Whatta Week. Whine!!

      This has been an week of small inconveniences, mishaps and annoyances. The last being my breakfast this morning. I ate the remains of a 'Subway' sandwich I bought at the mall last night. I don't why I keep forgetting that I really do hate the bread they use, much too soft and doughy--I like bread that fights back when you chew it.  Now that I think of it, all of my annoyances concern food. Last week I went to buy disks for my PC but stopped by Applebees for lunch. Ordered a shrimp dish, did not realize that I had to remove the tail shells myself, Eeewww! I never order shrimp with tails on. Dessert. They had no plain pound cake (my favorite sweet thing in the world) so I ordered the cheese cake because it did not look so bad, it had caramel drizzled over it, I could scrape that off. It turns out that again I did not read the menu correctly. There was a 1/4 inch layer of really sticky caramel layered on top of the very sweet cheese cake which was served with two large very sweet tortillas. When I am gonna learn to read the full description on the menu? 

I went to the theater in NY yesterday, I saw The Naked Girl on the Appian Way. An OK play starring Jill Clayburgh and Richard Thomas. Both looked wonderful!  I left my reading glasses at home and was unable to read the program :-(  so I had no real sense of the 'why' of the action, except what I saw. Usually this is fine. However when I saw the siblings in a passionate embrace I was very much turned off and upset. It turns out that a free thinking childless couple adopted three children, (Caucasian, Asian, Latina) so the embracers were not bound by blood. I still found it off-putting because they were raised as brother and sister. The son who is not in love with his sister, is bi-sexual. It is later revealed that the mother had an earlier lesbian relationship with her neighbor. I guess this is no longer shocking (the sexual preference things) and did not bother me; but I think incest, even when only implied, holds no humor) the rest ofthe audience were laughing and seemed to enjoy the play, but my thoughts were that it was too much for one show. Shudder. You have to understand that I only just recently stopped boycotting Woody Allen for hooking up with Soo ???.  It finally hit me that it was Mia Farrow, not Woody, who adopted her children. I guess he never thought of her children as his own. I still think it's tacky though :-(

Yesterday, before going to the theater I stopped for a bite to eat. Some guy comes over, and puts a napkin and silverware on the table, I start to tell him what I want and he says 'the girl' will help you. Annoyed that he called her the girl. Then 'the girl', comes over and says, "would you like to order?", I say "Yes". She reply's "Just a minute, I will get my pad." She walked into the kitchen and stayed  5 minutes. I wonder why she did not just keep the pad in her pocket?  That seems like common sense to me.

Yes.  I know that I sound cranky.  I guess it's the little 'foody' things that get to me.  I have decided I will not accept anything less than perfect for the remainder of this week.  So, I will keep smiling and cook my own food ;-)  Will have noodles, broccoli and the last piece of lemon pound cake. Plain. Simple. Good!