I love the end of Holiday Seasons, Cookbooks and Zombie Movies.

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm glad the holiday season is almost over. Things are getting back to normal now. The parking lot at my all favorite store (I live at Wal Mart) is thinning out, co-workers are coming back to work so I'm no longer the only one sitting there in my cubicle row having been too stupid to request the week off, Hickory Farms gift sets AND the holiday Coffee Mate flavors that I love so much are 50% off and my credit card is living back in the freezer frozen in a brick of ice. Life is good right now.

This weekend seemed pretty short. I was busy baking chocolate chip cookies, making rice pudding (actually, rice soup - i don't know what the hell went wrong) and Cheddar Corn Chowder. I got a few cookbooks for Christmas this year so I've really gotten in the mood to start cooking and baking. I absolutely love cookbooks. Even if I know I'll never make any of the recipes in some of them, I still enjoy reading over the ingredient lists and directions and looking at the pictures. I have 43 different cooking/baking blogs in my favorite links list that I read on a regular basis, if not daily, depending on how often the blogger updates. Cooking and baking is one subject I'm getting quite knowledgeable about. It's funny because I never really had an interest in it when I was growing up. My Mom was always in the kitchen making something and she would try to get me to help and I would say "naahhh". I enjoy baking much better than cooking, though. Cooking sometimes can really make your house smell and you have to usually cut up a lot of stuff and touch raw, gross things. Baking is only really messy and gross if you screw up cracking an egg or something like that.

I watched the movie 28 Weeks Later which I had been really wanting to see. Every time J and I went to the video store I'd walk by the movie and go "28 Weeks Later? Please?" and he wouldn't seem too thrilled about it so we would keep on walking. But I finally put it in my queue, got it in the mail yesterday and started watching it at 8:00 this morning. It wasn't as good as I remember the first one being, but it wasn't bad and it moved fast. I really like these zombie type movies. It's always very dramatic when one of the last few normal characters left gets attacked and infected with whatever zombie virus is going around. You start thinking "Noooo! Why? There's hope! Maybe they are immune! No... they look pretty scary now. Ok, maybe they will remember being human and feel bad about trying to eat their friends. No... they look pretty hungry now. Well, they have to be dealt with then. Bye Bye! And they were so nice and funny throughout the first hour of the movie... sad." So emotional.