Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Ownership

I have begun therapy and am working things through. I am beginning with some basics.

I have 2 problems that affect daily life for me. The first is that I am completely disorganized, to the point where I am truly dysfunctional. This disorganization exacerbates the BiPolar symptoms. The other is that I am overweight, obese actually. My kitchen is rarely cooking friendly and when I say kitchen I mean the whole thing; pantry, refrigerator and then of course the kitchen itself. Food is bought and then never eaten. Money is wasted at the grocery store and then again at the fast food joint or restaurant. So this afternoon it is the pantry.

As an aside, there is a genuine flaw in the construction of our pantry. It is so deep that it is really easy to loose track of what's in there. My SIL has the perfect pantry in my opinion. It's large enough for a person to step into but the shelves are shallow enough to keep track of things. My shelves are 2 feet deep easy. That's just crazy making. I'm so jealous of her!

The next step will be the refrigerator and cleaning the kitchen!

Hulda and I went to training tonight and are preparing for our first practice match on Thursday night!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I found you through Missy's blog.

I have the exact same pantry. What I did was the middle shelf I put in a big lazy susan and put canned veggies on it, the top shelf I put those little step shelf things and put stuff like spices, mixes, small stuff there. The bottom shelf I put the boxes of cereal and other stuff like that. I hope this gives you some ideas.

I'm trying to lose weight too. It's no fun. I'm trying steps like first stop drinking sodas and then stop bringing cookies, candy, ice cream in the house. I'm not perfect and I'm not losing weight but I hope I'm making the right choices to not gain more weight and maybe start losing a pound or two without trying!

Patti said...

I love the lazy susan idea. Now I just got to figure out where to get one!

Anonymous said...

I got mine at Bed Bath and Beyond. It's even got a nice anti-slip thing on it!