We went out of town for the weekend and I was going to be so smart...
knowing we wouldn't have time to cook when we got home Sunday evening. Right before we left on Friday, I made a pot of chili. I figured the flavors would meld all weekend and it would be nice and tasty to reheat when we got back. I set it on the porch to cool.
But we had a lot going on while packing. Taking the dogs meant gathering all their stuff and bathing them before we put them in the car (two small ponies, one at a time in the shower). Packed all their crap, packed all our crap and then we hit the road.
And an hour or so in, I remembered the chili. DOH!
Luckily a neighbor was able to get it and keep it for us. But I had been imagining a chili crime scene when/if the raccoons discovered it!
Turns out, it was just so-so chili. I hadn't used enough salt and I think the tomatoes were too sweet or something. I ended up adding a can of Ro-tel for some zing. But it wasn't as thick as my chili usually is so I am wondering if it had anything to do with my attempt to make it ahead. Oh well.
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I do have ADD and I was using lists for packing and tracking from room to room to gather stuff. I am quite known for leaving out an ingredient or two. 
Normally, I might have on the list: get chili off porch...but for some reason I didn't do that this time.
Famous last words here. I'm always outsmarting myself. I could tell you stories all day long of how I outwit myself.
Should be a thread on its own.
Culinary or otherwise, I have tales to tell. I especially outsmart myself when I hide stuff. 
that's how I outsmart myself, too. Sometimes I've even gone so far as to put something where I'm going to need it when I do something. Wow, isn't that smart? Well, not if you don't remember that you did it!!
Like I might find a broken necklace in the glove compartment of the car someday. Why there? Oh, headed past the repair shop.
I have a file on my computer called "where things are."
Also, new rule: anything put in a new place has to be listed there.
I need to start such a file. And then tell someone else that I started that file!
Sometimes I think about a burglar breaking in, opening some closets or drawers and thinking WHAT THE HELL?
