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Leeandra Nolting

Leeandra Nolting
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Proud native Hoosier who’s settled permanently in New Orleans. Teach English. Live in an old whorehouse with three very talkative and sexually-confused birds and one very talkative bird that isn’t sexually confused at all but just wants what s/he wants, which is pretty much everything and everybody. They appear quite frequently in my writing. Former bedpan wrangler, radio announcer, preschool teacher, and freshman comp. instructor. Once accidentally picked out A Clockwork Orange for a make-out movie. Have a very rational appreciation for the works of Flannery O’Connor and the television show The X-Files and an irrational fear of Meg Ryan. All my friends are drunks.

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JUNE 7, 2009 8:13PM

Babe, I Cleaned the Fridge.

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Which translates to: "I threw out three of the five opened jars of spaghetti sauce, because that's what you pointed out to me."

Note the THREE opened cans of vegetables, two jars of Ragu with half an inch of sauce in each, the pitcher with half an inch of Kool-Aid in it, the container of petrified strawberry stems (just the stems!), the general nastiness living on the bottom shelf...oh...and that pitcher full of white and grayish-green sludge? That used to be milk.

It'll go real well with the box of Raisin Bran that expired LAST NOVEMBER (and why the hell did he put the cereal in the fridge in the first place?)

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I see a job well done. Give the man a cookie.
But then, if I wrapped up a plate of leftovers, Mike would go in to the fridge later, lift up a corner of the Saranwrap, pull out the leftovers, and leave the empty plate, complete with lifted up corner plastic, right where we found it.

He also liked to put ice cream in the refrigerator.
Mrs. Michaels--You don't want to see the freezer. He has a habit of putting bowls of hot food in there "to cool it off a bit," and then either spilling it or forgetting about it.
I keep the spaghetti sauce in the freezer and just chip out what I need. It lasts longer that way. And you should never leave anything in the can and put it in the refrigerator.
Ocular--I'm not the one that eats the spaghetti sauce or the canned vegetables or puts them back in the fridge like this.
Oh dear. You live in the land of plenty.

Need cooking lessons? Come over for dinner.

denese
Denese--I may take you up on that...

(Actually, I cook just fine, and asked the boyfriend to clean out the fridge so I could put groceries away. This was the result.)
lee lee, you are braver than i am, that post i did where i showed all the contents of my top dresser drawer *but didnt show you the 3 objects wrapped in the pink towel* HAHA, that was daring, but i would NEVER ever show the contents of the fridge.

the question is, has he sniffed the milk sludge lately then put it back in there bc well.. just bc?
Barbra--I think we're both hoping the milk sludge magically goes away. He was the one who mixed it up (it's instant milk), ergo, I think he's the one responsible for getting rid of it.

Supposedly, the kitchen is "his" territory when it comes to cleaning. Which is why the dishes are NEVER FUCKING DONE and the fridge is in the current state.
Cereal from LAST NOVEMBER! LOL

When I moved in with Hubby, I found a half gallon of milk that had turned solid, it was six months old. EEEEEEEEEEEEK! It shocked the hell out of me, Sess is such a clean freak.

Give the man a hot kiss and promise more if he finishes the fridge! It WILL work! ;)

RATED!
cereal does NOT belong n the fridge... it soaks up the humidity and goes soft.
other than that looks just like mine. we just skip the cereal..
what's the bottle in the door?
LadyMiko--That would work, except that HE'S NOT GETTING ACTION in return for cleaning up his own damn mess.

Trig--The bottle is my special medicine, so that I do not have to kill the boy. It's mine. All mine.
True, he should clean up after himself, he's an adult. I just thought it would be a fun way for you to get things done, :)
Today's my day to clean the fridge inside and out - i do all the housekeeping ('cept for the washing machine with all those curious tiny indecipherable Chinese kanji figures there - yes this is Japan sorta, Okinawa, and this language has THREE different sets of unrelated modes within it, katakana, kana and the much hated kanji)

I've been procratinating the fridge for weeks, but now it stand before me and says: "Clean me now."

But I know that if it doesn't get done before my charming tiny miniature doll-like wife gets hone it's my death knell, for sure.

HIGHLY rated for reasons too many to list.
could be worcestshire sauce... could be wine... could be laudunum.

is it warm tonight in nola?

yes...yes it is :)
at least the wine survived...
yea when i moved in with stupid it was in the late spring early summer, we had been dating since the fall before, sometime around christmas he had made something in a crock pot.. when i moved in it was still in the crock pot.

one day my bestie and i took it apon ourselves to clean the house, i had my own crock pots we would get a better newer one for our wedding im sure so i pitched the other one. it had 6 + months of something living in it.. in my mind the toxins and penicillian living in there *that im allergic to mind you* was more trouble than i could bring myself to bother with by cleaning. he could live with out a 20 year old crock with a half a years worth of shit in it.

hmmm, i was wrong and he threw a tempter tantrum. i should have learned from the first few ones, but damn it if you cooked and left it there for more than over night its your job to clean it
Trig and Brian--Since Ginny got pregnant and can't drink and therefore the wine's all mine, I marked my territory by backwashing it in front of the boy.

Somehow, the general state of the fridge doesn't gross him out, but my saliva in the wine does. I don't get it either, but it works.
Barbra--For once, there ISN'T a crock o' nastiness in the fridge. This is more luck than anything else.
If you put the cereal in the fridge, you put off that expiration date a good nine to ten months, I hear.

But really, I'm surprised you were able to keep cereal around that long. It's the WORLD'S EASIEST FOOD, you can eat and drink at the same time, and it's good for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Cereal doesn't last long in my house.
Ee gads, can relate, though it's usually me who lets the 'fridge go bad and he demanding we clean it. I have to shut my eyes when he throws out food because it's so hard for me.

But really, instant milk? And 1/2 opened cans of vegetables? I think a better blog is just going thru each piece in your refrigerator and giving us a history of each. And then move onto the freezer. THAT will be interesting! You already started with the backwash in the wine. Next?
Shaggy--He ate all the raisins out of the raisin bran. Then he put it in the fridge. Then he forgot about it. Nobody wants to eat soggy raisin bran without the raisins.

Me, I'm not so big on any cereal that doesn't contain red dye #40 as a key ingredient.

Deborah--The canned vegetables are part of some weird diet kick the boy is on. If it doesn't have canned vegetables and spaghetti sauce in it, he turns up his nose at it. I've given up trying to figure it out and just let him cook for his own damn self.

The instant milk I bought for some recipe that called for it dry, then one day we were out of real milk, so I made up a packet and the boy liked it and kept drinking it.
Tell me this is his fridge and not yours. Or at least tell me you wouldn't actually eat or drink any of this stuff. That "milk" is nasty!
Lisa--This is the shared fridge, though he is supposed to have the job of keeping it clean. I don't touch any of the spaghetti sauce, vegetables, milk, etc. I cleaned out MY food a few days ago and told him to sort through his stuff because I was going shopping.

The wine is mine.
reminds me I need to check the dates on the milk...
You didn't throw out the pickles, did you? Because they're good forever.
Con--a jar of pickles lasts about three days in our house.
As a man I feel any comments about this would make me ineligible for future comments.
That's disgusting.
This all seems quite normal to me.

Does that make me a bad person? Or just a bad fridge owner.

SHIT! I forgot to wrap up the tin of SPAM! Thanks for reminding me!
Sorry--I remember reading this last week and thinking what a random idea and how brave of you to expose your fridge to OS. Wouldn't have worked for me though, I would've gone into a "staging" mode and ruined the whole effect!

Very original!
My wife and I have two boys. NOTHING hits the expiration date in our fridge.
Funny now. After thirty years, justifiable homicide.