I was still off Monday and Tuesday, back to work Wednesday, and I’m already getting emails for my new job, including the details on my acting assignment. Not quite the form I was expecting, but I’ll roll with it. I’m still in the too-excited-to-be-nervous stage. Work was fine for the week, as I managed to get a couple of big files out of the way. But let’s get to the personal stuff.

For January, I’m tracking 37 items that I’m initially prioritizing for the month and I made good progress on some digital ones:

a. I closed out the PolyWogg Reading Challenge for 2021;

b. I set up One Note notebooks for my home organization, and I’ll be using those throughout the year;

c. Andrea and Jacob assembled two of the three basement bookshelves that I had waiting to put in place, and the third will be done tomorrow (Monday) with a fourth bonus one from the bedroom moved to the basement too;

d. The big item for the week and likely the month is a complete reorganization of all the shelving and my desks in the basement. I completely rearranged the contents of 10 bookshelves, and physically moved six so far. Three more will happen tomorrow. But it’s more than that. I created a worker/craft table at the opposite end of my basement, rejigged my office so that my PC is opposite my work computer instead of L-shaped. I moved a massive amount of stuff from the second floor to the basement, purged some stuff. I’m exhausted, to be honest. And my work computer is still not assembled yet for the morning. If worse comes to worst, I can always just plug in my tablet tomorrow first thing to get going and reconnect the larger items later. My back and ribs have definitely had enough for the day. Huge progress, but still lots to be done when the three new bookshelves are in the right places.

e. Andrea bought me a Sodastream for Christmas, and I’ve been getting that going. I’m not sold on the Bubli bottles as much as the larger syrupy colas, but those have been good. I stocked up on lots of flavours to try in the next month. We’ve tried cherry (okay, but still have to get the dosage right), diet Pepsi, and root beer. I would say the root beer has been the best so far. I also did some Kool-Aid in one bottle (raspberry) that worked quite nicely too.

f. We did our first weekly cooking item, a chicken biryani in the InstaPot, and while it looked like 50 shades of beige, it was quite tasty. And not that much work once we figured out the initial steps for the first time doing the recipe. It was good, not sure it’s a full keeper for the website though. And I forgot to take pictures anyway. 🙂 Oddly enough, this is a double checkbox on the to-do list though as I had one for the new cooking item for the week and one for the chicken biryani recipe itself.

g. Another digital element was my first two series of the year — the first was the overview of the year’s goals by category, the second was a new feature I’m calling 7 Questions. I posted them all earlier this week, and they posted to FaceBook one per day.

h. I’ve been wanting

Two items I made partial progress on … I moved major parts of my astro gear to the garage, but I’m not done yet, and I also have been doing research into 3D printers. I think I know the model I would buy, if/when I buy one, but the reorg of my basement left me feeling too hoarder-ish to risk buying anything else for the basement until I can start weeding some of the other piles of crap. I have tons of stuff for 7-8 projects I’m working on, not sure I need to start a 9th just yet. I might hold off until my birthday.

I’m pretty comfortable with the progress of the past week, and I’ll start updating the list tomorrow to see if there are any other downstream activities that have opened up now and should be included. And finishing this post? That’s another one of my recurring items checked off — an end-of-the-week update!