Saturday, January 15, 2022

now that I've wasted most of my Saturday

I'm feeling like a fat, lazy slob right now. Didn't go walking; I'll go tomorrow morning, when it's sunny out. Haven't done anything but lie in bed. I hear two voices in my head as a result: first is the voice of Morrie Schwartz from Tuesdays with Morrie, intoning his aphorism, When you're in bed, you're dead. Second is the voice of my mother, a typical up-and-at-'em Korean who can't stand to see people just lazing around when there are Things To Be Done. Sleeping your life away, I hear her say while shaking her head in disgust. 

Well, for what it's worth, I'm up, now.

I ought to zip out to SSG Food Mart and Costco to test out whether the vaccine-pass thing really is in place for both stores. If Costco lets me in, I actually need to buy two more folding chairs. The mere act of traveling around town for these "quick" trips will cost me a couple hours. Next, I need to finish prepping the shepherd's-pie ingredients for Monday's meal—peel, boil, and mash my potatoes, cube up and cook my carrots, quick-boil my peas, shred a mess of cheese, then store everything for tomorrow, when I'll put the pie together and bake it early enough to let it cool overnight and be a nice, solid, congealed lump of tastiness that I can then bring into the office on Monday. I've also got to take the remnants of my previous desk down to the drop-off site in the B1 level of my building, and I want to do some of the smaller cleaning projects on my massive list of 2022 projects: clean my two electric fans and clean my bathroom fan. So there's plenty to do today, and I can spend tomorrow finishing the shepherd's pie, walking, and doing my weekly laundry ritual.

Better get my ass moving, then. Food doesn't prep itself.



No comments:

Post a Comment

READ THIS BEFORE COMMENTING!

All comments are subject to approval before they are published, so they will not appear immediately. Comments should be civil, relevant, and substantive. Anonymous comments are not allowed and will be unceremoniously deleted. For more on my comments policy, please see this entry on my other blog.