more when unemployment hit and I've got to say I enjoy having it on. My interest in cooking really started when we moved to Denver, for no particular reason. I don't know why, but I just started using recipes and making different foods. My tastes changed a lot once I moved from the midwest as well: I started trying vegetables I hadn't had since I was a kid and discovered that I actually like a lot of them! Asparagus, beets, tomatoes... it was a little weird but kind of nice as well. I didn't cook much as a kid. Our kitchen was really small and only fit for one chef, so if I was helping at all I was usually husking corn or peeling potatoes. Sometimes I really want to take a basic cooking class, just to learn a bit more about cooking techniques, and I sometimes wish I'd gotten into food and cooking earlier. But for now I'm just trying new things and watching Food Network for more ideas. I really want to attend a food/beer pairing at one of our favorite local gastropubs. I've become intrigued by pairings and I think it'd be a lot of fun. They are usually about $40/person, so clearly we'll be saving that for later.In the meantime though I've been eating a lot of angel hair pasta with parmesan cheese, oatmeal, and granola bars. I can't wait to go grocery shopping. I was hoping to go this weekend, since I got a decent paycheck yesterday. But, as it goes in our house, we had another unexpected expense: while I was working yesterday morning Mirabelle got into a fight with a spider and the spider won. This happened last winter too: we woke up around 2:30 in the morning to the sound of Mirabelle puking somewhere, and found her under our bed, face swollen and limp as a rag doll. So we quick got dressed and went to the emergency vet clinic, and $135 later she'd had some benadryl and steroids and was doing much better. This time Matt discovered the problem before the puking began so he whisked her off to the vet again. We were told that she was lingering between "okay" and "shock" so they wanted to keep her for the day. $110 later we picked her up and brought her home. So much for groceries. Luckily we got pet insurance a year or so ago and, since she had the same problem in December last year and they took a deductible at that point we should get about $100 back from the insurance company. Maybe once we get that refund we'll get some food.
I'm discovering one thing that I desperately hate about retail is the uncertainty of scheduling. I used to work Monday through Friday, 8:00 until about 5:00, and now I work 4 hours in the morning one day, 4 hours in the evening the next day, with call-in shifts I sometimes work and sometimes don't, and sometimes I don't even know when I am supposed to work! I typically get schedules from Old Navy on Thursdays and haven't yet received my schedule for the week starting on Sunday... it's just frustrating. I like structure and schedules and the retail world is just not working out for me. I did enjoy my first shift at Old Navy on Wednesday: I learned how to run their register (which was insanely easy) and then helped close up the store for the night doing organizing and putting clothes away. I'm hoping they'll get me into the schedule on a regular basis or else it just won't be worth it.
Last night Matt and I went to the Avalanche-Canucks game thanks to the generosity of a friend with free tickets. It wasn't a great game (we lost 3-1) and as much as I love to blame refs for our losses the players were just incredibly sloppy all night. Regardless we had a good time. It was a reminder of when our lives were relatively normal, when we used to go to a game about once a week and we were really happy (minus that whole "awful job that drove me to drinking" thing).
I'm relatively upset about the election outcome this week, but I just don't have the energy to complain about it right now. Maybe in another day or so I'll have more to say. We all knew what was going to happen, but it makes me sad to realize that I have another two years of obstructionist government ahead of me. But I guess we'll see.
I'm really tired this afternoon, so I think I'll go lie down for a bit before I have to get ready for work. I can't help but feel like I had a lot more to say, but I just can't remember.
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