Good ol' ghetto

Here's a photo sampling of how we've been living for a little over a week. Since we're basically gutting the place, we can't really spread out into the bedrooms yet. The kitchen appliances are all broken, except the fridge (thankfully), so I'm making semi-gourmet meals from a convection toaster oven, hot plate and a microwave. We didn't have a can opener so Jai used a Dremel to open up a can of tomato paste for me. I made sure to only use the stuff in the middle of the can.

Now that I think of it, we've still managed to have some decent meals with just those three. We had soy-ginger teriyaki chicken skewers one night, chicken tikka masala another night, homemade tomato sauce with pasta and veggie fajitas yesterday. I even made cake in a 9 inch pan in the toaster oven! What can I say? My man eats well. :)

Up until yesterday we were also sleeping on a mattress on the family room floor, along with our entertainment system (AKA Jai's desktop computer) and our living room furniture (i.e. a lumpy old loveseat and my nightstand doubling as a coffee table).

Our "closet" is in the garage, and is made up of my 2 little bookshelves stacked up, with a sheet covering them to prevent dust from blowing in. Like I was telling Thu earlier, it feels like we've been camping for a week, because there's the same feeling of having to set up camp when you want to cook, and having your closet/kitchen/sports equipment/bed all mushed together in a weird arrangement. But it's also fun and exciting like camping, so I think I can put up with this randomness for a little while more.