Every Monday, I’m picking from the List of Things to Try, Places to Go, Possible Acts that Help and Possible Fun to Have. It’s a list I made before The Project started and I’m still adding to it. If you have suggestions, please, feel free to throw them. I’m calling the list my Monday Dares, as I get overwhelmed just looking at the words “challenge” or “goal.”
This week: I will learn to cook. Surely, this is a sign of the Apocalypse. Run, bitches, run.
Sigh.
See? I haven’t even started and I’m already in despair. This is probably a bad sign.
You know what else is a bad sign?
When you boil noodles to make spaghetti and you run upstairs to take the curlers out of your hair and your daughter tells you she smells fire. Why do children like to make shit up?
You tell her it’s probably some nefarious vagrants outside burning leaves but then your smoke detector goes off. God, Harv, seriously? Didn’t I ask you to change those batteries?
You unroll your curlers leisurely, ignoring the sound of the alarm and send a nasty stinky-eye outside.
Lordy, can’t those vagrants take their pyrotechic hobby somewhere else? Their little shenanigans are setting off MY smoke alarm.
Then, you remember all your windows are closed. Wait…..
Oh, yeah, maybe it’s time to check on that spaghetti.
Folks, I can’t distinguish a cheese grater from a teapot but trust me when I tell you, break those noodles in half before you slip them into the pot. Noodles hanging out of pot= fire hazard.
Also, if your husband is on a business trip and you text him to make sure you have some sort of home or fire insurance and he only texts back “yes” without even asking what is going on, it means that you’re not fooling anyone with your shitty cooking skills, so it’s time to buck up and learn to cook.
Sigh.
Any ideas for a quick and easy first recipe I can master?
Please don’t list it if it requires a knife (butterfingers), stove (I like hair spray), water (slip and fall hazard), freezer (frostbite), oven (gets hot, y’all), fork (pointy) or oil (splatter-y).
Answer me this: If I’m learning to cook this week and I want to jump off a bridge, are these two things related?
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