There are lots of them. The one currently burning in my mind has to do with television. I'm watching American Choppers (it was either that or the A-team...really). The guys at Orange County Choppers put together some pretty amazing machines, but they also do some really incredibly stupid things.
Take this episode for example. They guys are sitting in the office bored, so someone decides to throw a chair through the window that connects the office to the shop. Apparently liking the adrenaline rush produced by that act of destruction, the guys toss another chair through another window. Then the brand-new leather couch (which doesn't fair well with the jagged glass still stuck around the window frame). Hmmm...an even bigger adrenaline rush. What else could we do to prolong this high? I know...punch holes in the wall. Tear out the ceiling tile. Total destruction, but still not good enough. Hey, I've got an idea - let me completely knock down the office by driving my truck through the walls until the office completely falls in.
Lessons I learned from the OCC tonight: (1) I don't understand guys (already knew that...but this certainly reinforced it. Meaningless destruction is fun?). (2) Some people have way too much money laying around (feel free to send some of it this way!). (3) I still have no desire to ride a chopper.
As for the rest of my day, well, it's ending the same way as it began. I started my day by washing dishes; I was too lazy to do it last night, and I couldn't leave the mess all day. Then I proceeded to spend most of the day in the kitchen (keep reading!) and just finished washing dishes again (didn't want to look at the mess tomorrow morning!).
While running dishwater this morning, I noticed again that my kitchen cupboards were looking a little dingy. When I bought the cupboards, it was winter & I hadn't yet learned that EVERYTHING here is covered with dirt. So I bought white. They look nice, but they are dirt magnets. The road construction outside my apartment has meant constant clouds of dirt in and outside my house. After over a year, today was the day. Scrubbed all of the cupboard & drawer fronts (yikes, were they dirty!). Maybe now I'll clean inside the cupboards again. Hmmm...maybe next week.
Since last week was payday, this week is cooking week. This summer has been pretty lean, so I've been eating everything out of my freezer & pantry for the last month. Both reached the point of "bare" last week. After some strategic grocery shopping over the weekend, I'm embarked on the task of restocking the freezer. After three days, I think I'm done for now. Roasted chicken & rosemary-garlic potatoes. Barbecued chicken with rice (a new recipe...yum-yum!). Chicken parmesan. Lasagna (nope, not chicken...I haven't learned how to make a good alfredo sauce yet). Egg casserole. Pasta/pizza sauce. And the random frozen whole chicken for when I decide to be social and invite some people over for dinner (have to share the miracle of the rotisserie chicken...still my favorite). Eventually I'll need to bake cookies again, but I don't think I need any for a few more weeks. Better to not have them in the house until I need them!
I may never understand some things (most of them male!), but at least I'll be eating well while confused.
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