This evening I made myself dinner. I'd made breaded-fried-mixed-with-Italian-seasoning chicken before and it turned out just fine, but tonight I didn't put enough oil in the pan and had the heat up a little too high. This combination of events led to rather dark undersides of the chicken, and me bemoaning my oh-so-skillfully prepared poorly cooked food. How unfortunate. In order to make up for this sad event, I am determined to redeem myself tomorrow night with bruschetta. There is no possible way for me to mess up frying slices of bread. If I do....I will eat frozen food for the rest of the year. Well, maybe not frozen food. Cereal. I could survive off that for a very long time.
Despite my minor food disaster (ok, saying that blows everything out of proportion), our apartment is absolutely wonderful. I foresee this being an excellent school year, regardless of how daunting student teaching second semester sounds. There will be many awesome things to make up for it. I do have a lot of things to do before tomorrow though: I NEED to finish The Count of Monte Cristo tonight, because I am determined to finish it before classes start. That shouldn't be too hard, because I have less than 60 pages left. Half hour boost. I also need to figure out if I can get all of the 20+ English books from the library, because there is NO WAY I am buying that many books for a 100 level class that does not pertain to my major in the least. Granted, they are literary classics, but I don't think I need every classic ever written in my personal library. I don't have enough room for that on my shelf. I may need to do laundry, but I think I have enough clothes to last me for a while without doing it. I would mostly consider doing laundry just because it's now FREE!!!! This novelty gives me an incentive to do the laundry much more frequently than is necessary. The downside of doing laundry more often is that then I have to fold it all and put it away, and that's my least favorite chore in all the world. I'd rather clean the bathroom. I guess that pretty much covers all the things I need to do tonight, so now on to the list of things I want to do. I want to go to bed awfully early. I want to make some pasta sauce. I want to go to Target to get the ingredients for said pasta sauce, among other things. Side note: never in my life did I foresee myself voluntarily buying whole tomatoes. The world is a surprising place. And I want to watch last night's episode of Lie to Me. That could potentially wait though.
And finally, I feel that I need to note my new-found love of coupons. I had no idea that I could save as much money as I can using coupons, and so I'm trying to figure out how to organize them so that I can easily find them when I need them. Organizing and subsequently shopping using them automatically requires that I make grocery lists, which will probably be better than my usual method of going to the store and figuring out what I want for the upcoming week while there. Therefore, it seems that this year will be The Year in which I Become Organized, Both in Terms of Academia and Domesticity.
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