The paperwhites are smelling up the house. One thing I miss about mild weather is that I can't open a window here whenever I want and air out the house. Last night the house was filled with the smell of baked bread, homemade lentil soup, and paperwhites, which is a bit weird.
The house two doors down that they worked on for almost four months is for sale with Exit Realty,
$129,900 for 1714 square feet, 4 bedroom, 2 bath. Based on the pictures they fixed it up nice, but it really is an ugly house, and it seems overpriced for Boise.
Friday it went back and forth between sun and rain and I made the mistake of going out in my wool coat. It wasn't raining and I was ready for a break from my raincoat. When I came home it was pouring rain. I did remember my gloves and hat, although I tried to lose my hat by dropping it while trying to put on my gloves on the way in to the restaurant. Good thing my cold head told me to look for it right away. Saturday it just rained all day, but today the sun was out and it was over 50 degrees by noon! It felt really warm and the dreaded temperature warning light in my car stayed off.
When I suddenly had no credit and not much cash, I started cooking. I could not afford to eat out or to buy convenience foods. I planned out meals and went to the grocery store and treated trying to spend as little as possible as a personal challenge. The personal challenge part worked for a few weeks and then really it just was miserable, but I did start to cook more and I stopped throwing food away. When I started to pay attention, I was amazed at how much food I used to throw away. Now I am still poor and still really careful at the grocery store, but I like cooking, it is somehow soothing, like the Zen of baking bread.
Almost anything you need to know about cooking you can find in the Joy of Cooking, but I also like my Good Housekeeping Illustrated Cookbook. I've been working on perfecting lentil soup and combining a few recipes in order to get it right, which I finally did Sunday. I made cheese bread again to go with it. I'm not sure if baking your own bread is any cheaper right now than buying it already baked and sliced in the grocery store, but I think it is going to be really soon. My sweet tooth that I acquired for the holidays has not gone away and I was admiring the fudge sauce in the store, but could not justify buying it, so I made my own last week. It is really easy and I already had all of the ingredients. Having fudge sauce available has tempered my chocolate obsession, so it should last a long time, unless Dad comes over. Next time I going to try making caramel sauce.
I went to my meeting for part time work this morning. I've learned enough humility to just go and do my best and have a good attitude and let things work out how they will, which is what I did this morning. He seemed like a good guy and his office on the 11th floor of the Banner Bank building downtown has awesome views. His office is one of those shared deals, separate businesses sharing a receptionist and support staff. So, I start Monday at 9 am, $10 hour, 3 hours a day Monday through Friday and I am honestly pissed off.
Really, God, really? Is that the best you can do?! That is not going to help much. It doesn't buy me much time. Maybe it will pay for me to finally go to the dentist. I will have to look for other part time jobs or keep looking and hope for the full time one to come through soon. It was almost one of those jobs that you can't afford to take. So, I came home and cleaned house and had my version of a temper tantrum by myself.
I finished another painting, this one of Glenn's Ferry, which I will post tomorrow. Two drawings are transferred to paper, ready to start, and I will get to that tomorrow, too. Tonight I will work on getting over that temper tantrum.
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