Supreme

Now that New Year's Day has come and gone and I'm crawling through the tail end of the painful first full work week of 2014, I am longing more than ever for those few delicious days off that I had during the 2013 holidays. Days that were completely devoid of work, both full-time and freelance varieties, yet were somehow filled to the brim (notably with all things I wanted to do).

I read books, mostly, and visited friends, and cooked food for a full house of people with no consideration other than what was in the fridge. I wore sweaters and yoga pants as a uniform and took more than one nap with a 65-pound dog as a personal heater. Supreme.

And what I want to do this afternoon, instead of sitting in a freezing cold office (and honestly, the draught at the windows is causing the blinds to sway in the breeze), is to be home, crowded around the kitchen island, the ovens hot and ready, making pizzas and devouring black eyed pea dip (a new must on New Year's Day).

This was our New Year's Day 2014 dinner, for want of something hands on and fun to do, avoiding tablecloths and fine china because we've had enough of it at Christmas! Get your hands dirty and your belly full on New Year's Day!!

Just wondering what this pizza kick off to 2014 will bring us (besides more pizza, which, quite honestly, I am okay with). 

To pizza! To wandering minds longing already for the weekend on a Friday afternoon!

And now, reluctantly, back to my desk.