I feel like I haven't stopped moving for days! This is not entirely true, but I am pretty tired.
I spent the first part of my summer at my parents' house, house-sitting while they were away, and trying to get some work done once they got back. It was a very hard summer for me. I lost my job (laid off due to funding, at least, not fired), and with it went my tuition waiver and my health insurance. My grandmother, one of my best friends, and my beloved kitty Echo died within the space of a month, and I was all alone when Echo was really ill, which only really showed on a Friday night so I could only take her to the vet on Monday morning which I'm afraid hastened everything. Then, as if all that weren't enough for one summer, my hard drive up and died on me, after I had foolishly not backed up my work for two weeks, causing me to lose everything I'd done for my new thesis, and over 11,000 words of fiction. My novel got rejected again too, and I'm getting quite tired of the silence - I'd really prefer a polite rejection letter so I could KNOW to send it to someone else instead of just waiting for six weeks, breathlessly checking my email every morning just in case I got "the letter" each particular morning.
Then I drove back to Texas from Florida, spent two days trying to sort out my schedule and my school year (some paperwork I had sent in before spring finals had only been partially processed so I had to deal with that before I could register for classes) without any internet, because I had seasonally shut it off to save some money. Then, I drove out to Hawthorne, Nevada to work on an excavation. I spent two weeks there before the boat died and the excavation was changed all round from diving-only to ground-only. I couldn't handle the walking due to my knee issues, so I drove all the way back to Texas two weeks early to try and get some work done. Basically, I drove nearly 6,000 miles in a month. Alone.
I've applied for a couple jobs, but as I only have one part-time job right now, I need another one, pronto. I'm pretty upset because one really nice job sounded like a sure thing and then BOOM radio silence. Not cool.
Today I have been cleaning and prepping my food for the week. I have now prepped my week's worth of strawberries, green onions, white
onion, parsley, hatch chiles and have ham and bean soup simmering away
on the stove for my week's lunches. Excess ham (I got nearly 8 lbs for
$12!!) is in tupperwares in the fridge for breakfast ham omelets, and I
have four chicken leg/thigh combos waiting for me to marinate them and
then grill them once the sun starts to set and it's no longer 98F
outside in full sun. I have a pineapple that I want to grill too, after the chicken comes off, and I'm wondering if I should brush it with honey to help the caramelization? I'm a little low on honey, but that's ok. I won't need it for anything else that I'm planning on making this week.
I think next week I'll buy some lemons and put lemon slices in my Brita water jars. I hear it reduces cravings and helps you burn fat. I hear the same about mint too, so I may buy a bunch and keep some in my water and some in a jar for next week. I do have chocolate mint growing on my windowsill, but I only just planted it and I'm not ready to harvest it yet. The oregano did flower...I think I'm supposed to pick those off? I'll look it up.
Oh well. I should go stir my soup and marinate my chicken. Hooray for Sunday Runday!
