off the fence
Oct. 25th, 2020 09:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisMy everysingleday routine at the end of the day is... Turn off the TV, open the door to the outside, fill my tumbler with ice water and head to the bedroom. There I brush teeth, pill up and climb into bed where I sit with my audio book playing and a game on my tablet and amuse myself for 45 minutes to an hour before sleep.
Last night before this, I had been watching at the baseball game. Tune in for an inning, switch to something else, etc. Along about the 5th inning I got hooked. Then, Tampa Bay fell behind by a run with only an inning left to go. I went to the bedroom. I turned the TV on mute, fired up the audiobook and tablet game and quickly turned off the audiobook and abandoned the tablet game... The baseball game had my full attention. Bottom of the 9th, 1 run behind, 1 guy on base, 2 outs, no name last minute insert at the plate.
Well, yep, that no name today has a name. Brett Phillips, with a single and the help of two Dodger fuckups, had what, at age 26, may be the very best day of his life. It really was wild.
So now I'm all in on this stupid World Series. 3 more games to go. Dodger fans must be face down into their bloody marys today. I'm ok with that.
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Those shower floor stickers I got to replace the various mats that didn't work because the floor isn't smooth, are working perfectly. They are way better than a mat anyway and, at least in my shower, are invisible. They keep my feet where I want them. Just a great solution. BUT WAIT! There's more!
I have two small remotes that fall out of my hands. One is so slippery that it's hard to use. I had extras of the stickers so I took one and cut it up and stuck it to the back of the remotes. Works like a charm!! And, keeps them from falling off the table. Genius.
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One thing this pandemic has done for me is organize my food situation. I've always been so loosey goosey with food. I'd keep plenty in the house and then pop out to the store when I got a whim.
That all equaled way too much money spent on food. A house full of outdated food. A freezer full of stuff I will never eat.
The pop out to the store situation is over. I now shop every two weeks when the house cleaner comes. My grocery bill is a now a little less than half of what I used to spend. I finally went through all the pantry food and tossed out the stuff from the 90's.
I took a hard look at the freezer situation yesterday. There is food in there that I will never eat. And more that I will eat 'some day'. Very little that's in there belongs in there. So today starts OPERATION FREEZER.
I'm going to take every single thing out. I'm going to toss out a lot. That spaghetti sauce that isn't even as good as jar stuff has been in there for years. Then there will be one space for legit stuff (frozen french fries, bread - stuff I eat a lot of and rotates often). Then there will be a space for November stuff. I will eat it by the end of November or I will toss it. The only exception will be for stuff I can pull directly from the freezer and eat in an hour or less - Stouffers meals, Trader Joe's Orange chicken...
After that, no long term storage. No lostinthefreezer. This starts today.
And then TV watching and crochet and reading and stuff. Biggie's food tower is out of kibble so that's going to happen first.
Last night before this, I had been watching at the baseball game. Tune in for an inning, switch to something else, etc. Along about the 5th inning I got hooked. Then, Tampa Bay fell behind by a run with only an inning left to go. I went to the bedroom. I turned the TV on mute, fired up the audiobook and tablet game and quickly turned off the audiobook and abandoned the tablet game... The baseball game had my full attention. Bottom of the 9th, 1 run behind, 1 guy on base, 2 outs, no name last minute insert at the plate.
Well, yep, that no name today has a name. Brett Phillips, with a single and the help of two Dodger fuckups, had what, at age 26, may be the very best day of his life. It really was wild.
So now I'm all in on this stupid World Series. 3 more games to go. Dodger fans must be face down into their bloody marys today. I'm ok with that.
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Those shower floor stickers I got to replace the various mats that didn't work because the floor isn't smooth, are working perfectly. They are way better than a mat anyway and, at least in my shower, are invisible. They keep my feet where I want them. Just a great solution. BUT WAIT! There's more!
I have two small remotes that fall out of my hands. One is so slippery that it's hard to use. I had extras of the stickers so I took one and cut it up and stuck it to the back of the remotes. Works like a charm!! And, keeps them from falling off the table. Genius.
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One thing this pandemic has done for me is organize my food situation. I've always been so loosey goosey with food. I'd keep plenty in the house and then pop out to the store when I got a whim.
That all equaled way too much money spent on food. A house full of outdated food. A freezer full of stuff I will never eat.
The pop out to the store situation is over. I now shop every two weeks when the house cleaner comes. My grocery bill is a now a little less than half of what I used to spend. I finally went through all the pantry food and tossed out the stuff from the 90's.
I took a hard look at the freezer situation yesterday. There is food in there that I will never eat. And more that I will eat 'some day'. Very little that's in there belongs in there. So today starts OPERATION FREEZER.
I'm going to take every single thing out. I'm going to toss out a lot. That spaghetti sauce that isn't even as good as jar stuff has been in there for years. Then there will be one space for legit stuff (frozen french fries, bread - stuff I eat a lot of and rotates often). Then there will be a space for November stuff. I will eat it by the end of November or I will toss it. The only exception will be for stuff I can pull directly from the freezer and eat in an hour or less - Stouffers meals, Trader Joe's Orange chicken...
After that, no long term storage. No lostinthefreezer. This starts today.
And then TV watching and crochet and reading and stuff. Biggie's food tower is out of kibble so that's going to happen first.
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Date: 2020-10-25 04:23 pm (UTC)Ah, the things I would do. Such a song.
Meanwhile I've got the shower stickers sitting in a box waiting until Dana goes out of town for a couple of days.
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Date: 2020-10-25 04:52 pm (UTC)Himself wouldn't stand for it. He has an odd notion that "real men don't," apparently, clean out freezers every so often, nor do they actually eat the stuff they've put into the freezer by the expiration date---which they didn't put on there, either.
And I know for sartin-shore he'd throw out something of mine just to "teach me a lesson" about not touching other people's frozen stodgy leftovers unbidden.
(I wonder how old a lot of that stuff in the back actually is....)
ETA: Belated, but: Good on you for motivating yourself and getting going with this! : ^ )
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Date: 2020-10-26 02:00 pm (UTC)I expect they're feeling better today.
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