the mysterious disappearing food

so today . . . i thought i would have a hot dog for dinner.

i don't eat hot dogs very often, because of the buns. (remember the whole wheat bun experience?) but lately i have kind of been craving them. instead of a regular hot dog bun, i use half of a sourdough sandwich bun. then i slice the hot dog in half lengthwise, and then across. i line the four little pieces up across the bun, top it with a slice of pepper jack cheese (bet that surprised you!) and then microwave it. mmm, mmm, good!

so tonight i got out the bread, cut a bun in half, opened it up on the plate, and then went back to the refrigerator for the hot dogs and cheese. i looked in the sandwich drawer, and there were no hot dogs there. i looked again, but still no hot dogs. this was kind of odd, because i was pretty sure there had been 2 or 3 hot dogs in there just yesterday. rollie could have eaten them, but usually if he finishes something he either writes it on the grocery list or gets more out of the freezer. so to find that there were no hot dogs was weird . . .

ok, i thought, i'll just use the cheese, the delicious pepper jack cheese (yum,) and i will put it on the bread ALONE, and melt it and it will still be pretty good.

so i reached for the pepper jack cheese, AND IT WAS GONE TOO! now i knew something was wrong! i am the only one in our house who will get within three feet of pepper jack cheese, so i couldn't put the absence of my cheese on either rollie or diandra. i moved everything around. i looked in other parts of the refrigerator. i even looked in the freezer--and i knew it couldn't be in there, but it had to be somewhere . . .

frustrated and perplexed, i stood up, closed the refrigerator and turned to go up and see if rollie knew anything about the missing food. and there it was. on the counter. right next to the bag of sourdough sandwich buns.

some days i wonder why my brain cells are deserting me . . .