What. A. Monday.  You know those days when you really try to do your best? You wake up 30 minutes early, early enough to blow dry your hair, pick out a cute outfit, fit in a few chores?  You show up at 8 AM on the dot, prepared for all your meetings, prepared to be a ‘yes man’ and cruise through every deadline that’s handed your way?  Today, I showed up at work as nerd-tastic as ever.

And today, I returned home not nearly as chipper as when I had left, and for no reason in particular.  The second I walked in the door I changed into a long-sleeved Gator tee I’ve managed to hold onto since college orientation, I hung my dry-cleanables, and curled into bed, with no thoughts of dinner, and continued where I had left off with the Kindle.

It wasn’t until I was interrupted by a phone call that I considered dinner should be a thing that happens tonight.  The first things that crossed my mind were soup, noodle soup, easy soup, comforting little kid soup…

FoodFash Chickenless Noodle Soup

Boil 1/2 cup dry noodles (I used wide egg noodles) until they are fully cooked. Pour the cooked noodles and about 2 cups of the noodle water into a soup bowl. Dissolve one Not Chick’n bouillon cube in the bowl and, when the soup has cooled down a tad, enjoy!

This soup has zero nutritional value, but I tell ya, the comfort value is off the charts.  Back to Kindle-land for me!