wherein Liz bangs through her to-do list
Nov. 3rd, 2020 09:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingI let my daily to-do lists fall by the wayside a few weeks back -- writing them just became too overwhelming to deal with, even though that has led to a handful of things slipping through the cracks.
But today I made myself a to-do list, on the principle that this is a very good day on which to be Very Busy, for many and various reasons.
Thus far I have:
1. Changed my linens (which I should have done Sunday afternoon, but eh, life happens)
2. Taken kitchen compost to the communal back yard bin
3. Bagged all my trash and put the bag into my designated trash can at the side of the house
4. Washed the masks I've worn over the past week
5. Boiled some eggs
6. Put away my electric fans
7. Vacuumed my apartment
8. Bought groceries
9. Cooked the pre-seasoned salmon and broccoli I'd had sitting around for the past few days. I then ate them for dinner. They were delicious. I must do that again sometime. (For reference, my salmon-cooking method is the same as my minimal-effort cooking method for most meats: namely, chuck it into a covered Corningware dish with a bit of liquid to stop it from sticking/burning and cook it at ~350 Fahrenheit for 20-30 minutes. The tastiness of the results is based entirely on one's seasoning choices, and a bit on the size of the meat pieces.)
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The remaining items on my list are:
1. Put away laundry (which I have started but not finished)
2. Repair pants (I have set out the necessary supplies)
3. IGNORE ELECTION!!! (which I feel I am managing tolerably well)
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I have also been listening to audiobooks. This morning I finished Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane, which was fine though I'm not wildly enamored of his writing style and I think the summary was a bit misleading in that it didn't mention that this is a very deliberately European-centric book rather than one with a global focus.
This afternoon I started Rome Enters the Greek East: From Anarchy to Hierarchy in the Hellenistic Mediterranean, 230-170 BC by Arthur M. Eckstein, which is a book I saw mentioned on A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry and then discovered is part of Audible's new "included in Audible!" promotion thingy where certain audiobooks are available for merely the monthly price of membership rather than needing to be purchased separately. Which means they can also be taken away again at any moment, but hey, in the meantime at least I get to listen to some interesting books I might not otherwise have purchased.
...
Apropos of some very particular things I shall not mention, I have had stress pain in my jaw all day long and it is unpleasantly distracting, no matter how much I try to release tension and not grind my teeth. *sigh*
Okay, now off to finish the laundry-folding.
But today I made myself a to-do list, on the principle that this is a very good day on which to be Very Busy, for many and various reasons.
Thus far I have:
1. Changed my linens (which I should have done Sunday afternoon, but eh, life happens)
2. Taken kitchen compost to the communal back yard bin
3. Bagged all my trash and put the bag into my designated trash can at the side of the house
4. Washed the masks I've worn over the past week
5. Boiled some eggs
6. Put away my electric fans
7. Vacuumed my apartment
8. Bought groceries
9. Cooked the pre-seasoned salmon and broccoli I'd had sitting around for the past few days. I then ate them for dinner. They were delicious. I must do that again sometime. (For reference, my salmon-cooking method is the same as my minimal-effort cooking method for most meats: namely, chuck it into a covered Corningware dish with a bit of liquid to stop it from sticking/burning and cook it at ~350 Fahrenheit for 20-30 minutes. The tastiness of the results is based entirely on one's seasoning choices, and a bit on the size of the meat pieces.)
...
The remaining items on my list are:
1. Put away laundry (which I have started but not finished)
2. Repair pants (I have set out the necessary supplies)
3. IGNORE ELECTION!!! (which I feel I am managing tolerably well)
...
I have also been listening to audiobooks. This morning I finished Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane, which was fine though I'm not wildly enamored of his writing style and I think the summary was a bit misleading in that it didn't mention that this is a very deliberately European-centric book rather than one with a global focus.
This afternoon I started Rome Enters the Greek East: From Anarchy to Hierarchy in the Hellenistic Mediterranean, 230-170 BC by Arthur M. Eckstein, which is a book I saw mentioned on A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry and then discovered is part of Audible's new "included in Audible!" promotion thingy where certain audiobooks are available for merely the monthly price of membership rather than needing to be purchased separately. Which means they can also be taken away again at any moment, but hey, in the meantime at least I get to listen to some interesting books I might not otherwise have purchased.
...
Apropos of some very particular things I shall not mention, I have had stress pain in my jaw all day long and it is unpleasantly distracting, no matter how much I try to release tension and not grind my teeth. *sigh*
Okay, now off to finish the laundry-folding.
