I've just had one of those squirrley days where I've gone to too many stores, forgetting too many things, all with Liberty's constant efforts of speaking in the background. Although I am grateful for THAT, it does tend to wear on one's nerves. Each time I have come back home today to "get something done" (such as laundry, cooking, cleaning out the refrigerator, etc.), I turn around and there's Liberty with my purse and keys in hand, making the sign for "go," which, if you are not familiar with that sign, is just making fists with both hands and rolling your hands one over the other, kind of like cheerleaders do. Anyway, he does it in a clumsy sort of way that makes him look like the robot from Lost in Space. All I can think of when he does it is, "Danger, Will Robinson!" I guess that memory dates me. It's very precious and I can hardly deny him anything when he does it.
Anyway, I finally get home and am working on a fabulous onion soup. Liberty has gone out in the backyard to swing by himself. As I am making the soup, I think that it would be fun to blow bubbles in the backyard this afternoon as it's kind of windy and the Gymboree Bubble Oodles are really cool when blown outside. Liberty desperately needs a playmate but, unfortunately, I happen to be it these days.
As I am making the soup, I put a bunch of condiments that go into the soup in a plastic cup and set it aside. As the onions are sauteeing in the butter, I go get the Dawn dishwashing liquid and pour it in a similar small cup since I can't find the tray that goes with the bubble wand, and we always run out anyway, so I think I am being so smart by taking a cup of Dawn with me to blow bubbles outside.
Continuing with my soup, I pour the boiling water on the onions and am ready for the last step. I grap my cup and pour what I thought were the condiments into my soup. But no! My onions are turning a beautiful shade of royal blue! I almost get the spoon and continue stirring until I realize that I have just poured a half a cup of Dawn dishwashing liquid into my lovely onion soup.
So...I trudge out to the swings and make the sign for "go." Lib happily slides off the swings, runs in the house and gets my purse and keys. Out the door for the fourth time today (for yet more onions). I wish there was a prize for most frequently returning customer because we'd win it hands down. If there was a trolley to Winn Dixie, I bet I'd be on it every 30 minutes.
This damn soup better be fabulous tonight because I'm almost too tired to stir!
Anyway, I finally get home and am working on a fabulous onion soup. Liberty has gone out in the backyard to swing by himself. As I am making the soup, I think that it would be fun to blow bubbles in the backyard this afternoon as it's kind of windy and the Gymboree Bubble Oodles are really cool when blown outside. Liberty desperately needs a playmate but, unfortunately, I happen to be it these days.
As I am making the soup, I put a bunch of condiments that go into the soup in a plastic cup and set it aside. As the onions are sauteeing in the butter, I go get the Dawn dishwashing liquid and pour it in a similar small cup since I can't find the tray that goes with the bubble wand, and we always run out anyway, so I think I am being so smart by taking a cup of Dawn with me to blow bubbles outside.
Continuing with my soup, I pour the boiling water on the onions and am ready for the last step. I grap my cup and pour what I thought were the condiments into my soup. But no! My onions are turning a beautiful shade of royal blue! I almost get the spoon and continue stirring until I realize that I have just poured a half a cup of Dawn dishwashing liquid into my lovely onion soup.
So...I trudge out to the swings and make the sign for "go." Lib happily slides off the swings, runs in the house and gets my purse and keys. Out the door for the fourth time today (for yet more onions). I wish there was a prize for most frequently returning customer because we'd win it hands down. If there was a trolley to Winn Dixie, I bet I'd be on it every 30 minutes.
This damn soup better be fabulous tonight because I'm almost too tired to stir!
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