seeing red...

okay this is why i was cranky.

yesterday (or the day before or sometime) i read on my friend mark's blog that he'd decided to cook some different kinds of food for the benefit of his loved ones. and so i thought to myself, gee i suppose i should make a bit of an effort from time to time and do the same thing (not the same food of course, his looked way too ambitious for me, but something a bit different to my standard 5 dishes....)

so despite feeling really rather ordinary i forced myself to shop, forced myself to cook and even forced myself to 'present food attractively' (this is seriously beyond the call of duty but the books do go on and on about it...). Unfortunately although the food tasted pretty good (and looked just super--freshly shaved parmesan is definitely the way to go) all this effort generated not so much as a 'thanks' or 'gee that's nice' or 'what the heck is that green stuff?' from the other two adults in the house who were too wrapped up in their own little computer worlds to notice either the effort that went into the meal or the subsequent hex i put on their technologies...

so it turns out that although being taken for granted is irritating at the best of times, it is a whole heap worse when one is actually LOOKING for positive feedback. or any feedback at all.