So, another week has gone by at my house, so, in keeping with my recent decision, I figured it was time for another post. There isn’t a whole lot to report this time around, so I’ll keep it brief.
I’ve already made most of the larger changes to the house that I intend to make for the time being, so the work I did on the house this week was pretty minor. I found the shower downstairs to be a little small and the shower head was mounted too low for me, so I put up a shower rod and curtain upstairs so I can use the tub shower. The shower head is quite a bit higher and, since it’s also the tub, there’s a lot more room. I dug around in the ceiling in the basement so that I could turn on the two water faucets outside my house. I tried, in vain, to replace the burnt out lights in the light fixture in the master bedroom. I bought CFL’s to put in but discovered that the enclosure is fitted so tightly to the shape of old incandescent bulb that nothing else will fit. Bored yet? Hey, I never claimed any of this stuff was going to be interesting.
Slightly more interesting is the food situation. The first thing you realize when you go to stock a kitchen from scratch is that it cost a hell of a lot of money to stock a kitchen from scratch. The first grocery run cost me $230 and today I spent an additional $90. If you were to go through my kitchen, though, you’d wonder where all that money went. Everything still feels barren. A lot of that money has been spent on that you only have to buy infrequently, so the weekly bill will go down, but it’s still quite expensive. The other food related challenge is figuring out what to buy. I kind of enjoy cooking, but prior to moving out rarely cooked full meals. I have a few cookbooks that I’m using, but the book I really want doesn’t seem to exist. What I’d really like is a cookbook that starts off with a list of 30 or so ingredients that you can go out and buy and then be able to prepare any recipe in the book. As it stands I have to pick out all the recipes for the week ahead of time or go shopping before every meal because, odds are, I don’t have most of the ingredients on hand. Someone needs to come up with my version of a cookbook, or if it already exists somewhere, please point me to it!
So, what’s happening with the rest of my goals from last time? Well, you just spent the last minute or two reading one of them. It’s been a long time since I wrote two posts in a week when it wasn’t Upfronts. The reading is also going well; I’ve managed to read every single night so far, last thing before I go to sleep. It seems to be having the added effect of helping me get to sleep much faster. As I wrote a couple years ago, it’s always difficult for me to get to sleep. Spending that last half hour or so before bed reading seems to help focus my thoughts a little, which in turn leads to less thinking and replaying of scenarios when I do finally turn off the light. My other two goals were the getting healthier ones, which I knew were going to be the more difficult ones to motivate myself to do. As you might expect from that lead-in, I haven’t made any progress on either of them. I didn’t join a gym, get outside, or change my eating habits beyond just making sure that I eat three times each day. It occurs to me just now that I was doing well with that last one until today, since it’s now 4 pm and I realize I haven’t eaten anything yet. Oh well, try again next week.
That’s it for today. I had intended to keep this short, but it doesn’t look like I quite succeeded. I’ll write again soon and keep working on toning down my linguistic diarrhea .
Sleep well,
DTE
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