Today was good, so I’ll take it.

Yesterday, I made fresh salsa with tomatoes from the garden. I put boneless, skinless chicken breasts in the fridge to thaw, I got everything ready to make dinner for myself and my parents today. I was looking forward to baking that chicken in my salsa with smoked paprika and all its wonderful veggie chunks… I was going to arrange it all beautifully over rice and serve it with roasted broccoli. I was going to take pictures. Sounds like a good plan, eh?

We got out of the house late to go grocery shopping this morning, had a ton of little side errands, picked up my niece to shop and spend time with us, hung out with my brother and sister-in-law, went to the bank, went to the Secretary of State, got home late, unloaded groceries and threw together a quick lunch. After being allowed to relax for a few minutes, company showed up and it just got later and later. My thawed chicken instead decorated a pizza because no one wanted to wait for rice (brown rice seems to take forever!).

Things didn’t go as plan, my meal plan changed… but I had a great day! I got to hang out with my family, I got out and about, found a new blouse and a sleek almost-blazer-like piece for job interviews I’ll hopefully be getting. I wasn’t planning on pizza calories, but it’s a small price to pay for the day I had. I even bought new shampoo! new shampoo is very exciting, I’m going to introduce it to my hair in just a few minutes.

So I’m going to try to remember this when the bigger things don’t go according to plan. Life happens, you know? I can’t micro-manage every moment and I wouldn’t want to. Seems like it would suck the life out of, well… life.

I’ll probably be back after Labor Day weekend since I’ll be spending it and the holiday working retail. I’m really hoping to make pretty food to share pics of with you!