Today I took a "mental health" day. I left for school and by the time I got to Galveston, I had decided I was going back home. It's not that I feel sick or anything, mainly just tired and wanted a day at home to piddle around, read, watch TV, cook, and do some chores.

I went ahead and went in for a bit this morning just to quickly do some email, cancel my classes, and deal with a student. I caught her "stealing" library books yesterday! I think she may have done it last week too but I didn't catch her until this week. She got caught because she took the book that I meant to read to the next class and when it wasn't there, I knew someone in the class before them had taken it. Sure enough, when I went into their room after reading the other class something else and checking them out, there was the book on her desk with ANOTHER library book! Her punishment this morning was a morning of ISS and I have suspended her from the library for the month of February.

Anyway, in other news my experiment of doing the 400 calorie cooking every night is going well, last night tho I skipped the meal for a sandwich and chips and beer and reading. :-) But I made last night's dinner for lunch today, since I decided to stay home and relax.

I must say tho the other night I was rather impressed by the Gnocchi with Roasted Cauliflower...I was a little bit hesitant at first mainly because everything was white. I thought all the same color was a no-no in cooking but it turned out really good. Gnocchi takes like 3 minutes to cook, you can put the cauliflower and sage in to roast for 30 min and forget about them for a bit...top all with parmesan...Perfecto! My only change was to stir the gnocchi with a spoonfool of pesto & garlic that I had in the fridge so it was a bit green and had a touch of flavor from that. I've never had cauliflower roasted before and it was really yummie. The sage was a first for me too and it wasn't as strong a flavor as I expected.

I'm excited that W is coming home tomorrow! It's been 2 weeks since I've seen him!!! Today is his last day of the rotation in North TX. I think he really enjoyed the small town doctoring. I know he visited alot of nursing homes and did house calls. I think it was a nice experience for him. He has one more school I think to do a 2nd look with and then I think he will turn in his list. I'm anxiously awaiting March.