I think I am always so worried about my blog being some cohesive thread of thoughts and posts that I only seem to add to it very sporadically. Not sure if that will change or not based on this declaration...but I am going to just post what I want, ramble from time to time and makes this somewhat of a personal space that happens to be public.
I have been in a funk lately but I am really trying to fight it. There is not one major think I can point to to blame nor is there one major thing that is my symptom of how I know. I am just fighting the blues more and truth be told I think I am just really tired from working full time for the past 21 years with all financial responsibility resting solely on my shoulders. That is how it is being a single parent and I know I am blessed that I have been able to go in an incline of a career path with increased salary and lifestyle. But...that does not mean I am not still tired and would not love being able to take a bit of a step backwards if I had a spouse that could pick up the slack. Ok...that is just a bit of where my head is at I guess.
I have been doing some cooking lately which has been nice. I made a fabulous chicken curry crockpot dish, a good mexican crockpot dish and last night I cooked with a leek for the first time. Yum! Saturday morning I went down to the farmers market, for the first time this year believe it or not, and I wound up with some garlic, shallots, leeks, fingerling potatoes and a beautiful bouquet of flowers. Some of the garlic is for eating and some is for planting in the garden.
Last night I steamed the potatoes and cooked the leeks in butter and olive oil. I also cooked and crumbled some bacon. I tossed all the ingredients together and let them fry up a bit and it was just lovely. I am definitely going to plant fingerling potatoes this spring.
I am home sick today and won't go into details. I can be up and about a bit and am going to work on getting out a few fall decorations. I am ready for the summer heat to be gone and survey says it will be leaving this week.
