introspective periscope : peeking inside since Y2K ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- missing things missing - 8 july 2014 "get out your measuring cups and we'll play a new game. come to the front of the class and we'll measure your brain. we'll give you a complex, and we'll give it a name."~andrew bird
how is this even possible? my refrigerator is pretty sparse save for the things that i need for a few days at a time--i'm weird about fresh produce--so it wasn't hard to pull everything out in my search. i checked the crisper drawer, not there. it is not in the door. it isn't on the counter. frustrated that i could possibly be losing my fucking mind, i even went through the garbage. thankfully, i was gone for a few days and there wasn't much in there and it wasn't too gross. no onion. whats the big deal, jones? it's an onion. okay, sure, it's an onion. it probably cost me less than 2$. still, it was a red onion which was a little splurge for me--i'm partial to the pretty purple color when i'm using them raw. red onions cost nearly twice what a white or sweet onion costs. pennies, but still...i am mindful of my food budget and when i'm buying crazy expensive vitamins and probiotics, little splurges are kind of a big deal to me. also: it's an onion, guys. if i'm to start misplacing things and dealing with this pregnancy-brain shit that everyone keeps warning me against (which, for the record, i don't actually buy), i'd rather it not start with an otherwise useful onion rotting away under the bed or something. the missing onion has been driving me a little crazy since last night. i ate the last avocado in my stash for lunch so i figured i'd just run to the grocery again and get another onion (partly hoping that as soon as i'd replaced it, the missing one would show itself and i'd feel silly for having overlooked it.) i needed more avocados in a bad way, too. all i want are ripe avocados sliced with fresh lime juice and kosher salt. i could eat bowls of them when it gets hot like this. tonight, there is a ring around the moon and that promises either just as humid a day as today or the rain i've been waiting to dance in...this is all to say that if it's gonna be hot, i had better have a nice cool avocado tomorrow or i might get a little cranky, okay? the grocery stores here are letting me down big-time. unless i wanted to settle for a slimcado (don't get me started on these abominations that are, by no means, the same...not a larger avocado...just some sort of gmo creation that has no place in the grocery store) i was going to have to settle for some avocados that were going to need a little time to ripen. in a lot of maybe 35 avocados, there were exactly none that were remotely ripe. i palmed at them all, i'm sure of it...and picked the ones that gave a little, lying to myself that they might be ripe enough to manage. the one i cut into for dinner...was not. not even close. it doesn't even taste like an avocado...it just crunches and tastes like green. but i'm determined to eat it because i hate wasting food more than most things...maybe if i left it in the fridge overnight? yeah, right. i'll probably lose it by morning somehow. where is that fucking onion? if you spot it, please ask it to call home. xo, ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .what came before. - .what happened next. a diamond at the bottom of the drain - 20 october 2017 |
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