A Valentine's Day To Remember

In the past I've always hated Valentine's Day or Single's Awareness Day as I tended to call it along with the myriad of other people who didn't have a significant other to spend the day with.  I would get depressed that I was still single after however many years it had been since my ex and I broke up.  So I would spend Valentine's Day depressed that I was single and annoyed every time I saw some giggling couple go by.  For the most part I've gotten better with it and just tried to focus on other things and convince myself it wasn't a big deal.  This year was slightly harder because within the last couple of months several people I know have either gotten married or announced that they're expecting kids.  Normally I wouldn't think much of it except for the fact that they're all three, even four years younger than me.  Much as I am happy for them it does make me very aware of the fact that I haven't had a real date in almost exactly four years now while many of my Facebook friends, most of whom are my age or younger, are raving about their fantastic boyfriends or girlfriends and the latest date they've gone on.  And I know, nobody wants to date the fat girl, but when most of the girls at my work who are my size or bigger are also raving about their fantastic boyfriends or girlfriends, I start to figure something must be seriously wrong with me.

Chicken and Veggies

Since I like to cook, as has already been established, I've decided that I'm going to broaden my post topics to that of food as well.  I really enjoyed sharing my experience of baking my cake for Thanksgiving and I gotta figure that someone out there will probably appreciate similar posts.  Also, I recently watched Julie & Julia.  Fantastic movie, if you haven't seen it, you should.  Anyway, moving on, I recently got a Pinterest account, one of those things that I'd heard about for ages and actively avoided because it was so popular.  Well, I caved and I have discovered a whole new fantastic world.  Not even kidding, I love it.  One of my friends has been griping at me because I've been pinning so much and blowing up her Pinterest board.  Whoops!

Probably the most exciting thing I've found for me is all the recipes.  There are so many!  I'm trying not to collect too many so I don't overwhelm myself with all the possibilities.  Since I had yesterday off of work because I was up until 4 am watching the midnight premiere of The Desolation of Smaug, more on that in my next post, I decided to cook dinner.  And since I was cooking dinner, I figured it would be fun to try one of the recipes I'd found on Pinterest.  And so was born the idea that whenever I tried a new recipe, I could blog about it and let other people know if it was really good or bad or if I'd done something differently, etc.  So if you like to cook, I hope this is helpful and fun and if you don't like to cook then maybe it'll inspire you to bust out the pots and pans and make something yummy.