I admit, after the dog has jumped the fence five times in three days, I do start to wonder why on earth I keep going after him and bringing him back. Go, then, you fucker. Be free. See if anyone else will put up with your garbage-shredding bed-hogging toy-eating yard-escaping ways.
(Edited to add: I forgot to include poop-eating, lap-barfing, and floor-puking.)
Filed under: life in general
Sometimes I am at a loss for words, like when my mother hands me a container of homemade butter chicken and says, “Don’t worry… it’s not made from the one that had the worms.”
Well, it’s February, and things are looking up a little. But I don’t want to think too hard yet, so here’s another “week of lunches” post. I’m still loving the Laptop Lunches containers. If you are going to buy them, t’s definitely worth getting 2 sets of inner containers – not only so you don’t have to wash them before packing the next day’s lunch, but also because some days it’s nice to have 3 lidded containers instead of 2. I think that once I am packing lunches for 2 kids, I can get away with still only having two of the boxes, but I would need 3 or 4 sets of inner containers to make life easier.
Cheese & spinach sandwich, orange, cucumber chain, lazy trail mix (cranberries, raisins, and sunflower seeds) and the ubiquitous yogurt tube.
Sausages in a bun (this was a flop, I thought Sport’s love of sausages would triumph over his dislike of cold meat. No such luck.), carrots & tomatoes, strawberry muffin, mini oranges, yogurt tube.
Cheese sandwich, grapes, pretzels, lame Greek salad (I didn’t have any tomatoes) and yogurt tube. Oh and a fork still fits in the side compartment even with the yogurt tube in there – just be careful to put the tube in first or you could puncture it. No, of course I didn’t do that.
Hummus sandwich, kiwi, spinach salad (orange sesame dressing in little container), pretzels, yogurt tube. You can see the carefully positioned fork in that one…
Salmon & spinach in a bun, popcorn, orange, grapes, and yogurt tube. Even a relatively boring lunch like this looks more appealing in these containers, I swear.
Filed under: random whining
… I am extremely stressed right now, due to several aspects of life that have decided to jump up and bludgeon me at once. (And in January, the worst fricking month of the year.) Extreme stress is not really a good place from which to blog, since posts would likely degenerate into either (a) weepy profanity, or (b) excessive over-sharing. Or possibly both. Let’s just leave it at this: I am looking forward to ripping the January page off my calendar and stomping on it.
(And to Rhonda, who thought the last post might be heralding a referral…. sorry. Maybe in the fall, or maybe next spring, or hell, maybe never. That is my mental state at the moment in terms of adoption #2, which I admit is not helping matters.)
Anyway. Apologies, but the hiatus is going to continue for a while.
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… to bring you this important literary analysis.
That dream bubble cracks me up. I guess I had forgotten that Charlotte’s Web was quite so horrific.
Filed under: life in general
Apparently now would be a good time for a mid-winter break. Hey, if TV shows can do it, so can I. Unfortunately I don’t have a good cliff hanger to leave you with, except for maybe the eternal question, will I ever fit back into any of my pants?
(SPOILER ALERT: Probably not.)
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Tonight we had our second of three Ethiopian dinners to celebrate Genna. This one was at a friend’s house, and we contributed the doro wat (homemade) and sambussas (purchased). Sport loves loves loves doro wat, and so do I. After almost three years of practice (and adjusting my recipe) I have finally achieved what I think is very close to what Sport calls “professional” doro wat.
Still not quite dark enough, but that is partly because I went a little lighter on the berbere since we were going to be serving it to a crowd who might not appreciate the level of fire that Sport requests. (“Lighter on the berbere” means I only used about half a cup, instead of 3/4 cup.) And I even put the hard boiled eggs in… that happens twice a year, Sport’s birthday and Genna. Don’t laugh, but I am horrible at boiling eggs. Seriously, I can’t boil an egg worth a damn. They are either raw or solid and black inside, so usually I skip them.
If you have no idea what doro wat should look like in the first place, here is a picture of “professional” doro wat for comparison.
And… now I’m hungry again. Off to snack on the leftover sambussas!
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Here’s what I found in my inbox today: Health & Fitness titles on sale for $0.99 at bookcloseouts.com!
So… I could get some new inspiration and motiviation for that whole diet & exercise thing, but I’d have to spend money on a non-essential item that is not in the budget. Which resolution will fall first…
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Happy Ethiopian Christmas to all! We enjoyed doro wat, shiro wat, and yataklete kilkil (vegetable stew) for supper. Misir wat was also on the menu, until I realized that I was out of lentils. I don’t think I have ever been out of lentils in my life, so I’m not too sure how that happened. Anyway, we still managed to eat an insane amount of food, and I am kind of painfully full.
I am also procrastinating on cleaning up.
This is what my kitchen ends up looking like every time I cook an Ethiopian meal. And usually I’m so full I have to lie down for a while, and then I fall asleep, and… ah well, I can do the dishes tomorrow, right?
Filed under: random whining
Is January over yet? Seriously, is it really only the 6th? How come December flew by but now time is standing still? And why can’t time stand still in a warm month, instead of one with with a -34 windchill?
It’s the January doldrums, I guess, and I has them. Nonetheless, I managed to resist buying chips at the grocery store today, so chalk one up for that willpower thing I guess.
