January 13, 2005

• PUT A LID ON IT!      Tonight I found the kissin'-cousin of the nefarious missing socks. Lids and Containers   Or more precisely... *&^ Lids and ()(*&&* Containers!!!     Tonight I took about 3 pounds of ground beef *scored at Sam's Club for $1.69 lb..YEAH* and made chili for supper. I froze half of what was left over for making burritos, or taco salad, etc.   Allll I wanted to do was simply put the chili in three small containers and put the containers in the freezer.   Harumph.   Inagine, if you will:   Kathie tries to be a good girl and put the chili away right NOW, before she goes to bed. That way she doesn't have to be half asleep, and jump up fully awake remembering she left $10 worth of food on the stove to go bad.  Kathie takes half of chili from her lov-er-ly Kitchen Aid 18/10 stainless steel cook-pot and puts it in her brand-new-as-of-Christmas French white Corningware casserole dish * a thank you very much nod to mother-in-law Jean*.  She then turns...and approaches with some trepidation THE CABINET   Oh you KNOW what I am talking about! Don't even pretend like YOU don't have one. *and if you don't have one, don't tell me about it because I will get a complex*.   Its THAT cabinet. The one that you could spend 2 hours on Wednesday, organizing, stacking, size-matching, top-arranging-til you are bug eyed.  ...and the next morning it would look like the tornado from the Wizard of Oz hit it.     ***Aunty Em...Oh AUNTY EM!***   I cautiously approach the cabinet door...open it slowly...  And I will be hanged if about 8 freakin' things don't fall our. Grrrrrrr...  Nary a one of them is a top and lid that matches.  As I grouch about the habits of my cabinets have about vomiting pertroleum-by-product items onto my kitchen floor, I notice a couple of containers of appropriate size for a serving or two of chili. TERRIFIC. Ummm...where are the lids.  ...rustle...rustle..Rustle..RUSTLE...  ARGGGHHHH *insert Charlie Brown scream here*  XXX WHERE ARE THE BLASTED LIDS???!!   The lids to the containers went INTO the cabinet WITH the containers. Why aren't they still together. *more rustling...accompanied by aggravated mumbling*.   Still, no lids to be found. Yet another  scintillating household mystery to be solved...    Perhaps it is because these cabinets share a wall with the washer and dryer? My best guess is that the Laundry Sock Gremlin has a cousin or brother that he gave a call.  "Yo, Benny, its Louie...Hey, listen, you GOTTA come check this out. There is this great place... big rooms...not many kids around. Ready for you to just move right on in. And get THIS. She has TONS of plasticware. Yeaaahhh boy, that's right! I tell ya, this place was MADE for you! It is fate I tell ya boy FATE !!!"   By the noon the next day, Benny the Lid Container Gremlin moves in so his backyard touches his Cousin Louie's. My container lids go POOF! The Gremlins sit back just waiting for me to open the door, because, you know I will...I have to.   All I gotta say is THANK GOD for Ziplock Freezer Bags.  And to add insult to injury, I STILL haven't found all the blasted sock mates.   What you want to bet that when I find the socks, the container lids will be with them???                                                                                         Kathie

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