Today was pretty good.  There was one point in which I smiled tomyself and thought, “Today is a good day.”  That’s good for me, because I have not been feeling too happy at all lately.  I’d say in the past week, I’ve had only two days where I was able to think “Today is a good day.”

It’s funny, because my day started out very crappy.  First thing this morning, I reached over to check the time on my iPhone, and I knocked over my bottle of lotion that I keep next to my bed (for my dry hands before bed!), and the bottle of lotion knocked over my glass of water.  It got water everywhere.  I grabbed my towel from my door knob (because I am too lazy to ever return it to the bathroom), and mopped everything up.  It was not a good start to the day.

But the day got better.  But now, I’m in a funk.  It is only 8:45, and too early for bed.  But I don’t want to read blogs, I don’t want to watch TV, and my mom is reading our book for book club (we both need it read for Friday, and we have only one copy).  At first, I got up and thought I was inspired to clean the kitchen.  I was not.

Another thing that sucks is I got heart burn from my garlic bread!  And what sucks even more, was that I got a craving for ice cream.  I still have left over chocolate sauce in the fridge, and that’s all I could think about, even though I just took 3 Tums, and I am burping because of stupid acid reflux.  But of course, I kept thinking about it for over an hour, so I just went and had a very little bowl.  I even dumped some of the ice cream down the sink cause I didn’t care to finish it.  But I don’t know what I get cravings like that!  I’m clearly not hungry, I had a good dinner… and my stomach is even a bit upset because of the garlic.  But I still can’t stop thinking about ice cream!  It is very annoying.

I feel like I should be up doing something - cleaning my room, putting my clothes away - something!  But my head hurts, and I am cold, and actually I am quite tired.  I also tried writing more of my little short story, but I’m stuck.  I keep going back and changing it, altering it, when I shouldn’t be.  It’s already five pages long, but I don’t know where else to go with it.  That’s why I’m changing things I’ve already written.

This blows, I don’t know what to do with myself.

Dave from Canada had some suggestions that made me smile:  Could you eat a steak for me? And drink something through a straw.

Ho ho!  Funny man, that Dave!

Ok, time for me to get off the couch.

For tonight, I knew that I had bread and salad for dinner.  I wanted to make something that went along with those things.  My mom wanted to do something simple, like spaghetti and meatballs.  I remembered that we had frozen pesto in the freezer… my first thought was a pizza with pesto sauce instead of a red sauce.  Then load that up with fresh peppers, black olives, and mushrooms.  Then I found out that my dad had pizza last night!  D’Oh!  Plus, if I had pizza, then I had to make a trip to the grocery store.  It was just easier to make pesto with linguine.  I did make a really good garlic bread.  In a small sauce pan, I melted 4 tablespoons butter with three cloves garlic, along with some fresh parsley.  We’ve had the parsley in the fridge for a while, and I’ve used it in many dishes, but there is certainly too much for me to use all of it.  That would be an herb that I would enjoy growing.  Parsley and basil I would put to good use.

Although I had made pesto and pasta before, I had never made garlic bread!  It came out pretty good, but it was extremely crispy.  Because I had never made it before, I took pictures.  It was kind of a pain to have to take pictures while my food was getting cold. I’m not sure how food bloggers do it!  I also wasn’t able to set up a whole pretty scene.  I just took a picture of my plate.