Kayla, Wednesday

1. Finish copying, collating and binding the Tenant Ed books
2. Do some research on HUD transfers for client
3. Odds and ends
4. Work out since I didn't make it up in time to jog-o this morning
5. Ring in the new year (and the one year anniversary of this blog!)

Donnie, The Eve

1. Read article for next week 9:15-10:15
2. Back to work on my story 10:30-12:30
3. Head out for a run 12:45-2:00
4. Course planning 2:45-3:45
5. Shop 4:00-5:00
6. Movies at Maggie's?
7. Try to make it to midnight for the first time in three years.

Kayla, Tuesday

1. Call 5/3 to make appointment for client
2. Prep for Helping Hands
3. Follow up on Sedamsville Problem Property list
4. Email Maggie and Jennie's landlord if one of them sends me his email address
5. Start making tenant ed books
6. Talk with the boss about the budget
7. Home/ workout/ indian for dinner

Kayla, Monday

Back to work... sort of.

1. Respond to emails and phone calls... not too many cause most people were out
2. Perfect North Slopes is open and has fresh snow! I have to drive the youth group there and while I'm at it I might as well stay and tube.
3. Home, see if I can finish the last segment on my new Biggest Loser video
4. Look up a salmon recipe and cook it!
5. Jon and Kate

Donnie, Monday

1. The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike
2. Work on my own writing
3. Write a review for Juggernauts
4. Brush up the syllabus/ course schedule
5. More reading
6. 2nd Run
7. Greet Kayla after her trip to Perfect North

Just in case there was any question...

Kayla, Sunday

In no particular order...

1. Clean
2. Run
3. Put all my toiletries in little bottles in little bags.
4. Pack--don't forget my cell phone charger and bathing suit!!
5. Make sure Emer can't get in the lair while we're gone
6. Get Zo's stuff ready for Aunt Maggie to take over
7. Last minute crafty-crafts
8. Eat bean burgers before we leave
9. Put together some snickity-snacks for the plane (maybe crush some Xanax in Donnie's snack bag... haha!)
10. Update the spending tracker and budget
11. Print out flight info
12. Call Grandparents to confirm pick up time
13. Give my doggy and kitty a big kiss!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Donnie, Friday

1. Spot meeting (paid)
2. Jog (keeps the love in my heart)
3. Practice LSAT (will keep food on the table)
4. Vacuum (keeps the wifey sweet)
5. Write (frustrating)
6. Read "Yvonne" (enjoyable)
7. FFYS dinner (intimidating)
8. The Comet w/ Schmidy (we'll see)


* Last minute go to the post office (keeps the wifey sweet)

Kayla, Thursday

1. Took client to apply for housing
2. Need to call landlord
3. 2nd office Christmas Party--J. Alexander's this time
4. Deliver flyers about Resident Association Party
5. Home/ Work out/ Omelettes and Hashbrowns for dinner
6. Bake cookies for 3rd office Christmas Party
7. Read the Three Fates... ugh.

Donnie, Thursday

1. Note to self: Do not check your Email before you start writing for the day.
2. Destress before writing.
3. Get back to work on new story
4. Run errands (1. spot 2.bank 3. post office 4. half price books)
5. Compose very rigid syllabus for class next quarter- very rigid= NO LATE PAPERS, 4 Absences YOU FAIL, 8 pages means 8 pages. 5, 6 or 7 pages= F.
6. Is it still a Rod if my work is done?
7. Continue the heartbreaking masterpiece Separate Flights
8. End this losing streak on Jeopardy!

Donnie, Wednesday

1. Cleaned out my half of the closet!
2. Worked productively on a new story!
3. Go to UC to get the book the library is holding for me.
4. Read in the library to stay warm.
5. Go for a late afternoon "Rod."
6. Skip all of the trash TV and read some stories.

Kayla, Wednesday

1. Went to zoning hearing--have to wait 10 days for the decision
2. Emails
3. Leave for office party at Newport at 12:00... I'm predicting that our bonus will be 50 bucks and a $25 gift card to a grocery store. Awesome!
4. Get Tom-o gift card to Kroger for cleaning out the moldy meat in the basement freezer.
5. Try to get correspondence from zoning department
6. Other work
7. Home/ work out/ baked spaghetti for dinner?
8. Craft-y craft

Kayla, Tuesday

1. Slept late, jogged dog, weights
2. Did some xmas stuff
3. Went to the bank
4. Came to work at noon (yay for flex time!!)
5. Return a few calls
6. Do some work
7. Drive through the White Death to get to Xavier for the Place Matters presentation/ party
8. Indian for dinner

Donnie, Tuesday

1. Enjoyed a morning with Kayla and impressed her by dressing up for my workday at home.
2. Finish grading and submit grades.
3. Work on my new story
4. Reading for next quarter
5. Probably go to UC and run on a treadmill because it's going to sleet and I don't want to slip.
6. Indian
7. I need to find a good book to read.

All day: Listen to the top 100 songs on Pitchfork (Even if, according to Kayla, some of them sound like 80's hairbands)

Donnie, Monday

1. Grade a few more papers!
2. Work on writing
3. Start reading for next quarter
4. Hope that it stops raining soon.
5. Drop stories off at Cin Cin
6. Grade some more papers.
7. Run
8. Special Recipe: 1 pizza unwrapped, oven preheated, timer set to 15 minutes.
9. Maybe watch J&K + 8.

Kayla, Monday

1. Meeting at Price Hill Will about creating PowerPoint to use at Community Learning Centers
2. Write Public Nuisance Hearing letter for Housing Committee
3. Meet with client
4. Figure out when the Resident Association Holiday Party is going to be so I can get those dang invitations out
5. Evening meeting at the Unitarian Church about the possibility of bringing the Lebanon developer to LPH. Woo Weee!
6. Home for pizzo and Jon and Kate Give Back (finally!!)

Donnie, Friday

1. Grade student papers (depressing)
2. Restart Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
3. Run
4. Kayla has SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much work to do that I will have to find some way to entertain myself tonight :)

Kayla, Friday

1. Had web conference on center for working families model
2. Getting ready to meet with the attorneys about lease-option for the homeownership project
3. AAC Board Meeting
4. Home/ work out/ must do work tonight sorry no wine-o!!!

Kayla, Thursday

1. Call Camp Washington Development Corp.
2. Reminder calls for tenant ed
3. Budget with client
4. Lunch with Bill
5. Gather paperwork for Homes at Hillside Place meeting
6. Talk about case management possibilities
7. Make sure I know the material I'm supposed to teach tonight!
8. Teach tenant class at Carson
9. Another free meal
10. Home late

Donnie, Wednesday

Day #1: No coffee


1. Get this paper off of my hands!
2. Cincinnati Review pizza party!
3. Short storying until I can't stand it anymore.
4. Home to cook some rooni for my roomy :)
5. I could use a good sleep.

Kayla, Wednesday

Ew today is the day I have to do a bunch of things I've been putting off:
1. Finish Services Template for agency intranet
2. Make Tenant Education income calculation charts
3. Finish cleaning my inbox
4. Make flyer for Resident Association potluck
5. Reserve hotel
6. Site meeting at 1:00
7. Sedamsville Civic Association at 7:00
8. Donnie is making Sockarooni!

Where are the royalties?

Donnie, Tuesday

1. Okay, I'm seriously going to finish my paper in 90 minutes.
2. Make some coffee and clean some dishes.
3. Take a shower?
4. Work on story: Due Thursday.
5. Earth Drummers in the rain
6. Home cooking.
7. Continue the Dubliners and then convince Kayla to give it a shot.

Kayla, Tuesday

1. Housing Team meeting
2. Update Sedamsville list
3. Prep for Tenant Ed and Thursday parenting class
4. Paint the Town Survey of houses
5. Library
6. Take Zo to get her vaccination
7. Home/ work out/ dinner
8. Work on AAC stuff or XMAS presents
9. Reserve airport hotel

Donnie, Monday

1. Mandatory 1 hour of writing before making another pot of coffee.
2. Make another pot of coffee
3. Write for at least one more hour.
4. Cat box, Clean coffee pot.
5. Hopefully finishing my writing this paper!
6. take out trash, vacuum
7. maybe continuing writing if things aren't coming together
8. organize my piles of papers
9. Run
10.Dinner
11.Find a new Monday night show

Donnie, Friday

1. Crossing my fingers that my student evaluations go well- I don't think I made anybody too upset.
2. Working in the library on this paper!
3. Homerun
4. Greet Kayla after her happy hour and ask her what she wants to do tonight? Watch the newest Office on Hulu? Play Yatzee?

Kayla, Friday

1. November Data
2. Prep for Helping Hands Project
3. Lunch with Bill and Tommy at Price Hill Chili
4. Supposed to go to Happy Hour with work people but I haven't heard where

Donnie, Thursday

1. Went to the Review and then sold copies of the Review in the hallway from behind a table. Actually, I didn't sell any copies; I only had sympathetic people stop and tell me that I should have some baked goods and coffee to go along with them.

2. Library: I can't leave until I have finished this paper-I need to work for five hours uninterrupted and those hours will start as soon as I have this blog posted and my wireless internet shut off!

3. I have a workout tonight and I hope I feel better than I did this morning.

4. Cook a pizza for Kayla.

Kayla, Thursday

1. Finished House Ratings--YAY!
2. Need to prep for Sedamsville Building Committee
3. Check on client needing furnace repairs
4. Send Helping Hands list to Nick
5. Client Follow-up
6. Finish preparing clinic handouts
7. Follow up with grant committee
8. Leave at 4:00, work out, back to Sedamsville
9. Sedamsville Building Committee
10. Home to Donnie's home cooking!

Donnie, Wednesday

1. Regret that I can't think of another witty post.
2. Continue to struggle with this paper.
3. Attend class, which feels meaningless because really all that's left to do is write this paper.
4. Back to the library, hopefully with some bright ideas.
5. Home for run #2.
6. Muppet Babies
7. Paper writing

Kayla, Wednesday

I can't top Donnie's post from yesterday so I might as well not even try.

1. Work stuff
2. Put up the only Christmas tree I have (at work)
3. Home
4. Work some more

Donnie, Tuesday

On this episode of Don and Kay plus 2...

1. Donnie goes to workshop and then the library.
2. When he feels terribly uninspired in the library, he goes home.
3. At home he finds Zola and Emer rooting through the cupboards, trying to make pancakes.
4. Deciding to put work aside, just this once, Donnie helps the kids make pancakes for lunch and then cuts them into the shape of planets.
5. Around 4:00 Kayla comes home and finds that the kitchen is a mess.
6. At 6:30 Donnie goes to running practice.
7. The family settles in for bed and catches up on homework. As Donnie dozes off, he mumbles something about wanting some free stuff. He hopes that the cameras are still recording.

Kayla, Monday

1. Sit at desk from 10:30-11:00
2. Check PISDs
3. Call Sedamsville guy about chainsaw
4. Start working on Sedamsville building list
5. Follow up with potential homebuyers
6. Prep for Community Council
7. Send out check list to group
8. Make ENDS for strategic plan
9. 3:30 Oyler LSDMC meeting
10. 6:00 CPOP
11. 7:00-9:00 Community Council