Week in Review 03.Oct.2010 - "Not Good"
What a week!!! We made it through all the appointments. Next week should be a lot easier since there are only 2 after work appointments. I got lots of stuff done at home this week. Next week will need to do some serious catching up at work.
Monday: Worked. Not much got done. Too many meetings. Spoke with personnel and my holidays from the current contract can carry over to the next contract, which is great since I have 12 days of holiday left and only 3 days left on the current contract.
Tuesday: Work. Then in the late afternoon saw a counselour to get some hints for dealing with little_monkey. It was all common sense, but its quite helpful to discuss it with someone else and to get reassurance. Got some tips and will go back again in 4 weeks to review how things are going. What I took away from the hour I spent with the counselour was: 1. Don't offer choices to little_monkey, she is too young for that. Decide for her. Tell her exactly what we are doing. 2. Set up a play area for her to stay in while I cook. Enforce it by taking her back to it as often as needed. (similar to what we did with bed time). 3. Don't worry about her lack of interest in veggies and meat. What we are doing at meal times is OK (she doesn't get a special meal if she refuses to eat her food), but reduce the number of choices on her plate. 4. We are handling her tantrums in the right way (basically we don't give into it. we try to recognise when she is just tired or is playing up and act accordingly). Tantrum phase is usually around 1 year. So I am guessing by Summer next year we should be done with this phase. 5. Tell her when I am not happy about something, no point in hiding it she senses it anyway. And this way she learns what to do and not to do.
Wednesday: Work in the morning and early afternoon. Minor operation in the afternoon to remove a lump on my head. Nothing serious. I am a little upset that part of my hair was shaved off, hard to tell how much damage was done. Also can't wash my hair until Sunday, lots of blood on it. Eick. We had dinner at the restaurant across the road. We had the garden to ourselves... Dinner at a fine restaurant wearing fleecy jackets and beanies. Love it! A fine time was had by all... we got happy on red wine and little_monkey on chocolate. We came home and played hide from little_monkey, it resulted in hysterical laughter all around. Priceless.
Thursday: Worked from home in the morning. Had 2 appointments in the afternoon, one to check the cut on my head was healing properly (it is), the other a dentist appointment (things are as expected, no gum disease, no jaw bone degeneration, 1 crown needs fixing and 1 carie developed on a spot where it was expected). When we got home little_monkey was in a real grumpy mood. Setup an area for her to play in the kitchen while we cooked. Seemed to almost work, specially considering her mood it was encouraging.
Friday: Decided to take a day for myself. No work. What a way to start the first day of my new contract! Took the car to get the brakes fixed. Had coffer with A. then we went to a shop to get a jacket and fleecies for little_monkey. Met with a health insurance guy to get more information on our options. It is all rather complex and I need to get my head around it so I can decide what to do. Feeling very tired. I think the low grade but constant pain from the healing cut is wearing me down. However, I am happy to have gotten so much done this week and its only Friday.
Saturday: Went to a baby clothes market and got some jeans, a snowsuit and some toys for little_monkey. Did the grocery shopping and after that my weekend was spent relaxing.
Sunday: Tried my hand at doing some origami party plates and boxes. Did lots of stitching on "Transit". We also went for a very short walk. little_monkey learned to say "Not Good", she uses it instead of bad, which is what I do. Cute.
Results of my origami efforts, with some more practice I might just be able to do some nice stuff:
Dones from last weeks to-do: 15 things done from the list to-do. And 29 from the regular list. All in all a great week.
Things done from the to-do list:
Things done from the regular list:
MITs for next week:
Next week I have to go to parent night in the kindergarden and also need to go get my stitches out. Focus will be on catching up at work.
Enjoy your week!
Monday: Worked. Not much got done. Too many meetings. Spoke with personnel and my holidays from the current contract can carry over to the next contract, which is great since I have 12 days of holiday left and only 3 days left on the current contract.
Tuesday: Work. Then in the late afternoon saw a counselour to get some hints for dealing with little_monkey. It was all common sense, but its quite helpful to discuss it with someone else and to get reassurance. Got some tips and will go back again in 4 weeks to review how things are going. What I took away from the hour I spent with the counselour was: 1. Don't offer choices to little_monkey, she is too young for that. Decide for her. Tell her exactly what we are doing. 2. Set up a play area for her to stay in while I cook. Enforce it by taking her back to it as often as needed. (similar to what we did with bed time). 3. Don't worry about her lack of interest in veggies and meat. What we are doing at meal times is OK (she doesn't get a special meal if she refuses to eat her food), but reduce the number of choices on her plate. 4. We are handling her tantrums in the right way (basically we don't give into it. we try to recognise when she is just tired or is playing up and act accordingly). Tantrum phase is usually around 1 year. So I am guessing by Summer next year we should be done with this phase. 5. Tell her when I am not happy about something, no point in hiding it she senses it anyway. And this way she learns what to do and not to do.
Wednesday: Work in the morning and early afternoon. Minor operation in the afternoon to remove a lump on my head. Nothing serious. I am a little upset that part of my hair was shaved off, hard to tell how much damage was done. Also can't wash my hair until Sunday, lots of blood on it. Eick. We had dinner at the restaurant across the road. We had the garden to ourselves... Dinner at a fine restaurant wearing fleecy jackets and beanies. Love it! A fine time was had by all... we got happy on red wine and little_monkey on chocolate. We came home and played hide from little_monkey, it resulted in hysterical laughter all around. Priceless.
Thursday: Worked from home in the morning. Had 2 appointments in the afternoon, one to check the cut on my head was healing properly (it is), the other a dentist appointment (things are as expected, no gum disease, no jaw bone degeneration, 1 crown needs fixing and 1 carie developed on a spot where it was expected). When we got home little_monkey was in a real grumpy mood. Setup an area for her to play in the kitchen while we cooked. Seemed to almost work, specially considering her mood it was encouraging.
Friday: Decided to take a day for myself. No work. What a way to start the first day of my new contract! Took the car to get the brakes fixed. Had coffer with A. then we went to a shop to get a jacket and fleecies for little_monkey. Met with a health insurance guy to get more information on our options. It is all rather complex and I need to get my head around it so I can decide what to do. Feeling very tired. I think the low grade but constant pain from the healing cut is wearing me down. However, I am happy to have gotten so much done this week and its only Friday.
Saturday: Went to a baby clothes market and got some jeans, a snowsuit and some toys for little_monkey. Did the grocery shopping and after that my weekend was spent relaxing.
Sunday: Tried my hand at doing some origami party plates and boxes. Did lots of stitching on "Transit". We also went for a very short walk. little_monkey learned to say "Not Good", she uses it instead of bad, which is what I do. Cute.
Results of my origami efforts, with some more practice I might just be able to do some nice stuff:
Dones from last weeks to-do: 15 things done from the list to-do. And 29 from the regular list. All in all a great week.
Things done from the to-do list:
- Review 2010 goals
- Transfer lists to iTouch
- Transfer deposit rental loan
- Go to dentist
- Meeting with insurance guy
- Get brakes checked
- Go have cut checked
- Go get head lump removed
- Fill out HR forms
- Drop off DH's paper
- Start using new computer
- Figure out how to use iTouch
- Get kidney letter
- Talk with counselour
- Collect materials for transit
- STARTED Got jacket, jeans, fleecies for little_monkey Go shopping for winter clothes
- STARTED Window and bonnet done Stitch transit
Things done from the regular list:
- Home maintenance 1
- Home maintenance 2
- Home maintenance 3
- Cook 1
- Cook 2
- Grocery shopping
- Do something nice for myself
- Do something with DH
- Do something with little-monkey
- Do something as a family
- Design, draw, embroider something
- Quiet time 1
- Quiet time 2
- Quiet time 3
- Quiet time 4
- Quiet time 5
- Quiet time 6
- Quiet time 7
- Contact 1
- Contact 2
- Contact 3
- Contact 4
- Me maintenance
- little-monkey maintenance
- Car/home maintenance
- Week in review
- Don't take things personally
- Don't make assumptions
- Be impeccable with my word
- STARTED Walked 11km Walk/run 20km
MITs for next week:
- Make stone proposal
- Clear giant pile of papers
- Find tax doc and house plans
Next week I have to go to parent night in the kindergarden and also need to go get my stitches out. Focus will be on catching up at work.
Enjoy your week!