I just spent the better part of an hour staring at my screen and pondering on what to write. After a while, I called up the parents (after they’d called me. :D) and we had a nice little chat. They’ve implanted a thought into my brain that will not go away. I mean, the possibility of going visiting sometime this year. Now, obviously, this will require saving and being smart about my finances. So, I will pull up my bootstraps and start actively thinking about this. There are direct flights to Lagos, Nigeria so that considerably eases my fears about a trip home. I’m actually going online to get a glimpse of how much it will cost. I’m budgetting for $1,500, and I’ll be damned, there are prices within that ballpark! Provided I give a 6-month window, I’m pretty sure a round-trip ticket will be about that price range. So, here’s to hopefully seeing family sometime soon!
In other news, M & I spent some quality time snoozing in this weekend. lol. While he went to work, I arranged our grocery cabinet and plotted a cooking schedule. I bought some egg noodles because I had become obsessed with attempting to re-create the Campbell Chicken Noodle soup. Needless to say, I’ve lost some cooking mojo because I haven’t done a lick of cookin’ as of yet. Boo. I need to muster up some energy because no home cooking means eating out and we do not want to eat out. Nevertheless, because of the inevitability of eating out, a lab mate generously gave me a coupon book that actually does save money. I mean, we’ve already used a few coupons from that book to places like Chick Fil-A, Quiznos, etc. They are mostly buy-one-get-one-free deals which work out perfectly because there are just two of us: Me and M so if we were going to eat at any of those places, we’ve saved the money that would have been spent on me/him. I still we’re doing well with not spending money eating out. We’re spending money smartly and talking about the future. Good stuff. 🙂
Update: I got my lazy butt up and finally cooked! I made some brown rice with with broccoli, onions, green beans and corn. It’s delicioso! And, I fried some plantains to boot. Matt’s in food heaven now, but I still haven’t made some stew which he’s totally craving, apparently. So, that’ll be my next project for next Saturday. My days are very full these days. I actually like it, but everything’s a work in progress.