I had to go back to Camp Mabry because Eis wasn't enrolled in Tricare Prime, but standard Tricare. It really makes no sense because I'm in Prime and I didn't know active duty family members could be enrolled in standard.
Then I had to go to SAMC to have them fax a note to Tricare saying Dr. E would accept Eis as a patient. I asked if they'd call me after it was done so I wouldn't worry about it.
The rest of the day was pretty relaxed, but dinner sucked.
My mom had been talking about this "big pork dinner" she had planned and when she was going to make it and blah blah blah. So, I assumed it was something she'd had before, knew how to cook, and didn't want my help with cooking. Unfortunately, none of that was true.
It was peppery and the meat was rubbery and the veggies weren't thoroughly cooked. She later told me she wanted to try something new... too bad every time she tries something new, it sucks. I looked at the recipe and noticed she didn't combine the condensed soup and water, but put them in separately, which made it really hard to combine after it was on the meat and veggies. She used regular carrots, instead of baby carrots. She cut the potatoes into big chunks, instead of slices. Plus, she put in the pepper it says to use.
Her excuse was, "I don't like to cook." I told her, "No, you don't like to read." I also told her it's a terrible idea to just look at a recipe with no picture and decide you want to try it, but not follow the recipe explicitly. Because she did the veggies wrong, it had to cook 3x longer and the meat got rubbery. Plus, I said, "If you're not going to follow the recipe, at least follow it to make it better and take out the spice that I don't like."
I told her she needs to ask me for help and not just wing it, then say she doesn't like cooking. Needless to say, I'll be going to the grocery store tomorrow and figuring out dinner.
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