Tomato Toast and Orange Boxes

I once had a mental list that was a mile long of all the wonderful things I'd like to blog about. Things that make me happy, things that I ponder over, things that me and my roommates did, things that me and Bill did. You know...LIFE.

LIFE has been so busy as of late that that mile long list has been shoved to the recesses of my mind and locked in a dark corner. It appears that this part of my life will forever be a void. Bummer. This is why a journal (or in my case, a blog) is so wonderful.

I figure it will be better to move forward from here and not try to catch up on absolutely everything, but I will shoot for the little things and the current things that matter to me now.

I was looking through my pictures and stumbled upon these two pics that I took with the full intent of blogging about once long ago. So let me begin.

I love tomatoes - Garden tomatoes. And I love tomato toast for breakfast! It is one of those meals that I sincerely feel was discovered for the pure satisfaction of my stomach alone. :) I'm sad that tomato season has come and gone so quickly. Nonetheless, I'm glad it was here so that I could munch on a few of these little sandwiches of goodness.

This is the box that held all the keys to unlocking my happiness. Prior to its arrival, I lacked happiness and exuded stress. This box contained my textbooks. Okay. Really? Textbooks? Textbooks rarely lead to happiness in an  [a + b = happy] equation.

I was lazy and didn't look into buying my textbooks until a week before school started. I looked up all the prices of all the books I was required to have and it came to a total of over $600.00! I cried a little inside...I had no idea where that was going to come from. Then I remembered a website that my friend mentioned in a Facebook status. Chegg, the textbook rental store. I got all the books I needed for $200.00. That was the greatest news ever! BUT...it took two weeks to deliver.

So I went without books for the first week of school. For the first time in history, all of my classes really relied upon the textbook in order to get your work done. So I was starting off in a rather rough position and my grades were on a very fine line of good versus bad. 

The day this little orange box showed up on my bed, was the day I breathed a sigh of relief. Hooray for Chegg!