January 2026 Ship Maintenance List

Gate area/Foyer

• Put up some sort of system to hang up coats
• Move the Shelf that is staying to the other wall
• Move out the stuff for giveaway; if it doesn’t go via FC/CL by mid-month, it goes to a charity shop
• Put away winter holiday decorations

Kitchen

• Reset weird corner cabinet (5)
• Find something to hang dishwashing gloves and hand drying towel
• Deep clean the refrigerator/freezer (before Jan 12) (It’s a monthly chore, but putting it here with a deadline means it might actually get done on time) (8, 10)

Dining room

• Organize desk top
• Put away winter holiday decorations

Living Room

• Clean LR windows and sills (will probably delegate, due to the dust factor)
• Organize crafting table
• Put away winter holiday decorating (9)

Hall closets

• Wash all fleece in linen closet; consider purging or making into quilt
• Reset the rest of the linen closet

Bedroom

• find box for sweaters
• Sort and consolidate kid clothing memories
• FIND A WARDROBE/ARMOIRE

Craft Storage Office

• Finish setting up desk
• Reset brown bookcases
• Go through remaining box pile for craft storage: sort, purge, PUT AWAY

Garden

• General weeding
• Prune as needed (a lot) (6)

Other

• Get K’s name change paperwork into the mail
• Mend shirts

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Daily Goal:

• Clear out a box M-F
• Do at least part of an item on the master list M-F
• Do a craft (for mental health purposes)
• (Weekly/monthly chores on the weekends)

Yatta! for 2026 01 07-08

Wednesday

Finally sleeping until at least 7. Woke up so tired though.

• Washed and dressed
• Timed kids’ morning
• Prepped K’s lunch
• Walked K to school with puppy, and home again
• Breakfasted and internetted
• Played spades Board tourney; made it to the finals
• Stripped the bed, including mattress protector
• Tossed sheets, etc into the wash
• Put things outside for CL pickup (and both were picked up!)
• Played spades Blood tourney; made it to the finals
• Lunched and TVed
• Tossed sheets into the dryer
• Attended stitch-in, where I wound 8 partial skeins of cotton yarn for washing outside; then went inside because it got too cold and breezy, and knitted 10 rows on a baby hat

• Showered
• Put the mattress protector on the bed, and rotated the mattress
• Delegated the making of the bed
• Date night with BG3 (hard fight with **** that we haven’t quite managed yet), sushi delivered, and The Wheel of Time
• Had one of those pain level 11 ‘cramps’ in my foot in the Achilles tendon area; I will be so happy when that drug is out of my system
• Surprise rain shower!
• So much Duo for friends quest (the 'friend’ didn’t show up) that I had F do some of the word match for a while, and she learned some words that she didn’t know.

JotD: A necklace and pendant that my mother gave me when my children were batptised.

So SO tired, and then it was hard to get myself to go to bed. GI stuck again. Lots of sneezing from allergies.

Thursday

Woke up before I needed to, finally dragged myself out of bed

• Washed and dressed
• Timed kids through morning
• Prepped K’s lunch
• GI finally relieved
• We all piled into the van for K’s Farm dropoff and took puppy, only her friend wasn’t there. :/ We ran her about a little anyway, and then took F to school. I will probably not go next week, if F won’t let me stay at the park to run the puppy around.
• ACNH
• Breakfasted and internetted; fell down a rabbithole of how to reuse plastic rice bags
• Yeeted towels downstairs
• Put clean towels in the downstairs bathroom
• Tossed dirty towels into the washer
• Played spades Options tourney and won (my least favorite variant)
• Tossed wet towels into the dryer
• Folded the sheets load and put it away
• Reset my top drawer

• Played spades Blood tourney
• Boiled potatoes for potato salad
• Played spades All Bid Three tourney, and won
• Boiled eggs for egg salad
• From the list: I cleaned the first three shelves of the refrigerator, and the adjacent walls (taking breaks between each)

• The Mandalorian marathon while I did net things and edited photos and…
• Finished a baby hat

• Finished mixing the potato salad and the egg salad, and chopped add-ins
• Actually took a closed-eyes rest of about 20 minutes
• Put an item out for CL pickup, it got picked up!
• Played spades Thrizz tourney and won
• Watched an episode of The Musketeers with BB
• Tried to catch up with Tumblr

JotD: a necklace and thermometer pendant given to me by one of my sweeties for my birthday many years ago.

Still so very very tired. It seems worse this week. Maybe it’s just getting back into the school routine.

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Yatta! for 2026 01 06

• Went to bed too late, had a hard time going to sleep, had to put the book down to finally sleep. Woke up just after 7
• Washed and dressed
• Poked K through their morning
• Prepped K’s lunch, and then realized they don’t need lunch…
• Walked K to school with the puppy; played fetch on the way back
• Breakfasted and internetted
• Played spades Seas 3s tourney and won
• Chopped ingredients and mixed seasonings for Moroccan beef and tossed them into the slow cooker
• Tossed F’s laundry into the washer
• Played some BG3 with BG
• Picked up K from school; worked on sit-greet and stay with the puppy
• Dried /hung to dry F’s laundry
• Played spades 7-up tourney
• Went outside to wind some yarn for washing, because it wasn’t too cold, and it wasn’t raining. And I noticed again this bush that really needed some pruning, and since pruning is on my maintenance list, I decided to lop off the most overgrown of the branches. This bush probably needs some more pruning to thin it out, but at least it no longer looks so ungainly.

• Wound 10 partial skeins of cotton yarn for washing, while I listened to And Baby makes 2 ½

• Put the trimmed branches into the compost bin
• ACNH (while continuing to listen to the book)
• YPP
• Phone date!
• Put both kids’ dry clothes away
• Ate dinner while watching the season 5 finale of Only Murders in the Building
• Watched the last two episodes of the latest season of Emily in Paris
• While I finished the baby hat started on Sunday

Jewelry of the Day:

My Mother-out-law gave this to me 5 or 6 years ago. It’s on stretchy cord which is getting a bit stretched out and brittle. I’ll probably move these beads to memory wire.

Felt weary all day. Had some of those awful foot cramps that are probably from the abilify, even though I haven’t taken any for a month. Got to sleep after midnight, really body?

Yatta! for 2026 01 05

Went to bed way too late last night, and probably didn’t sleep until midnight. :/ I slept until 7, and was only my ‘usual’ tired. WTAF.

• Washed and dressed
• Poked at K re taking meds
• Timed kids through morning
• Prepared K’s lunch
• Walked K to school with the puppy, and back home
• Breakfasted and internetted
• Started a rewatch of KPDH
• Played spades reg no BN tourney and won
• Chopped ingredients and thawed meat for Presidential Chili, and tossed them into the slow cooker (note: I need more wine vinegar)
• Played spades Blood tourney (partner misplayed)
• Lunched (pancakes and sausages!)
• Watched a couple of episodes of Emily in Paris, while I
• Finished darning a sock; I’m getting better and faster

• From the list: I reset the weird corner cabinet, which houses the roasting pan I use maybe 4 times a year, the vases, the overflow water bottles, the kids’ lunch containers, the milk maker, and the big pitcher that I usually use for lemonade. Some of the vases and ALL of the water bottles had escaped containment, so I found boxes to contain them and found a decent arrangement that allowed me to get easily to the things used most often

• Baked 4 dozen chocolate cookies for OWheeOs
• Sewed up a hole in Pooch (GB’s childhood plushie, that the kids also use as a comfort object sometimes). I considered undoing all the mending in that area and resewing, but decided against it.

• Made filling for the OWheeOs, and put the cookies together
• Family night, where we finally settled on watching Speed, because F’s original choice of the Hunger Games is problematic for me.
• ACNH, finally caught up
• Took the puppy out for a walk and fetch, with GB; we were derailed about 15 minutes in by a strong rain
• YPP
• Rabbithole of Nintendo stuff

Rainy, sometime intensely so, didn’t have joint pain until I walked with puppy in the evening, hit the tired wall in the afternoon.

Jewelry of the day:

I always hated the term “New Year’s Resolution,” especially the way we think of it here. And the word “goal” isn’t quite what I want this year either. Not being able to fulfill a resolution or a goal is often perceived as failure. I don’t really think that I want to set myself up for failure if I can’t achieve a resolution or a goal. Proposal seems to fit the bill, I think. To me, if a proposal doesn’t work out, or can’t be sustained, well, it happens.

Anyway, in 2026, I propose to:

Wear jewelry more: I have a lot of jewelry, and when I went out, I tended to wear jewelry. I don’t go out much now, so I don’t usually put on any jewelry. I have a LOT of jewelry, and it should be worn! And maybe it will help my mood at home. At the least, I need to find silver or gold post studs to wear as everyday in the ear piercings currently unoccupied.

Continue to make things frequently: I’m not sure if I’ve been less depressed because I’ve been able to make things because my brain is working better, or if I’m able to make things because I’m less depressed because my brain is working better. Whatever. I’ve made more things this year since I got medicated for the CFS, in part because my brain is working better. I was even able to finish some small needlepoint and cross stitch projects, which I could not do last year.

Redeem gift cards: I started to do this a few years ago. I redeemed some, but not all. It’s time to get things before the companies won’t honor the cards.

Respond to others’ posts more often: I don’t often have much to comment, except maybe “me too!” which is why I kinda like the ‘like’ button on tumblr, an “I read your post” indicator when I don’t have a comment. Or sometimes, I just don’t have the spoons, and I mean to come back later and that never happens.

Post to DW more: (I expound on this in length over on my DW blog)

Finish 26 craft projects in '26: This is largely directed toward finishing my pile of WIPs; I know that I have so many things to finish! Knitting baby hats and mending do NOT count.

Yatta! for 2026 01 04

• Slept until 8, still felt exhausted for as much sleep as I got, and then was dizzy and light-headed
• Snuggled in bed a bit more
• Washed and dressed
• Breakfasted and internetted
• Attended church online because I was so exhausted; F went in person because a friend of hers was also going to be there
• Knitted a baby hat and eight rows on a second hat

• Cleaned the microwave
• Cleaned the upper cabinet doors
• Cleaned the kitchen counters
• Played spades Blood tourney
• Pre-treated my laundry
• Put load #1 of my laundry into the washer
• Lunched and watched an episode of Elsbeth
• Played a spades reg “tourney”
• Hung up most of my laundry load #1
• Put load #2 of my laundry (plus some of K’s) into the washer
• lalala
• Helped K with their sewing project over the course of the day
• Hung to dry most of my laundry load #2, put the rest in the dryer and turned on the dryer
• Cleaned off the couches
• Cleaned off the coffee table
• Made my January task list
• Sort of watched a a friend’s BG3 playthough via discord
• Mended the thumb of a gardening glove
• Started darning a sock

• Leftovers for dinner
• Played Seas 3s tourney
• Played BG3 with GB
• Made a post on DW *gasp*
• Played ACNH
• Put together weekly meds for three people

Exhausted, dizzy off and on; sneezy, but I think that I forgot morning allergy spray. Weather: intermittently rainy.

Yatta! for 2026 01 03

Woke up in dark, used bathroom, lay in bed, mostly awake, but I must have at least dozed, because then it was almost 9

• Washed and dressed
• Got out meds for kids
• Stared poking children to wake up
• Prepped seasonings for dinner, including mortaring rosemary
• Chopped ingredients to put in with pot roast, seasoned pot roast, and tossed it all into a slow cooker
• Poked children more, got K food and meds
• Breakfasted and internetted
• Shopped at the Farmers Market; a lot of vendors were on vacation, so it took me a bit longer to shop
• took the kids’ hang to dry clothes to them
• Cleared up a bunch of stuff around my recliner and chairside table

• GB prepared us a late lunch of pancakes, and I heated some sausages
• Attended stitch-in where I darned a sock and wound my darning yarn into a center pull ball

• Wiped down some dusty bits in the hall bath that no one else notices, and also wiped down the bathroom door, doorframe, and lightswitch
• internetted a bunch
• Played reg spades tourney, made it to the finals
• Played a LOT of BG3 with GB, a couple of decent sized battles, and a boss battle
• Shaved the puppy a little bit
• Put away the produce
• Was supportive to the children in various ways
• I’m sure that I forgot something

Tired for as much sleep as I got, felt worn out after the market, really bad hot flashes in the evening, weather: raining on and off, early and late, which caused headache and joint pain

Yatta! for 2026 01 01-02

Thursday

Happy New Year! (or maybe it should be ? instead of !)

Woke up before 8. Really, body?

• Snuggled abed awhile
• Washed and dressed
• Got meds out for kids
• Breakfasted and internetted
• Played spades footsie tourney
• GB made everyone grilled cheese for late breakfast
• Played BG3 with GB, mostly the djinn special area, and respec-ing and item futzing with the kids hanging out and reading and K worked on their sewing project
• Various watchings of various sorts of things; I think we started a number of things but did not finish them
• It was a very lazy, resting day
• There was some emotionality - the kids are understandably irritable, and it led to many misunderstandings
• Lots of YPP
• Phone date
• More BG3 futzing
• Managed to turn off by 2230, and was in bed before 2300 and asleep by 2310.

Rained on and off all day; was so very tired from only 6 hours of sleep, some GI upset, probably from too many cookies.

Friday

Woke up around 7:30 because I was both hot and cold; out of bed around 7:50; very dizzy

• Took supplements, and put out kid meds
• Bought my YPP sub for the year, to get the booch boxes (a bunch of clothing, some coral, and a nautilus)
• Showered
• Breakfasted and internetted
• YPP
• Put milk on to heat for yogurt
• Played spades Whiz tourney
• BG3 with GB (that ****** battle again…)
• Dressed
• got meat out for meals
• Chopped ingredients for Thai chicken curry noodles and tossed them into the slow cooker
• GB finally beat the ****** in BG3, after about 5 more tries
• Heated some grilled cheese for lunch
• attended acupuncture
• ACNH
• Hung out in the LR with kids, doing our various things
• Added noodles and broccoli to dinner
• Watched a couple of episodes of Bridgerton with F
• While I finished knitting a baby hat
• Watched an episode of Emily in Paris as I finished up my evening
• Went to bed far too late