Wow. A whole 17 people have read my blog today. : ) I don’t know who most of you are, but I appreciate you sticking with me through my journey.
I’ve been going through some of my old books so that I can sell them on half.com. I have decided that I am hanging onto a lot of stuff that I really don’t need to. So, books were the first thing to get weeded out because it was easy (actually, some clothes went first, but that is a twice-yearly ritual for me. I hardly ever get rid of books. Anyway, I posted the books on Monday and have already sold 14 of them (out of about 75 or so). So, I am doing well, even if it isn’t going to pay for a round of IVF or anything.
But, I did find a receipt in one of the books from December 14, 1998 from Busch’s Valu Land. I could not get myself back to that grocery store without looking it up online, but I remember it was my favorite one in Ann Arbor. It had good produce and was well laid-out with wide aisles. Even back then I was kind of a grocery-store snob – willing to travel a little further for a better grocery shopping experience.
I wonder what I was doing still in Ann Arbor on December 14. It seems like exams were usually over before then. It is maybe not a typical college student grocery receipt: cottage cheese, yogurt, broccoli-cheddar soup cup, broccoli-pasta cup, corn chowder soup cup, tostitos with lime (were my favorite!), honeydew chunks, bananas, dried cherries, oranges, and fresca. It’s just funny to look back at this specific moment in time (9:18 pm on December 14, 1998) and wonder what was going through my mind. Worried about exams, had just found out that May died, about to graduate in May 1999, living on Fifth Avenue with two girls I am still good friends with and one that I haven’t spoken to since we moved out, anxious to get out into the “real world”. I am throwing away the recipt, but it was kind of fun to find it and think back. Who knew that less than ten years later I’d be a chef!
I didn’t cook today, so I had a chance to go to Target, get an oil change, go on a bike ride and stop at the farmer’s market, and get myself ready for the rest of this week’s cook dates and next week’s too.
I think Mike and I are going to go out to dinner tonight (it is WAY TOO HOT to cook here – 92 degrees and no air conditioning in the kitchen), and maybe meet a friend out for drinks afterwards. I think I need to get a few things cleaned up around here first. Then maybe I’ll have time to rip out the knitting I did last night and start again. I bought some really pretty green yarn to make a sweater for myself, and started out making the size medium. But, based on the size of the back of the sweater so far (one skien in) I think that is going to be too big, so I am going to start over with size small.
