Week in review: 9-15 February 2015
This week’s goals:
- 16,000 steps per day – 7/7 days
- [Private goal] – 0/7 days
- Go to bed before 11.30pm – 1/7 days (close on 3 other nights)
Monday was a public holiday, so no work and no school. Hooray! Juniordwarf and I made a start on cleaning up his bedroom. Not hooray!
Under an 8 year old’s bed. A place no one should ever have to go.
At least I finally managed to get him to start thinking about things he didn’t want or need any more, and start getting rid of some things. This is progress.
I’ve not done this ‘bed before 11.30’ thing very well. I did go to bed before, well let’s say midnight on Monday, but my body decided to compensate for that by waking me up at 4 am on Tuesday. How considerate of it.
On Wednesday I got my 5th strawberry off my plants. $10 for 6 plants, 5 strawberries = $2 per strawberry. Gourmet gardening!
I also learned a valuable lesson. Juniordwarf has a cheap writing pad that was sitting on the dining table. I was sitting at the table after dinner and picked up a pen and started doodling on his writing pad. He saw it a bit later and asked why I’d done that.
I said that I’d just wanted to scribble a bit.
He looked very upset with me and said, ‘But that’s my paper and you didn’t ask permission.’
My first instinct was to think that it was only a cheap writing pad, and why would I need his permission, since I probably gave it to him in the first place. But I somehow managed to think before I spoke, and it occurred to me that he was right. It was his writing pad and I hadn’t asked if I could write on it. I knew I’d be really annoyed if it was one of my notebooks and he’d scribbled in it – so why would his notepad mean any less to him than my notebook means to me?
So I apologised and I really meant it. He accepted that and asked that I not to this again. Then he went and got another sheet of paper from somewhere and put it on top of the pad to replace the sheet I’d used. Then we both moved on.
Thursday was 12 of 12, so you know about that already.
On Friday I went to the first scrapbooking class for the year. We usually have a break over December and January and go back when school goes back. I finished one page from 2013. In 3 hours. Yeah I’m good at this (ha). I also started to design a layout for a taste test I did in 2013 of 2 different varieties of Two Metre Tall Forester Ale. Because occasionally I do a page that doesn’t feature Juniordwarf.
Then it was the weekend. We had some friends come to visit, and Juniordwarf had a great time with another kid in the house.
Next week’s goals:
1. 17,000 steps per day
2. [Private goal]
3. Go to bed before midnight (baby steps!)
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