My monthly “Just a Minute” newsletter went out yesterday with an essay about getting the right vacation balance. Some are relaxing, some are adventurous. It’s good to have both! My weekly “Week’s worth” newsletter goes out tomorrow morning, and I have to say, I really enjoyed this week’s topic. You can sign up for my newsletters by filling in your email on my home page (for the free time makeover guide).

Over at Vanderhacks I did a kitchen + food theme for the week. I suggested “Don’t store produce in your produce drawers,” and that you can save time, money, and mental space when you “Pack a snack (and water).” The post behind the paywall was “Laura’s little list of kitchen hacks.”

The Before Breakfast podcast covered that you should “Make complete plans, even if they’re tentative,” and that it might be fun to “Run into people.”

Over at the Best of Both Worlds Patreon community page we had an 80-comment discussion on the idea that “Kids need time and money.” I feel like a lot of the discussion of mothers working for pay centers on potentially “losing” time with kids, but there are a lot of upsides to what gaining extra income can afford a family — as many people who grew up in more tight circumstances have commented on. Please come join us!

We are doing celebratory dinners this weekend for good grades in the spring (sometimes it takes a while to schedule things…) and there may be peach picking. Stay tuned…

However, sometimes we put things off for other reasons. Over at BNET this week, I blogged on 5 Ways To Stop Procrastinating By Friday. I am particularly a fan of two approaches — doing a task first thing in the morning, or using blatant bribery.

I also blogged about how you can Make Multi-Tasking Work. Usually, trying to do two things at once is a recipe for disaster. But there are a few exceptions, when you combine something you have to do anyway with something that builds more joy into your life. Examples include exercising with friends, carpooling with a colleague you like, and so forth.

I really appreciate all your visits over at the BNET blog. I crossed the 100,000 visit mark for March, which is pretty exciting since I’m only writing 8 posts a month.

This week, Urban Muse Writer reviewed 168 Hours, and I seem to have inspired a new blog called Stop & Smell The Roses. Nice!

On Wednesday night, I went to a party celebrating the successful close of DailyWorth‘s recent funding round. DailyWorth is an email newsletter with a financial thought for the day (just follow the link to the webpage for an easy subscription process). One interesting tidbit about DailyWorth: the founder is a mom of little kids. A very low percent of angel and VC capital goes to women-owned businesses, and I’m guessing even less to the so-called “mompreneur” demographic. Why is that? I’m working on column on just that topic.

Also, a few days left to subscribe to the 168 Hours newsletter, “Just a Minute.” See the links to the right. This comes once a month (the next one is April 4) and always has an original essay, book review and a few other things. Our subscription list is now into the thousands and growing — I hope you’ll join!