House Manager

I'm house manager this week. That means I, along with another person in the group, do all the cooking, cleaning and shopping for the house, and I don't go to my regular work placement. Two people act as house manager each week, and this is my first time.

I'm allowed to sleep in until 10:00, but I didn't manage it. I haven't been able to sleep in around here at all, come to think of it, even when there's free time. I'm a little disappointed in myself.

Around here they call lunch dinner and dinner supper, so I'm going to talk like that. Get used to it.

Supper is the most prominent meal that we're responsible for. Our meal plan is as follows:

Monday: chicken curry
Tuesday: pasta
Wednesday: fish & chips
Thursday: roast
Friday: tacos
Saturday: turkey
Sunday: leftovers (turkey a la king made from turkey dinner leftovers)

We're trying not to do anything that the previous groups have done, just as the other groups have tried, but that's a task that gets successively harder as the options get taken. Pasta was kind of a fallback. Pasta, soup and chili are easy to prepare, easy to make vegetarian, and nobody dislikes them, so several people have already fallen back on those. Other people still have ideas, but they're hoarding them for themselves, for when they become house manager.

We're also responsible for dinner (that's lunch, remember) and two breakfasts. Since only two people come home for dinner, that's not so difficult. I offered to pack people's dinners so they could bring them to work, but of the four remaining people, two of them get fed by their work placement, and there's always enough leftovers for the last two, so nobody requested anything of me. Community Connections does NOT feed me, by the way.

So far today, I've been making homemade bread, looking up recipes, and writing up a shopping list. I should be cleaning right now.

We did a cooking workshop yesterday. I got to rip the heads off some squids, pull out their backbones and stomachs, and chop them up.

I should get back to work. I'm fatigued right now, in the way that you're more tired after a good night's sleep when you've been deprived for a long time.