September 9, 2022
1. My attempt at meal planning while grocery shopping:
- Romaine hearts and lemon to make a salad with pork roast and rice
- Russet and sweet potatoes to bake and serve with chicken of some kind
- Broccolini to saute and serve with rice and steak
2. I started a spreadsheet of recently successful meals so that I can stop reinventing the wheel and pick from the various columns when I’m not sure what kind of meal to construct. Let’s see if this actually helps.
3. I actually made all three meals! I swapped the components around a bit, rice goes better with the chicken I made than potatoes, and the broccolini got replaced by salad on a hot day but THREE balanced dinners in a row?? Unprecedented!
4. The FDA authorized updated Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccine boosters. I’m checking Kaiser regularly to find out when we can get boosted.
Challenges this week: knowing that the country has given up on fighting COVID, tests won’t be funded, vaccines won’t be funded. School stopped pooled testing. Thinking about when we need to start holding on to our test kits instead of sharing freely makes me want to kick something.
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September 2, 2022
1. Who knew Hot Topic had all kinds of cool stuff now? I never shopped there as a teen but I had so much fun ogling cute stuff. All the dopamine! No actual shopping!:
2. I made a version of my mom’s chicken salad recipe which also yields a very simple chicken broth/soup and JB was over the moon about the soup (“onion broth” they call it). Nice to be appreciated.
3. Sunday was good. After PiC took the early morning stretch with Smol Acrobat (who persists in waking at 6 am sharp), I took the kids til noon and we swapped again in the afternoon when he got home. We didn’t see much of each other but we both got a solid chunk of time where we got to be alone/away from the family. I worked and then I napped and then I was able to cook and it was glorious. The mental health benefit of getting some hours of silence is unbelievably good.
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August 26, 2022
1. Our food friends showed up with an entree for dinner and we cobbled together a delicious unplanned BBQ dinner. It felt positively decadent!
2. My friend pushed back against sexist policies at her kid’s school and got them to change! I’m so proud of her for standing up for kids.
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August 19, 2022
1. We donated to our local CASA chapter, our local homeless shelter, a dog rescue, and The Human Utility.
2. We’re working on more Lakota donations! I’m rounding up good used clothing, toys, books, and some other odds and ends to ship.
3. PiC spotted a sale on Dave’s Killer Bread ($1.44 a loaf) and ibotta had a $1.50 rebate per loaf. This is the first time I’ve caught such a deal, we rarely buy the brands they promote.
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August 12, 2022
1. We donated to support Kara Perez, Alice Wong, two Donors Choose projects and Something Positive.
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August 5, 2022
1. I’m having some slow burn revelations that likely impact my mental and physical health (positively, one hopes but who knows).
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July 29, 2022
1. Smol Acrobat and JB got to pet a friendly cat!
2. We’re deep in the fog so we enjoyed soondobu for dinner. Soup for a soupy day!
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