What to do when you're SNOWED IN.

Friday through Sunday were quite the productive days for myself. I'm the kind of person that if I have to be out, I whine that I wish I were home doing most anything but what I was doing at that moment. But the second I get snowed in, or sick, or even if its raining, I get STIR CRAZY. So when Nemo spewed a huge load (I was talking about the snow, get your mind out of the gutter) on New England this weekend, I got a little obsessive.

After my lazy, gluttonous beginning of Friday night, I actually got motivated, and got a TON of stuff done.

First of which being slathering Ayesha, a Lush face mask, all over myself;






Then, afterwards;



A quick little manicure, and even though my new Betsey Johnson nail stickers are pictured, they ended up not being used (yet.) and yes, that is Dream Cream from Lush, my FAVORITE hand cream.

And then, I did something smart. I decided to update all of my devices, apps and programs.




After that was done, I was smart again; I did my taxes.

After all that was done, I decided to catch a couple z's so I could be up early enough to cook the man breakfast before heading out to shovel.

I ended up making Spicy Sausage Gravy and Biscuits for breakfast, and I was SO PROUD of myself, because the recipe was very very simple, something I'm going to have to make again REALLY SOON.



After a couple loads of laundry (including the blankets and sheets; HELLOOOOOOO awesome naps on clean bedding!) I convinced the man to put up a new shelf in my room. I love shelves.

Then, I got super duper motivated and I made a double layer chocolate cake with chocolate butter cream and Biscoff butter cream. I don't have my frosting tips anymore, so I used a ziplock bag to make it all pretty like;







It was delicious, FYI.

Sunday we were finally able to dig ourselves out of the parking spot, so the man and I headed to the supermarket to get juices and fruits and cheeses and milk, guess what? No milk, no cheese, but to my surprise odwalla AND naked juices were on sale, so I grabbed a whole basket full. Then we went to Starbucks for a couple caramel macchiatos, then to the party store for browsing purposes, to the liquor store and finally back home.

Upon arriving home I noticed that the boot box I had tossed old pillow cases, towels and blankets into to make a kitty bed, matched my own bed a little too closely. It had been weeks since I made a bed for my little boy, but had never noticed the way they matched until that moment.







See? Weird.

Anyway, that's when I decided to let loose and clean the fridge. It looks beautiful now, thank you very much. Normally that wouldn't be much of an accomplishment, but I live with four other people, not including the man, who pretty much resides with me, too.

Shortly after, I treated myself to a few drinks, made stuffed shells, and took the BEST nap.

If you were snowed in this weekend, how did you pass the time?

I waited all day...

I had meant to post this Friday morning, but apparently my app crashed and it was saved online. So, here's a quick, materialistic post!


I waited ALL DAY for my Sephora package to arrive, like I had mentioned on Wednesday, and at SEVEN PM it finally arrived.




Perfumes and makeups and hair stuffs, oh my!



Taa Taa for now!

Spicy Sausage Gravy and Biscuits

One of my favorite things about being snowed in is all the free time you seem to have on your hands. I naturally come prepared (with my purse's contents you could leave me stranded in the desert for a week and I'd still find my way home) so during times where leaving the house is a no-no, I've got plenty of supplies. This makes for a lot of fun while cooking meals! Last night I took the bacon out of the freezer, with the intention of shoveling half of it in the manpanion's mouth and then sending him off to shovel.

That's a lie, I couldn't care less if he shoveled. I just wanted pork for breakfast.

Then last night I remembered I had two uncooked spicy Italian sausages in the fridge from my pizza night on Thursday. This ignited a little spark in my brain.

That's why when I woke up, I made Spicy Sausage Gravy and Biscuits for breakfast.




There really is no way to take a flattering photo of sausage gravy, mind you.

This is how I did it;

I added about 2 teaspoons of olive oil in a pan on medium heat. I sauteed the two sausage links removed from the casing, breaking them up as they cooked, until they were fully cooked, when they were transferred to a bowl.

I then added a teaspoon of butter and two tablespoons of flour to the grease and whisked until it was this golden-y color. I then had the grease spit on my arm, which is now bright pink and burning. I whisked in a cup of milk and when it began thickening, I added a dash more milk, the sausage, a pinch of salt and pepper and a little Italian seasoning. After a quick stir, I poured it all over some Pilsbury Grands Flaky Layer biscuits, then topped with fried eggs.

So. Good. Super duper easy, too.

Yields: enough for you AND your man on a blizzardy morning. So two, I guess.

It's blizzarding, so now what?

Here in New England it's blizzarding like crazy, like you've probably read on twitter and Facebook, and have seen via Instagram, so were all pretty much confined to the places we currently are. I thought I'd use this as an opportunity to let everyone know what's on tonight's agenda.

First, I reheated some of last nights homemade pizza for the man and I;




I do a really good job at standing in front of my light sources, huh? Anyway, we had broccoli mushroom brussels sprouts Alfredo pizza on a wheat crust and a sausage pepperoni five cheese pizza. They were both fantastic.




Then we caught up on out favorites; Archer and Law & Order. The man took a nap, because blizzards are SO GOOD for naps, and I decided to catch up on my Days of our Lives. And maul an entire jar of Biscoff and a whole bunch of bananas.




Maybe I'll use the spare time later tonight to bake something overly sweet? I mean, the oven would warm up the house, so it's almost like I need to make cupcakes or cookies or something with chocolate, right?

Superfood Breakfast Fail; don't try this at home, kids.

Like I mentioned two days ago, I am not only on a journey to making my life better, I also want to start sharing things that don't work instead of just the things that worked out well from the beginning. With February being National Heart Health Month, I decided to create a heart healthy scramble for a quick breakfast; spinach, carrot shreds, eggs and a little shredded parm.




And on the side, a few cherries. A very heart healthy, colorful, vitamin packed breakfast. Only it tasted like Caa-Caa. I took nibbles here and there (in other words, where there were globs of melted cheese) and I ate the cherries, but HOT DAMN have you ever tried carrot in an omlette?
Not good.

There was something about the texture of the shreds of carrots that just made this healthy meal taste like crapola. Next time, I won't overwhelm myself by adding in carrots, the spinach and cherries provided plenty of healthy nutrients as is.