Magazines, Phone, Soup |
Allure magazine keeps e-mailing me and sending me letters reminding me that my subscription is about to end and trying to get me to renew. Yes, I know that it’s about to end and I’m not going to renew. I reevaluated my magazine subscriptions and decided not to read it anymore. Plus I have two new subscriptions starting in January (yay, Amazon’s $5 subscription sale!). I feel like I should write them back and explain, “It’s not you, it’s me.”
I’m thinking it might be getting close to time for a new phone again. I love love love my phone and it’s not like it’s totally obsolete or anything, but it is about time for my scheduled upgrade, plus it’s been doing some weird things lately (shutting off mid-use – fully charged – and not letting me turn it back on for a few minutes), and the slide part feels a little loose. I’d really like my next phone to not have any moving parts. Before this one, I only ever had bar-style phones, and having a slide or flip makes me nervous. I was looking at the Nokia 6301, it looks like a definite contender, but I don’t think it’s in T-Mobile stores anymore and I like to see things in person before I purchase them, soooo, we’ll see. (I’m really reluctant to get a real “smartphone” because the amount of time I spend using WAP is already rediculous and really it meets my needs for what I need to do, for a minimal monthly charge.)
I’d been craving some good, hearty vegetable soup, so on Tuesday I whipped up a batch. I didn’t have any recipe or anything, I just dumped a bunch of stuff in some beef stock: carrots, corn, onions, potatoes, crushed tomatoes. And I like soup with a little pasta in it, so I poured in a bit of this type of pasta that’s about the size and shape of small beads. (I forget what it’s called, it starts with an A.) Then I figured, what the heck, and dumped in the rest of the box. My first bowl of soup was delicious. I came back for a second bowl, and the pasta had pretty much absorbed all the broth! So now we have tons of leftovers, but if you want it to be soup and not pasta with veggies mixed in, you need to add some water. But it’s still delicious – I’m enjoying some in its solid form for lunch right now.
