Seven, again, Week 1

I'm doing Seven again with a bible study group. This is week one, food. Brian and I, together, decided to eat seven foods this week:

Chicken
Sweet Potatoes
Eggs
Broccoli
Zucchini
Apples
Brown Rice

And then I amended that to include leftovers, or something in the fridge that might go bad, like oj or milk. Here's how the first morning, went:

"I really wish I could eat this omelette on toast like I've been doing. I forgot that I don't like eggs by themselves."
"I wish I could just have my regular toast and not mess with eggs."
"I hate Seven. It's dumb."

Then I got an email from Brian, at lunchtime: "Had leftover BBQ chicken and fried chicken for lunch. I'm okay with Seven."

Me at lunchtime: "Blech, that lunch is so boring, I'm just going to eat apples and crackers* at my desk." And on and on for four days.
*yes, I randomly added crackers.

Me at dinner: "I don't want to eat chicken again for a month."
Brian: "But this dinner is actually really good!" (Roast chicken, sweet potatoes, roasted broccoli."
Me: "Blech."

So this week was really rough and I hated the restrictions. I couldn't cook with anything but olive oil, salt and pepper and I got really sick of black pepper as a "Seasoning." I missed onions, garlic, herbs, bread, DAIRY.  I'm so glad it's over. However, I'm also really aware just how entitled I am when it comes to food. I feel like I've been trying to be better about being humble, but this broke that in half. There is no humility when it comes to my cooking. There is pride and vanity and I'm not sure where that leaves me, but damn if we aren't eating spicy pork meatballs tomorrow night.

Marriage, Month 8

Date night is an outing to Home Depot, where we spend entirely too much money on our summer gardening projects.

We celebrate things like the first warm weekend and it involves breaking out the grill and making strong margaritas.

We don't sleep the first really warm night in the apartment, because someone doesn't believe in a/c in the month of April.

We crash on the couch for our favorite shows, which include: Castle, Modern Family, Nashville, The Americans, Big Bang Theory and Scandal. Sometime I make him sit through Heart of Dixie.

I really get into using our slow cooker, come up with a delicious BBQ Chicken thighs recipe and make it twice in two weeks.

Brian still does the dishes, no matter how many dishes I use making dinner. (Hint, it's a lot.)

I'm still making the single-egg lady omelettes on a single piece of toast for breakfast. Brian still makes fun of me for making "fancy" breakfast.

We take a road trip to visit springtime in St. Louis - it's glorious and makes us look forward to our long road trip to Myrtle Beach this summer. Also, we need books on tape.

Only a couple years late to the game, we watch The Hunger Games. We decide to listen to those books on tape for the beach trip.

We marvel that we aren't sick of each other yet. Like, at all.