Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Unawesomeness
Well, the pumpkin soup was not palatable. Mia almost puked.
The reason Sara and Kara are assigning weird meals to me is that they want to mold me into the perfect wife for my future husband. Perfect wives apparently have the innate ability to cook anything imaginable. Sara and Kara were rather concerned when they discovered that my cooking skills are mostly limited to pizza and pasta dishes. Upon their initial (unfavorable) reaction, I tried to enlighten them to the fact that I can make an amazing plethora of pasta dishes, including spaghetti, fetucci, lasagna, macaroni and cheese, linguini with chicken, tomatoes, and broccoli (my personal favorite) and many many more. However, Sara and Kara were unimpressed. Nonetheless, I still think any man in his right mind would prefer a delectable bowl of pasta to a undelectable bowl of pumpkin soup any day. If any men in their right minds read this post, please comment your opinion on this subject.
The reason Sara and Kara are assigning weird meals to me is that they want to mold me into the perfect wife for my future husband. Perfect wives apparently have the innate ability to cook anything imaginable. Sara and Kara were rather concerned when they discovered that my cooking skills are mostly limited to pizza and pasta dishes. Upon their initial (unfavorable) reaction, I tried to enlighten them to the fact that I can make an amazing plethora of pasta dishes, including spaghetti, fetucci, lasagna, macaroni and cheese, linguini with chicken, tomatoes, and broccoli (my personal favorite) and many many more. However, Sara and Kara were unimpressed. Nonetheless, I still think any man in his right mind would prefer a delectable bowl of pasta to a undelectable bowl of pumpkin soup any day. If any men in their right minds read this post, please comment your opinion on this subject.
Jessica 6:43 PM
11 Comments:
Well, I'm not a man, but I do believe I am in my right mind. No offense to Sara or Kara, but I don't think pumpkin soup even sounds slightly appitizing. I hope they discovered this since you made it! ;-)
I loved the pumpkin soup. But in the future, we'll teach you more ordinary dishes. And really people, just think pumpkin pie with hot peppers. It was really good.
If Kara and Sara don't like your cooking, they don't have to marry you. My opinion on the subject? Well, I may not be in my right mind, but I say don't worry about how good a wife you're going to appear to be with things like cooking and singing. Marriage is made of more than these things.
I'm not sure pumpkin soup sounds that good. Pumpkin pie or pudding perhaps, but certainly not soup. However, if it was served, I would eat it...there are few things I won't. Of course, soup is on the lower end of the list of things I'd make or ask for. =)
We weren't suggesting that making pumpkin soup specifically would increase Jessica's cooking skills. Now, she is able to make soup. Her cooking skills are better, even if pumpkin soup specifically sounds disgusting to what sadly appears to be most of you.
And the marriageable thing is mostly a joke. Don't take it too seriously :-)
And the marriageable thing is mostly a joke. Don't take it too seriously :-)
Happy you got a blog.
pumpkin soup is good, but pasta is so much better
Sorry, it's proving difficult for me to wrap my head around the idea of this being *mostly* a joke. It sadly seems to indicate that the whole thing is being taken seriously...
I miss your sense of humor Patrick
In defense of the girls . . .
A good wife should be able to cook . You don't marry her for it any more then you marry her because she's pretty or charming, but these are all factors, and I wouldn't say entirely unimportant ones.
I mean, yes, we can talk in broad Biblical transcendantal terms about what marriage is, but the day in day out reality of marriage is the practical stuff. That's why in marriage conselling, a husband might say, "I lay down my life for her as Christ for the church" and the Pastor says "Yeah, but did you leave enough gas in the car for her? If not, you didn't lay down your life."
The sad fact is we turn Biblical truth into cheesy meaningless platitudes. How does a wife show love for her husband? She cooks him a nice meal. Is there more to it then that? Of course. Infinately more. But we're stuck in the here and now, not philosophical la-la land. I've only been alive twenty years, but I know multiple couples where the husband and wife both use pious Biblical claims to excuse the fact that they don't love each other at all. He doesn't love her enough for him to buy her roses. She doesn't love him enough to vacuum the house.
So . . . a wife learning to be a good cook? A darn fine way to love her husband. The Bible calls her a helper, and, folks, we don't have to tie ourselves in knots trying to figure that one out. It's not rocket science . . . it's - well, for one thing it's cooking a nice meal.
Are there godly women who are horrible cooks? Absolutely. Does that negate a wife's responsiblity to love her husband through sweating the small stuff? Or a husband's to love his wife? Nope. We Christians get so tied up in the spirituality of it all, that we forget that we live in a practical, physical world,l where we have to do practical physical stuff. Of course the only way we do this is through God's help, and Christ, and through the Spirit, and the fruits of the Spirit; and we only do it because Christ first saved and loved us. We cannot add a single thing to Him. So the ultimate reality is spiritual. But we (I'm talking specificly now) know that - that's not what we need to work on.
While we're on earth, it's the small stuff that counts. So Shingle Paradise girls, I officially bestow upon you Nathan Alberson's Commendation of Awesomeness. Congratulations.
A good wife should be able to cook . You don't marry her for it any more then you marry her because she's pretty or charming, but these are all factors, and I wouldn't say entirely unimportant ones.
I mean, yes, we can talk in broad Biblical transcendantal terms about what marriage is, but the day in day out reality of marriage is the practical stuff. That's why in marriage conselling, a husband might say, "I lay down my life for her as Christ for the church" and the Pastor says "Yeah, but did you leave enough gas in the car for her? If not, you didn't lay down your life."
The sad fact is we turn Biblical truth into cheesy meaningless platitudes. How does a wife show love for her husband? She cooks him a nice meal. Is there more to it then that? Of course. Infinately more. But we're stuck in the here and now, not philosophical la-la land. I've only been alive twenty years, but I know multiple couples where the husband and wife both use pious Biblical claims to excuse the fact that they don't love each other at all. He doesn't love her enough for him to buy her roses. She doesn't love him enough to vacuum the house.
So . . . a wife learning to be a good cook? A darn fine way to love her husband. The Bible calls her a helper, and, folks, we don't have to tie ourselves in knots trying to figure that one out. It's not rocket science . . . it's - well, for one thing it's cooking a nice meal.
Are there godly women who are horrible cooks? Absolutely. Does that negate a wife's responsiblity to love her husband through sweating the small stuff? Or a husband's to love his wife? Nope. We Christians get so tied up in the spirituality of it all, that we forget that we live in a practical, physical world,l where we have to do practical physical stuff. Of course the only way we do this is through God's help, and Christ, and through the Spirit, and the fruits of the Spirit; and we only do it because Christ first saved and loved us. We cannot add a single thing to Him. So the ultimate reality is spiritual. But we (I'm talking specificly now) know that - that's not what we need to work on.
While we're on earth, it's the small stuff that counts. So Shingle Paradise girls, I officially bestow upon you Nathan Alberson's Commendation of Awesomeness. Congratulations.
Thank you, Nathan-- that was very insightful. And, we are very honored to receive Nathan Alberson's Commendation of Awesomeness.