notes from my kitchen

Things I thought of tonight while in my kitchen and elsewhere in the house:

1. Who boils four eggs? that's just such a weird amount. Like, four. what can you do with four. if you are going to go through all the trouble to boil the water (I'm serious now, it's not the boiling it's keeping the eggs from cracking into the sides) anyway, if you are going to do all that why only make four? Four's like, not enough for anything. It's one egg one day then egg salad and that's it? I don't know. I'm an eat the same thing for four days in a row kind of girl so I tend to just run with a food. Why are hard boiled eggs so much work? Hmm.

2. I have a headache. An honest to god, behind the eyes, not sinus, really sucky headache. I haven't had one of these in a while. It's not caffeine. I think it may be a not enough carbs thing.

3. In an email to Jess I told her about my while-she-was-away yardsale kitchen. Completely forgetting that she bought (for free on giftcards etc) a real, honest to goodness, nice actual play kitchen.
I didnt have time to email her back. Jess - if you are reading this I forget to mention that I don't think I even wanted a kitchen. You'd think I would have mentioned it, right? In the 20 or so times we've yardsaled and I have never EVER expressed an interest then you get one, and I get one. It wasn't like that, I swear. I wanted her to have something with doors that she could open so she'd leave the f*cking cabinets alone. I could have bought her a tool bench or a coffin really. phew. That was bugging me. No one wants a repeat of the wagon incident.

4. 20 points on weight watchers per day is not enough. I don't have the patience to look up zero point foods. So I eat to 20 and stop eating. See headache, above.

5. Activity points are bullshit. I walked 4 miles today pushing 2 toddlers totaling 60 combined pounds with a yardsale jog stroller (front wheels locks, isn't broken thank you very much for $20...)but still I had to manhandle it to turn...and I earned 3 points? F*ck you WW. You suck. (See actual size toddlers below)








6. Why does my husband always walk in the SECOND I fart. Yes, we both know I'm lactose intolerant. I ate Hamburger Helper Lasagna flavor - so it has a pseudo cheesesauce and i forgot Lactaid. It happens. He's downstairs. I'm up. The tv is on. He's NOWHERE near coming to bed. So I discretely boom. And BAM. He's behind me. The man must think I'm a pig. Honestly. I'm not a big "farter" either. Sigh.

7. My niece is going to pee the bed. I know it. Not her fault, shes a sound sleeper after a long day, a shower and a late supper. I'm just saying, I know its going to happen.

8. I love my husband. Honestly. He watched 3 episodes of wonder pets, including the puzzles and Moose A Moose's "I call Zee my friend" snippet and didn't look aggravated or bored.

9. I also love my mother in law. Who didn't even flinch when I told her I spent at least 4 minutes this weekend puzzling just what job I could take if I ever left Doug and had to support Ellie on my own. (See note 10 for causal relation)

10. People who roll their eyes should be smacked upside the head.

11. The first real lie I told Doug in our relationship was about the playcube we "free"d from the side of the road in Medford. I told him Sue's neighbor was giving it away for free, and that it was too small for Sue's yard and Jess told me to take it - or she would. The fact is Sue's neighbor WAS giving it away for Free, just not to Sue. She left it on the curb. And I'm not sure Sue even knows the neighbor, they just live on the same street. Further still it stank to high heaven like feral cat pee which I said was Raid. So that'll teach me. I scrubbed it for over 45 minutes, each panel, with softscrub and it reeked still. Finally I found a recipe online that worked...for the most part. 16oz hydrogen peroxide, 1 TBSP of baking soda and 1 tsp of dish soap. Spray liberally. Air dry.

12. I'm really really interested in the whole "poo free" thing. But I swore I wasn't going to mention it to anyone. Then I said something to both Doug and Barbara. Doug laughed. Barbara laughed harder. I'm not deterred. Embarrassed. But not deterred.

13. I'm not super interested in pursuing the neighborhood playgroup program D is creating. I never thought I was. I liked the idea, I like it less now. But Jess and Barbara will be there and I know will help so maybe I'll feel better about it. It's not about "me" but since I'm the performer, well, it IS actually about me. I thought it was fun until I realized I need to deliver someone elses materials in a manner consistent with the way she feels it should be delivered. How very NOT fun. Doug thinks I should tell her to F* off. In a nice way. That she's being a control freak. I think time will take care of it. I don't truly need to point out that the emperess's cloths mightn't be exactly what she thought.

14. Speaking of delivery... it's farcical to say that I'm not going to be judged. Of course I am. That's the first thing we all do. We go to something and we come back and discuss how it was, whether we liked it or not, whether the librarian was good, the instructor was nice. And the girls that signed up...well, based on the comments I've heard from them already, well, let's just say I'm not getting a positive people vibe.

15. Ellie got her first haircut. she looked gorgeous. Like a baby Mia Farrow. I -HEART- the baby Ellie. So cute.