morning thoughts: exasperated

have you ever tried to make something, and you know it needs something, but you can't figure out what? and then you just start mindlessly adding things until now there's too many things and you can't take the other things out? case in point: my first attempt at cheesy grits. the final product somehow included 3 different kinds of cheese, cumin, sour cream, apples, onions. i can't even look at that list. they weren't horrible i guess. i now see how frustrating it can be to, say, open a restaurant where you have to endlessly develop and tweak recipes until they're perfect. but what if you add something else? will that make it more perfect? the bottom line is, don't have your first attempt at cheese grits be your experimental one-- it will only make you unnecessarily question life decisions.