game and good company

I watched a UT game tonight with my sons. Made me miss my Dad and brothers. Was such a close game I had to release the breath I had been holding when it was all over. TEXAS kicked bottom. On Christmas, I called my brothers and while talking to them, realized I had not talked to them in a couple of years. That's way weird for me. I love my brothers. How did we fall out of touch that badly? When I'm over this bug altogether, I'll invote them over. My house isn't much, but its home and I've been learning how to cook. I also have fingernails again. Last few weeks, I've been forcing myself not to bite them. It's really hard! I'm reading the doomspell trilogy by Cliff mcNish. It's a really good book. I got it for Billy for christmas and borrowed it as soon as he was done reading it. I am sooo glad he's finally taking an interest in reading. With as much trouble as he had learning to read and as much as he used to hate it, its a relief to finally be able to share books with him.
Other than that, we've just been renovating our house and working and looking for another job. It would be nice to pull our heads out of the water again. :)

Good news: only the occasional migraine lately and usually associated with being a woman. One was food, but we quickly ided the culprit (recipe below for non migraine sufferers)

It's a classic: Chicken Ittaliano. Fill pan with ittalian dressing. Put in chicken. Let sit in over 2 hours. Put in over at 325ish and cook 15 minutes per pound. It's soo delish...ALMOST worth the 3 day migraine it gave me.

And so it begins again...

3 days. Trigger: onions. Yes, I forgot again. Hubby brought me a huge hamburger and I did not even check it. Green, our cook-not really ours; he works for the convenience store down the street-but anyway, Green knows I love onions. For years, we've ordered burgers there and asked for tons of onions. He just automatically puts them on there. I grabbed it and ate it without realizing it cause my taste was off...I've been sick a week now. So, for the last 3 days, I've been in serious pain. We drove out to the cemetery to visit Dad yesterday. The construction is still a pain there & we were gone past time for my dose of Excedrin, so the ride home was awful.

On a lighter note: We grounded our teen son from his afro. Hubby decided that deciding how you look is a privilege for kids that they should only get if they are doing their job: passing school. Soooo he took the teen to a beauty parlor and had them give him a cesar. It looks sooo grown up! Now, we can see his pretty blue eyes. :) He asked for a suit to go to church in. I'm working on saving for it. Will cost about 150-200 for a suit, shoes, shirt, belt.

Teen is also talking to his bio more and more lately. I have mixed feelings about that, but I feel he's old enough to make his own decisions about his bio now. Also, his bio has grown up a lot in the last 14 years. He has a steady, honorable job and doesn't party anymore. He has lived in the same place for several years. He's finally settled.

Hubby and I started hanging out with an old friend again. A little weird cause the guy is and ex of sorts, but we were friends for years before and after, so it's cool that the 3 of us can hang. We've been friends for 14 years and He and Hubby have been friends for 20+. Been playing world of warcraft with him online, also. I have a shaddow priest lvl 49 on hydraxis. Very fun.