Monday: O:CtH - kitchen

Today I didn't do as many of my normal chores so I could spend more time in the kitchen.  It's been slow going, and I wanted it to go a bit faster.

While I succeeded in spending quite a bit of time on the kitchen, I'm not sure I got a lot done.  I did a cabinet, cabinet side, and four drawers.  I got rid of some things, especially Tupperware lids that were missing bases.  I tried organizing it too, but only feel mildly successful.  I added some dividers and tried to sort things, but I don't have enough obvious categories.  So they ended up being "Things I rarely use", "Things I sometimes use", and "Things I often use".  

But at least it isn't just a random pile of stuff anymore.

Also, it surprised me how dirty the drawer front bottoms were.  Guess that's something I should clean sometimes.

Sunday: fetch

In the 'olden' days, when Isaac was a puppy, I played a lot of fetch.  Imagine my surprise when I played more fetch today.  This time I upgraded to a rock.  That's right, I played fetch with a rock.

And to be clear, the rock is Isaac.

Friday: Bowser

Last night we had a bunch of people over to play Magic: The Gathering.  It was a silly deck, so there were some shenanigans going on.  At one point I was a card and had to balance six cards on top of my head for about ten minutes.  When I drew myself I won the game.

Ben got to put an inanimate object in play.  He chose Bowser, which was so appropriate.

Then this afternoon Isaac made a rock wall for Bowser.

Thursday: Black belt

I'm about to take my quarterly test in karate, which would be for my pre-black belt.  Normally you stay here for at least six months, because the test doesn't happen as often.  Well, they've decided to change to only offering the test once a year.

For several reasons, several of my belt-mates and I were asked if we wanted to start the black belt testing right away and not really spend any time at pre-black belt.  There are extra practices, but I'm also excited to do it sooner than expected.

*There is a chance it'll fall through for this year, but that would be fine too.  I do this more for the exercise and the journey than the final result.

Wednesday: exercise

While I was exercising this morning Tornado watched me like this.  It looked super uncomfortable.

 I finished all of my chores today, but didn't any 'extra' time to work on O:CtH.  I look forward to it, since it is so satisfying to go from a full mess to an organized less-mess.

Tuesday: ups and downs

Today had its ups and downs with a few odd surprises thrown in.  However, none of it is blog-shareable so you'll have to be content with a mysterious blog post that doesn't satisfy.

I think that the end result of everything is just life as normal.

Monday: a good day

There were a lot of little things that worked today.  Ben had an appointment in the morning.  It usually goes long, and today it was long but not absurdly long.  I went on a walk with a friend.  It was colder out than I expected, but it was still nice to get out.

Isaac had full band practice after school.  Annoyingly, he had to stand out in the cold by parent pick-up before going back inside to go to practice.  I understand why, but at the same time, it seems like they could figure something different out.  There were a bunch of students doing this though, so they could all be cold together.

I cleaned a drawer for O:CtH.  This one was my miscellaneous paper and random other stuff drawer and I had recently put too much paper in it and it was hard to open.  This drawer does get cleaned out regularly, but I still got rid of a bit and put several more papers in a different pile for filing.  I'm not sure I'd call it organized, but it is much emptier.