finally, a breather!
So, hi again. It's a really pretty fall night, cool and crisp.
I did a lot of cleaning tonight. Even though I only got, like, two hours of sleep last night. When I got back from work, instead of napping, I spent the next hour and a half putting away clothes in my room, cleaning out food from my fridge, taking out the trash and recycling. I even went to Publix to recycle all the plastic grocery bags that have been accumulating in the cabinet under our sink.
I was totally surprised (okay, not totally surprised, since I look inside my fridge at least twice a day) at how much food has gone bad in my fridge. take a look all at the stuff I threw out:
- more than half of the 30+ pieces of sushi that my mom gave me to take back to the dorm when i stopped by home this past saturday (the avocado had started to oxidize and the rice was all dried out)
- some leftover potato soup I made last week (when I made it, it actually didn't taste that bad)
- one VERY squishy roma tomato
- a bag of green beans, bought I-don't-remember-how-long-ago, which were no longer very green
- two granny smith apples that have been in the fridge for a REALLY long time (the skin of one of the apples had all these tiny wrinkles)
- the remainder of my bag of small red potatoes (there were about three left, and they were starting to turn brown and soft)
- half a loaf of very moldy bread (the other half I threw away about two weeks ago, in an attempt to salvage what wasn't molded)
- a bag of four cinnamon raisin bagels, because I didn't really like how the brand tasted
But anyway, it's just sort of crazy and wasteful. Especially because some things, like the green beans, I pretty much haven't touched since I bought them at the store (two? three? weeks ago). But I've just been too busy to cook at all. The last non-breakfast meal I made (because, let's face it, pancakes and eggs are comparatively easy) was some chicken I sauteed with green and red peppers and onions. Which was yummy, but again, the only reason I set aside time to make it in the first place was because if I had waited another day to cook the chicken, it would have gone bad.
So, I think the amount of food I threw away today is indicative of just how ridiculously busy and stressed I've been. I mean, even though I'm not really a great chef by any stretch of the imagination, I do like setting aside some time to experiment and teach myself how to cook, because it's satisfying to be able to settle down in front of the TV with a plate of food that I made all by myself. It's just too bad that I haven't had time to do that lately.
It's funny, you know, because two months into the semester, I still feel like I have almost no routine in my life. Which is not true, in the literal sense, because of course I have class 8-11 MWF, and I have a set work schedule at WSB, and every week there's Technique meetings and deadlines. But I'm pretty sure the reason I feel this way is because in the case of things like meals, sleep and downtime, I DON'T have a routine. I hardly ever eat meals at the same time each day, and my sleeping schedule is definitely haphazard. So... maybe I need to prioritize. Or plan things better. I don't know.
On the other hand, I do know that I'm very, very tired right now. So goodnight.