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de the lines when i ve actually drawn the lines or outlined the plan for myself my first and second life experiments a month of the food pyramid and a month at the poverty line were precisely defined and asked specific questions 2008 q is it actually possible to live according to the guidelines of the food pyramid a apparently yes it is however it takes a lot of planning and a willingness to eat veggies at every meal and as part of every snack the bonus was that i felt like i was eating all the time so many vegetables to consume in a day and still unexpectedly lost a couple pounds which was not my original intent around the time of my food pyramid experiment my roommate bought this crazy sweet potato what s with the cruella deville sweet potato look 2009 q is it possible to live at the poverty line for 2009 that was 900 per month for a single person a it is in theory doable to live at that level at least for a raised frugally natural homebody home cooking single woman like myself i was able to make most of the month work while living at the poverty line including my boston rent 500 because i lived with four other women food 150 phone 25 insurance 100 transportation 30 which i forgot about when i was planning the month so it stung a little bit and relative tithing 90 however i want to emphasize i was able to live most of the month at that level i actually failed at that life experiment because we had to pay our oil bill at the end of the month in our old boston house filling up the oil tank ran about 600 per fill up or about 125 per person the tank lasts for several months so it s not actually a horrible deal but i wasn t able to cover all of my amount with my prescribed poverty line allowance i later learned while working with an economic research group the phrase associated with this issue financial shock one of the biggest issues people face especially people who are struggling financially are financial shocks they may plan for everything but if even one unexpected event comes they are stuck this of course is why experts recommend having liquid savings on hand but at 900 a month i was barely meeting my basic needs there was absolutely no way i could quickly accumulate much of a savings cushion also there were several other factors that kept my costs low my insurance and transportation were heavily subsidized by my employer i already had a sizable professional wardrobe and i lived in an area with several grocery stores with decent prices had i been living at the poverty line for several months or years most research suggests none of those three would have been true when we look at 2010 month of creativity we find something less experiment like and more hopeful wishing like q can i be more creative a sure i guess but don t expect me to actually make time for that kind of thing without a spreadsheet of steps i can take i know i m a sad sad individual in all honesty i did feel like this one was a bit of a failure as i noted here i was a little more creative in some ways writing a song is nothing to sniff at but it wasn t exactly a life altering month and though it may sound presumptuous i like my life experiments to be life altering or at least life shifting i mock it but plans really are very good for me and i think i needed a more specific focused on how i was going to be creative i m gonna say 2011 s life experiment was gettin married q can we get married a yes and it s probably the best decision i ve ever made to enhance the quality of my life it was definitely life altering to add such a sweet good funny man to my day to day life so with that tremendously loooooong introduction i give you life experiment 2012 30 hours of productivity this comes about because lately my goals for productivity feel somewhat myopic every day i wash dishes clean the house apply for jobs or prepare for interviews read the news maybe exercise plan and cook dinner and do a handful of other domestic tasks the day ends we sleep the next day begins and it all repeats the only changes come in the form of lunches with friends visiting teaching appointments or a trip to the library is it a pleasant life absolutely is it a productive life yes i would say it is i am often doing things that either improve maintain the apartment or myself however lately i ve also been feeling a little restless i want to actually accomplish something i want to feel like i ve succeeded at something and to feel that way i need a goal preferably something that is hard and actually requires me to work on something specific and far reaching so i suppose a better title for this month would be 30 hours of long sighted productivity here s the plan every day for the month of september i am required to spend at least 3 hours on long range goals i will report back to the blog regularly to describe how things are going i will use a stopwatch to time myself to keep everything clean and honest and because my nerdy data loving self loves keeping records though i am not required to only work on these goals i have five goals i would like to focus on refinishing our kitchen table w and i have been married for almost 11 months i planned on refinishing our hand me down table in the first month but instead just bought a tablecloth for it and never looked back well now i m looking back or forward or wherever basically we need a surface where i can knead bread and w can roll out cookie dough i have a writing project in the works but i am bad about actually working on it i d like to have the story finished by the end of september it s not like a novel or anything so if i actually work on it rather than just stare off into space with a pen in my hand the goal should be achievable learn the piano w s parents got us a great keyboard piano for our wedding and my mom was kind enough to send some piano books but i ve only sat down once to actually practice as far as specific goals go let s say i will learn two songs by the end of the month crochet a basket i know that s a little weird but i ve been wanting to learn how to crochet for a while and need a basket to hold the blankets in our living room luckily i found a little tutorial that combines the two we ll see out it goes i m hoping it s not ugly learn how to code for the web is it possible to learn how to build a website in a month we ll see 30 hours doesn t actually seem like that much time for all these goals so wish me luck we ll see how it goes posted by l j at 3 17 pm 1 comment 6 04 2012 mornin today started with this little ditty i admit that i loved it may mr trololo rest in peace saturday morning was weird in the still sleeping hours of the morning i dreamed a dream about food not just any food but a cheerio concoction of some sort it was a cheerio crispy treat i blame the pin and blog post i saw that talked about fruit loop crispy treats and trix crispy treats gross however in my dream i didn t know it was a cheerio crispy treat i thought it was cheesy cheerios and kept eating and eating and eating until all the sudden i realized it was really a very very sweet marshmallow covered cheerio treat and in my dream i felt ill from all the sugary excess and then when i woke up i felt ill and couldn t look at sweets all day long and then on sunday i even had a hard time eating one cookie i ve never before been so affected by a dream friday morning i was lying in bed w and i hadn t put the trash and recycling out the night before because we thought we d be up early enough to get it to the curb by 8am no problem we thought yet here it was 7 30am and we were still in bed awake but just barely and then we hear the sound of the truck and i kind of freak out the garbage truck never comes early i throw on clothes grab our trash and run out the door only to realize it s the recycling truck not the garbage truck oi vey so i grab our recycling bin and run down the street after the recycling truck the recycling man was nice enough to accept it even though it was in our indoor bin and not in the official blue outdoor bin i was so pleased with myself it s so nice to start the day with a success and that my friends was a major success for me i hate it when we have two weeks of recycling it gets so unwieldy so i m walking my self satisfied self home and i realize i am 1 not wearing a bra 2 wearing thick rimmed glasses 3 wearing canvas boat shoes and 4 have totally crazy hipster bedhead hair and 5 i just chased after a recycling truck in that get up and i was smug about all of it i think that was one of my first real true cambridge ite moments high five posted by l j at 12 31 pm 2 comments 3 09 2012 a child s perspective on wednesday evening i drove home three ten year old girls home from our activity day baking event i like being a little fly on the wall in their conversations as their comments frequently puzzle and amuse me and often help me remember my own childhood and how much i ve changed since then wednesday was no exception one snippet of conversation in particular stood out to me the characters mc a warm and vibrant little girl with two very successful parents who built their professional lives in the standard white collar way top grades at top schools climbing to partners in their respective firms etc their family lives in a beautiful home in one of the nicest neighborhoods in the area ml a shy but fun little girl with great parents who have succeeded in building a stable life for their family by working hard building a thriving bakery etc they have an apartment in an area of town that is safe but definitely has a more industrial and gritty feel to it we were driving ml home when mc asks ml where do you live ml s automatic response is to recite her address mc clarifies no i mean do you have a house or an apartment or what ml oh we have an apartment at recitation of address mc sighs and says you re so lucky i always wanted to live in an apartment ml just shrugs at this and nods i ask mc why she wants to live in an apartment and she seems a bit at a loss at first before saying i don t know they just seem cool and different we re getting close to ml s and pass by a shopping center with a kmart a craft store and a home depot off in the distance mc is looking out the window and says wow you guys have all kinds of stuff over here ml yeah we even just got a country buffet mc really wow you are soooo lucky all we have is a little pizzeria all she has is a really cute little old town style pizzeria with some of the best pizza in town ml yeah i know it s really great i don t mean to make mc sound ungrateful she s far from an ingrate it was just so interesting to hear how different her and ml s perspective was than my image of what would be the most desirable life when raising children it shouldn t surprise me because i too was probably intrigued by the idea of an apartment and i definitely remember being very excited for our annual trip to north s chuck wagon buffet we went every year when we picked out the christmas tree it was a magical night we would hem and haw over different tree shapes until the oldest kids made a final decision and then we d go relax with twenty different choices of warmed meats mashed potatoes veggies endless amounts of delicious white rolls and of course soft serve ice cream i was much more impressed with north s than with any other restaurant i went to as a child indeed i routinely ordered tortilla and cheese not a quesadilla but a tortilla and cheese if we went anywhere else even the fancy restaurants we d go to for mother and daughter dinners times have since changed while i m not at the point of buying a big fancy house and i do still love soft serve ice cream i would definitely prefer to eat at a little pizzeria than county buffet and i love looking at the pretty old houses in fancy parts of town it s fun to be reminded of the fact that things weren t always that way though posted by l j at 11 50 am 2 comments 2 15 2012 giveaway but not from me so i just entered a giveaway and only after i entered it did i realize that i was supposed to share it first oops since i don t tweet here s me sharing the love giveaway for a pretty green and gold necklace on what seems to be a lovely blog about a very green life click here big money big money posted by l j at 10 00 pm no comments 11 07 2011 new calling new blog we are officially settling into the ward both of us got new callings yesterday will gets to work with the webelos should be fun and funny for him and i get to be the activity day co leader for the 7 11 year old girls in the ward i don t remember doing activity days so i don t know all that it entails our counselor described it as like scouts but for girls but i m looking forward to it tips from primary people are appreciated also we are officially settling into married life including our blog it s up and kind of running see here theizzyexperiment blogspot com posted by l j at 11 02 pm no comments 9 01 2011 some recent changes i was reminded today of the fact that exactly six months ago i was just contemplating whether i wanted to date w again for a third time crazy huh it s always a little mind boggling how much can change in six months or any other given amount of time some changes during that time w and i started to date again and started to talk about marriage again except this time neither of us got weird on the other wonder of wonder miracle of miracles it is a miracle guess he was right as he likes to remind me third time really is a charm we are engaged and i am so excited to be married to him with that engagement comes a lot of wedding planning and a wedding ring funny story about the ring it took a long time getting here utah to boston really is quite a trip w s whole lab knew it was coming though because he spilled the beans since he was excited and asked him to draw it for them i think it probably looked a little bit like this so pretty right i think so however one of his labmates who wasn t part of the original conversation and thus just saw the drawing got a little confused he wondered if it was some sort of intriguing mormon symbol not quite my friend not quite the wedding plans are coming together i have something to wear and it s pretty i just saw the finished product last saturday a certain someone to marry we ll have something to eat something to sit on something to look at i get to look at the groom but we ve provided flowers for everyone else etc i m really looking forward to it other new experiences include a job hunt i m currently in the self analysis what do i really want mode it s a little draining but not necessarily in a bad way just makes me kind of tired at the end of the day also i am marrying a hunter which leads to all kinds of new experiences with meat in the kitchen i cooked venizon in a crock pot just call me laura ingalls wilder everybody well modern day liw anyone after the advent of the crock pot of course i bet prairie folk would have loved those things p s oh yeah and i lived throu...