spring break and cooking

Finally, a break from school! I haven't been able to write very much lately because I have been so overwhelmed and I still have so much to do! Ahhh!

I did want to write about something I discovered the other day, though. I was flipping channels while resting and I came across this cooking show called Sam the Cooking Guy. It's aired mostly on local SD channels, and it's basically just this guy who made a cooking show right in his own kitchen. He makes recipes that sound really good and not very simple but are extremely easy to make. When I watched it for the first time, he made some really yummy looking chow mein in just a few minutes with a cup of noodles, steak, tomatoes and a really simple sauce. His BBQ chicken pizza was as easy as putting a couple of ingredients in a container with leftover chicken and shaking it up, then putting it on a prebaked crust. It's like the stuff that is so easy and not gourmet, so that the chefs that you always read about or see on Food TV won't do it, but it's so much more practical for the average person without much time or money and tastes almost as good! I love it.

There are so many details for my trip to Paris that I am going CRAZY trying to figure everything out. My mom is trying to plan out down-to-the-minute departure details while I am still trying to get my flights arranged and figure out how I'm going to keep in contact and what to bring and where to go...and I still need to learn French! I'm starting to get very nervous, but there is no way I'm going to let myself back out of this. I feel like I need to go new places and see new things, and Paris is one of the places I have always wanted to go to. A month away from everything familiar is going to be...weird and uncomfortable, but it's nothing I can't take. But I'm trying to focus on how exciting it's going to be! I'm toying with the idea of buying a small video camera to bring with me to make little videos I can post every day of the places I go! That would be a fun way to keep in touch.