I Wore the Wrong Boots for This

Gosh, somedays don't you feel you are trudging through a shit swamp??? hehehehehe
That's how it's been for a while now. And let me tell ya it stinks. LOL
Just a little updating. My wonderful son *said with clenched teeth* got a letter (not a note) but a letter sent home from his teacher. Seems, he isn't doing what he's supposed to in class. He isn't doing his work, he isn't asking for certain things he is supposed to bring home. He is refusing to do his writing assignments when he has 2 hours to work on them. He is turning in blank pages. And he is refusing to answer questions asked directly to him, which is really disrespectful. She has said, that next little incident, he goes to the stop room. (which is the severest punishment, save suspension). I'm ready to knock his fricken block off. I swear to all that is holy, we have talked and threatened, and taken stuff away, till we are exhausted. I'm at such a loss.
On a good note...I have a side job. You all know I sell Avon. Well it hasn't been the most, shall we say, profitable thing to be doing lately. So...our friend D. Who we have played DnD with, and he did tons of DnD campaigns when he was younger. He draws, and writes his ideas down. I have pushed him for years to get his "monsters" published. I didn't know it, but he has written a ton of short stories. He asked me if he could hire me to type them up and print them out. He said he would hire me for 8 bucks an hour. I thought that was pretty good. Well...I got a folder with 5 of his stories in it. He said each was only 14 pages long. Well..he has an introduction, and then 14 pages of front and back hand written. So...about 29 to 30 pages long in reality. And...he is the worst speller, has horrible hand writing, doesn't punctuate, and isn't very descriptive. So...guess who has been fixing and embellishing all his stories?? ugggghhh my head hurts. hehehehehe

Okay on that note. We are going to experiment with dinner tonight, I'll let you all know how it turned out. But I did want to leave you with a new recipe we got and tried the other night. It rocks!!!! So....goood!!!!!!!!!! (we doubled the recipe, cuz it wasn't enough, I will write what we did)

Honey Nut Chicken

6 oz honey roasted nuts (we did cashews)
1 cup plain bread crumbs
1 tablespoon grill seasoning
3 eggs
a splash of milk or half and half
1/3 cup flour
3 tablespoons veg oil
6 boneless, skinless chicken breast (use your fav chicken people

Preheat oven to 350 F

Put nuts, bread crumbs and grill seasoning in food processor and pulse to combine, pour into plate or pie plate.

Beat eggs and milk, pour into plate or pie plate.

Put flour on plate.

Dust both sides of chicken with flour. Dip the chicken into the egg, and then coat with nutty breading.

Heat nonstick skillet, put oil in it to coat bottom. Brown chicken pieces about 3 to 4 minutes each side, until golden and crispy looking. Transfer chicken to baking dish and cook in oven till juices run clear and they are cooked through. About 15 minutes.

Hope you all try it, it rocked!!! We served with bbq succotash.
That is red bell pepper, and onion slightly sauted, then add can of black beans drained and rinsed, then frozen corn, once corn is heated add a little bbq sauce to coat. That rocked too. It had how much of each thing to add, but like my family likes onions more than peppers. So we did how ever much we wanted.

Have a good Thursday everyone. And someone please volunteer to come straighten my child out. hehehehee