Soup!

I've been trying to follow the tips from the time management lecture I mentioned earlier. I prioritized my to do list this morning and am very happy that I did the top three things on it. Top two were "Due Soon, Important" - prepare package for my Mom to be mailed out tomorrow and prepare an English language "homework" for her. (I suggested that I can help her study English because we are hoping that she will come here one day, so I will be sending "homework" for her to translate, read and answer questions on.) These were "important" because I promised to send some of the stuff in the package awhile ago and I promised to send the lesson also, so my Mom has been expecting it.

"Not due soon, not important" fun task for the day was making my first soup ever. I followed this guide for vegetable broth recipe and I used the "17 Bean & Barley Mix" from Trader's Joe that inspired me to do this in the first place. The beans were so beautiful - they made me happy just to look at them. Here they are after the soak - a bit wrinkly and not as pretty anymore.



So it took and hour to make the broth and an hour for the soup - it has been an ambitious project. I will have the first bowl of my own first ever soup tomorrow!

I discovered Zen Habits blog yesterday. Just as I was procrastinating online, the post on overcoming resistance helped me to snap out of it and "The Minimalist’s Guide to Fighting (and Beating) Clutter Entropy" post gave me enough inspirations to do some things around the house that I've been delaying for some time.