Just a quick update, mostly on food, because I'm kind of proud of my little bentos.
Anyway, :) it's been gorgeous weather here, I think it's rained once. A bit chilly, but I'm adjusting. I'm still working from one end of the house to the other cleaning. I've done the bathroom and the kitchen, but of course they just get dirty again, so I'm resisting the urge to eat out just so my lovely shiny kitchen can last one more day. We're even starting to decorate. I've got the bathroom mostly decorated, but I've still got to do the wall vinyls over the patterned tiles. And we even hung a poster! :P And I've started on the back area, sweeping up trash long accumulated. It'll always be moss and old bricks, so we're working with what we've got. I do have a few projects for out there, but that's way less necessary. It was just so nice I couldn't resist finding a legitimate reason to wander outside. Oh, and the landlord thinks he can find some extra storage furniture for us, so that might actually allow me to unpack my suitcases. The really nice thing is, so far, it's actually been cheaper to fit out the house with the little things, and get cleaning supplies, cooking implements, etc, than I budgeted for. That's a nice trend to start *crossing my fingers*.
So that's the house stuff...
Not much else is going for us, besides coordinating our cleaning efforts in the house, shopping for necessities. Trying to get things at the best value is time consuming. When we have the time we'll be going to 4 different stores regularly, and one of those is the huge open market "Grainger Market." But it does seem to be worth it. Especially since we have the time right now.

The only remotely interest things I've done today have been with cooking. Michael suggested I try lamb's heart last time we were at the butcher. He convinced me to let him buy is and we cooked it up tonight. I'll just say I'm willing to give it another go, but only because it really is very cheap and very lean. Next time we slow cook it. This time it was like exceedingly MEATYmeat with the texture of worn out car tire. But, oh well, I feel brave for trying it. I couldn't watch Michael cutting it up, it was soooo bloody and ....heart-like.
But after dinner, which was more experimental than I could quite handle, I made us both healthy bento lunches for tomorrow!

Mine: 2 small tupperware

:P I made a shooting star out of light chili cheese and a cucumber

  Michael's: One large tupperware

Got heart and the tiny shaped silicon containers 4 and 6 for a pound at poundland. Brilliant store.


Anway, that' my big accomplishment of the last few days. None of the rooms are completely done, so I can't unveil them yet. :P


***so previous post didn't post yesterday, I fell asleep before I actually submitted it, whoops***

Only new thing today is that our crockpot works well, I'm making eggplant, mushroom and lean beef bolognese sauce in it, although, we REALLY have to leave it running ages, it doesn't seem very powerful.
Oh and to my great pleasure the bentos were lovely! Needed a bit more seasoning maybe, but that can wait til we have some watertight very small containers. They make little plastic bottles for bentos, I might order them. And Michael even liked the cucumbers with black pepper cheese! He's been refusing to eat cucumber unless it's buried in lots of other ingredients. Everything was fine overnight in the fridge, veggies were even crisp. :)

Oh and apparently I may have to out to a club soon. :P I'm bracing myself for the night club scene again. It's such a shock to the system. I mostly like my staying-at-home-knitting lifestyle. But, it'll be fun, the rifle club are going out somewhere as a pre-uni get together. It was always entertaining with them last year. Going to be interesting to get ready out of 4 different suitcases. xP

Anyway I should really be doing other work. The kitchen's a never ending mess as you keep having to do messy stuff in it. But, I cut my finger cooking (first time I've cut myself in ages! It would happen while I'm super busy) so getting soap or chemicals on my skin hurts. But I've really got more than enough jobs to do tomorrow, I can't use it as an excuse to get out of working more. :P

Good night y'all! xoxo

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