The Tale of the Guacamole....

I had an epic failure in the kitchen this week.  Guacamole, based on my previous experiences, should not be hard to make.  I promised to make it for a department Christmas lunch.  In the end, we ended up with salsa. 

In a nutshell, this is what I learned:
1.  Ripe avocados are key.  Putting unripe avocados in the little chopper gadget does not mash them properly.
2.  Add the lime juice AFTER the avocados.  Otherwise, it's pretty easy to get too much.
3.  If you have unripe avocados and too much lime juice, your guacamole tastes awful, and 3 hours later, you'd really just like to drown your failure in a couple of oreos.

Help - I've lost my underwear!!!

So this is a physical "losing it" -  a whole week's worth of underwear has disappeared.  While I was out of town for a week, my wonderful husband did all the laundry.  When I came home, everything was clean and folded.  But no underwear!!!  I swear I wore some the week before I left, he swears he washed and folded them.  The children swear that no stray underwear has shown up in their stacks of clean clothes.  We have looked everywhere, including behind the washer/dryer.  So my question of the day is, how on earth do you lose a stack of underwear????  What kind of cosmic forces are conspiring against my undies?

Interestingly (at least to me), this connects with my wish for a super power.  If I could have any super power, I would chose to be able to find anything that is lost.  I've thought about  this for years, because I get so fixated on trying to find what I have misplaced that I can't concentrate on anything else until I find it.  Having this power would improve my efficiency, which means I would get things done faster, which means I would be less stressed.  Which means I might be finding it more (literally) and losing it alot less!!!

So if I seem distracted to you the next time you see me, it's because I'm still looking for my underwear!!!

Did you know.......

Did you know that it is physically possible to put two contacts in the same eye?  Did you know that this results in:

1. Not being able to see very well out of the eye with two contacts, and
2. Not being able to see very well out of the eye with no contact?

And since you asked, no, I did not do this little experiment on purpose.  I'm just reporting the results.

Losing it!

Ok - so I thought I'd start this blog out with a finding it.....because I really like those moments when I feel like I have it all together and my life is in order.  But really, isn't it easier to think of the losing its?  And, if I may be honest here, don't they happen more frequently?  I promise I'll publish a finding it when I can, but for now, perhaps you can relate to my losing it.  (Or maybe this will make you feel better about yours!)

I was sitting in my office recently near the end of the day.  I was thinking about all the things I had to wrap up before I went home (i.e. everything I had to write down so I didn't forget about it for the next morning), and everything I had to do that evening (i.e. who had to be where by what time).  And then it hit me:  I couldn't remember if I had walked to work that morning, or if I had driven!!!  I sat they for what felt like 5 mintues trying to remember my trip into work that morning.  I looked in the corner of my office where I ususally keep my walking shoes - empty.  I tried to remember (again) my trip into work that morning.  I went and asked two of my co-workers if they remembered how I got to work (they did not - they have their own worries!).  I tried to decide how much my children would make fun of me if I called home and asked them to look in the garage to see if my car was there.  And if I really wanted to appear that scattered to the sitter.  As I was debating, I saw my shoes.  They were in a different place, but the evidence was clear - I WALKED. 

If that's not a "losing it," I don't know what is.  I'm glad I can laugh at myself about this.  I hope you laugh with me.