The last of my goals for the year. Squeaking it in before the year's half-over. At, you know, midnight tonight. In approximately 25 minutes ( Read more... )

Continuing my thoughts on goals:

In theory, 2008 was my year of focusing on "Finances and Organization." It seems some of those goals have continued to seep into 2009.

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Here, for the second week in a row, is a compilation of last week's menus, goals achieved, etc. Although why I am bothering to do any of the "putting winter stuff away" prep is beyond me at the moment: the temperature has barely reached above 50 degrees here for the past few days; I had to dig back out a long-sleeved shirt from the winter stuff I ( Read more... )

So, I've been meaning to write down my goals for the year for a while now. Since, you know, January ( Read more... )

So, it's June. The year is almost half over. (Aaaaah! Please use auditory imagination to create the diminuendo effect of that scream ( Read more... )

Today is the last day of Christmas: happy Epiphany!

I found it so helpul last year to include a "post-mortem" (as it's called on Frugal Upstate, or "debriefing," if you prefer, from Organized Christmas) of our Christmas -- what worked, what didn't, what we should repeat -- that I'm doing it again ( Read more... )

Here we go again, with another year of menu planning and goal setting. We had a great time with our family Christmas-ing, and I have been getting some things organized around here during the few days we've been back in Minnesota. Not organized enough to have time to catch up on my blog, but still ( Read more... )

Oh, look, it's Monday. It must be time to post. I admit to feeling a bit overwhelmed by December. Even though I tried to do a lot of planning and doing ahead, it seems there's still quite a bit of extra stuff to do this month, plus all that regular stuff that just keeps on keepin' on (as my dad would say, "ya gotta eat!"), planning for travel, and ( Read more... )

My grocery goal for this month is to shop as little as possible, both to offset the spending that occurs at this time of year, and to make life easier in terms of schedule. (There will be some purchases, for special holiday dinners, and for things like milk and eggs and produce.) This means that, even more than usual, I'm trying to have our family ( Read more... )

Again, this posting comes late enough that we have actually already eaten many of this week's meals, and I have acccomplished....well, some...of my weekly to-do list. Posting this stuff is a handy record for me, though.

You can find more menus (and sometimes recipes) at http://orgjunkie.com


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