicated so won't take long)


General areas to work on

Desk
Work stuff
Appraisal preparation
Living room (can keep that really brief, but I'm trying to get at least a few minutes done in there every day)
Some of my own writing


Hmmmmm.... think that's it. I'll probably think of something else once I get started, but that covers most of it.

9 am here. Have done some of dishwasher already but had to stop when DH & DS got up so stopped to have breakfast/enjoy a bit of relaxation with my computer. So, will get back to dishwasher and take it from there.

Hi, Judy! Pumpkin frittata sounds tasty and I wish I could try it! Enjoy your rest - sounds like a productive day for you. Half-term lasts through till the end of next week, although I'll be working on both Fridays and the Wednesday (children will be in holiday club). Still, that's several days of getting to stay in bed later, avoiding a big rush-round in the morning, not having to clean out lunchboxes... I can feel myself relaxing just thinking about it.

Lists updated as, of course, I did forget a few things:


Specific tasks - additional items

Change and wash towels
Check what dinner is being served at holiday club tomorrow
Packed lunch for me tomorrow (both children have opted for the holiday club hot lunch, which is cool as it saves me trouble
Phone paediatrician to chase up prescription (only if it doesn't arrive in today's post, so waiting to see on that one)
Go to pharmacy (which I'll combine with the walk for errands that was already planned)


General areas

Have a look at Flylady's Holiday Mission for the day and see whether it's something I can do (can't remember what the usual one is on the first Thursday - although come to think of it I bet I could look back in my inbox as probably have them saved from previous years!)


However, have been making progress - have accomplished the following:

Dishwasher emptied
Both e-mails sent
DD ready (good god, it's wonderful not to have to fight over homework as well as hairbrushing)
Towels changed and going through washing machine
Checked holiday club dinner
Worked on my desk - caught up with two months' worth of bank statements for my current account that needed reconciling.

So, pretty good start to the day. On the downside, I checked my work e-mail in this flurry of organisational fervour and found out that I'll need to do appraisal about a month earlier than I was expecting to have to do it. So, that'll mean a blast of work trying to get it all done!! Oh, well... my fault for procrastinating and not getting moving earlier. I think I can do it if I get my finger out, and the plus side is that I'll at least get it out of the way instead of having it all hanging over me at just the time I'm trying to make final arrangements for the children's birthdays, which is what happened last year.

Right - time to get on with things again. I'll see if I can get my credit card account updated as well and make payment on it, and then sort out lunch for the kids.