Fresh pasta

I love thrift stores, not only because you're recycling and paying less, but also because it's like a treasure hunt. Today we went to the Goodwill, looking for a few things for our house. We got some records, a picture frame, a purse, 2 stools for our bar, a circular saw, and a championship wrestling belt. We also found a pasta maker for $5. It looks brand new. So we made spaghetti tonight, and it was pretty awesome. Here are some pictures:

Here are the pieces of dough we made with just eggs and flour.

And you feed the dough in here where it gets pressed through the front.

Here it is coming out.

The first few noodles.

And the whole bunch!

Cooking.

Draining.

And done!

Maturity

I would like to share an actual conversation I had with my boyfriend this past week. We had just gotten home from work.

Me (S): I’ll make dinner if you take [the dog] out.

Him (B): Ok.

S: And then I was going to take a quick shower.

B: But I wanted to take a shower.

S: But I just went to the gym, so I’m all sweaty and gross.

B: But I’m a boy, so I’m all sweaty and gross.

S: Were you really planning to take a shower because I have documentation* proving that I had planned to take a shower.
*I really did have documentation.

B: I’ll show you my documentation:

S: Oh yeah, well here’s a memo for you:

B: Oh yeah, well this is you eating a giant sausage*!
*He’s making fun of me for talking about how bad I wanted these sausages earlier.

S: Oh yeah, well I’m shooting you with my gun*. Oh no! Your brains are spilling out!
*I don’t actually have a gun.

B: Oh yeah, well here’s the 101st airborne dropping a million bombs on you!

S: I forgot to mention that there’s this rocket over here with your name on it!

B: Oh yeah, well that giant sausage you were eating? It was made of poop.

He got me there. Sometimes it's the little things. :)

So this is it.

So I've been working a real, full-time job for about a month and a half. And things are going as well as you might expect. I'm surprised at how busy I still feel, but it's nice to focus on one thing (rather than 3-4 classes, part-time internship, and part-time job). It's also nice to have a grown-up albeit modest income. And being slightly above desperately poor has made me realize a few things about the way poverty effects a person and why it's so difficult to get out of it - that's a blog post in the making.

I'm excited for the holidays. Last year Brian and I painted postcards to send to our families and we have an idea for this year, which I think will turn out nice. I'll probably try to blog about that. This is the first year holiday planning doesn't have to compete with final exams, which is nice. I'm hosting a vegetarian Thanksgiving for my mom and her girlfriend, which I'm looking forward too also. I've thought about posting pictures and recipes of yummy vegetarian food we cook since I'm always talking about how easy it is.

I wish I had more interesting things to blog about right now, but I've been busy doing stuff in real life, which I think is a good thing.

Take it easy y'all.

<3