General Discussion & Chat: Best/Worse/What did I learn today?visit with friends, 1 by Seedtosser1

Seedtosser1 wrote:
Hi using two computers..tabby to share a pic and the other to post story to go with it!

Edited to add Chapter...haha enjoy.

Good Morning, actually now Afternnon!!

Betty and Linda Kay...Have a wonderful time with your grandchildren!!
What fun, you all will have. ROFLOL, I think if Betty can dance up a storm in LA, she will take a Slide, yeppers i can picture it! I still just Love that you all make the time to create such wonderful memories.

Oh Linda Kay, Awe Happy Happy 13th Birthday for your DGD!! Oh my gosh...Do your self a favor and ONLY by one (1) hamster!!! Good heaven we made the mistake of getting 2, one for each kid...Ackkkkk, had dozens and dozens of babies, eye balls bulging at the memory, babies having babies, it was quite the nightmare, lol.-now...In the end we gave them away to separate people, said never ever again!!

Katie! So glad you made it home safely. Hope you enjoyed a nice long hot bath…

OMG, Moonie, you are too cute, no one has called me that (jujube) in ages, big, big smiles!

Mary, I know you miss the Band stuffs. I miss all the Band stuff I did with Julia too...It's rather cool to watch them at the games, I still just love to watch them practice and see all they are doing. Oh and how exciting, They got new uniforms this year, just gorgeous. I hope your visit to the College goes well, as well as the long weekend at home! Ok, so Dear Mary, Hahaha, since you asked, a little story for you, and everyone.

The pasta chapter …

Me and my big mouth and or fingers, volunteered to do something for each of the Pasta dinners. I thought since Jacobs last year of Foot ball, I'll be more involved in these dinners other then just serving one meal...So I happily volunteered to make garlic bread the first time around. Now, you have to remember, I don't cook much, just basic stuffs, lol how hard could it be? That very first Garlic Bread episode, I was doing great! I looked up how to make the garlic spread, thought oh how easy peasy is this! Confirmed with the cook in the house, DH...yep I can do this. Went off to the Walmart, got my rather Large French Bread they sell 2 loaves, cut them in halve to make four loaves, right. Thought, oh let me check out the pre-made garlic spread, ahhh, forget it too expensive for just a little bitty container. Back to original idea of making my own...laughing at the store, to be so happy for pulling out the Butter to soften, before I left to shop for Bread! I spent almost 45 minutes looking at the types of bread haha. Ok finally choice was made, bought and home by 1/2ish...oh yay, running on time. ( this was the same day i bought the "Spaceship" lol, while chatting with Moonie, who gave me a boost of encouragement on both!)
Because this is how crazy I am about cooking, read the directions again and did my own thing anyway. LOL.
Thought well to make this easier, I’ll whip the butter!! Get out Breenie’s mixer wand and proceed. Oh good gosh!!
Butter everywhere, haha, hey but it got whipped nice and soft and I added the Garlic salt, finger tasted, mmmm, mmm!! I was pleased to pieces. Proceed to next step, cut the loaves in half…Oh my gosh one of the loaves was not fully risen? what a jip!? Ack no to time to run back at this point, so decide, some will just have a flatter piece!! Using soft spread thingy Butter em up!…watch clock, still running on good time! Yay that worked out well, pretty proud of myself. Check the clock again and woohoo time to put the bread in oven, Well, my cookie sheets were just several inches shorter then the bread, hands on the hips here, now what? Ahh, place foil down, worked marvelously! Rolling eye balls at myself, never did figure out how to set timer on the stove, haha, always have kids do it… Eaxactly at 5:15 put bread in the oven and set my cell timer, eye brow raise, I know how to do that one!
While baking for 10 minutes, I dash off to get ready…Ding ding, ding…its ready, dash back to kitchen, decided I was pleased at the “toastiness”, butter melted and oh smelling sooo good. Take it all out and slice, place in a bowl, cover with foil and its time to leave…Haha, left the counter mess, because yep, it was still there when I got back! Haha. Now I have been also sharing vehicles( a whole other story) So I was on Pins and needles that Breenie gets back in time with the truck, she did, good girl! Drove off to school arriving exactly at 5:40, I was so tickled right on time, bread still warm. Now to find the Cafeteria…So, I follow the noise! Ahh heres the Café, walk on in and screech, These kids are eating desert!! I said, geesh am I in the wrong place?? I look around, my kid isn’t anywhere, so I apologized for being so late. A mom takes the walks it around, disappears in seconds…So I figured well Jake musta finished! So I txt him to see if he wants a ride…No answer, so I went home, thinking he’s there already. No Jake, about 15 minutes later, I txt again, hey where are you?? He texts me back asking, Where ARE You? He calls seconds later to find out where I am at! So I tell him I was there, He wasn’t so I come home…
Dead silence before he says MOM, you fed the Freshmen!!! ROFLOL, Holy Crappola!! Im so sorry…Blah, blah.
He laughed, said don’t worry about it…I was like well at least I fed guys who had Football stuff with them!
When he got home, I was on the deck, He stood in door way, hands on the hips and gave me a look that is just way too remeniscent of his dad with I can’t believe you did that, shaking his head!
Well, now, the Varsity football Moms didn’t exactly laugh at the whole episode!! Apparently they made quite the mistake of making fun at how stupid I am in front of my Son…So not a good thing to do. My boy stuck up for me saying how its my first time at this and I tried, did what I was suppose too, dadada…they kept up and my kid, spoke up even louder with some not so nice words at their behavior!! Lol, my hero, then he gave me a hug.

That was week one! Week 2, I was to bring the water or gator aid…Did the whole shopping thing, decided on water was more in my budget, lol.! After lunch loaded cooler with ice and bottled water. One thing I noticed, no one ices up the drinks…So that was my extra, nice cold drinks. Arrived with map of where to go, ROFLOL, a whole five minutes early!! No one is coming, and I was just hemming away thinking I was in the wrong place again! 10 minutes later…finally the coordinator comes with whatever she brought, So, I said hi, I brought water…She says well just leave it there, but I don’t know how you will get your cooler back. She was kinda snippy about it! So I said well, I can take it when I leave. She said, Well you can stay if you want to, but we have enough servers! Now, instead of falling into her tone, bit my remark off and said well I’ll txt Jake and have him bring the cooler home with him, (DUHH.) I left, but I was kind of hurt! So I got home, DH said how come your home so early, told him the story, he said I should have stayed to chat with the mom’s…Hello, she was extremely rude and guess what? These mom’s haven’t spoken a word to me in the past 3 years why would they start now? I said Whatever, I did what I was suppose to.. LOL, which brings me to this pasta dish!! I questioned Jacob, so what kind of Pasta do the parents bring. Better, What do you want me to bring? So he tells me all kinds of stuff, lol great answer! So I rifle through cabinets to see what we have…Cabinets always loaded with pasta! Oh just my luck, 4 jars of Ragu and 3 packages of Rigatone! Get it all together the night before. Now, here at home, we (dh) always “doctor” up the Ragu sauce…Not that its not good, but you know just add extra taste…So, I get it all in the pot ask DH to Dr it up! Nope your dish you dr it up!! Okay then…So I added my spices, question how much, get a quick lesson! Lol, I did buy extra mushrooms to toss in. Instead of ground beef, Jacob wanted Sausage, So I made extra and tossed it in! Again, timed everything to the very last second…Viola! You saw my post of what happened yesterday…The kids “raved about it”. I was just pleased as punch about the whole thing!!
Now what I didn’t tell you, The one mom tried to make me feel stupid, Proud to say instead of reacting, I just busted out laughing…(my teeth even slipped) not caring for her, I just said, Well the Football team loved my bread!
And, all in all I did have a nice chit chat with the other moms…
Oh golly for my next time, I bring Salad, lol…They are getting an actual Salad bar, lol I love salad bars!

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I was always intending to tell you all the stories anyway, so I hope you enjoyed the banter of my cooking skills! LOL, I look back at it and just think, I am sooo Lucille Balls twin sister in Brunette!
You asked what we are doing today…

Today I decided to play further, DH doing paper work,. But, We are having a family dinner tonight, ROFLOL, needless to say, Steve is doing the cooking!! And we are hoping to have a nice fire, if the winds calm down.

Oh and by the way, game was last night!! Jacob Got three sacks!! And a whole other bunch of good football moves, I was just a grinning ear to ear, wink, musta been all the energy from my Pasta, giggling, dontchya think?

OK…Going to post this!

Hope you are having a nice day too…OH Yeah!! Happy first day of Autumn, sunny and cool here, but lots of Sun!


This message was edited Sep 22, 2012 12:13 PM