Life has been more than interesting since we returned to the US. I have had several interviews and hope to hear back on a job very soon. In the meantime, Matt and I have been busy. Other than visiting friends and family, we went from looking for a rental house to putting an offer down on a steal in our favorite part of town. We were actually under contract, but the inspection saved us from all those hidden structural issues that would have drained our savings and most likely our sanity. No money pit for us!
Matt has since left for Spring Training down in sunny FL, and I am still searching for that job and a place to live. Unemployment has done wonders for me, and 30 years from now Matt and I will be thanking ourselves for this experience for this reason: I am improving my cooking skills with all this free time on my hands! There is a domestic queen inside of me who is slowly finding her way out over the years. I am finally confident enough in my culinary prowess to not follow the recipe exactly as written, and I even won a chili cook off with one of my tweaked creations. Here's some of the things on the list of recently discovered made from scratch deliciousness: Red Wine Poached Pears, Apple Crisp, Pecan Pie, the BEST meatloaf, Spaghetti and Meatballs, the list goes on and on...I'm kind of impressed with myself. The domestic queen in my heart is also really interested in home care books...cleaning, cooking, home improvement. The 16 year old Kendra would be appalled by my thirty-something interests. She fought learning all of these things back in the day. Why would SHE ever need to know these things? SHE was going to have a career, and everyone knows if you have a career you don't need to know how to cook and clean! Yeah, right. 31 year old Kendra says "Embrace it ALL!"
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