Dudes, it’s the 1st of July. I am going to eat some potato salad for lunch and try not to feel sorry for myself!

I made yogurt a few weeks ago. I used whole organic milk, organic whole-milk yogurt as a starter, and my gas oven to incubate it.

It turned out like real regular plain yogurt! Which was pretty cool.

I probably won’t do it regularly. The amount of money I saved wasn’t worth the time it took me to make and incubate the stuff. But I’m glad I tried it out. Not as exciting as making butter, though.

But it reminded me of how much I like yogurt, so I’ve been eating a lot of yogurt lately. I like to take a little bit of cereal and add it to my yogurt. It doesn’t have to be granola. I’ve used Honey Bunches of Oats, Cinnamon Life, Cheerios… basically whatever is around. It’s my new favorite thing to eat.

I don’t shop on Black Friday. Typically, if I do any shopping at all, it’s just to the grocery store for supplies to make it through the weekend and supplementing the Thanksgiving leftovers. Since we didn’t cook Thanksgiving this year, I had to go to the store and get food for dinner. A whole meal has to be cooked! Woe!

But we have pie. So that’s okay.

We still have a lot of stuff to get from the condo, and we’re not really moved in at all. I think we’ll do a big push tomorrow, so that we don’t have to do anything (hopefully!) on Sunday.

Then the evening will be spent arranging furniture and putting things away.

And decorating for Xmas. And making Xmas prezzies.

I really feel like the day after Thanksgiving is a big downer. More so than the day after Christmas or Hangover Day. I think that’s why it’s become such a popular shopping day – we’re all trying to fill the gaping hole inside with consumer goods. I prefer to sit around my house and eat too many sweets. At least I can work out tomorrow and feel better.

As I mentioned in this post, Tom is out of town for the next week, so I’m on my own.

So far, I have cleaned the kitchen, the dining room, the bathrooms, done a load of laundry, done the grocery shopping, and bought a bunch of fabric at Jo-Ann, did some sewing, and planted some key lime seeds.

This morning, I followed this tutorial on Smitten Kitchen and had poached eggs and toast. I think I’m going to have this every morning. It was the first time I’ve not had my poached eggs turn into disgusting blobs. I didn’t have any butter for my toast, so I used mayonnaise instead. It was yummy.

Tomorrow I have to drive to Covina to get my car serviced. I’m nervous about it. Seriously.

My back hurts (it might be kidney failure, I’ll let you know) and I should go to bed, but the live Olympic coverage that we are getting is pretty neat and I have anxiety.

Since I decided to quit my job with no notice, and I have decided not to start a new job until the 18th, you may be wondering, why didn’t I go with Tom? Well, first of all, Tom made his plans with Martin and Lisa before I made my plans (which were very last minute), second of all, I didn’t want to foul up anyone’s plans, and third of all, I like having the time to myself. I need it to re-energize. And I’m playing with the idea of a short jaunt up North in the fall. Depends on the money situation as the time draws nearer.

In a funk last night, I determined to accomplish something in spite of my mood and awful sinuses. So, I hit my Google Reader and found this and this. And I made them both. Easy and delicious. I should have taken pictures.