Chicken and Wishes

Just a short update on my life real fast. Still working and loving being done with school :) I'm starting to get used to not having homework now and am looking for some good books to read, I'm show exshited! Summer is coming up (at the club) and I'm pretty excited about that as well. Summers are usually FREAKING crazy, but fun. I'm gonna take the summer and decide what I want to do once it's over. With my life. Of course that's what I'm talking about here. Pickin' up what I'm puttin' down? Good. 

Besides work I've just been enjoying life. Pete and I see each other waaay less than we're used to so now when we do get to spend a few hours together we love it. Weekends are wonderful but always too short. This weekend we're going to the Perry yard sales and hopefully having a little cookout. Sadly, this is so very exciting to me, hahaha. Life is good. 

So, one thing that's new that's been going on... I've been attempting to cook! I'm going to try really really really hard to keep this up and keep improving and expanding the list of foods I will eat from 10 to like...13 or something! Be proud, this is huge for me. One day I'll be all sorts of domestic and I'll cook and clean and sew and...okay maybe that won't happen but a girl can dream, right? Last week I cooked fried rice that turned out somewhat plain (just the way I like it!) but good. I've also been attempting to cook chicken! Seriously though people, can I just say that raw chicken makes me want to vomit. I love to eat chicken and beef and steak and what not but when it's raw...yuck! So I opened the chicken I wanted to cook and washed it off and almost decided to wrap it in 50 million Wal Mart bags and throw it all away. It literally felt like I was holding human flesh...tough and soft and skin-like. People who actually cook probably think I sound retarded but I'm like a child here, touching my first raw chicken breast. Sounds dirty. And it was. But, I got over my fear of the human-like chicken flesh and watched a youtube video that taught me how to cook it. I pulled it off the pan, made sure it was cooked all the way through, and when I went to eat it I closed my eyes and expected the worst. But guess what? It was actually good! Maybe I was just delusional and my brain told me it was good so my world wasn't shattered because I'd be the only woman in the entire world who can't cook... but I don't even care. I cooked a chicken. And I think it was good. I think. 

Also, chicken stinks after you throw some of it away. Like death. 
Thrown out chicken=zombie breath. 
Also, how many times do you normally wash your hands while cooking raw meat? Because I'm at like 2,382. 

Back to the blogging challenge. Not gonna lie, I've been sucking at keeping up. One thing, I won't blog on the weekends or Mondays because I'll be with my hubby. Another thing, if I feel like I write something that's actually decent or funny I get a little intimidated to write more because I don't want it to be boring or annoying. Whatev though, if you don't like it I'm sure you'll quit reading and that's ok too :) 


6. If you could have three wishes, what would you wish for?

So normally I think about what I'm going to write about a little before I actually do it, so I can gather my thoughts. But today, we're wingin' it! 

Three wishes... What a classic thing to ask someone. We all have wishes and aside from wishing for infinite wishes (which I'll go ahead and assume doesn't count) I bet they vary for each individual. I think wishes revolve around things that you value. Family, friends, money, power, those things that you truly value and appreciate will have an impact on what you wish for. 

For me, family is important and people are important. Hmm..I'm so conflicted here. My first instinct is to wish for like world peace and no pain for anyone or hurt.. But unfortunately that's not what life is about. You have to experience the bad to appreciate the good. We're put on this earth to experience things and to learn. I wouldn't appreciate my college education if I didn't have to work my grass off to pay for it and finish it. I wouldn't appreciate my sister and granny so much if I'd grown up in some normal family with a mom and dad and brothers and sisters. Sure I'd appreciate them in different ways but it's just different with how things are now. I'm sure I wouldn't appreciate my awesome husband as much as I do if I hadn't grown up seeing men who were abusive and selfish and mean. Sometimes I can only be at peace with a lot of the really hard stuff I've gone through by thinking, and believing, that if it weren't for these experiences I wouldn't appreciate or fully enjoy all the wonderful things in my life. Okay, so this has gone on a tangent. I'm going to finish this wish off with...I wish I could minimize the pain and suffering in the world and to my family and friends to the point where they could still learn life lessons and be able to appreciate the good in life without experiencing any extra pain or suffering... IF THAT makes ANY sense AT ALL. Is that too much to ask for? :)

Wow.

Second wish... something fun and not so thought-provoking...perfect health for all! It would be so wonderful to not have to live in fear of getting cancer or having to go to the dentist. That's right, I fear going to the dentist and think about it every time I brush these little babies. If we could just live our lives and not have to deal with disease or infection or deathly spider bites (EEEEEK! SPEEDERS!) then life would be so much less stressful. I'm always worrying about what diseases I'll get or how I'm going to die from some freak infection from touching the public toilet at the mall. I wouldn't have to wash my hands a bajillion times while cutting and cooking chicken because there would be no risk of getting salmonella. It would just. be. great. 

Third wish, which probably wouldn't have normally been a wish except I just watched a TED talk that got me thinking about a few different things. A third wish could be that we understand life by a certain age, then we could spend the rest of our lives with wisdom and ah-ha-ness. I feel like I'm figuring out life a little more each day but by the time I get it, if I ever do, I'll be practically decaying and nearly dead. We spend our whole lives trying to figure things out, trying to find out how the world works and who we are and what we believe in. Our whole lives! Maybe there's this short window of time when you're really really old where things just click. Maybe not. Maybe that doesn't happen until after you die. I'm not really sure. All I know is that it's annoying that it's taken me 23 years to figure out certain things about my life and my self I can only hope it stops taking me so friggin' long to learn and understand things.

Welp! Those are my wishes. For right now. I'm sure if I were to write this post two days or even two hours from now they would probably be different. 





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