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I'm starting this discussion as a place where we can set our goals daily, help motivate each other to do them and then check in with how we went. It's a place to celebrate when we achieve them or just sit with each other if we didnt and are feeling down about it. Hopefully with encouragement and support from each other we'll tick lots of boxes for our daily goals and feel good about it. Please join in. 😊
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
Hi @Mazarita
I have to confess that I often split up the vacuum cleaning and even the dishes into 2 sessions .. been doing it that way for years .. no one else was going to do it and noone else really noticed ... so slowly learned to suit myself ...
Yep re back pain .. I had to trade down to a lighter vac ... etc
Take care bella
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MazaritaSenior Contributor
Hi @Former-Member 🙂
Your drink sounds delicious too. There's always next time to try the cucumber, apple, spinach etc. Yes, I've made the green smoothie twice this week so far and will probably do one about 6pm tonight too. Good on you for getting to the appointment and doing the paperwork! I've done a bit more of the vacuuming, have started the kitchen and had lunch (maccas bacon and egg mc.muffin, not my usual fare). Lol, it just occurred to me that maccas and then super healthy juice is a funny combo. 
Yum, pancakes. Enjoying the little ones seems like a wonderful way to see out the day. 
Hi @Appleblossom, thanks for the encouragement. Hope the rest of your day goes well. ox
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
Vac is looking at me .. to take it for walkies to other end of house.
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MazaritaSenior Contributor
@Appleblossom, lol! Have you taken vac for a walk yet? I've still got a bit of distance to cover, including moving the bed out from the wall and getting in underneath. Just about everything else planned for this afternoon has been done though (kitchen, ensuite mop, other little bits and pieces). Should get my allocated jobs done before Star Trek: Next Gen at 5pm, a must-have break!
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MazaritaSenior Contributor
Okay, another chunk of time has passed and I'm done with what I planned for this afternoon. Started on companion's room - moving stuff out from the wall. He has so much stuff in there and I was getting a crampy back and bad tempered with it all, so have taken a break. It's more work than I anticipated moving stuff out from walls! Which brings me to a question...
Do any other renters out there have experience with termite inspection and pest (cockroach) treatments? What I'm asking is: have you been asked to move all your stuff out from the walls before this is done? Seems like a big ask on two days notice. Our walls are lined with things everywhere because it's small and this leaves the most space in the middle. Most of the furniture is very heavy. I'm here alone. What I'm wondering is how much do I really need to do for this. Anyone got any advice?
Spanner in the works (although a good one) is that I'm now going to be out this evening at a friend's place. A second friend is down from Cairns and wants us all to catch up tonight as she won't be around longer. So I'm going to have to do the rest of the work tomorrow morning. Yikes. Mornings are my worst time of day. But I guess I'll get there somehow. Whatever happens, it's helped me to write it out like this here. I've got way more done than I would have if I hadn't. Thanks to everyone who has been reading and/or responding. 
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