I’m working from home this week. Since I have no kids and the dog sleeps all day, the only thing to tempt me away from work is daytime TV, because really, there are some episodes of Friends I’ve only seen twenty times. So, no temptations.
For some reason, today, I’d work two hours then think: “I wonder what’s in the refrigerator.” Strangely, each time I opened the refrigerator door the same stuff was in there: replacement non-Jiffy peanut butter, chicken fajita soup, barbecue sauce, and cheese. I’d stare blankly, then pivot and open the pantry door. Flour? Granola? What am I supposed to do with this? I’d then turn and pad back to the computer, or make myself some tea.
The tea ceremony here is this: Microwave a measuring cup full of water five minutes, while you chill the big mug in the freezer. Brew the tea in the measuring cup of boiling water. Take the frozen mug and pour the hot tea into it so you can drink the tea immediately without burning your lip on a hot mug. Then go back to your desk where your co-workers are sending you IMs like “Bitch, where have you been the last five minutes?”
At 1:00 I padded out to the kitchen, did the fridge-pantry pivot, and thought, “I need to actually eat something this time.” I planned to make my current favorite recipe: Pasta with Mizthra Cheese. I love this recipe because it’s just this: Make pasta. Add butter. Add cheese. Get fat. But it sounds like I’ve been swanning about in the kitchen whipping up a complex batch of Pasta with Mizthra.
So I planned to Nigella up some Pasta with Mizthra, but then a package of Kraft Easy Mac and Cheese hurled itself at me and said: “Just add water!”
“Well, okay then,” I said. I knew if I didn’t eat the Easy Mac and Cheese (much less the Classic Difficult Mac and Cheese, and far far from Pasta Avec Mizthra), then no one would eat it because Gary truly feels that anything that involves the microwave is too complicated.
So, clearly if I’m going to work from home I need to make a shopping list of whatever it is I am looking for in my kitchen. I just wish I knew what I was looking for. Homemade granola sounds good. Nah. Pretzels? Yeah! No. I just don’t know.
6 responses to “Home Working”
Ice cream, lots of ice cream! Don’t forget some chocolate…….
Chocloate – excellent suggestion. But ice cream requires too much concentration. You have to look at the ice cream to scoop out just the right melted bite.I have to be able to mouse and eat at the same time. No Cheetos then, or ice cream.
I was also going to say ice cream. But that no-hands and no-looking restriction is a doozie.When I want to space out eating I eat defrosted frozen peas. Or those baby carrots.Cream of mushroom or tomato soup in a mug requires very little attention and makes me feel wholesome.
Okay, so you don’t like Italtian food because it is flabby pasta with mushy tomatos and mushy cheese. Excepting the mushy tomatos, how is mac and cheese any different? How is it that mac and cheese makes the top of your list, but not Italian food?
Okay, you are right. Then it must be the contrast of the sloppy acidic oregano-laced tomato sauce defiling something that should taste like macaroni and cheese.
Taster- I never thought of soup! Genius. Also, I did buy some baby carrots.