Category: Daily Life

Great day for woodworking

Really wish I had time to work on the yard and a garden

Occurs to me that it is planting season. I really want to be building a raised bed in the yard and setting up a robot gardener. But I am so not ready. I need time and materials to build a greenhouse, raised beds, etc. Our biggest expense is food. I pay for food by working a job. My biggest time sink is my job. Catch-22. I really am enjoying indoor gardening. Now I want to turn the whole house and yard into growing food.

The kids told me school would be canceled so I slept in. Where’s the snow? The ice?!

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.

This has been such an eventful year. Perhaps I will do a closeout post but for now, on this Sunday, this last day of 2017, I find myself with client work to complete as well as work for my employer. Hopefully, I can slip in some housework too.

I awoke in a panic this morning at 7am because I’d overslept and promised Amy I would drive her to school. I lay in bed just wishing it wasn’t Friday. I went over all the things I had to do at work today and recognized that Saturday would have to wait…for a few more minutes when I finally rose from bed to hurriedly get dressed. Finally I looked at my phone to see that it claimed today was Saturday. I didn’t believe the phone. I stood in dazed confusion trying to reconcile my belief that today was Friday with the information on the phone claiming otherwise. Eventually I came to the conclusion that a good cup of coffee would bring clarity to this befuddlement so I began my day…my Saturday…at 7:04am.

What did I begin the day doing? Hot glue!

You know you are in for an interesting day when your waking thought is, "Oh right, I’m on the wrong f&*king planet."