Okay, so here's the deal...

I hate "blogging." The very word is poison on my lips. It leaves a foul taste in my mouth, and the thought of entering a worldwide network of individuals brought together by the sheer need to say something, no matter of how little substance or significance, is revolting.

But I am not one to put myself on a tier higher than anyone else. Thus, I have opened a blog, hereafter known as my "public internet journal," my "pij," because the conjunction "blog" (for those of you who are unfamiliar with its parent word, similarly disturbing, "web log") sounds like a festering boil or tropical disease.

Who cares about me, or what I have to say? Not many people do, but to be fair, if you are a blogger, it probably means that no one cares about you either. Hence your need to start a blog and tell everyone the unsolicited details of your day. (Fifty potential new friends close my pij now... pij sounds a little dirty, doesn't it? I like it.)

So besides reading my inane ramblings, I will offer some things at least. I am a novice to baking and cooking, and I love both more than I love my cat. No, that's wrong. I love my cat, just not this morning when he threw up his breakfast and climbed up my back when I wouldn't feed him again.

My focus? Vegetarian cooking, of course! And my newest endeavor, vegan baking. It's amazing how much vegan baked goods taste like the real eggy/milky thing when you work at it. I'm learning how to modify traditional recipes without compromising the flavor and consistency of their tried-and-true ancestors. It's a task, but worth the trouble.

Likes: Sunny days, running, sleeping in on weekends (and weekdays), experimenting with seasonings, watching boyfriend smile through painfully overseasoned dinners, nursing said boyfriend's stomach the next day due to overseasoned dinner the night prior
Dislikes: Neighbors who open the door of their black Volkswagon and hit our car, then park two spaces down pretending like they didn't do it (I know it's you! You park in the same damn spot every day!)