It is the fear of one's own self that haunts the lonely.

I am proud to say that today I came to realize that i'm actually rather used to this occassional living on my own situation. Which is good, because it's nowhere near it's end haha. The last week has been hard on Mike, since he's working shifts between 12 and 14 hours a day, and he will be underway for most of the next two weeks. So i've taken to hobbies and cooking again.
Tonight I decided to make something up, since I saw an attractive recipe that didn't QUITE fit my needs. So I took a single boneless skinless chicken breast, butterflied it, and filled the inside with swiss and parmessean cheese, and crumbled bacon. I took vegetable oil (olive oil would have been better), and made a baste with oregano, basil, lemon pepper, minced onions, a little bit of garlic salt, and pepper. I baked it in the oven and had pasta with a jazzed up alfredo sauce as a side. MM! I wasn't sure if the lemon and garlic would go well, i'm just delving into new tastes, but it was great. Next time I would like to cut the lemon pepper and mix lemon juice with the olive oil. Here's what it looked like.

I also got a really great 'family photo' of us and our tree and I wanted to share that even though the holidays aren't so close as i'd like.