Titles suck

[laceblade]

The power must have got turned off in my apartment last night, because when I woke up, my alarm clock was flashing, and had never gone off. :/ Hopefully the rest of today will go better. Most of this entry was written last night.

Update on Domesticity
ME, AT WORK: These carrots are, like, bitter. I wonder if they're bad? I got them at the Farmer's Market.
CO-WORKER: Yeah, it doesn't really look like you peeled them....since you didn't buy them from the grocery store, you should peel them before you eat them. You can eat the outer layer, but it's bitter.
ME: ..... *gets salsa from the fridge to slather over carrots*

I haven't had a lot of time to cook lately. I'm really tired tonight, but I'm boiling some red potatoes, and intend to eat half tonight, and half tomorrow for lunch with a leftover hamburger from The Hammer's barbecue. I will butter them, and put spices on them, like basil and possibly garlic powder! We'll see what's in my cupboard.... Tonight, the rest of my meal will be made up of pizza rolls. But even these are now more gourmet! I'll cook them in the oven instead of the microwave. I actually haven't used my microwave once since moving in. That's pretty awesome.

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The Things I Enjoy for Cheap or for Free
I am even more pleased with my St. Vinnie's purchases than I was on Saturday. Yes, I have lost an earring. But! I've decided that this black skirt is now my most favorite skirt (and I own many). And it only cost me $5.34! The shoes hurt my feet a lot, but I'd like to get used to walking in heels anyway, and my old black shoes were literally falling apart. I tell you, Internet, cheap things are amazing.

I'm going to try and do resale shops more often. I already use Bookmooch for books, but I should stalk websites like Freecycle and Craigslist. Hurray for recycling.


Among enjoying things for free, I got some DVDs from the library yesterday. Amelie and Seven Samurai, which I have never seen, and Tess of the d'Urbervilles, which I remember seeing in Brit Lit in high school, but remember nothing of. Having now rewatched most of it, I now remember this: Tess of the d'Urbvervilles will make any reader or watcher hate men. WTF.

Comments

[nearlymay.livejournal.com]

Carrots: I do not hold that opinion. The outside is no more bitter than the rest of the carrot. I do usually peel carrots from the farmer's market, but only because I've ended up eating sand on unpeeled carrots before.

[mystickeeper.livejournal.com]

This is good to know! I'm going to have to get a vegetable peeler.

[littlebutfierce]

You could just scrub them w/a brush under the sink; there's no need to peel them (& we get carrots from our CSA w/clumps of dirt on them--I've never crunched on any dirt).

I think I remember reading somewhere that lots of vitamins etc. are in the skin of vegetables, so it seems a shame to peel them when you don't have to (ie. assuming farmer's market carrots are not as laden w/pesticides as ones from big agribusiness). Plus, laziness, hi.

[sasha-feather.livejournal.com]

I advise against wearing shoes that make your feet hurt! It is no good!

Yay for St. Vinnie's, though.

[mystickeeper.livejournal.com]

Meh. I'll make some sacrifices for fashion.....Also, I brought some flats to work. And since I only actually work for a total of an hour in a given day, it's not that bad, :D