Just another week

Last week I found myself without children for a few hours (during the day), I cleaned my kitchen in peace. It was wonderful. I looked at my quilt and made a plan of attack, and I got my carpet cleaned. It was a good week.

I've been trying to figure out what to do this week and as much as I try to avoid it, I need to clean off the desk. It's actually not that bad right now, but it still needs to be cleaned.

My plan for the quilt is to get the top done by the end of October. So I'll get the stairs done this week.

The end.

Like a frog in a pot

This is how my week went. On Monday Edison discovered that the cabinet with all the tupperware stuff had a broken lock. He then proceeded to take everything out and throw it on the kitchen floor. I didn't have a replacement lock and so I thought "I don't want to pick everything up, wash it off, and put it away if he is just going to do the same thing tomorrow. I'll just leave it on the floor for now and clean it up when I fix the lock. Since my floor is covered I can't sweep." On Tuesday I still didn't have a new lock and I thought "I can't sweep the floor so I shouldn't clean the counters off because I'll just be knocking more stuff on the floor and I'll just clean it all when I fix the lock." On Wednesday I made a dinner that required me using a lot of pots and then I thought "since I can't clean the counters off it'll be alright if I leave a few pots to clean later." On Thursday I saw how dirty my kitchen was and I thought "I deserve a brake, I had a busy day and I deserve to sit on the couch and eat ice cream." On Friday I thought "wow my kitchen is dirty, but tomorrow is Saturday and I should just wait until then." Then I read this:
http://www.homesanctuary.com/rachelanne/2010/08/the-secret-to-successful-home-management.html

I don't remember everything it said, but it said spend 15 minutes cleaning your kitchen and I thought "I can do that!" So Friday night I turned off my TV and set a timer for 15 minutes and cleaned. I didn't get everything cleaned, but I got a lot done. So that is my new plan, just 15 minutes every night that I can.

There is some happy news this week, I finished a craft! I had been working on this for a while and I really needed to just finish, so I did. Do you think I should paint the frame?




So my goals for this week are to get a new cabinet lock and clean my kitchen, and figure out what I need to do next on the temple quilt. I'm also getting my carpets cleaned this week so I'll probably spend a lot of time moving things and then putting them back.

My Food Storage Quest

For a long time I have been trying to organize my 3 month food storage. I have decided to try lots of different methods and then abandon them when I realize it won't work for me. I have a few things that are working, but it's not all there. This is reminding me a lot of programming because I'm doing a lot of guess and check. Here's what I have so far. I've gone through my recipes and pick out the family favorites that I want to have a 3 month supply of. I only have about 20 now but I'll eventually get it up to 30. I found an excel file that keeps track of what is needed for each meal and then the total amounts needed. I was planning on having a box for each meal with all the non perishable foods needed for 3 meals (including spices measured out). That way I would always know I had enough. I knew buying 30 boxes would be expensive, but if it worked it would be worth it. I found some boxes at home depot for $.99 and I bought 15 to try. I was thinking about this plan and then realized I didn't want spices sitting around for that long since I wasn't going to only eat these meals. Now I have a lot of boxes and no real plan. I'm going to try putting similar items in a box since I know how many I need. I think the only way I'll get there is to keep doing guess and check until I get something that works for me. Any Advice?