All forks and no spoons

Time to get caught up.

I’ve been absent for a while. Couple reasons. First, I just found I didn’t have the time to write anything worthy of posting. My day job was very hectic and I couldn’t find a spare hour to devote to posting. Then I was busy with online classes at night. Plus I was job hunting and getting discouraged by my disappointments. I just hated posting that I missed another opportunity. Then when I started working from home, I would much rather spend time with Skyprincess than posting.

Okay, there you go! But I have a bit of time today to post. So I’ll try to get caught up.

First, as I posted earlier, I have a new job. It required moving to Wisconsin, which so far isn’t a problem. Its nice and warm this month, but we are expecting it to get really cold this winter. The movers finished delivering our stuff on Tuesday and we spent our first official night in our place last night. We still have much to do. There are a lot of boxes still to unpack and I need to rebuild my computer desk. They made me take it apart prior to the move. It’s a cheap pressed board kind that just wouldn’t make the move. I’ve had it well over 10 years and love it. I doubt I could find another just like it.

I also need to put my TV together. Especially since tonight is SciFi Friday. I missed last week’s episodes and don’t want to get too far behind. Most of last night I spent digging through boxes looking for our lease papers. I have no clue where they are and Skyprincess will need to get a copy today. We moved in on the 1st and the landlords came by yesterday for the rent check. I thought we had already paid the 1st months rent and can’t understand why they expected another on move-in day. So we need to check the lease. It’s a $1000 I wasn’t expecting to pay this soon. Plus I’m disappointed in the carpet. It’s heavily stained, but they are going to replace it. Just means we’ll need to move furniture around when they do. They came by and showed Skyprincess carpet samples, and she picked a nice one. Sorta berberish looking. Should be nice when they finish.

We loved the new place when we saw it but I can tell there are little things that will start to bother me.

First, there is not as much pantry space as I had in my house. I’m a packrat and I buy stuff when I think I may need it. So my pantry was full of food products I would probably never use. Anything from 14 cans of stewed tomatoes to a bottle of fish sauce to several bags of toated puffed rice (for breakfast) to a can of hagus. Yes, I had hagus in my pantry. Don’t ask….

Skyprincess had neatly loaded the pantry, which you just can’t do with my stuff. With my stuff you don’t waste any space. You have to cram cans in every little nook and cranny.

I get home Tuesday, and she tells me I need to donate this box of food to the goodwill. She hasn’t even opened it! It has all sorta of food. All my jars are there. From speghetti sauce, and sliced jalepeno peppers, and cans of coconute milk… to a huge jar of Texas Pete! You don’t throw good stuff away! I saved the box and will need to find a place for it this weekend.

Which takes us to my dishes. She threw almost all of them away! I was not happy at all. Marriage is suppose to be the coming together of 2 people to make a home. That means combining what I have with hers, or that’s what I thought. And I will admit, my pots and pans were not the greatest. Many were hand-me-downs, and I did tend to use metal utinsels when cooking with my none-stick. Which gentlemen, is a very bad idea! Don’t use metal anything when cooking with none-stick. It ruins it.

We had a gift certificate to Bed Bath & Beyond and decided to buy a new set of Calphalon cookware. Some of mine needed replacing, so I really didn’t have an issue with this. But throw away everything?



Okay, I did have duplicates. I had 2 large colanders and 1 that was a pasta colander. And I had some cheap stainless dishes that we didn’t need again. I never used them, to be honest. Food always stuck when I cooked with them. And there was a 4 qt stock pot I used to cook pasta we threw away. It was almost paper thin after over a decades worth of use. But worse of all, she threw away all my silverware and my bowls!!!!

I’m a bowl and fork person. I eat almost everything in a bowl. And I eat almost everything with a fork. I must have had 40 forks in the drawer and I could run out before I ran the dishwasher. 4 bowls and 4 forks isn’t enough. We don’t have enough dishes for our use right now. I mean, I don’t want to run the dishwasher just for a couple bowls and forks. I wait until I have a load of dishes. Now I don’t! It’s so frustrating! I want my bowls and forks back!

And I think we are missing things from our move. I had a blue duffle bag I had loaded a bunch of stuff in, and I can’t find it. We still have boxes to unload, so I’m hoping the movers packed it away. But I think I packed it after then were through packing, so I’m doubtful we have it now. I’m not even sure what was in it. But we think it had Skyprincess’s birth control patches, and I think it also had my electric toothbrush. Plus I think it had all our mail, including my coupon book for my car payment. Which will not be good if that’s the case. The car note is due.

Okay, that’s enough for this post. I’ll start working on other ones so I don’t have just a huge long post.

Mizike