Day 20 - Cooking blows!

Hi everyone, and thank you for reading and sharing!

I had a long day...Lots of work on projects that I really want to complete before the holiday, which requires lots of laptop work.... Lots of PowerPoint detail, sitting and eye strain.   Repetitive hand motions.  I mean, it's not like I am chopping trees or something really physical, but sometimes what doesn't seem exhausting really is... Some days my work is broken up with meetings, but today I had fewer than normal meetings, I guess due to the holiday.  So I was geared up to dig in and bang out some of this work. Which I did, because I am a star.. .:-)

But by 5:30, I was spent.  I was really wiped out.  And I had taken no meat out of the freezer, so I had planned to make spaghetti (my own gravy, or sauce as you might say).  But they Julia said, "Can we just have pizza tonight?"  And I said, of course, "Sure".... Just like that, without thinking. And then I remembered my vow.  So I had to retract.  That went over well.  But I explained that I made a promise, and that can't be broken.  I honestly cannot say who was more annoyed at the spaghetti dinner - her for having to eat spaghetti when she really wanted pizza, or me because I had to make a spaghetti dinner when I really just wanted to order a pizza.... 

All in all, it wasn't the end of the world.  I made the "sauce", and we had a nice meal.... But MAN am I tired!!  There has got to be a better way!!  Which leads me to my second point... I recently saw on TV a pressure cooker for sale... OK, yes, it was on QVC, there, I said it.... If I can't go out, I can at least watch shopping, lol...Which, as it turns out, is equally dangerous!!  

But dang, this pressure cooker thing... I know I am a marketers dream, I really fall for everything.  And I know I am being manipulated, I get it.  But still, I figure even if this amazing pressure cooker does HALF of what it claims, I can have dinner ready in 30 minutes!!  Wouldn't that save me money?  At 5:00, just through a frozen chicken in the pot with some veggies and BAM!  Cheaper than ordering my famous Chinese food, right?  Or am I just a lunatic who is desperately trying for any way to bring peace and calm to my world??

What do you think?  Am I nuts or not??

OK, thank you for reading and have a great night!  xo