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Lemon Zinger iced tea....Was it worth the wait? You betcha.
The iced tea I finally got around to making was so good, I brewed another pot before I went to bed last night so I could enjoy even more today.
So today was the first day of "An Organized Life". Ha, ha. I started by opening a new notebook and writing out several pages of lists....things I need to buy, things I want to buy, organizational projects, gifts I want to make for Christmas, outdoor chores, housekeeping chores, etc., etc. It is a list that I can add to and things I can cross off when I get done. It looks quite scary, but I will try to not get overwhelmed.
I thought I would cross a few things off today, but that is not going to happen. I will have to break down these broad goals into much smaller steps. I was quite happy with my progress however. I got rid of a huge stack of paper. Over the last few months, I have been printing off a lot of on-line recipes. The "make your own" recipes I have either hand-written or pasted into a hard cover journal. eg. MYO laundry detergent, MYO weed killer, MYO taco seasoning, etc. Then there are recipes that I have used more than once. They were just a hodge-podge of papers sitting in a pile. Everytime I went looking for THAT recipe, I ended up leafing through every piece of paper looking for it. Now they are in page protectors in a binder, and in some kind of order so that I know roughly which section to look. And that is it. That is all I got done; but, it was hours of work....all day in fact. I made hamburger stroganoff over egg noodles for supper and I made an apple strawberry crumble for dessert. (I found two more bags of strawberries in the freezer)
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My Sweetie had more blood drawn today and his creatine is DOWN to 180. Yay! I have spent the last couple of evenings checking out pinterest groups for home crafted items that perhaps I could try to make for this Christmas. Maybe tomorrow I will tell you about some items that I have made in the past as gifts. I even have a few photos to share.
Hooray for the good news on the blood test results!
ReplyDeleteWant to come organize my huge piles of printed/clipped recipes?! I have about 10 binders to put them in. I kid you not (1 binder by main "ingredient" such as beef, pork, poultry... it's the way my brain works). It's going to take me forever, which is why I have been putting it off as long as I have. The thing is, if they're in binders, i'm less likely to use them than if they're just in a big pile that I can leaf through. Weird, but true. So for now, I have piles of recipes pretty much everywhere.
I also made a list but I didn't do much of anything today. I read a whole book, though!
Your lemon tea sounds very good right now, I just realized that I'm parched. I'll have to look for Lemon Zinger next time I'm out of fruity tea!