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This Week With Dee ~ Menu, Home Tasks & More (8/3/21)

August 3, 2021 By Deanna Piercy 3 Comments

This Week With Dee – where I share our menu, my planned home tasks for the week, what I’m reading, self care plans and more. I hope it will give you some ideas for planning your own week or at least a glimpse of one homemaker’s life.

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THIS WEEK WITH DEE

I watched a video of a woman who lived like the 1940s for 48 hours and that put me in the mood for some 40s-era music. Enjoy!

Songs playing from the radio in the corner of our 1940s living room

1940s music playlist screenshot

 

MENU

Monday…

  • Chinese take-out

Tuesday…

  • parmesan chicken tenders
  • Caesar salad
  • steamed veggies

Wednesday…

  • meatball lasagna casserole
  • salad
  • garlic toast

Thursday…

  • food trucks at live music event (East End Eats)

Friday…

  • turkey tenderloin
  • mashed potatoes
  • stuffing
  • cranberry sauce
  • veggies

Saturday…

  • leftovers

Sunday…

  • pancakes
  • bacon
  • fruit smoothies

IN MY HOME:
REVIEW OF LAST WEEK

Maintenance. That’s all I managed last week and likely all I will do the rest of this month until after AdaFest. If we have clean sheets, clean laundry, clean-ish bathrooms and a clean kitchen that will have to be good enough. 

 

THIS WEEK

Other than East End Eats (live music and food truck event we are hosting) I don’t think we have any activities this week. No meetings or anything else I’m aware of yet. That’s a good thing because I have a LOT of social media marketing to do for AdaFest. 

 

WORK

At the risk of redundancy, my focus is on AdaFest.  There’s a pretty good chance there won’t be any more blog posts this month. I mean, I HOPE to post a few times but I’m not making any promises. 

 

READING

This just hasn’t been happening much lately. I’m hoping to finish last month’s Book Club selection this week because I’m really looking forward to digging into the selection for August – Down to Earth: a guide to simple living.

SELF CARE

We have some cooler temperatures this week so stargazing is on my self care list. In fact, as soon as I finish this post I’m heading outside with a little whiskey and this month’s LWD playlist on my phone. 

HEALTH AND FITNESS

The best I can probably pull off the rest of this month is my usual morning floor exercises, taking my supplements every day and trying to get at least 6 hours of sleep a night. If I can do those things I’ll count it a win. 

FUN ACTIVITIES

East End Eats will be fun even though there is also some work involved (more so for David who sets up and runs the sound system). 

I’d also like to rent the new movie, Jungle Cruise one night for the three of us to watch. I recently discovered that we can order popcorn at the local movie theater and get it to go. We aren’t comfortable going to a crowded movie theater these days but I sure would love some of their (totally unhealthy) popcorn. 

HABIT OF THE WEEK

My son, Chris, and I have decided to choose a habit challenge each week and keep one another accountable. This week we are committing to daily meditation. 

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What’s on your plan for the week ahead? Home tasks? Menu? Fun?


 

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Comments

  1. Tori says

    August 6, 2021 at 2:28 am

    I’d share my plan for this week – even though I’m late in here – but there’s no point. Things got messed up by Tuesday, and by Wednesday I’d reached the point where I’d had enough, so Thursday became a day to literally only do essential tasks (I literally put my phone on do not disturb, only checked eMails briefly to deal with time sensative things I knew would come in some time during the afternoon, and spent all the rest of the day I didn’t need to be up doing essential pet/household tasks curled up in bed listening to an audiobook). Do I now feel ready to deal with things? Not entirely. But it helped a little.

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    • Deanna Piercy says

      August 7, 2021 at 10:23 am

      Sometimes you just need a day off. Hope you feel ready to take on a new week by Monday.

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      • Tori says

        August 9, 2021 at 7:02 am

        A lot more so than I was, but if I could I’d take more time out to be honest. Commitments made it impossible though, since as it is I’ve now kept one of my narrators waiting for several days. But I was fecilitating book club in place of the usual person Friday, and some of the comments made by the regulars who were glad I’d stepped in helped (I knew the usual facilitator appreciated my stepping in for her, but getting obvious comments of appreciation and gratitude from so many others made my evening, and definitely helped with how I was feeling).

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