Sunday, December 12, 2010

Failure

To anyone who may be reading...  I am calling defeat for 2010.  Conceding.  Giving it up.

As the name of my blog might hint, I am trying to cook 52 brand new meals in one year.  One year - not every year, just one bloody year.  Is that too hard?  Apparently it is.  I started this little endeavor in 2008 if memory serves, and each year I bump up against 20 and that is it.  This year, I will hit twenty-six.  So I guess that is progress. 

Please don't think that because I cannot do this, that I am a sylph-like rail, or that I have a whirlwind social life.  Neither is the case.  My excuse runs along the lines of "I don't plan very well, and I work just late enough that a grocery store run gets me home too late to actually feel like being creative."  I think planning is the more important part because if I just planned something easy I'd be able to do it.  Or maybe I am just lazy.  That is probably it, actually. 

I started the year so well!  I was just about on track until late April (suspiciously, the season when it's lighter later and things warm up...) and then I fell behind.  And more behind.  And then eye surgery.  Then some travel.  And more travel.  Wah wah wah. 

So here it is, December.  I have to write my Xmas cards, and go shopping, and do all those Xmasy things.  And the page will turn, and it will be January 1, again, and I will try yet again to hit 52.  Lest you think all is lost, there are some positives here.  I eat better than I did 3 years ago - this entire year I have had Kraft Mac and Cheese TWICE only.  Fresher foods, fewer searches for the can opener.  Oh wait, did you think I didn't cook at all?  No no no no no.  I just gravitate to the same things - easy things I've picked up over the past few years...  ah.  Maybe this was worth it after all. 

Here are some photos of what I DID do this year.  Enjoy.

January:  Nags Head


February: SNOW!


March:  Florida with family (parents, brother, niece/nephew)



April:  Meadowlark Gardens


May:  Learning how to sail using the old screwdriver/card/wine glass technique.  First and only lesson!


June:  They call him the Rap, Rap, Rap, Rap, Raptor!


July:  Swiss Bliss (also Italy).  AKA Dad hikes hard-core trails in Switzerland 4 months after a broken hip.  Mom poses at one of her favorite places on earth...




August:  I got a really bad jellyfish sting, and it turned into cellulitis.  It's too gross to show here, so, I will show you a photo of my new shoes instead.


September:  Visitied Mom and Dad over Labor Day weekend.  Kiddos are running across lawn.


October:  Visited Big Sur/Monterey Peninsula, also, hiked Machu Picchu (two photos here).



November:  Vienna


December:  Nothing online yet!  So here is a photo of us toasting Venice.

4 comments:

Diane and Steve Woodard said...

tsk tsk tsk. OK so it was a "semi" successful year (and quite satisfying) nonetheless.

ha ha ha!

chow and chatter said...

thanks for visiting my blog, don't be hard on yourself you'll get there love the travel snaps we also adore travel Rebecca

Sam Hoffer / My Carolina Kitchen said...

Wow, you've been to a lot of fabulous places this past year. You are a very talented photographer.

Don't be too hard on yourself. Just take it as it happens and everything will work out just fine. I promise.
Sam

Elizabeth said...

Thank you for the encouragement! I will have more recipes in 2011.

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