When the time arrives to sautee the pearl onions, I return to the recipe for instructions and realize suddenly that I have to peel 20 of them. Right now. I just have so much going on that I don't think about it and now I begin to frantically peel each one, my hands shaking from the urgency of the situation. And of course my face begins to itch a little here and there, probably from the sudden stress. And I have bits of onion skin sticking to my fingers. Ughh. But I'm still taking pictures of it all, because I told Rilkean I would. The camera's a bit slick from food and grease by this point.