[PyrNet-L] CHAT: Couple of our life's mysteries solved

[MagEBroD@aol.com]

   First of all let me explain: 
           My hubby did not marry me for my obsessive housecleaning skills.
    (I'll leave it to your imagination to wonder why he did marry me!!! Your
imaginings are probably far better than reality!!!!  LOL!! Maybe!) 
   Anyway, now that I have prefaced my story with that I'll explain further
that every home probably has it's little mysteries.......little things that
you can't figure out what happened, or what became of something, things that
quietly drive you crazy.......... ....especially when it's driving you nuts
and you keep asking for help and telling everyone how frustrating it is and
they don't seem to care a bit, as long as dinner gets on the table and there's
food in the fridge and cupboards!! Well, my large casserole dish is one of
those mysteries! I even tried to explain how vitally important it is that we
find it, lest we NOT have food on the table!!!! At least that brought an eye
bat, but not much else. Not this is really important to me, especially now.
You see we have a 22 yr. old that lives at home rent-free, because he has been
great at coming through at those times when you really needed him and just
spoiling us a bit now and then. Like when major appliances break like washers
and microwaves! And also got us a home theatre set-up and this computer and
all the bells and whistles! So I keep telling him that as long as he keeps
spoiling us like that I won't have the guts to ask for rent. The only problem
is he likes to surprise us with them and doesn't always ask our input. Or he'd
have found out how important it is to get microwave ovens that you can use
your cooking ware in. (Otherwise you can end up almost spending as much on new
cookware as the thing costs! And some things are hard to find!) Like my a good
large casserole dish that you can cook enough food for a small army in. All my
other ones are either too small for cooking enough for the whole family or
they are rectangular and since this new microwave you have to cook with a
carousel, rectangular ones don't work. Well I've been without my favorite and
only adequate size casserole dish for months. I've looked the usual places:
sink, dish drainer, cupboard, fridge, freezer, and our travel trailer. Finally
thought maybe I'd left it somewhere at a potluck , but I haven't been to a
potluck since July! I know I've used it since then. We even looked in the
entryway and on the front porch and in the dog pen and in the van.....after
all we ARE DOG people!! Searched everywhere...... ............except .......
   Oh, yes my son has been driving us crazy asking us if some computer gadget
came yet. Supposed to come UPS.  NO! I haven't seen it!! Maybe if he'd spend
some time helping look for my casserole dish, he'd find it! ........... Some
heavenly reward incentive plan maybe! (Or if all else fails a good guilt
trip!!) So he's been arguing with the company ("It's in the mail!") Yeah,
right. sure.
   Then I had gotten Albert the cutest birthday card with a little pup on it
that looked a lot like him as a pup, with a birthday hat on!!! Adorable!!
Wanted to put it in his album. (Yes! We have an "Albert album!!" C'mon you
probably do, too! Well, not an "Albert" one, but.....)
   Then there's some of Albert's toys that are missing. But he has plenty of
others and it's probably just under the couch......and periodically I ask the
boys to look under the couch for them and they keep telling me they can't see
anything under there!!!
   Well today I was hoping to be able to make pancakes in peace (sans Albert
getting into everything all the time!) and thought I'd fill the Kong toy with
peanut butter and various treats to keep him occupied a while. (Lest the waste
basket's contents end up strewn all over the living room again!!)  Kong toy
was missing, though. Since the boys are gone to work and school, I decide to
get down on the floor myself and look for the missing Kong toy
myself........under the couch........ I see all kinds of mysterious shapes
looming under there......including:
   My casserole dish (of COURSE!! Why didn't I think of THAT!!), a partially
chewed box that UPS delivered weeks ago(12 yr. old must've found it on front
porch and brought it in or maybe Albert walked in with it even!),  Albert's
birthday card (unchewed, Thank God!), a pizza coupons ad, a Kong toy, a big
rawhide "bone", a very chewed plastic pop bottle, a very chewed plastic
mouthwash bottle, a very chewed (are we noticing a trend here, yet?) large
travel container for pop, a partially chewed large hard plastic bin scoop,  a
couple chewed socks of Steve's that of course don't match!! (Why can't Albert
at least chew a pair, instead of one of a couple different pairs?!), and a
couple chewed napkins and such.
   Of course you wanna know the BIGGEST MYSTERY??  WHY everytime the BOYS
looked under the couch they saw NOTHING!!!!!  I'm reminded of one of Roseanne
Barr's original comedy skits where she talked about her family and how they
seem to think she has some sort of built-in homing device built into her womb
or something, because they can't ever find anything themselves and are always
asking her for help finding things! (I can identify with this one on a couple
different levels! My family is always saying they can't find something and
I'll tell them where to look and they'll say they DID look there. I'll go
there and in 2-10 seconds usually find their missing belonging. Right where I
told them to look and they claimed it wasn't there!) Anyway.....Roseanne
imitates their whiney voices "MOM, where are the Cheetos?"  or "....Doritos?"
in a whiney voice. Then, frustrated and exasperated, she exclaims "As if they
can't find them themselves!" Sheesh! "They could just as easily pick up the
couch cushion and look for themselves!!!!"  LOL!!!  Like I said - I relate to
that on a couple different levels!!! Know these things have been missing for
weeks!!! Like I said my hubby didn't marry me for my obsessive housecleaning
skills!!!
   You know what still baffles me, though.....that damn casserole dish has
been missing for months!!!! Know it hasn't been THAT long since I've done a
thorough cleaning under the couch.......HAS IT??? NO! Couldn't have been!!
Probably just a case of miscommunication instead.... maybe I should have asked
if they had seen the dog's water dish instead!!!
   Well the Kong toy got filled and the Banana Honey Wheat Pancakes got made
and Albert thought they were good, too!