- This is http://www.myhalfdozendaily.typepad.com Carla’s weekly update.
- Reading: I’ve read a few books this week. “Notes from a Blue Bike” by Tsh Oxenreider. Good book and very nicely done, about creating simplicity in your life. “The Snow Child”, about Alaska in the 1930’s ( maybe earlier) and homesteading and a mysterious child who shows up. InterestING story. Now I’m reading ” The Cuckoos Calling” by Galbreath( who is JK Rowling ), quite excellent, I’m surprised. Excellent character development .
- Listening to: nothing, I like quiet.
- Watching: ok, finished Game of thrones, season 3 and thought I’d have a heart attack( just kidding) pretty tough ending.
- Cooking/Baking: I made a turkey, it was ok. Not great.
- last night some yummy sesame noodle with stir fry vegies.
- Happy you accomplished this week: all done with doctor appts, till the end of the month,
- Looking forward to next week:this week, actually, just catching up on my zone cleaning, and since the weather will be warmer, maybe starting the decluttering in the barn.
- Thankful for today:
- As, always , that I have a good quality of life , living with myeloma, and my wonderful husband, who is always loving and supportive, and my 2 very exceptional children.
- thats it for now, today is a work day. Yesterday, my van cost 350 to fix the oil sensor light,but still needs @$ 1500 for more stuff. It’ll have to wait till after taxes.
Monthly Archives: March 2014
Sunday, spring forward…
Well, my body is awake and ready to walk, but it’s too dark. It’s 6:24 but my body thinks it’s 5:24 and should be getting ready to go walk. But, I’m I’m walking without B so, I just need to wait. It’s also Dex Sunday so I’m probably feeling that too.
So, I’ll wait till @6:50 and then go. Also my son and I are going to Costco to get some things. He (we) is getting a very expensive camera. we will pay half which will be his birthday and christmas present. ( yeah, I know and then what else?).
Today, it’s suppose to start raining and tomorrow. I’m bringing my van in to get and oil change and check the light that’s coming on. As if we don’t have enough money flying out of our savings and we will get hit with the enormous tax bill . So, we changed the deductions and we should be ok next year.
I’ve been thinking about and working on a five year plan. Can we stay here.? Well, I don’t even know if I’ll be here in 5 years. The thing with myeloma is it will morph and can become more aggressive. Fortunately, that hasn’t happened to me . Anyway, we do need to get some plan to see how will we afford life. So…
We’ve had a good week of menus and today I’m making a turkey. Should be fun, I’ve never made one when it wasn’t thanksgiving, but following some other blogs like http://www.theprudenthomemaker.com, she recommended buying turkeys, ham etc, around the time they are on sale. So I did. The stockpiling idea is something we have always done with beans and rice, so now I’m adding other things and I like not having to think about do I need pintos when I have 20 lbs.
We had nice BBQ burgers last night. but without B here getting the BBQ ready it took forever and finally I had my daughter do it. I’m just not good at those things. But the burgers were good(organic beef).
Saturday , and JKWP update
Off to to the little best job in the world( library)!
then it’s a beautiful day so I think I’m going to BBQ some burgers for dinner.
So, walking is still at 2 miles. When I bumped up to the 2.5 my back suffered. So I might add 2.5 one time this week. I’d really like to get to 3 but I’m really ok where I am. It still takes 40 minutes. So tomorrow is day 285.
I feel like a pin cushion!
So this last week I’ve had 3 blood draws. My regular monthly, a tobacco one for our health insurance, and a fasting lipid for cholesterol.
Geez, is it over? then I still need to see my GP for the wellness exam. What a PITA. as, I’ve said , I don’t like to be over scheduled.
its still rainy, cloudy here and it’s getting to me . It’s not cold at least but still I need some sunshine.
Our budget is totally shot, as my husbands maybe bonus didn’t come in and now were way off in the money department. I swear, it’s always 3 steps forward, 4 steps back…:(
so, I need to transfer from the little savings I’ve been doing just to cover the first of the month.ugh,!!
Rainy Monday
It’s still going to rain today, so no gardening. But it’s not cold at least.
When the sun does come out I think a lot of things will sprout. We still need to plant out potatoes. Kinda late but we’ve planted later and still had a good crop.
Someone came and finally took our two male ducks who were harassing the chickens. I hope she had the right space for them. I didn’t really ask her as my husband handled it. Oh well, I hope they’re safe and happy. The yard is MUCH more peaceful and the girls are happier.
It is dex Monday, and yesterday was dex Sunday. Ok, but I didn’t really do any zone cleaning and today is the kitchen. That’s always my biggest area because of cooking and grease. But my kitchen is small so that helps. I just haven’t been as motivated lately. I’m still doing the daily stuff but I’d like to do more.
this morning is going out with B to get our tobacco blood tests for insurance . What a PITA Is all I have to say. I just had my blood. Draw last week for my monthly labs, now this draw, and later this week another for cholesterol . Ugh…. Too much. I do not like over schedule weeks and usually don’t. But this I hope won’t be too bad.
I’m going to declutter the pantry later or at least organize it . It’s a mess(again). If the weather gets nice I may go out to the barn. As I said it’s not too bad, but needs some straightening up. Now mind you this is a funky barn, dirt floor that B has covered with tarps and old rugs, but it still an area of storage for all his work samples , and my son has his exercise equipment out there. Plus Christmas decorations, bikes and stuff like that. I think a good clean sweep is in order
Well, I’m off to wash cabinets and turn on the oven for cleaning.
3 goals for March
Carla over at halfdozendaily.typepad.com. Is doing a challenge for march. 3 goals, financial ,personal, and decluttering.
So, financial:
well, really save as much as possible for upcoming taxes.
Start working on saving for auto insurance due in April.
Keep saving $5 bills. I’m up to $135 already.
I forgot to add, 10 no spend days!:)
Personal
Just keep walking. Up to day 277.
Streamline meals. Maybe repeat menus more often based on our favorites.
also, work on the 3 month menu plan as a guide .
Decluttering
our house is mostly decluttered , so it’s the barn that still needs a lot of work. I still have too many Life magazines and there’s too much clutter in general out there.
Don’t forget, if you can donate to this or the Leukemia Lymphoma society!
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