Culinary Slumber

I am a chef. I cook. Have been since as long as I can remember. Not a day passes without me watching food channel. HAHA.
I have been out of work for a few months. And out of the kitchen for a couple of months due to me being in Florida visiting family. So I am not able to cook as much as I usually do at home (or work). That being said I have been taking a mental and physical culinary vacation. But I think it is finally over!
Yesterday my cousin, aunt, sister, mother, and I went driving around. We ended the day by going to Target to look around and pick some things up. We were in the kitchen section when I came across a small section of cookbooks. Normal bullshit Rachel Ray ( not a fan but I know some people like her), Ina, etc. But there was this one book that caught my eye. Some green, soft-cover, thick cook book. Now the name escapes me, but obviously it had the word food in the title. I grabbed it and started reading through the recipes and seeing the pictures. Then something snapped.
I'm not sure what it was but the book brought a smile to my face and I got super excited to what was in my hands. Pages and pages of these great recipes. American cuisine, French, Italian, Indian, Spanish, Middle Eastern, etc. It had it all. And I wanted to make them all!
After a few minutes of drooling I walked over to the magazine section and found the current issue of Bon Appetite magazine, the Thanksgiving issue. Holy shit did the sensation from before smack me across the face yet again. All these recipes for the holiday season crammed into a thin magazine. Yet again I wanted to try them all.
But why this feeling all of a sudden? Why did these recipes turn on the stove in my brain? Why did it compell me to write about it? I am not too sure. All I know is that I want to cook so so bad now. I am itching to get back to a kitchen to create amazing food. I see the reaction of family and friends and even strangers when they see and taste what I made for them. To see how happy it makes them. To see their satisfaction. To hear them complain that they want more but are too full to have another bite.
I want to cook!