Limbo!

Right now we're in that weird limbo period between paychecks when money is low and we don't have a lot of food in the house. I improvised dinner tonight and made a pasta dish that turned out to be absolutely delicious. I cooked up a box of penne pasta and made a sauce of out a couple pieces of bacon, minced onion and garlic (with my new garlic press), a little bit of cream and milk, red pepper flake, fresh thyme and grated parmesan cheese (with my new microplane grater!). Some salt and pepper to taste, and holy wow it was so good, and it was all from supplies I had around from other meals I made. We also made some tasty garlic bread from the rest of the bread we made last week.

I really like being able to improvise meals and have them turn out good. Following recipes is fine and all, I have no trouble with that. But coming up with stuff on my own is pretty cool.

I had an appointment today in Spirit Lake, Iowa which turned out to be about 220 miles round trip for me. It actually was a nice drive with nice weather, dry roads, and plenty of audio content on my iPod to keep me entertained. The clients were super nice too and were very happy with the work I did for them, which always makes any long drive well worth it. Yeah I know that sounds cheesy, but its nice making people happy while enjoying the work I do. I suppose if I pissed everyone off I wouldn't enjoy my work as much.