Welcome to The Daily Digest

lettuce wraps!...made these the other night and they were great (recipe posted soon!)

Welcome. I say that to both you and me, because this is a brand new thing for me too. You'll have to bear with me over the next few weeks as I tweak, edit, make changes, decide I hate the whole thing, start over, have a break down because the computer just deleted my entire post and just generally get used to this blogging idea.

I've been thinking about writing a blog for a while now, ever since I started admiring such wonderful women like Jessica at www.howsweeteats.com, Nikki at www.chef-in-training.com, and Kristina at mouthfromthesouth.com, thanks in large part to the advent of everyone's favorite addiction, PINTEREST. However, I credit my best friend Cathryn, whose blog nuefvies is beautiful, funny and honest, for really giving me the inspiration to finally sit down at my desk and start typing. loveyousister.... :)

You may have noticed that the majority of the blogs that I just mentioned have to do with food...Now, I don't have nearly as much time or money as those women must to devote themselves so fully to exploring their culinary interests (even though in a perfect world I would spend all my money on ingredients for fabulous recipes, vacations, and fashion) but as far as I can foresee, this blog will focus mainly on my aspirations to get into as much trouble as possible in the kitchen. I can't promise that I'll have a new great recipe for you every day with stunning pictures and witty instructions, nor that they'll always be entirely my own creations, but I solemnly swear that I will do my best to post at least one recipe a week.

Maybe this is a good time to explain how I came up with my title, "The Daily Digest."

According to the handy dictionary on my macbook, "digest" has a few definitions:

1. (v) to break down food in the stomach and intestines into substances that can be used by the body

-That correlation is pretty obvious, given my top chef aspirations-

2. (n) a compilation or summary of material or information

-You'll also see, from time to time, posts about my other loves: yoga, fitness, nutrition, traveling, art, puppies, music, my DVR, fashion, dance, my friends and family, etc.-

3. (v) arrange in a systematic or convenient order

-Now I thought this correlation was pretty funny, and also entirely appropriate. Here's a little tidbit about me: I'm nothing if not organized. I was recently called "excessively methodical" by a co-worker. In my opinion, I'm simply making things more convenient, but I'll go ahead and apologize ahead of time if you find that you disagree :) I won't be offended...what can I say, I gotta have a system!

Like I said earlier, I won't make an empty promise and say that I'll have something new "daily" as my title implies. A few posts per week and I'll be proud of myself. But as humans we're constantly ("daily," one might say) thinking of new things we'd like to do and places we'd like to go and goals we'd like to achieve despite the regular routine that we're subject to. We dream while being realistic (thanks nuefvies, for that one!), and that's the basis for my writing.

So I hope that gives you a taste (pun intended?) of what's to come. Look for a new post soon!! Time to get cooking....