I hate grocery shopping!

A blog from January...revisited.

I hate grocery shopping!!!!! There, let me just get that out of the way.


I was trying to be so good this weekend. I pulled several recipes out to try and cook actual meals instead of just cakes..lol I should have known I was in trouble when I read them off to Vic and had to ask what a Dutch Oven was ,Vic didn't know either. I googled it and came up with lots of useful information. I kid you not, one answer was, and I quote "Dutch oven is a fart chamber created by pulling a blanket over someones head and farting". If you don't believe me google it yourself!

Well I looked at Walmart (my least favorite store) and did not see anything that said Dutch Oven on it. Guess I'll have to see if mom has one.

Then I come to the spices because my recipe calls for cumin..wouldn't you know there are choices! Ground or Seed looking stuff..my recipe didn't say which one so i got the ground. The next item I never did find was green chilies...where do I find those? i looked in the produce and found peppers but nothing that said Chile's..I looked by the cans of Chili mixes and still nothing..Grrrrrrrrrrr I need a recipe that shows pictures of the ingredients!



I also needed roasted garlic. Vic asked me if we had to roast it ourselves..luckily that answer turned out to be NO , i found roasted garlic in the produce section..yay me!



I think I spent two hours grocery shopping and only walked out with 20 items! I have to go back later with Vic because I also don't know how to buy meat! Way too many choices in grocery stores!! Even the simple item like Iams puppy food had four different choices...large breed puppies, small breed, toy breed, all natural...Arg!



I get all packed up into the jeep and get a text message from Vic "please pick up cheese sticks" I wasn't about to go back into walmart so I drove across the street to Publix ..thinking I would also look for some of the things I didn't find at Walmart..like tomato salsa. I found tomato paste, tomato sauce, but not tomato salsa..is that just salsa and they are trying to confuse me? Probably!

...OK enough venting..

Back to our regular scheduled programming....Farmville here i come!

Obsessions,Addictions,Passions

To know me, is to know that I go through many "obsessions", I guess that is what I will call it until I think of a better word.
I will find something that I really enjoy and just do it to death and then move on. Sometimes I will re-visit it and sometimes I won't. Some examples..scrap booking, making YouTube videos, playing farmville, petville, social city and what ever other new games came about on facebook. Pogo (the game site, not the stick) blogging, facebook, myspace, twitter, etc. 

I am very envious of people that can cook but I really don't have the passion or desire to learn to be good at it. I tried a few dishes when Vic and I were on the Atkins diet a few months ago. Going to the grocery store was my first challenge! I had not even heard of most of the ingredients and then came the terminology of things in the kitchen...dutch oven, meat fork , etc. I did a blog about that experience on facebook  Check that out  here when you are in need of a good laugh.

Now that I am obsessing with blogs, I keep seeing the most amazing crafts and fun food projects. I don't know that I will ever make them..I want to. I am jealous that other people seem so focused and able to do these things. I am a perfectionist that isn't perfect is a good way of saying it I think. In my mind I have a perfect vision of what something should be and then when it falls short of perfection I quit.

My sisters boyfriend said something the other day that really stuck with me and made a lot of sense. We were talking about kids now days (wow that sentence alone makes me sound OLD!) Anyway...the jest of the conversation was that kids want to be the best at something but don't want to put the work into learning HOW to be good at it. I guess that is kind of how I am. If something comes easily for me and I'm good at it, GREAT! If it's work and I'm falling short of being good at it I probably won't stick with it.  Not one of my better qualities.

I know this is something I need to work on. Or maybe I will just keep adding obsessions. I am a very curious person and am always thinking. I would love to learn more about photography but would get bored with the technical side of how and why things work with a camera. Even as I sit and write this blog my mind is off on a million other things. I should make a list of what I want to do. Lists are not my friends but that is a whole other blog.

OK off to start my day...Enjoy your Tuesday!

A fun day in the kitchen with Vic and Holly

Vic and I making a pot roast. Part 1


Part 2


Part 3



Part 4