It suddenly occurred to me this morning that I have 10 days left in this apartment and 14 sachets of instant oatmeal. So it figures that I should dig in…BUT oatmeal’s GROSS (I thought to myself). However, given that:
1. My bread went mouldy.
2. The last time I ate oatmeal I thought it was DELICIOUS….
It’s oatmealin’ time (I thought to myself). So instead of using one sachet, I used two because I thought…I’m hungry AND I have too many sachets of oatmeal….perfect! But it so was not perfect.
Rewind back about 10 months to a WalMart in Victoria (yes I bought dinnerware from WalMart), instead of buying actual bowls, I thought it would be fun to buy fruit bowls…they were tiny…so tiny in fact that you can’t fit a cup of water and 2 sachets of oatmeal in one. Anyway, I pop the bowl in the microwave. At some point in the middle of the microwaving I realized I should probably scoop some of the oatmeal out of there to prevent spillage. EXCEPT I really didn’t want to do it..because semi-cooked oatmeal looks uncannily like baby throw up (gag)…I had to remind myself that if it was really baby throw up it wouldn’t smell like artificial apples and cinnamon. I put the bowl back in the microwave, and 15 seconds later, despite my best efforts there’s an…(you guessed it) oatmeal explosion. This is when I realized it’s taken me 12 minutes to make a bowl of instant oatmeal. And THEN I realized I really don’t like oatmeal. Yet I’ve been spending the last 25 minutes eating it. Gross. I KNEW I hated oatmeal for a reason.
Is it hard to believe that my biggest concern in the world is quickly congealing quaker oats?
OMG! OATMEAL EXPLOSION! You know, its not so bad if you just imagine war movie explosions as being made up of oatmeal! It’ll feel like you’re cleaning up after the battle scene, staring into the sunset/rise searching your soul for the last unlost shred of humanity, procrastinating from unpacking… (the last one’s all me!)
Have fun with your oatmeal.. I had reheated soup last night… ew.
last week, i decided to boil a whole pack of pasta just because. you know, minimise work for the rest of the week.
so i’ve been eating macaroni and canned pasta sauce every day for way too long.
for a change, i’ve now turned to peanut butter and toast and banana sandwiches. dinner, lunch, breakfast, everything in between.