I Lied

Ok, I lied. The Swine Flu IS making me a little nervous now. My husband will be working on an ambulance for the city of Houston for 24 HOURS this Saturday...he has strict orders from ME not to TOUCH anyone!! I told him to just say, "I'm sorry sir, I understand you're dying but my wife has ordered me NOT to touch you."

Tulsa, OK

Can the person from Tulsa, OK who keeps visiting my blog please de-lurk!!? There's ONE person from there that I REALLY don't want to be visiting this blog...so please please...person from Tulsa...delurk so I know it's not THAT person! Pretty please?! I'll send you cookies...IF you're not THAT person, of course! Thanks!

"I'm Afraid"

Wow, people amaze me sometimes... Nothing about this guy's story sounds right...someone please stop him from talking to the public!



Student accused of killing homeless man: I'm afraid

08:29 AM CDT on Monday, April 27, 2009

By Courtney Zubowski / 11 News

The University of Houston student accused of shooting a homeless man in the head at a Metro bus stop says he’s afraid.

From behind bars at the Harris County Jail, Jeremy Pierce told 11 News he’s scared he’ll spend the rest of his life in prison for defending himself.

“I want the public to know I am a good guy, and I did it in self defense,” Pierce said.

In early February, at a campus bus stop, Pierce admits he shot and killed Joe Tall.

Investigators believe Tall was sleeping at the time. In a probable cause hearing last week, investigators said Pierce told them he shot Tall because he believed homeless people were a blight on society and deserved to be eliminated.

But Pierce told 11 News a different story.

“I was walking past a bus stop and a guy kicked at me. I kept walking, and then he punched at me. Then after he punched at me, I shot him,” Pierce said. “That man was not asleep.”

Pierce, a 32-year-old sociology major, said he then fled the scene.


Jeremy Lee Pierce, 32, is facing murder charges.
“I didn’t want to see what happened. I just shot and ran away. I think I shot him in the head,” Pierce said.

He said he routinely carried a gun around campus at night, because crime is a problem there.

But Pierce has a criminal background, including convictions of burglary and marijuana possession.

He’s not allowed to have a gun. That’s why he claims he never told police that he shot Tall.

“Of course I feel bad about what I did. I felt threatened,” Pierce said.

Though investigators say his distaste for the homeless prompted the shooting, Pierce said he’s got nothing against people like Tall.

“I earned my right to be at the University. That homeless guy didn’t earn the right. I have nothing against that guy, but I don’t believe he should be allowed at the University,” Pierce said.

As for his grinning mug shot, Pierce said he was smiling because he thought he was about to get out of jail.

He is set to appear before a judge again Monday morning.

Ham & Cheese Fight

Just answer me this: Why do I argue with a 7 year old every Friday morning over a ham & cheese sandwich vs. a ham & cheese lunchable?! Really, I'm not packing your lunch with a ham & cheese lunchable because you don't want a ham & cheese sandwich at school! End of story.

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Paula Deen Is My New Hero

Photo Credit

Last week I was in charge of making desserts for the guys at the fire department after the funeral. I felt a lot of pressure! LOL I didn't want to embarrass my husband...I already do that enough by being the wife who doesn't cook dinner often, doesn't clean house often, and a list of other "not often" things! (Good thing he does all of those often, right?) In my defense...he has FIVE days off a week...I have NONE! Anyway, I'm a good wife. ;) I just don't cook...I bake. I even told one of his captain's wife that...ha. I didn't want to bake just plain ol' cookies or a plain ol' box cake...so Mama went all out....I turned to Paula Deen...I mean, this lady LOVES butter...firemen love butter...or anything fattening for that matter...so I knew she wouldn't let me down. I chose three different recipes from her but the Double Chocolate Gooey Butter Cake won the heart of my husband and his firemen brothers!!

Here's the recipe...oh and be ready to have a heart attack from the amount of butter in it!

Ingredients:

1 16-ounce) box powdered sugar
3 to 4 tablespoons cocoa powder
1 egg, plus 2 eggs
1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1 (18.25 ounce) package chocolate cake mix
2 STICKS (16 tablespoons) of butter, melted, plus butter to grease the pan.
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup chopped nuts (I omitted this, hubs doesn't them but I read other people replaced them with choc. chips)

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Lightly grease a 13 by 9-inch baking pan. In a large bowl, combine the cake mix, 1 egg, and 8 tablespoons (1 stick) melted butter, and stir until well blended. Pat mixture into prepared pan and set aside. In a stand mixer, or with a hand mixer, beat the cream cheese until smooth. Add the remaining 2 eggs, and the cocoa powder. Lower the speed of the mixer, and add the powdered sugar. Continue beating until ingredients are well mixed. Slowly add the remaining 8 tablespoons (1 stick) of melted butter, and the vanilla, continuing to beat the mixture until smooth. Stir in nuts with a rubber spatula. Spread filling over cake mixture in pan.

Bake for 40 to 50 minutes. (I baked mine for 50 mins) Be careful not to overcook the cake; the center should still be a little gooey when finished baking. Let cake partially cool on a wire rack before cutting into pieces.

I did not take a picture of my final product because I thought it looked hideous but evidently it was very good.(I don't eat anything I bake usually, except that 6 layer cake)Mine was also not round like Paula Deen's...I just left it in the throw away 13x9 pan and sent it with the hubs!

Here are the recipes to the two other things I baked as well...

Buttery Fingers Mine were balls...not fingers...and get your head out the gutter! ;)

Banana Pudding (special request from the hubs) The bottom layer of cookies were butter cookies with chocolate covered tops...added some flavor...hubs didn't care too much for those but the other guys like the chocolate touch.

I love Pledge

I hate cleaning...but I LOVE a clean home. Good thing my husband is a total neat freak, right? ;) Wrong, he gets extremely irritated with me when I think it's totally acceptable to put off cleaning the house to go shopping or something of the sort. Good thing he loves me! Anyway, I cleaned house this past weekend while he was at work...which btw, he's been at work ALL FREAKING week...I miss him and am ready for him to be home. I found some new cleaning products that I adore...so I will share them with my fellow bloggy friends....which I know for a fact one of them hates to clean just as much as me!! That's you Riss, in case you're wondering. ;)



This bad boy cleans E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G-! Well, except the bathrooms and kitchen sink and counter tops. I cleaned the outside of our stainless steel refrigerator, microwave, toaster oven, glass table top, used it to dust all the wood furniture, bathroom mirrors, and just about anything else I could use it on! So amazing...and so much easier then carrying around 5 different cleaners.



When the hubs saw I bought this, he basically told me I wasted my money....but he was SO wrong! I hate pet hair...but with a cat and a dog in the house...we have it everywhere! Our cat has decided her new favorite place to lay all day is the foot of our bed so there is always cat hair there...well this little thing picked it all up!! I admit, when I first opened the box I thought "ok he might be right this time" but nope...he was wrrrrong! ;)

So, yep...that's ALL I have to say about cleaning. Oh, the hubs did say I could look for someone to clean the house...but I think he's just delusional this week...because nobody could ever clean up to his standards...not even me!!