h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I decided that today I would make dinner from whatever was on hand in the fridge and the pantry, rather than going to the shops. Ooh, a cauliflower I bought last week and forgot about. I've got plenty of cheese and milk - cauliflower cheese I've got enough eggs and semolina flour to make pasta, I've got some refried beans left over from the batch I made last week, and I've got a little bit of ham in the fridge and some cherry tomatoes too. Dessert is already sorted - I made Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's pear and almond pudding cake (once again - it's delicious, I make it about once a month) a few days ago, and I can make some more custard to go with it.

Well.

I got everything ready for the cauliflower cheese, made the cheese sauce, steamed the cauli, got the ham and the refried beans out of the fridge, grated a bit more cheese over the cauliflower cheese and browned it under the grill.

I forgot to make the pasta, so I cut a few slices off a loaf of cider barm bread I made last week and has been in the fridge since then (because we're getting to that time of the year in Texas where it's so warm that you have to keep bread in the fridge or it goes mouldy in a heartbeat).

I forgot all about the ham and the refried beans until I took my empty plate back to the kitchen and saw them sitting there on the counter, and this is after I'd thought to myself 'I think I need a bit more protein in this meal... ooh, there's a package of tofu that's been in the fridge for a few weeks'.

I think I'm losing my mind

It's supposed to be tremendous difficulty, not tremendous problem, of course

You'll have to write yourself a menu and blame the kitchen staff when it's not adhered to.

You just can't get good staff these days, you know.

Not only am I losing my mind, I'm losing parts of my kitchen equipment too. The bottom of the smaller of my two springform cake tins has vanished

It, er fell down behind the toaster oven

The cake tin bottom, not my mind.

I've lost my mind too ,. the worring thing I findm is actually, how little it seems to matter; apparetnly about 99%of the things I do are utterly subconscious, not requiring thought, and... err... that's just so odd! but scarey too sometimes just how much is.... ot really 'self', just actually, sort of autopilot and subconscious, and so, really, I guess, not actually 'ourselves' doig it!

So you can't even blame 2legs for it then Result

turns out virtually everything wasn't my fault afterall!; I'm just an automaton for the vast majority of things! or... so it seems nw I've barely any cognative consciousness left, it... doesn't... relaly.... in many ways make any damn differnce I guess.... I'm just.... literally.... almost entirely a creature of habbit.

wake.
coffee.
toast.
cheese.
toast.
coffee,
cheese,
cake,
toast,
coffee,
tea. repeat.....

*There's* your problem! You just need to insert "sleep" somewhere in the list









































'Twas much cleverer in my head, sorry

Very very true! I just feel... like if I could sleep... .... but 'if' is such a big word!

nope your problem is your still asleep... its ground hog day in reverse when you think you wake up but you haven't