[Finding the perfect pen] Giving up...
Give up.
It's the right thing to do sometimes. It's necessary sometimes, and nobody will look badly upon you for doing it. I got to this point yesterday. I had been on the computer for nigh on 12 hours or something, and wasn't feeling at all productive. I could feel the burbling in my head dying down to the point where it wasn't making sense anymore. If you have the passion going on for long periods of time, that's great, but I know that I need to take a break and give it up from time to time.
I feel sorta weird that yesterday's meal didn't have a name. It was chick peas and summer sausage with a concocted sauce... the name wouldn't be a thing except that I had names for the ones two days in a row before - Angels of Porcine Mercy and But Maryanne was Hotter. I'm hoping that I can come up with something reasonable tonight for food, because this cooking at home thing is SO much cheaper. It's truly awesome when there's things in the house to nom on.
there's a game that we used to play, that I'm going to go back to. It's the '$5 meal' game where the goal is to get every meal that you eat to a cost of under five bucks. You're looking at averages here, of course... and I found that eating out REALLY damages this. The reward, of course, for getting the meals as LOW as possible is to get to eat out. :)
So... the way that you play is to look at the last grocery receipt and take out all of the non food items. For me, the last food receipt was about $80, and then I take away $5 for toilet paper, leaving me with $75. TBH, I'm happy about the fact that it divides well. That means that between me and The Unlikely Mage, we have to eat 15 meals 'in' before again having the opportunity to eat out. With two people, it means 2.5 days of eating in (3 meals a day, per person) but I'm going to push the cost per meal down a little further, ,given that I'm not going to take the car today, and I'm planning on cooking. There's folks out there who are a LOT better at this than I am, but it's lessons learned. :)
It's the right thing to do sometimes. It's necessary sometimes, and nobody will look badly upon you for doing it. I got to this point yesterday. I had been on the computer for nigh on 12 hours or something, and wasn't feeling at all productive. I could feel the burbling in my head dying down to the point where it wasn't making sense anymore. If you have the passion going on for long periods of time, that's great, but I know that I need to take a break and give it up from time to time.
I feel sorta weird that yesterday's meal didn't have a name. It was chick peas and summer sausage with a concocted sauce... the name wouldn't be a thing except that I had names for the ones two days in a row before - Angels of Porcine Mercy and But Maryanne was Hotter. I'm hoping that I can come up with something reasonable tonight for food, because this cooking at home thing is SO much cheaper. It's truly awesome when there's things in the house to nom on.
there's a game that we used to play, that I'm going to go back to. It's the '$5 meal' game where the goal is to get every meal that you eat to a cost of under five bucks. You're looking at averages here, of course... and I found that eating out REALLY damages this. The reward, of course, for getting the meals as LOW as possible is to get to eat out. :)
So... the way that you play is to look at the last grocery receipt and take out all of the non food items. For me, the last food receipt was about $80, and then I take away $5 for toilet paper, leaving me with $75. TBH, I'm happy about the fact that it divides well. That means that between me and The Unlikely Mage, we have to eat 15 meals 'in' before again having the opportunity to eat out. With two people, it means 2.5 days of eating in (3 meals a day, per person) but I'm going to push the cost per meal down a little further, ,given that I'm not going to take the car today, and I'm planning on cooking. There's folks out there who are a LOT better at this than I am, but it's lessons learned. :)