Posted in Everyday Life, Kitchen Adventures, Recipes, Uncategorized, tagged baking, bread, dinner, food, kitchen adventures, lunch, recipes, Soft Pretzels on December 13, 2012|
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Brace yourself folks. I’m about to shatter the illusion you have of me that I’m perfect.
Yes, it’s true I’m a flawed soul. I’m plenty okay with this but I’m afraid of the devastating effect this news will have on you.
I hope I have not ruined your holiday season. I am truly sorry.
What’s that?
None of you even entertained the idea that I was perfect?
Well okay then. Hmm, I have to say I’m a little surprised and mildly shocked but….none of you?
Well let’s just move right along shall we.
The flaw that I was about to shock you with is my failure to live in the present. I tend to put on my rose color glasses over how things were in the past and get super jazzed about how I think things will be in the future. Note: using the term super jazzed often does not constitute as a flaw.
I’m sure we all do this but it erks me so much when I catch myself dismissing something that I will surely look back on with joy but at the moment comparing it to our past. Just enjoy now Jen, you big dummy. That’s what I yell in my head.
I have to remind myself that things weren’t alway perfect. That cute first apartment together, remember the ceiling fell in. The phone never worked, the kitchen was pretty non-existent and the trolley shook the whole place every 10 minutes. Let’s not forget the squirrel break-in. He wrecked the whole place. When Adam came home he thought maybe I was in a mad dash to get to work because I was late. It wasn’t until he found the hole in the screen and squirrel bathroom evidence that he thought possibly it wasn’t me. Possibly? Really?
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