Today's Adventures

So, dear blog readers, I had today off of work. (And yes, it really IS almost 2:00 in the morning.) I had planned to spend part of the day going to some sort of fish market in San Diego. I've never been to a seafood market, but the ones on the Food Network look amazing. I've never made any seafood aside from tuna and salmon filets, so I thought it'd be fun to learn how to cook.

That was what I had planned. Instead, I decided to clean the house while Mike was in class. That took up my whole morning. After that, well, here is the tally:

Cable boxes installed with no problems, and all by myself: 1
New ingredients tried that I've never purchased before: 3
Recipes made today that I haven't made before: 3
Movies watched: 2
Rooms vacuumed, dusted, wiped, and mopped: 3
Bills paid: 2
Personal injuries incurred: 2 (almost 3). Both in the kitchen; learning how to cook isn't exactly my forte, but I'm determined to get the skills, and besides: it's becoming a fun hobby in my downtime.

For those of you interested in the injuries, here is the MckMama-style "NOT ME!!" version of what happened.

I did NOT start out my evening in the kitchen by opening up the fridge and watching a bottle of salsa crash to the floor in 119 pieces because I did NOT pack the fridge a little too full. I did NOT cut my toe due to my proximity to the fridge. Next, I did NOT (against my better judgment) try to weigh down the ingredients in my blender with a wooden spoon in order to get them to blend. I did NOT break the spoon into five pieces when the blender grabbed hold of it. I did NOT then have to sift through the contents with my bare hands a total of three times in order to get all of the wood out. It did NOT occur to me, even a teensy bit, to eat the salsa anyway. (If this stuff did happen to me, hypothetically, I hypothetically would have told my husband about the broken spoon.) And I certainly did NOT sock-mop the floor even just a little bit with the mess I made. NOT ME!!!