I am having a panicky day today. I hate when a dream does that to me. Last night I dreamed that Boyo’s mom took us on vacation to this hotel. We were not allowed to drink or take our cameras. I thought it strange. But whatever. Then all of the sudden there are cameras all over the hotel suite. Big Brother style. I was informed via hotel manager that we were on a show called Unbreakable. His mom had signed us up for it. I was having none of it. The prize? $44K. I was FURIOUS!!!! Dave’s sister, who looked just like Snookie or whatever her name is, was giving me a bunch of crap because I was refusing to be part of it. I finally told the Hotel Manager (who was a TV producer in disguise that Dave and I were leaving and didn’t want to be part of it. It was then that Dave said he was staying. I asked if he knew about the TV show and he said No but he wanted that money. I felt betrayed. I would never choose money over him. How could he do this. 3 years together and he was choosing this show over me? I promptly took my ring off and threw it at him and left. He didn’t even try to stop me. I was heartbroken. I tried texting him after I left, asking him why, but I got no response. I just got a random text message from him after a couple of hours that said “FZ”

And then I woke up. I was so angry that I woke him up to tell him what an asshole he’d been in the dream. I think I will go cry now… and drink a carnation breakfast.

I didn’t hear this song until I was 14 and at that age I thought it kind of hoaky and geeky. Now I wish I had heard it as a kid. When I have children I will play this song while they are in utero.

There’s a land that I see where the children are free
And I say it ain’t far to this land from where we are
Take my hand, come with me, where the children are free
Come with me, take my hand, and we’ll live

In a land where the river runs free
In a land through the green country
In a land to a shining sea
And you and me are free to be you and me

I see a land bright and clear, and the time’s comin’ near
When we’ll live in this land, you and me, hand in hand
Take my hand, come along, lend your voice to my song
Come along, take my hand, sing a song

For a land where the river runs free
For a land through the green country
For a land to a shining sea
For a land where the horses run free
And you and me are free to be you and me

Every boy in this land grows to be his own man
In this land, every girl grows to be her own woman
Take my hand, come with me where the children are free
Come with me, take my hand, and we’ll run

To a land where the river runs free
To a land through the green country
To a land to a shining sea
To a land where the horses run free
To a land where the children are free
And you and me are free to be
And you and me are free to be
And you and me are free to be you and me

Today was my day off. I am lazy. I am craving Cookies. I have none. I was thinking about running to the store to get some cake mix to make Cake Mix Cookies (homemade cookies w/o the hassle? YES PLEASE). However, I have to reiterate the fact that I am lazy, and since I don’t have cake mix I would have to go out and get it, amongst other things. And I was seriously considering it until I turned on HBO. True Blood is on. So now I have to figure out what to do about my nagging sweet tooth?? I suppose it will be another granola bar for me. I will pick up some cake mix tomorrow when I get off work. I am off Wednesday, maybe I’ll spend the day in the kitchen.

IN other news. I love Lafayette. I need a non-drug dealing Lafayette in my life. Yes. I do. And I need a side of Eric. Yes.. thank you.

Short post for the evening.

I often wonder about Bill Gates. I wonder if he, himself, actually runs them to test them to see if they work. If he actually cares whether or not they work. I know he’s not completely greedy if he’s willing to give half his fortune to charity… so why not take the time to actually make sure that your products/software isn’t a complete JOKE!

My current computer is running windows 7 and Office 2010. I had to create an excel document. No biggie. I’ve done some work with Excel. Not much. And not to the extent of using all the mathematical formulas and all, but for what I needed to do I can get by. So I get the document done and “Save” and “Save as” One on computer one on External (since I like to kill laptops).

I go to open the file and guess what??? Windows can’t open this file. WTF. I mean really. When you save a file such as a jpg or .doc or whatever it defaults to the file extension that it needs to open, right? And one would think, being as I’m running the most current versions of Windows AND office this should be a non-issue. Alas. It won’t open. The only way it would open is if open excel and THEN open the file. I shouldn’t have to spend 45 fucking minutes trying to get a file saved so I can have it in case of an emergency. I should type it up. Hit save and BOOM. There it should be. I mean seriously? What. The. FUCK.

I remember being in high school and windows being the only operating system I’d known. It’s what we had at home. Win3.0 then 95. And what’s this when I get to school? I had to run on a Mac? HOLY CONFUSING COMPUTERS BATMAN. But I look back at it now. Smart move. One of the few smart moves @ my HS. Here I sit 16 years later thinking. CRIPES I wish I had a Mac. I wish I could AFFORD a mac.

Steve Jobs may have booboo’d with the iPhone4 but at least 12 year olds can’t write viruses for his OS. At least his OS runs without fail, without the giving the operator a heart attack and fits of violent rage. OMG.

Microsoft sucks.

When I was a kid both of my parent’s worked. Weeknights we had what we called POW food. Quick and easy thrown together meals. Mac ‘n cheese and tuna, chili dogs, hamburger helper. However, one of my favorites was chicken & noodles.

2 cans cream of chicken soup
Chicken Stock.
Canned chicken breast
Egg Noodles

Fill a stock pot with enough water to cook the egg noodles

Pour the two cans of cream of chicken soup into a medium sauce pan

Fill one of the empty cans with chicken stock (you can also use water if you don’t have stock. It is still delicious. The stock just makes it a little richer)

Pour the stock in the soup base.

Stir to combine!

Open can of chicken breast and drain off the water.

Use a fork to shred. You’ll kick yourself if you forget to do this, because your little brother, or your spoiled child might get a big chunk of chicken, and you’ll go with out. Trust me. SHRED THE CHICKEN

Add to the soup mixture.

Again. Stir to combine. Put over low heat. Or flame if you have a gas stove (I swear I’ll never go back)

While you were doing the above stuff, you should have already had the pot of water on the stove and started it to boil. If not well then I don’t know what to tell you. Do I have to tell you everything? You can’t cook the noodles cold!

Add the noodles to boiling water and cook until tender.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand drain.

Pour your soup mixture onto the noodles after dumping them back into the stock pot. And learn from me. Don’t surf the web while cooking. You forget to stir and the soup gets stuck to the pan. Even on low heat people!! STIR STIR STIR!

Serve with a slice of butter bread (or 3). I love to spoon the noodles onto the bread and make chicken ‘n noodle sammiches. And that’s all there is to it!!! I’m sure a photo tutorial was not really necessary, but I wanted to. So you will suffer through it!

I introduced Boyo to this shortly after we started dating and it has since become a staple in our house. We always have chicken ‘n noodle fixins. Likewise, your life will be forever changed once you make this… And you will make it. You will love it.

Because I said so.