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I so f*&king ROCK!
Feb. 5th, 2004 01:19 amI came home tonight, and as I was putting away my groceries, I decided to change the light bulb in the kitchen (it burned out last week and between my laziness and fifteen foot ceilings, it hadn't been attended to). Once I was bathed in the bright light of the sixty watt bulb, I was able to look around and see how poorly organized my kitchen was. Even though it was late and even though I was tired, I started pulling things out and rearranging them, two hours later, I had a beautifully ordered kitchen.
Whoo hoo! I rock!
Here's what I did:
*Cabinets and Butcher's Block: I'm the worst food hoarder in the WORLD. For some reason, I feel like I need to fill the house with food, even though I live alone and I rarely eat it. I'm one of the few people I know who finds herself throwing out a lot of the groceries I buy simply because they go bad/expire before I ever get around to eating them. (And yes, I feel rotten about that--I know it's not cool to waste food.) So, I took a mental inventory of all the packaged food I had and put the backstock of food (extra bottles of salad dressing, pasta sauce, etc.) ,up high in a cabinet and placed the ready to eat items down low where I could easily see and access them.
*Three-tiered Hanging Basket--I have to have chocolate in the house. I put it in the highest tier of the basket so that it won't be easily grabbed in moments of weakness. I put my lo-cal savory snacks in the middle basket and apples, oranges, and kiwis in the bottom basket. The easiest things to reach are the ones that I need more of in my everyday life.
*Top of the Refrigerator (which is next to the stove)-- I put all of my teas and hot cocoas on top of the fridge, easily accessible and most of them are actually quite decorative in their tins.
*Refrigerator--I notice that vegetables don't do very well in my fridge for any length of time. I bought a bunch of tossable Tupperware and cut up all of the veggies, immersed them in water, and sealed them up--it's infinitely easier to just grab them to snack on and it will give them a little more shelf-life in the fridge. I did the same thing with the bulk tofu that I bought from my local Co-op.
I re-organized the drawers so that everything is more accessible. I also made a list of recipes that will use the items I currently have.
I'm tired, but it is indeed all good. :)
In other news, I hate work and work hates me. My boss was peeved that my surgery consoltation took so long (I waited for over an hour just to see the doc). As a result I was about an hour and half later than I had expected. She gave me the cold shoulder all day. I just adore passive-aggression. The only real conversation we had is when I asked her if she was carrying a drum and she informed me that, no, it was her father-in-law's ashes. D'oh. Good, good times.
Speaking of the surgery consultation...what a waste of a co-pay. The doctor acted like a jerk-off (shocker there) and if he had had his way, our appointment would have consisted of him checking my vitals and sending me on my way. But hell, I paid thirty bucks and half my day for the pleasure of his company, I had questions to ask. It pissed me off that he had his hand on the doorknob the entire appointment (save for when he was checking my vitals). I did get the information I needed, but only because I was aggressive about pursuing it. Grr. F*&king Kaiser.
I need to go to sleep, tomorrow is another thirteen hour work day which will start earlier than usual because I have to go to the DMV in the morning to straighten out my registration mess. (Oh btw...tomorrow I'll fill you all in on how out-maneuvered a CHP officer this afternoon.)
Anyways, hope everyone is having a great night!
Whoo hoo! I rock!
Here's what I did:
*Cabinets and Butcher's Block: I'm the worst food hoarder in the WORLD. For some reason, I feel like I need to fill the house with food, even though I live alone and I rarely eat it. I'm one of the few people I know who finds herself throwing out a lot of the groceries I buy simply because they go bad/expire before I ever get around to eating them. (And yes, I feel rotten about that--I know it's not cool to waste food.) So, I took a mental inventory of all the packaged food I had and put the backstock of food (extra bottles of salad dressing, pasta sauce, etc.) ,up high in a cabinet and placed the ready to eat items down low where I could easily see and access them.
*Three-tiered Hanging Basket--I have to have chocolate in the house. I put it in the highest tier of the basket so that it won't be easily grabbed in moments of weakness. I put my lo-cal savory snacks in the middle basket and apples, oranges, and kiwis in the bottom basket. The easiest things to reach are the ones that I need more of in my everyday life.
*Top of the Refrigerator (which is next to the stove)-- I put all of my teas and hot cocoas on top of the fridge, easily accessible and most of them are actually quite decorative in their tins.
*Refrigerator--I notice that vegetables don't do very well in my fridge for any length of time. I bought a bunch of tossable Tupperware and cut up all of the veggies, immersed them in water, and sealed them up--it's infinitely easier to just grab them to snack on and it will give them a little more shelf-life in the fridge. I did the same thing with the bulk tofu that I bought from my local Co-op.
I re-organized the drawers so that everything is more accessible. I also made a list of recipes that will use the items I currently have.
I'm tired, but it is indeed all good. :)
In other news, I hate work and work hates me. My boss was peeved that my surgery consoltation took so long (I waited for over an hour just to see the doc). As a result I was about an hour and half later than I had expected. She gave me the cold shoulder all day. I just adore passive-aggression. The only real conversation we had is when I asked her if she was carrying a drum and she informed me that, no, it was her father-in-law's ashes. D'oh. Good, good times.
Speaking of the surgery consultation...what a waste of a co-pay. The doctor acted like a jerk-off (shocker there) and if he had had his way, our appointment would have consisted of him checking my vitals and sending me on my way. But hell, I paid thirty bucks and half my day for the pleasure of his company, I had questions to ask. It pissed me off that he had his hand on the doorknob the entire appointment (save for when he was checking my vitals). I did get the information I needed, but only because I was aggressive about pursuing it. Grr. F*&king Kaiser.
I need to go to sleep, tomorrow is another thirteen hour work day which will start earlier than usual because I have to go to the DMV in the morning to straighten out my registration mess. (Oh btw...tomorrow I'll fill you all in on how out-maneuvered a CHP officer this afternoon.)
Anyways, hope everyone is having a great night!
