Recovery

So, today is a day for rest and recovery.  I had surgery on Friday to have a lump removed in my neck, and Ithough that I would be feeling a  lot stronger today, but I'm not, so I took the day off to recuperate one more day.

However, me being me, I have laundry going, the dishes are running through the dishwasher, and I'm about to toss the laptop out the window because the space bar is sticking for some reason and it's making me crazy.  Ah...okay, I fixed it.  I needed to get a crumb or something out from under the space bar.

I've been thinking a lot about money today.  Ways to make more money, ways to save money.  My tuition bill came for grad school and I don't really know how we'll cover it.  And, as I sit here, my bedroom ceiling is leaking.  Fabulous.

Tonight, I'm making chicken casserole for dinner tonight.  We haven't had chicken in awhile over here and I'm craving something made with cream of mushroom soup, and I think I'm stroganoffed-out right now.  I'm also making homemade biscuits, as  J&P are enthralled with them and I usually don't have enough time to make them.  Today, I did.

Recipe for chicken noodle casserole:

1 pound chicken, diced and browned

2 pounds egg noodles

2 cans cream of mushroom soup

1 can sweet peas

1/2 cup milk

Mix them all together and then sprinkle some italian flavored bread crumbs on top.  Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.

(I'd like to use two pounds of chicken as then the pasta/chicken ratio is more even, however, times are tight and until grocery prices come down, one pound of chicken it is.)

At the Frugal Village, I had a nice pm from a friend who read a book that I had recommended The Thirteenth Tale, and was pleased to see that she experienced the book in the same way I did.  It was just a fabulous book.  I just finished Loving Frank by Nancy Horan, which was...phewf!...quite a book.  Such a tragedy, but such a wonderful love story.  Definitely one that I would recommend to any reader.  I'm working on one now, called Illuminated but I'm not really as into it as I'd like to be.  I tried to work my way through The Appeal by John Grisham, but I just couldn't get through it.  I just...didn't care...enough about the characters or the story to stick with it.  It wasn't a bad book, by any means, but it didn't grab me, and I need to be grabbed by a book.  This one didn't do it for me.

11:03 - 2008-Apr-28 - post comment