Upon Further Review....

So I had a night to sleep on yesterday's dust-up with the Mrs. What I've concluded (probably convolutedly) is that both of us over-reacted. She made a comment about stuff with onions and I came back with the comment about her having selective allergic reaction syndrome...(a distant relative to SDS or Selective Deafness Syndrome, which afflicts children from about the age of 10 until 18...or until 48 if you're a man). In other words, "she said some things, and I said some things..." Next thing you know its "here we go again!" So pointless.

I got defensive and she felt threatened...seems that's how wars get started or something. "Mr Breznef, your borsht taste like dirt from a field in Syberia fertilized with Yak dung."

"Da? vell, Mizter Nixon, your noze looks like za ski jump outside za Olympic williage ve haaf bin conztruktink for za upcoming vinter olympics in Mozkow, da? Vhat do you think of zat?"

The following morning we started talking again and rehashing the previous night's "discussion" about food. She told me she would rather eat things whole like a whole avacado or a whole carrot or whatever and that sometimes she just doesn't like things all blended together and could we maybe do that too. She didn't bring up onions...until much later.

So anyway, we're in the car headed into KC and she starts asking me if she can have a cashew as I'm eating a breakfast snack of cashews and Brazil nuts while we drive into town... Defensive-pig-headed me says; "sure, help yourself." She does and then helps herself to another and so on... After a while she asks me... "is all white rice processed." I answered that I believed so but I'd look on line via my android (sometimes) smartphone and see what we would see. Then answer was pretty much yes. All white rice has been processed/bleached or whatever by removing the husk of the grain thus removing the bran and fiber from around the grain. And then most of the time the remaining rice grain is "fortified" with vitamin B and polished so its nice and shiny... reminds me of that non-nutriant cereal varnish Clark Griswold was working on for Ed Shirley, his boss on Christmas Vacation.

On the way home, we stopped at Ghengis Kahn, my favorite resturant in all of KC. I had a wondeful plate of Mongolian barbequed vegetables...red and green bell pepper, a ton of white onions, jalepeno peppers, water chestnuts, zuccini, cabbage, mushrooms and the hottest sauce I could concoct along with sesame seeds sprinkled over the top and fresh parsley (which I won't be adding next time as it made my whole plate taste like spicy hot grass). Regardless it was delicious.

We made a pit stop due to heavy traffic on the drive home because she needed a "fix" (read Dr. Pepper) so as we're walking back to the car she admitted to me that her co-workers thought I was awesome and handsome and blah blah blah as if that was going to soften the next blow...she told a couple of them about our "discussion" about onions...about how I told her I didn't think she's notice them as much because I diced them so small and sautee'd them in coconut oil before mixing in the other ingredients...as if right? So we go from her angry at me to her "diming" me out to to her friends at work and this makes me sweet and attractive how? Whatever. I guess it is kind of funny but bottom line here is, when it comes to making dinner for my wife, I have to be like the soup Nazi on Seinfeld and say; "NO SPICE & NO ONION FOR YOU!"

Color me royally messed with. I guess I deserve that...or something. On a totally different note, she's not sure she likes the house where we're moving..."the basement is smaller than I remember and so is the garage..." Really? Whatever, if we decide we don't like it or she hasn't beat me to a pulp in my sleep with a cast iron skillet, I think its still okay to list and sell the house and move... that's still okay in this country right?

"...all these things shall be to give thee experience..." message received, Lima-Charlie (loud and clear).

Cheers!

P.S. Thanks for listening Coach. I love you.