Life5- Oh, grate
Why can't food make itself? Really though. Like, why can't my vegetables chop themselves and then form themselves into a salad? IT'S 2017 for goodness sake.
I loathe cooking so much to the point that I'm really hungry right now (really hungry) BUT, the thought of having to go into the kitchen (it's cold outside my room) and having to chop cucumber, tomato, avocado, and greens and then grab all this other stuff and throw it in a bowl for my salad just doesn't seem worth it right now. I think, too, that it really isn't the thought of having to make the meal as much so as it is the impending clean up that will undoubtedly occur right after. I know what you're thinking, "why don't you just order pizza or use the WAITR app or any of those other 75 food delivery techniques. Well, if I still lived in Baton Rouge or NOLA, I probably would do just that --> but homegirl lives in Clinton right now in which none such things exist. I mean, I assume there probably is a pizza delivery place...it is still within America. I have yet to locate it, however, and am consequently trying to use this new isolation environment to turn over a new leaf and cook my own meals on a more regular basis. I'll describe it as I did to my mom last night, "it wasn't bad...but it wasn't good either". Yes, my mom bought the crock pot for me. Y'all know I sure as hell don't have that much ambition for my own cooking.
I'll be honest, I just took a blogging break to go eat b/c i realized that I made that crock pot meal yesterday and I could just heat that up and throw some cheddar cheese on top and SHABAM... LUNCH. Mom was right, it was better the next day. :)
back to relevant information:
I moved up to Clinton this week. I am so thankful my mom was able to come with and help get me all settled in my new place. It also served a double purpose as it kept both of us busy and our minds occupied. My sisters last PET scan had a spot light up and they're making us wait til January 11th (at earliest) to find out if it is cancerous or not. We need this to be non-cancerous. That's the only results option in my mind. If we were ever left without a "next stop" or idle time we'd just look at each other and start crying. It's hard to express the fear and trepidation that comes with that sort of news. Kayla has already been through so much. Our family has already been through so much. We are praying to God for a break with the health crisis. My friends and family have been sharing their prayers with us and that brings great comfort. Perhaps the most frustrating part for me will be that I'll be halfway through my first week of classes in this new graduate program, which is almost 8 hours away from where Kayla and the rest of my family will be when we get the results. Lucky for me, I have a super unhealthy way on dealing with stress and bad news of any kind. If I get bad news, I usually just try to pretend it didn't happen. I'll just erase weeks of whatever occurrence in my mind and be like what? that happened? hmm, didn't know. I don't like to talk about it too much. I don't like to picture life after bad news. I just like to keep it in a little secret envelope in the back of the file cabinet that is my brain. Again, I know this is a super unhealthy was to deal with one's problems. Anyone else do this?
cognitive dissonance in its prime.
My books are coming in today and i'm oddly excited for that. ALSO--- can't believe I forgot about this. While mom and i were walking around target the other day, i passed a tea towel that has a picture of a cheese grater and underneath it says, "OH, GRATE". I laughed obnoxiously and said moommmmmm pleaseeee can I get it? hehehe, totally worked. I've been laughing at that thing for over 24 hours straight. Best two dollars ya ever spent, ma!
I picked up my Med Phys 1 notes packet yesterday. I also got my parking decal and went into the wrong building a couple of times. This notes packet (for one of my 3 classes) is awfully large. Crazy to think at the end of this semester i'll have gone through all of it. It's so big that I don't even know if it'll fit in a standard binder. I may actually measure it....one sec.....yep 5 1/2 inches of paper. Yes, i did walk into the hallway, get a tape measurer, and then walk back into my room and hold it against my notes packet. #dedication. I'm 'bout 'ta be so smahhhttt y'all.
I'll have to stop at the office depot in Metairie tomorrow. You guys. I'm supposed to be in NOLA tomorrow evening for my cousins wedding, but the roads are closed around me due to this beyond dumb winter storm. It is absolutely baffling to me that I now live somewhere in which iced roads is an actual problem that I'll have to check on. My maw maw will have a hernia if I don't make it in. **I missed family christmas to work, oops**. Let's all hope the ice melts by tomorrow morning (which is what Mr. Weatherman says will happen) and I'm able to get to NOLA, see family, and obvi stop at PJ's Coffee at least 73 times.
so much has happened that I haven't really touched on but maybe i'll get in more for my next post. It will either be about my first day of school or my first week of school. ahhhh!
T minus 2 days.
1/16/17