I LOVE the cake

Hello Dear Reader!
I hope the sun is shining where you are. It is shining here.
I thought we might have a rainy day yesterday and
I was all primed for it.
I know I have told you 437 times
that I love rainy days (and yes, Eddie Rabbit, I love
rainy nights too---and why am I talking to a dead singer?),
but that's only because it's true.
I really do love rainy days.
Lloyd Dobbler always says I like depressing things.
He usually says this when he thinks some melancholy
music I am listening to is depressing, but I see the
beauty in a melancholy song and even a melancholy
mood. For me, those times are inspirational.
The creative juices start to flow.
Instead of reaching out and getting swept up in the busy
tornado of everyday life, those melancholy moods can
be times to reach inside yourself.
I see the beauty in a rainy day.
I don't have to have sunshine and rainbows to see the
beauty in the moments around me.
But I do have the sunshine right now
---and I love it.


That just brought to mind how a family I know has this thing about using the word "love" inappropriately. They enjoy correcting everyone who does not use the word in the way that seems appropriate to them. If you say something like "Oh I love this cake" they will tell you that you love people, not things. You love your mother; you like the cake.
I cannot tell you how much this annoys me.
IT'S A FIGURE OF SPEECH.

Do you ever get over-the-top-annoyed by something
like that? Or is it just me?

I'm making Creamy Italian Chicken in the crock pot for supper tonight. I have been smelling the chicken cooking for several hours now. It's made me hungry all day. So glad that the smell of cooking chicken being the nastiest smell on earth was just a part of that last pregnancy of mine. I'd hate to have to avoid cooking chicken for the rest of my days.

I have been wanting to just cook all kinds of things lately,
but I really haven't cooked much. Well, I guess that's
a very relative statement. I have fed my entire family
three meals a day like I do all the time, so yes,
I have been cooking, but not cooking for pleasure.
I've had the stuff for a chocolate covered cherry cake
in my pantry since I don't know when
(only I don't have the heavy whipping cream for the icing)
but something keeps me from making it.
Maybe because I know we will never eat it all
ourselves and I'm not up to inviting someone over
to help us eat it right now.
Maybe I'll make it Saturday for dessert on Sunday.
I think I'm going to make The Big Meal for
Sunday dinner. Feels like I haven't done that lately.
I've been looking for an excuse to make holiday potatoes.
I must be really hungry right now because every
single food I can think of sounds incredibly good.
My mouth is watering.
Let's go get that supper underway....