Happy New Year
Jan. 1st, 2015 08:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thisnewdayHappy New Year, everyone. The grandson and I had a "bachelors' night in" for New Years Eve. Earlier in the evening, we'd found a local supermarket that was still open and picked up a couple of microwave dinners for him and a Kashi thin-crust vegetarian pizza for me and went home to celebrate with the two pitbull pups and Oreo the cat. (So-named because she's black and white and round.)
I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but it seems like the folks who market these microwave dinners have actually tried to make them harder to fix. As if temporarily removing this food item and that half of the plastic covering, before the first of two near-lethal blasts of micro-radiation, will somehow raise their sorry contents to new heights of flavor and nutrition while simultaneously endowing the hapless consumer with the self-satisfaction and culinary skill set of a Le Cordon Bleau graduate.
For the record, Jason said the chicken tenders were OK but the whole kernal corn had that weird flavor it always has in these dinners. I told him that my thin crust pizza would've had better flavor and texture if I'd tossed the pizza and eaten the cardboard box. However, we were both quite pleased with the accompanying beverage which consisted of two 8 oz. cans of A&W root beer which had previously been hidden behind the vegetable bin in the fridge.
After that, we both fell asleep watching a New Years-themed episode of "Friends," and were blissfully unconscious of its real-time arrival in our own less than remarkable lives. And now, to celebrate the day, he intends to play as many hours of FIFA 15 as he can before his dad arrives home from the casino, hungover and miserable, and I will change the furnace filter and empty the cat litter.
Which inspires me to repeat, in closing, Happy New Year everyone...
LPK
LiveJournal
1.1.2015 (a)
I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but it seems like the folks who market these microwave dinners have actually tried to make them harder to fix. As if temporarily removing this food item and that half of the plastic covering, before the first of two near-lethal blasts of micro-radiation, will somehow raise their sorry contents to new heights of flavor and nutrition while simultaneously endowing the hapless consumer with the self-satisfaction and culinary skill set of a Le Cordon Bleau graduate.
For the record, Jason said the chicken tenders were OK but the whole kernal corn had that weird flavor it always has in these dinners. I told him that my thin crust pizza would've had better flavor and texture if I'd tossed the pizza and eaten the cardboard box. However, we were both quite pleased with the accompanying beverage which consisted of two 8 oz. cans of A&W root beer which had previously been hidden behind the vegetable bin in the fridge.
After that, we both fell asleep watching a New Years-themed episode of "Friends," and were blissfully unconscious of its real-time arrival in our own less than remarkable lives. And now, to celebrate the day, he intends to play as many hours of FIFA 15 as he can before his dad arrives home from the casino, hungover and miserable, and I will change the furnace filter and empty the cat litter.
Which inspires me to repeat, in closing, Happy New Year everyone...
LPK
LiveJournal
1.1.2015 (a)
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Date: 2015-01-02 01:35 am (UTC)May you and yours have a great new year filled with good health, happiness and wondrous new adventures.
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Date: 2015-02-28 06:56 pm (UTC)