August 18th

I finally got to cook my first dinner this evening. It was a really tasty Italian donburi recipe that I pulled from some Japanese cooking show I watched. I love how many kinds of mushrooms the grocery stores have here. No white button ones though.

I am sad to say that I have reached a new level of horror/ amusement at the state of my house. I went to use the microwave to reheat some frozen rice and I just... couldn’t. I don’t even want to clean it I just want to trash it straight away. The inside is covered in baked-on black crud and there are bits of mummified and scorched food lying around in there. It’s a biohazard in an extreme sense. I made new rice and saved the other stuff for later.

After deciding to make ice cubes today I discovered that one of the trays (which had both been sitting in the freezer since before I arrived) had brown stuff and mold in it. It must have grown when the electricity was off, but really now. *sighs* Almost half of the pots hanging in the kitchen are too rusted to use. The unusable ones were just put up or tucked behind the good ones so they weren’t visible at first sight.

Today turned into deep-clean-my-apartment day as soon as things cooled down enough for me to move around. There are still a few places that need a good scrub or dusting but my list is getting much shorter. I hearby resolve to make enough time to properly clean before I leave so my successor doesn’t need to deal with icky things right away.