This is something I just tossed together, we'll have to see how it turns out *crosses fingers*

Beef Stew

1lb (roughly) Stew Beef
1 can diced tomatoes half drained
1 can beef broth
1 small onion quartered and pulled apart
3 whole carrots quartered and roughly chopped
3 stalks of celery halved and chopped roughly
4 baking potatoes (they were on sale and I love potatoes lol)
1/2 teaspoon pepper (more probably)
1/2 teaspoon (roughly) garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon salt (probably going to need more lol)
1 bag of egg noodles

Toss all together in the crock pot and cook for 6-8 hours on low.

It smells really good right now and I kicked the temp. up to high after about 4 hours so hopefully it'll be done soon!  Can't wait to have it with the noodles :)!

I just got my first crock pot yesterday, after seeing so many good recipes.  I figured I would record it here and then report on how good (or bad) it tastes after its done.

Apple Barbeque Chicken:

2 small yellow onions coarsely chopped
1 small/medium apple cut into quarters and then sliced
1 large bottle of barbeque sauce
Chicken breasts/Chicken Tenderloins

I washed the chicken breasts and put them in the bottom of the crock pot.  I sprinkled the apples (I used a small green granny smith apple) over the chicken breasts (if I would change anything it would be that I would use more apple, only had one small apple).  Over the apple I put the onion (and it looked like a lot, so we'll see how it turns out).  Over all of that I put the barbeque sauce.  I'll be cooking it for 6-8 hours on low, so it'll be ready for dinner just in time!

I'm so glad that classes are over, but my mom is...psychotic?  We're having a graduation/birthday/christmas party on the 19th of December and I graduate on the 20th.  Only she's really taking it to the super extreme.  Now, I'm not the cleanest person in the world but I'm also not filthy.  My mom is borderline OCD when it comes to stuff.  My dad bought her a new vaccum and a new carpet cleaner, although the carpet is so dead thanks to my uncle and his dog that there really is not a whole lot of hope.  Now, if we could only keep the big carpet in the livingroom that shows how different the carpet color really is...we'll be fine.

My dad is doing the whole carpet cleaning thing now, so I'll be trapped in my room for an hour.  Yay, no more cleaning for at least that long!  Lol, I don't mind it so long as my mom isn't breathing down my neck telling me how wrong my methods of cleaning are.

Ugh, I'm just ready to curl up and go take a nap.  I might if I can get away with it >.>!

Merry Christmas in advance!

Yay its Halloween and I have way too much to do.  I just cleaned the bathroom and the kitchen and my room is an utter mess.  Clothes everywhere.  I have plans for the front porch that started to come to life last night until I got that call from a guildie for Karazhan, lol.  I still have some black trashbag taping to do and I found an old antique bowl to put dried rose petals in so we'll see if I can't make the kiddies scared enough >.>!

But I really should get to cleaning my room.  Family is staying here tonight and well...I'm not so they get my room.

Hmm I need black eyeliner and mascara.

I think that if you're single telling the person (if you have the guts) isn't a bad thing -after- you've felt the situation out. It wouldn't come off very well if the person is really edgy around you in the first place, lol!  If you're married keep it to yourself!  Consequently I had a crush in one of my classes and he got the guts to admit it first.  We've been together for two years.

Dear Riders,

You and I have been together for a long time now.  Sure, your face changes every day or so, but you and I have been seeing each other for at least four years.  I think its about time I made some things pretty clear to you.  Please see the list below!


-  I am not your personal RTS management system.  I do not know when the bus is coming.  Please refrain from questioning me fourty times in five minutes.

-  I understand you may have had a bad day, but if I am courteous to you, I think I at least deserve an ounce of courtesy back.

-  Do not yell at me.  I may have confrontation issues but those only last so long.

-  If you drop something close to me, expect me to be a decent human being and pick it up for you.  If you have a problem with me picking up any article of yours that has fallen to the ground or bus floor please detain me quicker and refrain from yelling in my face for the duration of the twenty minute bus ride.  I do not want your belongings, and I am now very sorry I was a decent human being.  Next time I won't give you the time of day when you ask.  (Seriously happened to me once.  Seriously.  I laughed so hard).

-  Do not touch me if I do not know you.  It may be okay in your country to grab a stranger and ask for the time or other information.  I respect your culture and so I don't immediately slap you, but you know I am tense.  That means let go.

-  Personal space is personal space.  My personal bubble hates being popped by inconsiderate people.  I'm not glaring at you in hospitality either stranger.

-  Do NOT touch me.  Are we clear about this?  This is only waived when the bus is full and you have to cram yourself in next to me.

-  For the love of anything you hold holy don't SIT on me.  Thats what the bus seat is for.

-  When there are 50 bus seats available and you sit right NEXT to me I will assume you have something to say to me or require assistance in some way.  Do not be offended when I stare at you to try to figure out why you chose seating yourself next to me.

-  I know its cold on the bus.  Wear a sweater.  I am not your personal heater and so when you slide close to me I will slide away as far as I can and lean away from you.  I don't know you and I certainly don't know you well enough to warm you up.

-  Its florida, its hot in the summer, please wear deoderant.  I'm not fond of BO when you raise your arm in my face to ring the bell for a stop.

-  I have no money, I am a college student, so please don't be offended when I look at you crazy when you ask for money from me to ride the bus.  I have a card that allows me to ride the bus for free because I go to the University.  This does not mean you can have my money that I use to buy water while on Campus if I have any.

-  I don't want your sob story, if I look uninterested its because I am.

-  I don't want your reasons why you can't pay the bus fare, it will not part me from my water money.

-  I would appreciate it if you would face your butt away from my face when you have to stand in front of me.  I know its sometimes hard with that huge back pack riding high up there on those shoulders but...honestly...do you have to put it five inches from my face?  I would hate to have you fall into me when the bus takes a wild corner and you're not holding on.

-  Your phone conversation sounds pretty interesting.  Do not be offended if I stare or start to ask questions.  I seriously want to know what Jimmy did last night and how drunk he got last weekend.

-  Don't touch me.  I think we've been through this.  I don't want your sweaty body touching me.

-  Don't breathe on me.

- Don't itch your weave over my shoulder or my lap.  Thats gross and really rude.  Your hair, however fake it is, belongs in your own damn lap.

- For heaven's sake don't itch your head over me.  Gross.  Eww.  You could have lice.  I don't lean over and itch on you, common courtesy!!

-  Don't shake your head on me, over me, by me or near me.

-  Any good music to which you head bang, dance, flutter or fling your arms around will be taken as a seizure and I may be tempted to be a good citizen and knock you to the floor of the bus to defend myself and others from your seizing.



There are several more but the list grows.  I had some kid brush all over me today and I was like okay...seriously...get the hell off of me.  I ride the bus and have done so every day for more than four years, but four years consistently with this particular system.  A girl can only take so much.

/rant

I think I'm going to start posting a literary quote from whatever book that interests me (it could be popular fiction or whatever).  I may write about the quote or create a short blurb in reaction to the quote.  Today, I'll just post something that I found very interesting.


"We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things." -- Dracula, Bram Stoker

This is a very interesting quote to me because of its relevance to todays politics and some of the matters we face every day.  I also like the forwardness of the quote.  It has been some time since I read Dracula but I remember eating it up.  I liked it much better than Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde  not entirely sure why though.  Maybe I just like vampire stories more than monster stories.  I think the quote begs at least a little contemplation and I'm glad I came across it when I did. 

Today has been a pretty good day.  I biked 5.5 miles with my dad (I swear I almost keeled over on the big hill...) and I made it despite my legs not wanting to move after 4 miles.  I feel good despite the sneezes and the runny nose and all the allergies.  I feel creative and I don't want to go to class so I probably wont.  I'll probably geek out and go to the Library and re-read the first Harry Potter and put off my own writing.  I have to go to Wal-Mart too and pick up some supplies to make plushies which I really want to do.  Its extremely dorky I know but I have this fanatical urge to sew and create and it won't go away no matter how much I ignore it.  Fall weather does this to me.

I love cool weather and I love big open blue skies.  Right now I love Florida and I am content.  I have the most amazing boyfriend a girl could ask for and what isn't to love about that?

Tomorrow, eh I'm working on finishing today.  Thats how I feel and thats my mentality today.  Thats how I've been all week.  Creative and lazy and just plain glad to be alive.

I've read several but there are a bunch that I would like to read or am slated to read this semester in my American Lit Class.  Of course my view is skewed being an English Major and all >.>!

Okay so started week two of classes, week one for me >.> because my schedule was so crazy I changed classes at least 7 times over the course of the week.

I ended up with General Psychology and American Lit 2.  Both seem pretty decent and they don't look like a whole butt load of work which is nice.  I really don't have alot to report o.o other than my Psychology professor is kind of crazy...no pun intended lol.

 I went to advisement today to see what it is that I need to graduate.  I really already knew but my dad likes to make sure I know because maybe I don't know what I'm doing or whatever.  Eh whatever, I spent two hours sitting in a packed advisement office most likely skipped over because being a non Graduating senior (yet) I take a back seat to graduating seniors.  Some how I was put on that list so I got pushed back a few times, but whatever I got to see an advisor before most of the juniors and stuff.

Basically I need Spanish.  I'm taking the SAT 2 tomorrow to see if I place better than Spanish 1 or test out of needing it.  If I do, fantastic.  If I don't then I'll either spend a semester being lost in Spanish 2 or I'll have to take a semester of each -- but I'm very close to just taking it online because I don't feel like being on campus all the time.  

I'm also trying to find information on teaching certification here in Florida.  Apparantly its not extremely easy to find the information and you have to hop through a few hurdles but my dad thinks I should put this degree to good use.  Yay me.  After I do that and maybe get a job being a teacher (huge maybe) I'm going to work on Med School to be an RN first and then a Nurse Practicioner.  I like working with kids so it will be with Pediatrics.  

Other than that everything is good.  I really have nothing to complain about, well I could but that wouldn't do me much good other than frustrate me more lol.