Random things

I just organized my fridge and it looks beautiful. My roommate, however, thinks I’m a nut. Did I mention that for some reason we don’t have the veggie drawer or shelves that go on the fridge door? The landlady can’t figure out why in the world they would be missing, but it sure takes away a lot of storage space!

Oh, I also bought 22 cans of vegetable BECAUSE they were on sale: 5/$4!!! Usually canned veggies are 2/$3 which I find absurd; $1.50 for a can? But this way they were just under a dollar a piece, so I went crazy: 5 corn, 5 carrots, 5 green beans, 5 mixed, and 2 BIG cans of peas which were 2/$3. I’m quite pleased with myself. They were heavy to carry home, though. Making sweet and sour stir fry tonight. My cinnamon bread last week was a big hit. Tonight will be meal . . . five? Six? that I’ve made for Frank. I quite enjoy cooking and that, thus far, he has loved everything I’ve made. Italian baked catfish, apple glazed chicken, Maui burgers, fiesta chicken, jambalaya, cookies and cinnamon bread, blueberry pie!, and maybe something else I’m forgetting. It surprises me how few girls my age actually know how to cook; I love it! I guess Frank is lucky — at least in that regard, haha.

Days are getting cooler here. The wind is savage today and kept almost knocking me over on my way home from the grocery. An elderly doorman at a hotel was hunched over in a weird position, holding the handle of a bay carrier, and explained to some passersby he was babysitting. It was pretty cute.

I got three cavities filled on Monday, and I go back for another two and some other check ups in a couple weeks. One of the cavities was on the possible-root canal tooth, and sure enough the cavity was right around the nerve. She went ahead and filled it and we’ll just wait and see if it acts up — could be weeks, months, years, or never. Even though it’s been a couple days, my teeth and jaw are still hurting quite severely, and an occasional tingling and numbness in my jaw means something is up with the nerves. It has me worried the back tooth is already reacting badly, but I’ll wait a few more days before I call my dentist; she had said it might hurt for a day or so.

Anyway, it’s already almost FIVE and I’ve gotten basically NOTHING done today except grocery shopping, so I’m going to go try and get some homework done. I hate feeling like I’ve wasted an entire day . . .

Finally!

I got a mirror and a desk chair today. The desk chair is just a wooden folding chair the same color as my desk, $20, just what I was looking for.

I hung the mirror by myself. I knew I should have waited for Frank to get back into town but I was impatient and I like doing stuff like that. So I hung it, using the . . . what’s it called . . . floor molding? Floor paneling? Anyway, I used that as my guide . . . Only to discover that the paneling is CROOKED and therefore my mirror is crooked. Obviously crooked. But I’m too lazy/tired/frustrated to rehang it right now. I’m trying to convince myself that I can just live with it like that and it’s not a big deal, but my OCD flairs up really bad at crooked hanging things. I give myself two days or until Frank gets tired of my complaining about it and helps me redo it, which is probably for the best anyway.

In other news, I bought five new movies to watch tomorrow afternoon since I’m getting five cavities filled. But remember, no root canal, so that’s good! After this, I’ll have to probably get a crown on the cracked tooth because I’m almost entirely convinced now that it’s what makes my mouth hurt, but then that’s all the scheduled work I’ll need unless the other cavities get worse. Hurray! Now the big challenge tomorrow will be getting myself from Somerville to my South End apartment (about 45 minutes of travel) via the subways while I’m goofy on laughing gas and all swollen and slobbery with Novocain.

I’ll post pictures of the apartment soon, now that my room is finally nearing done. I still need a few more wall hanging thingies, and if I ever find a SUPER cheap surface rug that’d be nice . . . but otherwise, I’m done! Hurray!

Question

For all my domestics out there: how do I keep my bottom sheet from riding up? The clingy one keeps trying to sneak up off the corners and WILL NOT stay down in the middle. This drives me insane, so I put a safety pin on each side, but it’s still not really doing well, and I don’t want to have to put five pins on each side (though I will if I have to). Any suggestions?

Frank and I had our 6-month on Wedneday. Went to see Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs — which was SUPER funny and I definitely recommend it. Then went to the Melting Pot where the food is excellent and we were very well taken care of. The staff even signed a “Happy Anniversary” card for us. Wrapped up the night with some slow dancing lessons. Truly a wonderful anniversary.

Today it is raining super duper hard and so I refuse to the leave the apartment, even though there are plenty of things that I need to get done out in the world today. I still do not have a mirror, and I’m trying to decide whether it’s worth it to me to get a desk chair or not since they’re SO expensive. I may shop around on craigslist a bit more.

I took the A/C unit out of my window because it’s consistently cold now, but my room is still quite chilly. I’m probably going to have to get a space heater unless the central heating just really wows me when it ever gets turned on.

I’m going to go update my wishlist, and then try to get homework done I guess so maybe I can go get errands done tomorrow when it hopefully will not be pouring. Figures the first free day I have to get stuff done, it’s raining too hard.