70's and easy, that's the way ahuh, ahuh I like it!

I'm sitting here with my nuggets just catching up on my lovely friends in the blogging world, listening to the 70's on XM. Sometimes you need a break from the
80's. Not very often though.

I have been a terrible blogger as of lately. I'm sorry. My summer has been chuck full o' busy-ness. Never in my whole life have I ever wanted summer to end, but this year I'm ready for it to be done! That makes me sad. Life happens and it is what it is. But I haven't started smoking again. That's good.

So, for the record, I used to not be much of a cook. Ask Kate. My family even made fun of my failures to boil water. But now, I cook almost every night! Not to toot my own horn, but it's better than edible! I've been practicin. Now I like to give credit where credit is due, and I found this in The Hungry Girl's Cookbook. If you are watching calories, like ME, it's a good one to have. She has a website too, but I don't know how to link all that crap together. Maybe one day my very smart sister will teach me how to do all that stuff. Then I will forget and have to call her 15 times, and I will cry cuz I can't get it to work. Until then, here is the address:
www.hungry-girl.com. Lots of yummy things to check out! Go there quickly!! But make this first!

This is my version of Southwest Surprise. I call it Dumpa, Dumpa, Dumpa like Cupa, Cupa, Cupa from Steel Magnolias, and basically you just dump in cans and packets of stuff. Did I say easy? Well I am now!

Dumpa, Dumpa, Dumpa
1 lb ground beef
1/2 onion, diced
1 clove garlic, chopped
1 can pinto beans, rinsed
2 cans black beans, rinsed
3 cans diced tomatoes, no salt added if available
1 can diced Italian tomatoes
1 packet ranch dressing mix
1 packet taco seasoning mix
2 cans mexicorn, or frozen I don't care

Brown meat with onions and garlic in a big pot. Add tomatoes, beans, corn and packets. Not the packets themselves, but the contents inside. I only clarify cuz the old me would have questioned this step. Simmer for 15 mins. Let sit for 5 mins. before serving. You can top it with cheese and sour cream. You could use fat free sour cream and cheese, but why would you want to? Guess that explains why my fat ass is still fat, don't it?!

Now you won't see alota recipes on this here blog, but I will share ones that are delicious and easy. We don't want to be stuck in the kitchen, there are men that need kissin and babies that need lovin, and someone in the lot always needs clean socks! So get to it!

This Sucks!

Holly crap! It's been some week! More of the usual, and then some more!

It's Tuesday, and I weigh 126.2 lbs. How this is happening, I do not know. I do know that I have been doing Barry's Boot Camp faithfully every day. I'm sweating buckets and I'm gaining. God hates me. I'm eating a whole pie by myself, since it won't matter anyway.

God save the Queen!

What?! I think I'm British. I meant to say Happy 4th of July!! Thank you founding fathers for giving us such a lovely holiday so we can enjoy many beers, picnics and sparklers! I'm quite sure that is what you had in mind. Oh yeah, and our independence. That totally rocks!

Today everybody bailed on us, so it's just me, HP, Mama HP and the Nuggets. We are fixen to have ourselves a lil bar-b-que and have some homemade ice cream and many brewskies. I didn't make it to the liquor store for anything else. Dang! HP said we just got invited to our friends the Schmutzy Wootzies to do fireworks. We are sharing the ice cream. I will share. Just cuz they are just about the best friends hillbillies like us could wish for! They feed us drinks and let us swim in their pool! Freakin sweet! They are sinners too. I like that in my friends.

Besides, I rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints, the sinner are much more fun! Thank you Billy Joel. Words to live by.

I'm gonna live forever if the good die young! I don't know who sang that one.

Buzy as a sinner can be!

So I've been out there in Blogland catching up on ya'alls gossip. I was feeling kinda bad about not keeping up on my post, due to all my summer ventures, but then I noticed that some of ya'all have been slacking too! Now I don't feel so bad. Summer is a hot bitch! Here are some of the things I've been doin to keep me away from you for such long periods of time.

1. Got hair colored and trimmed
2. Went shopping at Target (regular not super.)
3. Moved oldest man-baby to new pad (which is Beau Baby and Laurie's house. Thanks
family for taking in my stray!)
4. Went to Vegas so HP could look at old cars
5. Did the "Bodies Exhibit" at the Tropicana (what a dive!)
6. Watched Brandy's baby (no teeth marks, just nibbles. Yum!)
7. Cooked many, many meals
8. Had dinner with Kym Squared
9. Went shopping at Costco (twice)
10. Cleaned dog poo
11. Red-neck Swimmin Party w/Andrea and girlies (more about this lata.)
12. Went shopping at Wal-Mart (1500 times!)
13. Various house cleaning duties (the lot. That was very British.)
14. Let 4 dogs in and out of house 9 thousand times (in hopes that they will poo out there instead of in here.)
15. Went shopping at Ross
16. Countless hours in car goin to and fro
17. Starbucks (twice)
18. Visited Laurie in her new office (fancy!)
19. Had dinner at Mom's
20. Found out Angry Youth has a girlfriend (WHAT?! Many questions, none answered.)
21. House hunting
22. Scheduled some therapy (I didn't, but I should.)

Whew! That wasn't even all of it! There was a lot more poo cleaning than I mentioned. I've also had my darling mother of HP with me on most of these outings, and she is a pretty good sport. And nephew is back from Jesus camp, with Twitch. I may need Jesus camp too. I've been praying alot!!

Actually, I've just been saying, "Jesus Christ!".

What can I say? I'm a sinner.