Cleaning the refrigerator is on my top five list of things I hate to do.\u00a0 This is them in order…<\/p>\n
1. Cook\u00a0 I hate to cook.\u00a0 I hate all aspects of cooking from the picking of ingredients, to choosing a recipe, to cooking the food and then, there\u00a0 is the cleanup.\u00a0 My mother was the best cook in the world, but I know she didn’t love doing it.\u00a0 I learned a lot from her\u00a0\u00a0mostly from watching her as she bustled around the kitchen.\u00a0 I was in charge of cleaning up most often. Especially after my older sister married. The cleanup was left to me.\u00a0I’d rather wash and dry dishes than cook.\u00a0 \u00a0I took\u00a0Foods in 4-H and my remembrance of it was me in the kitchen crying and my mother yelling at me from the other room that I could do it.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I baked so many yellow cakes one Summer, my brothers would moan when another one appeared at the table for dessert. Now baking I don’t mind so much.\u00a0 I will gladly bake a cake at the drop of a hat, but fix a meal, ugh, no. Don’t confuse cooking with baking. They are very different and charm the senses in very different ways.<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0Clean the refrigerator.\u00a0 This is a chore best done when no one is around so no one will hear any curse words, but it is nice to have\u00a0\u00a0a husband to know\u00a0how to put it all back together again after you have\u00a0disassembled it.\u00a0 I wasn’t planning to clean the refrigerator today, but I watched \u00a0Hoarders on tv this morning and after I washed some eggs and was arranging them in the refrigerator, I realized something sticky and red had been spilt on just about every shelf and on the walls.\u00a0 Some of the refrigerators on Hoarders are pretty nasty. I’m not here to judge, but rotten food and expired food is not what I want in my refrigerator. Anyway, I washed one shelf, realized the next shelf needed cleaning and before I was all through, I had every shelf out of my refrigerator and had washed just about everything. There was a bit way in the back I couldn’t reach, but thankfully, David did that when he got home.\u00a0 Now it’s all clean for another year or two.\u00a0 Just kidding.\u00a0 I had scrubbed my kitchen floor this morning and had to reclean it and that’s another reason.<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0 Attend Funerals\u00a0 I have attended quite a lot of funerals in my life. I’ve buried grandparents, parents, uncles, aunts, a\u00a0brother, a nephew, and\u00a0friends.\u00a0 My son-in-law’s mother passed away this week after a long illness.\u00a0 She was such a wonderful lady, loved by everyone who knew her.\u00a0 She’s just a year older than me and makes me think how near I am to death’s door.\u00a0I’m\u00a0at the stage of my life now that I know more dead people than living ones.\u00a0\u00a0 I always want to go to funerals out of respect, but I am a very horrible comforter.\u00a0 People usually end up comforting me.\u00a0 This will not be an easy funeral to attend. What ones are?<\/p>\n
4. Dust.\u00a0 My house has to get pretty dusty for me to dust. My rule is, dust before company and rest the rest of the time. Enough said about that.<\/p>\n
5.\u00a0 Go to parties.\u00a0 I am not\u00a0a party animal although\u00a0once I get to one I enjoy myself usually.\u00a0 I always feel like people are trying too hard to have a good time and I’d rather be home reading a book.\u00a0 But that’s just me.\u00a0 Some people are just gregarious.\u00a0 I’m not.\u00a0 I’m\u00a0the one\u00a0sitting on the sidelines watching everyone else and that is all I’d rather do.<\/p>\n
I know there are other things I don’t like to do, but these are my top five.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I’m pretty easily entertained and don’t expect much from people.\u00a0 I love gardening, taking care of my chickens, playing with my dogs, traveling, reading, quilting, knitting and painting(not pictures, walls.)\u00a0\u00a0 I love to visit with family and friends which we don’t get to do often.\u00a0 I don’t consider going to funerals as visiting even though I will see several people I\u00a0don’t see often.<\/p>\n
Do you have a list of things you just hate to do, but have to be done? We all have to do things we don’t like and I’m glad there are only five on my list. I think I’m pretty fortunate in that way.\u00a0 Bye.<\/p>\n
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