October 19th, 2007

It’s been one of those days.  Rain. Wind.  Dreary gray sky.  Too much work and not enough time.  A snit with the spouse, in which he hung up the telephone.  I mean, how rude.  RUDE!  I would never do such a thing.  Granted, I made a poor choice of words, but was hung up on in the midst of trying to repair that choice of words.  So.  How immature and annoying.  Sometimes there’s no getting through a snit, other than to wait and let everything settle.  I hate not having resolution though.  Loose ends bug me.  He probably thinks I should apologize, but I’m not planning on it, even though it would be a generous and kind thing for me to do.

Consequently, my will to overcompensate with food has superseded the power of the pill (that mood regulating wonder), and I am quite overly sated now after a breakfast, lunch, and afternoon bowl of bean soup.  There’s just enough left for one more serving this evening, if I so choose.  I don’t even want to think of what my blood sugar might be.  I’m sure it’s skyrocketed up, up and away.

On a positive note, I’ve discovered the wonders of pressure cooking.  I made a fabulous bean soup in an hour.  Not an overnight simmer.  Well, I did presoak the beans, but I’m used to the crock pot or an all day stove top simmer.  But with pressure?  One hour tops!   I made a pot roast in under an hour this week also.  The meat wasn’t as tender as I’d have liked, but it was a low budget cut, previously frozen, and I didn’t allow it to thaw properly on its own.  If I try again, I might use fresh meat of a better grade.  It won’t be for a while though.  I’m all beefed out.

Work has drained me.  Sometimes when there’s a mammoth task that goes on and on and on,  it gets tedious and exhausting.  I would have liked to have had some time for blogging this week, but alas, it wasn’t to be.  In fact, much as I love to visit blogs page by page, I subscribed to bloglines so that I can see everyone’s recent posts at a glance, without visiting each individual blog.  It’s such a time saver, albeit much less personal.

I’m so looking forward to the weekend, in which I plan to visit my sister and see her scrumptious little boy, now 3 months old.  Hopefully the marital strife will have blown over by then.

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3 Responses to “under the weather”

Aunty Evil Says:

good luck getting it resolved!

I hate apologising, especially when I have a perfectly good reason for my behaviour.

I like making things in the pressure cooker, although the cheaper cuts of meat have the most flavour and actually do better.

The expensive meats tend to get a bit tough with the fast cooking.

My Float Says:

Ooh…I hate loose ends. I just want to know what the game is!! And sometimes kind and generous is beyond me too.

Hope you’ve had a wonderful weekend with your sister.

meggie Says:

I hope you had a nice weekend, & enjoyed your little nephew,.. & sister of course!