If you do stuff, stuff gets done

Wednesday, January 18, 2023

3rd week of January

Good morning everyone

No to do list on paper this week, just the list in my head as this week is a different week but I’ll have more in that later.

Before After

One of the jobs on last week’s list was to straighten this bookshelf. I thought it was going to take a long time but it only took 5 minutes.

It’s a tall shelf, taller than the door. My husband built it several years ago to fit a funny space in a hall.

My mother lives in a retirement community and her meals are provided but she isn’t crazy about all their meal choices

So yesterday, I cooked foods that Mom cooked often when I was young- and took them for her lunch.

Goulash which is ground beef, onion, elbow pasta, canned tomatoes and tomato sauce- very simple but delicious

Creamed potatoes- I know it is a double starch but that’s how we always ate it. My Dad loved potatoes and they were a budget food.

Apple salad- no exact recipe but it’s diced apple, cheddar, celery and pecans with a light dressing of mayo, sugar and vinegar.

Banana muffins

I like to pack foods that need reheating in these Tupperware containers. They are hard and won’t break, have handles for easy holding and don’t get hot in the microwave.

After lunch, I drove my van through a car wash. My husband bought us monthly subscriptions and I could get my van washed everyday if I wanted to.

It’s really weird as you have to put your vehicle in neutral, it’s dark and noisy in the tunnel and the car wash tracks move the vehicles along.

But it does a great job and I do like having a clean vehicle.

Other meals this week are from Every Plate. I ordered ours with a deal our daughter shared with us.

I will caution you that I’m a very experienced internet shopper but Every Plate has a website where I ordered before I even knew I had ordered.

But is OK and I will be very cautious if I ever use their website again

Below is the food they sent and it all was fresh and high quality

The 3 meals recipe cards

And the spicy shrimp I cooked compared to their photo- I added tomatoes and onions to the salad and I didn’t eat a full serving of the shrimp.

It was good but was far from spicy

There have been some comments I need to respond to and I will do that soon.

Hope you all have a good week

❤️ Rhonda

Friday, January 13, 2023

Buy Nothing Group, and few meals

Hello everyone

I’m happy that most of the stuff on my to do list is done

I had a pretty big pile of discards and I gave most of it away on a local Facebook Buy Nothing group.

As people claimed things, I put them in grocery bags with their names outside our home.

It’s all on the honor system but so far, things are getting picked up and it’s been fairly easy.

Buy Nothing groups are local, by city and town. If you have a Facebook account, I think they can be a great way to give things away free or to get things for free.

We gave away an assortment-some was our stuff, some belonged to our daughter’s family.

We still have our original doors and windows but have ordered new ones.

The front door will look like wood but I think it’s some kind of fiberglass.

I wanted internal blinds on the windows but we have 7 curved windows and internal blinds aren’t available for them.

But it is OK. New doors and windows are expensive and having internal blinds almost doubles the cost.
We found out today that we should have our new windows and doors installed in February. That’s much earlier than we were expecting.