Yay! More plants are on the way!

I am so happy tonight. My boyfriend and I decided to go out to eat together for the first time in at least a month. We've had to be so frugal about our spending for the last two or three months because we just moved. This is the first paycheck where we feel like we're in a comfort zone again, so we spent $20 and had a night on the town. Ok, so it wasn't that extravagant. But I did have a really good tofu, beans, and rice burrito. :) And of course, the time spent with him was wonderful. My school loan and scholarship has finally gone through for this semester. Yesterday I owed my school $400. As of today ... I owe them nothing!!! So, I took $20 of that money and ordered some plants online. I'm so excited about them. Here's what I got:

1. A "Dwarf Musa Banana Plant" - mini banana tree! It'll grow to 5 or 6 feet tall, which is perfect for sitting on my sunny patio. If all goes according to plan, I'll be harvesting fruit within 2 years.

2. A "Red Azalea" plant - pretty red flowers! Pretty simple care: morning sun and shade in the afternoons, water infrequently, don't hurt their tiny roots, and that's about it. This is actually the first flowering plant that I've ever really liked. Normally I just like the big, leafy stuff, so we'll see how well I do with this...


3. Spinach seeds. Supposedly they're easy to start, and they can be harvested pretty soon after planting. We eat spinach like it's going out of style here, so I thought this might be a good place to start for my vegetable "garden."

The company is also sending me (for free) a basic plant care guide, a packet of huckleberry seeds, and a packet of ground cherry tomato seeds. The ground cherry tomatoes aren't supposed to do well in my growing zone, but they seem really cool so I guess I'll give them a shot. They're free afterall! The company that I went through is this one: http://www.eburgess.com/index.asp
They were recommended to me, and I highly recommend them to everyone else. I'll definitely let you guys know when the plants get here. Imagine how surprised the office ladies are going to be when a banana plant shows up at the door with my name on it! Hopefully they won't mind when I bring them fresh bananas from it in a few years. -lol-

I'm so thankful for just about everything today. It was a cheerful, happy and productive day - and you should always be thankful for those. I hope everyone else had just as much joy today as I did. :)

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