Bad Idea

I woke up this morning at 4:00am. I dutifully tried to go back to sleep until about 5:00, at which point I gave up, turned my lamp on, and played a few hands of iPod solitaire. I started making plans for how to use my ‘extra’ hours, and I even discovered my gym has a ‘gentle flow’ yoga class at 8:something, which I thought would be nice. Then, just before 6:00am (okay, maybe it was more than a few hands of solitaire), I realized I was really tired and went back to sleep until my usual wake-up time. Score.
While I had been awake, though, I started mulling over my breakfast options, and, well, I should just know by now that any idea I have right after waking up is not going to be a good one. When I made Käsekuchen a while back, I used cottage cheese that I smoothed out in the blender. Wouldn’t it be a good idea, I thought, to added some blended (and sweetened) cottage cheese to oatbran that I cooked in vanilla soy milk? Genius.
One flaw in the plan, though — I really don’t like hot dairy. I would say that I ‘hate’ it, but I’m sure there’s some exception to that claim (hot, savory dairy, like cheese-y things are better, for example). Oats cooked in soy milk = delicious. Oats cooked in cow’s milk = bleaurg. I put half-and-half in my Americanos, but lattes are a bit too cloying for me. I’d rather have hot chocolate powder mixed into water than real cocoa made with milk. So I wasn’t really digging the combo this morning. There’s a reason cheesecake is served cold, after all.
But I’m glad I tried it. I imagine loads of other (stubborn) people are like this, but when I get an idea in my head, even if I’m not positive it’ll work out, I usually have to try it, or I won’t be able to stop thinking about it. I need to test it out and see — I’d rather prove to myself that it was a waste of time than have to wonder about it for days and days and days. So, ‘cheesecake’ oats goes in the ‘bad idea’ column, but at least I know now. And it looked good.