The rest of the upstairs

Well, here is the rest of the upstairs, finally. First off is Karen's bedroom. It is definitely all girl. Very, very girly. She now wants her room red, but that is very unlikely to happen. :) She has an exorbitant amount of stuff. I do get rid of things, but there are a lot of things we don't want to get rid of. Pack it up you say? Well, I have done that with some things. And hey, it is clean under her bed, which is more than I can say for anyone else in the family. It is organized, just lots and lots of stuff though.

This is the upstairs bathroom. It is between Karen's room and my computer/craft room. It is small, but it does do the job. :) It needs to be redone, because I am tired of it. I plan on getting to it pretty soon actually. I mean, it looks okay, but I am ready for new. It's been this way for 7 yrs. Definitely time for a change. I like change. A lot! Well, not the Obama kind of change. I'm talkin' about good change, not bad change. lol.This is the rest of my computer/craft room. I posted the wall that has my scrap booking desk on a previous post, so I didn't put it on this one. Again, lots and lots of stuff. The large shelves have a lot of my souvenirs on it, and the small one has all of my Precious Moments dolls on it. And awe, the glider in the corner is the one I used with all 3 of my babies. :( They are so big now. :( And here you have the desk I am sitting at right now. See the computer in the corner? Yep, that is where I am right this very moment. :) Aren't you glad you don't have to dust my house? ha ha:) I have so many "things". But, all my "stuff" is important to me. It all has some sort of meaning/special memory. Here we are in my room. I want to repaint it too, but what a pain to do so. I'll get to it one of these days. The white door is to my bathroom.Lo and behold, the master bath. Again, I am totally ready for something different, but that will happen one of these days. When I feel like taking a week out of my life to do so. A week for both my bathroom and bedroom that is. I still like it ok, but I do tire of things quite quickly. I would totally change my entire house at least once a year if I had the money.

Gotta love the litter box. NOT!!! I hate that stupid thing. When my cat dies, that is it. No more cats. I mean, I love my cat, but yuck!!! I hate, hate, hate the litter box. Did I say Hate? I have it in my bathroom, because there really is no where else I would rather it be. I have tried every room in the house, well, not the kitchen, but you get the gist. And it is Billy's job to keep it clean. I wanted to just put the cat in the back yard, but he wouldn't let me. So, the agreement came at that point that if he wants the cat in the house, he has to clean up after her. He said he would, but I gotta say, he can be a bit of a slacker sometimes. So there we have it. NO MORE CATS!!!

So, there ya go. The upstairs is complete. Now, onto the downstairs. I hope to get to that this weekend. I have to get Kristen and Hunter to get their rooms clean enough to my liking. That can be a challenge. We shall see. :)

Since I don't have anything better to put on here at the moment, I thought I'd give you all a tour of my house. Well, the upstairs living areas anyway. There are too many pictures for me to want to do it all at once. I have mentioned that I like to see the way people decorate their homes, so I thought I'd share mine. So here ya go...

This is the living room from 4 different angles. I love the color red, which would explain why there is so much of it. :)
I'm not crazy about the funky wall in the next photo. It's really a waste of space as far as I see it, but if we were to change it, it may make it difficult to get down the stairs without hitting your head. So, it must stay. ;0 I can't put much on it either because my cat will knock it off. But, it would look cluttered anyway, because I've tried it.I tried and tried and tried to get this picture without the glare from the mirror, but it just wasn't gonna happen for me. Oh well, that's the way it goes sometimes. :)This next picture is the stairs, obviously, going toward the front door. It splits off at the landing and heads on to the down stairs area. We've lived here for over 7 years, and I haven't fallen down them yet. Knock on wood!!Now we are in the kitchen area. Just on the other side of the archway is where you would go down the stairs. I have a lot of crap up there that I need to dust. UGH!!! The next picture is part of the dining room taken from the kitchen side. The kitchen is split from the dining room with a bar on one side and counter space and sink on the other. Well, that's it for right now. My next post will be the rest of the rooms upstairs. :) Gotta love that red!!!

Another recipe for ya :)

I guess this may prove that I am kinda odd. ;) I have another recipe to put on here as I said I was going to do this each week. Anyway, Karen took step by step pictures of me making this one. So, I thought what the heck, I'll just put 'em all on here. lol. Well, here goes... Oh, and I don't really have a name for these things, so I guess I can just make one up. Hmmm... I think I'll name them mexican breakfast biscuits. There ya go. That'll work. :)

MEXICAN BREAKFAST BISCUITS:

1 lb. ground meat (I use turkey, but whatever you like will do)
taco seasoning (you can just use a packet. I have a big thing of it, so I just guessed how much to use.)
1 c. water
3 c. self-rising flour
1 1/2 c. milk
1/3 c. oil
3 tbsp. lawry's garlic powder
3 eggs, beaten
1 c. shredded mexican cheese

Brown meat and drain (unless you use ground turkey, then there is no fat), add taco seasoning and water and simmer. Spray a muffin pan with some pam and set aside. While the meat simmers, make the biscuit dough by mixing the flour, milk, oil, and garlic powder together with a spoon. Sprinkle some flour on the counter, pour biscuit mixture onto the floured counter, sprinkle just a little more flour on top of the biscuit dough to keep your hands from sticking to it, and flatten it out. Use a biscuit cutter or a drinking glass dipped into some flour to cut out the biscuits. Press each biscuit out in your hand to flatten it a little more. Put flattened dough into each muffin hole. Then, fill each of them with a spoon full of the meat mixture, pour a little of egg on each, and top with cheese. Cook in the oven for 25 minutes at 350 degrees. Yum, Yum!!!

Now, of course, you can use canned biscuits, which would be much easier, but I didn't have any. Therefore, I just made homemade biscuits. This is also very, very good with sausage instead of the taco seasoned meat. But there again, I didn't have any sausage, so I improvised. I realize I made this a bit more difficult than it has to be, but I didn't want to go to the store. It was fun making it from scratch though. I do love to bake stuff. :)

I made some homemade brownies from scratch the other day that were just freakin' awesome. I'm going to make those again this week and put that recipe on here too. I would love to own a bakery and make stuff like this all day.

Oh, one more thing...
You can make the biscuits the same way as told above, just leave out the garlic powder. They are great for whenever you just want a biscuit. Three simple ingredients and it takes all of 5 minutes to throw it together. I like to make them when I make sausage gravy, which is also one of my faves. :) And the biscuits with the garlic powder, made as just regular biscuits are really good too. Karen said they remind her of Red Lobster's cheddar bay biscuits. Good stuff, good stuff. :)

Enjoy all my pics. :) Thanks Karen for being my photographer. lol :)