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  1. Good morning. May the odds be ever in your favor.
  2. I'd prefer Nana or Mimi. We're not there yet.
  3. Good Friday morning. The volunteer situation has gone all willy_nilly and I am not screaming a bit but I tell you what, I've made a quick turnaround from "You got to dance with the one that brung you" to "freshly boiled syrup being carried across thin ice." We'll see how things go.
  4. It's always pumpkin at my house. I'm going to be brave and try replacing the eggs with soft tofu this time!
  5. Tuesday! We are sleepy bunnies but nevertheless, let's do the things.
  6. Good Monday morning. Am coffeeing in an attempt to mitigate the legislatively induced jet lag. This week is going to be super busy, of course. (DS starts tennis today; I'm teaching a new crop of volunteers starting Friday.) Let's do the things!
  7. Our local homeschooling store seems to be doing all right, so there must be enough people around here buying books. I'm doing a mix of things myself. I hope people using computer-only curricula are having good conversations with their kids to assess what they're actually getting out of the lessons.
  8. We do not Philmont. In local news, a certain town that has in theory been sponsoring a volunteer group for a couple of years but has in practice done almost nothing suddenly, as the group is on the verge of collapse for lack of support, wants lots of interaction with the remaining volunteers in order to publicize it (and also is putting more rules in place, one of which has provoked a couple of the few remaining volunteers to withdraw). This year is going to make or break this program. *sigh* Wish us luck. In other news, I can't figure out where ants are getting into the dining room. There are none by the windows. At least it's not raining today. Blue sky, huzzah!
  9. I don't like surprises of any kind.
  10. I'm going to vote between grocery pick-up and making dinner. I had to look up a whole bunch of people this weekend and write names down on a piece of paper. There will be 10 questions on my ballot. We started reading Fahrenheit 451 today. The technology is on point, making it a different experience from the first time I'd read it.
  11. We don't buy their products (or their competitors') anyway. But I ate breakfast cereal every morning as a kid, and even with milk, it doesn't have enough calories per serving to be a full meal even for a child. If I wanted it as an affordable dinner (supposing it didn't contain ingredients we can't have), I would not pay full price for any name brand. DS alone would need 4+ servings a night. Breakfast here is any combination of leftovers from dinner; fruit, such as bananas and clementines; and Bob's Red Mill buckwheat groats with cinnamon, raisins, and pecans.
  12. Making my own soap is probably at least twice as expensive as buying cheap soap; I'd use up the ingredients I have and then switch to anything unscented from the store. I buy unscented liquid Castile soap for body wash, dish soap, and general cleaning--detergents would be cheaper. We already don't drink alcohol (ETA: or soda) and rarely use meat. I totally buy $7 loaves of bread, because that's how much good gluten-free bread costs, but we're not eating sandwiches regularly. The good tortillas are over $1 each. I could definitely buy cheaper rice, but a lot of our food costs more because we need it explicitly marked gf unless it's whole, uncut produce or eggs in their shells. I'd sooner have DH stop buying eggs than buy cheaper ones. We don't go to restaurants much, maybe once a month, and we drink water with the meal. I take breaks from coffee sometimes because of the cost and also because it's the majority of my sugar intake. (I buy fair trade coffee plus organic sugar plus the plant milk.) I'd stop entirely if needed, but it wouldn't be enough to pay any of our actual bills. I know DH has a streaming subscription or two he could dump. I was too cheap to continue SiriusXM in my car, and he didn't even bother using it during the free trial in his. My main hobby is reading library books and loafing about on the internet. 🤷‍♀️ I could make sure not to spend any money on volunteer stuff. I'd probably lose money by not renewing Plan to Eat, since it's the only meal planning/grocery shopping system I've been able to make work. That's the only app I pay for. I could stop paying for composting service and throw more in the trash. That would net me probably $35 a month after buying plastic trash bags. It would feel weird for a while, I'm sure. I'd do as much as I could of the above before abandoning the family we sponsor or eliminating my already-small church contribution. Then we'd be down to DS's extracurriculars, which I'd invite him to pay for out of his savings sooner than cutting. Moving would be a net loss unless we found cheap housing in a remote area.
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