Friday: a new low

 I reached a new low this week.  On my to-do list I put that I needed to clean up my to-do list.

To be fair, it really needed to be done.  There were several items that weren't important anymore and could be removed and several items relating to books that just needed to be put in a different place.

I also got a ton of stuff done this morning.  There were many short tasks, but they all need to be done.  I also finished going through and doing a quick clean-up of the rooms I thoroughly cleaned last year.  I was hoping to finish by the end of September and I did!  I'm excited to start new places.

Overall, I also reached another low in my number of to-do tasks.  I've been tracking them periodically over the last few years.  I average about 68 items, but had a high of 98 at the end of the summer.  I'm now down to 48, but we'll keep in mind that not all of those are important.

Thursday: same ol', same ol'

It really wasn't that exciting of a day.  I feel like I've had a lot of those lately and honestly, I'm fine with that.  

Teaching went fine.  We moved on to pivot tables.  I sort of hate teaching when some students have Macs and some have Windows machines.  I try to be inclusive of the Macs but miss a lot of things.  It would probably be a good real-life analogy for several other issues society faces.  I try, but I miss stuff because I can't even see that their screen looks different from mine.  Most students are able to jump that hurdle of being different, but sometimes it's too big.  I don't really know how to change it, so I just keep doing what I'm doing and making notes when things are different to do them better in the future.

All our after school events were canceled, and it was nice.  It's good to do things, but it's also nice not to do things.  We bought some new shoes for the kids.

I made twice baked potatoes for dinner.  I added a bit too much milk, but they still tasted wonderful.

My computer was messed up.  Ben fixed it, (yay Ben!) although it required a reset.  All the files were saved, but I need to download all the applications again.  I don't have a ton that I'm using right now, but it's still a bit annoying.

Wednesday: walk

 Aunt C and I went on a walk at Hemlock Crossings today.  It's been about a year since I was on this side of the park and the river was so low!  It might not actually be low, it just seems low compared to the last few years when the water was so high every where.

Ben and I got a kick out of Joshua's alligators on his math test.

Tuesday: normal

 It was a pretty normal day.  Work, pretend to work, pick up the kids, piano, karate, relax.

Monday: weather

Today was a rather boring day.  I was impressed with how much I got done by 9am, but my progress slowed down after that.  I did clean the office quite a bit as part of O:CtH.  It needs a bit more work and then one more area to check before moving on to more fun stuff again.

The kids had rock climbing today.

As for the weather, it was weird today.  It would rain really, really hard for 30-60 seconds and then stop for a while.  Repeat for most of the day.  Also, today was cold.  It's been cooling of quickly, but today is the first day it felt really cold.

Weekend: crazy

The whole weekend felt crazy.  It was mostly fine, but sometimes a "take your crazy to the basement because I can't handle it anymore" 

Friday: Food

Today was centered around food.

I made banana bread first thing in the morning.  I made two batches of curry...the second batch the timing was a bit off so I had to make half of it in the morning and then I finished it up in the afternoon.  In the future I know I need about two hours if I'm going to make two batches.  The freezer is stocked with curry now though!

I had lunch with Betsy.  The time went by so quickly and we had a nice chat; we had paused for the summer.  I rode my bike over because it's actually rather close.  I almost didn't because it was cool out, but it was the right choice in the end.

It was Friday, so we had pizza for dinner.  'Pizza Friday' as Joshua and I call it.