INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Now that you've planned out your meals and gone shopping, all you probably want to do is take a break before the real work starts. Before you do that, make yourself prep whatever ingredients you can either right when you get back from the store or the next day. For example, you can: Wash and chop vegetables and mince herbs. Be aware that some veggies may get a bit wilted after they've been chopped. You can refresh them by soaking them in a bowl of cold water for 5-10 minutes before cooking with them. Make marinades and sauces. Cook ingredients (like chicken) that will be used in dishes within the next 3 days. As you move into the cooking phase, enjoy yourself! Having your family cook together is a great way to spend time with one another and debrief about your days. It'll also make cooking feel less like work and more like a fun nightly ritual. Any time you can easily double a recipe, do so. Frozen home-cooked meals can come in handy as Plan B's, or even as a planned meal when you know you're going to be short on time. Just be sure that your freezer doesn't become overstuffed, as it's easy to forget what you've got in there! All food has different freezer expiration dates, which you can easily look up online. However, most items can last somewhere between 6 months to 1 year in the freezer. Take frozen meals out of the freezer about 2 days before you plan to eat them. This should give them plenty of time to thaw out.

SUMMARY: Set aside an hour on Sunday for meal prep. Involve your family in cooking each night if you can. Make double batches of ingredients and meals for freezing.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Know how your team will function without this employee. Think about that job's responsibilities and be ready to assign them to someone else, or hire a more suitable employee. If you chose to hire another employee as a replacement, be careful about your recruiting efforts. If you're dissatisfied with your employee, it's possible they are dissatisfied with the job themselves, and are looking for similar employment elsewhere. If they come across their job description for your company, and know that you are planning to fire them, they could take offense and take retaliatory measuresanything from sabotaging clients to stealing company secrets. If the circumstances around the termination could be contested, offering several weeks or months pay in exchange for signing a severance agreement can be a good way to protect your organization from a damaging legal battle. It can also be a compassionate way to help an employee make it through what is sure to be a trying time. You want to place where both you and the employee are comfortable speaking plainly. There may be issues that did not come out beforehand about other employees, or pay informationthings that are not and should not be shared indiscriminately.

SUMMARY: Make a plan. Consider a severance package. Choose somewhere private and call them into the room.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: This last-resort method is appropriate when you don't have a lukewarm water, de-icing fluid, or any conventional scraping tools at your disposal - for instance, if your car's window froze in the car park whilst you were at work. Because you're going to attempt to remove the ice with a credit card or other improvised tool, it's wise to give yourself as much help as possible. To begin, start your car and turn on your heater/defroster up as high as it goes. Leave this running throughout the process - over time, it will soften and begin to melt the ice, making your job much easier. Dig through your wallet to find a credit card or any similar stiff, solid plastic card. Don't use a laminated card - these aren't stiff or sturdy enough to scrape the ice effectively. If possible, try to use a card that isn't important to you, like an old, expired credit card, as this method carries the risk of damage to your card. However, don't keep it for too long, as your card provider would recommend that you destroy your old card as soon as possible for counter-fraud purposes. Hold the long edge of your card at an angle against the window and push firmly. Try to keep the card as straight as possible, not allowing it to bend or flex as you scrape. If you do, you may end up deforming or breaking it. Be persistent! As far as scrapers go, credit cards can require more effort than dedicated scrapers. You may need to push quite hard to get results. If you're worried about breaking your card, you may want to double or triple the strength of your scraper by holding two or three cards stacked as you scrape. As you scrape ice away, you'll probably accumulate ice shavings at the edges of the window. Periodically, spray wiper fluid and run the wipers for a few seconds. The wiper fluid can help soften up any remaining ice, while the wipers themselves will help brush the ice shavings out of the way. Between the scraping action of your credit card, your wipers and fluid, and your defroster, your window should be free of ice within a few minutes.

SUMMARY: Turn your car's heated window on. Find an appropriate credit card. Start scraping. Use your wipers and fluid to assist.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: The most common cause of popeye is dirty water, and the best form of prevention is frequently replacing the dirty tank water with fresh water. Always have clean water in the betta's fish tank or bowl to ensure that it won't get popeye. If your betta is kept in a bowl or tank that holds two gallons of water or less, do a 50% water change every week. If your betta is kept in a larger aquarium, change 10-25% of the total water every 24 weeks. Clean the tank every week if you don't have a filter and every two weeks if you do. Gently remove your betta fish with a net and place it into a separate clean bowl of water. Dump out all of the water in the fish tank, remove all rocks and decorations, and rinse them with clean water. Using a paper towel, scrub the inside walls of the tank. Put the rocks and decorations back in the tank and fill the tank most of the way with bottled drinking water or pretreated tap water before putting your betta fish back in. The natural habitat for betta fish is warm, stagnant water. Make sure the water is kept between 76 and 82 degrees Fahrenheit (24.4-27.7 degrees Celsius) in order to provide a healthy environment for your fish. Use paper pH test strips to test how basic or acidic your betta's water is. The pH should be kept at 6.5 or 7. If the pH is too high, filter water through peat moss before putting it in the tank. If the pH is too low, add baking soda or shells to the tank. Bettas prefer soft water, so keep the dH at 25 or lower. Go to a pet store to get specialized products that can extract the magnesium and calcium from your water if it is too hard. Different fish require different environments, so make sure that you don't add any fish to your tank that have conflicting environmental needs. Popeye often occurs when the tank water is not kept at the proper levels, and adding a new fish that thrives in a different kind of ecosystem might throw off those levels.

SUMMARY:
Change the water regularly. Clean your fish tank every 12 weeks. Keep the tank water warm. Keep the tank water slightly acidic. Purchase a dH kit to determine water hardness. Carefully introduce new fish to the fish tank.