Is this yours?I've never owned one...well that's not true, I received one as a wedding gift, but my sister had received this cute cake stand as a wedding gift to her the same month, and I wanted it. She wanted to make salsa fresca, so we traded wedding gifts. Think we're tacky? Think again, who doesn't love fresh pico? ..and just look how cute the cake stand is.
Plus, the giver of the cake stand, gave me the matching tray shown in the background.
They're a set. They belong together.
Anyway, I didn't end up purchasing a tiny food processor of my own until about a week ago. I looked at it, and then stashed it away in the appliance cabinet until today when I decided to make fresh pesto sauce. You can find Elena's INCREDIBLE recipe here. I pulled my new processor from the cabinet, washed out the styrofoam bitties clinging to the blades, and set to work.
The "Naked Chef" helped me wash the basil.Once I had all my ingredients ready to blend, I pushed the little blue button.
Nothing happened.
No power? Hmmmm....I fidgeted with it for awhile, then started to panic that I might have thrown away the box and instructions when I opened it. What if it's defective and I can't return it? Let that be a lesson to not throw away packaging to new products until testing them out first. I rifled through my cabinet and heaved a sigh of relief when I spied the box way in the back behind the blender and my tiny crockpot.
Finally! Instructions! I opened the box and found this:
Huh? Another tiny food processor.
I'm so confused! I feel like I'm losing my mind lately!Several months ago I lent out my ENTIRE acrylic stamp collection (including the acrylic block and some stamp pads) to someone, but they are faceless in my memory. I want my stamps back! I remember putting everything in a bag, I remember demonstrating how to use and clean them. I remember standing in my doorway, and happily HANDing them to the friend...but who? what friend? I. Can't. Remember.
I did the same with our Barbie Island Princess DVD. Reese requested to watch it the other morning, and I replied, "Oh sweetie, we can't, remember? We lent it out to...." nothing. No memory. No recollection of where it went.
Today, a friend returned my electric breast pump. Not that I've been needing it, or anything...but I don't even remember letting her borrow it.
And now I have two near-identical tiny food processors. Both new. One with packaging, one without.
What. The. Heck.
I think I am going CrAzY!
I think I am going CrAzY!
The really sad thing is that I don't even know WHICH is the one that I purchased. And the broken one (or at least the one I'm too stupid to figure out how to work) does not have a box. I DO know it was brand new, though because it still had the little cardboard thingie inside to protect the blade and styrofoam all over it.
And HOW the heck did it get in my kitchen??!?! Is this a joke?
Does this happen to you? Do you have any excess brain activity to share? Can you think for me for the next 4 1/2 months? What if there's something wrong with me? Maybe Marge (the naked stinky leather jacket neighbor) hasn't actually told me that she has Alzheimers 6 times in past 3 weeks. Maybe I have Alzheimers!
I might have to stop lending my things out until I find my memory...or set up some sort of card-catalog system. Do I have something of yours that you need back?
Do YOU have something of mine? Um...can I have it back please?
10 comments:
I am in NO way trying to make this sound insulting or condescending but maybe the food processor did not turn on because you forgot to "lock" the lid to the base around the back?? When I first used mine I could'nt figure it out. When you put the lid onto the bowl/blade combo part THEN you have to make sure you twist the lid to the back part of the base and it slides into a cut out groove where the lid locks to the base and THEN the machine will start. It knows if it's not locked and it will NOT start before then. If that is what you already did then sorry for stupid advice, but it took me a bit to figure it out. Elena's pesto is indeed delicious so I hope you get it to work.
Don't you love pregnancy brain. It seems so wrong your brain shrinks when you are pregnant and you are still expected to function. If it makes you feel any better during this pregnancy I tried to take pictures with no film in the camera. I felt soooooo stupid. When I was pregnant with Hannah I couldn't cook anything to save my life and we just went out all the time.
if i would have known about your little memory i would have kept those jeans. they were smokin hot.
well i DID get the 2nd food processor to work, and yes that was the problem. There are two tiny dots that have to line up and if they aren't, it won't turn on. I didn't go back and try this with the first one, because at that point I was too confused as to HOW I ended up with TWO in the first place! Thanks, though.
Could the second chopper be the one that Aaron bought at Wal-Mart the day after thanksgiving. You know the one that was right next to the tiny crockpot that you wanted that he didn't get. In that post it doesn't mention him returing the chopper with the list of other thing that he returned. Please let me know if I solved the mystry. If so I want a prize.
Hey, that Natalie has quite a memory! I think you should give her something for that little hint about how the choppers got duplicated. At least an A for Effort.
I used to think my memory sucked when I was pregnant. Now, as I approach 40, it's worse. They say exercise increases blood flow to the brain. Maybe I should start? SO........all I can say is "You're in good company"!!
K is the only one I know who retains her memory year after year. In fact, I think it gets sharper.... how can that be?
Wow. First of all, Sara said 'sucked!' I didn't think she used that word! Ha!
Nope, that's not mine. Mine is safely tucked away in my other kitche, not here when I needed it tonight to quickly chop some cabbage for a chinese chicken cabbage salad. Which is why I've been sitting on the computer for 45 minutes instead of making dinner and tomorrow's lunch. I should go chop that cabbage now - I'm hungry!
Oh my gosh, this post is SO me! However, I don't have the excuse of pregnancy brain for the time being. It's scary actually. I've been telling my hubby it's getting worse. And I feel like I'm losing my mind. My hubby keeps telling me that I say I can't remember or I forgot more and more. Seriously, am I that old already? It is a bit disturbing really!
Oh and the Naked Chef reference made me LOL!
awww man i want that cake stand now. but my hubz would not like not having fresh pico in the summer time!
That's too funny because Lane said yesterday that maybe your hubby bought an extra one since he bought a bunch of other stuff you already owned after thanksgiving.
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