I know Iām joining late, but my goal is to keep our grocery budget (2 adults) below $250. We have been spending sooooo much (maybe like $5-600/month) since the pandemic started 1.) stocking up and 2.) indulging since we are stressed. Weāre pretty much at max capacity for food anyways, so we should start working on it. My husband works at a grocery store, so we will have to minimize those daily little trips.
I know we havenāt spent anything on groceries in September yet so I hope Iām allowed to squeak in under the wire here!
So the first day of September I hadnāt really started the challenge yet, so I just ate normally. Second day I ate pretty normally but signed up for the challenge and started thinking about it. From there on out Iāve made more conscious choices, adding more whole grains and veggies and fruits to my diet and trying to go lighter on salt and oil.
On Friday I found a food journal app āAteā that I think is going to work really well for me. No calorie counting, more about mindfulness. At its simplest you just take a picture of what you eat and indicate whether it is āon pathā or āoff pathā, though you can also select where you ate, who you ate with, why you ate, was it satisfying, etc. Itās not time consuming and doesnāt promote a dieting mindset. Iām happy because so far itās almost exactly what I was looking for in a food journal app.
ok, only 3 meals this week, but I did start midway through. Itās a marker of how habitual this has become. I sit down, eat, finish, and then think, ādamn, I was going to stop eating in front of a screen this monthā.
I used sugar scrub for my face twice
I made sure to get walks in close to or exceeding my step count every day - this included stepping away from work to achieve my exercise and not letting work consume the day
I started tracking food on my Fitbit app to help better understand it
I used the fancy hand lotion 3 times
I read in the backyard 2 afternoons
Looking forward to continuing all of the above this week.
Iām late on this convo but Iād like to join. I have a lot of administrative tasks (hello France) where Iām late so my goal for September is to finalize as much as I can. Here are the urgent tasks:
The renewal of LGās disability status: Iāve already finished it and just need to scan and send per mail/ email. They have an online application and I have created an account with two different emails but still havenāt received the activation link. So my task this week is to send the file per mail and email and to call the customer service for the account creation.
My nationality application: I have to notarize some documents at my embassy; ask for a new marriage contract, retrieve documents proving that I lived with MG for at least 4 years (hello France with endless paperwork) and then mail it. On the week of sept 14th I want to work on making that file ready.
Family discount card: I have filed the form several times but never sent it. I have to print all our ids, our tax return, photos of all the kids and a letter from PGās mum. I want to tackle that on the last week of September 21st
Bonus: The last 3 days of September Iāll pick something else. I donāt know yet what.
First week 3/4, but since it was a short week and thereās ash falling from the sky making the outdoors a not-great place to be, Iām calling it good.
This weekās high was maybe 15? It was my birthday this weekend and I didnāt do (Or count) to-doās, so there. This morning I did a big catch up push and the overdue tasks are down to 7. Still got 2 from July hanging around.
Week 1 was a fail because (mumble mumble students wanting to be, you know, taught). First big assignments, yo. But Week 2 is starting off well - got a lot of the non-teaching editing work done. Yes, itās Labor Day. Yes, weāre open. Why do you ask?
Week 1 check in (thanks for all your help, long weekend)
I got a 7.5 mile walk in on Friday. Also consumed approx 60 gram of sugar because I made the mistake of getting chocolate chips that are theoretically for baking but always for snacking. Plus the sugar in a bottle of kombucha.
Saturday, Sunday, and todayās breakfast involved drizzes of honey. A short walk each day that I didnāt track.
Todayās breakfast was also mostly chocolate chips, probably at around 60 g again. Took a long-ish walk that I didnāt track but was definitely over 3 miles.
No work vending machine yet!
No hikes yet, need to plan.
Just squeaked in with 5 hours this week. Downloaded and installed QGIS (which took forever over WiFi), downloaded a bunch of sample data, went through 9 chapters of the Userās Manual, which is dry as dust and bored me to tears, saw that there was a Training Manual (supposedly enough material for a 5-day course and using actual data as examples) so started doing that instead; almost done with chapter 2 (of 21, though the last 3 are all reference and acknowledgements and stuff).
Contemplating setting up a PostGIS server or QGIS Server with my old desktop machine.
Have not figured out specifically what I hope to get out of this. At minimum something extra to put on the resume, I suppose. Some jobs specifically call out open source, which I have limited useable experience with. The ESRI Empire is vast and far-reaching though, so I donāt know how useful it is.
QGIS is fairly slick so far, with a lot of integrated features that were expensive add-ons in ESRI-land, or which were hidden down nested menus or missing altogether (and required scripting to accomplish the same thing). So thatās cool.
Still havenāt figured out the portfolio/website issue.
I did not meditate on Sunday, otherwise have been going good so far this month.