Author: SK

Perennials are good but annuals are better. But kidding aside, my work is most important. That takes #1 priority and I should focus on that at work. For the rest of the week, until Friday, I am going to focus 100% on work and dev related activities. Nothing else. Period. My fooling around has to stop.

First day being mr mom went well, very well. Morning was a bit stressful with Victor. I made him his ceral, but he said it’s not good and he doesn’t want it. Man, the food he relies on the most gets rejected on the first day! How lucky am I? Oh, well, so I gave him a few pretzels and off we go. We went to the zoo. They enjoyed it. It was fun. Victor is scared a lot. He kept saying that he’s scared. But he was intrigued. He wanted to see things.I think he had a good time.

So then, after zoo, we went to McD, which is located right outside. Oh, man, was he hungry. He was eating chicken nuggets like never before. There was one left in the box. He just grabbed it and said “it’s mine.” Wow, what a little hunger can do for the eating habits.

But I’m a little worried about his eating. He needs to eat a little bit more. I need to find ways and food I can give to him. Well, I still have Sun-Sat to spend with my kids.

my wife had another outbreak yesterday. All because I did not put the kids to sleep nor did I bath them.

She screamed. She hit me. She called me really bad names.

It was ugly.

Kids saw it.

Kids did not like it.

I did not like it.

Yeah, it wasn’t the way it was supposed to be. Perhaps ai made a mistake, but htere is no reason for this behavior. Never.

I am going to be a mr. mom starting Friday night! Excited? Scared?

A little bit of both. Excited because I’ll be able to spend the whole week with my kids! I don’t spend enough time with them so this will be really “revealing.” I think so. I am going to learn about my kids. They will get to know me a bit more.

Scared because I don’t know how they’re going to react. Sure, it sounds easy. But they might be crying a lot. They might miss mommy a lot. And then what? Good question. I don’t know. I really don’t. And that’s I’m scared. 

I will be OK at the end. My wife will come back next week. We’ll be allright. I am pretty sure about that.

Setting rules and goals is a good thing. It allows me to focus on the right things. I am becoming more out of focus lately. Not sure if it’s related to me buying a house, or me getting older. Either way, being focused and driven towards self-improvement is a must for me. I need to stay the course.

Refinancing.

I will be doing another refinancing! My 2nd one. This one will lower my % by .375. Is it worth it? I think so. It’s not going to cost a lot, and I get a chance to get back to WF!

Sometimes, work is hard to get started. Or it’s hard to make progress. That is not a good sign.

My goal is to be a plorific worker.

And that means I put all of my energy towards getting things done. Towards making improvements. Towards making people around me better.

Am I doing that?

When I started the job, yes. Now? No!

Things have changed, for sure. It’s not that interesting lately, yes. But I can change as well. I can adopt. I can spend some more time on my personal development.

But to provide value, I have to really focus on work. 100%. No news. 0%. Really.

To be a plorific worker, I have to try hard, really hard.

Basement is a mess. Washed clothes are everywhere. This cannot be like that. Nope. Not goood. Cannot allow that to happen.

So what can we do?

I have a few options. Keep the laundry in the laundry room! Yes, make it a policy that clothes cannot leave that room. Period. I will provide space where we can keep the baskets. But other than that, clothes have to stay in that room. It’s time to finally cleanup. 

One problem we have now is that after a while, when there are more baskets with clothes, it gets a bit out of hand. This creates a problem that it is too much to handle. It’s not really that much. It is manageable.

Saturday morning. What should i do? Work on the garden, of course! Yes, I love working on the garden. My project today is building another trellis and also improve the borders. Should be fun, fun, fun! Perhaps we’re also going to stop by a nursery to pick/look at a few times. We’ll see where we end up!

I need to stack up with good snacks. There comes a time, late in the day, when I’m searching for something to eat. Lacking things, I grab a piece of chocolate, or something else. Like, for instance, yesterday.  I was feeling kind of week, with little energy. So I looked around and finally deciding on hershey chocolate from gramma. Not one piece, but several. And so in the morning my belly is quite full. Most likely because of that. Not good.

I am seeing some progress in other areas.

Collecting pomos. Especially at work, I go right into work or right into pomo collection. That’s good. That’s the goal. Getting a pomo is secondary to doing actual work. But I have to start right away. And when I’m reading, for instance, I need to stay away from the distractions. They still occur.

Getting work done. It’s getting there. I’m feeling a better motivation. It’s there. It looks good.

I need to be taking a better care of my rest time. Really. I go to sleep too late. Then I wake up tired. Then I sleep it off on a couch. And then I don’t have time to collect my pomos. Really. This is not desirable. This is not good!

Sure, there will be times when I’ll be tired when I wake up at 5am.

In that situation. I can set the clock to 5:35am the latest. And no TV after that. Straight to the bathroom. Doing it this will still allow me to collect 1 pomo.

At 5am, I head down straight to the bathroom. No tv. No checking email. Straight down. Only then will I be able to collect 2 pomos.

Being tired is not good; being lazy is worse.