Here in the Middle Aged Mama household, we’ve had some pretty major happenings lately – buying a new home, an engagement, a landmark birthday, etc – all of which has made for plenty of blog fodder.
Blogs can be very hungry beasts, so I’ve been really enjoying letting the words just pour out onto the (web) page!
Other days I stare at that blank screen … yeah, today was one of those days.
I don’t want to disappoint you, my lovely readers! And that’s when it hit me: a blog about the feeling of disappointment.
Yes, this is something I have experienced recently. Let me explain …
Last time I went grocery shopping, I gave into temptation and came home with not one but TWO ice cream treats – perfect now the days are heating up.
Well, you know what they say: “Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment” (what cheery person first came up with this saying?!).
It was late afternoon and I was sitting in my office, hot and sticky from the humidity, and those Weis bars were calling my name, y’know?
With my first bite however, I became suspicious and turned to the panel of ingredients:
Bananas. This might seem like no big deal, but about 20 years ago I realised I have a banana intolerance. Overcome with disappointment, I put the ice block back in the freezer rather than risk it.
The next night, hubster and I raided the kitchen for dessert and chanced upon the tub of rum and raisin ice cream.
With great anticipation I placed the first spoonful in my mouth but … the taste was not what I was expecting. (Don’t ask me what I was expecting. Chocolate probably, which is dumb because it was rum and raisin ice cream! But then again I do love rum and raisin chocolate, so maybe that was what fooled me?)
A second spoonful confirmed it.
Turns out, I don’t like rum and raisin ice cream 🙁 .
What a let down!
Hubster on the other hand, was filled with glee at the realisation that he had now scored all the ice cream in the house!
Humpf.
Have you ever prepared to indulge in a much anticipated treat – only to experience the feeling of disappointment?!
Oh yeah. Food disappointment is the worst kind! I was so excited to get stuck into a BBQ chicken I’d picked up from the supermarket the other night. Some of the breast seemed almost raw (dodgy enough to not want to risk food poisoning)! I didn’t enjoy that meal anymore and it was very disappointing! I also get disappointed when I ask my husband to pick up something delicious (with clear and specific naming of the product) and then he brings home the wrong thing! Happens all the time haha.
Yes!!! That’s it exactly. Nothing worse than food disappointment – and I know what you mean, as usually it is the hubster that does our grocery shopping too 😉
Even more disappointing is the feeling when you go to the fridge to grab something delicious that came home with the shopping, maybe chocolates, apricots, strawberries etc, and finding it GONE!
YES!!!! Also when yummy leftovers that you were looking forward to for lunch, have disappeared from the fridge. Lunch is no longer simple and easy, and you are forced to think of what to make, ugh.
Isn’t it funny how we feel obliged to write a post even when we’re having a blank moment? I’ve just decided to cut my blogging back even further and give myself some head space – not pushing to meet my schedule that nobody really cared about except me. I wrote my last Thursday post today and I’m feeling lighter already (didn’t even need to order Lite and Easy to achieve it!)
LOL I normally post on a Friday Leanne but haven’t had time, sure enough first thing this morning I got a text from Miss 21: Where’s today’s blog post? *sad face emoticon*!!!!!