Running Commentary

When Efficiency Just Isn’t Efficient September 25 2006

So Chris and I both had to work yesterday
The boys had to go to their Grandfather’s and no one would be home until the earliest 3ish.

SO I thought what to do for dinner tonight? A perfect opportunity to make beef stew in the slow cooker.

So in the morning I chatted with Jon, fed my boys, showered myself and then started the stew with 15mins before we had to leave.

It was AFTER I had all the meat cut up and the onion diced that I realized we had NO potatoes. No big deal, the stew could cook and simmer in it’s heavenly loveliness until Chris came at 2 and tossed in spuds.

It wasn;t until I added it to the crockpot and topped it up with beef stock and veggie broth that I noticed we were out of carrots, well not completely out of carrots, I had about 6 baby carrots left over from Noah’s lunch last week.

And while I was tossing those in I noticed that we were also out of turnip.

No time for moaning I rushed out the door to work.

I spoke to Chris at some point and told him to grab something for dinner on his way home since he was finished before the grocery stores closed and I had only partially prepared dinner.

Great.

And then? Chris worked late and came to my store just as i was closing up. He’d left his wallet at home and wanted to know if I had any cash.

And I did.

$2.87

So we went home to find his bank card.

And by then the grocery stores were closed. So we ordered a pizza for dinner.

Late.