Having returned to Japan for the start of 2016 I spent some time reviewing my personal goals from last year, and making some updated goals for this year.
Overall, I was pretty pleased with the results from last year. I hope this year is equally as productive.
At the end of last year I was pretty caught up in my work schedule. Unfortunately that meant that the amount of time I had for my own reading throughout the day was pretty limited. This year I made some adjustments so that I have between an hour and an hour and a half of reading time each weekday. Nice! I would be happy to read eight hours a day – but I haven’t yet found a job that’ll let me do that.
I’m pretty much in charge of dinners during the week, and in winter that means nabe. I make a simple nabe four days of the work week, and then something different once a week to liven things up. The nabe is great – easy to prepare, cheap, healthy (no meat, almost no fat), hot and filling. The best part is that there are usually leftovers that we can take for lunch the next day. I change the type of soup that we use for the nabe each day – sometimes spicy, sometimes simple – and then I can avoid buying the prepackaged soups that are delicious but slightly less healthy and cost-effective.
So the new routine is nice – eating healthy during the week (not so much on the weekends but you’ve gotta live a little) and lots more reading time, too. I’ll stick with this routine a while and see how it works.
We’re coasting into the weekend, and Kuniko and I will have two days off together. Her work schedule will get hectic after this, with some classes scheduled on Saturday and Sunday the next couple of weeks. We’ll try to enjoy this weekend by cooking a nice meal together on Saturday, going out to lunch on Sunday in Kobe, and just doing things we enjoy.
