There are none (what is the right path?)

They told me to follow my heart,
to live my dreams and go for the gold.
And I listened with wide eyes and
waited for my life to unfold.

They never told me that the road
I was so easily walking would
split into a thousand paths
and leave me uncertain as I stood.

They told me to find love,
to chase after success, and lead.
And I wonder now if anyone
in the world could succeed.

I chose this path to go on.
But sometimes it seems
the left turn there will be
the right path to my dreams.

Walk through life

I try to walk through life lightly.

Each step a tip toe to the next pass,

hesitating to disturb the road

or trample down the grass.

But sometimes I see the ones

who walk here and there

and leave footprints inches deep.

Boldly, without care.

And it makes me wonder

if I should tread a little firmer,

to leave more of a mark

and more than just a murmur.

Interactions

This is what I think about busy people: it is easy to be selfish because you have no time to think about others.

This is what I think about people: many people are just not in their right environment to show their best selves.

The more time you have, the easier it is to care for someone else, to think of others, to be there for another person, to have the energy to reach out first.

It is just harder when your friend group is comprised of entirely ambitious, successful, career-driven, busy people. 

Life Motto

I had a friend tell me this the other day:

Your life motto is: What is the most practical? Then do it.

I thought about it.
It might actually be true.

Recipe Addendum

I've found that I'm more inclined to try recipes when I trust the blog. And so far, budgetbytes has been my absolute favorite blog so far. Relatively simple, a variety of recipes, nothing time intensive, on a grocery budget, fairly healthy, has a quick recipe/instruction list and pictures on the how-to, does not have a ridiculously long backstory for each recipe. It ticks a lot of my boxes.

Blogs like smittenkitchen is beautiful to look at, but way too time intensive/fancy for me to want to try to make the recipes.
Pioneerwomen often is extremely butter heavy and not something I want to make consistently for my meals due to health.

So all the being said, these are the recipes I want to make from budgetbytes:

Creamed spinach

Curried Chickpeas

Turkey Meatloaf

And some sort of frittata.

recipe round up

What I've been eating:

This "Cowboy Caviar"  is officially a winner recipe. Made it twice now. Easy, just some minor vegetable cutting, and it's done. Pretty decent source of veg and meal filler that feels healthy. Not a huge fan of the black beans, but it's necessary to give it extra sustenance. I really like it with guac and some protein and rice. Or even on top of a hobo quesadilla. Or just with tortilla chips.

This dakdortitang is also pretty killer. Recommended by a friend, I think it's super easy (one pot) and really good for a hot meal. The level of spice is a bit much for me, but the flavor is worth it.

This is my go to banana bread recipe. It's the fluffiest, lightest banana bread ever. I haven't tried any other since. .... it's also a bit like banana cake though. But... yum :D

Also my go to recipe for pot pie. Super easy (which I need, otherwise I will not make it more than once), filling, and good for a couple of meals. Also pie crust is just delicious.

Red wine poached plums and plum greek yogurt cake make for a surprisingly amazing combo. I would not really suggest making this unless you have excess plums and excess greek yogurt. But on the other hand.... I did get quite a few compliments on the cake and plums.

This vegan corn chowder (just replace milk/half and half with coconut milk). I surprisingly liked it more than I expected. I don't usually eat vegan (heck I add meat to the meatless recipes), but my friend was trying. Tasty, but I think it needs some sort of toasted bread with the chowder. I'd make it again though. But I really might just add some sausage :O

A combo of these two recipes (indian style creamed spinach and chicken saagwala) to make a chicken saagwala. Combined because I liked the looks of the spinach portion of the former, but wanted to add chicken to make it a complete dish. It turned out really well. My first foray into Indian cooking. 100% would do it again. 

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To make:

This soup (dakjim?), but I need to go to my asian market and get some starch noodles.

My mom's chicken soup

A daikon soup

I really want to try to make an indian dish, but there are so many components that I don't have. Have to think on this.

food wants

i want to eat a whole can of pringles.

i want to eat saag paneer || chicken sagwala || pad thai.

i want a tin of elderflower tea.

i want to learn how to use a grill.

i want to eat a caprese salad.

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i think i'm hungry right now :/ but it's also 1130 pm and i should be going to sleep.
problems.