Happy Valentines Day everybody!! I hope everyone has plans to do something special today! Here in Dominica it doesn’t really feel like Valentines Day. There aren’t teddy bears, candy, and flowers everywhere you go like in the states! Most people – even at the school – don’t really celebrate Valentines Day. Some people will go out to a nice restaurant tonight and one club on campus was taking orders for flowers a while back. Justin and I have never been big Valentines Day celebraters anyway. My birthday is about two weeks after Valentines Day so that’s why we really don’t get all into it. Tonight I am going to attempt to cook Chicken Cordon Bleu. At home I could cook some GOOD chicken cordon bleu. But here I am not having much luck with cooking. I have set the smoke alarm off four times. Like last night for instance. I was attempting to cook chicken fingers. Easy enough right? Well I learned my lesson the first time a while back when I tried to cook them that you have to put vegetable oil in the pan. The first time I tried making them – I dipped them in egg, then coated them with bread crumbs and put them on the skillet. Didn’t work too well. So this time I tried it WITH vegetable oil. What could go wrong right?? Well – somehow they turned black on one side. And Im not talking about just a little burnt – I mean BLACK – unrecognizable – chicken. And the smoke alarm went off. I wish I would’ve taken a picture but I was a little upset while in the moment of the smoke alarm going off. I chunked the chicken over our balcony before I could think to get a picture. I mean – I’m from ARKANSAS – why can I not cook fried chicken?!?! So after I ruined the first supper I still wanted to feel like I could do some kind of traditional southern cooking. So we ate fried bologna and mashed potatoes with cheese on top!!! The saying goes that when your newlyweds you eat burnt suppers the whole first year. Well – I told Justin that I needed an extension on that one!

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