52 Card Project 2022: Week 37: Aggravations

[pegkerr]

For the most part, I'm pretty content with my life. But even in the most balanced life, aggravations crop up.

I broke a bowl I've had for thirty-five years. A standard Pyrex bowl, no biggie; I can always go to the store to get another one. But it's been my special bowl for making hollandaise sauce for years (I love Hollandaise sauce), and I was startled to discover, as I stared at the shards in the sink, how cathected I could get to a simple glass bowl.

Work has been frustrating. I won't bore you with the details, but it was a wearying cycle of chasing after people via email and phone who simply wouldn't get back to me, and my work was stuck until they did. My job, as I remarked to Eric, would be so much simpler if people would simply do things when I informed them they had to do them.

As for the bottle of unsweetened cranberry juice, well...it's a well-known home remedy for an annoying personal complaint. If you don't know what that's for, Google it.

The green line at the bottom of the card depicts the fall of the value of my investment portfolio. Yikes.

Image description: Against a background of semi-transparent mild expletives, a woman (Peg) scowls in frustration at a phone in her hand. Upper right corner: a bottle of cranberry juice. Lower left: a Corningware bowl overlaid with a cracked glass filter. Lower center: a green graph with a jagged falling line.

Aggravations



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Comments

[pameladean]

I've got an ancient Corningware glass bowl too, though I usually use it for the more mundane task of making oatmeal in the microwave; and I'd be unhappy if I broke it. Also so much sympathy on the need for the cranberry juice.

I love how you throw yourself into the expressions you have in these cards where you appear.

P.