Just Kidding

Okay, I might have lied about the new project. It turns out that making slipcovers would probably be more expensive than it's worth. It's not really cheaper to buy them, especially if you want ones that actually fit your couches nice and snug, but it takes a lot of fabric to cover two couches! I can't just do one, because that would look silly. The biggest thing is that we're not planning on taking these couches with us when we move across the country (to somewhere) in two years. I'm not willing to put that much money into free couches that we'll only have for two more years. :-( If we were taking them with us then I totally would. *sigh* Now I don't even have a project. I was pretty excited about figuring this one out and making a pattern and everything for them. It would have looked so nice, and I was even going to make some fun throw pillows to accent them.

Anyway, school is done. :-) So that's nice. Spencer and I both did well on our final for anatomy. He did 1% better than I did, but that's alright. We're not actually competitive with our grades. For the next couple of weeks we just have work and hanging out with everyone. Benjamin and James are moving into our 1 bedroom basement apartment tonight. That should be interesting fun. Just kidding. :-) We're happy to help them out between their housing contracts. Plus, James will be gone for a geology field study (i.e. camping) class all week, and will just be here for the weekends. Benjamin was really helpful when he stayed with us before summer started. He helped with the dishes and around the apartment and didn't complain about us being busy all day with work. I do hope that some of his friends are still in town though. Then he'll at least have something fun to do. We're not very fun most of the time, and most of the fun things we do are on our pass-of-all-passes (season pass to 7 peaks, mini-golf, etc.) so it would be free for us, but not for him. But I guess he can't really complain about having a place to sleep and eat for free. The hardest thing about it will be finding somewhere for all their stuff that won't be in the way too much.We'll work it out, and we'll probably even manage to have some fun.

This post is really random, and I'm not actually talking about much, so sorry. I'm at work with absolutely nothing to do. It's been really slow this week.

AnnaMarie's post about doing her grocery shopping once a month got me thinking. Actually, that's not quite true. Her post got me looking at someone else's blog about how to grocery shop for a whole month, which then led me to a post about doing your cooking just once a month, and THAT got me thinking. So, in a round about way, it was AnnaMarie's post. Basically, I've been thinking about how I have 3 evening classes a week this fall, and Spencer has 1, so we'll be on campus late 4 days a week. I really have a hard time feeling motivated to make a nice dinner when we get home at 7 or 8 and I'm starving and we have homework to do. So, what do we do? We either eat something fast (and super unhealthy) like mac&cheese or sandwiches or quesadillas. Or we pick up a pizza from Little Caesars. I hate it. It doesn't help me feel healthy, and I have a hard time making time to workout when classes get rolling anyway. So, I was thinking it would be great to make like 6 dinners worth of freezer meals every other weekend. We'd just have to pop it in the oven and it would still be a good meal. BUT, we have a teeny tiny itsy bitsy freezer. If only all my good ideas didn't cost money. We'd have to buy a little freezer, which cost too much. Maybe we'll get lucky and find someone selling one on craigslist for a good price. Until then, we barely have enough freezer space for our bag of frozen chicken and our ice cube tray. (Sometimes a thing of ice cream.) I could probably still fit like one or two meals in if I'm careful about how much frozen meat we keep in there and never have ice cream, but there won't be any big-scale multi-meal preps going on unless we get a little freezer. Oh, the life of a frugal college student.