and once again, leap year.

so, the other day i was telling my parents how i was watching julie & julia while my husband was out of town and it was so inspiring--cooking! pushing and stretching and editing and working toward this (hopefully) glorious end (the food, not the clean-up.) how it felt like ballet, and writing, and maybe decorating and even cleaning, if i stretch it. and i kindof missed that feeling.  the obvious solution, aside from cooking through mastering the art, they said, was writing again. huh.  (perhaps, really, the answer should be cleaning more, but that is a different problem.)
so i came back tonight, after making myself a little chocolate pie because 1) that's what she she started with in the movie:

--Do you know what I love about cooking?
- What's that?

-- I love that after a day when nothing is sure,
and when I say "nothing" I mean nothing,
you can come home and absolutely know
that if you add egg yolks to chocolate
and sugar and milk, it will get thick. 
It's such a comfort.

-Bad day?  And When will this pie be ready?

and also because my father made such a delicious pie for mother's day that the 1.8 pieces i ate simply weren't enough. and yes, daddy, when i made my meringue tonight, i used cream of tartar, in honor of you. 

so as my pie was cooling, i thought i better just check out how this little blog was doing, all alone over here in this corner of the internet, and i remembered why i got scared away last time!  and it happened again tonight! gah!  first, the last posted post was right around & about leap years day last year.  now there wasn't a leap year day, proper, but it was close enough.  and sure enough, the next time i get the urge to write something was leap year!  hence the title.  but then i got started thinking about it (why do i always want to write things on leap year!?) and got weirded out, and didnt finish. 

 

so then tonight, i was a little more serious about it, probably because i made pie, and i came back and found a post from about this time last year (it must be something about the spring air and open windows) and it was still a surprisingly relevant post.  some things i talked about there were things i was planning on talking about tonight, like cooking! weird, right?  so tonight, you get two posts.  the unpublished one from last year, and this. (i have no idea why it was unpublished.  alas.) 

 maybe next up: birth stories?  my goal is at least 300 words/week, people.  also, i realize that most people these days have pictures with their blogs.  that seems hard will be the thing standing between me and blog fame, i am sure. haha.  so if you need pictures, then, um, i'm very sorry?