Surrounded by Treasures: Sometimes I am really, really lame.

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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Sometimes I am really, really lame.

This morning I was merrily folding laundry in my room -- OK, I can't stretch it that far. I was... ungrudgingly? moderately happily? smugly?... folding laundry in my room, when C came in and informed me that she had found a plastic-wrapped tray of Italian sausage in the fruit bowl. On the counter. Where it had been since Tuesday night. Apparently the bagger had bagged the sausage with my apples (HUGE pet peeve, by the way: please, baggers, please keep the possibly e-coli-laden raw meat away from the fruit which will be eaten uncooked and, knowing my daughter, possibly unwashed), and then I, in a moment of supremely wasteful stupidity, had just plopped the whole grocery bag of apples into the fruit bowl on the counter because I'm all classy like that. (To be fair to myself, I had also thought that T would be taking them to work and it would have been easier for him to just grab the bag.) And then I had completely forgotten that I'd bought Italian sausage, until, well, this morning. So now I am cooking up one and one third pounds of what would have been really good topping for our next Friday pizza in a solid chunk which I'll put out in our woods for the stray cats and the foxes, who will eat it up in no time, and I'm feeling really stupid and wasteful and lame.

Too bad I can't muster that much guilt when I blow three dollars on junk food or at, say, Starbucks. (Can you spend only three dollars at Starbucks?)

Posted by Rachel on October 23, 2008 09:36 AM in Stupid Things Rachel Does

Comments

I personally have never bought anything at starbucks. =) I hate it when I realize food has been left out like that. like 5lbs of cheese. oh htat bothered me!

Posted by: debi at October 23, 2008 06:48 PM

I hope the old meat which is probably bad by now doesn't make your cats sick. Or give them worms gross.

Posted by: Jennifer at October 24, 2008 10:33 AM

I kind of figured that animals who eat raw, sometimes day-old gophers, moles, mice, lizards, snakes, and insects (and, in the cases of the wild animals, humans' garbage, carrion, and other animals' feces) have digestive & immune systems that can probably whack the heck out of whatever would be in that meat, especially considering that it had been very thoroughly cooked. I did think about just putting it in the trash, but they'd have just dug through the trash to find it anyway.

Posted by: Rachel at October 24, 2008 12:17 PM

An interesting thing about cats is they are very picky about what they eat. They won't eat it if it is bad so I guess they're safe, regardless. I had a cat once who wouldn't even eat his food if it was sitting out for a few hours. It had to be FRESH. They are prissy creatures, indeed.

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