Just A Little Obsessed

 It all started with boeuf bourguignon.

As I've mentioned before, I participate in a neighborhood dinner group. It's loads of fun and I get to meet and know different neighbors each year. When it was my turn to host the group, I chose to go with a French theme. My bf is French so it felt like the thing to do. 

Enter Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child. 

And then I decided to watch Julie & Julia again since I hadn't seen it in a few years. 

Then came the watching of YouTube videos. It started with just The French Chef, the original PBS shows. Now, I also subscribe to Jamie & Julia because, well, I cant seem to help myself. 

The dinner party came and went and yet, I wanted more. So I bought Julie Powell's book. 

Ok, so I truly expected this to be the blog with perhaps a little extra added in. Julie has great wit and I looked forward to reading more. Alas, the book fell flat for me (it did for many others too).

I still wanted more. So, I went down the interwebs 🐇-hole and found the OG blog on the WayBackMachine.com site. 

I started at the beginning. Sunday, August 25, 2022

It honestly blows my mind to think about this being over 20 years ago. 🤯

And so it started to get serious. I mean, aside from choosing new recipes to try in THE book, I had tracked this down. And I was well entertained. I think I may (or may not) have spent 4-5 hours that first day reading blogs. 

Then I decided I needed to pace myself. 

I had this conversation with myself:

You can't keep reading for a half day at a time.

I know.

You have two businesses to run.

I know. 

You'll get behind.

I know. 

You'll read it all in a week and have nothing to look forward to the following week. 

Alright, I'll pace myself with 1 or 2 a day.

Deal.

Deal. 

I know you have conversations like this with yourself too so don't try and shame a girl. 

Anyway, and so that's how it's been going for a hot second. 

I did have one hiccup when I tried to go to December on the WayBackMachine page. It wouldn't go. I panicked. 

😨 No really, I did. 

I was invested. I wanted to know how Christmas went. 

I wanted to read about the tongue recipe (ok, not really and I'm sure as hell not making that - my mom made me eat 🐄 tongue as a kid and that is disgusting 🤮). 

I had to search the interwebs again and found her site also on the WayBackMachine here. The links to specific months worked.

😅 Whew. Crisis averted. 

I just read Sunday, December 15, 2002 and all is well in the world.