So, I am halfway through SUMMER, the two months of the year that I look forward to as soon as the school year starts. So far, I have: weeded, walked, lain, floated, jogged however gracelessly, snuggled, and binged on a variety of vices.  It's taken me about four weeks so far to decompress, and *now* I can attempt to tackle my summer projects (one of them was continuing with self-study Spanish, but, as expected, zero progress has been made there....YET--because I am optimistic, if nothing else).

My other considered projects were:
- Healthy eating/increased activity (attacked with aplomb at the start of the summer, but paused during vacation at T-husband's family's lake house where french fries, bread and booze were foundational parts of the food pyramid, and exercise was all but forsaken).
-Lots of cooking and baking (always relaxing in the methodology of it and finishing with an end product).
-Regular writing (an activity I have always enjoyed, and engaged in via long email correspondences in the past, but now those have gone by the wayside due to FB, and as a result, so has writing).

I've decided to combine my three projects into this blog.

My goals for this blog are to attempt new recipes from new cook books I have procured, photograph the processes and the finished products (as delectable or disgusting as they may be), provide notes about the process of making the dish (ease, time involved, etc), and finally provide reviews of the finished products by myself and hopefully also T-husband.

Tomorrow I go shopping for ingredients from the first book: The Wheat Belly 30-Minute or Less Cookbook, which will allow me to avoid the carbohydrates (which are the bad boys with cool haircuts to my body's high school wallflower--soooooo alluring and fun but are just in general bad news for me), and try a slew of totally new (to me) and purportedly easy recipes. Wish me luck.