late for the train

Okay, it may not be what everyone would call creative but I tinkered with a recipe. Since I do NOT consider myself a cook and it came out great, here goes. (original picked up from someone at Spark People, I don't know where they got it.)

Slower Cooker Taco Stew

1 16-oz can black beans (drained)
1 16-oz can kidney beans
1 16-oz can corn (drained)
1 16-oz can white beans (drained) Northern something?
2 16-oz cans tomato sauce
2 14.5-oz cans diced tomatoes
1 packet taco seasoning
Chili Power to taste
1 cup barley


Directions

Mix everything in a slow cooker except the barley. Cook on low for 6 to 8 hours or on high for 3 - 4 hours. Cook barley per package directions and stir i to slow cooker during the last 30 minutes. This makes an awful lot but froze & reheated well :)


If you'd like, add chicken on top of everything, then during the last 30 minutes, remove, shred and stir back in.

Class Canceled

The last post mentioned my textbook problem. Now my entire class has been canceled for lack of enrollees. Grrr..... I was able to add a different class but the time & days are different, interfering with other plans. ahhhh! I guess it's a grin & bear it kind of thing.

Happy Sunday

the 13? what happened?

I've been doing a lot of reading. My son and I are reading the same series and it's been hard when we want the same book! How it all started, there was a book sitting out of the end table that wasn't mine. The cover had a man holding a woman wearing a wedding dress with an arrow in her back. That raised an eyebrow so I read the back. I knew it was my son's book but he told me I couldn't start with it since it was book three. Since then I've read 17 books.

The last book in the next trilogy in the series won't be released until the end of March! Worse, it will be hardcover, we own the others in paperback and my son (and my storage) would prefer they all be mmp. I don't think I'll be able to wait a year but the library doesn't have it on order!

I start school next week and ordered my textbook online for half the cost of getting it at the school's bookstore. I log in on the day it was supposed to ship and find an email telling me they don't have it! DANG! Actually, (*^*&$^(*&_)(*. Sigh, it's too late to get it anywhere else, now I have to pay over $100 for it.

I started a new craft project. Someone else sewed holes along the edge of a flannel blanket (hem stitch) and I'm using the holes to croquet around the edge. I'm really excited about it.

I went to a nephew's birthday party. I was great to see family but he's 3 now and he had friends. Can you imagine the noise? Add older brothers on top of that and I stayed as long as I could....

I start another writing challenge on the first. I hope to do as well as I did the first time.

I think that's it. Oh, Happy Valentine's Day!
(I had glass swans on my wedding cake. I wonder where they are?)

February already?

I haven't written a word since 2007, sigh. My sleep hours have gotten flipped around again so I went to bed at 7 am on Friday. I had two final thoughts - "that's would make a great storyline, I should get up and write it down" and the last thought before falling asleep, "you'll remember, if you get up, you'll stay up." That's the last I remember. Do I remember the storyline? NO! Do I have any idea what it was about? NO!

grrrrr

I really need paper & a pen or something, just a few notes would have done it. I could see the whole story.... sigh