lack of sleep

 

I don't have dogs but everyone in the house is still alive. lol.

Clara came in yesterday and we went to a Japanese restaurant where I had an udon noodle bowl. As I couldn't use chopsticks I had a spoon but it was a flat spoon so the eating was a challenge but I overcame! It was good.

Today I went with Clara and Peter to move in. It was much smoother than any previous move in, well organized. 

Earlier in the week the smoke detector battery expired and woke me up in the middle of the night. Do these batteries only expire in the middle of the night.

The maxsold closed so I have to make up the lots tomorrow. I also have to finish the contracts for Tuesday.

As it goes

 

The stress of putting the maxsold together + the stress of work created an interesting phenomenon.

I have a double authentication device that I need for work. Yesterday I left the bag with it in it at home and had to leave all my SOLUS work until today. In 3 years of having the device I have never forgotten it before. THEN I got home today and found that I had brought the bag home but the device was not in it, it must still be at work. Wednesdays I work from home so I'll need to bike in early tomorrow to go and pick it up. 

In other news the maxsold is up here: Bid Gallery | Kingston (Ontario, Canada) SELLER MANAGED Charity/Fundraising Online Auction - College St. (maxsold.com)

Electrician

 The electrician is coming tomorrow morning to try to find the source of the missing ground. Hopefully, this is a successful venture.

Mike is also planning to stop by tomorrow morning.

I am off on the morning as we have a webinar in the evening.

Today Sarah and I went to see Darlene in the hospital after Church. She has a great view of the lake despite the circumstances.

Then I did some work in the basement organizing books. Also got in the laundry from the line and mowed the lawn. Cleaned the upstairs bathroom. Will aim to clean the downstairs bathroom tomorrow.

slow progress

 I have been working through the house in preparation for the maxsold. I completed the kitchen and linen closet this week and today finished the upstairs bedroom. I still have to go through books, the garage and dining room. Al is coming to help me take pictures this week.

The neighbours had a pretty large party tonight but has wrapped up now. 

A few storms blew through. The grass needs a mow as it is looking raggedy but it will be too wet for a while!

Surprise visitor

 Mike drove from N.B yesterday unplanned. Arrived at our place around dinnertime. Luckily I had put a whole turkey breast in the slow cooker and so there was more than enough dinner for everyone. I made rice and wedges to go along with it.

I had so much cardboard from cleaning out the basement that I had my 2 bins full + 4 cardboard boxes full. Apparently they don't take cardboard boxes with things in it, they only take the bins. As they did my side of the street first my neighbour suggested refilling the bins and putting them with their recycling so that I could get 4 bins worth out!

basement progress

 Today was a long day of interviews with another day tomorrow to go. James is happily set up in his new room. Today I cleaned where his bed used to be and started putting maxsold items in that cove.

The plumber came today to fix the basement sink. He made quick work of fixing it.

room progress

 Rustle went well today. I was hosting. Then came home and watched Elevation. Then spent a lot of time cleaning the downstairs bedroom. When James got home from golf and his camp meeting and had his dinner he started his work on putting the room together. It is coming along!

planning to sleep well tonight

 Woke up at 5am. Cleaned the bathroom. Hung laundry but it didn't last too long as it started to rain around 10am. Did lots of loads of laundry. The main task today James and I worked on cleaning out the downstairs bedroom. It is almost clean now. One more day of cleaning and he should be able to move in. Tomorrow am hosting at Rustle so it will be a busy day!

boots

 There has been a little rabbit hanging out in the backyard and it has white feet and white paw hands so I called him "Boots". Today Boots expired on our driveway. A sad day for me as I miss Boots.

A good laundry drying day.

Lots of emails and working on a report on the groups from last year for the second year people.

Tomorrow I have to set up the interviews for Monday and get contracts into Finance. No time for email tomorrow. Haha.

James and I are working on clearing out the bedroom in the basement as he has decided he wants to move there.

Made a Japanese stir fry. I was a bit worried when I started as I clearly hadn't read the ingredients before I ordered it as it had both sticky rice and snap peas which I try to avoid both. But it turned out well. I did a better job of getting the stringy bits out of the snap peas which made them turn out much better and they fried up quite nicely.

James went to the counsellor today and said it went well.

Million dollar smiles

 Building a playground for 2 little girls with our egroup.

We also packed meals for people in countries in need with kids against hunger: https://www.kahcanada.org/ 

Nice to see them all in person again!

Quick spirals

2 days of summer orientation so only 1 day to catch up on household tasks. 

This morning went to Food Basics, then to Rustle, then to Shoppers. Have done 3 loads of dishes. 1 load of laundry. Made James spicy steak and a large pot of soupe.

Drips

 James' sink is broken as whatever connected the drain of the sink to the pipe below has rusted away.

Today I had the day off as I'll be working Friday and Saturday for summer student orientation. I did my annual trip to the Cat mall. I walked there having to avoid storms. The walk back saw some interesting cloud formations. The pictures aren't mine but captured the cloud formations well. I used up some old gift cards and got some good deals!

Lake Ontario Park

 Woke up early so went to Lake Ontario Park before the crowds.

Baby ducklings:

White squirrel

Then I went to Food Basics and Shoppers. Then I needed a nap!

snail among the pom poms

 

Last weekend I was on the hunt for fudgsicles for James. Food Basics apparently doesn't have them, which was a surprise to me. Loblaws did have them and he was happy again.

On Monday I biked to Metro and there were feces smeared outside on the walls. They also didn't have what I was looking for so it was a bit of a wasted trip.

On Tuesday I loaded the students into their classes and Wednesday sent the notifications. This meant my email got behind. Hoping to catch up on that today. 

Enjoy the snail among the pom pom flowers!

moderate

 After some trials I have found when Environment Canada says that the air quality is moderate, it is still fine for me. So I walked to Shoppers and have been hanging laundry on the line. Despite the weather being "smoke"

Yesterday I biked to the police station as I needed to get a vulnerable sector check (we all need one every 3 year at Rustle for our insurance). Luckily, I passed :) James likely needs to get one soon as he will be coaching children.

I got my hair cut yesterday and the lady was quite absent minded. She asked me twice what I was doing for the weekend. Then when she was finishing up she asked me how many inches I wanted off (which I had told her at the beginning. It all worked out ok, I think.