Sex Dreams at My Age??

Yeah, that got your attention, didn't it?

I slept twelve hours last night/this morning; 9:15 to 9:15. Being a full-time student and working full-time and getting over one of the worst colds ever seems to have required a lot of sleep here lately. And I'm OK with that! I love to sleep! Who doesn't?

So last night I dreamt it was the night of my first wedding (that's right, a sex dream that takes place in Ancient History) and I ran off with Jack Donnaghy. That would be Alec Baldwin's character from "30 Rock". He is officially a gorgeous hunk of man. We had a very madcap adventure that kept me out all night, therefore away from my own reception and my groom/new husband, and for some reason we were hiding out in the back room of a bar that had adult dancers. It was a small town somewhere with pine trees and a lake, maybe Canada. We found a live fox in the woods, one of those really weird dream animals that just really doesn't resemble the real-life one. So, yeah, we made mad passionate love and I made Jack Donaghy, fictional character, realize I was The One so we drove off into the next night in his pickup truck.

This is about the point where I woke up to go to the bathroom and was really relieved to find Phil next to me in the bed, along with the usual assortment of cats, and Biscuit, our gracefully-aging Shih Tzu dog. Phil, too, is officially a gorgeous hunk of man, but he actually exists.

No sooner did I lay back down and fall right back to sleep than the whole thing picked up again, but this time the leading man was Dean Martin. He was a gorgeous hunk of man when he was alive. Nowadays, I'm not so sure.

So essentially, I spent last night with three gorgeous men, two of them Italian and one of them fictional. Top that!!

So here is a picture of the mixture of Italian sausage and sauteed vegetables which went into my most recent batch of 16-bean soup. Sometimes an Italian sausage really is an Italian sausage... and sometimes... it's not.

Once a Year (whether I need it or not)

Split Pea Soup with Italian Sausage and Vegetables---->>

So, it's 2012 already, is it?

Last year was going to be the year I really got serious with my blog. I had it all worked out. I was going to go all "Julie and Julia" with my fabulous home-made soups that I create all by my little self. My friend Fern gave me my first ever (and so far my only) piece of Le Creuset, and I was going to tell Soup to the world.

I just checked. My last blog post was one year and two days ago.

Yikes!

Well.....

First of all that was when the carpal tunnel syndrome first showed up, and keyboarding was hell. I was working full-time at Evil Target and let me tell you I am not a fan of cashiering. I was good at it. But not a fan. The pain was so bad I used to wake up screaming in the middle of the night with it! And of this, my husband was not a fan. So extraneous typing and blogging and stuff was out of the question. Seeing doctors and opening a Worker's Comp claim and being frightened of maybe having to have surgery was in.

Then suddenly I was going back to school and working two jobs and then it was Christmastime again. Just like that!!! So... here I am again... and here is tonight's delicious soup... Happy New Soup! Year!