Back to reality

I'm writing to you, curled up on my couch (watching the Golden Globes), counting down the hours until I have to go back to work tomorrow. I haven't been there since December 7th, & I don't even know if I remember how to get there. (Okay, that's an exaggeration, but I don't WANT to remember!) I'm not complaining about having to go back so much, as I'm more afraid that I will be totally useless once I get back in there. The most strenuous day I had on vacation, was park-hopping at Disney World, & that was just physically demanding. My brain has been on autopilot for the past month, & I am estimating that I make it 5 hours into my shift (half way), before I go cross-eyed! The past couple of days I have been slowly getting back to my normal schedule, & trying to challenge myself a little bit, so my brain isn't a complete pile of mush. Eddy & I love to cook together, & my mom got us a food processor for Christmas, so testing that out was a good way to get me out of my drawn out, vacation funk. 

If you have followed my Instagram at all, you know that we eat Mexican food like four times a week, so what better than to make our own salsa? Honestly, I don't even like salsa. I usually just dip my chip in the liquid-juice part of the salsa, & leave all of the chunky parts for Eddy. I did that same thing with our homemade salsa, but was that salsa juice delicious! We chopped: garlic, red onion, cherry tomato, & seasoned with cilantro, salt, black pepper, & Adobo. It tasted SO fresh, I want to make everything from scratch at home! (Just kidding, I don't have that much time or patience.) Seriously though, it was amazing. Not a huge culinary project, but just enough for me to get some motivation to be more daring in the kitchen. 

On top of being out of work for a month, I was also off track of any sort of decent diet. I will not go into the gory details of what I ate, or how many pounds have been packed on, but let's just say I THOROUGHLY enjoyed myself! Since we had been gone for so long, we had no food in the house, & basically only bought fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, & these interesting chips in the picture shown above. Those black bean chips are apparently only made with black beans, flax, & quinoa (coulda fooled me!), not to mention they were on sale 2 for $5.00 at Star Market. We also got a Sweet Chili flavor, that are equally delicious & taste a lot like SunChips. I was pretty stoked to find a tasty, gluten free alternative snack. Don't get me wrong, I had to close my eyes walking down the bread aisle, & wept a little walking past all of the cheese, but I will feel a lot better when my jeans fit again. 

"Sweat pants are all that fit me right now!"