the thaw.
I've just come around to realize that while things are moving along nicely, our place is a FUCKING mess. Here's how I finally woke up to it.
Yesterday was a great day. We rode out to Bedford to find a new set of pots and pans for our kitchen. Shannon and I were getting tired of the scraped-off teflon and beat up aluminum...just plain tired. So, with the tutoring money I made that same day (talking to a guy about the physics and calculus of his trebuchet), we bought her a nice set of new, NON-non-stick, heavy aluminum cookware. Shannon is proud that they can do double duty: she can cook with them and whack any possible invaders over the head. I wanted to remind her that she could do the same with her rolling pin: food preparation and home defense.
After we got the cookware, we got inspired. We decided to head to the Whole Foods in Andover, to get some really, REALLY good spinach fettuccine that we had bought in Portland a couple of weeks ago. Aside from that, we LOVE the produce that Whole Foods normally has, so we hopped on I-93 and booked it down to Andover.
Well, we were unfortunately disappointed with this Whole Foods. They didn't even have the cabbage that we put on the makeshift shopping list of things we might want to get while we were there. Cabbage. I mean, come on, right? And, no spinach fettuccine. Not much of anything, actually! No bulk spices or expansive meat counter or pink lady apples or gelato counter or huge cheese selection. This deflated our morale a little bit, but we were unabated. We knew that there was a decent Whole Foods in Woburn, not too far away. So, off we went again to that WF, where we once again found...not much. This time, though, they had our cabbage and some GOOD produce selections. We picked up tomatoes, mozzerella and basil for Pasta Caprese, a few other pieces of produce, but, you guessed it, NO spinach fettuccine. Oh, well, right?
So, we're cruising home and I suddenly remember that there's a WF in Bedford. Score! This has got to be the one! I plug it into the GPS as we're passing Bedford on Route 3. We get there, and I'm an edgy form of excited, thinking that there HAS to be spinach fettuccine at this WF. It's a bigger store, looks better stocked, and we walk in, and to the pasta aisle, and sure enough! No pasta. Damn.
So Shannon and I settled for chocolate instead. It was still a good day.
We brought the groceries and the new cookware in. I plopped the stuff on the floor that I had and saw that there was a ton of stuff sitting around it. Well, there is a LOT of stuff on our floor. Papers that need to be graded, our tax forms, clothes dirty and clean, dishes...it's everywhere! Our place is a pig sty! And to think that last week we wanted to have people over but that those plans fell through because we were sick! Ugh. So, that's on our docket for today.
Later on, I'm going to write more, as a lot of stuff has happened this week. But, I have to clean house first. We'll see how long it takes us.
Yesterday was a great day. We rode out to Bedford to find a new set of pots and pans for our kitchen. Shannon and I were getting tired of the scraped-off teflon and beat up aluminum...just plain tired. So, with the tutoring money I made that same day (talking to a guy about the physics and calculus of his trebuchet), we bought her a nice set of new, NON-non-stick, heavy aluminum cookware. Shannon is proud that they can do double duty: she can cook with them and whack any possible invaders over the head. I wanted to remind her that she could do the same with her rolling pin: food preparation and home defense.
After we got the cookware, we got inspired. We decided to head to the Whole Foods in Andover, to get some really, REALLY good spinach fettuccine that we had bought in Portland a couple of weeks ago. Aside from that, we LOVE the produce that Whole Foods normally has, so we hopped on I-93 and booked it down to Andover.
Well, we were unfortunately disappointed with this Whole Foods. They didn't even have the cabbage that we put on the makeshift shopping list of things we might want to get while we were there. Cabbage. I mean, come on, right? And, no spinach fettuccine. Not much of anything, actually! No bulk spices or expansive meat counter or pink lady apples or gelato counter or huge cheese selection. This deflated our morale a little bit, but we were unabated. We knew that there was a decent Whole Foods in Woburn, not too far away. So, off we went again to that WF, where we once again found...not much. This time, though, they had our cabbage and some GOOD produce selections. We picked up tomatoes, mozzerella and basil for Pasta Caprese, a few other pieces of produce, but, you guessed it, NO spinach fettuccine. Oh, well, right?
So, we're cruising home and I suddenly remember that there's a WF in Bedford. Score! This has got to be the one! I plug it into the GPS as we're passing Bedford on Route 3. We get there, and I'm an edgy form of excited, thinking that there HAS to be spinach fettuccine at this WF. It's a bigger store, looks better stocked, and we walk in, and to the pasta aisle, and sure enough! No pasta. Damn.
So Shannon and I settled for chocolate instead. It was still a good day.
We brought the groceries and the new cookware in. I plopped the stuff on the floor that I had and saw that there was a ton of stuff sitting around it. Well, there is a LOT of stuff on our floor. Papers that need to be graded, our tax forms, clothes dirty and clean, dishes...it's everywhere! Our place is a pig sty! And to think that last week we wanted to have people over but that those plans fell through because we were sick! Ugh. So, that's on our docket for today.
Later on, I'm going to write more, as a lot of stuff has happened this week. But, I have to clean house first. We'll see how long it takes us.