What I’m working on…
November17
So… what the heck am I up to, lately, other than trying to date the unavailable and to control the urge to throttle my soon to be ex husband (oh YES, I will get the divorce completed!! One way or another I will get this thing done)? In NO particular order:
- Attempting to get my house clean… which is an ongoing issue for me because the house, no matter how much I beat the dust bunnies out of the corners and scare them out from under the beds, seem to be breeding at an exceedingly furocious pace — even for dust bunnies. There is a tsunami of laundry waiting me at home, and the odd thing is that I must be doing 2 loads a night and there is STILL so much of it to do!!
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Tidying up my room. This is harder than it sounds, because at this point in time I still do not have any form of clothing storage type things. I mean, I have a closet, and MOST of my things are hanging up… but I don’t have dressers or cupboards or any place to put folded items. And so I am finding that instead I have about 20 different PILES of things on my floors and in suitcases, and in laundry baskets. I hate this form of “organization”
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Creating a way to stick to a budget. AGAIN, harder than it sounds. I have the budget… but I can’t consistently get Quicken for Mac to WORK for me… it seems to grow an error out of the code (complete with flowering gibberish and the necessity to reinstall randomly, but when I reinstall Quicken it mucks up iPhoto, when I fix iPhoto it gibberizes Quicken)… I am back to the idea of using a pen and paper system… like a good little wifely type. Only… I’m my OWN wife (which is some sort of messed up thing, y’all).
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The biggest challenge for me is not just spending to spend. I know, it seems self explaintory, but I have been trying to make up for “lost time” in getting things to take better care of myself — getting my hair done, implements to do my hair, make up… I SHOULD buy clothes for myself. The balance point comes in “do I need this right NOW or can it wait” and sometimes the books and magazines and pens and other things that I buy are not necessary and I don’t use them, and so I need to start to become more self aware before I go shopping.
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the single biggest expense I have after rent has to be groceries. I need to start to shop smarter — and that means stocking up on things when I can and making meals at home rather than going out for lunches. I need to create meal plans, so I know the night before what I need to cook and prep for supper the next day.
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I need to stop going out for meals and coffees (outside of the dating thing) on the weeks that I don’t have the kids and start making suppers IN so I have things to take for lunches as well.
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I need to put myself on a cash only weekly expense for “fun” things — ie, use my bank card for groceries and gas for the car, but have a budget for the week for other things (ie, scrapbooking club, reading material, hobby stuff, fancy coffee, or what have you) and do that by cash — when the cash runs out there isn’t any more spending for non-essentials. And if anything is left over I put it into the kids’ fund instead of rolling it over to the next week.
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freezer meals — chili, casseroles, stews, lasagne — for quicky meals. Preprep hamburger, make pizza dough, and have a lot of quick meal things on hand for meals in less than 30 mins.
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Tarot readings. I have been looking for the “missing patterns” in my life. I find that the tarot is a great tool for me for this, because it allows me to see patterns of how things come up and are processed through the my life. I sometimes miss the big picture for the small details. As a spiritual practice, I have been trying to do at least 2 readings a week to ensure that I am able to review my week as well as look forward to the week ahead.
- knitting… I have 2 projects in play right now. I am working on finishing a pair of socks for my mother for her birthday (she gets handknit socks for her birthday, but I’m getting her and my father a new computer for Yule/Christmas… so it evens out). I am procrastinating because I am either busy or trying to avoid watching fuzzy tv when I am not at work or with the kids. I know I should get to the sock, and I will. The other is to see how long a scarf will be if you make it from 5 balls of wool in a stocking stitch over 50 stitches. So far I have used 1/2 a ball of wool and it is 10 inches???
- I have given up on NaNoWriMo… yes, again. I have to say that I can’t really do things like that. Yes, I accept the “embrace the suck” philosophy, but I am also not able to be freaky obsessive about anything and I hate hate HATE everyone asking me about it and telling me that I need to do this or that… and I hate the idea of “having” to do something for one month… I choose to do it in another month… one that is less stressful… the biggest problem is that I don’t like the pressure of being asked to do things like that on demand. I will try to work back up to being able to do it… but for now I think having a goal and quietly achieving it will be key to getting ready to do this.
So what is up for me for this week?
Tonight (monday):
- Exchange the kids with STBX
- Remember to give the kids money for their book fair or ask for recommendations for when I go to interviews
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hit the gym
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coffee meeting
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hopefully 30 mins or so knitting
Tuesday:
- coffee with a friend, part of a “check in” system
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tarot reading
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knitting
Wednesday:
- gym
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coffee date — a reschedule from a guy who stood me up previously (laugh)
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tarot reading
Thursday:
- trying to hit a class at the gym
- knitting on the sock for my mother
- get pictures printed out for scrapbooking
- try to do a bit of the podcast
Friday:
- Parent teacher interviews in the morning
- Either a “date for coffee”
- or Scrapbooking with G and her mother
- possibly (hopefully) coffee with G afterwards since she is over booked for the weekend due to NaNoWriMo (and her obsession with this project) and other friends
Saturday:
- Right now its pretty open, but I am kinda hoping to meet up with one of the guys that I have previously gone out with (a few times) because I have been enjoying spending time with him and we have a lot in common.
- record some podcast during the day
- bake cookies for christmas and get at least a bit more freezer meals done (lasagne and pizza dough) during the day
- go to gym during morning/day time
Sunday:
- create a meal plan for the week
- prep things that need to be cooked/prepped for suppers ahead of time
- get necessary groceries for the week
- finish podcast
- tarot reading
- bake cookies?
So that is my week so far…
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