Dining

If I'm not careful, this is going to end up being a food blog. All because I am just so gosh darn proud of myself anytime I do something successful in the kitchen. By golly.

Today was macaroni and cheese from scratch, complete with bread crumbs on the top. Cooking smaller portions in tricky! They just don't make sauce pans small enough, to be honest.

The fluffy looking chicken is not chicken. Bread crumbs.

Food. Again.

So I was grocery shopping.

And I'd been having this craving.

And there was a sale.

And now there are three quarts of ice cream in my freezer.



And I have been eating them.

Home, Sweet Home

I already gave you my little room tour, but as aforementioned, the real significance of my housing arrangement is the fact that I actually have a house (of sorts). 

I think it's pretty cute. White with green shutters. We should probably paint the door to match.

And here is our living room. This is the part boys are allowed to be in. Also, our apartment got the good couches. And since I took these photos shortly after moving in, everything is pretty darn tidy.

And because I know you want to see our bathroom, I'll include pictures of it, too. We actually have two bathrooms. There's one downstairs, and one upstairs. Downstairs has a shower, upstairs has a bathtub. (Shower not pictured below.) I'm in the cute upstairs one, obviously.

And, of course, we have a kitchen. Boys are also allowed in there. They just can't go upstairs. It's a pretty good deal.

And that's it. Home, sweet Home.

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I Must be in Virginia

Elephant Shortcut concerts
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Homework, Readings, Papers

Job applications

WALMART RUNS

Dances

Fireflies

Forums

Porch swings occupied by old, shirtless men and their respective wives

I must be back in Virginia.

Well shucks, this song.

Back to the Basics

Last year I used a yellow backpack.

 It was one that my younger brother had used in either middle or elementary school, I think. But it suited my purposes decently. There was just one problem-- no laptop sleeve. So my pretty pink laptop got a little scraped up and dinged.

So this summer, I got a bigger backpack, complete with a laptop sleeve.

IT'S AN ADULT SIZED BACKPACK ON ACCOUNT OF I AM AN ADULT.

But....... the problem is......

CONFESSION: I don't have an adult-sized back.

But... I should have seen it coming. I mean... a few summers ago I went backpacking through the New Mexican mountains. And my backpack was a tad too large for me (despite being a "woman's" pack). 

See?

So yeah, I have a kid-sized back and an adult-sized backpack, and it all works out mediocrely.

Food for Thought.

So I mentioned earlier that cooking at college is a little bit terrifying. But I've had a few successes. Well, one of them was primarily Colin's success, to be honest. I'll get to that in a bit. Here are some of my pretty regular meals:

1. Eggs on toast, sunny-side up, and a glass of milk. The Country Oatmeal bread is SOOO good.

2. Vanilla yogurt with banana cut up into it

3. Salad! The salad I've been making is awfully good, and I'm pretty proud of it. It is greens (because iceberg lettuce is gross), red onion, mozzarella cheese, sliced almonds, and chunks of yellow apple! I like it with a mixture of this dressing Colin makes (some vinegar-garlic concoction) and raspberry vinaigrette.

4. Colin roasted a chicken. All by himself. He even bought the ingredients with his own money and came up with his own seasoning. He added some potatoes to the pan, and it was delicious. He picked the bones clean afterwards and it's now all in the freezer, waiting to be used later.

THE CHICKEN: A photographic record