Starving Artist

As a going away present from my old coworkers from FLUOR, I was given some Wal-Mart gift cards. I knew two of them added up to about $55.00 but I had one that I didn't know the quantity of. Why I was given Wal-Mart gift cards, I don't know, nor did I believe there was one of those monstrosities her in Bellingham but sure enough I was wrong. It's in a location north of the Bellis-Fair mall that is definitely a Wal-Mart location and contained the same variety of customers you'd see in, let's say, the Tri-Cities.

So, I'm kind of low in money and when I remembered I had these cards I was like "holy shit! I don't have to starve until Wednesay." I spent about $57.00 on beans, rice, milk, tortillas, eggs, cheese, cereal, chips, bread, and a toothbrush. I'm really great at looking for low priced non-brand items but after I had everything rung up I recalled how expensive food is/is getting.

I came back to the Summer House™ and made a bean, rice, cheese burrito thing. It was a bugger though because I had to toss a ton of chile powder and other seasoning in it just to get it even the tad bit spicy. Now begins my Mexican cuisine phase.

I headed upstairs, updated Amy's WordPress/website, drew a bit, then Rod (the fellow that's subletting his room while he's gone) came in with a ridiculously tall and cobalt colored bottle of presumably cheap wine and asked if it was mine. I imagine my roommates were all talking about booze, looked above the fridge and then wondered who's bottle that was. Apparently it just showed up since no one knew who's it was. So, naturally, it was opened and poured.

Here's the thing.

It was terrible. Worst-wine-ever; it was definitely cheap wine (that probably went bad). It was elected that it be thrown out but I denounced that saying that it would be a waste of cheap wine and that it ought to be drunken. I said I would take up the responsibility and was then my roommate, Cameron, said that he would not allow me to drink it by myself and decided to join my cause. We drank the poured amount that everyone else didn't want to drink and closed the bottle so that the remainder can be consumed at a later date. Seriously, this stuff was god awful.

I did start on finishing the damn webcomic strip, which is good. Also, my head is flying with ideas for the new comic I want to get done. They're not really ideas as much as content I'm going to put into it. It's just really scattered all over my brain right now and I'm afraid to type anything out and I think I'm going to do this one on the fly like I used to. It's more fun that way.