Such an Awful Morning

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. You guys, I woke up late! Had a bad night.

You weren't up with a baby or a child. How bad could your night have been?

I think OP is crazy but this response is equally inept. Just because you have a kid doesn't mean that you never had any pre-kid bad days. I've had bad days with my kid and before I had kids. You must have a mommy martyr complex.

+1000

Im late 20s and no children. I have bad nights. many things can happen.

Like what, other than becoming ill?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hello everyone, welcome to My DCUM Kitchen. Today's episode features Lightly Fried Tuna, a reader submission by OP which intrigued readers with its eclectic combination of ingredients and unique preparation.

Ingredients:
Canned tuna
Coconut oil, spoonful
Healthy and delicious spices for antioxidants: turmeric, cumin, coriander, red chili pepper
Optional ingredient: Bitterness over living in Fairfax

Instructions:
After you've woken up late and right when you need to be walking out the door for work, assemble your ingredients. Open and drain your can of tuna as the spoonful of coconut oil melts in the pan. When the oil is melted, add your tuna and sprinkle liberally with the healthy and delicious spices that provide antioxidants.

Toss with a fork to lightly fry.



When your tuna looks sufficiently lightly fried and luridly yellow, remove from pan. Assemble sandwich for lunch: bread and cheese. OP does not indicate what kind of cheese, so recipe tester used best judgment and went with a slice of colby jack.



For best results, let sit in lunch bag for up to 4 hours before enjoying at room temperature for lunch. Due to time constraints, the recipe tester had to take bite as soon as sandwich was assembled because she was already late for work and had to get in the car to harangue husband during hour long commute.



Verdict: tastes as bad as living in Fairfax when you desperately want to live in DC feels.

Didn't OP use toasted whole wheat? None of this Wonder Bread crap. I'm also not feeling the colby jack. I think this calls for swiss or provolone. Also, that picture is making my house smell like fried tuna fish.

Tell us how this made your house smell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. WTF is wrong with frying canned tuna?

you ladies are insane!

What country are you from?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hello everyone, welcome to My DCUM Kitchen. Today's episode features Lightly Fried Tuna, a reader submission by OP which intrigued readers with its eclectic combination of ingredients and unique preparation...

Didn't OP use toasted whole wheat? None of this Wonder Bread crap. I'm also not feeling the colby jack. I think this calls for swiss or provolone. Also, that picture is making my house smell like fried tuna fish.

Tell us how this made your house smell.

Not PP but I feel personally attacked by the photos of that vivid yellow fried tuna. It's like watching someone get a cyst drained, you can smell it through the screen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. You guys, I woke up late! Had a bad night.

You weren't up with a baby or a child. How bad could your night have been?

I think OP is crazy but this response is equally inept. Just because you have a kid doesn't mean that you never had any pre-kid bad days. I've had bad days with my kid and before I had kids. You must have a mommy martyr complex.

+1000

Im late 20s and no children. I have bad nights. many things can happen.

Like what, other than becoming ill?

NP here, and mom of a toddler -- are you really implying that if one does not have children or an illness, it is not possible to have a bad night? I had plenty of moments of stress throughout my life before becoming a mother. I get where some of you are coming from with this, but the challenges of parenthood do not automatically trump all other challenges someone else might experience in life.

[Anonymous]

I am dying!!! The recipe tutorial!!!

[Anonymous]

I wish there was a "best of DCUM". You win my internet for the day, oh brave sandwich creator. Truly #doinggodswork.

Did you also make one for your husband?

[Anonymous]

Alibaba wrote:Someone once told me that the secret to a happy marriage is real compromise. Do you want to win every argument or stay married. OP wants to move into city and DH doesn't. The disagreement is unresolved so every time something arises that relates to the original disagreement then the OP is resentful. Resolve the original disagreement (city or suburbs) and move on. Those types of issues will ruin a marriage if you can't get passed them. They will eat away at the good parts.

Leaving only fried tuna in its wake

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you dont like sitting in traffic why cant you take the metro... or wake up earlier?

In another thread, she goes into the reasons why she refuses to take Metro, even though it leaves her hanging around town for hours after work.

Can someone please link to this thread?

I don't remember the name of it. But she apparently gets claustrophobic on the Metro so she won't ride it but she also hates riding in the car for her "long" commute to the suburb where her DH makes her live. She is convinced they would have better lives if they lived in the city where she wouldn't have to commute by either car or Metro and would live near other people who are in a similar place in life as they are and enjoy lightly fried canned tuna. Her DH also doesn't like to go out a lot I don't think and OP likes happy hours, which she could enjoy more in the city, along with lightly fried canned tuna.

Lightly fried SPICED canned tuna. Come on, it's not like she's just frying up plain old suburban canned tuna. It's spiced! The way city people eat it. In the morning. When they're late for work.

Classic. Love your sense of humor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who over sleeps? Doesn't everyone have an alarm on their phones?

You are showing your youth. We don't use our phones as alarm clocks - all that blue light is disruptive to sleep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG ladies, I found the original thread!! I remember it being about hating her commute so I searched for that in the search bar and found it!

Here it is:
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/532371.page

You're Welcome.

wow wow wow wow goddess of dcum connectivity. OP, please never stop posting, OK?

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who over sleeps? Doesn't everyone have an alarm on their phones?

You are showing your youth. We don't use our phones as alarm clocks - all that blue light is disruptive to sleep.

WHAT.BLUE.LIGHT.

You dont sleep with the phone on your forehead all lit up... You turn the alarm on, lock the scree, and set it on your nightstand...

There is no blue light glaring.

You are showing your old age.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who over sleeps? Doesn't everyone have an alarm on their phones?

You are showing your youth. We don't use our phones as alarm clocks - all that blue light is disruptive to sleep.

WHAT.BLUE.LIGHT.

You dont sleep with the phone on your forehead all lit up... You turn the alarm on, lock the scree, and set it on your nightstand...

There is no blue light glaring.

You are showing your old age.

*SCREEEEEEEN

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh man I love this thread. I just read the whole thing and LOL'd at least five times.

Me too. I'm laughing so hard I'm crying.

Yes and the funniest things are OP's interjections that frying tuna is normal, and that all the responsive posters are the ones who are nuts!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I read your other thread and, while we are all dying laughing over your delicious sandwich recipe, I just want to say that I think you're one of those quirky cool people in real life. Don't take our seizing onto your recipe as a reflection that you shouldn't try to be social and make new friends! But I do think you may be missing a few social cues that I hope you learned from this thread - including the faux pas of bringing fish to the office and/or coming to the office smelling like fish!

I totally agree re: the quirky comment and think we are too quick to jump all over Pp. like a big group of bullies!

OP, you do sound like you need to reconsider your decisions in terms of planning and time management. I agree you need to get up earlier and lunches should be done the night before. However, that's hard when you're out of the house what looks like 12+ hours a day and get home late and are then trying to cook dinner. I get it – being totally exhausted. Those of us who are single or don't have kids can also be exhausted. I think a lot of your frustration stems from the living situation which you're not happy with .

Your earlier post said that the lease was up in April. Are you guys staying? Did you figure anything out? I think that's a very important soul-searching conversation that you need to have with him. Now.

she really shouldn't be exhausted...she doesn't even have pets or kids to take care of, just herself. Holy cow.