Weekly review: Week ending August 26, 2016

Posted: Sep 3, 2016 - Modified: May 29, 2019| review, weekly

A- turned six months old, hooray! She weighed in at 6.026 kg, so she's slowly catching up although she's still quite small for her age. Maybe she's just naturally small. =) We've been applying Ellyn Satter's approach to feeding dynamics and a little of baby-led weaning. A- has been self-feeding with gusto. She loves raspberries, grapes, and Greek yogurt, and gets along well with rice, fish, chicken, pasta, and other things we eat.

We went on a couple of good walk this week: to the High Park zoo to see the llamas up close, to Best Buy to check out the Jot stylus (no palm rejection means I'm not yet comfy drawing on the Android tablet, so maybe I'll use paper instead), and the usual trips to the supermarket and library.

The Healthy Babies Healthy Children nurse introduced us to the family home visitor who'll be seeing us weekly. She'll bring different activities for A- to explore, which is a great way for me to pick up ideas for the rest of the week. =)

We also had a home visit from a case worker at the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. She took our details and told us about a few things we can check out. There'll be an assessment at some point, and maybe a family support worker can help us navigate other resources too. A- is probably pretty low priority for them because she appears to have good vision in her right eye. Still, I hope they can help us learn more about ways we can support her. I found some tips on helping children with monocular vision, and it's been good to read about other experiences. Anyway, the CNIB person said that when A- becomes more mobile, we should watch out for veering, cutting corners, bumping into things, and so on.

It would be great to be able to ask questions about things I need to coordinate. I got slightly stressed sorting out the proper signatures for the assistive device program funding (needed Dr. Mireskandari, not our pediatrician), and also searching for a travel insurance provider that's okay with A-'s congenital conditions.

I've been falling behind in terms of journaling. Some nights I work on my consulting project, and some nights I catch up on sleep. I catch up with my daily journal every few days or so, although this weekly review is a week late. I wonder how I can tweak this…

My consulting clients are happy with the add-ons I made for them, and there are enough add-ons in the pipeline to keep them busy for a little while. Not bad for roughly two hours a week.

Also, I cut my hair to slightly below shoulder-length. Turns out to be a non-scary process. One less service I need to pay for!

W- and I have been discussing the possibility of travelling without our laptops. I don't think I've ever been away from my laptop for that long. It's an interesting challenge. I might be able to do most text-based things by typing up notes or SSHing to my server. I'll need to fiddle with my journal workflow, and maybe catch up on scanned stuff when I get back. Emacs News will probably be on hiatus for a couple of weeks, or I might set up the code I need on my server. Hmm…

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Focus areas and time review

Business (2.9h – 1%)
- Earn (2.9h – 99% of Business)
- Build (0.0h – 0% of Business)
- Connect (0.0h – 0% of Business)
Relationships (2.1h – 1%)
- ☐ Check on RESP to see if it's been set up; transfer if so
- ☐ Decide on travel insurance
- ☐ Pick up A-'s Canadian passport
- ☐ Get eye report from eye doctor
- ☐ Check if hydro debit went through
Discretionary – Productive (6.5h – 3%)
- Drawing (3.7h)
- Emacs (0.6h)
- Coding (0.1h)
- Sewing (0.0h)
- Writing (1.7h)
Discretionary – Play (0.7h – 0%)
Personal routines (23.9h – 14%)
Unpaid work (71.7h – 42%)
- Childcare (65.8h – 39% of total)
Sleep (60.2h – 35% – average of 8.6 per day)