May was the last time I found a yuck in our home. Not counting MIL's cooking. Yucks are generally hidden somewhere. Today's yuck was hidden in a cabinet, much like the first yuck.
Unfortunately, I have no photos of this. I was reaching into the cabinet, which, as it turns out, was the same cabinet I'd found the first yuck in, groping for a large Tupperware container to hold crab shells. See, MIL made crab for dinner, which was mighty kind of her, so we needed something we could toss the shells into as we ate. I grasp a rectangular one and yank it out and suddenly, SPLASH! My feet and the floor are bathed in some sort of liquid. It's opaque and slightly resembles chicken broth. There's no smell that I can detect and I'm surely not going to put my face close enough to check it out. I scream. Jeremy runs in and sees it. He just shakes his head and tosses me a rag. Shouldn't he be the one cleaning up after his troll mother? Yeesh. What the hell was that in there anyway? Someone help me.
But wait...there's more! After dinner, I have Raelynn clean up. I'm helping her and that's when I discover THIS on my sofa:
It's d'oh! I mean DOUGH! Yes, dough. Stupid cow left a blob of dough on my sofa when she was making her baozi (those retched steamed stuffed bun things).
How does one leave shit like this on someone's sofa? I'm not upset about the sofa as it's pleather and coming apart. I'm just upset that I seriously almost sat in it and that she makes messes like this and couldn't be bothered to clean it up. No, no. Really, that's ok. I'll just work all day after getting up at 4:30 in the fucking morning to feed a baby and put her back down to sleep and have her wake up 30 minutes later wanting to eat her little hands and roll over and laugh and play and all kinds of cute shit while I feel like I might drop dead from the exhaustion AND THEN I'll clean up after you because Lord knows you can't possibly put the baby down in the crib for 1 minute to clean that up. Or do that while she sleeps. Oh no. It's so hard FOR YOU to watch a baby AND cook food.
Can't she just cook things that are less complicated? Making baozi from scratch, including the dough, is pretty involved and messy. Trying to do that watching an infant might just be too much multitasking for her elderly brain. Seems like she should make things which take less hands-on time on the days she's babysitting. I guess there's no chance of teaching her to use a crockpot? Ha ha.
ReplyDeleteI don't think those are that complicated but that's probably because she prepares the dough at her place before coming which, now that I think about it, is even more disturbing given how she keeps her home, or she'll wait until Seoul is napping to do things she needs to do. Or have her idiot husband come over too. Only the napping one doesn't bother me. She uses a crockpot too but to make gross stuff. Oh and on Fridays when I get to cook, she pesters me 100 times to let her hold the baby while I cook. Um, no. Go home. Seoul will get tired in about 20 minutes and she'll go right to sleep, leaving me free to cook dinner in 30 minutes or less. See, she has no game. I can't wait to move. I pray every day we will be successful with my husband's visa.
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