a year reclaimed: ice day!!!

my boss got caught up in the winter storm hype & cancelled work today :) - i think the newspaper headline this morning said it best: "Snow Day, Weather or Not" -- there was definitely NO snow, though it's rumored there were a few ice patches here and there...

snow or not, all i cared about was A DAY OFF WORK! - it isn't very often that i get to sit around during the week, so i was pretty excited :)

anyway, nothing extraordinary went down because we were afraid to stray too far from the house due to those rumored ice patches... so my day went a little something like this:

- woke up and enjoyed TWO cups of coffee. it is AWESOME having an unrushed morning. something i'm already looking forward to come retirement. in like 50 years.

- made a batch of pudding (and no, i'm not smart enough to figure out how to rotate pics on the blog)

- got ready, de-iced the jetta (it was so cute with the little icicles!), & went to walmart. was pretty much the only one there NOT wearing pajamas

- made paninis for lunch

- had a great convo over twitter with mark + cecilia about prunes/dried fruit - i'm still laughing. apparently my friends and i are equally weird: WIN.

- decided to bake HOMEMADE honey wheat + cinnamon raisin bread. yes, real bread. with yeast. reminded me of my pre-employment days when i actually had the time/energy to bake... sigh - ignore the fact that i'm not wearing make-up, but do take note of my desperate housewives-esque apron i got for $4 in dubai!