A documentation of my journey to improve my life
Yearly Archives: 2016
Cooking Reflections If this month’s cooking challenge has taught me anything its that I suck at planning ahead. I don’t know if it’s just a male thing or maybe something to do with my birth month (I’m a Libra if you were curious) but scheduling, and planning ahead are just not my areas of forte. This has really seemed to bite me in the ass this month as apparently cooking a good meal is only about 20% actual cooking and 80%...
Pan Fried Chicken, Risotto & Roasted Radishes Friday was finally here. I had survived my first working week of cooking and other than a few late nights, a lot of grocery runs and some hard relationship lessons everything had gone pretty well. This was the day I had been waiting for though. Up till now every dish I had attempted I had been at best winging it and hoping for the best. Now I was actually going to work with a...
Wednesday: Meal 3 – Tofu Pad Thai By the time Wednesday rolled around I have to admit I was pretty exhausted. Late night dinners, grocery store guessing games and relationship tightrope walking had all taken a lot out of me. That being said I was really looking forward to Wednesday’s meal as my friends Justin and Alex were hosting us over at their place. This meant way less stress and way more wine. Justin is a vegetarian and part of...
Tuesday: Meal 2 – Greek Moussaka Having survived night one relatively unscathed I went into day two with much of the same approach (I’m a slow learner). It was late Tuesday afternoon when I decided it would be fun to make this week a cultural week. Upon hearing this my girlfriend decided we were having a Greek night so I went to work trying to find a nice authentic Greek dish. Since last nights dish was relatively simple (other than the...
This first week with my new ‘cooking challenge’ can only be described as a wild roller-coaster filled with frustration, accomplishment, stress, and delicious success. Who knew home cooking would be so hard and cause so much anxiety? First of all it’s not like I’ve never prepared a home cooked meal before. In fact I try to eat at home as many nights of the week as I can to save on expenses from dinning out. Usually though my home cooked meals are...
I’ve cooked three meals (1, 2, 3) already and as good as they’ve turned out they also caused me and my girlfriend Brittney a lot of stress. The first couple nights I was scrambling to run around town to get ingredients last minute (some speciality items taking me over an hour to find) and cooking took between 40 mins and almost 3 hours! I wanted this month to be fun and instead I’ve been causing myself anxiety and causing Brittney and I to fight...
Okay admittedly I got off to a rocky start registering a domain and hosting service (see shameful last post The Internet is Hard) but Wordpress itself was actually pretty easy! Sure there’s definitely some complicated coding jargon that exists underneath the surface but for the most part everything was point and click and there was a ton of great tutorials that made it really hard to screw up (even for me). I’m hoping this will be a great resource for anyone starting...
Just build a blog, how hard can that be, right? Well unfortunately even with the best intentions I somehow always end up doing things the hard way. It’s mid way through January when I decide to commit to my new list of 12 month challenges; my first, to “learn WordPress and build a blog.” I’m eager to get to work on this new exciting venture but unfortunately I now have far less than a month to accomplish this and I haven’t...
12 goals in 12 months, I had decided and there was no turning back. Now just pick 12 goals and start dominating, right? Only one problem, I had no idea what my 12 goals should be. After all this wasn’t a small decision, this is what I would be doing with the entire next year of my life.
Since writing my last post this question of how I can scale my life has consumed me. It’s the first thing I think about in the morning and the last thing I can get out of my brain at night (making my ability to go to sleep at a reasonable hour impossible..). After nearly a week of unrest I realized my problem; I have all of these aspirations and goals but not the focus and dedication to follow through on them....
