Friday, Friday, Friday.... Kickin in the front seat, kickin in the back seat... Oh wait what, oh yeah I'm not in high school anymore? Darn. After busy, crazy weeks like this one I wish I was still in Mr. Cowdrey's Western Civ class about to fall asleep bored to tears. Rather than worn out from being an adult. I would love to just be "kickin it" in my school desk and listening to him talk about the Tudor's, than figuring out bills, taking care of my sick and teething baby (so sad, breaks my pea pickin' heart!), selling my house, and dealing with other adult like things. BUT then again at least I don't have to learn anymore math or sit in Mrs. Miller's class and be told I needed to go back to kindergarten. Hmmm. Maybe I should have taken her up on that...
I guess it's not ALL that bad. I just wish I would have savored the Friday's when I just sat around in class copying terms or forced to take 10 notes on a boring movie. I mean if I would have known less than five years later I would be married, own a house, a dog, AND have a baby, I think I would have taken my time growing up and copying my terms! Its great being an adult but phew Scott and I have flown through like 5 chapters in our life in a 3 year span!
Anyways, enough of that. My life is awesome and I have pretty much NO reason to complain... So on that note, I've been couponing. Extreme couponing, no. Well not yet. I really enjoy it and feel quite accomplished after looking at my ending total at the register. It's pretty cool. But whether I like it or not I basically have to stockpile to an extent. (Stockpile: stocking up on things so much so that you start swimming in boxes of cereal and tooth paste) It's not really my goal to stockpile, I just want to save money and have food in my pantry.
One of the things though that I have sort of stock piled on, is boxed mac n cheese (yea, yea a little processed food never hurt you.) So Tuesday night I decided to make some type of mexican-mac-n-cheese-throw-together-at-the last-minute casserole:
Box of deluxe mac n cheese
1 pd or less of ground beef
Half a jar of salsa
Big spoonful of Helluva jalapeno cheese dip
Some shredded cheese for the top
Alright. Make the mac n cheese, brown the meat add the spices to it too, drain the meat and put it all in a bowl with the salsa and cheese dip. Mix dump in a casserole pan sprinkle some cheese and bake for 20 to 30 minutes at 350. Thats it.
Well we had peas with it too. Gotta have some type of veggie. I am sure you could use a can of rotel instead of salsa but that's what we had. Enjoy.
Toodles!
Friday, April 29, 2011
Thursday, April 28, 2011
"A What?"
Grandma got run over by a reighndeer, da da da da da da.... That's all I know of the song, BUT it sets the scene perfectly for my Tuesday afternoon.
Picture this my living room, Lucy in the exersaucer enjoying her bottle, while Mommy oh so productively checks facebook, when clang clang, bang!! I hear something at the door. Gracie jumps up, I jump up, Lucy... well she doesnt care a lick in the world, I run to the door thinking maybe Scott came home for a surprise visit. Nope. I mean seriously whose husband gets to come home for surprise visits, some people work for a living duh? Anyways, I do the next thing I know to do. Call Scott. At this point in time I am convinced someone has just tried to break into my house, in the day time, when my car is in the carport. Those details are beside the point. So he tells me to call the cops. I do. Our conversation went something like this
and ACTION (claps hands together.)
" Tallahassee Police Department how can I help you?" "Hey there, I was just sitting on my couch and heard a noise like someone was trying to break in." "Well do you think they may have the wrong door..." "No, we live in a house..." (about this time my brother in law Ben drives up, Scott had called him.) Me looking outside the window, "oh wait! I see a reindeer in the storage room!" "A What??" " A reindeer, you know the Christmas ones, you put in your yard" again, "A What?" " I think were good now my brother in law is going to check the perimeter." " OK miss as long as you got it... Call us back if you need anything..." (seriously did I just tell her I was going to have him check the perimeter?)
Basically the crook trying to get into my house was a jolly ole reindeer from Christmas that had fallen from the storage room... Yea. He didn't get the memo that he is only used for Christmas.
Even though I am SO SO very thankful that is was just my jolly Christmas reindeer, it did make me think about what I might have done had I really had someone at the door. So this would have been my plan of attack:
............ Blanked out........ Seriously I would have been in a heap of trouble. I mean I really don't know what would have been best. What would you have done?
Picture this my living room, Lucy in the exersaucer enjoying her bottle, while Mommy oh so productively checks facebook, when clang clang, bang!! I hear something at the door. Gracie jumps up, I jump up, Lucy... well she doesnt care a lick in the world, I run to the door thinking maybe Scott came home for a surprise visit. Nope. I mean seriously whose husband gets to come home for surprise visits, some people work for a living duh? Anyways, I do the next thing I know to do. Call Scott. At this point in time I am convinced someone has just tried to break into my house, in the day time, when my car is in the carport. Those details are beside the point. So he tells me to call the cops. I do. Our conversation went something like this
and ACTION (claps hands together.)
" Tallahassee Police Department how can I help you?" "Hey there, I was just sitting on my couch and heard a noise like someone was trying to break in." "Well do you think they may have the wrong door..." "No, we live in a house..." (about this time my brother in law Ben drives up, Scott had called him.) Me looking outside the window, "oh wait! I see a reindeer in the storage room!" "A What??" " A reindeer, you know the Christmas ones, you put in your yard" again, "A What?" " I think were good now my brother in law is going to check the perimeter." " OK miss as long as you got it... Call us back if you need anything..." (seriously did I just tell her I was going to have him check the perimeter?)
Basically the crook trying to get into my house was a jolly ole reindeer from Christmas that had fallen from the storage room... Yea. He didn't get the memo that he is only used for Christmas.
Even though I am SO SO very thankful that is was just my jolly Christmas reindeer, it did make me think about what I might have done had I really had someone at the door. So this would have been my plan of attack:
............ Blanked out........ Seriously I would have been in a heap of trouble. I mean I really don't know what would have been best. What would you have done?
Trend Follower
I wore jelly shoes when they were popular, cut my bangs to make the swoop across my forehead, collected pogs, took the seam out of the hem of my jeans so they had that cool wrinkled look, coupon (a newer trend), and will continue being a trend follower probably until I just say forget it. So here I am, following yet another trend. Blogging. Scott and I have talked about having a blog that we update and, you know, self glorify the good things we do, because after all isn't that SOME of the reason people blog? I mean be honest. Its OK. I will admit some people really are great at just hitting the high points of the happenings of their families lives, which is great for a nosy person like myself. Either way it's their blog and hey they can write whatever they want.
So here's a rule with my blog. If you don't like something, just don't read it. I am not holier than thou type of person, and I don't want to make anyone feel judged by a silly little blog. So don't tempt yourself, I am not here to exasperate you and lead you into temptation of being angry. It's simply my families blackboard, formally known as a chalkboard, it's a place I can write down my crazy last minute dinner recipes that just sometimes work, announcements about my little Lucy Kate, random(and when I mean random I mean random) thoughts of my mind, things we are so humbly learning spiritually, and well a collaboration of many other things couponing, sewing, decorating, child raising, farm raising (just kidding we don't have a farm...) and whatever else comes up.
Oh yes, and don't be fooled by my amazing grammar and sarcasm (did you get it, I am being sarcastic about my grammar). I am in NO way a writer, in fact I don't really enjoy all that much. So don't be fooled again there will probably not be a blog post everyday. I know you all will just be gripping the side of your seats WAITING for my next blog post but don't, we are just a normal (ha, can't even believe I wrote that) family trying to document our life in this fun cyber world.
Toodles!
So here's a rule with my blog. If you don't like something, just don't read it. I am not holier than thou type of person, and I don't want to make anyone feel judged by a silly little blog. So don't tempt yourself, I am not here to exasperate you and lead you into temptation of being angry. It's simply my families blackboard, formally known as a chalkboard, it's a place I can write down my crazy last minute dinner recipes that just sometimes work, announcements about my little Lucy Kate, random(and when I mean random I mean random) thoughts of my mind, things we are so humbly learning spiritually, and well a collaboration of many other things couponing, sewing, decorating, child raising, farm raising (just kidding we don't have a farm...) and whatever else comes up.
Oh yes, and don't be fooled by my amazing grammar and sarcasm (did you get it, I am being sarcastic about my grammar). I am in NO way a writer, in fact I don't really enjoy all that much. So don't be fooled again there will probably not be a blog post everyday. I know you all will just be gripping the side of your seats WAITING for my next blog post but don't, we are just a normal (ha, can't even believe I wrote that) family trying to document our life in this fun cyber world.
Toodles!