The Mid-Sunday Night Meltdown

My 25th birthday is in one week. My husband will be turning 26 in two more months. We’re happily married. We have two cars. We’re trying to scrape a living while pursuing that good ole American dream.

In short order though, we have nothing in order!

We thought that with crossing the threshold that led into our mid-twenties meant life would be different. That the sky would open up and everything we ever wanted would fall into place. Instead, we’re just as confused as we were when we picked a major freshman year in college.

We don’t have a house, two dogs or a fabulous job that pays well and no kids. With our current diet, I’m not so sure we wouldn’t all be living off of baby food should the little patter of feet come our way.

We feel lost. This is what it supposed to be known as a, “Quarter-Life Crisis.” Yup. That fits the bill, a lot of help that term does for us though. I suppose I could place it next to our pile of real bills.

Despite our confusion, we make it. Day by day. That’s why and now I give you when this idea popped into our minds.

Have you ever experienced a Mid-Sunday Night Meltdown? When the magic of Saturday simply fades away and all you are left with is the impending doom of work in the morning?

The Mid-Sunday Meltdown has been occurring with alarming frequency as of late for us. What I am doing in life? What are we doing? Maybe we should move? How are we gonna get new jobs? Where would we go? Those are just a few questions that are pondered during this time before the grind starts anew on Monday morning.

We’re an adventurous couple who’d love for nothing more than to throw caution to the wind and travel around the world…except you’d have to call us Ishmael because we can’t cover the ever increasing airfare and cost to bring our luggage with us over many trips. Not to mention the fact that we can’t quit our jobs…we need them.

So, we’re bringing the world to us instead. The tastes and smells of different countries, minus the jet lag, will be invited and experimented upon with the help of our tiny kitchen. We’ll try 2 new recipes per week and a new country every two weeks. In a year, we’ll have sampled the exotic cuisine of 26 different countries. Our journey will start off as if we’re backpacking through Canada. We’ll continue our journey through Russia, Europe, Africa, South America, Mexico, and end with us back home in the United States this time next year. We’ll both be a fitting 26 years old when it’s all said and done.

We might be in over our heads. Ok. We are in over our heads. But hopefully, we’ll learn to cook for starters or at least learn that being an adult comes with other benefits such as being able to laugh at the very lumpy bowl of eggnog or a pile of sticky dough. If we make it through with all five fingers and apartment intact, we might just find ourselves after all.

We’ll share you trials and tribulations with you. We’ll share what recipe’s work for the average dumbstruck American and which one’s turn out disastrous.

Go check out Google Maps, and follow along with us as we jumped to 26 Countries:

1. Canada
2. Russia
3. Mongolia
4. China
5. Greenland/Iceland
6. India
7. Thailand
8. Australia
9. Egypt
10. Morocco
11. South Africa
12. Turkey
13. Greece
14. Romania
15. Poland
16. Italy
17. France
18. Spain
19. Germany
20. Nordic countries
21. U.K.
22. Ireland
23. Chile
24. Brazil
25. Mexico
26. U.S.

That’s not all. We want you to join us in this adventure. All the recipes will be accessible online and posted in advance so you try your hand at each dish as well. Come back if you haven’t burned your house down from cooking and tell us how the recipe went for you.

If we haven’t burned our kitchen down, we’ll celebrate together.

Come and cook your way around the world with us!