Quote: I buy the Kraft Dinner pasta salad (in the green box) use my own pasta (tri-colour or scoobie -doo's). The mix for the dressing in there is awesome...no need to make it from scratch...just add all the veggies cheese whatever you like.
How 'bout spongebob pasta? Now that I'm finally admitting that I can't cook and H knows that I can't cook, I feel frozen with fear to try. Like the person who's involved in a horse riding accident, they don't want to get back on but once they do they're fine. Okay it's not QUITE like this.
Of course I remember Blue Oyster Cult! Had their album, remember those things?!
Oh ladies, the concert rocked! Unfortunately they had to play on borrowed equipment (did there's get stuck at the border I wonder?...We're on a border with the U.S. of A.)
All three of us (and a tall goofy guy next to CJ) stood and sang along to most of the songs. They didn't play "Career of Evil" so we had to crank it on the ride home.
Of COURSE I remember albums....I still SAY "record and album" sometimes...my neices and nephews look at me like I'm ready for the old age home!
I woke up with a sore tooth today...blasted old 30 year old fillings! Time to bite the bullet I suppose...no time to worry about it, the dentist is squeezing me in today at 5.
Cath, I don't blame you at ALL for being somewhat cooking phobic. If your H and my pal's H would only realize that by being picky, being critical, they are working AGAINST their own best interests.
Sure I'm a great cook now...but I had a learning curve! Soem of my original dishes in our first apartment...well, lets just say they aren't on the menu any more. But it was CJ's appreciation and encouragement that allowed me to experiment and take chances and develop those skills with NO FEAR of judgement.
I will BET that if your H had been more like CJ in this regard you'd have a whole lot more cooking confidence....why is it some people don't "GET" the simplest rules of behaviourism .
Behaviours that are followed by rewards (yum this is good!) are much more likely to be repeated in the future.
Those that are punished (thunk! hunk of meat hitting the stove) are far LESS likely to be repeated....who wants to be cringing each time they serve dinner????
I once served H's picky husband D my famous quick red sauce with red pepper, celery, onion, garlic and zucchini over cheese filled ravioli (which I buy frozen from my italian food shop). He was digging in...it IS a great meal...his only comment? "There's not enough meat in here"
My reply? "That's good, D, because it's a vegetarian dish!"
Ugh...at least he's not MY H!
So I guess what I'm saying is that I completely understand where you're coming from. My pal H recently told D that she'd rather scrub out the toilet than cook for him!!!
Well with this tooth and some possible drilling at 5 p.m. looks like there will be no cooking at SB's place tonight!
Wouldn't you know it?! I have sooo missed you for months and the month I get too busy to be around ... here you are!
I'm sorry to hear you are still being frustrated in having basically just one hurdle to get over to get to the finishline. Relating it to some of issues CAW has (not going to get into that here and now), I agree about it appears to be avoidance due to some kind of phobia ... an preconception of some level of inadequacy to please you ... not necessarily in the act itself, but maybe with some romantic notion leading up to it, if you know what I mean?
Yes I heard of B.O.C., still have one of their albums sitting on a shelf eventho I no longer have a turntable to play it on. Don't know why I still keep those albums just sitting there. Anyone know it they might be worth anything? I can't believe some of the Matchbox cars and baseball cards I'd played with as a kid are worth $$$ these days.
Hope you survived the drill of the dentist OK and none the worse for having to sit in that chair.
When it looked like after 40 years, I might have to learn to fix my own meals, I started getting interested in cooking (watched lotsa Emeril ... D19 even got me a set of his spices & a coffe mug for Christmas). After a while CAW began to feel I was out to show her up in the kitchen (not the case at all!), so I have backed off some, but I still get requests from D's every now and again ... like stuffed french toast with bananas and peanutbutter.
Good to hear from you KAW! CJ makes an awesome french toast stuffed with cream cheese....
HI PIB HI all,
Well the dentist turned out to be okay...just the beginning of a crack in that tooth...no work to be done until/when it becomes a bother (pain went away when I had lunch that day!).
Dentist was also amazed by what a good job Colgates' Simply White Nights did on my upper front teeth...remember my "experiment"? (leaving the bottoms their original yellow/grey)...He said I'd moved from the bottom of the colour list to near the top (for my tooth colour!) Then he politely suggested I might want to do the bottom teeth too.
I still like the contrast!
Let's see...went to D's grandma's funeral on Friday. A Jehova Witness service, my first one. Then they came here and we ordered some nice curry and black bean chicken for dinner.
Saturday CJ and I decided to drive State side...I wasn't feeling all that well and wound up in the back seat belching all the way home. (we drove 4 hours up and 4 hours back to go find some decent sea food!).
Sunday we were both wiped out and just layed around. Monday (a civic holiday here) we drove out to a newly opened suspension bridge over a Canyon to our north.
I was wondering why the hike up hill seemed harder than usual...duh...I'm lugging 20 pounds of fat I didn't have a couple of years ago. But we made it and the views were terrific (there are two bridges).
Ran into a fellow with three kids who was TERRIFIED of the bridges...poor guy...kept yelling at the kids..."don't get too far ahead of me!"...hands white knuckling the side rails.
We waited until they were off before purposely setting that bridge to swinging like mad! It was FUN!!!
So needless to say, it's been a good few days, with the exception of my health off and on (hip and headache today).
Okay before I head down to throw the laundry into the dryer...here are some positives:
- CJ is a very considerate person...he's been tip-toeing around in the mornings when I'm still asleep, even though I told him (and again today) that he doesn't have to do that!
- He bought McD's breakfast for me on Mon and left it in the Oven for when I woke up
- he scraped the bug bodies off the windshield of my car
- he thanked me a bunch of times for the great dinner last night (simple: sauteed Tilapia filets, rice and green beens).
Honestly folks...if the sex thing was a problem with his hypothalamus...no sex drive, nothing to be done...I could probably live with it. But apparently it's NOT...and it just tears me up that this vital element is willfully missing.
Oh, yeah, Ellie, CJ looked up hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating) and it IS related to my surgeries for IBD. More later!
Still kickin' as the thread says. My how the time has flown! Been real busy getting ready for classes...and having lots of issues around finding an office...last offer was a shared hovel with four other nameplates on the door.
In terms of R...things sre going pretty well. We had one morning of , not "all the way"... (that would be Sept '03) but nice. That was about a month ago
Other than that CJ and I are getting along very well, making masterful feasts, enjoyed watching the Olympics. The "summer" here lasted all of three weeks...it's been dipping into the 40's (for you Americans) at night, hovering in the 50's in the day...
My basil died, so no pesto this year.
Well that's enough, my intent was to catch up with a few of you today!
They didn't play "Career of Evil" so we had to crank it on the ride home.
Time to bite the bullet I suppose...no time to worry about it, the dentist is squeezing me in today at 5. 
