Mood: Absent

Wine Selection: Muccigrosso’s 2005 Pinot Noir

I don’t know if it was the Leap Year or the clouds, then sun, then clouds, then sun, but I am outside my body lately. I feel like I am watching myself go through the daily motions, but I’m not actually present. I even had a morning where both of my alarms didn’t go off; I set two just in case, and yes…BOTH didn’t go off. Then after I made my coffee, I turned my back for a second and without touching it, it fell! How does that happen? A ghost? I don’t really believe in ghosts, but what other explanation is there? Two alarms not going off and the mystery coffee spill? (I’m not even done with my morning extravaganza!) Then as I’m driving to Starbucks to get my, now late, cup of coffee….I realize that I forgot my wallet. I have never done that! Even on a first date when I want the guy to pay. Thank goodness, I was meeting Mark and he bought me my morning fix. Then, yes there is a “then,” I dropped my keys in the parking lot and while holding my coffee with one hand, I bent down to pick up the keys…..spilling the cup of joe that bent right down with me.

After that, my day of work went “ok,” not great, just “ok.” Lucky for me, my mom came to my rescue and took me to see a movie,”Fools Gold.” It was perfect for my absent day. It was entertaining, it didn’t require any thought, and it was funny (Added bonus: Mathew McConaughey with his shirt off the WHOLE TIME!)

By the time I got home and the medium popcorn hit me, I was not super hungry, but I needed some additional “wine” down time, so I opened a bottle of Muccigrosso’s 2005 Pinot Noir, which was also a gold medal winner in the San Fransisco wine competition, and…

…sliced some Gorgonzola cheese and a nectarine and had a mind altering moment. I came back to earth! This combination of the creamy, “bluecheesey,” tartness with the raspberry and musk of the pinot, all combined to be just what the doctor ordered. An snap back to the here and now.

 

I savored every sip and every bite while watching season six of “Sex in the City” and woke up the next morning feeling like myself again.

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