Excuses & Lessons

It's the thought that counts right?! I sure hope so because based on that statement, I've had so many blogs posted since October that neither you or I would be able to count them! Sadly in this case, that statement doesn't matter!

Here is my primary excuse why I haven't put my fingers to the keyboard and typed up all these thoughts in my head over the course of the past 3 months:

I can't. 

Do you believe it? It's legit but I reckon it needs an explanation!

The reason that I can't is because the majority of what consumes my mind I have wanted to blog about aren't topics that I can share with the world. The internet causes a difficult balance of wanting to be transparent but remembering that being transparent on the internet means that you are transparent to EVERYONE in the ENTIRE WORLD! There are certain things that I wouldn't mind sharing with everyone but my students or everyone but co-workers or everyone but this particular group of people or another. It's not that I have awful thoughts swarming in my head or even a desire to vent, it's just that I wish I had the ability to keep what I write on here from being blabbed to the world a little more confidential than I can.

I digress.

Married life. Ever since Christmas [there's a topic I could chat about as well I guess], I have had about 0.0000000001 motivation to do any sort of house work! It's not that I enjoy living in a tornado scene, which I am not, but what's it really going to hurt if things are out of place and a few too many dishes are laying around? Nothing really, right? My excuse that I get to use for not too much longer is that Chris and his papa are working on building shelves to make a pantry like storage area. They tore out all the old, not so functional shelving in the room off the garage and put in a new door a couple weeks ago. Last night Wy joined them for putting up the majority of the shelving and now there is only one more wall to go! Wa-hoo!! Soon [hopefully] all of the canned and boxed food items that are in bags on the kitchen floor, miscellaneous small appliances, and all the junk lovely stuff that is filling the garage causing no room for a car will all have a lovely home in the new pantry!! THEN we'll finally be able to bring home our deep freeze Christmas present from my 'rents to fill up with delicious food! Maybe then I will be motivated to keep things a bit more organized... doubt it, but perhaps.

A second note on married life. I realized today that kind of "poisoned" Chris... completely unintentional of course! A week or so ago I made chili for the first time and I bought dry kidney beans to use in it. [Note to all: I have never made chili before and I have never used dried beans before!] Well I read the instructions on the beans bag and it said something about soaking them overnight to soften them, then rinsing them and THEN use them however you please. Well since I was going to be making the chili the night before in the Crockpot, I figured this would eliminate the need to soak them. I figured wrong. Despite the beans soaking in the Crockpot overnight and then cooking all day long, they were a bit "crunchy" when we ate supper Monday night. Me being the pickier eater and not afraid to not eat something if I don't like it, I got out a little plastic cup and with each spoonful of chili I would spit out all the crunchy beans! This was quite easy as when I was younger I didn't like the squishiness of kidney beans and didn't eat them then either. Well Chris will eat anything even if it's gross and he didn't really mind the crunchiness so after doctoring the soup up a bit with Hot Sauce he ate a couple bowls.

Fast-forward to the next morning. Chris was peeing out his butt had some stomach issues and clung to the toilet multiple times before leaving for work at 11am. We blamed it on the hot sauce because I only tried a bite of his [and didn't like it so didn't eat any more] and I didn't have any "issues".

Fast-forward again to last night/this morning. Chris ate some on the leftover chili before bed last night while I was satisfied with my Dora Fruit Snacks late night snack. Of course he didn't add any Hot Sauce this time and thought everything would be good. Well this morning, he woke and you guess it his urethra and rectum were once again confused! Since I suspected it was the beans that caused this issue, I did a little technical research and googled it! :) Sure enough eating undercooked kidney beans is actually quite bad! Whoops. There is actually such a thing as Kidney Bean Poisoning which is caused by Phytohaemagglutnin which is a toxin that can affect someone after consuming as few as 5 undercooked kidney beans. I'm just thankful that he didn't have the vomiting like the websites described!!

Lesson learned. I'll use canned beans, that is if he ever dares to let me venture to make chili again!