Snow day! And my cooking skills....

Living in Arkansas, you never know what the weather is going to be like. One day it can be sunny and 70 and then the next 6 inches of snow on the ground. That seriously did happen last year. Today we had our 2nd snow day of the season. Thank goodness most of it was snow and not a ton of ice. Ice is what we usually get here along with the bitter cold. School was out and I worked from home. I didn't work as much as I should have. Just realized that I should have sent some reports out. For some reason I thought it was Wednesday. Guess I better get those our first thing in the morning! 


I woke up at a little after 5 like every morning and took a look out the window. There was probably 2-3 inches of snow on my car (parking outside is one thing I will NOT miss when we have a house one day). I checked the local news website and school was canceled. When my alarm went off at 5:15 I just turned it off and rolled back over to sleep. One of the awesome things about having technology is you can access your work email from bed and say "Yep I'm not driving in this." and roll back over to fall to sleep again. hehe. Finally about 9:30 I got out of bed. I wanted to get laundry done today so I can relax on Saturday. I ended up being pretty productive. Got most of the laundry done (still have stuff that needs to be done by hand) and the kitchen is squeaky clean! Why I don't clean it that well more often, I don't know. Not saying I will start, but it's a good thought. :) In-between laundry and work I watched a few more episodes of Lie to Me on NetFlixs (http://www.fox.com/lietome/). It's a show about this guy that's a scientist that can read people and tell if they are lying. He helps the police and FBI to solve cases. It's a pretty cool show. He's a funny english guy that turns his head to side and holds his mouth open when he's trying to figure out what people are thinking. 


I ventured outside not long after waking up to take Izzy out. She obviously need to go the bathroom, so I said "Let's go make some yellow snow." I put her little pink jacket on her to keep her warm. Even though she has plenty of fur, she really does get cold out there. At the bottom of the stairs, there was a frozen dead bird. Rem had told me about it and I took a picture with my phone. I'll spare you the picture. It warmed up this afternoon and a lot of the snow melted. They've already canceled school for tomorrow so I plan on working from home. Rem said "Well what if your co-workers go in?" You see I have a trump card when it comes to bad weather. When Rem and I got married 2 years ago, we had a reception down in Springdale. When I was on my way down there, I totaled my old Explorer. So now whenever the weather gets bad, I refuse to drive in it. And when I tell people what happen, they understand. Hopefully I won't have to go in tomorrow....


My Cooking Skills....
Before Rem and I got married, I cooked. Since I lived by myself I didn't cook a whole lot. I ate out for lunch sometimes or brought leftovers to work. It wasn't until about 6 months into our marriage, I got more serious about cooking. With a recipe and ingredients I could cook but I like easy cooking. Meaning, I like few ingredients and a few simple steps. So I began actually using the cookbooks people had given me and the internet of course. My cousin Michelle, told me about a website called sparkpeople.com. It's a website all about being healthy. It has all sorts of resources, including recipes that include the nutritional information. Before I went grocery shopping, I'd pick a few main dishes to make from my cookbooks. This was also in an effort to reduce impulse spending. 


Recently I tried this recipe from kraftrecipes.com. This is a little more fancy looking but really isn't that hard to make. These are cheese lover's pasta roll ups. You have to cook the lasagna noodles first, make the cheese mixture and then bake. The mistake I made was I didn't have enough spaghetti sauce. When the lasagna noodles aren't covered they end up hard. But they turned out yummy! 

Enjoy!