A finished habit.

ok new habit, and for once its not a sleep thing. except it is.

pulled the spreadsheet again last night — the dinner column i added on a whim in week one. on deploy days we eat after 8:15, four of five. on those nights bedtime is past midnight, four of five. non-deploy days: dinner around 6:30, bedtime under 11:30. its the same chart as the bedtime chart. its the same red dots. i've been treating bedtime as the input when it's downstream of whether anyone decided what dinner was before 6pm.

so: Sunday meal prep. one hour, sunday afternoon, the week's dinners decided and mostly cooked. rice, the sheet pan thing kate likes, the chili owen will eat if i dont call it chili. containers labeled by day because i know myself. spec is that simple. no app, no dashboard, just a box to check on sunday.

the actual point isnt the food. its that tuesday at 6:15 stops being a decision. i come up from the office and june is doing knock knock jokes at my knees and owen has a question about the canoe plans and kate has been on since 7am and the last thing anyone in this house needs is me standing at the fridge deciding. if its already decided on sunday then 6:15 is just heat and eat, and i get to actually answer owens question, and dinner is at 6:45 instead of 8:40 and maybe the red dots move. thats the hypothesis anyway. first sunday is tomorrow.

graduated. didnt need the box for a month, kept checking it anyway. sundays just are this now — owen does the rice, june labels the lids wrong on purpose. dinner column hasnt gone past 7:30 since april. kate noticed before i did.