A while ago I posted a list of places I needed to declutter and organise. I am happy to report that I have completed one of those places—my ensuite drawers. I actually did this before Christmas and forgot to post before and after photos as requested.
Before I cleaned it up the drawer was a jumble of products, including empty containers. It slowly got that way because I didn’t have any containers to corral everything, we were traveling frequently so all the things kept getting taken out and thrown back in in a rush and I lazily threw empties back in instead of putting them in the recycling. This photo will now make every reader feel very accomplished that their bathroom drawer does not look like this.
I sorted out everything in the drawer out, threw out the empties and out of date products, moved some travel containers to my other drawer that has my toilet bags in and moved some of the things from that drawer into this one. I got some clear containers from Kmart for about $10 for the set and sorted everything out. I have since added some things into the drawers because I had to buy makeup for the wedding but with my new containers to corral everything that was not a problem. It is working well for me, keeping everything easier to pull out but it is still super easy to just throw what I use back in to its correct spot.
G moved to working five half-days this year. Since he had more available time than before I suggested he take over all the laundry duties, where previously we had shared the laundry in an ad hoc way. Kudos to him in stepping up completely—I now no longer need to really think about the laundry, apart from putting my stuff in the washing machine. He sets it going, hangs it out and brings it in. I still sometimes sort some, but he also does most of that. I feel like it works a lot better, if you can, to have a strict line around who is responsible for household chores. That doesn’t mean we don’t help out when asked with something that isn’t our particular responsibility, but it does mean the other doesn’t need to keep a track of what needs doing when.
I’ve been feeling in a cooking rut lately (who am I kidding—more like a few years), and I want to get out of it. When I am in the kitchen I get antsy sometimes so I need to break that. Cooking is much more fun when I relax and settle into the routine. When the kids were younger I cooked a couple of batches of lunch treats a week, we also went through a phase where we all cooked up a big feast from a particular cuisine. I don’t know where along the way I lost my MOJO but I want it back. I can’t be cooking up lunch treats now though because there’s just G and I, but in an effort to break out of my rut I am having people over for lunch on Monday, which should be fun. In honour of Easter it will be roast lamb. The girls will also come over tomorrow and I’m making fish pie.
Favourite dinner I cooked this week: Crispy Lemon Chicken with Potatoes, Capers and Rosemary
Some good things I wrote down in my journal this week:
- Squeezing in a walk with G before mainly music
- Watching the kids innocent joy as they move their bodies and dance
- Lovely mild weather, crisper mornings, blue skies
- All the kids over for dinner on Monday
- Feeling of time well spent
- Crossing things off my list
- Local library
- Bumping into another Goldie owner we know down at the park
- G picking up the slack for dinners while I was sick on the weekend (he didn’t cook, though)
And some online reading:
- My own doors project feels a little underdone compared to this one from Mexico City
- It’s probably my snarky sense of humour, but I loved this: “Go Ahead and Use AI. It Will Only Help Me Dominate You.”
- And in a similar vein: “Infinite midwit.” A little sample: “And so I check, from time to time, whether the leading AI models can do me better than I can. The result sounds like a version of me that has sustained blunt force trauma to the back of the head and spent years recovering in a hospital where the Wi-Fi, for whatever reason, only lets you log onto LinkedIn.”
Do you have recent win on the homefront? What about a great, tasty recipe you love to cook?
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