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Things done today:
1. Work, 9am-7pm. Mostly boring, punctuated by occasional spots of stuff to do. I think the most interesting thing that happened all day was when I discovered one of the tenants' packages was leaking... I think laundry detergent? It certainly had that general scent and texture. Anyway, I wiped up the goo, cleaned the nearby packages, and isolated the culprit in a plastic trash bag. (I mention this to help you calibrate what I mean by "boring.")
2. Read some more of Sovereign.
3. Wrote one sentence. Great progress! *wry* I mean, I did also reorganize the file so the most immediately relevant information is right below my actual story-text (rather than a total mishmash of brainstorming and tangential thoughts) and realize that I need to go back and clarify YET ANOTHER bit of set dressing (namely, where a cellar entrance is vis-a-vis the rest of the room, which will be helpful tomorrow, but still. Mnrgh.
4. Finished season 2 of The Magnus Archives. I am really enjoying this podcast! :D
5. Started a batch of pot roast. It will cook overnight and should be done around... 6:30am? Which, honestly, I could probably just let it run until closer to 8am when I plan to get up for the day. It's a slow-cooker recipe. A little extra time to make the meat even more tender never hurt anything. :)
6. Found a cost-effective way to get a decently nutritious lunch at the rental office. It involves bringing a previously cooked vegetable from home (to reheat in the office microwave) and ordering a half-size portion of macaroni and cheese from a local burger grill, because even a half-size is so generous it easily makes two meals. So that's veggies, carbs, and protein (the cheese) for surprisingly little money. And it's not like making a batch of veggie sidedish, or roasting some zucchini or asparagus, or steaming some broccoli, is remotely difficult. It's basically just chopping stuff, tossing on the relevant spices, and just letting the oven and/or slow-cooker do its thing for a certain interval. (This is my kind of cooking. It's not the lowest effort possible, but it's still a pretty minimal investment of time and attention.)
I am also a big fan of partially-homemade meals in general, because I find that restaurants and frozen-food companies do better and cheaper than I can at certain things, whereas I can do other things better and cheaper than if I bought them pre-made. So this plays right into my more general inclinations, which is a good sign that it might stick as a habit. (Bringing in completely homemade meals doesn't, because those tend to be difficult to assemble at work unless they're salads or stir-frys, and I don't really like most salads and stir-fry is a relatively high effort cooking process -- you have to stand over it and keep doing stuff instead of walking away for half an hour or whatever.)
Anyway, that was my day.
Now I am going to bed, where I will sleep with the delicious scent of raw ingredients slowly turning into tomorrow's lunch. (Pot roast does work as a complete homemade meal, because the way I do it, it's got a bunch of onion and carrot already in the mix, so the only other piece I need to bring is bread. I would chuck potato in as well and just have a whole meal in one pot, except my crockpot isn't quite big enough for that. Alas!)
1. Work, 9am-7pm. Mostly boring, punctuated by occasional spots of stuff to do. I think the most interesting thing that happened all day was when I discovered one of the tenants' packages was leaking... I think laundry detergent? It certainly had that general scent and texture. Anyway, I wiped up the goo, cleaned the nearby packages, and isolated the culprit in a plastic trash bag. (I mention this to help you calibrate what I mean by "boring.")
2. Read some more of Sovereign.
3. Wrote one sentence. Great progress! *wry* I mean, I did also reorganize the file so the most immediately relevant information is right below my actual story-text (rather than a total mishmash of brainstorming and tangential thoughts) and realize that I need to go back and clarify YET ANOTHER bit of set dressing (namely, where a cellar entrance is vis-a-vis the rest of the room, which will be helpful tomorrow, but still. Mnrgh.
4. Finished season 2 of The Magnus Archives. I am really enjoying this podcast! :D
5. Started a batch of pot roast. It will cook overnight and should be done around... 6:30am? Which, honestly, I could probably just let it run until closer to 8am when I plan to get up for the day. It's a slow-cooker recipe. A little extra time to make the meat even more tender never hurt anything. :)
6. Found a cost-effective way to get a decently nutritious lunch at the rental office. It involves bringing a previously cooked vegetable from home (to reheat in the office microwave) and ordering a half-size portion of macaroni and cheese from a local burger grill, because even a half-size is so generous it easily makes two meals. So that's veggies, carbs, and protein (the cheese) for surprisingly little money. And it's not like making a batch of veggie sidedish, or roasting some zucchini or asparagus, or steaming some broccoli, is remotely difficult. It's basically just chopping stuff, tossing on the relevant spices, and just letting the oven and/or slow-cooker do its thing for a certain interval. (This is my kind of cooking. It's not the lowest effort possible, but it's still a pretty minimal investment of time and attention.)
I am also a big fan of partially-homemade meals in general, because I find that restaurants and frozen-food companies do better and cheaper than I can at certain things, whereas I can do other things better and cheaper than if I bought them pre-made. So this plays right into my more general inclinations, which is a good sign that it might stick as a habit. (Bringing in completely homemade meals doesn't, because those tend to be difficult to assemble at work unless they're salads or stir-frys, and I don't really like most salads and stir-fry is a relatively high effort cooking process -- you have to stand over it and keep doing stuff instead of walking away for half an hour or whatever.)
Anyway, that was my day.
Now I am going to bed, where I will sleep with the delicious scent of raw ingredients slowly turning into tomorrow's lunch. (Pot roast does work as a complete homemade meal, because the way I do it, it's got a bunch of onion and carrot already in the mix, so the only other piece I need to bring is bread. I would chuck potato in as well and just have a whole meal in one pot, except my crockpot isn't quite big enough for that. Alas!)
