Piecing it all back together again

As I lean forward toward my monitor to read (damn the nearsightedness, but I'll rant about that another time), resting chin on fist while poring through morning blogs, I catch the light fragrance of onions. So I change hands. It's there, too. The memory of last nite's dinner, with its degree of success and failure, returns. As I have regaled before, some evenings I come home very tired, last nite was no exception, in fact it was exceptional how tired I really was. Absolutely paralyzed with fatigue, so after having sat down for a few minutes, I went and took a nap for half an hour or so. I forced myself awake because I knew it was either that or wake up at 1 or 2am all disoriented and disheveled. So I forced myself awake and up, determined to make a sensible meal. I have the makings for a nice Caesar salad with chicken, so I begin to put it together, but remember, I am rather discombobulated with fatigue, so my coordination is a little off, and I wish I could have had a video tape of how pathetic I must have looked doing all this. I remember musing over thoughts of the lettuce, taking hearts of Romaine, perfectly trimmed and beautifully packaged whole and cutting them up into small pieces. I remember painfully grating the parmesan cheese. And the onions. O! The onions. When I didn't have a sweet red onion to add, I took the next best thing: a large yellow onion and sliced up few pieces. Evidently there's a big difference to the end result of a salad when one uses what they have versus what it calls for. And I most certainly don't remember having that day-after onion smell on my hands after having used a red onion. Anyway, truth be told, it made for a quite nice presentation and a pretty tasty salad, and that allayed my guilt far enough to warrant having what I really wanted, dessert afterwards!

Needless to say, with a full tummy and an ice cream sandwich, I had a really nice, deep sleep, and today I will do as I please! First thing, clean up the kitchen, I left it a mess last nite!