Crisp, Cool Weather

As I enjoy my last weekend in Charleston for a while, I am sitting here enjoying my day, watching Clemson football, and loving life at this moment.

John's Berkeley Stags won their first round play off game last night against Camden. They will play Midland Valley Mustangs next Friday night at Midland Valley (MV). MV is right around the corner, outside of Graniteville. If everything works out right with getting someone to cover me for work, I will be there with Mom & Dad cheering on the Berkeley Stags!!!!

Last night I had dinner with Molly & Emily, two of my favorites from Winthrop and sisters of ZTA with me. We had a great time which made me feel like I was in college again catching up over a meal at White Horse or El Cancun or Sake (eateries in Rock Hill). We went to 17 North Roadside Kitchen. It was AMAZING!!! I had their Pot Roast that was on top of mashed potatoes. :)

Today while I am waiting on John to return home from his football meetings, I went to the store to get all the ingredients needed for Taco Soup. I first was introduced to Taco Soup by one of my families from Macfeat. I have made it before last year, and it is super easy!

Taco Soup

• 28-oz can crushed tomatoes (make sure you get crushed and not diced!)
• 1 can black beans, undrained
• 1 can corn, undrained
• 1 can red kidney beans, undrained
• 1 packet taco seasoning
• 1 packet hidden valley ranch salad dressing mix
• 1 lb. ground beef , browned and drained

Combine all in slow cooker and cook on low for 4-6 hours. Serve with cheese, sour cream and chips!

Happy Saturday Everyone!!!

I love WEEKENDS

After the week I had, I am glad it is the weekend....

Nothing bad happened but it was just either boring, uneventful, emotional, etc. I only subbed one day this week and only worked at the Gap 2 days (Sunday Night Shift [6p-12a] and Thursday Night). Oh yeah, back to why I was asking for prayers and great thoughts on Thursday from Wednesday's post, I got a phone call Monday for an interview at a school in Aiken County School District - Area 5. That is out towards the Savannah River Site. A teacher is having to resign because she is having to go back home to help take care of her parents who are not doing well. As I def. feel bad for her - it was another time for me to interview. I will hear back from them by Monday they said.

This weekend as I have previously blogged I am with John down in Charleston. We have had a great weekend so far as I am blogging and watching the Clemson game. Hopefully they will win. We have had a great Friday and so far a great Saturday. I am so lucky to be with someone who really does understand and is actually there for me and overall a GREAT guy :)

Hope all my friends & readers are having a great and blessed weekend! Also, Happy Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This week I'll share the article that was written about my mom.

The North Augusta Today was looking for people to interview in the North Augusta area who have are breast cancer survivors.

Well I emailed them & without knowing it my Dad also emailed them. Ha! So they called the house on Wednesday and met at our house on Thursday. The journalist with the NA Today interviewed and took a picture of my mom. I am excited to see the interview in the paper, as I missed her "big debut of celebrity status" since I had to work Thursday night!

i LOVE fall

I love fall! Fall time is one of my favorite times of year with all of the scents, colors changing, crisp cool air with a light weight jacket, football, and my list could go on and on. Just the other day mom brought us home a NEW....wait for it......CINNAMON BROOM!

My family is VERY football oriented. Between growing up with my Saturdays in the Fall time surrounded by Clemson Football, to growing up in a football town where everyone seems to be there on a Friday Night in North Augusta, it just has always been a football kind of fall. This year I have tons of teams to keep up with.

With John coaching the Berkeley Stags down in good ol' Moncks Corner, SC, my family has been following their scores, results, and even a game or two. We have a copy of his schedule on the fridge that daddy likes to mark with W or L. (He does this with North Augusta's too) I went down to the Berkeley/Summerville Game (Week 2) and my friend Brittany from Grad School went with me. First off we got lost, being from North Augusta, I assumed that the stadium was at the High School. Well I should of known better than that, I mean Rock Hill has a stadium shared between two schools, well after we asked a guy on a moped for directions, we were set. (actually he said follow me, after he went 10 mph, we passed and found it ourselves). This game was like being in Texas on Friday Night Lights. Both sides were PACKED to capacity, tons of team spirit, and summerville has a jumbo screen with live playbacks, introducing players, etc.

Now, once in every blue moon, does Clemson play a REALLY good out of conference team, well this year it was the Auburn Tigers at Auburn. I suggested to my family back in the Spring, that this would be an awesome game to go to since it is a ONCE IN A LIFETIME experience. So after figuring everyones travel arrangements, booking the hotel, we were off to Auburn, AL. We picked John at the ATL airport since he flew in from Charleston (He has meetings on Saturdays from 6am - ?). And then we were off! After parking in some college students front yard for $25, we were ready to tailgate.

The game was tons of fun regardless of the outcome in the end, and was a great experience overall!!!!

I hope this week goes by fast, as I am traveling to Charleston Friday to visit John. Varsity plays on Thursday night this week, so I can hang out with him on a Friday night, can't name the last time that has happened. Okay it happened in August, but still! I want to check out a Farm with a Cornmaize :)