Do you get caught up? I sure do!  I get caught up in all kinds of things! I recently got caught up in sour dough videos!  I was thinking that in some parallel universe, I, yep me, would bake these beautifully decorated and perfectly round sourdough bread loaves, just like the ones I was watching.  Then, knowing full well that I have zero interest in baking after the first seven minutes, decided to try my hand at my first yeast rolls and make cinnamon rolls.  I ordered all the ingredients from InstaCart, since I haven’t been into a grocery store in 5 1/2 years, and got 3 packs of yeast!  I measured like a boss and warmed the water and mixed it all up.  Before I knew it, the dough was in the bowl rising with a towel on top!  It rose like a champ, and I punched it down and kneaded it, rolled it out and put the filling in….here is where I made my mistake.  I kneaded it too long and they got tough!  The next batch I fixed that, and they were decent.  I have no interest now, whatsoever, in cultivating my baking skills.  In fact, it took most of the day and I had to watch them and then my day was gone.  I read that I could have saved the dough, but I didn’t want to risk putting them in the fridge because I had something in there “smelling odd” and what if it took on the smell from the fridge??  That would not be good.  So, getting them baked was the only logical choice, and this, my friends, is why my brain is not fit for tasks that require my attention for longer than 47 minutes!  This is just one rabbit hole I have jumped in over the past month.

I get caught up in the “what if” theories that bang around my head all hours of the day and night.  It doesn’t help that I landed on a channel that was talking about what to do if there is a nuclear war.  What to do if there is a nuclear war?  Well first, I believe I would want to be a ground zero.  I don’t think I want to be left looking for people or whatever happens to you when you are left after everything is leveled!   I keep seeing the news about where to go, what to have in supply like iodine, food, clothing, water…. Not one person I know has a fallout shelter, heck, most of them don’t have a tornado shelter!! What if this?  What if that? I don’t think this rabbit hole has a place for me and I should stay stuck in baking videos I know that I won’t and can’t complete!  That has a much nicer ending of tough cinnamon rolls and sourdough starter that rots!

I get caught up in the emotional investment of old soap operas!  Why is Victor still talking about Nicki and how did General Hospital finally end? If I were to go back and re watch every episode of Dallas, would JR Ewing still come off as such a villain or would he look really tame, given the people we deal with in real life today?  Somehow, I think some of our own senators would make him look like a hero and very mild!  Well, I know that’s true! I remember when the entire summer was dedicated to ”Who shot JR?” and now our summer is dedicated to picking the lesser of two evils, again.  Ugh.  That’s a rabbit hole I am staying out of too.

I think I might go find another cooking video of random stuff I know I won’t fix!  I don’t like to cook so much anymore!  Although Sunday I cooked fried chicken and potato salad to take to the harvest field.  It was pretty decent.  Might have been better with a slice of homemade bread, but we all know that isn’t going to happen in this lifetime.  Oh, but I can make my own butter…. just got nothing to put it on!

Until next time….

Mind the rabbit hole.

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