Monday, November 1, 2010

Day 259- Getting Ready for My Break

Yesterday was... basic. The last (for a little while) in an endless list of days with boring, cheap food that tastes like [pleh] and lazy.

So I'll tell you what it was, then pretend it never exhisted, and get ready for a tasty month of eatable food.

I did the fried tofu thing again. Duh, with both my curry powders in it (and either I'm now off-gassing curry, or I'm not the only one around eating the stuff...), and followed that up with between nap bowls of oatmeal. From the original bucket. That somehow *still* has oats in it. Which I just don't get. It should be gone by now.

I wonder, sometimes, if oatmeal (and lentils... shudder) reproduce in their little bin, all alone, late at night. Just to torture me extra much. Foul, nasty oatmeals... Smeg- er... j, yeah, that's it, j doesn't like oatmeal. Yep, me, j. Not cave dwelling, ring petting, fish chomping halflings. Nope.

Plus, I'm too tall.

My Halloween went great, too- after the roommates remembered that it was Halloween and to turn of the dratted porch light so the trick-o-treaters wouldn't come looking for candy we didn't have... oops...

I went over to my sister's place, where she dressed me up, gave me pink-ish purple eye shadow, super dark lipstick, and emo hair and tossed me in a fairy costume.

A rather short fairy costume.

With no wings... Oops...

So I was a pale, dark, emo fairy with no wings. But I got to ask everyone I ran into if they'd seen my wings. No one had... I was sad. With pink/purple eye makeup.

Pink/purple, it turns out, is really not my color. I gots some blue eyes with a yellow (yes, really- like a cat) ring right around the iris, and pink/ purple really doesn't work with that.

Oh wells, know better for next year.

Now, it's NaNoWriMo, Anyone else playing?

11 comments:

  1. I'm going to try...but I have a feeling I won't get far! Good luck and keep us posted on your word count and your yummy food this month!

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  2. I still have *no* idea what to write... and we're almost 12 hours in here! maybe I should have picked something out and done more plotting last month, instead of airy-fairy idea dreamering...

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  3. I'm playing! 4800 words in and I think my brain waved bye-bye as it went over the hill.

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  4. The last time I did NaNoWriMo I cheated *blushes*. I'm horrible, I know. I copied and pasted about 1/4 of what I wrote all over again :(
    I'm hoping to be legit this time :)

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  5. Ack, now I'm feeling the *fail*. It's almost 10 and I still haven't *started*.

    (blush)

    Guess it's time to switch from my super uber 1337 machine to my craptastic writing pre-netbook of writerly shame and productivity (+1)

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  6. I'm doing it for the first time. It might be crap, but I'm gonna get 50k words or die trying.

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  7. um.. if you're planning to die trying anyway, make sure you check back here tomorrow. I think I might have to do a special NaNoWriMo-centric kinda post.

    And have I ever got some resources for *you*.

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  8. Think it would be less if the 50K words for NaNoWriMo was converted to metric?

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  9. I hear it's shorter in finnish- something about compound words... or maybe that'd be *longer*, then.... like a metric ton being heavier than a nice, heavy 'merkin one...

    Um... Yeah...

    Back to writering now.

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  10. Just found your blog. Interesting concept. I think I could do it, but only if I got to spend a couple hundred dollars on seasonings and basic baking supplies (flour, sugar, cinnamon, etc). As long as I had those items on hand, I would be able to make the oatmeal taste fabulous, as well as the beans and other low-cost foods.

    Thanks for the interesting concept idea! Makes me wonder how well I could feed our family of five on $150/month (a dollar a day per person, per month). If I got my garden going, and canned all the food, I think it would be possible!

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  11. patricialynn- Welcome! Economies of scale make me think it would be much easier for multiple people than it is for just one. $150 is enough (even without a garden, maybe) to cover purchases of large bags of flour, oats, or rice each month, as well as a greater variety of protein foods.

    Obviously a garden makes things go farther, but basic food for 5 (even without those tasty spices) is just naturally less expensive than food for 1.

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