Tens of Minutes of Work
Aug. 19th, 2011 11:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
multipurposegoddessSo, I reached the milestone of getting my meditation time up to 10 minutes per session this week, which inspired me to try to do ten minutes of whatever needs doing (oh, there is so much to choose from) out of every hour while I am awake. It's working out all right, I suppose. I now some people can do five minutes worth of whatever, but that is too short oa burst of productivity to justify overcoming my inertia, apparently.
I tend to putter about aimlessly for several hours after I wake up, maybe doing stuff that needs doing, maybe not. And I keep running into conundrums - do I count that ten minutes of meditation as work time? Making lunch, does that count? I can argue both sides and haven't decided on a consistent approach. But I am less apt to feel like I have let the whole day get away without accomplishing anything (which has sometimes been because I have actually accomplished nothing, and sometimes because I have forgotten what I did actually accomplish...), so that's an improvement.
Making Masa Ball Soup today because I had most of the ingredients at hand and chicken soup + chiles sounds like the best possible thing to eat when my sinuses are acting up. I discovered that queso anejo is also called queso cotija (or they are similar, at least) and that is readily available at my local supermarket, so this batch will be slightly more true to the recipe (iirc, I substituted romano before). Although I am using a slicing tomato rather than a plum tomato, and I forgot to set one aside when I roasted all my tomatoes this morning, so it will be pre-roasted, but it's hard to imagine that that would have an ill effect on the soup. I also have the ingredients for Mendocino chicken salad and spaghetti sauce, but, at the moment, no appetite, so we'll see how that goes. The fridge, she is very full, it is slightly alarming.
Edited to add: roasting purple bell peppers deprives them of their color. Disappointing.
I tend to putter about aimlessly for several hours after I wake up, maybe doing stuff that needs doing, maybe not. And I keep running into conundrums - do I count that ten minutes of meditation as work time? Making lunch, does that count? I can argue both sides and haven't decided on a consistent approach. But I am less apt to feel like I have let the whole day get away without accomplishing anything (which has sometimes been because I have actually accomplished nothing, and sometimes because I have forgotten what I did actually accomplish...), so that's an improvement.
Making Masa Ball Soup today because I had most of the ingredients at hand and chicken soup + chiles sounds like the best possible thing to eat when my sinuses are acting up. I discovered that queso anejo is also called queso cotija (or they are similar, at least) and that is readily available at my local supermarket, so this batch will be slightly more true to the recipe (iirc, I substituted romano before). Although I am using a slicing tomato rather than a plum tomato, and I forgot to set one aside when I roasted all my tomatoes this morning, so it will be pre-roasted, but it's hard to imagine that that would have an ill effect on the soup. I also have the ingredients for Mendocino chicken salad and spaghetti sauce, but, at the moment, no appetite, so we'll see how that goes. The fridge, she is very full, it is slightly alarming.
Edited to add: roasting purple bell peppers deprives them of their color. Disappointing.