auto vehicular day

yep.. today i decided my power steering was going in my car.... get home... kiss wife.. she walks back in door frustrated... 25 yards into her drive to work .. flat tire.... easy fix.. i drive my wife and I in my car with balking power steering to her work.... we are now late enough so no wonderful coffee at java joe's.... come back... spend 20 minutes figuring out how to retrieve the spare tire from underneath the dodge grand caravan sxt... it's actually a cool set up once you figure it out... change tire.... got new tire for price of buying new road hazard warranty $14 w/tax.. get back home.. switch cars ... go get power steering fluid because it was bone dry.... ugh.... no cat food at end of day with family at wonderful meal.... back to walmart at 11pm to get cat food.... now finally took heavy jeans off.... ugh... and i thought it was going to be a layed back friday... the 7pm to 940pm part was great....well rambling... signing off...

things not to say to your beloved one

"i didn't read your post today.... was it important?...."


hmmmmm.... translation.... you usually never say anything of significance... why would now be any different....

i love my wife.. she gave me lots of grace for this statement....

an actual fully cooked meal made at home

yep.... mission successful... took a laundry basket to the kitchen (its portable and i needed the oven ... if you ever been pushed for time and the kitchen is a mess you should catch my drift)... magically made the kitchen instantly or almost instantly clean

boars head bacon..
2 eggs...
spinach/rice pasta (gluten free kind)
fresh ground parmesan
pinch of fresh ground pepper
butter..

blend while hot....tasty ... very delicious..

this is the original old style spaghetti carbonara... any thing else like garlic or cream has been added later is not traditional....

ps.... kids love this too...

now just to hide tonights dinner dishes....................... just kidding ...

it's hard to shop

well actually its hard to eat what you shop for.... i mean.... for myself... i would eat tons of fruit if someone would just cut it for me... i don't even need it skinned... talk about pathetic... then my wife... she got lunch bored.... see i can eat the same meal every day every week ... but my wife.. its a different story... anyways about 3 hours later and we only have enough food for a couple of lunches... but it's a good start.... please see 2 postings down about eating out...

it's a shame too... i had to throw out about 10 lbs of various meats.. all got freezer burned.. ugh... oh well thawing sometimes takes too long...


ps my wife wanted to point out she ate the same lunch since august....

pss. apparently our eating out also affected my wife's lunch...

on a good note... tomorrow's dinner is spaghetti carbonara ...easy..fattening and delicious... this wonderful meal is made or broken on the quality of the bacon...i prefer boars head due to its vast availability and quality

our love is electrifying

wow... talk about amazing.... my wife and i kissed and the hugest shock went from her lips to mine or mine to hers... i mean it--- our lips were both numb... for like 10 minutes... wow ... at least i know we still have it...

the secret's out .. life was busy.. eat out...

take the combination of being lazy (or lack of interest) with being extremely busy during the last 2 months of my wife's corporate job.... she was training for her new job while working extremely long days at her corp job...

the problem is in 2 parts:

part 1: we had no idea when wife would get off work...430pm or 730pm?... my poor wife was overstressed and overworked.. is it a light dinner or heavy dinner or just almost straight to bed?

part 2: during this time our kitchen saw amazingly low use.. i might dirty a pan..rinse and set aside to be cleaned later... repeat for next few commonly used pans.. along with the few favorite knifes... (so now its clean before eat...ugh)

the result: led us to eat out almost every night... wendy's chili/potato... it's fast and easy (and cheap)... or we could savor the company of each other in the late night's by also eating out at our favorite restaurant... we sit at table 37 and get treated like royalty by the staff there....

honestly .. the person that works the most does not want to help in the kitchen.. so we would have disjointed conversations at best while i made dinner (no complaint, i love to cook) but by they time dinner prep was over it was 830pm some nights.... heartburn city too because of it being so late...

so i think we maintained our sanity by avoiding the chore of making the nutritious meals ourselves... so the secret is out.... now through some conversational slips of thought most of our close friends now know that we have not reciprocated in the dinner invite because our kitchen is a disaster..no health codes ... just non-functional....

but time to celebrate for our joint guts... wife's last full day at corp job was jan 31, 09... ready for the irony.... we now have the time (and less stress) to eat meals at home knowing the exact out of work time (no more suprise late nights).......................... and get ready for it...................... we celebrate by ............................ yep.. you guessed it............ eating out.....

boy....start a habit....but that is another posting..

mother in law and the couch

standing on couch.... funny how our parents told us not to stand on the furniture... i just never knew they (the furniture) fought back.... the couch launched my poor mother/law off and into the corner of a wall.. 8 stitches later (ER visit required) ... she's all good though.... hard head... now don't be reading between any lines on that one either....