Life as usual

Well, my marathon day of housecleaning/sorting didn't quite work out as I'd expected. Of course, as so often happens (is it something psychosomatic?), I woke up with a damned migraine! That ate into my day by quite a few hours. After lunch and a nap in the sun with Charlie, that migraine let go and I ended up getting quite a bit done. I sorted through two big baskets of papers, ending up with several categories of piles: throw away, burn, do asap, file eventually, and put away. The toss pile is the biggest (yeah!), then file eventually (I'll take some cold winter day to do this), and then the put away. That can be accomplished quite quickly, leaving the do asap. I'll just sit down some morning next week and tackle that. 

Ooh, feels good to get this done. Now all I have to do is keep it up. Maybe someday I'll get my office organized with files (imagine that!), shelves, and cubbies. Then I can really keep this place going. All it will take is one good trip to Lowes (for shelves) and Goodwill (for containers - no need to buy them new if I can find them used, baskets and such). We'll see how I do between now and then. 

Wow! It's only Jan. 15 and already I'm making progress on my Year of Discipline. There is hope for me, yet. ;-) Note the put away pile on the left!

In other matters, I made a tasty dinner last night, if I say so myself. I started with coarsely chopped onions in a small amount of good quality olive oil. When they started to get translucent, I added peeled, chopped sweet potato (about 1/2" size pieces), and some more

olive oil. I just kept cooking them, stirring often, at a pretty low heat, until the potatoes were almost soft. Then I added some peeled, chopped apple - any kind you might want. When the apples were soft, I seasoned it with salt and pepper, squashed it all together with the back of a spoon and served it. Yummy, easy, pretty healthy! Oh, and pretty, too... 

Tonight's dinner? Hmm... No clue yet.