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<blockquote data-quote="BadgeBunny" data-source="post: 2130288" data-attributes="member: 1242"><p>Bless your heart!! That's a LOT on one plate! I was a single mom for 15 years (until GC came along <img src="/images/smilies/image1082.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heart:" title="Image1082 :heart:" data-shortname=":heart:" />) so I know how you feel. (And 16 credits is a LOT for someone who has a life outside of school. Don't sell yourself short!)</p><p></p><p>You can do this ... It was easy for me to get overwhelmed sometimes, at first. Just take it one baby-step at a time. What worked for me was focusing on ONE thing each month. Like I'd do "water" one month. I read everything I could find, get on a few internet boards and ask questions, read some more and then get the absolute basics. My first month I wound up buying a quart of unscented Clorox bleach, found a metal tray and put back several 2-liter pop bottles (to use for UV treatment), and bought a couple of those little straws that you can suck water through and it will clean it, and put back a couple of flats of bottled water and I got a couple of those 5 gallon totes in case I had to walk over to the river/lake to get water. It wasn't much, but, I had redundancy (which is important to me -- nothing I try works the first time! <img src="/images/smilies/rolleyes2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rolleyes2" title="Rolleyes2 :rolleyes2" data-shortname=":rolleyes2" />) and I had some kind of plan in place for water.</p><p></p><p>The next month I focused on something else. Before I knew it, I was in decent shape. Enough so that GC and I could help out quite few neighbors if we had to. That's another reason I'm focusing on gardening and backyard livestock now. As much to help out our working (or retired on a fixed income) neighbors as it is to help ourselves. I've lost track of how many eggs I've given away to friends because we just can't eat that many and I have plenty stored back now. (Fresh eggs -- from the chicken, not the store -- will keep for a minimum of a year to 18 months in a cool dry place, if you leave the bloom on them.)</p><p></p><p>Now I still do the "one thing a month" deal but I also have a bunch of little things going all the time too ... The garden is gonna be my "Big Thing" for the next few months, but I will still do little side jobs, if you will, on other things -- like storing food, setting up some kind of rain catchment, I'm beginning to think I may never buy a box of ammo again! but pick up ammo or reloading supplies, continue to study my coursework from Trinity (thank God for the internet and study-at-your-own-pace curriculum LOL) ... You get the drift ...</p><p></p><p>Just keep putting one foot in front of the other and before you know it, you will look around and be amazed at what you've accomplished.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BadgeBunny, post: 2130288, member: 1242"] Bless your heart!! That's a LOT on one plate! I was a single mom for 15 years (until GC came along :heart:) so I know how you feel. (And 16 credits is a LOT for someone who has a life outside of school. Don't sell yourself short!) You can do this ... It was easy for me to get overwhelmed sometimes, at first. Just take it one baby-step at a time. What worked for me was focusing on ONE thing each month. Like I'd do "water" one month. I read everything I could find, get on a few internet boards and ask questions, read some more and then get the absolute basics. My first month I wound up buying a quart of unscented Clorox bleach, found a metal tray and put back several 2-liter pop bottles (to use for UV treatment), and bought a couple of those little straws that you can suck water through and it will clean it, and put back a couple of flats of bottled water and I got a couple of those 5 gallon totes in case I had to walk over to the river/lake to get water. It wasn't much, but, I had redundancy (which is important to me -- nothing I try works the first time! :rolleyes2) and I had some kind of plan in place for water. The next month I focused on something else. Before I knew it, I was in decent shape. Enough so that GC and I could help out quite few neighbors if we had to. That's another reason I'm focusing on gardening and backyard livestock now. As much to help out our working (or retired on a fixed income) neighbors as it is to help ourselves. I've lost track of how many eggs I've given away to friends because we just can't eat that many and I have plenty stored back now. (Fresh eggs -- from the chicken, not the store -- will keep for a minimum of a year to 18 months in a cool dry place, if you leave the bloom on them.) Now I still do the "one thing a month" deal but I also have a bunch of little things going all the time too ... The garden is gonna be my "Big Thing" for the next few months, but I will still do little side jobs, if you will, on other things -- like storing food, setting up some kind of rain catchment, I'm beginning to think I may never buy a box of ammo again! but pick up ammo or reloading supplies, continue to study my coursework from Trinity (thank God for the internet and study-at-your-own-pace curriculum LOL) ... You get the drift ... Just keep putting one foot in front of the other and before you know it, you will look around and be amazed at what you've accomplished. [/QUOTE]
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