Gardening and Halloween

This weekend I plan on decorating the house for Halloween since it is October and I’m allowed to now. I also plan on watching Nightmare Before Christmas. Awesome movie. I also plan on making my #2 pair of jeans longer. The only reason they are my #2 pair is that they are too short. It makes me a little uncomfortable. But they are clean and that’s what counts.

Yesterday I wasn’t feeling so well and neither was Andrew, but I came home early and we went to the store. I bought some “dried milk” and we tried it in our cereal this morning. I had a sip before it hit the cereal so I’d know if it was going to be nasty. I actually liked it! It was a bit sweeter than regular old skim milk. It separated back again really fast though. I think it works well with Fruity Pebbles (they were on sale, and all they really are is shaved Fruit Loops).

I added some more links to my delicious page. You can check them out from the menu on the right. You just might have to scroll a little to get the pumpkin out of the way.

When Andrew & I get a house, I’m going to have a garden with vegetables in it. I want to grow squash and tomatoes. One of my new links is to gardeninginaminute.com. I know, I know, it’s a UF site, but I heard about it on the radio this morning and it has a chart that tells me when to plant what. Score! The spider plants are doing really well. One of them has something eating it, there are little holes in it’s leaves. But one of the others is shooting a thing out. I think they might be cramped in their box though. There are 6 plants (5 of them are spiders) in a wire bin that is supposed to be used for incoming files on a desk in an office. I didn’t figure they’d all live. I also was thinking about trying to grow a strawberry plant in a milk jug.

I love weekend projects that I never end up doing :)

Milk & Cereal

So I found this cool recipe website. There are lots of tips too on keeping your grocery bill down. I was thinking about trying powdered milk instead of regular milk because Andrew and I just don't drink it fast enough. It sits in the back of the fridge with a bit left in the jug and spoils. The stupid milk actually separates. I didn’t think that processed milk could separate. I guess it turns into curds and whey. Ew. So I was thinking powdered milk. I remember that I liked the carnation un-refrigerated milk that we had a long, long time ago. Like elementary school long time ago. It had a cow on the box. :) I think that we are going to start eating cereal in the mornings. Hot fries and cherry soda do not a good breakfast make.

Also, the lady that writes the blog has some cool soup ideas I think I want to try. After letting the butternut soup go bad and feeling terrible for it, I think it will be good for me to start making single serving things. I got a box of shells and cheese for Tuesday dinners, and if there’s extra, I can take that to work on Wednesdays.

So, how ‘bout Wachovia? I hope everything works out fine. It would really suck if, say, they did away with the Way2Save. I really like that idea. It’s really easy; everything just costs a dollar more. I like the points idea that Andrew gets on his card too.

So I’ve discovered the best job to have during a recession or a depression. A deep-freezer salesman. Somewhere on the internet, I don’t remember where, it was probably CNN, I read that when the economy gets bad, that people stock up on food and they usually need somewhere to put it. We saw some at Sam’s when we went last. I think we’ll get one when we get a house.