German Success, Indian failure

Today was my day off and a pretty good day it was. It is getting alot warmer here and temps reached 80 degrees although the wind almost blew me across town as I walked around. I'm not light as a feather either so imagine what would have happened if Mary Kate Olson was in town. Yikes! Anyway, I went to my weekly German lesson and assured myself that it was a good decision to keep on learning the language while I am here even though it is a little expensive and I may rarely use it. If I was in Germany it would be easier but my tutor is great and I feel like I am understanding more and more each time. It will still be a while before I'm fluent but I definitely feel a sense of success. The remainder of the day was spent at the book store and the library first, looking for a couple reference books for "the project" and then I came home to expend my creative energy and write. I have decided that I will be taking a little sabbatical on my newpaper column articles so I can focus on my new project. I feel bad but I am finding that I am struggling to do it all right now. Perhaps I will be able to squeeze out more articles here and there but after the next one I write (hopefully this week), I am going to take a break. Tonight I then experimented with a few indian masala recipes and totally failed. It wasn't very good. Too bad I have a big pot of it :( I tried to fix it and make it something else and it is edible but not ver satisfying to my tastebuds. Better luck next time and perhaps I will find a food recipe and actually follow it the first time :) Oh, well, failures make better cooks of us all. I am thinking about pulling out my German cookbook this week and trying something from there soon. The hard part is I have to sometimes put my nutrition education stuff aside in my head and use ingredients that supposable aren't the healthiest BUT it is still better to use whole ingredients and make something from scratch than eat processed chemical laden foods. My mind sometimes has a little war about whole food flavor versus whether it is fully healthy. Guess that is the price I pay for being a foodie :)