I was making my way up Market Street, headed, as usual, to Walgreens to fight with the pharmacists, as usual, for my meds. Those girls have developed the instincts of a cobra from years of turning back junkie forays into prescription drugs. I kept thinking where did all these people come from and why are they IN MY WAY? I finally realized it was Saturday, something that doesn’t really matter to those of us in the retirement field. And a lovely, sunny Saturday to boot. No wonder everyone had turned out, but why do they have to turn out in my path? Who knows? Get out of my way.
After defeating Walgreens (natch,) I had to make a grocery store run. Yes, I am almost cooking again. “Almost” because I was breaking in a brand new crock pot. I have never owned one before. I always figured if you have a stove and a pot, what’s the point? But now that I have been marooned in an apartment with an electric stove, which I hate so much, I refuse to acknowledge it as an actual cooking device, I have discovered their (possibly) usefulness. As I said, this is the first thing I’ve cooked in it, so we’ll see.
Also, I now realize the pot I bought is designed for one of those giant suburban families that need 6 quarts of lentils. This is a monster that would do Alice of the Brady Bunch proud.
And I bought an air purifier in hopes that it might deal with the ambient cat hair. There are great drifts of it everywhere here. I think my old place was so big, you didn’t especially notice there was enough loose fur around that you could have knitted a brand new cat. In my new apartment, it’s just me, the cat and all his discarded hair. How he can lose so much and not be bald is beyond me.
So, the little purifier works great. I have it in my bedroom and as soon as I step out of the door there, I can tell a difference. I immediately start wiping my nose and choking. I knew Saki has been trying to kill me for years, I just never suspected he was doing it by means of air control suffocation.
The purifier has a little colored light on it to indicate the quality of the air, blue is good, purple not so hot, and red is bad. It’s like a mood ring. It pretty much stays a lovely, cool blue, but whenever I walk directly past it, it turns red. Bitch. I have been dissed by better appliances than you. I don’t care. Suck up the cat hair and get to work slacker.

Look! It’s our old friend Gianfranco looking all photoshopped and pretty.

I do love a good blonde bitch bottom.

Ah, the mystery, the allure of a big fat, half exposed wiener.
It’s a good sign you’re cooking again, but what exactly did you put in that crock pot? Eye of newt and toe of frog? Lindsay Lohan’s career? A whole moose?
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Lentils, my lesbian diet mainstay.
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I thought that was quinoa? [Whatever that is. Sounds like a Mexican cantina band to me.] Jx
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Quinoa has got a very distinctive smell when it’s cooking reminiscent of baby batter! My kitchen often stinks like a Korean whore house. Keeps the lesbians at bay.
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I hope they’re quite delicious. And that that electric stove is ashamed of its very existence.
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I heap abuse on it each time I pass by. I hope it’s traumatized by now.
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I often use the crock pot to cook lima or pinto beans overnight; they are ready for lunch the next day.
PS: Which air purifier are you using? I’m asking for “a friend.”
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I am using the Coway, which I assume must be from some company whose first language is not English or they might have realized how close they are to “Go away.” Despite its odd name, I think it’s great. Very quiet and I sleep so much better with it.
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I read the post, scrolled down and now I’ve forgotten what I read!
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old age is not for sissies. And neither is that boy in the last photo.
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He is rather intriguing.
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From a more practical point of view – this air purifier is effectively a filter, yes ?
You have to open it and get out the cat hair before little GoAway carks it, I guess. I hope GoWay came with a nice drawing of the neceassary steps. The alternative would be burning the cat hair – and hence make GoWay go away in a cloud, what would be sort of contraproductive.
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