I survived!

Hey, I'm just blogging to let everyone know that I made it to age 31 without dying.  Here are some pictures of that:

 

These photos tell NOTHING about the great dinner I had with my mom at Red Lobster, or how hot my friend Mickee is IRL, or that I got to spend a whole evening with the Sniadachs, or that I took my cousins for sushi, or that I used my birthday money to purchase a crock pot.

 

They also tell nothing about how I made no plans for my birthday at all and just decided to pretend it was any old weekend and see people who wished to see me. Without pressure.  Whenever I plan big things I get really nervous and that's not fun for me, so this year I didn't plan anything and it was perfect.

 

Oh, I cook things now. With the new crock pot. I made this last night:

 

Orange Chicken over blackened (by accident) brown rice with a side of garlic soy broccoli

Just grated 2 carrots, chopped up 2 peppers, added some spices, added some orange juice, and put some chicken breasts in a crock pot.  (The side dishes were easy.)

 

I have to mention that I don't cook things.  My usual M.O. is breakfast for dinner, sandwich for dinner, or pizza for dinner with side salad or some sort of side dish. Things I've cooked before include the following:

• Salad
• Stir frys
• Eggs - omelettes included
• Macaroni and cheese
• Pizza
• Quesadillas
• Tacos
• Burritos
• Turkey-veggie burgers
• Anything that you can make cold
• Really poisonous orange/sweet potato casserole, blech.
• Various baked items out of a box.

I just really like all the new things I do now.  Gradually I find myself doing more and more new things.

 

Sometimes I worry I'm going to overshoot, but I can always pull back into my shell again if I have to.

 

Just having that security to back out if I want helps me make better decisions.

 

I'm not sure how to end this blog so I'm just going to eat some potato chips.