So Friday was my birthday. I overdrank and felt like crap Sat., Sun. my dad and his girlfriend came up and took my brother and me to Ecopolitan (my favorite -- raw vegan! -- and I'm so glad they were at least willing to try it). That was healthy. But I've been working a lot lately, which means not so healthy. And it also means really tired from overnights, days, overnights, drinking, etc. SO, today I am low on stuff but also low on energy and don't feel like grocery shopping (hm, couldn't help matters that I had Girlscout cookies for breakfast). I decided to make some pasta with what I have on hand.

I don't anticipate it being very delicious, but I tried. I sauteed some garlic and onion with olive oil and a little balsamic (going for sort of carmelized-like), but I got distracted and overcooked them a bit. Oh well. Added tomato sauce from a can that's been sitting around forever (actually, it's past its due date, I'm living on the edge here), did NOT take the salt already in there into consideration when I added MORE SALT (that's why it might not be good), also added a little sugar, fennel, oregano, sage, hot pepper flakes, some vodka (this is weird, but I figured, Newman's Own Vodka Sauce is really the only jar sauce I like...) more un-sauteed onion (needed more and I like the texture) and some of that pre-roasted garlic from a jar I still need to use up.

Too much salt! Otherwise I guess it's OK so far, in small tastes. It's simmering now. I have a bunch of pastas and decided on whole wheat angel hair.

We'll see...

Oh, and speaking of all that salt, I think I'm becoming sensitized to salt. I'm usually not one to say that -- frankly, I like salt. But since I've been making so much myself, I find stuff too salty a lot now. I got trail mix and almonds during one of my jobs (attempting to be sort of healthy) and they were totally-ass salted. I usually get raw almonds and didn't even realize some trail mix has salt, I guess. Ah well, it's a sign of good things, at least. I added more sugar and spice to my sauce to try to cut the saltiness, so maybe that'll help. Or maybe it'll be an overload of salty-sweet-hotness!