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Now to tell the truth, I am not a fan of soup. It’s not that I don’t like it at all, it’s that I rarely eat it. The problem is, when I make homemade soup, I’ll be darned if I don’t make entirely too much of it. So here it is, my bottom-of-the-barrel chicken & rice soup.

3 5oz Chicken Breasts
6-8 cups of water
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon onion powder
1 teaspoon paprika
1 teaspoon oregano
1 teaspoon basil
1 teaspoon parsley flakes
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon dill weed
3 splashes hot sauce
1 tablespoon beef (yes beef) bullion
1 cup of your favorite rice
desired amounts of your favorite frozen vegetables (or whatever is on hand)

*Note: Spices may be altered to taste.

Directions:
1. In a large pot (I use my “dutch oven” style pot) combine water, seasonings, bullion and chicken breasts. Boil chicken breasts for approximately 1 hour or until done.

2. Remove chicken breasts from broth, add rice and cook until rice is tender. Meanwhile, tear chicken into bite sized pieces.

3. When rice is tender, add chicken and frozen vegetables. Cook until vegetables are tender.

Serve with your favorite crackers or accompaniments.

It was pretty good, I used cauliflower and spinach, but you can use any veggies you want in it. Just thought I’d throw this out here for everyone.

Well, the new version of NaBloPoMo is out and it’s called Blog365. Brought to you by the same people who brought us NaBloPoMo, this is a bigger challenge. At least 1 post per day for the entire year of 2008. Now I’ve seen where people have said that February 29th is a freebie, but I plan on posting on that day as well. I’m using my blog at Gothic Peach, in the hopes that I can get it “cleaned up” and get a better ratio of paid to non paid posts on that blog.

Last night at work, I swear, I was about to lose it on this guy who called in. He was complaining that he couldn’t access a certain website. Well, he was saying that it was censorship and that Time Warner was purposely blocking that site. I tried to get him to let me troubleshoot possible causes for the site not working and he wouldn’t let me. Then all of a sudden the site started working for him again. Fine.

So then he starts going on and on about the First Amendment, that his rights are being infringed upon, etc etc. I told him that we do not block sites unless they’re something like child pornography, which is the truth. He then tells me that he understands that as a mere employee of the company, I would have to say that even though it’s not the truth. He then goes on to say that all big corporations in America lie. Ok, I’m sorry but if you have such a low opinion of corporate America, why don’t you go back to your own country? If this place is so damn bad that you think that because a website is down, that it’s being blocked from your internet connection, you need to leave. Period. For crying out loud. Get a life.

This blog gets no readers. LOL Or if it does, nobody leaves comments. I have exactly 2 comments, one from Joana and one from myself, responding to said comment. I need to get going on my followups for comments on Gothic Peach. Of course, it would truly help if the site would stay up and running long enough.

I forgot about this blog! Sorry about that, my probably 2 readers! LOL At the moment, I’m working on cleaning up Gothic Peach to see if I can get some of my PageRank back. I miss my PR. LOL It wasn’t THAT important to me, but I would like to be able to have some of it back. On the off chance that I do decide to use this blog for paid posting, which really isn’t likely, considering what happened to my other blogs that do have paid posting, I will most definitely take steps to protect myself. Things such as only going for opps that allow the rel=”nofollow” tag, and the like. If the links wouldn’t pass Google, I won’t use them. Period. Due to some of the posts I did on Gothic Peach, that I am unable to delete due to TOS of the paid blogging companies I did them for, I’m afraid that my PR for that site may never be returned to me. That is why I am going to be certain to only do things that will pass Google’s webmaster quality with this blog.