Sometimes blogging is hard
Posted by Isabel on October 11th, 2006. Filed under: The King.Isabel: (to The King) What should I blog about today? I can’t think of anything.
The King doesn’t even look up from getting dressed.
Isabel: I was thinking about maybe talking about my work lunch yesterday.
Still, no response.
Isabel: Maybe about how I had a $16.00 salad. But that my salad wasn’t very good at all. And that you would think a $16.00 salad would be very good.
Nothing.
Isabel: I mean, don’t you think a $16.00 salad would be full of veggies? This salad only had lettuce. I mean, so what if it had seafood. I want veggies.
(Pause, awaiting a response.)
Isabel: Good thing my work paid for it. You can only imagine how upset I would have been if I would have been the one forking over the $16.00 for a bowl full of lettuce. I can no longer even call it a salad.
I think he may have looked at me at this point. But he didn’t respond.
Isabel: I could throw in a quick story about how the work lunch was at the same hotel where a co-worker saw them filming Gray’s Anatomy at last week. The internet loves Gray’s Anatomy. He actually saw Dr. McDreamy. I didn’t even know they filmed that show here. Did you know that? I would have thought they filmed it in Vancouver, Canada.
Puts on his socks.
Isabel: Well maybe people don’t think $16.00 is a lot to pay for a salad. Maybe people pay that much for salads all the time. I think it’s a lot of money. But what do I know? My bowl full of lettuce did have crab in it. I guess maybe that’s were the $16.00 comes from. But still, I would have rather had some veggies.
(Pause, awaiting a response.)
Isabel: Does seafood even go on salads? Can you mix salad dressing and shrimp? And what about the smoked salmon that was in it. That definitely didn’t belong.
Thinking to myself: I could always blog about this conversation.
The King: So are you taking Babboo to school this morning, or am I?
October 11th, 2006 at 2:56 pm
OMG. Are you serious? I can’t believe he didn’t say anything. Bad King!
And $16 for a salad? I would never eat a salad that costs that much. But then I would never eat a salad with seafood on it. So maybe that’s why I’ve never paid $16 for a salad. I think chicken and bacon are the only meats I’ve ever had on a salad.
So who took Babboo to school?
October 11th, 2006 at 3:05 pm
$16 is A LOT for a salad, no matter how much crab and smoked salmon is in it! Now if it were grilled salmon on caesar salad….maybe I’d pay $12, but not 16.
The only place I would pay $16 for a salad would be France. The best salads I’ve ever eaten in my entire life, I ate in France. So unless your salad was imported from France, I think it was too expensive. And since I don’t know how they would get a fresh salad all this way without wilty lettuce, I think it’s a safe bet that your salad did not come from France.
October 11th, 2006 at 3:06 pm
He wasn’t being mean. He just has way more important things to think about then what I’m going to blog about today. Especially over priced salads.
Poor guy.
And HE took Babboo to school. Hooray for The King!
October 11th, 2006 at 3:42 pm
I love your conversation posts. They are like a windo into our house! Yeah for the King doing school duty!
October 11th, 2006 at 4:09 pm
That sounds like a NYC salad…$16…that’s crazy.
October 11th, 2006 at 5:15 pm
I have one-sided conversations like that with my husband on a regular basis. Although, when he talks to me about his work, he pretty much gets that kind of response from me. I try to pay attention, but bearings and belts don’t really appear on my “interesting topics” radar and I drift off to a daydream pretty quickly.
October 11th, 2006 at 6:26 pm
I have conversations with myself all the time! I think he’s listening, I guess I like to believe that he’s listening, but he’s definately NOT!!!
$16.00 salad is CRAZY!!! I’m glad you didn’t have to pay for it too!!
HOpe you’re having a good day!
October 11th, 2006 at 6:27 pm
At our house it’s normally TP talking and me just sort of ignoring and nodding in all the right places while I am reading.
$16 for a lettuce and crab meat salad is too much. For that price, you should have had your own personal waiter to feed it to you.
October 11th, 2006 at 6:54 pm
ha so it isn’t just me? who babbles on and on about things only to have my sig. other be like……..tuning me out? Last night I had a 5 minute convo (mostly with myself) about which inititals I should use to engrave on something for my mom. just the “K”, all three letters, how about “MOM”? …like it was some huge life decision. He was just baffled at me I think.
October 11th, 2006 at 9:06 pm
I always stay away from the “seafood salads because I’m afraid I’m going to get some gross mayo concotion. Probably because one time I ordered a tuna salad, expecting to get a salad with some tuna steak on it, and instead I got a scoop of nasty tuna (with mayo) salad on a “bed of greens” (= wilted sprig of parsley on the side).
At least it didn’t cost $16, though.
October 11th, 2006 at 10:56 pm
Oh wow. I have the very same conversations with my hubby. Where I talk, he’s quiet. I talk some more. He’s quiet. That’s too funny!
October 11th, 2006 at 10:57 pm
I know how you feel… I’m constantly rambling on and on to Shaun and he sometimes doesn’t respond either.
$16.00?! for a Salad?! That’s even a lot for a MEAL! Holy cow… I feel like I’m splurging if I pay $9.00 for a meal….
October 11th, 2006 at 11:44 pm
The thought of eating a $16 dollar salad makes me want to cry. And what is scarier? When you convert that into Australian dollars (for perspective, you know) it turns into $21.57. HOLY HELL. And hubby didn’t even blink? Lordy. Maybe he’s had his share of $21.57 salads?
Heee, Grey’s. I want to run into McDreamy. And then run off with George because he is so squishable.
October 12th, 2006 at 1:47 am
That’s a lot for just lettuce.
That;s why I’m weary abt ordering salads in posh looking restaurants.
Yes, thank goodness your work paid for it…
Good on the King…He’s a funny guy.
hahaaha
October 12th, 2006 at 2:49 am
This is why women become lesbians.
Also, a $16 salad better come with a side of prime rib.
October 12th, 2006 at 5:52 am
You’re actually talking about This Book, right?
http://www.dooce.com/archives/daily/09_15_2006.html
Intertextuality!
It’s like Pop Up Video, without the bubbles.
October 12th, 2006 at 6:12 pm
Sounds like you and I married the same guy – well not really, but I have one of them at home too!! Funny stuff. Men really can’t multi-task, I think I’ve finally figured that out after many conversations with myself. I get more reaction out of the dogs most of the time!!
October 14th, 2006 at 5:35 am
SCHOOL?! He’s not old enough for school!
Also, I think you’re being a bit liberal with the use of the word “conversation”!
October 15th, 2006 at 12:05 am
$16 salad? Was there gold in there?
October 17th, 2006 at 2:52 pm
I keep coming back to this post to leave some witty comment, but all I can come up with is this:
I love your conversations with The King!
October 17th, 2006 at 6:18 pm
I second everything Mrs. CPA said. Dh is the talker in our relationship. And he loves to talk while I am trying to read. **Pretend annoyed sigh. But sometimes real sigh. If book is very good.** So I am pretty good at the “Mm-hmm” thing. Which is apparently a girl thing, since The King was giving you nothing!
October 17th, 2006 at 7:08 pm
Brilliant. Last week I was discussing my blog with my boyfriend who wouldn’t look up from his own computer so I pretended to be choking and fell to the floor. He stepped over me and headed to the refridgerator. Great post!