Reminder #28

Today, I needed to do some homework. So, I naturally was seeking anything I could do that would distract me from the thing I needed to do. I decided to clean my refrigerator. After all, it hadn't been cleaned in a year.

So I cleaned it. At first, I couldn't tell what all was in there. I have this habit of just putting all of my grocery bags in the refrigerator, rather than taking stuff out of the bags, and then putting it in there. So, the bags were blocking the view of everything. I cleaned them out.

It was pretty bad. I found a tomato with green sprouts of some sort growing out of it. It was oddly pretty, the colors of Christmas. I also found some smaller tomatoes that had dried out and bounced like ping-pong balls. I found some milk-based soup in a little tupperware dish that I would have liked to have kept. That soup wasn't moving, though, so it all got thrown away. I found three half-jars of pickle slices from when my sister lived with me for four months. She likes pickles. I found all of my missing catsup bottles. I don't have to beg for extra packets at Sonic anymore (I was sick of buying more and more catsup). I found some coffee creamer that had an expiration date from 2005. I don't have any clue how that in here, seeing as it was already a month into 2006 by the time I moved here.

And last, but not least (in fact most), I found five three-fourths empty milk cartons. I don't know how that many managed to fit in there.

It took three full trash bags (large ones) to get it all to the dumpster.

So reminder-to-self #28:

Clean out the refrigerator more often than once a year.