Stuff Stuff & Also Stuff.
Feb. 26th, 2012 09:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trelaliMy absolute favorite blog on my Google reader right now is The Shiksa in the Kitchen. While mostly dealing with Kosher recipes, the most fascinating thing about this blog is how she goes into the history of food. Totally awesome.
Today, I made Challah Bread. Not like the last time I did, that was no-knead stuff off Apartment Therapy, which was good but I wanted to try something more authentic. If you have a spare day to try the recipe, it tastes amazing and it is incredibly satisfying.
Also, the house smells fantastic.
Sometimes, I realize how incredibly lucky I am right now. My grandparents let me live here practically rent-free. This is the first job I've ever had that counts as a livable career and I love it. And while I complain - complain a lot - about my grandparents, this is also the kindest environment I've lived in.
This weekend added to that list: two of my grandparents' friends recently had massive liquidiations of their possessions.
Who's got two thumbs and enough stuff to fill a kitchen? This lady.
There are still things I need. Aside from a really adorable set of table and chairs I got this weekend, I literally have no furniture. Chiro says I can sleep on the floor and it won't hurt anything but I'm thinking a couch might be helpful.
(don't worry, soon-to-be-visitors, my grandparents have an air mattress I'm allowed to borrow)
Shit I Got
1. Lamps! I've had a bendy-neck desk lamp but I was also given a grown-up looking table lamp.
2. An enormous white rug. Like 8x10 rug.
3. An entire set of stoneware dishes, including mugs and a creamer.
4. Several sets of mismatched silverware, which is weirdly adorable.
5. Cookie sheets and baking dishes
6. A grocery sack filled with Ziploc tupperware.
7. Crockpot
8. 4 wooden TV trays on a standing rack
9. A red porcelain pitcher
10. Bookshelf!
11. About 5 saucepans of various sizes
12. About 3 saute pans?
And whatever else is stuffed in boxes in the basement or the car we haven't unloaded.
Added to that, I have all my tea things and a shitty little desk that barely holds my computer (but does hold it).
So the kitchen is set! Which is the most important. :D And I've given up on fulfilling the Chiro's dreams of me getting a Tempurpedic mattress because I can put that $2,000 to better use. A good firm mattress can be picked up for a few hundred and couches are all over Craigslist for under $100.
So that's where I am right now. My next hopeful purchase is like a million hangers because I have none. Most recently, I bought a toaster oven - the apartment has no microwave and I saw no reason to get that and a toaster. Also, a comforter, and grandma's giving me a wool blanket.
Though after a few days of sleeping with the comforter and the high thread count sheets, I'm thinking I won't need the wool. I have now learned that 1600 TC sheets could probably keep me warm all by themselves if I decided to sleep outside in January. Wow.
This entry is here so I remind myself to be cheerful. Move-in date is roughly 3-4 days after March 9th.
Today, I made Challah Bread. Not like the last time I did, that was no-knead stuff off Apartment Therapy, which was good but I wanted to try something more authentic. If you have a spare day to try the recipe, it tastes amazing and it is incredibly satisfying.
Also, the house smells fantastic.
Sometimes, I realize how incredibly lucky I am right now. My grandparents let me live here practically rent-free. This is the first job I've ever had that counts as a livable career and I love it. And while I complain - complain a lot - about my grandparents, this is also the kindest environment I've lived in.
This weekend added to that list: two of my grandparents' friends recently had massive liquidiations of their possessions.
Who's got two thumbs and enough stuff to fill a kitchen? This lady.
There are still things I need. Aside from a really adorable set of table and chairs I got this weekend, I literally have no furniture. Chiro says I can sleep on the floor and it won't hurt anything but I'm thinking a couch might be helpful.
(don't worry, soon-to-be-visitors, my grandparents have an air mattress I'm allowed to borrow)
Shit I Got
1. Lamps! I've had a bendy-neck desk lamp but I was also given a grown-up looking table lamp.
2. An enormous white rug. Like 8x10 rug.
3. An entire set of stoneware dishes, including mugs and a creamer.
4. Several sets of mismatched silverware, which is weirdly adorable.
5. Cookie sheets and baking dishes
6. A grocery sack filled with Ziploc tupperware.
7. Crockpot
8. 4 wooden TV trays on a standing rack
9. A red porcelain pitcher
10. Bookshelf!
11. About 5 saucepans of various sizes
12. About 3 saute pans?
And whatever else is stuffed in boxes in the basement or the car we haven't unloaded.
Added to that, I have all my tea things and a shitty little desk that barely holds my computer (but does hold it).
So the kitchen is set! Which is the most important. :D And I've given up on fulfilling the Chiro's dreams of me getting a Tempurpedic mattress because I can put that $2,000 to better use. A good firm mattress can be picked up for a few hundred and couches are all over Craigslist for under $100.
So that's where I am right now. My next hopeful purchase is like a million hangers because I have none. Most recently, I bought a toaster oven - the apartment has no microwave and I saw no reason to get that and a toaster. Also, a comforter, and grandma's giving me a wool blanket.
Though after a few days of sleeping with the comforter and the high thread count sheets, I'm thinking I won't need the wool. I have now learned that 1600 TC sheets could probably keep me warm all by themselves if I decided to sleep outside in January. Wow.
This entry is here so I remind myself to be cheerful. Move-in date is roughly 3-4 days after March 9th.