What day is it again?

So...this has been a very...interesting...month.

I don't know where I'm going to be next year and it's upsetting me.  But right now I have to focus on finals and just get them done, and done right.  Once that's over, I can get back to the future.

I have one final tonight - an online one - and I'm going to campus to do it in the library.  For one thing, I need the exercise, for another thing I have a really bad habit of getting distracted and I don't want to risk that during a final - even though I get super distracted in libraries too.  People watching is fun, but I'm hoping since it's finals week they'll be less interesting to watch.

Quite proud of my grocery shopping exploits this morning though.  Went to Sam's Club first, got egg rolls for my lunches, a 10 lb sack of potatoes (for $2.50!!!), organic baby carrots, and asparagus all for the bargain price of $20.42.

Then I stopped by Trader Joe's and got crushed garlic and frozen blueberries for $4.76 - the crushed garlic is for egg-fried rice, mashed potatoes and my garlic Brussels sprouts recipe.

Last stop was Ralph's, where between sales and some "valued shopper" coupons they mail me every so often, I was able to get frozen peas, frozen carrots, a pint of ice cream, toilet paper, chicken, two cans of chickpeas, orange juice, bacon, breakfast burritos, organic parsley, green onions, and two cartons of yoghurt for $24.00.  The chicken was another one of those Foster Farms' Picnic Packs - 4.5 lbs for $3.11!  How can you resist that? 

The last time I got a Picnic Pack I made sriracha chicken, but it's SO hot I'm not doing that again, so this time I made orange chicken.  Well, I'm making it right now - still bubbling away merrily on the stove.

I was really good though - I got home, unpacked my groceries, put the bags back in my car, checked the mail (nothing - but hey, no bills!), and then threw the chicken and the orange juice in my favorite large pot along with some whole allspice.  Cut up the bacon, fried it, put it in the pot too, and left that while I started boiling lentils, rinsed some chickpeas, chopped up onion and green onion, and put the parsley to soak.  Chickpeas, half the lentils, all the onion went into a large glass bowl.  The other half of the lentils I'm going to save for biryani, or maybe curry.  Picked the parsley (which I HATE, by the way), chopped it, and added it to the chickpea salad.  Had the salad for lunch, and now I'm just waiting for the chicken to be done so I can cool it and put in the fridge before I head out to take that online exam.

And, ALL my dishes are washed - I cleaned up as I went along.  Go me!