I'm gonna LOSE IT!

1. I'm asking.


2. I'm just reminding you.


3. I'm gonna LOSE IT!

How many times do I have to ask before I am justified in 'losing it'?  Really.  How many times?  Now, if you finally do DO IT, then the next time it has to be done I'm jumping to Step 2.  I'll do another 'friendly' reminder, but after that BAM!  Get IT DONE!!

I've tried it your way.  I ask.  You say you'll get it done.  I bite my tongue day after day.  Well, it's been a week or a month or several months, and it's STILL not done.

You are turning me into a nag.  That's right.  YOU are making me a nag.  If you would just handle your business, than I wouldn't have to say anything.  Oh, wouldn't it be 'easier' if I'd just do it myself instead of getting all GRRR about it.  Well, I'm not your mother who will do all the b.s. tasks to make life easier for you.  This is a marriage and you are a grown adult.

I know procrastination has bitten you ten times over, but finding other things to do doesn't mean you are too busy to get these things done.   You have to shovel.  Touché.  But how do you explain the last TWO weeks for not getting it done?  There were days where you tired.  I get it.  You have kidney disease and do dialysis everyday.  But, how about when there are good days?  You will not use your illness as an excuse.  You are better than that.  and I love you too much to let you.

Buying club packs of socks and underwear does not mean you should skip doing laundry for eons.   But, what's worse is when you do DO IT, you try and say "Po' me.  I'm doing 6 loads of laundry."   You ain't getting no sympathy from me pal.  Maybe if you got it done on the regular you wouldn't have to spend the whole day doing it.  I'm  just saying.

We all have our assigned duties (post about the evolution man vs. woman coming soon).  This worked itself out years ago when we first lived together.  Remember, it started out as doing laundry together.  Then I just did my own and you did your own.  And it has evolved to where we are today.  You do it all.   It's fair and you know it! :)

Don't get me wrong.  I can be a lazy mofo too.  But, this post is my rant about me losing it on your oogly butt, not my cute behind. hehe

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Is anything in life ever REALLY free?

The saying goes "the best things in life are free".  Really?

Love is NOT free.  It costs effort, patience, and unconditional understanding.  Sometimes more, i.e. money, but I'll leave that for my gold digger post.  Haven't we all been there?  lol

NOTHING in life is free.  Depending who you are getting this "Freebie" from, it can cost your soul and your pride.  Now, pride is one of the 7 evils, but sometimes I'd rather travel the rough road starving then ask for help.   Others are willing to ask without even trying to get it themselves.  Have they no shame?

Don't get me wrong.  I get lots of freebies from my family.  When The Husband was in the hospital due to a stroke and my little one was still a newborn, I needed help.  When he was transferred to a different hospital because the one in our neighborhood does not have dialysis capabilities, I needed help.  Free baby sitting so Franklin wouldn't be there by himself.  Free rides to pick up The Husband from the hospital because I couldn't drive down.  Free food because I would forgo food to sleep.

I pay the price of guilt.  I hate that I have to impose on my loved ones time and time again.  I can do it on my own and drag my children into the hospital and hope they will sit for a couple of hours so Daddy won't be alone.  I can do it on my own and not bath so I can fall asleep exhausted.  I can do it and stick my kids in daycare and pay their crazy fees with credit card.  I can do it.

Fortunately, I don't have to.  I am forever indebted to them all andwill pay for the rest of my life with guilt, gratitude, love, appreciation, loyalty, and honour for all their free help.

Super Easy Delicious Spinach Dip

I learned it from my dear friend from high school.  And it's so easy to remember that it's stuck with me all these years.  I get asked to bring this to every family function.  If you forget, I hear it's on the back of Knorr vegetable soup mix packages (although I've never seen it.  maybe only in the states?)  or Google "knorr spinach dip recipe" or the best option, book mark this post!

Ingredients:

• 1 package (10 oz) frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed dry (If you can't find chopped, just chop it yourself after thawed and dry.  or use fresh by blanching it, then chop & use)


• 1 container (16 oz or 2 cups) sour cream


• 1 cup mayonnaise (Hellman's ONLY!)


• 1 package Knorr vegetable recipe soup mix


• 3 green onions, chopped (optional)


• 1 can (8 oz) water chestnuts, drained and chopped (optional, but recommended...gives that extra added crunch)

Directions:

• Combine all ingredients and chill about 2 hours.  (over night is better)

To Serve:

• 2 round loaf of pumpernickel bread (pumpernickel is dark rye bread)

• Hollow out one of the loaves of bread with a knife, cutting the bread you remove into 2 inch chunks for dipping. I have specified 2 loaves of the bread because if you just get 1 there always seems to be dip left over and no bread to use it up. Cut the second loaf of bread into cubes for dipping.

• Place the hollowed out loaf of bread on a serving plate and fill the hollow with the chilled dip. Arrange the cubes of bread around the loaf and use them to dip.

OR

• Serve with cut-up veggies like:


• carrots (I use baby carrots so I don't have to cut)


• celery


• peppers (green,red,orange, whatever!)


• cucumber


• broccoli


• cauliflower

OR

• Plain chips (i.e. Ruffles with ripples.  holds the dip better, but use whatever you want)

NOTE:

• I always put green onions. Lots of them (~5).

• I never put water chestnuts, just because it's not always easy to get.  Still delicious.  And when you serve it with veggies, you get a crunch there anyway.

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