I forgot the milk on the stove...

Mr. Tom it simmered/boiled down to nothing.

'simmered' is fine, but I would use 'boiled'.

CJ

Thanks, CJ.

Do you think you can have a look without getting tired/bored? I would be grateful.

Dear Aunt Agony

I must tell you that I forgot the milk again on the stove and it boiled down to nothing.

It all happened something like this. It was rather late at night and I was too tired to do anything. But I knew that the milk needed boiling. My mornings are not

Mr. TomDo you think you can have a look

It's all completely understandable. The italics and quotes around 'pleasure' are optional in my opinion, but I suppose you're saying that it's not really a pleasure. Even if I kept the quotes, I'd dispense with the italics, however.

not X enough is usually followed by an infinitive construction, and I p

I suggest "My morning are not relaxed enough to afford me the luxury of standing over the stove to wait for the milk to come to a simmer."

"To have the luxury of" is, I think, the idiom you want. Pleasure isn't quite right, which is why I'm guessing you put it in scare quotes. Plus my substitute points up the narrator's dilemma, that even a small pause in the active performance of chor