Sometimes multitasking isn’t such a good idea. I’m known for almost always doing at least two things at once, but tonight I learned that texting, emailing, watching TV, and doing website updates while trying to cook dinner isn’t so smart. I knew I ought to check on the pot of alfredo noodles I’d put on the stove, but I became distracted as I tried to finish just one or two (or maybe seven) more things before heading back to the kitchen.
Well, a watched pot may never boil, but an unwatched pot has a tendency to boil over. A loud hiss quickly got my attention as the sauce splashed all over the stove. I ran into the kitchen and rescued the pasta, but the splattered sauce had already sizzled to a blackened crisp on the burners.
So did I learn my lesson about being a little more careful when multitasking? Well, let’s just say that I ended up scrubbing the scorched stove top with a scorched red bottom.
April 14th, 2008 - 10:03 pm
Hmmm… Aside from the obvious snarks (‘Looks like Domestic Bliss-tering to me’ or ‘He sure managed to light a fire under the cook, and I’ll bet it made her pot boil!’), one question: Howcum itz YORJOB to be doing daCookin? Another saying these days is “two cooks are better than one.” Maybe t’was all in fun to warm yer bun(z) but, considering all your efforts (in just these last two days), you should be taken not for granted, but with gratitude.
April 14th, 2008 - 10:16 pm
Ouch… Pixie, darling, since you DID say you would welcome any of my suggestions — two words, when you’re busy with important things like website updates and emailing. Pizza delivery! This cooking business is for the birds. OR… if your bf insists on home-cooked food, hand him a cookbook, point him to the stove and tell him to knock himself out.
April 14th, 2008 - 10:17 pm
Yipes. Well so long as you didn’t suffer any OTHER burns, young lady. (HUGS) Gotta be careful with cooking, or it’s hot crossed buns for dinner.
April 14th, 2008 - 10:46 pm
Don’t worry A-non-mouse. The spankings given in this household are for fun even if they are firm at times and there is a real reason behind giving them. And while I was busy burning the alfredo sauce, my boyfriend was outside grilling chicken. He actually does the majority of the cooking … and with good reason!
Erica – I agree completely. Let’s see. Pizza on Monday, Chinese on Tuesday, Thai on Wednesday … yes, yes, this could work.
007 – Nope, no burns. But I ought to be more careful though. Even if the spanking was more or less for fun, I should pay more attention.
April 14th, 2008 - 11:32 pm
Sorry Pixie, t’was not my intention to scold or lecture, just a poor choice of phonetic spelling. Regretted the way I spelled it as soon as I sent it, realizing it might be construed to mean you were a mouse – which *any* reader here (myself included) could strongly deny – or that I was coming off as a K.K.A.T.M. (Kill! Kill All The Men!!) Why aren’t there thermometers for sauces, like those for meat, but which can link to a simple device and alert otherwise busy cooks when adjustment is needed before the tell-tale HISSSS? Probably just another half-baked idea…
April 14th, 2008 - 11:43 pm
Now that’s just smoking hot. Oh, and the stove looks pretty effective as well.
April 15th, 2008 - 2:00 am
Dear Pixie,
You can come over and cook for me ANY time….
Dr. Ken
April 15th, 2008 - 2:01 pm
your new avatar is amazing!!
April 15th, 2008 - 2:28 pm
I apologize in advance for the following.
The pasta pot, it was a boiling
As multi tasking Pixie’s toiling
The Kitchen, it got well spattered
So Pixie’s butt got very battered
Prefectdt
April 15th, 2008 - 3:48 pm
With ‘O’ so much whining and wailing.
[Sorry forgot to write the last line, I'm so tired tonight]
Prefectdt
April 16th, 2008 - 11:44 am
Work takes me out of the country for a couple of days, only to return to winter reasserting its grip here one last time and a sss-sizzling shot of Pixie, standing in her best penitent pose and (according to the label)”I Dare You NOT To Spank Me” panties.
Well, based on the dearth of comments, either it has gone unnoticed (doubtful), or else no one wants to pipe up. So, in my usual ‘graceful as a Clydesdale in a China shop’ manner (did someone say… Blücher?), I shall: Pixie, you *deserved* that spanking. Alfredos are endangered, and should not be wasted. (No? Sure the woods, or at least the telephone books, are full of them – for now, but how many Alfredos do you actually know?) At this rate, they’ll be like the Romanovs, which were so ill-treated in their native habitat that they migrated elsewhere around 1918, and now its common for Russians to go their entire lifetime without ever tasting Noodles Romanov (shudder). Think about it.
Earth: It’s not just dirt anymore.
April 16th, 2008 - 2:06 pm
Well, that looks painful! Still, I’m sure it was effective. I wish I’d had someone to do that for me the time I went out to the shops for nearly two hours, and completely forgot about the pot of eggs on the stove. Fortunately, they were fine, as was the kitchen, and my housemate didn’t go mad. I kinda wish she had, though. Trying to beab my own butt isn’t quite as effective, d’ya know what I mean? Awkward, too. Gave myself an arthritic shoulder!
April 16th, 2008 - 4:31 pm
I’m afraid I often manage to leave things on the stove, under the grill or in the oven and then go off to do other things and am reminded by a burning smell wafting through the house that I have forgotten them. Heavily burned objects in saucepans can take a lot of scrubbing and cleaning, and I really need a new cooker because I can’t get all the burned on bits off any more! (Haven’t tried scrubbing them with my bottom however – that sounds painful). Once many years ago at a Scout camp I left a new billy can on a stove with water boiling, went off to do something else, and came back to find a billy with a large hole burned right through its bottom. I was not very popular!
I haven’t wuite got the hang of this new blog yet – I hope this posts OK.
April 16th, 2008 - 5:23 pm
Looks like “someone” need some supervision or to limit her number of multitasking tasks.
April 16th, 2008 - 8:29 pm
Anonymous – Oh, I didn’t interpret the mouse part as pertaining to me at all! No worries. I just thought it was a cute name as I am fond of mice. And I also didn’t think you were KKATM either. I just hoped I hadn’t portrayed my bf as being some sort of big meanie who does nothing around the house. I worry about how things are interpretted sometimes too.
Tim – Thanks.
I’ll be sure to pass on your compliments to the stove. 
Dr. Ken – Hahaha. Under close supervision?
F. – Thank you!
Prefectdt – That was great!
Dreams of Horses – I was very sorry, I promise, even if it was more for making a mess and the risk of starting a fire rather than the reason you came up with.
Terri – Was your housemate home at the time? I’m glad everything was ok and it didn’t result in a house fire. And I agree that self-spanking can be quite difficult both with trying to reach around to your own bottom and delivering a solid smack when you know how much it’s going to hurt.
Winchester – Your post came through just fine.
I wouldn’t want to try scrubbing pots with my bottom either!!! You wouldn’t want to get dishpan buns.
2Good – Yes indeed. Or at least learn that pushing to finish just one more thing before getting up shouldn’t be done when there’s food on the stove!
April 18th, 2008 - 7:29 am
Ohhhh Pixie the multi tasker.
I’ve seen your skills in action and can’t believe you would make a booboo like scorching the pasta sauce! I’m surprised you weren’t using the ab-roller while you juggled all those other tasks at once.
That’s why I prefer to drink my dinner; it’s much safer!
April 20th, 2008 - 12:10 am
Actually, I don’t care that it hurts. I prefer to be the one in control of the pain, I got abused as I kid. no, my housemate wasn’t home. Confessing to her, I was almost cetain I would get a spanking, we had joked about someone needing one for some time, including her boyfriend. She just told me not to do it again, leaving me with a sense of overwhelming dissappointment, and a need to repeat the original spanking.
April 21st, 2008 - 2:45 am
Pixie, I’d offer sympathy, but I’ve spanked Sparkle more than once for leaving things on the stove unattended. Fire safety tends to be one of my big things for some reason.
Glad it wasn’t worse for either your stove or your bottom.