How did you spend your Independence Day long weekend? Eating hot dogs with mustard and relish, drinking way too many ice cold beers and watching Team USA kick ass in the Women’s World Cup? I hope you did. That’s kind of how I’d planned to spend mine, but some turmoil in the ol’ personal life sent me to a weird, but not wholly unexpected, place that involved a lot of intense exercise, incredibly overly ambitious kitchen projects (even for me) and manic socializing.
