How much a pound was that meat?

OK...so I haven't blogged in a few weeks. My excuse - I was waiting for my husband to reconfigure my daughter's old lap-top so that i didn't have to sit down in the family room with the desk top computer. I wanted the lap-top so I could sit upstairs, comfy and cozy on the couch...leisurely and author-like. Sure...does my excuse sound good enough?

I'm almost 50 (don't really want to admit that) and going through a sort-of mid-life crisis. My kids have all left home and my mommy time seems to have worn out its duty. I keep contemplating going back to school, taking an adult-ed course, starting a new hobby, and just trying to figure out where I fit into this vast universe. When I get home from work each day I am greeted, lovingly, by my four dogs, who seem to fill my need to take care of something at this point in my life. Now the kinda sad thing, though, is that I started dinner early today (breaded Italian chicken cutlets) just so I would have meat to cut up to put in the dogs dinner tonight. Now tell me...why am I coming home from work and starting dinner just so that my dogs have something delicious to eat? Not quite sure about that! But the worst thing was when my husband, who I dearly appreciate, went grocery shopping for me this weekend, and came home with hamburger meat that cost $5.19 a pound. "How much a pound was that meat?" I yelled. Once I realized that he bought the prime rib of hamburger meat I decided that he was definitely going to be the one to do the shopping from now on as I thought that I could get use to eating like a queen. At that point, I started dinner early, so the dogs could have something good in their food that night. OK...what is wrong with this picture? Mid-life crisis, nesting syndrome...or just a crazy love of my animals!! I think I better get my act together and figure out what to do with the rest of my life...besides cooking for my dogs. Any way you look at it though...that hamburger meat sure cost a lot!