The first day of Bloggy giveaways is down, 4 to go!

Around here we call the Bloggy Giveaways "Ignore your kids week." Everyone knows I am not cleaning, cooking, LISTENING or otherwise being a good mom. I do change diapers and make sure little mouths are fed, even if it is just a Special K Bliss bar.
Monday's are Drew's night to cook. (mine is Friday, so I am good for the giveaways!) Drew was being a general pain in the butt about cooking. He knows it is his night. He knew it months ago, he knew it last week. He knew it last night. He knew it this morning. Did he plan? No. Did he take anything out to thaw? No.
What he did do was to suddenly decide that TODAY he needed to get his car battery changed and that supper was going to have to wait or not get done because he had to do it today. The argument from me that it did not matter if it was today or not because the battery is not the reason the car doesn't run, that is the fuel pump, and the car is not insured so can't be driven anyway, didn't seem to sink in. Drew really felt he needed to work on that car! I said he needed to do his supper.

Finally I convinced him to make hamburger gravy and potatoes, but he switched to rice for some reason. I told him to fry the hamburger and to mix it with water, some flour and salt and pepper for the gravy. He said no problem.

A while later, you know, when I was busy entering giveaways and putting them all in categories on my giveaway blog, Drew starts asking where more flour is. I told him to check the pantry. He pulls out a ziploc bag of flour that my mother in law sent over. He asked if that was flour. By now I have moved on from his first asking about flour or that he needs it for gravy and I tell him it is flour, cake flour. And I go back to entering giveaways. He stops bugging the snot out of me.

So, we sit down to the table to eat. Apparently cake flour is quite sweet. And apparently Drew doesn't know that gravy only uses a couple of teaspoons of flour and is not so thick you can pick it up in hunks.

The "gravy" tasted like a combination of hamburger and Rumegrot. Rumegrot is a sweet milk soup-like dessert. Very good. But not with meat. Hamburger gravy is quite delicious, but not with sugary sweetness. Did you know that salt brings out the sweetness of sugar? Salting didn't work.

There was the first major mishap of the week. For me it was about the 5th of the day. One site I was on kept crashing my internet and I would lose all my lists. Then I stretched out and hit the power strip with my foot and shut my computer off, again losing my list. And then the internet cord fell out but my computer said I was still connected to the internet so I had to restart the computer before I found out that the cord was out.

I'm hoping tomorrow is a better day! I'm only on the 250th giveaway! I need to kick butt tomorrow to keep up.
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