Weekly Wrap Up

So last night was the one week anniversary of my last shift as a server. It's funny my legs seem to still hurt just as bad some days, I guess standing at the sink is no better for my legs than standing at the server/host stations, who knew. It was a good week, but not nearly as productive as I expected. We were a month and a half into both of us working when I quit so there is tons of catch up to do, and it seems like every time I wash one load of something, two loads of it and one load of something else is created.

I celebrated my first Friday by hanging out with some friends for beers and extremely stimulating conversation about philosophy, history, classics and religion in the early part of the evening, getting rocked by a friends band, later in the evening, and filling in the inbetweens and afters with Dana and the kids.

Today is Dream's birthday we are going to grill out tonight, she just wants Boca Burgers and Smart Dogs. This lead me to think about one of the things I want to do with my time now, that still adds monetary value to our lives, and so I will start making my own protein replacement products. I will perfect seitan, as well as TVP and bean based recipes. I hope to not need to buy any protein products from the store but milk, tofu, and temphe (there is no way I can learn to make this, and I wont give it up!)

So, one of the biggest upsides this week was the realization that every second of my time belonged to me or my family (of course I still have school, which I technically count as 'my' time, and working around Dana's job, but that's easy since it is from home, and the worst that entails is taking all the kids somewhere at the same time). I did bust out a much better first draft of my Victorian Kink paper than I expected, as well as two decent, if yet ungraded, papers on the foundations of logic for my Great Books of Philosophy class. One huge downside is how I think I did on my German test, I am not well versed in the subjunctive, or adjective endings, but I do hope to be able to muster the study time to do better for the cumulative final in just over a week.

Next week is the last week of classes and our home-school ended yesterday though, so I will have much more time to catch up on the house soon. I still have to do my German presentation on veganism, and make some tasty BBQ tofu for sharing on Wednesday, and edit and fluff the Victorian paper by Friday. I think the dishes will be caught up by the end of today.

One of the other things I have decided on to use my new house time wisely this week include vegetable gardening. There is almost no sun in our huge back yard, and our neighbors all spray pesticides on their flowers and yard, so I have decided it is going to have to be container gardening, so I will now begin a hunt for large things of any kind that I can use for garden holders.

Don't Panic!!

So, today was the first day of the rest of my life. Sure you have heard that before, I know, but really, something changed today. Tonight was the first night I would have worked, but didn't because I am no longer employed. By choice, my wife got a job recently that is going to be lucrative enough to make up for the value of the same amount of money earned by me as a server.

I will be taking an on campus job soon, as I accepted work study for the first time for my financial aid, but outside of that, I will start a vegetable garden some time this week to offset food costs. Also I will, once the transition is complete, be offering myself out to my local friends for general assistantry, at sliding scale rates.

I suppose updating this regularly should also be part of this transition to SAHDness.

Today went smoothly, homeschool was about the same as it always is on Tuesdays, but knowing I had every second of my day to spend on my family's and my educational, and household needs certainly made it feel different. I believe I owe part of my smooth day to how much time I spent in the kitchen always within easy reach of a towel, a simple reminder not to panic, no matter how drastic the change in your life.

The house is still behind from the transition, since we spent the last month and a half with both of us employed and doing school, the only place that can give is the cleanliness of the house, and by golly, it gave.

Tonight I will be going to the grocery store and finishing my 2-3 pages on Frege and Russell's discussion of propositions, finishing the 2-3 pages on Wittgenstein's ideas on use giving meaning, as well as studying for tomorrow's German test, which I am unlikely to do well on. Adjective endings, and subjunctive confuse me terribly, I believe genitive is on this test as well, I'm sunk.

The big painfully hypocritical irony of this being my first day responsible only to me and my family, we were not able to make it to the big BP protest I have been blowing so much smoke about. Again, something has to give when life is this packed, and for all of you out there I blew smoke at over this I apologize for not making it out there.

Well, I guess that is that, the whole day is about summed up there, I'll make any addendum in the comments or on FB, and will post my Philosophy papers tonight for everyone's perusal.