X!?ZZX!!!!! THAT'S ME SWEARING

 The other day Monte and I were in Save-On.  We decided to load up on meat, meat that would cover Christmas dinners for a week.  Company dinners.  We bought roast chickens, pork shoulder roast, whole salmon, breakfast sausages, sandwich meats, pork chops and tons of hamburger.  (I don't remember exactly what it all was) We also picked up a few different seafood choices.  I sent it all downstairs to the freezer there.  I didn't have my upstairs one yet.

Last night around one in the morning we were heading to bed.  Monte, who had gone down a few minutes before had gone to the freezer to get one of his frozen rats (yes you read that right) to feed to Smooch, his snake. He hollered up the stairs those dreaded words I have heard about four or five times only in my whole life.  "EVERYTHING IN THE FREEZER IS MELTED!!!"  I guess the freezer door didn't shut completely when we loaded the meat into it.  And that was a few days ago.  Oh god.  My immediate thought was the 200 bucks worth of meat we had just bought, never mind all the stuff that was already in there! And it was my fault.  I knew how stuffed that thing was before I sent down all the new meat.  I knew it!

The biggest problem is one that I have been working so hard on and now it was going to be sorely tested.  When I was forced to compost in Langford, I fought it.  I ranted and railed and hated and whined and stamped my feet.  I hated hated hated composting.

So this time I made the decision, a solid committed decision not to let composting get to me. Mind over matter.  And I have been very successful!  I smile as I lift the lid off the gaggingly smelly canister by the sink to put left over food into it.  I happily take the sucker out and wrastle with the stupid hooks on the lid of the compost bin outside, in the rain, in the dark, gagging at the permasmell.  Oh yes.  Calm. Cool. Maintaining a great attitude.

But now, OMG!!!!  There is probably over 300 pieces of something, mostly meat, in that freezer.  And every single one of them has to be unwrapped before putting them in the compost bin.  Every. Single. One. Of. Them.  

So do I thaw it all out completely then unwrap sloppy, on it's way to half rotten, meat to separate the garbage part from the compost part?  Or do I re freeze it all and then, with freezing hands attempt to peel off the frozen plastic wrapping that is now covered in meat juice ice? Or, most tempting and seemingly sensible to me at the moment, is just shut the freaking freezer door, tight this time, and walk away.  Be like those hoarders on tv.  Just never open the damned thing.

  Back in the day I would have just quickly removed three hundred things and flung them into the garbage bin or driven it all to the dump. But no, now we have to mess with it into the correct bin.  Plastic wrap in garbage, cardboard food boxes into recycling and meat and sloppy melted or lumpy frozen, depending on my decision vegetables, into compost or toilet for flushing. 

All I can say is that my committed, mind over matter, decision to have a good attitude, IS WANING RAPIDLY!!!

Sorry for the poor me rant.  but......POOR ME!!!!  Hahaha!!!  I will let you know how it goes.  Garbage day isn't for a week and we are experiencing the Pineapple Express right now...much higher temps than normal.  Sigh.  Stay safe...TTYL

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” 
― Maya Angelou

That's a lovely platitude Maya, but jeez!  I don't think I need to encounter hundreds of pounds of rotting meat to know who I am!!!!  I am pissed off.  That's who I am!