1 post tagged “kitchen”

Uh yeah. It's been a while since the last post. I kinda gave up on the book a month challenge because February and March kicked my ass, personally. Many of you know that I've started a new craft project, aka "getting knocked up" and that's slowed me down and killed my concentration. Add to that getting the flu in February, followed by moving not long after and really, I haven't been able to do much.

Moving while pregnant was a humbling experience. There was very little I could do, between the exhaustion and the chemicals involved in cleaning up, so there were days where my friends would come in, tuck me into bed or a chair and say "Tell us what to do." While I greatly appreciate our friends and family, because moving wouldn't have happened without them, the aftermath has been a little awkward.

Take our kitchen, for example. The prevailing attitude when we moved in was "I'll just put this wherever and you can sort it out later." Things were placed approximately where they should go and left at that. As such I'm still not sure where half our things are and some of our cupboards make a game of Jenga look like a piece of cake. We're working on this slowly but surely, and I'd like to go over a plan we have.

In the old house we had a corner cabinet where we stored food. It was really deep and had a shelf in the middle. On each layer was a lazy susan. Every so often I would go through the lazy susan and inventory what was on there so I'd know what I was working with, because I had a tendency to think if I couldn't see it we didn't have it. It helped a lot, but I often lamented that it was limited to being in the house and wouldn't it be nice if I had a palm pilot to keep track of what we had? Well, in organizing the freezer portion of the fridge I decided that hey, maybe it could do with an inventory too while I was sorting. What to do with it, though?

The Husband and I have decided we're going to create a Google doc for our pantry inventory. That way it'll be easy for both of us to access and edit, and should we decide at work "This is what we're having for dinner!" then we can look at the doc and see what we'll need to pick up at the store, instead of going home to figure it out and losing momentum. It'll take some work, and we'll really have to keep on it, but hopefully it'll work for us and help us out. Stay tuned to find out if we're making it work or not.