a useful day off

[kareina]

I had been behind on sleep the first part of this week, so last night I went to bed at 21:15 and slept for 10 hours, since today is a public holiday in Sweden and I didn't have to go to work.

Yesterday I finished the intermediate level one on my phone fitness app, so this morning I started intermediate level two. Each level of this app is harder than the one before, but day one of one level is always easier than was day 30 of previous level. As a result I was able to do all of the reps of each exercise in one go, without having to pause and rest in the middle (which I have needed to do ever since getting that cold before Christmas).

Then I spent an hour and a half taking in a new cotton/wool blend sweater I found at a second hand store so that it would fit.

After that we took away the recycling from the shed (the city takes our trash and compost, but the recycling we need to take ourselves). This was the first time in 4 months, and the boxes into which we sort it in the shed had gotten full, and the second boxes we had added in addition to the full ones were full, so it is good to have it done.

The rest of the day was spent working out how we are going to fit C's stuff into the house when she moves here next month. We have a CorelDraw file with a scale drawing of the house and contents. So today we added drawings of her furniture and added it to the the image, and spend a fair bit of time moving stuff around on screen and deciding what to get rid of, what to keep, what needs to be created. It will take some effort to accomplish all of it, but we have a Plan.

Yoga has been done for today, so I should probably put down the computer and get some sleep, since tomorrow is a work day.

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[stitchwhich.livejournal.com]

One of the things I am grateful for is that our city collects recycling every other week. I can't garden (no talent for it) so don't compost, although the city also collects yard trimmings, and it makes me feel good that our personal midden-pile materials are low enough that we don't fill the container enough to justify putting it out every week. But man! The recycling container! I wish they'd get _that_ every week for us!

[kareina.livejournal.com]

They only take our trash once every four, and except for summer when we are going through bags of concrete mix and thus have large empty paper bags that aren't recyclable, I think that every eight weeks would be fine.

Most of the recycling we generate is the junk mail that gets delivered even though we have a "no junk mail" sign on the box. We also have a fair bit of cardboard because milk, cream, and "canned food" (beans and tomatoes, mostly) come in in cardboard. We don't have much in the way of glass, since things that come in glass tends to last a long time (he eats pickles and stuff like that). He does eat a canned fish that comes in metal, and in this country they sell metal tubes of pickles, caviar, soft cheese, etc. that he eats (but I won't), so we usually generate half a box of metal recycling in that four months.

It would be hugely different if we ate any pre-made packaged foods or bought soda or beer or something, but we don't.