This was starting out to be yet another killer day at work so I decided to get up early. This way I had a minute for breakfast, which allows me to work on perfecting the perfect egg and cheese biscuit sandwich.
So I got up... I fed the cats... then I went to grab a pan to fry up some eggs... and... whoops. All my pots and pans were dirty. And I just didn't feel like washing them by hand, which you have to do because they don't recommend the dishwasher since it ruins the coating. It's not even like it's that hard. My pots and pans are totally easy to clean because nothing sticks... it's just having to stand at the sink and turn on water and squirt the soap and scrub with a brush and dry them off and put them away... no individual task is tough or takes long, but when taken all together it seems like a lot in the morning when I'm trying to get out of the house.
So instead I went out back to take a look at my hydrangeas.
These things are amazing because after having been chopped to the ground in the Fall, they don't seem to do anything when all my other flowers are starting to sprout in the Spring. Then... in what seems like a few days... they explode with growth. Seriously, it's several inches a day, and then the flowers magically appear out of nowhere. Last night I noted that they were all in full bloom...
Madonna famously loathes hydrangeas, but I think they're pretty. They certainly take up a lot of space... and they don't stink, which is nice. I'm happy to just let them keep growing year after year since it doesn't require any effort by me (except to chop them down again in October).
When I got home I really wanted some creamy walnut sauce on pasta.
But I was so tired after 12 hours working that, once again, I had very little motivation to scrub my pots and pans. And since every last one of them was dirty, I figured I'd just take a pass.
But then I couldn't bring myself to eat another peanut butter sandwich like I did last night, so I spent the 15 minutes it took to clear my sink and start cooking for 25 minutes.
Totally worth it...
Delicious to the last bite. Except now I've got a sink full of pots and pans again.
Then it was time to ignore the dirty dishes and hunker down with Jake and watch television, which was pretty much all I had the energy for...
Except for a bowl of chocolate ice cream with walnuts and whipped cream, of course.
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How come your other photos are all crystal clear and this one is so fuzzy?
Also, what kind of pasta do you eat, regular (white)? I was surprised to find that I prefer whole grain pasta over white – not that I have a choice since I have Type 2 diabetes. I also grabbed two new types recently: Barilla chickpea rotini and Great Value (Walmart!) Organic Brown Rice & Quinoa Penne. Haven’t tried them yet. I did, however, try Annie’s Rice Pasta Shells & White Cheddar, yummie.
Do you eat bean salad or is that a southern thing? I have a good organic recipe, mostly canned, and to save time and work I buy ready-chopped fresh ingredients. I make batches and freeze them in 3-oz condiment cups so I can thaw one portion at a time.
Interior security cameras are off when people are in my home. If I turn them on (to record photos like this), then they have lowest priority so I can stream movies without loss of quality.