No Worries

I'm so excited to get my old furniture out of here and get some new pieces! My buddy Rob is now dating one of my girl friends, AJ. So we are all hanging out Friday, crashing at his place Friday night and AJ and I are going to leave Rob to his own devices and get rid of some of my old stuff so I can start getting my new stuff.

Tell me what you guys think!
( the bedroom )

So I got home yesterday and realized that I hadn't gotten everything that was Drew's out of here. Yep, I'm selling all my stuff and buying new stuff. Ok, not all of it but some pretty nice stuff for now. Too bad y'all live nowhere near me! I'm selling the stuff in the pictures then I'm going to buy a new bed and dresser first and put my old bed in the spare room.

( furniture to say bye bye too )

What is your New Year Resolution?

mine: new me all around. lose a few pounds, make myself happy, let go of everything bad that happened in 2007, move on, get over it, new car, new friends (don't worry I'm keepin the old ones too).

about the only thing that won't be a drastic change is new hair...i think I'll keep it long and dark for a while.

MY way of making dirty (cajun) rice!

Ground meat (3/4 lb)
Ground pork/turkey (1/4lb)
salt & pepper to taste
Tony's Creole Seasoning (season all works too) to taste
1 cup white rice (I use minute rice)
1 can stewed tomatoes
1/4 Red Bell Pepper Chopped
1/4 Green Bell Pepper Chopped
1/2 Yellow Onion Chopped
1 pod garlic (we use more but love garlic) Chopped

1. Saute your onion, bell peppers, and garlic in a pan with olive oil till onions are translucent.

1a. cook your rice in its own pot

2. add seasoned (with salt, pepper, seasoning mix of your choice) meat to pan with sauted veggies and brown.

3. Add stewed tomatoes to meat and cook on low heat to blend in juices/flavors.

3a. heat oven to 350-400

4. drain some of the grease/fat but NOT all

5. combine rice with meat and place in a casserole dish and place uncovered in oven for 10-15 minutes or until meat has dried out just a little.

6. Serve and enjoy

If any of you have a desire to get me a present for Christmas, my birthday (it is in Feb I know), or just because you love me and want me to expand my mind and love for reading go click that link and BUY ME A BOOK!

The only thing on that wish list is books. Books I want, need, must have, would drool over, yeah you get the point. Oh and I feel the need to let you know that I love used books just as much as new ones. There is a thing about reading a book with someone elses notes in it that I just adore...kind of gives you a new perspective on things. So used is great as long as they have all the pages lol.

If so I'm fairly certain you've heard of the book "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die"

If you haven't check it out on amazon or powell's books or something! Anywho, I found a place that has the list in an excel spreed sheet that just rocks my socks off...I'm a slacker on these books btw.

Also, my mom is pissed that the Bible isn't on there! hehe

anywho, to get the excel list go to this site and download it

its cool, if you mark an "r" on the far left it automatically counts them as read and tells you a percentage...if you type your age at the top it tells you how many you need to read per year to get them done from now on...it just uses the basic life expectancy for men and women.

See there is a reason I'm terrified of the dentist! Check out what this local dentist practice did...

God I hate the dentist...WHAT WE SAW AND HEARD IS DIFFICULT TO IMAGINE. FRIGHTENED CHILDREN SEPARATED FROM THEIR PARENTS… CRYING FOR THEIR MOTHERS WHILE STRAPPED INTO RESTRAINING DEVICES. IT'S A MEDICAID GOLDMINE… AND THEY'RE DRILLING FOR YOUR TAX DOLLARS.

I got a PERFECTLY good table from work today! They were throwing it out because the legs were uneven and they didn't have a glass top for it. Well I saved the perfect table from its death! Guess what, they aren't as handy as me! There was nothing wrong with it other than it was missing the glass top for it! HAHA!! The table now sits on my balcony...ain't it hot? I have the wrong kind of glass top on it for now. But hey it works fine for me! My mom suggests getting a piece of board cut the right size for it and then doing a mosaic tile on the top! who knows, I kinda like it with a glass top, maybe i'll get the right size glass top for it...one day.

( Well what do you think of my free table? )

so I'm taking 7 pictures and almost all the sand dollars and the couple shells we found at the beach and making a shadowbox out of them. I can't wait. The pictures are printing now, the sand dollars are dry now I just need a cool font to print out and cut out to place in the box that says "Oregon Coast 2007" or something like that! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE I love being crafty and stuff hehe

Well I'm sitting in the Denver airport on my return to Virginia. I hate having to leave Portland! I love that place so much, I think I'm destined to live there, seriously. One day I will. Just wanted to update that I'm on my way back to VA for a week or so then off to Louisiana for Thanksgiving! I can't wait to see my baby girl! Mom said she's pulling herself up on anything she can and to watch out she'll be walking before they know it! OMG how they grow so fast, lol.

Oh yeah I don't think I said anything about it before but I broke my nose in Portland. No Drew didn't beat me up. we were goofing off and he got kicked in the nuts on accident and I got an elbow or something to the nose in return. Oh the joys of flying with a broken nose...IT SUCKS!

Ok I'm off to order some food and dick around till I leave. Later all!