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[seekingferret]

Yesterday I

- Went to work for an hour or so in the morning
- Baked some rolls for lunches this week
- Did a batch of laundry and washed all my dirty dishes

- Cleaned my oven and stove to convert them over for Pesach use
- Cleaned and covered most of my countertops, leaving a bit of space for this week's food prep
- Pulled out the Pesach cookware, boxed up most of the chametzdik cookware
- Triaged my fridge leftovers w/r/t what I will be able to eat this week

- Biked about three miles
- Walked about a mile

- Spent a couple hours working on the new Panda Magazine puzzle set with a hunt teammate
- Had a video meeting about Mystery Hunt design stuff

Yikes, it was kinda a lot. Pesach falling Motzei Shabbos is annoying, largely though not exclusively because the Sunday before Pesach is the best time I have to do most of my Pesach cleaning... but that means I'm losing access to most of my kitchen for the whole week. Unless I cook entirely pesahdik, which I'm also not quite ready for, I have... my toaster oven, my slow cooker, my rice cooker, and my electric kettle. And takeout, I suppose, though I'm avoiding that because EVERYONE is going to be swarming the kosher restaurants this week. So I'll be eating a lot of rice and beans this week, probably.


I'm very happy the weather is warming up and I can do outdoor exercise. I did get better in February at using my stationary bike, but I just find it so much more difficult to motivate myself to do that as compared to biking outdoors, where I have scenery. I rode out to the little lake by city hall and did a loop around it.


And I wish I could say more about Hunt stuff, but it's increasingly taking over more and more of my mindspace. :)

Comments

[batdina]

I envy you the access to kosher restaurants, whether you take advantage of them or not.

Our stove/oven, and fridge are now kashered for Pesach. The chametz is in the cupboard or on a sequestered shelf in the fridge and we'll finish that this week or toss what's left. The chametz sale contract is off to the rabbi. We haven't kashered the microwave yet, so we can do some small cooking still, and we'll kasher the counters and the sinks before Shabbat.

For some reason I always love having completed Pesach, but I rarely like observing it. Ah well, there are things we do because we need to do them.

Chag Sameach.

[seekingferret]

I'm very grateful for the kosher restaurants, and grateful they've survived the pandemic so far. We have in town a burgers/meat restaurant, a pizzeria (dairy), a sushi restaurant (pareve), a Turkish restaurant (meat), and a Chinese restaurant (meat). Also a kosher bakery, kosher Dunkin Donuts, and multiple kosher ice cream stores. There's another pizzeria and a deli in the next town over. It's a nice mix of options!

I like many things about Pesach but there are also things I struggle with, both theologically and practically.

Chag sameach.

[oracne]

That all sounds extremely productive. Go you!