Days of Yore

In all of my sorting of various bills, pay stubs, receipts, awards, report cards, school papers, and all kinds of other things, I found a letter I wrote to NASA in 1996.

Why did I have that letter?

It was attached to the reply that NASA sent me.

See, back when I was a teenager, we wrote letters for class projects to do career research.

Ah, internet, how you've eased my work load.

Then again, it's been a long time since I got a letter from NASA, so I guess it's a trade off.

Brain Dump

• My apartment has smelled like bacon all day long. I have cooked no bacon. I'm toying with heading over to the neighbors' apartments and seeing if any of them have some left over bacon for me.
• I love Netflix. I'm currently discovering a show that aired and was canceled years ago. I wish it hadn't been canceled, but I'm sure enjoying watching what was produced.
• As I watched LOST tonight (no spoilers), I couldn't help but notice that the characters poured milk for their cereal from a pitcher. Seriously, does anyone pour their milk from the carton into a pitcher so that they can have the pitcher at the breakfast table with the box of Super Bran?
• I had dinner with two dear friends that I haven't seen in a long time. It's always nice to catch up with people, especially two people who are that funny.
• In my search for an apartment in New York, I have found all kinds of interesting things. Today's fantastic find? An apartment where the shower is in the kitchen. The toilet and sink are in the bathroom, but the shower is in the kitchen. I don't know why. I'm adding it to my list of interesting things I've seen in apartments in Manhattan.
• In other apartment news, I've had to make some really tough decisions about what I can and cannot take with me.
• Anybody want to buy a beautiful, wonderful car? (That sound you hear is my little heart breaking...)

Disney Formula

Five minutes into The Princess and the Frog, both parents are alive and the little girl is happy.

This can't last, people.

Oversight

In my haste to type up an example of what I do each day, I completely neglected to include my two delightful conversations with my sister.

She may live a gazillion miles away, but she's always right on the other end of the phone whenever I need some sisterly advice or someone to listen to me whine.

Also, I didn't have a milkshake that night.

And today, I got a haircut.

It's been a pretty busy week.

Today's Events

My brother recently asked me what I do all day these days. Here's a quick run down of today:

1-Woke up right on time. Was still tired, so mostly just sat on the couch for a while working on breakfast and waking up.

2-Got dressed. Too rainy to go for my regular walk outside, so worked on packing some more.

3-More packing/sorting/organizing/resting (I've been under the weather).

4-Dr appointment

5-Returned skirt that was much, much cuter on the hanger than it was on me.

6-Went for a long indoor walk instead of outdoor, as it was still cold and rainy.

7-Picked up Cafe Rio for dinner. Free meal!

8-More packing

9-Back up to Orem to run a quick errand for my brother.

10-Back to Provo. More sorting of boxes.

11-Awkward (all my awkwardness, of course) phone call, courtesy of Karry.

12-Time working on plans to become less awkward

13-Blogging

14-Can't predict the future, but I suspect I'll be getting ready for bed. There may be a milkshake.

See? I'm plenty busy.

Adventures in Baking

I needed to make some cookies for an even this weekend. I found the recipe, dumped the butter into the bowl, and proceeded to gather and mix my dry ingredients.

No flour.

No powdered sugar.

No cornstarch. (Later found the cornstarch in the cupboard, fortunately).

So basically, I had butter and vanilla.

Mmmmmm...butter and vanilla cookies...

Good thing I live right by a grocery store.

Projects

Moving across the country has added a couple of projects to my life. One is packing. The packing project is not going well...at all.

Another project that I am working on simultaneously is eating the food out of my freezer. The freezer food simply cannot come to New York with me, so I am eating my way through it.

Today, I heated up some delicious baked beans that I froze a long time ago, when they were actually delicious. They were not delicious today, so I moved on to some ravioli. I overcooked it. Did you know that ravioli can be overcooked? It can, my friends. It most definitely can.

One of the things that I happen to have a lot of in my freezer is frozen blueberries. From now on, every dish I make will have some blueberry element. Blueberry pancakes, blueberry muffins, blueberry smoothies, and who knows what else will be gracing my plate.

In related news, I recently bought a giant carton of strawberries at Costco. They were too lovely, too delicious-looking to pass up, so I bought them.

These two situations have morphed into some sort of berry-palooza here at my apartment.

Clearly, my life is difficult.

Moving

It turns out that moving one person across the country is far more complicated than I anticipated.

My response to all of the stress? I've been watching Arrested Development, available streaming through Netflix.

Have I been watching this while I productively pack boxes to move across the country?

Negative. But I have really been enjoying myself.

Incidentally, if you're not totally clear as to where I'm moving, stop using your Google Reader and actually visit the blog. It's the audio clue round of Jeopardy, people.