so it's the middle of March

Hi I'm Rachel and today I decided I needed a new hobby. In the past few years I've dabbled in handmade paper arts, tried knitting, taken exactly one pottery class that resulted in a clay mess resembling a 4 year old's play-dough creation, and tried, very very hard to enjoy photography.

The thing with me and trying to develop a new hobby is, I bore easily and tend to be distracted by shiny, matte, cuddly, tasty, commercial on televisiony.....things. Even this paragraph has taken me a crazy long time to write because I'm currently talking to my best friend, painting my nails lime green in honor of St. Patrick's Day and trying to hush my incredibly loud purring cat, Yahtzee.

I've known many people who participate in http://365project.org/ and always say I'm going to do it one year...but never do. I get to about February 12th with full speed ahead and then drop off around the 13th with little left to inspire me. I partly blame my life for being ridiculously boring and completely unworthy of photographing and partly blame myself because I'm certain I could not commit to taking a photo every day for a year.

So, in an attempt to participate in a year long challenge as well as try new and interesting things, I, Rachel Foramonth-Blogger, as I shall now be known, will attempt to complete a month-long "Project 28/30/31" and blog about my daily quest and the musings and lessons that go along with it. Whoa. I'm feeling ambitious!

While I realize this new hobby/challenge/ambition is more of a new year's resolution and should have properly been started in January, I think resolutions are so 2.5 months ago and thus allow myself to begin today. March 13, 2010. And, for the rest of this month, every single day of the 18 days left in March, I'm going to attempt..........drum roll please......

MARCHING INTO SPRING SALAD!
(aka preparing and enjoying a delicious helping of spring garden fruits and veggies, salad style!)

Thats right, folks. Leafy, delicious, fantastic, iron-rich greens topped with an assortment of dressings, cheeses, breads and meats depending on my mood and whatever looks delicious on Google images. I've been chowing on not-so-great-for-me-foods all winter and am really craving some springtime yummies!

I'm making it my hobby this month to enjoy a new and different salad every day.

Have a salad recipe you'd like to share? Know of a delicious dressing and want me to try it? Want to suggest a monthly theme? Question my sanity and/or attention span? Leave a comment and let me know!

I'm off to research (Google) the salad I should make tonight!

-Rachel Foramonth-Blogger