Weekly Round Up 9: Plan not going as expected

Sewing:

Nothing by me.  

I missed the Scrap Quilt Secrets: Fabric Savvy with Diane Harris of Stash Bandit talk last week, hoping to go tomorrow.

Did find these neat free PP Pattern for Scrappy Triangles:

Originally saw here: https://quiltsfromthelittlehouse.blogspot.com/

Pattern download and photos of lots of examples of quilts completed  with the PP designs:

https://www.leilagardunia.com/blog/year-of-scrappy-triangles

https://www.leilagardunia.com/blog/scrappy-triangle-layout-ideas

Last week I forgot to share that I had read Stitched in Color blog a little more closely and notice she and her family have moved to Holland.  She and her husband are not Dutch and they had never been there before moving there!  All (sort of) because she read a book!  

https://www.stitchedincolor.com/blog/2019/2/18/expat-chronicles-going-dutch?rq=Holland

That is more of the life I had dreant I would have, but it hasn't happened yet.  Perhaps now that DH is retired we an live there for a at least a bit.

The Plan:

The plan was, if you remember, was that I would take this past week off from my scheduled activities (exercise, walking and chatting with friends/family) so I could concentrate on getting paperwork together for the taxes.

On the weekend I was very industrious - weeding and doing yard work. 

Then Monday DS Alex asked me if I could take the little dog, Buffy, to the vet.  Of course I said yes.  But that got me distracted for the rest of the day all I could do was shred papers that I had in a box waiting for action.  

On Tuesday I vacuumed, shampooed and vacuumed the carpets and persuaded Bernie to walk with me to the shopping center.  I had to return a presser foot ankle/connector thing and had to use UPS so they would pay the postage.  That was an easy drop off thank goodness! 

On Wednesday it was DS's birthday so I spent way too much time making his birthday dinner (this year chicken pot pie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbgpNZfi6Xo  Ended up with enough for 15 servings instead of 6-8 I expected! Put extra filling in the freezer) and then he and I set about making his birthday cake https://natashaskitchen.com/royal-walnut-cake-video-recipe/ together.  But I hadn't gotten unsalted butter (as I didn't think it mattered but it does to him) so we pivoted and made a different cake - this one from the  Guinness Site - Boozy Chocolate Poke Cake  https://www.buzzfeed.com/baileys/boozy-chocolate-poke-cake-bcitn57x39 )  I had gotten the ingredients so we could have for St Pats Day.  So glad I had everything we needed so we could still make cake together.  We just added the Guinness to a chocolate box cake mix in place of water, so it was rather easy too - although we didn't taste the cake on his actual birthday as it had to be refrigerated for so long!  It was a hit.   Have you ever made a poke cake?  This was my second one.  My first was a coconut cream cake.  There are all sorts of recipes on YouTube.

Thursday In the morning I called cousin in Ireland. Haven't voice chatted in almost a year.  They are restricted on how far they can drive from home. only 5K now.  She can go farther for work, and because she is a nurse.  The fine starts at 100 Euros if they get caught going beyond what they are supposed to go.  Her daughter's Summer wedding is now just going to have 25 guests - instead of the 250 originally planned.  So we are off the list of attendees. 
😞 I hope they will have a party for her when it's safe to travel again.  I can't remember else what I did, but it wasn't paperwork!  I wrote to the man who does our taxes and asked him to send in an extension request.  I may have discovered Jamie Oliver on TV with his 15 Meal Show https://www.jamieoliver.com/features/jamie-oliver-15-minute-meals/  Brillant!  Recipes https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/ Now I see he has a book by the same name. We were supposed to get our second COVID vaccine but it has been rescheduled for the third time now....  Sunday to Thursday to next Tuesday I think.

Today, Friday,  I hurt my back in the AM so spent most of the day in bed with a heating pad, napping or watching Star Trek Voyager.  I wrote my personal trainer and friend I usually walk with and said I needed another week off to do the tax stuff.  In the evening DS and I did another cooking class with Cooking Class with Chef Giacomo from A Casa Mia SD https://acasamiasd.com/how-it-works/.  We made: • Burratina with Smoked Salmon and sauce made with beets ground with walnuts, garlic and yogurt  • Risotto with Reconstiuted Porcini mushrooms, Vegetable broth (tomato, zucchini, celery, carrots), fennel sausage  •  We ate some of DS's Boozy Birthday Cake instead of the Torta Della Nonna with raspberries and nutella that was part of the planned dinner.

So my plan so far has not worked at all.  But I have next week now to get things done.  And there is always putting it way off with extensions....