Finally, a start.

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Ugh, still haven't hit litter.  But it is still pretty fresh.  However, I have started in on the kitchen.  Trash and dirty dishes shouldn't be a combined effort, but they are.  Much has been cleared, and the big tub has been brought out and made ready.  The problem is, I am watering the ducks.  Can only do one water task at a time.  So be it.

After the alarm, I will shut the ducks off, and start running hot dish water.  I will mostly be doing pots, pans, larger containers, and a few dishware items.  The few dishes I use which need washed.  Flatware and serving pieces will be done later.  I fell a bit behind.  But it has definitely been worse.

As well, with the windows open, life is... better.  And, with these things being managed, and litter again and being kept up, life should be much better sooner.  Between cooler weather and medicine, things have been tight.  Still, I... I might be able to do enough, once a week, to keep up.  Getting ahead, for now, is a pipe dream.  But I can keep up, maybe.

I really hope to do the dishes tonight.  I won't plan on anything else... save getting the trash out.  Recycling has already been collected and put out, plus the can has been rebagged.  As well, when I did the complete litter tending recently, some trash had gone out with that.  Sometimes I can only do few things, bits, parts.  But I do when I can.

Well, beside dishes, I am hoping to take a shower.  And sort laundry.  I won't wash tonight, but I will get loads sorted, for when I can.  Probably Saturday.  I want to line dry the clothes.  And probably towels.  I wash towels every or every other time I use them.  I would every time, I just don't quite have the energy.

Oh, and while tinkering in the kitchen, I am looking for extra instapot pots, lids, and other things I purchased.  I knew I would want them.  I don't know which they fit, the 6 or 8 quart.  Some might work with both?  I do know I want an extra for the eight quart, so I don't have to put all my soups, roasts, and such in separate containers or go without the instapot until the food is gone.  I might not even mind having two extra, and various lids including a silicon airtight refrigerator lid.  

They are out there, somewhere, probably.  Just a matter of finding them.  Whatever of them I have.  And, the place is getting sorted out, it's just a matter of looking.  It is more the volume of items to sort than unkemptness, mostly.  So it should be easy.  As well, I need to find the 6 quart instapot.  That would be better for general cooking, say stocks and such.  Leave the 8 quart for bone broths and larger cooking projects.

I'll... get there.  Get ahead.  Get organized.  And be ready for more cooking.  I have a chicken which is thawed.  I'd like to see that to a soup, perhaps tonight.  And schmaltz and gribenes...  I may separate the chicken, set the skin aside, bone some of the parts, and learn.  Something about being your own butcher that... once you get over the... strangeness of it... is quite satisfying.  I feel less like a liar about my food.  So many people eat animal, but feel above or outside of the fact.  That's a shame.  It's why people believe stupid things, because they haven't been forced to deal with reality.

Later.