Still Alive(ish)
It's been a hard year, mostly because I've had the tireds like whoa. Video games make me dizzy. Etc.
Achievements:
* Cleaned all the things! Or enough that our house seemed pretty well put together by Thanksgiving, which was our goal.
* Hosted a Thanksgiving, with help from all of the family who kindly contributed 1-3 dishes each, which makes that sucker a lot easier. Everyone was convivial, food was tasty and we had yummy leftovers. That seems to achieve Thanksgiving goals.
* Jack surgery, which was a surprise goal when he started limping due to an old scar on his leg that he couldn't stop lick lick licking. He is still coned so he won't lick lick lick the healing hock, but doing well.
* Walked almost every day. (So, exercise goals are maintained, if not improved.)
* Made lunch almost every weekday. (Brad has had to make a few lunches and some of them were late.)
We tried changing my walk time to midday so I could do mise before breakfast, but I basically stopped walking for almost the entire experimental period, and we missed our morning walks and conversations, so we changed it back again. Brad is helping me with mise so I don't get totally overwhelmed on Mondays trying to make salad dressing on top of the normal lunch stuff, which was making lunches take absurdly long to prep. Also we've changed things so he's more aware of what goes into the lunch and it isn't a big surprise to him when I spend an hour cooking a batch of veggie sides instead of fixing lunch when we hadn't made any over the weekend and I insist on veggie sides, raar, veggie side dominion. (This still manages to be a surprise, but less of one.)
So... the house is neater, which is really nice. It seems to be pretty easy to keep that way. I have a plan for organizing my scraggly wardrobe (basically the same as the 'put stuff in a box, anything you take out of the box, you keep' plan for kitchen utensils.) Food is pretty streamlined and seems to be trending in a "more streamlined" direction. If I start feeling better, food prep will be more equitable -- Brad's doing almost all of the weekend batch cooking, and I'd like to take some of that back. Ditto farmers market visits; he's done more than half alone this year, because it was just too hard for me to get there. He's gotten very good at buying produce on his own, but it's more fun if we both go, and less work for him because I can make the decisions and he can be a porter who doesn't have to think (which is very relaxing after a week of work.)
Achievements:
* Cleaned all the things! Or enough that our house seemed pretty well put together by Thanksgiving, which was our goal.
* Hosted a Thanksgiving, with help from all of the family who kindly contributed 1-3 dishes each, which makes that sucker a lot easier. Everyone was convivial, food was tasty and we had yummy leftovers. That seems to achieve Thanksgiving goals.
* Jack surgery, which was a surprise goal when he started limping due to an old scar on his leg that he couldn't stop lick lick licking. He is still coned so he won't lick lick lick the healing hock, but doing well.
* Walked almost every day. (So, exercise goals are maintained, if not improved.)
* Made lunch almost every weekday. (Brad has had to make a few lunches and some of them were late.)
We tried changing my walk time to midday so I could do mise before breakfast, but I basically stopped walking for almost the entire experimental period, and we missed our morning walks and conversations, so we changed it back again. Brad is helping me with mise so I don't get totally overwhelmed on Mondays trying to make salad dressing on top of the normal lunch stuff, which was making lunches take absurdly long to prep. Also we've changed things so he's more aware of what goes into the lunch and it isn't a big surprise to him when I spend an hour cooking a batch of veggie sides instead of fixing lunch when we hadn't made any over the weekend and I insist on veggie sides, raar, veggie side dominion. (This still manages to be a surprise, but less of one.)
So... the house is neater, which is really nice. It seems to be pretty easy to keep that way. I have a plan for organizing my scraggly wardrobe (basically the same as the 'put stuff in a box, anything you take out of the box, you keep' plan for kitchen utensils.) Food is pretty streamlined and seems to be trending in a "more streamlined" direction. If I start feeling better, food prep will be more equitable -- Brad's doing almost all of the weekend batch cooking, and I'd like to take some of that back. Ditto farmers market visits; he's done more than half alone this year, because it was just too hard for me to get there. He's gotten very good at buying produce on his own, but it's more fun if we both go, and less work for him because I can make the decisions and he can be a porter who doesn't have to think (which is very relaxing after a week of work.)