thursday (boring, skip this one)

I realized this week--and yes, this realization came with watching FoodTV more often, why do you ask?--that one reason that I've been lax on cooking lately is that I'm sick of everything that we cook. Part of it is just being tired of them, the other part is the &*(#&@ metformin, which allows me to completely ruin perfectly good foods merely by eating it or thinking about it at the wrong moment. After a year or so, that's taken out a good many of the things that I like, especially considering that I'm semi-picky to begin with. Anyway, I pulled a ziti and roasted vegetables (zucchini and red onion and eggplant) recipe out of my binder for tonight and made it. It's been a couple of years since I made it last time, and it quite hit the spot. Now I'm trolling teh internets for brand new things to try, and I'm enjoying cooking again (two nights in a row. Small progress.) so here's hoping I can keep with it. I hate thinking about how much money we spend eating out when I get in moods like this. It doesn't help that M gets home at seven three days a week, and I simply can't wait that long most of the time. (No, really. Queasy sets in and then I can't think of anything at all that I can eat.)

This week has been pretty long, but there's only one more day. Last week, I had Friday off, next week I have Thursday and Friday off (and Tuesday morning) and then I have Monday off the next week, so it's kind of feeling unfair to work Five Whole Days in a row. ;) But I guess that having Five Whole Days in a row off next weekend should make me less whiny, shouldn't it?

I bought some decorative plates in Gatlinburg.. you know, with Nascar on them. Ha! No, seriously, with retro soda ads on them. They look like this. (psst, I paid $3.50 for them.) They were marked $19.99, and I was half-thinking about buying them at that price, knowing that I wouldn't because I'm too cheap. Something about them just said "please take me home and hang me up in your really plain, bare kitchen that has nothing to do with retro soda!" Then I saw that they were actually marked down to $5, and that clinched it. Clearly, it was meant to be. It was a nice bonus to then find that everything in the store was 30% off. Anyway! We bought plate hangers and finally got them hung up tonight. (This included a trip to WalMart this morning, where I bought a level! A tool! All on my own! M was so proud that he patted me on the head and gave me a celebratory hug. We have kind of a strange marriage, you know.) And.. they're cute, but I don't think we hung them exactly the way we should have. I wish there were more of them.. they look maybe a little off-balance. So that is both yay! that we did something that I really wanted to get done, and boo! because it is not exactly what I envisioned.. although, on the other hand, my hopes were pretty high there, and I was possibly expecting them to not only brighten my kitchen but also make me breakfast. M was a champ for measuring them all out and hanging them, though. Even if I turned contrary and indecisive (surprise!) there at the end.

This is the most boring post in the world. I accidentally fell asleep (entirely M's fault. He LOVES to make me nap) and napping makes me dull. Or maybe napping makes me realize that I am actually dull all the time. One of the two. :)