Miscellany

Meal planning has gone to crap again two weeks in, although I’m not going to take this week as a representative week for how things will go, I just don’t know how it was so much easier. It’s not this time around – so much else happening. We were over at my in-laws’ Monday night planning what was needed for the gathering post-funeral (what is that called?) and by the time we left there was no cooking – we stopped for sandwiches on the way home. Last night I managed what was on the list (spaghetti), but today was supposed to be pot roast and I completely forgot to put it in the slow cooker and it’s currently sitting rock solid in my freezer. So … Saturday, it is! Tomorrow we have the funeral so we won’t be home and look at that – the week is already pretty much done. Where does that time go?

I’ve written more, but I’m boring myself, so *DA-lete*. What’s up with you?

I’m participating in #100happydays on Instagram, trying to remind myself of one good thing every day. It’s hard. I’m not necessarily pessimistic, but some days do go by with my thinking it was a terrible day. And not all of the day was hard. I didn’t fight with the kids the whole time I was with them (just when they came home to dinner on the table while stuffing their faces with doughnuts from next door), I got a new phone; I smiled. So I’m trying to remind myself of that.

I’m still on the outs with books around here – I have some but I haven’t been reading them and have been pretty apathetic, really. I’m not sure what it is – nothing catching my attention? But I haven’t cracked them, so I’m not sure how they should GET my attention. If my books start talking to me, I’m going to have to check myself in somewhere. I have been playing a lot of video games with C and watching Gilmore Girls and you know, that’s fine. Books will be there for me when I get back to them, I know that.