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 Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 5:46 am
So yesterday I get up, run behind here but still manage to get the pot on for chicken stock by 8-8:30. Spent the whole day skimming and simmering and blah, blah, blah. It comes off @ 4-5 and that's all well and good. Strain the stock into a clean pot, let the leavings drain, take 'em out, toss 'em over the fence. I screw around till 6:30 'cause I've earned it. Somewhere in there I get H up from his nap, hop in the shower, come out after a lengthy try to get shea butter on the bod session (it takes soo loooonngg gonk ) and I go to check to see how hot the stuff still is for transferring into containers which will be skimmed the next morning...
...and there's a dirty freakin' BOWL floating in it.
I lose my damn head, lots of curses, he goes running into the kitchen like there's an intruder or some (*censored*) stubs his toe on a sheep femur, he curses... I take the dogs out because he hasn't bothered even though they were asking (thanks so much) and when I come in he feeds me this line of crap about "it just fell in." It was on the side of the sink he says and must've fallen.
And I'm like you know what, if you just dropped it in there thinking the pot was dirty dishes (*censored*) MAN UP and TELL ME. But no, he keeps concocting and editing this story about how he was cleaning off the cutting board (which A. he was supposed to clean the night before so that I could've used it yesterday and B. is still dirty even now, by the way.) Finally bottomlining it to he must've knocked it in but didn't notice.
First: How do you NOT notice?
Second: The second stock pot fills the entire sink so there was no room to do what he was claiming to do.
Third: The stock pot is TALLER than the sink. This is not a tumble-in sort of thing. It had to be dropped. If it "fell" off the side it would've caught on one of the handles or just leaned against the side of the pot. This dirty freaking bowl would've had to jump 3".
And he just keeps sticking to this bullshit story. Meanwhile I have to dump the stock which is an ENTIRE day of work, a ton of veggies and several potential meals EVEN AFTER I would've taken the 2c off the top after final skim for tomato soup in a day or two. Getting ready for this stock I froze all the turkey stock so I can't even salvage the tomato soup now. (Well ok, that was dramatic, I can...but it'll take several days of fridge thaw and fussing with it 'cause for some reason this last batch has been weird. Good, but weird. Good thing the other ingredients are new enough that I have that time to play with. We're usually racing expiration dates.)
After all this grief I get lies too? And how 'bout I don't get started on the fake tears. "You're blaming me like I did it on purpose..." blah blah blah. Which wasn't happening for the record. I had to drag a freaking apology out of him which was grudging and terse and in-freaking-sincere to boot. Thank you marriage fairy you really came through for me.
It better be a good long time before something else like this happens because I'm on the freaking verge right now.
Edit: I feel compelled to mention I did all this crap with 3 dogs under my damn feet the whole time. Except the shower. For that I only had 1 dog bothering me for about a third of the whole process. So much for someone taking over for a little while, hmmm?
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 9:44 am
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 2:51 am
Oh Felly I'm sorry all that hard work was wasted. I know stock is a right pain to make.
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 5:20 am
Mich> xd
ME>Hehe, thanks. Frankly it's a bigger pain to be married. I like making stock...but best if I at least get to sample it once. (And often I only get to sample it once.)
xp
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 12:41 am
It seems marriage is always a bigger pain.
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 5:23 am
I wish somebody would've tipped me off. sweatdrop
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 1:17 am
You must have good bits too.
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 5:18 am
Occasionally. Definitely not in balance these days though.
Aaand Bastian's just about to leave for his appointment. He's all mad at me 'cause I haven't fed him or given him water. =(
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 7:12 am
Well I would be mad at you too! Not feeding him or letting him have water and then you're taking him to the veterinarian's! Those are like the worst things in the world for dogs. And he doesn't know why you're doing it...but its for his own good...but mostly yours. <.<
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 9:17 am
I'd kick you if I didn't love you so much. xd
H is on the phone right now. They're not doing the surgery today. I don't know why yet. sweatdrop (H is just about to tell me but he's running around the house like a doof.) Edit: The vet forgot to get approval from the surgeon about the dewclaws...somebody forgot to write something down or something so they're doing it all on the 27th. *thud*
On the bright side this means I can get another me day. It'll be another me cleaning day like today but it's mine, dammit.
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 2:22 pm
The vet is different from the surgeon? confused
And now the puppy has to go through another no eating or drinking day. gonk
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 12:38 am
Wow. That's rather annoying that they mucked it up, but it's certainly good you've got another day just to you. It sounds like you need some.
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 5:11 am
Yeah it's all weird. Since he's a shelter dog and had like JUST come in (well, that and was getting over Parvo <-which I didn't know was possible) it's through our local Humane Society (and free, woohoo...most especially if we'd put it off and did it all at once. Otherwise we'd have to pay for the dewclaw surgery. How's that for weird.)
It sucks for B, big time. I didn't know that not only can't they eat or drink 10-12 h BEFORE surgery, they aren't supposed to have anything but ice chips and small amounts of water till the following day. Thereagain we've always done this through a veterinary office before and they've always kept the poor little squiddos overnight. Bastian will be coming home almost before the sleepygas wears off. sweatdrop
And I tell you what, if the next me day turns out anything like yesterday's "me day" I'm checking out. xp
Edit: It never ceases to amaze me how inefficient some non-profit orgs can be. Once one of my former neighbors sent $5 to an animal shelter on a lark and over the course of the next 6 months they sent her thank-you gifts worth over $100. Granted usually those things are manufactured and donated w/o cost to the organization but not always.
In other news it's that time of year again. Pam put up her inflatable pop up out of the cauldron witch and the dogs have seen it (all of them) and they're all asnarl and growly. sweatdrop
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 6:28 pm
Them blow-ups will get you! mad
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Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 2:58 am
Oh dear, shame the dogs don't like it much.
And that is a long time for a pup to not have anything, he'll be a right grump with no food in him.
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