168 Hours

I haven’t read the book 168 Hours but have read a ton of other stuff by Laura Vanderkam, so I feel as if I have. She’s a time management guru who advocates time tracking – the idea being that you can’t figure out how to use your time better without knowing how you are using your time. It’s similar to the idea of keeping a food diary to lose weight.

I don’t think I use my time badly now, but I it’s something I feel like I can optimize. Also, I’m just kind of curious. I think I’m working so hard – both at home and at work – and I wonder if that is really true. I also wonder if there are some things I can cut out in favor of stuff I’d like to do more of.

Anyway, I’m going to try tracking for a bit and see what I come up with. I created a tracking sheet here.

I’m aware, by the way, that the act of observing something changes the nature of what is being observed. But still seem like it might be interesting (and revealing).

Here’s to a happier and more productive 2015!

The kitchen is done!

It’s a Christmas miracle!

Ready for some kitchen pics?

It’s not done yet, but enough that you’ll get an idea …

Most hilarious quote (so far) about my closet

We gave our neighbor a tour and, upon seeing my closet, he said “It’s like the closet from Clueless.”

Ha! I know I should be embarrassed, but I’m not.

Life without a kitchen

When I was trying to conceive (TTC in the internet vernacular) and dealing with IVF I used to read infertility blogs. They could be depressing, but it was so comforting to not be alone. And some of them were hilarious.

One memorable post was a woman who wrote that her husband once said to her “If you had told me at 17 that some day I’d be having sex every single day and that I’d be sick of it, I would have said ‘Bullshit!’”

True story.

What does this have to do with not having a kitchen?

Well, if you had told 20something Tami, living in NYC but poor as a church mouse, that in about 20 years she’d be eating takeout every night in NYC and be sick of it, she would have said “Bullshit!”

And yet.

Two more weeks. And I can’t even really complain, I’m on a business trip most of this week.

But what I’d give for a home cooked meal … You have no idea.

herblondness:

What’s a girl to do when she has to go to an event at a house of worship and can’t run around randomly flipping off her brother-in-law?

Oh right, wear this necklace. Mission accomplished.

* Hilariously, Maddie told me she loved my necklace and that it’s “beautiful.” I can’t wait to pass it on to her some day.

**Also, hilariously, Bubbe said “Aren’t you afraid she’ll figure out what you mean some day?” I said “Afraid? I CAN’T WAIT.”

Two things:

1. I might need this necklace in my life.

2. Maddie is so, so, so lucky to have you as an aunt. I meant that sincerely AND sarcastically.