There are times when I should not be allowed near anything breakable. It was such a night last night when I started to prepare dinner – I made bow-tie pasta with Barilla red sauce and I put in minced onion, mushrooms, clams from a can, and fresh shrimp that I personally cleaned and deveined with the little shrimp thingy. It works nicely.

I bought the shrimp at The Olde Fish House Marina and it is from our very own Gulf waters. I also got two lane snappers that the fellow who waited on me said he had caught himself last night – very fresh. Mostly he fishes for the shop but was filling in at the counter. He said I should sprinkle them generously with sea salt and bake them for 16 minutes.

I am using olive oil that I keep in a former mayonnaise jar and the top has gotten hard to thread and it slipped out of my nerveless grasp and fell on the floor and got on everything, but at least the glass did not break. I am using the mayonnaise jar because a re-used store-bought olive oil container broke in similar fashion about a year ago. Maybe this is the anniversary. So I cleaned things, and stuck my crocs into a bucket of Pine Sol and hot water because I didn’t want to track oil everywhere. And oil got on my shorts as well. Then I got the Swiffer mop and also had to help things along by wiping with paper towel (yeah, I know, big footprint).

I continued with the dinner prep and decided to find a better container for the olive oil (I fill it from a gallon size I buy at BJ’s). There was a jar waiting to be rinsed – it had red horse radish in it that Ed likes. A bit smaller but I thought it would do so I picked it up quickly and it slipped out of my nerveless grasp, crashed and broke and I got red horse radish sauce on the cabinets and floor. I went through the whole clean-up routine again.

Meanwhile, in case you are wondering, Ed heard the crashes and the gentle goshes, gee whizzes, and oh mys emanating from his wife and did not ask what was going on but continued to read his book. I let him be because I am a saint.

The sauce turned out nicely and I think I gained half a pound . Winning is not allowed.

xx, Teal