Reality Me

Month: January 2018

  • Frozen

    Here I sit
    All locked up
    Mentally deranged
    And out of luck

    Pondering all
    That must be done
    Thinking, thinking
    Doing none

    To banish
    The stress
    Must
    Think less

    Trying
    To decide
    Which thing
    To do

    Is still
    Thinking
    Much ado
    About nothing

    I turn
    Off my mind
    To think less
    And do more

    For doing
    Is how
    Things get done
    And

    Put my troubles
    On the run
    By thinking none
    And doing all.

  • Cooking for the week

    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:

  • Dressed for working inside today

  • Learning to grow my own food…an update

    This continues to provide me endless amusement plus nourishment.

    This one not so much.

    I have learned “overwatering looks exactly like underwatering.”

  • Last Sunday of Vacation

    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!

  • Domestic Shorthair Parrot

  • Vacation for productivity

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

    Relevant

  • Tombstone: I wish I worked more

    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.

  • Happy New Year!

    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.