Ripped...

You're in the doctor's office, thumbing through one of their magazines; you initially picked up that particular magazine because the cover touted "great summer recipes", complete with delicious, appetizing pictures on the cover! You're flipping through the pages quickly because soon they'll call your name and you'll have to put the magazine back on the table and go wait another twentiy minutes in the examining room wearing that stylish paper robe open in the back...what's this? where are the recipes? here's the pictures of the arugula salad with the grapefruit sections, the blackberry sangria, garlic herbed bread....but where are the recipes??? Some idiot ripped them out!! That idiot....is me....I ripped the recipes out of the magazine in the doctor's office. And to top it off, there's a slight possibility I won't even make the damn arugula salad...or the sangria....hopefully I'll give the bread a shot as it's only four ingredients: butter, garlic, herbs and a loaf of french bread. Yes, I took the magazine in the other waiting room and while I was sitting there in my paper robe, I ripped the recipes out of the magazine and stuffed them in my purse. I mean, how often do I even have the time to look through a magazine? Not to mention how impressed my company would be if I whipped out a beautiful arugula salad with grapefruit sections (because I have company so often...yea). I must have five hundred recipes I've clipped, ripped and snipped from newspapers and magazines THAT I'VE NEVER MADE!! I could probably dedicate the rest of my life to preparing the dishes from my recipe collection and still have a shoebox full! Now, please tell me I'm not the only one dreaming about enough time to experiment in the kitchen?...or sit leisurely on a porch swing reading "Shakey"?....or curl up on the couch watching the entire X File television series on DVD?....or organize my desk?.....clean out my purse?....yes, the recipes I pinched...are still in there...