I sent the kid outside with his dad to “garden” while I’m trying to clean the house. Not because anyone is coming over but because it looks like it’s been ransacked. Every once in a while we forget to lock the door and sometimes I reassure myself that if someone decided to rob us, they’d think someone else had beat them to it. Kids are so helpful.
Have a couple coming over tonight so we're cleaning up a little, prepping dinner and watching The Masters. Supposed to get into the low 80's. I've had worse Sundays.
Weather has been shit here. My golf club opened a couple weeks ago and there's been only one decent day in that period. Been wanting to get out for a round for months and still haven't been able to. Watching The Masters it is, I guess.
I was planning on a relaxing and fun afternoon at one of the two clubs I frequent today, but in the end it was kind of soured. There’s factions of this one doesn’t like that one, so if you’re engaged in the usual ball busting with one the response is different because you’re sitting next to… For fucks sake, it’s exhausting and somewhat problematic for me because I get along with generally everyone there. I’m already stepping down as a trustee and haven’t been there as often as I used to be. I told my wife if things don’t improve I’ll be saving us the annual dues and go elsewhere. Which is sad, because like I said, I get along with pretty much everyone there. But I left high school drama behind 30+ years ago.
Don’t worry, it makes my skin crawl, too. I keep telling myself it will be better when I’m not surviving on 4 hours of broken sleep every night. Supposedly we’ve only had 2 kids for like 6 weeks but it seems like an eternity of chaos.
It does get better. Just not anytime soon. Just know 18 years from now you will be wondering where all the time went.
Well, it's getting closer to chocolate rabbit season. I just started a 4-day weekend, so I'm quite happy about that. I also might be a bit fucking buzzed right now and going down a few YouTube rabbit holes of Sovereign Citizens getting shit-kicked, and drag and drive engine rebuilds. (Steve Morris for the win! literally!)
In other news, I got a Costco order in today, and they fucked up. In my favour. I ordered one big pork shoulder, they delivered up 4, while charging me for the 1. The smoker is giggling like a little school girl right now.
Isn't that the same store that sent you a bunch of eggs you didn't order? No wonder you keep ordering from them.
I use the Instacart service... just because they can't get their shit together doesn't mean I shouldn't benefit. If they fuck up the wrong way, then I get a full refund. Not sure how I lose at this game.
Biggest problem I have now is that I've run out of freezer space... with 2 fridges, a chest freezer, and a standup deep freeze in the pantry. Tomorrow I have to go clean out the old shit that I've frozen but haven't eaten in 5 years in order to make room for everything. First world problems.
So I'm not the only one who does this. I have a deep chest freezer that I need to go through. I've resolved to do better from now on. Hopefully I actually follow through.
I'm at the point where I literally don't have enough space in the freezer for the shit I just bought today. The 5 year old elk stew might have to get purged.
I go through spurts where I get it to a third or half empty and then some great deal on pork shoulder or meat comes up. Right back to the top. I have stuff in there from 4-5 years ago.
I’m so old school I don’t have a second freezer- just the one within my fridge. Somehow I’ve managed.
I like to cook, and when I cook I tend to make large volumes. The standup freezer in my pantry is mostly full of soups, stews, chilis, or broth, etc, that I've made that makes it easy to have a super tasty lunch. The chest freezer downstairs is the one full of protein for the smoker, etc.