blog to discovery

I chose to start this blog to record my path to a simpler, happier and more productive life, however I seem to have forgotten this in the excitement of starting to write publicly for the first time. I have decided I need more structure in my life to help me work towards where I want to be, plus I suspect this blog would benefit from a bit more structure.

I am intending to review my personal progress at the end of each month and discuss how I’m doing and perhaps ask for help if I’m struggling. I know I already have my posts about the wheel of life, but at the moment I see these as a separate topic, but maybe I will combine in the future. I also have my posts reviewing what happened in the previous month, but I intend to leave them as a review of my blogging progress.

The husband is away this weekend, sailing. I am, therefore, planning to get lots of things done from my to do list, as well as the chores such as food shopping and clothes washing.

However I am curious whether I will be able to do this, or whether the luxury of having the house to myself will mean I wallow into a weekend of sitting watching television or aimlessly browsing the internet.

I am hopeful that amongst other things I will find the motivation to read, write post for this blog and do some dressmaking. As a measure of my (hopeful) success I will keep a list of my achievements which I will share on Sunday evening or Monday.

I have a team meeting this week, so decided to prepare some muffins for the team to eat as an incentive to attend; especially as the meeting is booked in for an hour longer than normal because there is a video conference to another team, on top of the usual meeting.

I decided to make peanut butter and snicker muffins, from Nigella Lawson’s How to be a domestic goddess (links: USA, UK) because they are a favourite with my husband as well as some team members
I have used this recipe a lot; so why did I burn them this time?

As my copy of the book is hardback, it is hard to use while cooking, and because I don’t want to get cake mixture on the book, I have copied the recipe on to a bit of scrap paper that I pull out each time I use it. From experience I know our oven is hotter than expected so I reduced the temperature by 30 degrees and the time by 10 minutes.