I like having no plans for the weekend and I get to sit and read all day. Those are rare but I love it when it happens. I love your books and discovering new authors.
My mother doesn't write down recipes and does everything by a pinch of this or that,and pouring things in instead of measuring. I feel your pain. My sisters and I have gone through many batches of tamales, enchiladas, empenadas and arroz con pollo trying to get it to taste like Mom's. Each of us have come up with recipes and they are pretty good but we still experiment to this day.