Lent Challenge 2011 - Displaced Feelings in the Form of a Letter

Dear Boyfriend,

I'm really so very truly sorry.  It hasn't even been a week of this challenge, and I have been a cranky-bum towards you.

While, there are some things that deserved me being cranky at you (like when you were drinking with a friend, and decided that I needed a lecture for "not doing the dishes well enough," which...I had been the only one doing dishes for the past several weeks because of you being all sickly.....but I digress), you haven't deserved me being cranky at you for correcting my mistakes or for other minor things.

I literally had to stop myself this morning, and realize that my anger is coming from all the brain power that is being used to figure out what I can and cannot eat.

Remember when I joined a friend for brunch on Sunday?  You know I love brunch.  I LOVE BRUNCH.

But when I arrived and saw the amazing brunch buffet that was available, and realized that I could only eat fruit and home fries (which I naturally [and kind of angrily] covered with ketchup), I honestly had to hold back tears.

Sure, there was also salad, but all the salads had cheese in them!  Even deliciously scrumptious feta and goat cheese, which as you know is off limits.  Fruit, home fries, and ketchup.  That's all I had.

Never before has dieting made me feel like crying.  When I was on Weight Watchers, I just got angry and tried to cheat the system by allowing myself pastries just because I worked out.  But this diet just makes me feel sad.

So, I'm really sorry, honey.  Please help to keep me in check if I'm being a cranky-bum.  I love you, and thank you for supporting me.

Love,
CC

Simple Pleasures Sundays - Brunch

 

Hands down, my favorite meal is brunch.

Usually a meal had on weekends, it's just the perfect combination of sweet and savory.  Not only can you have your egg-based meal, like a simple scrambled egg concoction or a fancy strata.  But you can also have your fill of carby goodness, like french toast, seasonal breads, and various pastries.  Now, of course, you can throw in some bacon, breakfast sausages, and fruit salad as well.

But you don't have to stick to breakfast-type foods only.  That's the beauty of brunch.  You want a pressed sandwich?  You can have a pressed sandwich at brunch.

Brunch can be creative, and it can also be quite decadent.

Then there's brunch meals from different parts of the world.  Filipino breakfasts and brunch is usually very meaty and is accompanied by rice, though sometimes the meats are sweet themselves.  Dim sum is a whole thing in and of itself, both with savory and sweet items.

I don't think I even need to mention how awesome a mimosa is.

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Perhaps one of the other aspects about brunch that I love so much is the fact that it's usually a social gathering.  Friends will go out to brunch or someone will host a brunch in their home.  It's almost less about the time of the meal and more about the action of having the meal.

I can only hope that when I have my own home that I will be able to host regular brunches with all my friends.

For now, I am quite content when the weekend comes along and I get to indulge in a carefully crafted meal of various treats with friends or cooking at home with the boyfriend.