Monday, December 05, 2005
Always something there to remind me
I was going to post this a while ago, but forgot for a while. I've recently celebrated my 1000th meal prepared by me. Roughly anyway, I'm not REALLY counting. When I first moved back to California, I went to CostCo and bought 2 x 500 packs of paper plates, and I've been eating off those for the last 3 years or so. Well, I recently went through my last pack and bought another. I've moved onto plastic cups too because I don't spend much time at home lately, and I don't want to spend it cooking, cleaning and sewing. Yes ladies, I cook, clean, sew, go to church, yadda yadda yadda. I'm even going to take a stab at decorating someday, but for now, I still have sheets on the windows and no furniture.
Anywho, on to the post "Always something to remind me". I mentioned the 1000th dinner thing because yesterday I turned on the oven to make a tray of enchilladas for the week. I turned on the oven and got a little, um .... reflective. Sorry to keep bringing her up, but Trace used to make the BEST enchilladas! She was a whiz in the kitchen, really. Anywho, when my oven reaches its target temperature it makes a little "beep beep beep" to let you know it's ready for whatever you're going to bake. More memories - our bread machine used go "beep beep beep" when it was ready for you to put fruits and nuts into the dough.
Are these stupid things or what? They're little, insignificant events in a past life that somehow creep back into the front of my mind instead of the recesses like they should be.
Anywho, on to the post "Always something to remind me". I mentioned the 1000th dinner thing because yesterday I turned on the oven to make a tray of enchilladas for the week. I turned on the oven and got a little, um .... reflective. Sorry to keep bringing her up, but Trace used to make the BEST enchilladas! She was a whiz in the kitchen, really. Anywho, when my oven reaches its target temperature it makes a little "beep beep beep" to let you know it's ready for whatever you're going to bake. More memories - our bread machine used go "beep beep beep" when it was ready for you to put fruits and nuts into the dough.
Are these stupid things or what? They're little, insignificant events in a past life that somehow creep back into the front of my mind instead of the recesses like they should be.
