The big excitement of my day was going grocery shopping. I'm not sure if I've ever gone grocery shopping and just bought the whole store, but that's exactly what I did today - and it felt great! I spent €40, which is THE MOST I have ever spent on groceries in this country in one fell swoop. Food here is so cheap that it's incredible. In America, $40 is probably the least I'd ever spent at the grocery store when I was really there to stock up on food!
I got tortellini and pesto; all the ingredients for homemade chicken fajitas; smoked salmon for homemade tapas; raw broccoli and mushrooms for a snack (I snack on whole, raw mushrooms like normal people snack on potato chips - thanks, Co-op, for making my roommates think I'm even weirder than they already did); all the ingredients for homemade strawberry white chocolate shortcake (my newest creation and total fave - also delicious as a sort of peach cobbler, now that strawberries are already going out of season and Spain doesn't import fruits year round like America does); horchata and double stuffed Oreos dipped in cream cheese (strangest guilty pleasure ever - it acts as a stand in for cupcakes, since there is only one good cupcake shop in Madrid and it's too far away to go to often); and... drumroll, please... I SPLURGED AND BOUGHT MAPLE SYRUP FOR THE FIRST TIME!!!!!!!!!!!! The American store recently started selling buttermilk, and so I'm going to go all out and make myself buttermilk pancakes this weekend to kick off my study-fest!!!!!!! I have been craving Slappycakes or Mother's Bistro or Original House like CRAZY... So if I can't go to the pancakes, I'll bring the pancakes to me!!!! ^_^
And that was the exciting part of my day.
Food.
And I'm okay with that. I love food. And now that I'm not surrounded by a million amazing restaurants and I am forced to cook if I want good meals, I'm getting pretty good at it. Sure, I only have about six main courses I'm good at, and only three desserts... But those things I'm good at are freakin delicious and make me so happy! ^_^
The other bit of cheer of the day was that Katie got us all tickets to see Of Monsters and Men next month!!!! After seeing them on SNL a week ago, I'm totally obsessed. I know they're nothing new at all, but they remind me of Portland and J in a happy sort of a way, and I like that their lyrics are just ambiguous enough that I can read whatever I want into them. ^_^ The venue for the concert looks really cool and it'll be awesome to go to my first concert in Spain with my good friends!!!
So far June is looking like it is going to be the best month I've had here - no more school work, two friends visiting (one from London and one from America) on two separate weekends, and now a concert! AWESOME!!! ^_^
Now, to try to get this job and to crank out my thesis...
XOXO
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