Things That I had forgotten

Weekends are busy for me now.  Weekdays are taken up with clients, and making it from one end to the other without dropping too many balls.  So if I am going to socialize, do personal errands, attend to my own things like arranging my yarn supply and get some easy to manage meals planned and partly cooked it happens on the weekends.
This is a part of normal that I haven't participated in for a long time because of the workpainsleep cycle that is moving into the background instead of taking up the front screen most of the time.
I had forgotten

• that you can do more than one thing in a day
• that some of the looming tasks actually take up very little time preparation wise and can be operating in the background while other things happen.

• that having the stuff set up ahead really can be done as background to the main chore of the day.

I made bread yesterday.  Today I will make a pot roast and spaghetti sauce. Between the two I have enough meals available that I only have to set up some sort of vegetable to eat well.  I had forgotten that the real time amount of time that bread takes is about fifteen minutes spread out over the day.  Mixing the dry rice bread ingredients and setting them in a bag  takes five minutes.  Two hours of preparing ahead makes for fifteen minutes to food all week.
How did I forget this?  I didn't have that much energy or the attention available over the weekend to do it.  If you had seen me sitting reading or staring into space or knitting you would have thought that I was just lazing. What I was doing was sitting in such a haze of exhaustion that I could not think of what I should do to keep things together and make life easier for myself.  Ok. food is in the fridge, dinner and others is available for the week.
I have been away in a far country.  I am back here a bit, and I hope that more of me can show up.

The lovely socks mentioned a few posts back were fussy about what they wanted to be.  After two aborted tries they and I agreed on a relatively simple pattern and we have made it past both the heels.  It can be hard when the yarn has a mind of it's own about what it wants to be.  It's really hard when they let you get a long ways before they let you know it isn't going work.