Not Cooking is Fun (Saturday, July 3, 2010)

And I will defend that claim 'til my dying day, but it's hard not to cook stuff when other people you live with don't cook much either. Don't get me wrong, I love my husband with all my heart, but when two people who don't cook live with each other, things can get pretty hairy. Words are said, and cars are driven to fast food restaurants. Since, obviously, neither one of us cooked today, we pretty much just went with our old standard. This consists of us shoveling junk food into our mouths for half the time wasted on food labor.

See, I'll be real honest here, folks. The only reason why I ever bothered with cooking in the first place is because we cannot afford to eat out all the time (plus, it packs on the pounds). Part of the way to remedy that is to eat cereals and raw fruits and vegetables. This works for me a good amount of the time, but this does not work for my husband. While I am considered a "flexitarian," (a person who only eats meat on certain occasions.) I am fine with a good, healthy mostly vegan diet some days. My husband, on the other hand, is a carnivore. He loves his burgers most of all. And while I haven't eaten a burger since I was nine, (And I had to, they wouldn't let me have my ice cream if I didn't eat the damn burger.) I can understand how hard it would be to give all that up. But, I digress. As soon as I become rich and can get out of this stinkin' job, I will gladly pay people to prepare and supply our food for us. Not that I would hire a chef, because fruits (I'll level with you, folks, I actually eat more meat than vegetables, which says something) make me feel great and are as cheap as all get out. And there is nothing sweeter than enjoying the fruit of someone else's labor! (No pun intended.)

Junk food is good for maybe the entire minute or two it takes to ingest, then you feel like shit after too much of it, but that is not the point. The point is that I am not going to cook for the next 361 days, and the Lord help anything that tries to stand on my way! Whew, little streak of persistence there; I'm O.K. But, yeah eating all this crap is giving me plenty of not-cooking time; plus it tastes too good to give up completely!

P.S. For all of you naysayers who don't think that "flexitarian" is actually a word, just look it up on wikipedia. I swear; it's right there! Don't believe me, I will include the direct link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexitarian Come on, like half the people in the world don't think that everything published on the Internet is true!