Friday, Kim takes a day off!

  I was very tired yesterday, but I got everything done I had planned, and I have done that every day this week. I did an assessment of the shop and I have gotten my quota and then some done for the last 4 days. Although I love to sew it is mentally exhausting and the hand work can be grueling.

I woke up today just really blue, and I decided I had produced enough this week and I was not going to sew today.  Now I do have clients coming and going all day, but I will not be sewing. So, it is not a real day off, but anyone new calling I tell them to come in on Monday.

Kim needs to refresh and do something else.  If is not that I won't do anything, you all know me we enough to know I will do something.

Last night I went and bought a few more food grade buckets to store flour and sugar in and also picked up a few odds and ends to store. I found blue bonnet margarine that I only use in several baking recipes for .99 a pound and bought several of those as I have not seen them below 1.00 for a long time.  I cooked up all 5 large pork chops last night and we ate two and I am using the other three in egg rolls and fried rice.  I also took a 5 lb. bag of small granny smith apples that have sat on our counter for two weeks (I was given them at the food bank) I quartered and peeled them and then sliced them into fruit fresh water and drained and froze them for pies later.  I knew we would not eat them, and I was just biding my time for when I would feel like doing this.  Well that time was last night. 

When I left the shop last night, I could not get the door to shut, and I realized the screws on the hinges were springing.  I cannot leave the door open at night as our cat loves that room and will go nest on anything she can find.  She does it on purpose and is very devious about it.  It is like a game for her, not so much for me.  So, hubs first chore this morning was to fix the shop door.  He was grumbling that there was always something broken in the house, and I told him, "You and I are broken, get over it." 

So, what does Kim have planned with her free day today?  Well, I want to make Kimbap and eggrolls and fried rice today.  Kimbap is timing consuming, and I already have the rice cooker going. I am going to take egg rolls, fried rice and kimbap to a girl friend who has to get two wedding cakes out tomorrow. 

I really do love to cook, but most of my cooking is getting a meal on the stove and done in a 1/2 an hour and I have gotten quite good at it.  It will be fun to do something that will take some staging and effort.

Hubs had a great time 4 wheeling yesterday but then figured out the gas to get to the mountains and back, pulling a trailer and the cost of the more expensive fuel the 4-wheeler takes.  I told him to knock it off.  Yes, it cost X amount to go out and have a good time, but we all need to do that. He needs to do that.  Everyone needs down time.  It is not like he does this every week.

I just realized I am low on egg roll wrappers, and I need spinach, and I need some fake crab, so I will be running to the store. I know I should grow spinach in the garden, I think I need to add that. I will spend a little money to do something I want to do. Even though I am frugal, and I am trying to look at the costs and the future costs of things, I don't need to eat oatmeal three times a day. The rice cooker is done so I poured out the rice to cool and I filled the cooker again for the fried rice.  I have to add, sugar, salt, soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, and sesame oil into the rice for the kimbap.   It is quite a process.

Hubs just got back with lawn mower gas, after he ran out mowing the yard.  I asked him if he had to take out a bank loan? I am so happy he is not commuting 100 miles roundtrip to work anymore.  Talk about a blessing.  The newspaper sent a letter that they have to raise the rates $1.00 a month to offset the carriers gas bills, as many carriers are quitting.  Most of our routes here are car routes because we are rural.  I think that is totally fair.  They said when gas went down that would lower back down. I am thinking of leaving a tip for my paper woman to help her offset the cost of gas.  She is a single mom, and it is her second job.  There are so many out there struggling in ways that we don't even think of. I need to be more mindful and grateful.

Well Kim is off to make a horrid mess of her kitchen.  How fun is that?

Have a great and productive day staying positive while you are in the negative.

Kim