Have you ever admired or respected someone? Have you ever wished you had people skills like someone else or that special repoire that makes everyone want to be around you? Have you wished you could take back a day and have a do over?
Monday was that day for me and the President of the Touchdown Club was that person. We've had a rotten season as far as W-L go, and worse we've got some bad apples spoiling the bunch of good boys. Funds are dramatically low and unless we find some green somewhere we are going to take this debt into the next year/season. I understand every Touchdown Club Board member is feeling the stress. But does that give any right to one of them to yell and curse at another?
Monday night after the meeting I was speaking with another mother and we were privately sharing our dissatisfaction with something regarding the coaches. The president completely went nuts and began yelling and cursing at the both of us and said things that damaged my heart. After I tried explaining myself to no avail and seeing the absolute hatred in his eyes I left to avoid any further confrontation. It was an explosive situation that did no good for any of those involved.
Please be in prayer I can let this go and let God handle it.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Fake Bake Ziti
Ok Deanna, here it is...I got this from Rachel Ray but have changed to suit my family's taste.
Ingredients
Olive Oil (to coat the pan)
1 lb ground meat (I use beef but it's up to you)
1 small jar spaghetti sauce or tomato sauce (I use Prego Garlic & Parmesan)
Fresh garlic, minced (I use about 2-3 cloves unless I use the Prego sauce, then I skip this ingredient all together))
1 box Ziti Rigate(although lately I've been using Penne Rigate)
3 tablespoon butter
3 tablespoon all-purpose flour
2 cups whole milk or half/half (substitute beef broth if you want to reduce calories)
1/2 shredded Asiago cheese
1/2 shredded Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
1-2 cups Mozzarella cheese (depends on how cheesy you want the top)
1/2 teaspoon fresh nutmeg, grated
Salt and Pepper to taste
Directions
Boil water and add pasta, cook until al dente (about 6 minutes).
In large saucepan, coat with olive oil and then saute garlic. Add ground meat and brown. Drain fat. Return to heat and stir in spaghetti sauce or tomato sauce. Season to taste, reduce heat to simmer.
In medium pot, melt butter. Add flour and cook for one minute to create roux. Once flour and butter are mixed well together, whisk in milk or broth. Whisk together well to avoid lumps. Once mixture begins to thicken, reduce heat and add asiago and parmigiano-reggiano cheeses and nutmeg. Whisk until cheese is melted. (You can really use whatever cheeses you like here, however I would avoid cheddar.)
Drain pasta and combine in large skillet with beef mixture. Coat all pasta with beef mixture and pour into baking dish. Pour cheese sauce on top of pasta and beef and mix together. Top with mozzarella cheese and broil in oven until cheese browns on top (about 3-4 minutes).
Enjoy!
Ingredients
Olive Oil (to coat the pan)
1 lb ground meat (I use beef but it's up to you)
1 small jar spaghetti sauce or tomato sauce (I use Prego Garlic & Parmesan)
Fresh garlic, minced (I use about 2-3 cloves unless I use the Prego sauce, then I skip this ingredient all together))
1 box Ziti Rigate(although lately I've been using Penne Rigate)
3 tablespoon butter
3 tablespoon all-purpose flour
2 cups whole milk or half/half (substitute beef broth if you want to reduce calories)
1/2 shredded Asiago cheese
1/2 shredded Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
1-2 cups Mozzarella cheese (depends on how cheesy you want the top)
1/2 teaspoon fresh nutmeg, grated
Salt and Pepper to taste
Directions
Boil water and add pasta, cook until al dente (about 6 minutes).
In large saucepan, coat with olive oil and then saute garlic. Add ground meat and brown. Drain fat. Return to heat and stir in spaghetti sauce or tomato sauce. Season to taste, reduce heat to simmer.
In medium pot, melt butter. Add flour and cook for one minute to create roux. Once flour and butter are mixed well together, whisk in milk or broth. Whisk together well to avoid lumps. Once mixture begins to thicken, reduce heat and add asiago and parmigiano-reggiano cheeses and nutmeg. Whisk until cheese is melted. (You can really use whatever cheeses you like here, however I would avoid cheddar.)
Drain pasta and combine in large skillet with beef mixture. Coat all pasta with beef mixture and pour into baking dish. Pour cheese sauce on top of pasta and beef and mix together. Top with mozzarella cheese and broil in oven until cheese browns on top (about 3-4 minutes).
Enjoy!
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
8 Random Cooking Things
Ok, so Lara tagged me in her blog to name 8 random cooking things so here you go, feel free to laugh out loud if you actually know me:
1. I love to cook with Pampered Chef products I bought when Lara was in town and my consultant. Haven't bought a thing since she moved to Minnesota.
2. My buddy Anne-Marie gave me the most awesome bamboo cutting board for my 40th (ahem!) birthday this year - love it!
3. My oldest son loves for me to make baked ziti or broccoli macaroni and cheese from scratch so I do that for him occasionally.
4. My youngest son loves my spaghetti and chili which are both from cans and jars. Nothing from scratch just heat, mix and eat.
5. Our favorite thing to cook as a family is tacos, although we usually get Matt to do this.
6. I love Tastefully Simple products - especially the beer bread and key lime cheese ball, these should be outlawed.
7. I shop at Kroger every other Tuesday for two weeks at a time. It's like a ritual and I hardly ever shop anywhere else unless I want something fresh or run out before the two week time period.
8. I miss my friend Lara and her YUMMY peanut butter cookies.
Lara tagged Deanna and Melena already so I have no one left to tag. Oh well, hope this wasn't too boring.
1. I love to cook with Pampered Chef products I bought when Lara was in town and my consultant. Haven't bought a thing since she moved to Minnesota.
2. My buddy Anne-Marie gave me the most awesome bamboo cutting board for my 40th (ahem!) birthday this year - love it!
3. My oldest son loves for me to make baked ziti or broccoli macaroni and cheese from scratch so I do that for him occasionally.
4. My youngest son loves my spaghetti and chili which are both from cans and jars. Nothing from scratch just heat, mix and eat.
5. Our favorite thing to cook as a family is tacos, although we usually get Matt to do this.
6. I love Tastefully Simple products - especially the beer bread and key lime cheese ball, these should be outlawed.
7. I shop at Kroger every other Tuesday for two weeks at a time. It's like a ritual and I hardly ever shop anywhere else unless I want something fresh or run out before the two week time period.
8. I miss my friend Lara and her YUMMY peanut butter cookies.
Lara tagged Deanna and Melena already so I have no one left to tag. Oh well, hope this wasn't too boring.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
I'm so NOT a morning person!
Today I had an upgrade on a system that started at 6:00 a.m. So I woke up at 4:30 and got to work by 5:30 a.m. The only good thing about being up that early was the reduction in traffic, but sadly no drive-thru was open before 6:00 a.m. for some much needed caffeine.
The upgrade was okay, although it took a while and I still have some after effects. All I want now is sleep people, so stop calling me! I promise if I can sleep then by tonight, when the vampires are out I'll be in a much better mood.
Seriously, all you morning people, raise your hand...it will make it easier for me to find and shoot you.
The upgrade was okay, although it took a while and I still have some after effects. All I want now is sleep people, so stop calling me! I promise if I can sleep then by tonight, when the vampires are out I'll be in a much better mood.
Seriously, all you morning people, raise your hand...it will make it easier for me to find and shoot you.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
A (Bad) Day in My Life
Wouldn't it be great if I could find something positive to post about? I wish I had the "always look on the bright side" mentality but some days just stink. Today was that day...here's how it went..
7:00 a.m. - Alarm goes off, have to get up early (yes 7 a.m. is VERY early for me) because I have to meet with Andrew's math teacher about his grade.
8:00 a.m. - Yell at Andrew to hurry up and let's go because traffic will be awful headed to the school
8:17 a.m. - Finally get in car
8:37 a.m. - Arrive 7 minutes to conference to hear about how Andrew is not responsible (which clearly he gets from his always prompt and very responsible mother). Then I have to listen to how smart but apathetic he his. Well if doesn't care, why should I? Just kidding, I do care about his grade, so I'll just start doing his homework.
8:55 a.m. - Return to car and get stuck in middle school parental drop-off SUV nightmare.
9:15 a.m. - Arrive to chiropractor for adjustment to aching back only to learn my insurance benefits for this plan year have expired and I'll need to pay full price going forward, plus the amount insurance didn't pay in September.
9:50 a.m. - Arrive to work and several voice mails about how my system has been crashing all morning and where the heck have I been?
10:30 a.m. - Decline lunch invitation from friend as I cannot leave the ball and chain attached to my desk.
11:30 a.m. - More calls only this time about forms that haven't been processed and what the heck am I working on that could be more important than a form printed in Korean? Never mind I had a system crashing, the system that prints forms nonetheless.
12:45 p.m. - Thank my good friend Annie for bringing me lunch.
2:00 p.m. - More calls and emails about how everything I support isn't working as it should. Plus interruptions from an on site vendor with stupid questions.
5:05 p.m. - I've had enough, headed home, grab a cupcake from friend Cindy's desk so my blood sugar can rise on the ride home.
5:30 p.m. - Arrive home and yell, then wait again on Andrew to be ready for football practice - even if you tell him 30 minutes ahead of time he's never ready on time. I'm thinking he's definitely in touch with his feminine side when it comes to getting ready.
5:45 p.m. - Drop Andrew off with Matt so he can take him to football practice.
5:46 p.m. - Call from Mom, can Matt help with some work at her house, not until he's finished my errands, he's mine first.
6:00 p.m. - Attend Touchdown Club Board Meeting so I can once again hear how many people haven't paid their dues, how much in the red we are, and what am I going to help do about it? I don't know, I paid my money! Maybe they could print a form or something and when that doesn't work I can be blamed.
7:00 p.m. - Attend the general Touchdown Club Meeting along with like 9 other parents, ones who have also paid, and listen to them complain about how it's not fair they paid and others haven't. Here ya go sister, share my book cause we are singing the same song!
8:30 p.m. - Rush to pick up Andrew from practice and drop his friend off at home, then drop him off at home.
8:35 p.m. - Call Matt, who is still at my mom's, not helping but eating dinner and watching football. Ask him to meet me at Kroger for grocery shopping, but of course he doesn't want too and then says "but if I don't you'll gripe at me".
8:35.01 p.m. - Tell Matt not to come and hang up on him.
9:30 p.m. - Complete grocery shopping only to learn my total of $176.54 is $26.54 over the approved limit for my new checking account. But this account isn't new, just the checks are....manager please. So check for $150, then another check entered as cash for $26.54 and I'm out the door.
9:45 p.m. - Stop for gas, surrounded by police, but I didn't do anything! Thank goodness for the green truck behind me, he was the one they were after.
9:52 p.m. - Arrive home, force boys to unload car, scan groceries for stupid home scanning project I am part of, and make boys put them away.
10:45 p.m. - Gobble down some Hamburger Helper because again, I'll need to eat right before bed if I want my blood sugar to really rise.
11:15 p.m. - Yell at Andrew one more time for the day, because I apparently have a quota I must meet, and forbid him to sleep in or around my bed, or even downstairs since he failed to take a shower after practice and now smells much like his socks.
11:45 p.m. - Begin typing this blog and after reliving my day realizing the only thing keeping me focused was knowing what a long boring blog this would be.
Now I get to do it all again tomorrow. Don't you just wish you could be me for a day?
7:00 a.m. - Alarm goes off, have to get up early (yes 7 a.m. is VERY early for me) because I have to meet with Andrew's math teacher about his grade.
8:00 a.m. - Yell at Andrew to hurry up and let's go because traffic will be awful headed to the school
8:17 a.m. - Finally get in car
8:37 a.m. - Arrive 7 minutes to conference to hear about how Andrew is not responsible (which clearly he gets from his always prompt and very responsible mother). Then I have to listen to how smart but apathetic he his. Well if doesn't care, why should I? Just kidding, I do care about his grade, so I'll just start doing his homework.
8:55 a.m. - Return to car and get stuck in middle school parental drop-off SUV nightmare.
9:15 a.m. - Arrive to chiropractor for adjustment to aching back only to learn my insurance benefits for this plan year have expired and I'll need to pay full price going forward, plus the amount insurance didn't pay in September.
9:50 a.m. - Arrive to work and several voice mails about how my system has been crashing all morning and where the heck have I been?
10:30 a.m. - Decline lunch invitation from friend as I cannot leave the ball and chain attached to my desk.
11:30 a.m. - More calls only this time about forms that haven't been processed and what the heck am I working on that could be more important than a form printed in Korean? Never mind I had a system crashing, the system that prints forms nonetheless.
12:45 p.m. - Thank my good friend Annie for bringing me lunch.
2:00 p.m. - More calls and emails about how everything I support isn't working as it should. Plus interruptions from an on site vendor with stupid questions.
5:05 p.m. - I've had enough, headed home, grab a cupcake from friend Cindy's desk so my blood sugar can rise on the ride home.
5:30 p.m. - Arrive home and yell, then wait again on Andrew to be ready for football practice - even if you tell him 30 minutes ahead of time he's never ready on time. I'm thinking he's definitely in touch with his feminine side when it comes to getting ready.
5:45 p.m. - Drop Andrew off with Matt so he can take him to football practice.
5:46 p.m. - Call from Mom, can Matt help with some work at her house, not until he's finished my errands, he's mine first.
6:00 p.m. - Attend Touchdown Club Board Meeting so I can once again hear how many people haven't paid their dues, how much in the red we are, and what am I going to help do about it? I don't know, I paid my money! Maybe they could print a form or something and when that doesn't work I can be blamed.
7:00 p.m. - Attend the general Touchdown Club Meeting along with like 9 other parents, ones who have also paid, and listen to them complain about how it's not fair they paid and others haven't. Here ya go sister, share my book cause we are singing the same song!
8:30 p.m. - Rush to pick up Andrew from practice and drop his friend off at home, then drop him off at home.
8:35 p.m. - Call Matt, who is still at my mom's, not helping but eating dinner and watching football. Ask him to meet me at Kroger for grocery shopping, but of course he doesn't want too and then says "but if I don't you'll gripe at me".
8:35.01 p.m. - Tell Matt not to come and hang up on him.
9:30 p.m. - Complete grocery shopping only to learn my total of $176.54 is $26.54 over the approved limit for my new checking account. But this account isn't new, just the checks are....manager please. So check for $150, then another check entered as cash for $26.54 and I'm out the door.
9:45 p.m. - Stop for gas, surrounded by police, but I didn't do anything! Thank goodness for the green truck behind me, he was the one they were after.
9:52 p.m. - Arrive home, force boys to unload car, scan groceries for stupid home scanning project I am part of, and make boys put them away.
10:45 p.m. - Gobble down some Hamburger Helper because again, I'll need to eat right before bed if I want my blood sugar to really rise.
11:15 p.m. - Yell at Andrew one more time for the day, because I apparently have a quota I must meet, and forbid him to sleep in or around my bed, or even downstairs since he failed to take a shower after practice and now smells much like his socks.
11:45 p.m. - Begin typing this blog and after reliving my day realizing the only thing keeping me focused was knowing what a long boring blog this would be.
Now I get to do it all again tomorrow. Don't you just wish you could be me for a day?
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