Oops!

Just realized I completely forgot to post last night.  I'm SO good at this blogging every day thing :-P

I let myself sleep in pretty late yesterday.  I didn't get up until around 11.  I then proceeded to have a pretty lazy day overall, watched the Braves game (which was an afternoon game) and job searched a little bit.  When Marcus got home, we made pasta for dinner - it's our favorite recipe that we've tried so far from the cookbooks we've gotten over the past year or so.  I'll post the recipe below so you can try it if you want!  It's YUMMY!

Anyway, after dinner, we decided to watch a movie (yay, Netflix!).  We browsed around for a while, and ended up watching Wet Hot American Summer, which I had never seen and had been wanting to see for a while.  It was clever, I really enjoyed the sarcastic jabs at...well, pretty much everything, lol.  Definitely entertaining.

We went to bed on the early side, around 11:30.  That pretty much sums up the day, so I'll go ahead and post the recipe to finish this off!

Lemon-Pepper Pasta and Asparagus (from the Betty Crocker Easy Vegetarian cookbook)
Makes 4 servings

Ingredients:
2 cups uncooked farfalle (bowtie) pasta
1/4 cup olive or vegetable oil
1 medium red bell pepper, chopped
1 lb. asparagus, cut into 1-inch pieces
1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
3 tablespoons lemon juice
1 can (15-16 oz.) navy beans, drained and rinsed
Freshly ground black pepper

Directions:
1. Cook and drain pasta as directed on package.
2. Meanwhile, in 12-inch skillet, heat oil over medium-high heat.  Add bell pepper, asparagus, lemon peel, salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper; cook, stirring occasionally, until vegetables are crisp-tender.
3. Stir in lemon juice and beans.  Cook until beans are hot.  Add pasta; toss with vegetable mixture.  Sprinkle with pepper.

You can do variations, too.  For example, we usually use yellow bell pepper instead of red, and we don't freshly grind the black pepper.  It also says you can try using lime peel and juice instead of lemon - I'm sure this would be delicious, although we haven't tried it.  We also never realized that step 3 probably means you're supposed to cook the lemon juice and beans separately and then add the pasta to it and THEN add the whole thing to the vegetables.  We just cook it all (except for the pasta, which we add at the end) in the skillet.

Also, for those of you who are health-conscious like me, the cookbook actually tells you the nutrition information!  Information is for one serving; remember there are four servings in the recipe (so eat 1/4 of what it makes).

Nutrition Info: Calories 400 (Calories from Fat 130), Total Fat 15g (Saturated Fat 2g), Cholesterol 0mg, Sodium 410mg, Total Carbohydrates 52g (Dietary Fiber 9g), Protein 14g

Oops!

Sorry I didn't post last night!  I realized after I had already turned off my computer that I hadn't posted, but I figured I'd just do it this morning rather than spend all the time turning my computer back on.

Yesterday was fairly busy, especially in the morning.  The first thing I did after I got up and ready was head over to Turner Field to get tickets for a Braves game when my parents are here.  It was interesting...I had never been there on a non-event day before (I say non-event rather than non-game because I did go to FanFest there one winter), and it was kind of cool!  I got to park in the Delta Medallion lot (right in front of the stadium!), which was the only one open and basically empty.  When I walked in, I saw maybe 4 or 5 people walking around, but that's it.  They had only one ticket window open.  I went up and was able to get the tickets we wanted.  Success!  Then I had a little adventure finding my way back to the highway, lol, but I made it work.  Stupid one-way streets!  Just one reason why I hate driving in the city.

Anyway, when I got home, I spent the next few hours finishing (to the best of my ability at this point) my online application for several jobs in the DeKalb County School System.  This involved taking a test online, entering all of my education and work history ONE ENTRY AT A TIME, ordering transcripts from all colleges I've attended, and sending them a copy of my high school diploma.  Luckily for that last one, I had applied for another job with them last summer, and my mom had already scanned and emailed me a copy of the diploma, so she just resent the email, so I was able to print it and mail it to them right away, rather than my mom having to search my bedroom to find it like last year.

I finished that up right around lunch time, so I ate lunch and then went back to job searching.  The afternoon was definitely much slower than the morning.  When Marcus got home, I decided to make dinner for us - sweet potatoes, baked beans, and salad.  It was easy and yummy, which is the best kind of meal!  Then we watched the Braves game and went to bed.

Today I am babysitting for Eli again, so look for another post tonight.  Hopefully I won't forget this time!

ETA: I totally forgot to mention that while we were watching the game last night, I got to spend a couple of hours talking to my friend Michelle on facebook chat!  We hadn't talked in a while, and I miss her so much, so it was really nice to get to talk to her.  She's going to be in eastern Alabama for a ride (horses) in late September, about an hour and a half to two hours away, so we were trying to figure out if it would be possible for Marcus and I to make a day trip out there to see her.  It's hard because most of the time she's there is during Rosh Hashanah, but there's still a possibility that we could go out for one day after the holiday is over.  We'll see.  It would be great if it works out - it would be great to see her! - but logistically, it's a little tricky on her end.  So who knows.  Anyway, just couldn't forget to include this!