First time-logged day

Interesting day. Morning pages, leading to the previous entry in this blog. I kept a time log all day, because Peter Walsh said to do so in Enough Already!, and because, while I have kept time logs before, I have never done one as a working-from-home person. I plan to do this all week. Here’s how my day broke down, roughly, in decreasing order of time spent:

• 3 hours 55 minutes spent sorting through and prepping all the fabrics I got from Jinny yesterday (and that’s not including the trims!)
• 3 hours on a marathon cooking session: prepping, cooking, and eating (roasted beets and three kinds of winter squash; dashi;  chawan mushi; steamed daikon cake; pan-fried daikon cake… all this came out delicious!)
• 2 hours 10 minutes devoted to emails, reading various blogs, Facebook
• 1 hour morning pages + breakfast
• 40 minutes updating our budget from the past month
• 1/2 hour for lunch
• 25 minutes on householdy things (sewing buttons on Erik’s pants, unloading the dishwasher, looking for a recipe)
• 20 minutes updating my weekly to-do list, after looking over last week’s edition

Kind of insane, no? It makes me feel like some sort of domestic to have spent so much of my day on cooking and working with fabrics. But it is interesting to see where all the time went. And I did not play any games today, nor did I watch any videos, nor did I spend much time on Facebook. So it was a rather intense working/cooking day, but I enjoyed it. In the midst of the dinner prepping I started feeling desperate because I hadn’t intended to spend so much time in the kitchen (Erik was supposed to help, but for a number of reasons ended up not being able to, so I basically sacrificed my own work time to make our fabulous dinner), so I decided to work late tonight — which is why I haven’t logged off and begun our 9PM wind-down yet. But I feel a lot better now; I’ve checked several things off my to-do list for the day. I guess I ended up doing all the most time-consuming things first, and only getting to the little things later, which probably contributed to the desperate feeling. Maybe next time I should go for quantity first, when possible.

Tomorrow I’d like to tidy my office (also according to guidelines in Peter Walsh), wash some of the fabrics I got from Jinny, exercise, and begin making some more eye-pillow travel cases… and there is a ton of writing and drawing practice I want to do too, and since that’s my intended focus for the week, I’d better hop to it.