I said in the previous entry I don’t want to be doted over or waited on when I’m sick and that people only bring food to the sick in the movies. I take all that back, it would have been nice to have Fife ask if I wanted orange juice or something. It would be nice for me to not have to tell him I can’t fill the dishwasher right now cause I’m dog sick so don’t wait for me to get well before you get yourself some clean dishes. I don’t need him to cook for me but an offer for an orange juice run would have been nice. Waiting for me to do his dishes seems … typical.
I think I’m a tad bit annoyed with Bird too for saying, “How’s the dog doing” instead of “How are you doing?” I’m annoyed that she yacked on and on about what the heck ever until finally my head pounded so hard I had to let her go. If I have to listen to another conversation about “baby killers” and “democrats” I’m going to lose my mind. I don’t know, it would be nice from time to time to hear something positive come out of her mouth. The last complaint about her is this, several days ago (before I got sick) we were to go together to the store so I could get some rice to make bears. The woman showed up unannounced with a twenty pound bag of rice. TWENTY POUNDS of rice. Not bags of rice equally 20 pounds but one 20 pound bag of rice. First off I was like, WTF are you doing here? I woke up 5 min ago… and what am I supposed to do with twenty pounds of rice? This is not UNICEF. I can’t store that much rice nor can I make that many bears. My mousy bear has a dixie cup full of rice in him..one dixie cup!!! Do you know how many bears I’d have to make to use up twenty pounds of rice?
Maybe some are thinking, why on earth would someone buy that much rice? That’s my thought too. Why? And why bring it to my house and leave it? Here’s an idea of how big a bag this is. If you have more than one cat you probably buy 20 pounds of cat food at a time. If you have a dog you probably buy 20 pounds of dog food at a time. Four bags of flour is 20 lbs. One reem of paper (500 sheets) equals 5 pounds. That means 20,000 sheets of paper is 20 pounds. We’re talking a lot of rice out of frikin no where in one bag which means once it’s opened it’ll begin to go rancid.
I’m sure some are thinking, if someone gave me twenty pounds of free rice I’d be grateful. Good for you. Where should I mail it?
I guess the other thing too is, I don’t like the person it’s from. I may not be flat pro-choice and I don’t support stem cell research but I’ll be damned if you hear me say half the things she says with the force she uses. The things is, she’s not even religious, she’s just aggressive. She’s not a “thumper” or a person that stands outside of abortin clinics. Nope, she’s just a girl that rides around in her billboard van that says how she feels about abortion. Guess what? I don’t care. I don’t care how ya feel and if you want others to care then choose your words wisely or people won’t listen. Heck, I happen to agree that abortion is wrong and I don’t want to listen to her. Really, every single time we talk she brings this up. She yells and curses and goes on and on. It’s exhausting.
I asked why she is so passionate about this especially since she claims no religious affiliation and she never talks about the Bible. No answer for that just more horrible words mixed with cursing and anger. I don’t want to deal with that level of human hatred, not ever. And don’t get me started on how she feels about domestic violence, poverty and women’s rights. I don’t have the energy to get into it how disrespectful she is to woman as a whole. God knows I have my issues with women but dang! I don’t think women set themselves up to be harmed or that all of them drink up their child support. Enough, really, more than enough. I’m telling you by the time I hang up with this girl I need a frikin drink. I have my anger issues but I DO NOT hate the human race. And I’ll say it in a hot second, I love animals but I’ll never give up on humans to the point where I say, I prefer animals to humans. There aren’t enough jackasses in the world to make me give up on the human spirit. Try though many do, I refuse to believe all humans are jackasses.
I don’t want to ride in her car because of the horrible things it says about women and the choices they make. I may not agree with those choices but you know what? There’s a way to say stuff and that ain’t it. She drives a moving billboard. I drive a Sentra with only one bumper sticker. 2CUTE2BSTR8.
I gotta end this acquaintance thing before it gets uglier than it already is…and before she gives me another 20 pounds of rice out of the frikin blue.
J of A – I want orange juice and my mousy bear with one dixie cup of rice
20 pounds of rice. How the heck do you move that thing? You gotta take a picture. How big is the bag? Maybe you ought to see if the Survivor contestants want it. Speaking of Survivor, who are these basketball people pre-empting my show. Hope you saw that it is on Wednesday (not Thursday) next week.
I’m sorry, I know 20# of rice isn’t funny to you, but this is a humorous post. It’s hardly my fault that you had to tell it in a funny way, is it?
I won’t tell you how long it took me to figure out your bumper sticker. Yeah. I’m not good at those things on a good day.
Just came back from Maddy’s where she wrote an “N” and an “M” without prompting. She’s 2. She’s beginning to scare me. Be afraid, be very afraid! (She begins doing algebra and I’m moving to the hills.)
The trouble with rice is it’s just not that interesting. Red beans and rice, okay. Sweet vinegared rice under vegetables. Maybe some rice-a-roni now and then, or a chicken casserole with rice in it. Rice soup seems like a stretch. Rice pudding?
I guess you could adapt it to craft projects… rice doorstops, textured fingerpaints with rice in. Fabric tubes with rice and aromatic herbs you can heat in the microwave and use for hot pads.
Yep, that’s a lot of rice.
I should take a picture of the pile of 20kg bags of rice at work…
Basketball instead of Survivor, I wasn’t pleased.
Shrimp with rice, steak with rice, chicken with rice…I feel a Forest Gump flashback coming on.
Life is like a box of chocolates .. with rice.
I wrote the entry with humor under it. I’m annoyed more at the person than I am at the situation of storing 20 lbs of rice. Twenty pounds of rice makes for a good entry. Really, I’m not angry like really, really angry just a bit thrown that anyone would show up with that much rice. I think it’s kinda strange.
I should add too….this chick had 6 teeth capped the other day and was STILL talking. What does it take to make her shut up? I mean really? If you can run your mouth after that kind of dental work then it’s true, you’re determined to be the most negative you can be. . . . badly, this is going to end badly.
Picture it, her face all swollen but she can still dog women of every country. I don’t want to hear nothin’ about “A-rabs” “Mexican’s” or any other topic which gives people permission to be as prejudice as they want under the guise of patriotism.
Austin out ! <– knows when to shut up but sometimes ignores it.
Update:
This is the thing, while this is a ton of rice there are a few things I can do with it. The first thing of course is to store some for bears and turn it into cash. The other thing I can do is add a half cup of cooked rice to the dog’s food. Instead of buying him a $5 bag of biscuits (5lb bag) like I was going to do next month I can instead purchase frozen turkey at $1.00 a pound and add it to the rice and kibble. It’ll stretch the 50lbs of dog food I purchase each month. I could probably get away with buying 40lbs instead of 50 and spend the other money on ground turkey. I can spend a buck more for flour next month and make his biscuits the way I use to for Captain. I’ve got the other ingredients for it, they’re not hard to make at all. I can even make different size biscuits too…some for training others for treats.
The main issue with the rice is the person it came from NOT the rice itself. Yeah, 20lbs is a heck of a lot of rice, especially when I myself hardly ever eat it. Fife only eats long grain brown rice so he’s not going to eat it. I could use a few new hot packs so I’ll make some of those. Mostly it’ll get used to stretch dog food. I might have to make rice pudding too. I like that stuff, especially warm.
Austin <— willing to complain if given half a chance.
Did she steal it from the abortion clinic??
Delane
The rice? LOL I’m not sure. She didn’t show me a receipt so I could have stolen goods here.
That is too funny!