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First, I'll admit it. I failed at my New Year's goal. It was too ambitious for this year with all the traveling. I still try to cook, but I'm at the point where buying a weekend's worth of food for two people is about the same as eating out. Any greens don't last until the next weekend and we certainly can't eat them all in one sitting. I did make some grilled chicken, mashed 'taters and asparagus so that Scott could have decent non-frozen leftovers, but I think we waste a lot of food. I think I've done a new recipe every month like my goal states, but I haven't documented it or put much creativity into it. It's just new to us.
The driving back and forth combined with sleeping in 2-3 different places is starting to get old. Really old. I used to appreciate the drives. I'd catch up with the news on NPR, relax from a stressful day, and if I'm lucky, watch a sunset/sunrise. Now, it's construction season! Ugh. I don't think there's any possible thing that can make driving through construction multiple times per week exciting. But, I'm listening to new podcasts and updating my iPod to accommodate the additional half hour or more of time.
More so than the construction, I feel like I'm literally going crazy sometimes. For any frequent traveling female, I have no idea how you live out of bags. I tend to wear the same wrinkly clothes over and over (I suppose that's just me being lazy) but lately I have been forgetting items. Take today for example. I woke up and realized I left pants at home. Therefore, I had to dig through my closet at my parent's to find something suitable. I ended up with an old skirt... thank goodness I haven't changed sizes much since early college. Then, I was at school and noticed the beautiful weather outside. Over the weekend, I saw it was going to be a nice week so I packed running clothes. I spent a good chunk of time convincing myself I was going to run while at school (I don't particularly love or even like running). I went home to go forth with my plans and guess what?! I only have dress shoes. Since I haven't mastered running in tennis shoes, I'm certainly not going to upgrade to heels. Alas, I'm stuck here blogging and trying to convince myself to do something like a workout DVD (boo!). I don't think I've worked out in like 2 months.. (and I'm left wondering if that is or isn't an exaggeration. Yikes!)
Overall, I'm finishing up my first year of teaching and Scott's in his last week of his second year of med school. Don't celebrate yet, while I'm wrapping up school, he'll be in his intensive study period. Then, it's the STEP 1 Board Exam. The score, combined with some other things, help determine you're likelihood of getting where you want for residency. So, it's pretty stressful. About 8 weeks left until both of our first actual week long break. We'll be moving to Kalamazoo during that short break, but I plan on enjoying every waking minute of it. Then, it's right into the Kalamazoo hospitals for rotations and me into my summer jobs.
All in all, we're nearing the end stretch. We found our place for next year (contract pending), and are excitedly awaiting living together both on the weekends and during the week.
Now, that I've updated you... stay tuned and I'll try to write a more enjoyable post.
It is really hard not to waste food. I always have good intentions and either forget that I bought something or we get too busy and eat out more. I've been trying to do menu planning - hoping that will help.
ReplyDeleteI want to do the menu thing next year. I've thought about subscribing to this site (I don't remember what it was) that emailed you menus according to that week's coupons. You could pick different versions too, like "Meals for 2" or "Healthy Foods"... it was really neat. I just need to make sure Scott will be home for most of the meals. Otherwise, he gets free food at the hospitals.
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