blender

i know it may sound corny and uncharacteristic of myself, but let me just detail one reason why my boyfriend is awesome:

although, come to think of it, what i'm about to tell may not seem so uncharacteristic.

he made pasta for dinner. he had bought this pasta sauce that is NOT the regular pasta sauce that I buy and that is famous in the e household as the staple red sauce for dad's pasta nights of recent years.

this particular pasta sauce isn't as wonderfully chunk-free as the staple red sauce. in fact, it's got chunks of tomatoes, peppers, and onions, and the last time boyfriend made pasta, i picked out all the chunks with my fork and let him shovel them onto his plate.

tonight he volunteered to cook because i had assented to his concern that i have not been eating well (there has been lots and lots of honey bunches of oats with almonds in the recent past). when he pulled out the new red sauce and asked if i wanted any, i said no because it was chunky. but then i remembered this today show report on this lady who had written a cook book on how to sneak good healthy foods into kids' meals by using a blender. i told him, well maybe if you put it in the blender i'll have some.

no are you kidding?s, no are you crazy?s, no does-your-therapist-approve-of-this, just an "ok".

that is what makes my boyfriend awesome. he put chunky sauce in the blender so i wouldn't have to pick out the chunks.



the anti-chunk-ness is one of my most annoying idiosyncrasies, and would probably be the most difficult to eradicate. notice i used "would" as i don't plan on trying to be a chunk-accepting individual. ok it's not that i don't plan on trying. it's just so hard for me and it even is a source of anxiety when i eat out. i know, i know, please, i'm just BEGGING for sympathy over this one thing that may be the reason i'm quite thin. anyway, that's why i hate eating food that other people have prepared - not that i have anything against them i just have this embarrassing inability to tolerate chunks (and boyfriend can tell you - the last time i tried something with chunks in it i gagged for real).

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