When I moved in, I found (to my disgust) I had a minifridge. I noticed that the deli drawer (simple plastic drawer, not on a track, very easy to remove) had a small crack in it, but I didn't think anything much of it.
One morning a few weeks ago I opened my fridge and found the crack had expanded:
Friday morning (after Thanksgiving) I open my minifridge and realize the drawer (which I had taken out and placed next to my tv) was gone, and a new one was in its place, and all the stuff I'd stacked in the bottom of the fridge were neatly placed in it. Mildly creepy. And then, looking closer at it, this one also has a tiny crack in the front. (Head, meet desk.)
Last night I had some warning signs of a headache so I spent a couple hours cooking to ease the pressure on my brain. Made a green salad and a chickpea salad (they last a few days in the fridge so I always make extra), and put one of the Cornish game hens I got on sale on Sunday in the oven with a couple potatoes. My recipe requires basting while cooking, so for the broth I used chicken stock, beer, garlic and chives. Once done cooking you pour the juices from the hen back into the saucepan and cook it down into gravy...soo good! I also, since I had a couple pears about to go off, tried "pears n onions" instead of my favorite "apples n onions" which I don't make much any more since apples are so damn expensive here.
I put in a little apple cider vinegar and some balsamic vinegar to the pears, but it was just too sweet. Not sure what I should do next time. I feel like if I find the right ingredient they could be incredible, just not sure what it is yet.
My roast hen, resting amid the potatoes that roasted with it.
And my dinner!
It was a lovely dinner, but it didn't actually stave off the headache. It turned into a migraine and I had to take a couple pills and lie down for an hour. It subsided enough that I biked to campus to draw, and got quite a lot done, but I had to leave around 11:30ish because it was getting much worse. I decided not to try writing any more that night, so I watched a half-hour of Storage Wars in an attempt to give my brain a break (literally the only times I haven't been working the past few weeks are when I'm in the bathroom, eating, sleeping, or biking) before heading to bed.
I woke up with a migraine still this morning, so I decided to lie there quietly until it eased off, which it did a little after nine, and I got up, went for a walk, and have spent the day pacing my apartment and trying to knock out this essay. It's a little more than a third done, so I'm hoping I can knock out one third tonight, and one third tomorrow, and turn it in Friday morning and spend Friday on my other essay and the drawing.
Got some headache warning signs right now, so I'm hoping they just go away...decided to not go to campus today to see if staying very still and quiet will ease things.
It would help if I didn't have a ghastly final on Wednesday, and need to work 80 hours before December 19th. Still.
This is not improving my mood either. But I have a fur coat now. It will help me battle hell! One of my classmates (from Wisconsin) is hoping for snow. I have informed her that if it DOES snow, I'm sacrificing her to the Weather Gods in hopes of warm weather.
Oh well. Back to work.
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