Food and Love

I adore cooking.

This is to the detriment of my figure, as I am quite an accomplished hobby cook. I cook for family and friends. I love cooking random gourmet meals from scratch. The freshest ingredients are like drugs to me (although I have never tried any drugs, so I can't really compare...), I can't get enough of them. I love going shopping for fresh vegetables, great fruit, fragrant bread... herbs! Herbs are so much fun!

This February, I started a few pots of my own herbs:

- Lemon basil

- Italian basil

- Rosemary

- Thyme

- Oregano

- Cilantro

- Chives

- Lavender (I think)

- and a Garlic clove that started to sprout, so I threw it in an empty patch in one of the pots.

I think that's the tally. They took a while to sprout, but they are finally filling out. I won't be able to use them for another couple months, but as soon as I get back from my relocation to London for the summer, fresh herbs, here I come!

Just a side note, I love the Sex and the City series. Quote of the day : "I want a Bourbon and I want to go down on you, not necessarily in that order."

I can't wait to get over to my boyfriend's place in London so I can cook him all these things I've been making for myself. Hopefully this will help me to not eat everything by myself and curtail the weight gain. We decided to get healthier together, yoga and healthy food :). I feel this is going to be good for us to do things together, because living on different continents for most of the year. He has a habit of hurting himself in sports and other activities, and is having surgery sometime soon, and I'm so glad I can be there for him this time. It's hard on both of us to be away from each other when we need the other one. I really feel like we are going to move to a better stage in our relationship with this uninterrupted time together.

Normal relationships progress in a much different way than ours has. A few dates every week, progressing to meeting the friends, then family, if that all goes well, then it's the "I love you" step, then more commitment, etc. Ours went and is still going in random order and at massively different speeds. He met my family 3 weeks after meeting, we lived together after knowing each other for 2 weeks (long story, no, I'm not insane, yes, it was fantastic having that much amazing sex :P), and even now, the steps are all screwed up.

I makes me wonder how the future is going to go... is everything in our relationship going to be screwy like that just because we've done the first few years of it long distance? I overheard a woman the other day saying that she's been in a long distance relationship for 7 years! I don't know if we could survive that, we fight a lot because of the miscommunications due to the technology and distance. I don't know. I can really see myself with him in 10 years. I haven't honestly been able to do that in previous relationships. A few years, yes. Painting together in our studio (last ex), traveling together (first serious relationship), but beyond these, I couldn't see us buying a house together, handling financial problems together, getting married or raising kids. Of course I had the romantic thoughts of getting proposed to, etc. But in reality, those relationships weren't mature enough.

So this summer will be interesting, to say the least.