I move...a lot and I have a lot of stuff. Aaron and I are getting ready for yet another move in a couple weeks. I tend to put packing off until the last minute and have become very experienced with just shoving my clothes, blankets, towels etc in laundry baskets and trash bags to move them from one apartment into the next. In our last apartment, the crack den, I didn't even bother unpacking a lot of my things because the apartment was such a disaster- I knew we wouldn't be staying there long.
I have started packing this week. We are moving in 2 weeks and Aaron is in Burlington working, so I will be packing a lot of stuff on my own. I decided to brave the disaster that is our bedroom yesterday. I realized that the bags of stuff that I had brought from the crack den really needed to be washed and that our 'normal' laundry pile had grown out of control.
We have no washer/dryer in the apartment we are in now. Aarons parentsare awesome and have let me use theirs a few times, but I normally take our laundry down to the laundry mat. A wash is, give or take, $3.50 at the laundry mat. I am currently super poor and have a lot of laundry to do. So, if you do that math that would explain why our 'normal' laundry pile managed to grow so far out of control.
I had today off from work and decided to take this opportunity to use and abuse my parents washer and dryer.....I mean visit my family. I figured that I would be spending less in gas to drive the hour south then I would be spending at the laundry mat (and probably get fed at the same time).
Aaron came home from work last night, so he had to get up super early to drive back up (its like an hour and 45 minute drive from where our apartment is to where he works). I figured that seeing that I was up really early, I would get an early start. I crammed 5 laundry bags stuffed as full as I could get them in my little car and headed south.
In route, I called my mom to give her some warning. When I got there only my dad was home. I decided to only drag in one laundry bag due to his watchful eye. He lectured me on hanging clothes on the line instead of using the dryer and that I better not be doing Aarons laundry. I quickly threw a load of laundry in and headed out to the hospital to see my Nana while my first load washed.
It was a long, long, long day of laundry. Those 5 laundry bags turned into 15 loads of laundry and of those 15 loads, I only used the dryer for 3 of them. The rest went out on the line.
I learned some important points today while doing laundry:
1) 5 laundry bags does not mean 5 loads of laundry. A laundry bag holds about 3 loads.
2) Sort your clothes. Although I love pink, I am not digging my newly dyed socks.
3)Vinegar takes out the smell of B.O. from shirts.
4) Vinegar takes out the smell of kitty pee.
5) Vinegar is amazing.
6)When doing your laundry at your parents house, if they see you laundry...they will judge your choice in under garments.
7) Nanas washer is quicker then moms, but moms gets your clothes cleaner (or so she says).
I had a pretty successful day. Its awesome to have clean clothes again (and clean sheets and blankets), but I think it was almost if not more awesome to spend the day with my family.
After todays epic laundry chore, I am SO glad that the apartment we are moving to has on site washer and dryer. I hope not to relive this anytime soon :-)
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Its been a while.
Apparently, blogging is not my thing. I have been grossly neglecting this blog. I realized that I didn't update during this past semester. Classes are over and we are once again looking for a new place and getting ready to move. Aaron got a awesome job with the railroad and left school. He is working full time and has great benefits. I am super proud of him for getting a real job. It beats working at K-Mart.
I will be taking a few classes this summer. By the time school starts again in the fall, I will have 5 graduate credits and be 6 credits away from student teaching. I can smell graduation already. Its been a long, long road with many falls and many errors, but I will have my degree in the end.
Aaron got me a kitty! He was a stray and we adopted him. We are calling him Cruzan (like the rum). He is all black. I think he is the most laid back kitty I have ever met.
Aaron has been working in Burlington for the last few months. He comes home on Saturday evenings and leaves really early Monday mornings. We have developed a great routine for his lunches. We go shopping every Sunday for his lunch things. When Monday morning comes around we both wake up super early. He packs his things and gets his stuff together for the week and I start my womanly tasks. Most Monday mornings I make him an omelet (that I finally perfected) and put together his lunches. I know that he can (and should) makes his own lunches, but I like doing it. I make 6 sandwiches (he works Mon-Sat) and put together stuff for 6 lunches in store bags. All he has to do is grab a bag and a sandwich and throw it in his lunch box before he goes to work in the mornings.
We have decided that we are going to start coupon. After a little research I found out that Price Chopper will take a store coupon and a manufacturers coupon for the same item and will double any coupon up to a dollar. We are going to print coupons and make a list of sale stuff for next weeks grocery trip. I wonder if we can get our groceries for pennies like the ladies do on TLC.
I will be taking a few classes this summer. By the time school starts again in the fall, I will have 5 graduate credits and be 6 credits away from student teaching. I can smell graduation already. Its been a long, long road with many falls and many errors, but I will have my degree in the end.
Aaron got me a kitty! He was a stray and we adopted him. We are calling him Cruzan (like the rum). He is all black. I think he is the most laid back kitty I have ever met.
Aaron has been working in Burlington for the last few months. He comes home on Saturday evenings and leaves really early Monday mornings. We have developed a great routine for his lunches. We go shopping every Sunday for his lunch things. When Monday morning comes around we both wake up super early. He packs his things and gets his stuff together for the week and I start my womanly tasks. Most Monday mornings I make him an omelet (that I finally perfected) and put together his lunches. I know that he can (and should) makes his own lunches, but I like doing it. I make 6 sandwiches (he works Mon-Sat) and put together stuff for 6 lunches in store bags. All he has to do is grab a bag and a sandwich and throw it in his lunch box before he goes to work in the mornings.
We have decided that we are going to start coupon. After a little research I found out that Price Chopper will take a store coupon and a manufacturers coupon for the same item and will double any coupon up to a dollar. We are going to print coupons and make a list of sale stuff for next weeks grocery trip. I wonder if we can get our groceries for pennies like the ladies do on TLC.
In the time it took me to write this post, Aaron began preparing for the Zombie Apocalypse.
oooh.....and most excitingly....Aaron bought me a PINK Ruger 10/22 for my 25th birthday!
Thursday, January 27, 2011
its been a couple weeks....
I know, I haven't been the most reliable in updating this. I have been pretty busy with...well, life in the last couple weeks. I have found some new recipes, learned some important things about laundry.....and the semester has started too since the last time I blogged.
I went to an awesome New Years eve party with Aaron in Springfield on New Years Eve. I dececided to try my hand baking a cake. Aaron wanted a Black Forrest Cake, so I made him one:-) I will post the recipe at some point, just not tonight. The cake came out better then I had thought it would. I made it from scratch. German chocolate cake with frosting made with confectionery sugar, butter and cherries for the layers, buttercream frosting for the frosting and a whip cream frosting on top. It was really good and everyone seemed to like it!
I have been making dinner most nights in the last couple weeks and have come up with some epic dinners. Meat and potatoes seem to be a favorite around here. I have tried a couple different things with cooking steak. First, I have decided that I LOVE grilling steak on my electric grill I got last Christmas. It is awesome! Aaron had made the suggestion to marinade steak in beer....and it is wonderful!
We bought like 10 pounds of pork steaks 2 weeks ago at Hannaford and got really bored really quick. I found that breading the pork in bread crumbs works really well and its really easy to do. First, crack an egg and add a little milk and mix it up, then you coat the pork in the mixture. After the pork is gooy....you coat it in bread crumbs (we like the Italian ones). Bake in an oven at 350 until done! Aaron likes them for left overs the next day and took them to lunch for like a week.
I found a recipe to make cake in a cup and Aaron and I have made it a couple times. It is really easy and actually, isn't to bad. The texture of the 'cake' is a little weird, but will cure and craving for sweets that you have with little effort.
Chocolate Cake in a Cup
4 Tablespoons sugar
2 Tablespoons cocoa
1 Egg
3 Tablespoons milk
3 Tablespoons oil
1 Mug
Microwave for 3 and a half minutes and you have cake!
Well, I will try to post more often!
I went to an awesome New Years eve party with Aaron in Springfield on New Years Eve. I dececided to try my hand baking a cake. Aaron wanted a Black Forrest Cake, so I made him one:-) I will post the recipe at some point, just not tonight. The cake came out better then I had thought it would. I made it from scratch. German chocolate cake with frosting made with confectionery sugar, butter and cherries for the layers, buttercream frosting for the frosting and a whip cream frosting on top. It was really good and everyone seemed to like it!
I have been making dinner most nights in the last couple weeks and have come up with some epic dinners. Meat and potatoes seem to be a favorite around here. I have tried a couple different things with cooking steak. First, I have decided that I LOVE grilling steak on my electric grill I got last Christmas. It is awesome! Aaron had made the suggestion to marinade steak in beer....and it is wonderful!
We bought like 10 pounds of pork steaks 2 weeks ago at Hannaford and got really bored really quick. I found that breading the pork in bread crumbs works really well and its really easy to do. First, crack an egg and add a little milk and mix it up, then you coat the pork in the mixture. After the pork is gooy....you coat it in bread crumbs (we like the Italian ones). Bake in an oven at 350 until done! Aaron likes them for left overs the next day and took them to lunch for like a week.
I found a recipe to make cake in a cup and Aaron and I have made it a couple times. It is really easy and actually, isn't to bad. The texture of the 'cake' is a little weird, but will cure and craving for sweets that you have with little effort.
Chocolate Cake in a Cup
4 Tablespoons sugar
2 Tablespoons cocoa
1 Egg
3 Tablespoons milk
3 Tablespoons oil
1 Mug
Microwave for 3 and a half minutes and you have cake!
Well, I will try to post more often!
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