Downtime is like that monster living under your bed that likes to torment you every so often, just because it can. You offer many cookies to make it go away, but that pesky monster always returns. So you decided that the only way to avoid the monster is to move into a new home. You spend hours trying to pack all your belongings into boxes and moving them all the way across town. After hours upon hours of unpacking, you come to realize that there’s actually no plumbing in the house. Bahumbug! You need to find another home all over again. That just about sums up my 72 hours of stress last weekend. Thank goodness I have a very patient, more technologically-inclined friend who was there to help me move and put up with my panicky ways. And thank goodness to my blogger friends who tried to help me fix the plumbing! By the end of it all, I just couldn’t bear to cook anymore. I needed simplicity to restore my sanity. So I threw things into a blender and called it a day. Let’s just call this my sanity-restoring smoothie.
