{"id":8323,"date":"2013-04-25T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T11:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=8323"},"modified":"2026-01-15T20:03:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:03:25","slug":"life-and-the-peeling-of-hazelnuts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=8323","title":{"rendered":"Life and the Peeling of Hazelnuts….."},"content":{"rendered":"

Skybluepinkish<\/a> commented on my post yesterday that life was too short to peel hazelnuts. Her comment got me thinking about all the things that I omit doing because they are too fiddly or time consuming to be bothered with. For example:<\/p>\n

1. I never seed tomatoes and rarely peel them. When the recipe instructions call for  3 tomatoes, peeled, seeded and chopped, I skip over the “peeled and seeded” and go right to the “chopped.” It’s roughage right.<\/p>\n

2. I don’t seed cucumbers either. I guess one could say my Gazpacho is a little “seedy”  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

3. I rarely make desserts. I don’t mind the fuss of making a dessert, but that has to be the event of the day – no other cooking, cleaning etc is done just The Decadent Chocolate Cake from “The Silver Palate” or any one of their other desserts.<\/p>\n

4. I don’t clean silver, so I guess it’s fortunate that I don’t have any. I used to work with a woman who took a day off every December to clean her silverware for Christmas.<\/p>\n

5. I don’t collect “things” because you have to maintain your collections. If it’s ceramics, they have to be dusted. I had a friend who collected those beautiful painted Easter Eggs – lovely though they are, the dust still collects on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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My only collection<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\nI am sure there are more and I have reserved the whole concept of “ironing” for another post. Here is what I do make time for in my life which many would consider a waste of time:<\/p>\n

1. I knit. It’s not so much about the finished garments, which are often cheaper to buy. It’s about the rhythm of the activity, a kind of marathon for the hands.<\/p>\n

2. I weed. Where others may put down grass for easy maintenance, I dig it up and put in gardens that require weeding. Again, it’s an outdoor marathon for the hands and knees.<\/p>\n

3. I write. Sometimes people ask me how often I blog and when I say daily, they look stunned. Now I know most people in this group blog daily. But there are a lot of people who do not write a blog, never tweet and aren’t on Facebook. For them, these activities are a huge time suck!!<\/p>\n

4. I cook from scratch. Given that I really dislike the taste of processed foods, I make most of my meals from the basics, even though a lot of the basics today are preprepared. I am seriously thinking of cooking with beans from their dried state and maybe freezing tomatoes in the Fall to avoid using the tinned ones.<\/p>\n

5. I do crossword puzzles. Time wasters, yes, but they are absorbing and I almost never watch TV.<\/p>\n

What do you find that’s a waste of time or what do you like wasting your time doing \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Skybluepinkish commented on my post yesterday that life was too short to peel hazelnuts. Her comment got me thinking about all the things that I omit doing because they are too fiddly or time consuming to be bothered with. For example: 1. I never seed tomatoes and rarely peel them. When the recipe instructions call […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","category-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8324,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8323\/revisions\/8324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}