Tuesday, January 15, 2008

you can write but you can't edit. edit. edit. edit. unless you hit the 'edit' button.

any guesses for the title reference? onto more pressing matters, then...

i've found that i've developed a habit of leaving the milk out after i'm done using it (usually for the coffee). i never used to do this. my mother has always strictly reinforced proper kitchen protocol (always putting things back in their spot, closing the fridge door, emptying meal and drink remains before depositing something in the sink, etc. etc.), but i guess a few years of the relaxed and obscenely unsupervised life of an undergrad has rendered me rather lax on such things. it's really kind of bad, too, as sometimes the milk will get left out all day--say, if i'd been coffeeing just before departing for a workday or a morning (or afternoon, as is more often the case) of classes. but again (what? when was the first time...), i've reverted to loosening my deathly fear of expiration dates. adaptability! ;)

but anywho, anybody else do this or other odd things that you didn't used to do? weird how we track (or don't track) the little things that change over time. well, obviously.

also, my sneezes are getting aggressively louder, or louder and more aggressive. sometimes they frighten me. not that that's such a tall order.

5 comments:

Nicole said...

Actually, my fear of expiration dates has increased since I've been to college. I know that no one else is going to check them for me. Leaving milk outside of the fridge bothers me a lot (well, unrefridgerated dairy in general does), and if I left it out all day I would consider throwing a full container away just in case.

Ruthie! said...

i follow expiration dates and it drives my mom crazy. the colors of this blog are pretty :)

Anonymous said...

Hahaha, you're way smarter then. I'm lazier and more "economical"...even though the grocery store is on the same block as my building, and milk doesn't cost that much. Meh. Well my mum (who is REALLY cavalier with expired products) swears that those dates are "just a suggestion" anyway, which I guess is credible since there's a little wiggle room for most things. Ok I've been writing this comment since before you came over and I hate it g'bye.

Anonymous said...

and for RUTHIE: thanks for liking the colours! i appreciate it, i spent a decent amt of time tweaking that shit. and by 'decent' i probably mean 'obscene' but anyways...yeah i guess i observe expiration dates as in i look at them but i usually give them a few days...ugh idunno, making decisions stresses me out.

adam said...

yea the dates are sell by, tho it usually starts to smell around then...and yea nici warm dairy is no good in any circumstance...oh, i believe ruthie said she likes the colors, not colours....i think its time you took the next exit off the pretentious highway(points to who can reference that)