Is there life beyond planning

March 17, 2020

I feel I am spending a crazy amount of my time planning at the moment. Today was doing the weeks menus. Yes I really do, and it has become much more important now someone else picks my shopping. I have no way to know what dates which items will have. Yesterday evening my shopping arrived so this morning I went through the dates and worked out what we have to eat when. I got pretty lucky things will space out fairly nicely through the week. I knew some items always have short dates and had planned those your last nights dinner. The other reason I didnt plan in advance was I knew we wouldn’t get everything I ordered so I was going to have to shuffle things about. I was right, but it wasnt too bad. I think the dog will get short changed as I slightly reduce portion sizes to stretch things out a bit more. Could it be that the virus will make us healthier again as we eat less? Probably not based on the panic shopping and the fact that most people will probably sit at home and watch TV. I can dream though. I suppose I should also make sure I try out my exercises today as I have missed my aquafit class.

Having written here about my next section of foundation pieceing I was inspired to get a bit more done before bed yesterday. I think it was only another 3 or 4 geeese but it is all progress right. I did another hour before breakfast (yes I now eat breakfast as I get up so early I am hungry about 9am)  and made it to the point where I needed to roll up the section I have made. That is a mixed milestone. Yes, it shows progress but from here on it will be very hard to see how well I am doing as it will be rolled as soon as it’s made. I think that is why the spikes had felt so unending. As it is the only sensible way to handle the piece because of its size I will just have to suck it up and deal. I am still hoping that I can finish the section by the end of Sunday.

While planning my meals I realised I had missed planting a vegetable I love and eat a lot of, cucumbers. One of my jobs for today will be getting some cucumber seeds ordered. I also want to look for asparagus, not as seeds though. They take years to become productive so I would like to get them prestarted. Breakfast is done, I had better love you and leave you, I have work to do.