An Update

I haven't posted in a while. Mostly because there's nothing terribly interesting or new going on in my life. I did send an email to my bestest friend, however, so here it is. I went to a cookie-making party on Sunday. At this party we made 1) two kinds of gingerbread cookies 2) sugar cookies 3) cranberry coconut tassies 4) peanut butter balls 5) taffy 6) chocolate cookies with peanut butter cups in them, and something else I can't remember. It was a good time and my roommates have enjoyed eating all the cookies, although I stole all the peanut butter balls because they are fucking GOOD.

Ohio dates. I think I am going to be in Ohio from Jan 12-Jan.15. I can come on the 11th if anyone will be available to hang out with me that day, but that's definitely flexible. Likewise, I can either drive back to Minneapolis on the 15th or 16th, depending on when people are sick of me. Does that work for you? I will call others and see if they will be available on those dates.

I'm soooo happy you got out of your grad class a week early. That's fantastic. I like to get out of classes, too. As a matter of fact, I am seriously considering skipping class today. I hate it so much. However, I think the teahcer's going to pass out seminar evaluations today and I really want to say bad things about her in the evaluation, so I think I'm going to go just so that I can do that.

Tonight is date night. I will go on a date.

Next Wednesday, I will be done with classes (not done grading, but I won't have anything to grade until Thursday), so I am going to cook a gluten-free dinner for my boyfriend and my landlords. I think I'm going to make that potato-leek soup because it's accidentally gluten-free and quite tasty and a chicken casserole that has lots of stuff in it. Then I'll make a vegetable. Probably green beans because they are easy and I am lazy. And I'll make my landlords provide wine. So that they can drink it and Biker Boy and I can mock them. Those are my exciting dinner party plans.

I'm wearing a bright orange shirt that says "BOWLING GREEN" on it in big white letters, a long-sleeved white t-shirt underneath it, and a pair of jeans that has orange stitching (it was hard for me to make that last phrase have a correct subject/verb agreement - I'm a freak).

I'm quite hungry right now. I might go downstairs and get a bagel to eat. Bagels have lots of calories, so that should hold me until I get home and finish this damn spaghetti I made. Have I told you about the spaghetti sauce? See, the smallest package of ground sirloin you can get is ONE POUND. As a single person, I don't fucking need an entire pound of meat. However, I purchased the package and then mixed it with a jar of Paul Newman's (gluten-free!) sauce. But I cooked it LAST WEDNESDAY. I have had spaghetti for at least one meal every single day for a week. Tonight will be the last day. If I don't finish the sauce, I'm going to throw it out. I will say it was a smart buy because for the cost of the sauce (it was about $4), the meat (on sale -$4), and the box of spaghetti (79 cents), I have had seven meals, complete with protein, carbs, and vegetables. Not a bad deal. But boy am I sick of spaghetti.

I'm getting my hair cut tomorrow.

Love, NGS