Month: January 2018

For most of 2017, I planned diner as I rushed home from work. It was inefficient and a costly way to prepare food often resulting in buying precooked food from grocery stores or restaurants.

I have graduated to preparing meals a week in advance. I hope to eventually prepare a month in advance. Currently I only prepare dinners. My next step will be to add lunches for the week. As I work toward monthly preparation, I will start using coupons and more strategic shopping.

I have now grown my own lettuce indoors and learned much doing so. I want to add to tomatoes but think rosemary and other herbs will Be next. By 2019, I hope to be growing most of our vegetables in the house or in a greenhouse. I am optimistic.

First meal complete.

Second meal complete. Hamburgers:

Two more meals ready. Taco meat for tacos and rosemary chicken:

Tonight’s meal. Rosemary chicken, portobello mushrooms, and roast squash and zucchini:

Lastly, chicken prepared for chicken noodle soup:

This continues to provide me endless amusement plus nourishment.

This one not so much.

I have learned “overwatering looks exactly like underwatering.”

What shall I do?

• 12 hours of client work
• 5 hours of meal prep for food for the week
• 7 hours of woodworking and home improvements
• 10 hours of cleaning
• 4 hours of financial planning for 2018
• 6 hours of tax preparation
• 4 hours of family time
• 1 hour of unicycle painting
• 1 hour of general panic
• 2 hours of exercise
• 2 minutes of relaxation
• 5 hours of personal website development including volunteer work
• 3 hours of volunteer work

Best get on it!

For this day of my vacation, I shall be glued to the computer…working.

Relevant

I am tired. I am cold. And I don’t want to sit at this computer anymore. Working through my vacations bytes. One day, I want a real vacation…one where I can step away from work.

2018 begins with me in the freezing basement wrapped in 3 layers and a blanket draped over my head programming for clients. Even though I am on vacation, my regular job duties also call. I may have to go into the office for those. I have committed myself to completing some home projects too which I piddle at when I need to move from the computer for a few. I suspect most of 2018 will be like this.