Inaugural blog!

I wonder if a blog has to have a flow to it. It's hard to write something not knowing precisely who my audience is. Hmm. Let's see what happens. I'm trying to use up food in our pantry instead of going out to buy more food. Sounds like an easy thing to do, doesn't it? Not so much. Everything in there requires something else and can only be made if that something else is in stock. If I wasn't afraid of wasting food and money, I'd be concocting some interesting foods. 16 bean soup is pretty interesting. The beans were well over a year old (I had them back on Leisure Creek before Tyler and I got married!) and they were begging to be cooked. So, beans and cornbread for dinner.

Today has been a strange day. Things have been happening that most other people would let ruin their day. I got up early this morning to meet a nice man who planned to buy my car today. We walked casually to the car and that's when I spotted it - the driver's side mirror had been bashed in! We think it happened when some people that live in our building and their friends decided to get inebriated this weekend. That's $200 out of my pocket and I'm not happy about it! The "For Sale" signs were still in the windows so the culprit could easily have contacted me... but no. More than that though, the man that wanted to buy the car had someone drive him to Lexington from an hour away. I feel like I wasted their time even though the circumstances are beyond my control. At least they were both very nice about it. Give me a week and the car should be in better condition than it was before - we're ordering the new mirror AND a piece of trim that was MIA.

I talked to the landlord today and he's very interested to know who is littering up our parking lot and being disruptive (the people who messed up my car). I think he found out and MAYBE I'll see some money out of this! Not likely though.

Enough for now. Time to go to diversity class!