**This is someone else’s post but when I tried to reblog, it wouldn’t let me so I copy & pasted. Please do not mistake as my own, even though this is my exact change of events!!!**

What I love about cooking:

• Thinking up dishes. Usually involving my favorite foods, lot of times trying to incorporate something “new”.
• Grocery shopping on a smart day/hour (NO little kids, shelves full. I say shelves full because around here everything is imported. Read again: every single thing)
• Setting up stage. aka the work area. Little bowls if I need to chop a lot of things. Select favorite utensils. Set up a playlist that goes with the mood.
• Handling the ingredients. There is this Zen as Fuck side to cutting up stuff, rubbing, smearing, measuring. It is like ballet, like yoga, like all those things that nowadays are making the smart kids rich, you get that same feeling right there in your own kitchen. Best as solo performance , if you ask me. With people you have REAL good vibrations with, you could do a pas de deux. But this is rare. Unless you have been professionally schooled for the kitchen.
• Then you start the great performance. Well the pre-act that is. I love when it has to go quick. Throw things in the pan! Stir! Check in the oven! Quick get that shit out because chemical reactions are at their peak! Let it resssssst so the juices can flow!
• If you are a peasant like me, you serve things quite casually, which usually means oh there are the pans, serve yourself. On rare occasions you serve out dishes, with the frou-frouness our French amies taught us. Little works of art on beautiful plates. Nowadays preferably square formed.
• THEN comes the big act itself. The Freddie Mercury of the culinary world if you like. You get to sit down. First you need to cool down and catch your breath a little (again, if you are like me. I get all hotheaded while cooking) you have some wine, you look around the table to see if the faces are beaming up at the first bites (which you want to make sure they are because goddamn you did not do all that effort for long faces!), you grab your utensils and slowly work your tongue up to an intense orgasm. Which, again in my case, happens too sudden, too fast.

The end.

I was re-reading back through the questions, and some of them are rather deep, I guess. Some of them make you sit there and think. And I guess when doing something like this (like wanting to answer all 365 questions) you can’t really sugar coat your answers. There’s no point in doing that, otherwise why would you sit there and take the time and effort to answer all the questions in the first place? 

#2: Who do you sometimes compare yourself to?

This one is kind of hard. Since life isn’t black and white, and since there are so many different things that make up a person (at least, I think that there are different aspect of myself), there are various ways you can compare yourself to someone else. 

I compare myself to others in two ways: how I would like to be like a person, and ways that I would NOT like to be like a person. 

For instance, I compare myself to my mother in so many ways. She is kind, personable, genuine, determined, hard-working, focused, and cares about other people. I compare myself to her a lot, because I would like to think that I could be like her in the many facets of my life and personality. Whereas, I have a “friend”, (I guess you could call the person a friend) who says thing sometimes, that I really sit and look at the person and think “Did he/she really just say that? Did those words really just come out of his/her mouth?”. That’s someone who I would really not want to be like, but yet I compare myself to this person, to remind myself of what I would never want to be like. 

So as for a specific person, I can only think of my mom, and well, I guess, this friend. 

Who do you sometimes compare yourself to?

“So, I should be…” is the way a lot of my sentences seem to start. Right now, it’s “So, I should be studying le français, but instead I’m blogging!”

A new-found obsession (not really new, it started last semester) is pinterest. My big in Phi Mu introduced me to it, and got me hooked, unfortunately (but fortunately). SO! Today, while I should have been studying, I was browsing pinterest and I came about this one pin, with a description that said “365 Though Provoking Questions to Ask Yourself This Year”. And it took me to another website - I think it was a blog. But anyways, I was reading through the questions and I thought “Why don’t I go through this list and answer one question a day?”. (I figure I would have to double - up and triple - up to catch up to the question I should be on for whatever day it is.) 

SO! While, I was looking at this website, I went back to pinterest for a second and then something else caught my eye. It was a pin with a picture of a book.

The book is from Anthropologie. The book has a different question or cue on each page, one question (or cue) for each day of the year (365 questions or cues) and for each question (or cue) it has five spaces. The five spaces are for five years. 

So, you start on whatever day it is and you write in the year. So, then every year you can go back and see what you answered and see how your answers change. I think this would be an awesome book to buy. You might not think, but sometimes things change and it would be interesting to see how your personality changing from year to year makes your answers change. 

But, anyways…

Back to my deep, thought provoking questions. So, here’s the first one:

#1. When was the last time you tried something new?

Gosh! I’m not sure. I can’t think of anything too out of the blue. But, I guess doing the 5K this past weekend. I had never done a race before, at least not in something like that, and it was rather exciting to finish it. 5 kilometers isn’t that far when you think about it, but I guess just the fact that I decided to do it in the first place is what counts (of course, not counting the fact that I finished something that I started!).

Doing the race this past weekend, made me want to do more. I have never been the fastest (and I definitely, won’t ever be the fastest), but just competing in something and working for a small goal and achieving it (even if it is small), is still progress, and it still counts for something. (At least, to me it does! LOL) 

Anyways, it’s off to finish studying now. I got my procrastination in. Time to get hard to work again! So, when was the last time you tried something new?

There’s always a first for everything and today I ran/walked my first 5K. I did it with two of my good friends, Emy and Evy. It was a school race and there were students and faculty. The route was around campus, going in between building and taking ways I normally go on to go to class. It was fun. Since I pretty much walked almost all of it, I thought I got a pretty good time for it. 

After finishing the race, we all hung around the finish line. They awarded 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place to the women and men for fastest times. Then, they had a raffle. AND I WON!! I never win anything. It was just the fact that I won that made me so excited. I won $10 to Hunter Gatherers (which is rather expensive, so technically the gift card is useless). 

So! I found out that they do 5K races back home for Memorial Day weekend, and I thought that would be interesting to do. So my mom and I are signing up for it. Pretty darn excited!!

I, ALSO, saw this thing on the internet for something called  ”The Color Run”. It’s a 5K in which at every kilometer you get shot at with paint (it’s harmless and non-toxic) and by the end of the race you are like 5 different colors! It looks so cool and they have races all over the country. SO! I think I am signing up for one in Charlotte soon! Can’t wait! 

Bye bloggers!