Some days I feel like I'm going to get up without my skeleton, or vice-versa... all clicky and things are not quite right and connected. My knee and ankle have been doing that 'why are you holding your joint like this it h U R TSSS' slow burn to major stabbing pain episodes and then I move them and everything is fine but somehow I end up moving them back into that same position out of habit and the pain wells back up. Getting through it, though. We've been researching more about the college stuff, as well - and getting at least one application in. Timelines, gah. School starts back and then leaning hard on the math program as well - and hope she continues to cooperate with that, because it is required to graduate.
my spider plant at work has grown a lot since last December
The weather has just now turned cold, after a major rainstorm, after a week of being dry. Mark hates the cold, and it will become harder for him to do anything outside his heat zone after a bit. And I've examined the to-do list phenomenon a bit more.
If : I need to do something every week and my trouble is kicking myself in the tail that day to do that thing THEN. The to-do list has about an 85% chance of helping make sure that gets done.
If: I would like to be reminded every few days about something hit-or-miss, like watering houseplants, and the to-do list can do that and/or be forwarded a day (which it can) if it doesn't quite need yet to be done that week on that day.. the to-do list has about a 90% chance of helping.
If : I remember earlier or later in the day and am no longer at the place the thing needs to be done at - the to-do list has a 95-100% chance of helping me remember it when I am at the place again.. at least, remembering there was something I put on the to-do list without having to remember what I was thinking about earlier that made me think about that thing and then what it was.
BUT : If 'it would be great if I would keep up with this extracurricular thing or good-intentioned habit (like drinking extra water or cleaning) every few days,week and putting it on the list will keep me from forgetting about it' -- ech, maybe about 50% chance of helping? I get annoyed with that because it isn't a required thing and it isn't something that I'm seeing a good benefit from, yet... and then I struggle against the past me that thought it was such a good idea to put it on the list and then have it pop back up and 'look at me' every day on this app.
AND : The app is annoying me because when it does it's notifications it sounds like a text message,and when I am not supposed to be getting text messages, at night or driving etc... it annoys me to stop and pick up the phone and look and 'haha, it wasn't a text, it is your to do list (or a language app, similar issues) it just made you LOOK'... and I don't see anywhere that I can change the notification sound to something other than my text notification sound - and changing my text notification sound to something else has resulted in me ignoring it entirely - so .. *GLUM* what to do about that? not a lot... the system is working within parameters but it could be better
Making rice for the lunches the next few days, doing laundry, staring at a lot of other things, listening to the wind and the rain storms outside. Budget will come to forefront again this week as I am paying the end of the month bills. We have done good getting through half the month spending only half the estimated amount for the food budget. That will probably change as well after this week - because it's cold, and because I went myself for just the things on the list the other day instead of everyone coming with me.
Then the week after that they finally finish my denture and have extractions to finish that out. Then the week after that - Esme's birthday.
French, Lithuanian, Spanish, Japanese - a bit of math.
I worked on a few more chapters of a cat book I had been working on, and did two illustrations.
Lunch of a few tablespoons of rice, tamagoyaki style rolled egg omelet (with biryani masala spices in it) and those zesty chili beans, and a good couple of tablespoons of sweet non-dill relish. I told myself to use a real plate, even though it was enough I could have used a little saucer to hold it.
the rice: as usual
1 cup washed rice, this week it is mahatma enriched long grain white, although in the past it has been natural brown rice that the other store sells ... matter of time and I'll probably get the other again
put that in 2 cups of water (more for brown rice), bit of pulverized brown mustard seed, olive oil drop, bit salt and bit rice wine vinegar, bring to boil, bring down to low, cover, stir occasionally, turn off at the end and prepare
2 tablespoons or less of white sugar, rice wine vinegar and white sesame seeds
place the sugar in center of the HOT rice, pour just enough rice wine vinegar to wet the sugar, and then stir like mad - daughter says it kind of looks like rice pudding when I'm doing this - and then mix in the white sesame seeds, put up in a clear glass container with a sprinkle of salt over the top, let cool on the counter for 20 minutes or so, place in fridge and use within 3 days
I found some of the basic drawing pencils that were eluding me - I could have sworn I looked in those crochet hooks multiple times and had not seen them. Still missing the key pencil in each set, the 4H. Sat down and drew for a bit while the sunlight was nice upstairs.
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