I’m going home this coming Sunday, and have been trying to prolong my food supply for the time being. The goal is to never have to buy groceries again until I get back in May, and maybe not even then (permitting I reside at home this summer).
It’s kind of hilarious/scary right now. I’ve got a combined 3/4 box of cereal, three slices of bread, five pitas, a tomato, one heart of romaine lettuce, and numerous cans of varied beans (black, great northern, pinto, refried, etc.). There is a box of oatmeal that I am avoiding, and numerous shapes of pastas that I don’t have the patience to cook (though they’d taste delightful with the cup of Velveeta I’ve got left). I’m almost out of milk. After that — it’s water on the cereal. Yikes.
I made a pineapple smoothie last night, with natural yogurt and the one can of pineapple that I’d saved for the winter. It didn’t taste like pineapple at all, in fact, more like sour yogurt. Delicious nonetheless, and I poured it into the margarita glass that my roommate gave me for my 21st birthday. This was probably the most eventful thing to happen yesterday, during an entire day indoors.
Classes were canceled, and I, unfortunately, could not comprehend others’ bliss because I have no classes. It was more of a ‘HOORAY I can sit around all day…AGAIN!’ type of feeling, except with the underlying doom that I was stranded in my apartment. I don’t know what I would have done yesterday without my bed, my meager food supply, and court TV.
And I’m off in eight (8) days! Can you believe it? I can’t sleep in the mornings, I’m so excited. Last night I fell asleep thinking about carry-on luggage. Curious.
I am awaiting big news within the next few days. I can share it, hopefully, in the next week. I am crossing my fingers that it is good…
Ahh. Life’s a’changin’…
“Remember to keep your feet on the ground, your hopes up high, pray for rain, keep the humor dry, and eat those powder milk biscuits.”
—Garrison Keillor
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