If I Am On Holiday, Why Am I Behind?
By paigea
@paigea (35693)
Canada
July 31, 2018 11:27am CST
I don't work in the summer. I don't have children at home. And yet, I am so busy that I can't keep up!
We have spent more than two weeks traveling, camping, visiting family. And now we will be having several groups of people coming to visit us.
I haven't even had time to do much mystery shopping which is usually my summer job. I have just done a few gas stations that we were driving past anyway.
It all makes me wonder how people work at their jobs in the summertime.
Today, I have to try to do laundry, vacuum, dust, tidy, the whole house, weed the garden, pick the beans and raspberries for sure, maybe beets as well. Then I need to find out if the wild Saskatoon Berries are still ripening or if they are finished. I may have to go to a U-pick and pay to pick them! Picking berries and washing them is time consuming!
Tomorrow I need to plan menus and shop for all the guests we will be having. The next day I will have to start cooking! And there will be more beans to pick! Oh, and I forgot about the huge amount of parsley and basil ready to be used right now! How many ways can I use pesto?
Not much time for sitting at the computer but I am certainly slimming down from all the activity and fresh produce!
Hope everyone has a productive happy day!
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@LadyDuck (458091)
• Switzerland
1 Aug 18
You are on holiday but you seem very very busy. I use pesto also on toasted bread (bruschetta), or I spread on a sheet of puff pastry, roll it and bake in the oven to make appetizers. Pesto is also pretty good on boiled white fish fillets (cod as an example).
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@JudyEv (325758)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Oct 18
@paigea I was a terrible procrastinator - or a very good one depending which way you looked at it. 
I used to pick three things to do and set a timer and just stuck in without thinking about it. Then pick three more. That was the plan. It helped a bit.
I used to pick three things to do and set a timer and just stuck in without thinking about it. Then pick three more. That was the plan. It helped a bit.1 person likes this
@paigea (35693)
• Canada
12 Oct 18
Now, I am back at work. The garden has been buried under snow! Yes snow! For much of fall.
I still have carrots and beets in the garden. Hope to get a few out of the ground today before the 90 km winds hit at noon.
I procrastinate a lot and get overwhelmed with how much there is to do.
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@Courtlynn (66921)
• United States
14 Aug 18
wow you sure were busy at this time. hope things have slowed down for you since.
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
18 Sep 18
You certainly sound like a busy woman, I hope you are enjoying your life.
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
19 Sep 18
@paigea Its just john and I now and he cooks so once a week I tidy up the floors and get rid of the dust. I certainly do not do it daily...
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
6 Dec 18
Are you as busy still.
It must be fun to be a mystery shopper
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@paigea (35693)
• Canada
6 Dec 18
@responsiveme yes, or restaurants, banks, gas stations, etc. They have specific observations they want me to make.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
6 Dec 18
@paigea okay...It entails rating the stores performance?
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@KOLAMsegaran1 (4137)
• Bekasi, Indonesia
27 Dec 18
I think you're like someone who won't have any problems, I'm very sad for people who retire
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@KOLAMsegaran1 (4137)
• Bekasi, Indonesia
27 Dec 18
@paigea wow, that's an interesting experience for me to know
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@antonbunot (11091)
• Calgary, Alberta
28 Oct 18
And, of course, you got no time to post something . . . this was posted last July. 
. . . I was also busy last summer - - the reason why I did not have time myLoting. I was busy working though. . . hahaha
. . . I was also busy last summer - - the reason why I did not have time myLoting. I was busy working though. . . hahaha1 person likes this
@acelawrites (19273)
• Philippines
9 Nov 18
It is such a nice activity to harvest your produce, like berries.
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@MarymargII (12422)
• Toronto, Ontario
23 Aug 18
Wow- if you even get half that done you will be doing well. Plan a lasagna and some easy things like tacos and/or shepherds pie with salad plus BBqs! That always works and plan to get pizza or whatever a few times- that always helps!
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