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Today is hard, but we soldier on
Aug. 23rd, 2013 09:05 amThis morning Mom is having her mastectomy at Albany Med. My Dad and sisters are all there. Surgery starts at 9 am and should not last more than six hours. I may be a bit of a basketcase this morning. Serious distractions may be in order.
In other news, I made my BFF sign up for LJ again. ;) We are planning to do some writing exercises together. Deadlines are our friends. lol Basically, the plan is to alternately post a prompt on Sundays and we have until Friday Midnight to finish our stories. We will take Saturdays to discuss and critique our work. I am pretty excited about it. I have been telling her how much LJ Idol has helped in dusting the rust off my writing skills and imagination. I have been using her as my beta most times and my stories have gotten her excited about writing again also. The more I exercise my skills, the better I will become at them. We may have to create a name for our challenge.
Next subject change! Here is a picture of my kitchen cabinet from Wednesday.
I went shopping after vacation with a plan and menu established. I had 13 recipes that I was shopping for. These are just the veggies. The meat was in the fridge and I didn't snap a picture of that. I spent the last two days chopping and bagging crockpot meals to go in the freezer. It was a lot of work and the very first thing I did was get a blister on my finger. Yeah, that was crazy. I am inviting a friend over to help me next time. Seriously, if someone just labeled all the bags and added the spices and canned items while someone else chopped veggies, I think that would improve the flow so much. I could have been more organized about it, but I did good. My freezer looks semi full and I didn't even finish it all. I have 12 meals in there and a few of them might feed us for two days.
In other news, I made my BFF sign up for LJ again. ;) We are planning to do some writing exercises together. Deadlines are our friends. lol Basically, the plan is to alternately post a prompt on Sundays and we have until Friday Midnight to finish our stories. We will take Saturdays to discuss and critique our work. I am pretty excited about it. I have been telling her how much LJ Idol has helped in dusting the rust off my writing skills and imagination. I have been using her as my beta most times and my stories have gotten her excited about writing again also. The more I exercise my skills, the better I will become at them. We may have to create a name for our challenge.
Next subject change! Here is a picture of my kitchen cabinet from Wednesday.
I went shopping after vacation with a plan and menu established. I had 13 recipes that I was shopping for. These are just the veggies. The meat was in the fridge and I didn't snap a picture of that. I spent the last two days chopping and bagging crockpot meals to go in the freezer. It was a lot of work and the very first thing I did was get a blister on my finger. Yeah, that was crazy. I am inviting a friend over to help me next time. Seriously, if someone just labeled all the bags and added the spices and canned items while someone else chopped veggies, I think that would improve the flow so much. I could have been more organized about it, but I did good. My freezer looks semi full and I didn't even finish it all. I have 12 meals in there and a few of them might feed us for two days.
