What's for Supper (or should I get a Fry Daddy)

If anything ever tips me over to the point that I just get in my car and keep on driving..with never a look back--it might just be having to decide what to make for supper every day.

Now, time for a disclaimer of sorts--I love Mr. Wonderful, I really do-- but if I ask him one more time for help in deciding what to make for dinner and he says, "Whatever" or "I don't care", I might just use all my food prep skills (limited though they are) on him. Chopping, dicing, filleting, slicing, pounding, searing or any number of violent kitchen tasks may be used a on someone a little closer to the top of the food chain.

At times, I am appalled at how bad the meals I make are, not in how they're cooked but in the choices of what I've cooked. I look at them and think there's not a gram of nutrition in the whole plateful. Though I think it would be nothing but fun--we haven't let a "Fry Daddy" into the house. Undoubtedly a "Fry Daddy" would make my horrible meals taste better but its a line I dare not cross. A person's got to make a stand somewhere.

Now, back to the original point of this blog entry, I don't know what to make for supper and my car's gassed up.....

Easily Informed

C. S. Lewis, in one of his books (I can't remember which one) said this about his father, "He was not a man easily informed". What a great way to describe someone who just doesn't seem to listen to what you're trying to tell them. Not only have I met people like that, I've been that person.

I think we can categorically put teenagers on the list of people "not easily informed"--it'd be easier to include them all and them delete the few that don't belong. Creationists might be another category of people that could belong though I'm willing to bet they'd say the same about people who believe in evolutionary theory. Its probable that all extremists in any area are a bit difficult to inform. Mr. Wonderful would probably consider me not easily informed because every time he tries to show me something on the computer I just about run away.

There is an old axiom that says the more I know the more I know I don't know--and that is certainly true for me. So one of my resolutions for this year is to be more easily informed. That means I'm going to do a better job of listening to people and going to make a point to explore some new (for me) ideas and activities.

Cheryl Wheeler has a song titled, "Frequently Wrong but Never in Doubt". Let's hope I don't move in that direction with all my new learning I do with all my new improved listening this year.

One Issue Voter

After being out driving this week, I think I could become a one issue voter. If a candidate promised to ticket everyone who drove in the passing lane when they weren't passing anyone--I would donate money to that person's campaign, put their sign in my lawn, show up at their rally and put my "x" by their name on election day.

I'm embarrassed to say that this is how shallow I am.

Why don't people move over? One woman I know said she couldn't go back to the other lane because she drove a pick-up truck and it was too hard---hey, hey, hey--how about getting off the road if you can't handle the vehicle. Others say they are going the speed limit and have a right to be there--oh for pete sake, time to mosey on back to Mayberry RFD. And others, I'm sure, are just unaware or on their cell phone or are planning to pass someone or turn left at some point in the next 100 miles or so. Again, I know I'm a little bit on the ornery side about all this.

For several years, I've reminded the little darlings that when I die, it is their responsibility to tell their father to move out of the passing lane. Mr. Wonderful gets a little too comfortable in the left lane and is slow to put on his blinker, check over his right shoulder and slide back over to where he belongs. (I didn't pick up on this when we were dating--love is truly blind)

So, if you've been thinking about a political career but didn't really want to be bothered with foreign policy, recessions, depressions, global warming, crime, health care, mortgage meltdowns, poverty, energy resources and all those other big fancy issues--maybe this is the place to start. You can count on my vote.