I'm starting an informal "blog series"! I'm calling it: Project Routine Optimization. 😁 With back to school season underway for us + family visits winding down, my mind has shifted toward tweaking a few routines. I'll cover one each day. I have ~6-ish on my list. Up first: #1: My workout routine Strength: Long term… Continue reading Project Routine Optimization #1 + last first day
You guys know by now that I STRUGGLE with packing. I have felt like in the last couple of years I've actually gotten worse with it, not better, too. Due to both cost increases and space reasons, we've shifted to being pretty much exclusively carry-on only travelers now. We also frequently take fairly long trips,… Continue reading Packing tips for an indecisive traveler
Happy Memorial Day long weekend to those in the U.S.! I always love the long Labor Day/ Memorial Day weekends because it's 3 days off without actual "holiday plans", i.e. it's just 3 days OFF. Yay! I wrapped up work just a little early on Friday; I think I logged off around 4:15-4:30. I noticed… Continue reading Friday cleaning, teens + messy rooms, long weekend, CLOTHES
Storage Room: Before + After Okay, as promised, I took some pictures of my big storage room clean out! Sadly, I don't really have the best "before" pictures. Here's the thing- this storage room wasn't always a disaster. We moved into this house in 2013, and I'd say it spent the first ~6 years or… Continue reading Before/after + spontaneous fun!
You guys know I'm a Google Calendar devotee, and it has served our family well over the years now, too. It links to our smart refrigerator screen, so it's always visible in the main part of the house, and everyone has it on their phones, too. I, of course, have always managed the "updating" and… Continue reading Some teen “calendaring issues” + a milestone
Thanks for the commiseration the other day! 🙂 As is often the way, as soon as I wrote all that, I actually had a good day and felt generally more upbeat, for some reason! Maybe our warm, spring-like weather this week is helping... I sat in a patio chair for 10 minutes yesterday on my… Continue reading A few switch-ups
A big part of my job involves working on Process Improvement projects for our transplant program. There's this tool that is used in PI work called the "5 Whys" that is meant to help identify the root cause of a problem. Some of you may have heard of this! I've been meaning to share about… Continue reading Problem solving
I peeked back in my "Blog Ideas" folder in Google Keep and saw I had once jotted down that I wanted to talk about Vertical Ownership regarding household responsibilities (aka "who does what"). I'll keep this specific to between me and Ivan, not counting stuff the boys help out with. IVAN: -cell phone related stuff-… Continue reading Vertical ownership
A few random things on this Tuesday: #1. I wrote a guest post! On Sunday NGS published my guest post as part of her special 20th anniversary blog series. Every Sunday a guest blogger shares some sort of "20 Things" list of their choice. Mine was, of course, 20 Things I'm Grateful For. I had… Continue reading Tuesday misc.
Decluttering success I've (finally) made some decent recent progress in some house decluttering projects, after feeling very stalled out for a while there. Last fall I made a Google Keep label called "House - TO DO LIST", and then made a separate note for each area of our house. I literally went to each room… Continue reading Forward progress, slowly
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