Salsa!

I made a large batch of salsa today.  In addition to the more common ingredients like peppers, tomatoes, onion, garlic, cilantro, lemon juice, and smoked paprika, I also added some eggplant and cucumber.  I try to find as many things I can use my vegetables for as I can since I eat so much fresh produce now.

A Sudden Realization

Do you ever just write a scene that starts out with a fairly direct extrapolation of character traits and then you read it over, nodding to yourself like 'yes, this is a completely straightforward characterization based on their known character traits' but then some completely unexpected extrapolation from that scene just jumps straight out of left field and hits you like a ton of bricks?  Like it's the same kind of feeling when you infer a big reveal by reading a part of the story that implies but does not directly state it, but it's your own story???

Guess what happened to me earlier.