The World According to Angela

I hope you all had a happy Valentine's day.  Mine was very nice.  I spent it with my favorite valentines all of whom live in my house.  I cooked a nice steak dinner on my trusty grill pan and was once again thankful for my interest in cooking (going out for dinner?  I usually end up disappointed these days).  BTW, if you don't have a grill pan, you really should get one...they are wonderful!  The kids ate way too much candy from their valentine exchange at school, but that is ok since it's a rare treat.  I was quite astounded at the very elaborate valentines most of the participants exchanged.  I just bought plain ones without candy, and I was in the minority there.  I guess you live and you learn.  I ended the day watching an interesting episode of Lost.  Oh, I also posted two new pictures to the Picture Album if you want to see them.  The kids all look curiously mature and I am wondering how they are growing up so fast before my eyes.

Possibly most exciting for me, and this perhaps makes me a dork but I don't care, is that I received my AeroGarden yesterday.  I am psyched about this thing.  I am in a Cooking Club and they had a promotion on it - free shipping, no payments until May, pay in 4 installments interest free if you so desire.  Hey, I can swing that!  I promptly set it up and the kids were interested in it too.  I really hope it works as well as it's advertised.  I would love to have an abundance of fresh herbs right at my fingertips.  I cook with them all the time, and I can only imagine how convenient and yummy they will be growing right on my kitchen counter!  We have SO much wildlife in our neighborhood that I just haven't felt like dealing with an outside garden, so this is perfect.

In other news, we now have about 8 inches of snow on the ground.  Tuesday was another snow day for the schools.  The weather is really working us this year!  Poor Aaron was in southern Illinois for work, and he drove home during the worst of it.  A normal 4 hour drive took him 7 hours, and then he promptly got stuck in our driveway.  No four wheel drive for him.

So did anyone get or give anything special for Valentine's day?