Rain, rain, go aw......... OMG It's raining bigtime

Ok so sometimes, I'm a little slow on the intake.... we are "officially" in a state of drought... it does rain... some... not for long... not a lot so it's not overly an "event" when it does rain. We wish for it... hope for it... pray for it... and today... well, thanks to Fay... it came...

for all of about 45 glorious minutes.

It rained really, really hard...and just when I thought it was setting in for good... it stopped as suddenly as it arrived. Supposedly we are in for a few more of these in the days to come!

Things about me....

I just saw a posting on a really cool blog that featured "100 things about me" it was quite interesting.... good self-reflection. I considered it... thought about it... reflected on it... and decided that: 1. you would be bored after the first 20 2. I would be bored after the first 25 3. I am entiredly too ADD for it so I'm starting my list... over time.. it may or may not hit 100...

1. I am so very... anal retentive.. oh wait that's the "old term" isn't it... okay I'm... OCD
2. I try really hard NOT to be OCD but.. just.. can't
3. I am SO jazzed about making an A on my first Master's class
4. I have not set a precidence by making an A on said class and have now put myself under even more pressure to continue the beginning of (hopefully) a trend
5. I read approximately 200 books a year (novels, not counting the "storybooks I read to my class")
6. I ADORE my classroom, I think it's the greatest one in the world, that said I ADORE my students... each year... every year... they are THE best... okay, I know you think "yours" are and your classroom is... sorry.... you are wrong (giggle)
7. I take things VERY personally, I think the words "Don't take this personally" are from the devil and should not be allowed in the English language.
8. I get insomina VERY often, entirely TOO often.
9. I can "do without" lots of things... sleep is not one of those things.
10. I get mad because my favorite authors take so durn long to write another book after I've just finished their latest offering.
11. I think there are angels on earth. (I believe that some of those angels have attended school in Special Education classrooms.)
12. I HATE that my backspace key does not work on my desktop computer! When I highlight something and it backspace... HELLO it should go away... (I know people who are the same way.... "How can I miss you if you won't go away" syndrome)
13. I LOVE, adore, collect, amass unusual "stuff" okay not really unusual "stuff" but like ordinary stuff but .... unique forms of it. For instance, I have probably no less than 50 different unique post-it pads in my desk drawer. They have their own little... thingie that holds them. Candy Land, Mickey Mouse, Scrabble, Maxine, etc... I also like cool pens and pencils... (everyone has their own weirdness)
14. I hate, abhor, detest having my picture taken, I do, however, love to take pictures of other people.

to be continued later.... perhaps... maybe not...

Motherlode of Gifts

Simple Mom is giving away the motherlode of gifts. Go and check it out.
http://simplemom.net/

The Perfect Southern Supper Recipe

Ok since my dear & slightly older sister can NOT cook I wrote this recipe for her, but anyone can do it I PROMISE. Bless her heart she is VERY culinary... culinaryily? challenged so this works for her every time and since we were born and raised in Georgia... well, everyone here is suppose to know how to cook. Paula is a mere 2 hours from us!

Ingredients
$25
2 cans GLORY greens NOT those margaret whomever ones
2 cans cut green beans
1 beef bullion cube (okay so I can't spell... at least I can cook, I'll prove it later)
small container of Country Crock honey butter

First, go over to Wally world and look in the frozen food department. On the aisle where their breakfast stuff is, find the bag of Great Value frozen biscuits. Buy them. Get the Glory greens and green beans while you are there.

On your way home, stop at KFC and order a bucket of original recipe chicken.

Heat the oven to 400 degrees and pop those biscuits in the oven for 20 minutes.

While the biscuits are cooking, put a little bit of water in a pot and throw that one beef cube that I can't spell in there. Add your green beans and cook them on low.

Put your GLORY greens in a pot and heat them.

Put the chicken on a platter and throw away the bucket for God's sake.

Watch the biscuits, when they are slightly golden take them out of the oven and slather them with honey butter.

Supper is DONE! Yummy Georgia Style!


Ok now to prove I know how to cook here is an absolutely yummy recipe of mine!

Heather's Chocolate Chip Pound Cake
1 18.25 ounce yellow cake mix
1 3.9 ounce package instant chocolate pudding
1/2 cup white sugar
3/4 cup water
3/4 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs (divided, beat yolks, whip whites stiff)
1 cup sour cream
1/2 cup milk chocolate chips (dusted in flour so they don't all fall to the bottom)
1/8 cup confectioner's sugar (for dusting)

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease and flour a 10" bundt pan. In a bowl, stirl together the cake mix, instant pudding, and sugar. Add the water, oil, egg yolks and sour cream. Stir well and then add the egg whites and stir again. Fold in the chocolate chips. Pour into the bundt pan. Bake for 50-60 minutes in the preheated oven. Cake is done when a stick of dry spaghetti inserted comes out clean. (or a toothpick I just never have any) Cool in pan for 10 minutes before inverting on a wire rack to cool completely. Transfer to a pretty cake plate and dust with confectioner's sugar before cutting and serving.

WAY yummy! I pound cake is SO very hard to make especially a completely homemade one (which I can do but I LOVE this one!) pretty much anyone can make this cake!

Fun & Not Fun

Lately, I've had quite a bit of... "not fun" stuff going on... too much to get into so I thought I'd seek out some... fun! And I'm inviting you to join me...

I discovered Jennifer @ Funhouse! She's having a great giveaway of Lush products so check her out! http://thefunhousejennifer.blogspot.com/2008/08/amazing-giveaway-basket-full-of-lush.html

iPod giveaway from the cool chics at S.I.T.S.

Those totally cool and very generous chics over at S.I.T.S. are wrapping up their 6 weeks of summer giveaways with an iPod! Go on over and check it out. Someone named "Heather" has won the last two weeks... so it is SO TOTALLY my turn now!

Absolutely Bananas: writing prompt

My biggest travel horror story took place about 6 years ago. DH and I had been dating for several months and he invited me to spend a weekend in Pennsylvania with him and the couple who introduced us. She was celebrating her birthday (she celebrates her birthday for a week! my kind of woman) The plan was to take in all the historic sites in PA and go to Atlantic City.
Anyway, I was really nervous because I'd never flown before, was going away for the first time with (now) DH and was just antsy about the whole thing. Just getting through security was a nightmare. Each time we went through sensors, I set off the alarm (this didn't stop at the airport mind you, when we went to see the Liberty bell... set them off there too... went somewhere else in PA ... set them off there wicked weird). So after setting off all the alarms & securing my place on potentially hazardous people list, we finally boarding the airplane. DH had splurged on first class tickets and it was really nice. I sat by the window, took my dramamine and was ready. Mind you I have been to the restroom at the point a minimum of 10 times in the time it took us to make it through the airport. We begin to slowly taxie down the runway and we.... stop. I'm cook once I realize this happens on a pretty regular basis. We chit chat, I enjoy looking out the window, my dramamine starts to kick in and... for all of about 30 mintues, things are good. Okay so after then... things get... well... interesting. I MUST go to the restroom. The stewardess won't have it. I explain that I promise to be quick... no go. After another 15 minutes, I inform her that the mess she will have cleaning up my seat will be much more involved than the one she will have to clean if I'm actually IN the restroom should the plan actually take off with me in there. She snickers and says that the seatbelt sign is still on and I must remain in my seat until it either goes off or we are airborne. This continues for another 20 minutes or so. Finally, as she is passing out nuts (HELLO she's walking here), I request a Depends instead. At this point, I've come to the realization that DH will never speak to me again once the weekend is over... I'm pretty okay with that as long as I make it OFF the plane with clean pants! FINALLY the stewardess allows me to go to the restroom and the plane takes off probably 10 minutes after that. DH was actually pretty cool with it. (About a year later I was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease and it all makes a LOT more sense now but then... it was... HORRIBLE) The actual flight was great, I loved the clouds and views, it was simply the delay on the tarmac with no access to the restroom with the possability of having an accident that made this my travel horror.