my unpacking challenge

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Time for another confession... I still have not finished unpacking from my trip to Oklahoma.

Let me rephrase... I haven't really started unpacking from my trip to Oklahoma. It's not that I don't want to- I REALLY, really want to- but I almost don't know where to start. The problem is, in my effort to keep myself busy, I've neglected to get all my crap out of my suitcases. In an effort to shame myself into getting it done THIS WEEK, I present the guest room I have taken over.



Embarrass. I promise to post the "After" photo... and yes, it will exist.

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My day-to-day life is in a weird place right now, mostly because is extremely mundane. I'm on travel about 50% of the time, and though I'd been in Huntsville from November until February/March, I had Jeremy to keep me company. Needless to say I got spoiled, because we went from seeing each other every day, and even working in the same office for a few weeks, to not getting to see each other at all. Again, we're still spoiled- we get to talk every day, sometimes twice- and I'm so lucky to have amazing people in my life to keep my mind off things. I don't know what I would do without my phone dates with Ames, shopping with Amber and spending quality time with my dad. But inevitably, when I'm not doing something, I go back to worrying about the boy being overseas. Everyone I've talked to who have had their significant others away has given me the same great piece of advice- just stay busy. And trust me, it's helped a ton. In fact, it might have helped too much. Some things that I've been doing to keep myself occupied:

• Start a blog
• Crochet a killer blanket for my 4 year old cousin, Sofi
• Redo the upstairs bathroom and guest room
• Learn to make earrings
• Try a new vegan recipe every day
• Develop an intricate filing system for training records at the office
• Paint our patio furniture



Sofi's blanket, about 1/3 of the way done

 Let's hope I don't run out of projects anytime soon.

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There's been a whole week of amazing food in my life since my last post, so I'm just going to talk about my two favorites. The first was an experiment- after the semi-successful macaroni and cheese incident, I decided to tackle queso next. Going to college in Texas meant I got to eat amazing Mexican food whenever I felt like it, and I became somewhat of a Tex-Mex snob. That being said, believe me when I tell you that my vegan queso based of this recipe from VegWeb was AMAZING. Seriously. I made a few tweaks, as usual- rather than using 1 cup of water, I used a half cup of almond milk and a half cup of water. I used some habanero salsa instead of RoTel, and added some Boca crumbles towards the end (Chili's skillet queso was one of my favorites, so I wanted it to be kind of similar). I topped some chips with this and some leftover black beans, and... wow. I can't get over how great it was.



I can't get enough... this was incredible!


And finally, my dad and I went to dinner at Mellow Mushroom last night... Our waitress got a kick out of him ordering "The Meaty" and me requesting Daiya cheese with sun-dried tomatoes...

Can you guess which one's vegan?

So tell me...

1. My biggest weakness is definitely procrastination. What motivates you to stop putting things off?