looking for tangents in all the right places
artistic looking, no?
This would be what happens when the person who normally does the cooking around the house is gone. Said missing person probably made a mental note to himself to remember that the spaghetti box was open on one end. However, said person forgot to send that helpful mental note via ESP to the spouse who normally doesn’t have to cook, but must now fend for herself on a daily basis or eat peanut butter and jelly every night.
Not that peanut butter and jelly isn’t good almost every night. But said fend-for-herself spouse prefers to eat peanut butter and jelly at the most every other night.
Thus the tired fend-for-herself spouse who normally doesn’t cook, and who struggles with functioning synapses at the end of a work day, had no chance against the booby trap that was lying in wait in the cupboard for her (or is that laying in wait? who knows. then again who cares.) Said fend-for-herself spouse was depending upon the idea that boxes of various items which have been previously opened would be Taped Shut before being stored away so as to avoid messy messes which take Time to clean up.
2nd example of said Messy Mess
By the way, that would be the science part of the brain of fend-for-herself spouse who likes everything nicely labeled and taped shut, preferably with brightly colored time tape, and nice printing with an ultra-fine sharpie. But around the home, happily settles for clear tape and whatever writing utensil can be found in the junk drawer, if any can be found at all.
Tangent:
Why don’t office places sell cool colored tape like they do for laboratory supplies? or maybe they do and I just don’t know it?
hmmmmm
odd.
The colored tape is much more F.U.N. AND is a Terrific substitute bandage in a pinch, as Jenski shared with me back in the day when she worked in a neighboring lab. Not that Jenski or I would know anything about using tape over wounds, oh no, not us, we are the never-clumsy-lab-chickys we are.
*smirk*
End tangent
“OH! But WHY end the tangents!” they cheer.
“More Tangents!”
ah, well, since you asked….
On another note (i.e. tangent), why is it that when one’s back is turned for just an infinitesimal moment to set the table or do something silly like, say, get a drink of water, the boiling spaghetti starts looking like this
“EEK! Pick it up! Quick! Before it boils over!”
*whew* just in time
*turns setting on burner down.*
Then the next thing you know, your pot of pasta looks like this.
yyyyyyyyyyyyeah. That would be, um, too far down.
*sigh*
We want it like this, please.
“Ahhhhhhh, just right.”
Tangent:
Does that last sequence of pics remind anyone else of Goldilocks?
Recall something along the lines of “The first bowl of porridge was tooooooooo hot.
The second one was toooooo cold.
But the last one? Oh, the last one was juuuuuuuuuuuuust right.”
End tangent
End of cooking story. Back to peanut butter and jelly.
- The End -
Amber says:
Will said spouse start eating less said PB&J once said spouse moves in with said other spouse in Mnnpls?
I hope so.
My ‘net is going slower than a snail tonight, so I can only see half of each picture.
By the way. I sure do wish said spouse would remember to make not to other spouse about the spaghetti and linguini in the pantry. Other spouse has spilled spaghettie and linguini all over the floor multiple times, just like said spouse in said story.
Speaking of TANGENT. Some of those noodles look tangent to the circles on top of the cans and stuff in the drawer.
My oh my, now that I’ve seen those pictures, it looks like you had a spaghetti explosion inside your drawer.
It’s like, “POOF!” *sniggers* “I bet I scared ya, Dani.”
Stupid spaghetti noodles exploding on poor damsels in distress when they least expect it.
Someone should put a warning label on those boxes, really.
Amber says:
Does that popcorn box say KAPOP?!?!
TEEHEHEEEHEEHEHEHE
*sorry*
Momo says:
Very funny story!
Sorry you are having to fend for yourself.
Yes, the last tangent did remind me of “Goldielocks”. HEE HEE!
Amber, that last comment was quite clever. LOL!
Closet Metro says:
I see oak.
Ern says:
I think that your first problem is that you are using an electric stove. Gas is MUCH better. Much more control in adjusting temperature instantaneously. (We lab types like control. So I’ve heard.) Maybe you will celebrate the joys of cooking with gas when you move?
Amber says:
Ern is so much right. Gas is way better. You can turn the heat down way low or way high and everything is nice and instantaneous. Plus I lurve the sleek designs of the gas stove much better. Sleeeeeeeek.
Danielle says:
Amber! You are too funny. I think I read your comment 3 times already in the past 5 minutes, it was so good.
Warning labels indeed.
To answer your question, yes, I will be eating less PB&J when I get to Minneapolis and join HB in our new home. However, that convergence is going to be delayed until I get my experiments done here. *sigh*
Yes, I will be living here, with a friend, for a few weeks to get all of the experiments done that have been quickly spawned by the super cool result I got a couple weeks ago (the one that required the ice cream celebration). I’ll know Friday, late in the day, if I repeated that result in an experiment I did on Monday. It went into an assay yesterday which finishes on Friday. So, there is a bit of time to go yet until we are together again forever and ever. Last night, on the phone, we were commiserating about how we are pretty sick of being apart.
Yes, the popcorn is HB’s and does indeed say KaPop. And, the spaghetti reminded me of tangents coming off of a circle too… which I wondered if anyone else would see (or if it was just my imagination again), but I figured if anyone would, it would be you!
Momo – Thanks! I’m glad you thought it was funny.
CM – you would.
But, hey, did NO ONE notice the rose colored countertops that we have gotten to enjoy these years while living in this house???! I thought SURELY someone would notice them. Maybe I need to do a special picture of them so that everyone can get the FULL effect before we move away. Yes, certainly necessary, I think.
Ern – I know. I miss having gas. *snork*
um, you know what I mean.
I forget now what our new house has, but I think it is still electric. But, um, in the new house, I really hope to go back to Not Cooking, really I do.
LadyBug says:
A brief view into the mind of LadyBug:
::Open’s Danielle’s page, reads title as “Looking for Talents in all the right places”, sees first picture, thinks, “Oh, what a cool looking gift basket. The pieces of straw laid over everything look kinda neat. The title is ‘Looking for Talents’, I wonder who made it? Maybe Texas Seestor?”, then chuckles because “Looking for talents in all the right places” reminds her of that song “Looking for love in all the wrong places,” which, in turn, reminds her of the Saturday Night Live Buckwheat version of the song, which is, “Nookin per Nub,” then FINALLY starts reading the post, is very confused, re-reads the title and rolls eyes repeatedly at self.::
This has been your view into the mind of LadyBug.
. . .
On another note, you’re a strong woman, to have gone ahead and made the spaghetti (and documented the process!) after cleaning up that mess. I would’ve been so ticked about cleaning it all up, I woulda just said “To hell with it” and gone with the PB&J.
Danielle says:
*stifling my laughter*
*shaking my head*
can’t even type for shaking…
*deep breakth*
okay. Okay. I’m fine.
oh, I needed that. “what a pretty gift basket!”
*still laughing*
Okay. Okay.
*ahem*
It is a bit freaky, you see, that last night after I changed the title for the 3rd time, I had Wookin per Nub running though my head over and over and over.
Of course, I _would_ think it is Wookin even if it really was Nookin, because you know me, always mixing the words around.
*still laughing*
Amber says:
Oh gosh
That one made me laugh pretty good, Dear LB.
And I thought my comment was good..
woo
Christie says:
lmao!
Mother Hen (Danielle's mom) says:
Rubber bands around open boxes works – but you still have to see which end is the open one.
A few drops of oil or some marg. in boiling water should keep pasta from boiling over.
Heck, I stand there and watch the pots all the time and still boil stuff over – just one of the joys (HA) of cooking.
I know where you got the “I hate to cook” gene – from me – sorry!
Mother Hen (Danielle's mom) says:
Rubber bands around open boxes works – but you still have to see which end is the open one.
A few drops of oil or some marg. in boiling water should keep pasta from boiling over.
Heck, I stand there and watch the pots all the time and still boil stuff over – just one of the joys (HA) of cooking.
I know where you got the “I hate to cook” gene – from me – sorry!
LadyBug says:
I just left a comment at Amber’s place. You guys were closer than I was on this one. It’s “Wookin’ Pa Nub.”
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/81/81bbuckwheat.phtml