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  1. not after seeing the real me on a television interview! LOL
  2. Oh I can just picture you and your hubby, sword and arrows in hand. I sleep with my 44S lately Mr Rossi and I are having a love hate affair!
  3. Aint2nuts

    Ouch

    That thing weighs 400 lbs! Gonna be very pricy! I would gather all the friends I could think of that might want to use it too, and get them all to chip in, and then rotate use of it. However, I wouldn't want to share. *grin* Good luck with your back. I was in a car accident 20 year ago and still have back pain from that. Buldging disk or some such nonsense. Hurts. That what it is. Hugs.
  4. Krispy Kreme Doughnuts I am going to make them myself! Raised Doughnuts -- Simply delicious and decadent. Ingredients: 2 pkg. Regular or Rapid rises yeast 1/4 cup Warm water (105 to 115) 1 1/2 cups lukewarm milk (scaled then cooled) 1/2 cup sugar 1 tsp., salt 2 eggs 1/3 cup shortening 5 cups all purpose flour (see note) Vegetable oil Creamy Glaze or Chocolate Glaze Method: 1. Dissolve yeast in warm water in 2 1/2-quart bowl. 2. Add milk, salt, eggs, Shortening and 2 cups flour. Beat on low speed, scraping bowl Constantly, 30 seconds. Beat on medium speed scraping bowl Occasionally, 2 minutes. Stir in remaining flour until smooth. 3. Cover and let rise in warm place, until double, 50 to 60 minutes. (Dough Is ready when indentation remains when touched.) 4. Turn dough onto floured surface; roll around lightly to coat with Flour. Gently roll dough 1/2 inch thick with floured rolling pin. Cut with floured doughnut cutter. Cover and let rise until double, 30 to 40 minutes 5. Heat vegetable oil in deep fryer to 350 degrees. Slide doughnuts into hot oil with wide spatula. Turn doughnuts as they rise to the Surface. Fry until golden brown, about 1 minute on each side. Remove carefully from oil (do not prick surface); drain. 6. Dip the Doughnuts into creamy glaze set on rack then when slightly cooled spread chocolate glaze on top. Note: Works better to use 1/2 all purpose flour and 1/2 cake flour when this recipe was used. ================================== Creamy Glaze Ingredients: 1/3 cup butter 2 cups powered sugar 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla 4 to 6 Tbsp. hot water Method: Heat butter until melted; Remove from heat. Stir in powered sugar and Vanilla until smooth. Stir in water, 1 tbsp. at a time, until desired Consistency. ================================= Chocolate Glaze Ingredients: 1/3 cup butter 2 cups powered sugar 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla 4 to 6 Tbsp. hot water 4 oz milk chocolate chips or semi- sweet chips Method: Heat butter and Chocolate over low heat until chocolate is melted; remove from heat. Stir in powered sugar and vanilla until smooth. Stir in water 1 tbsp. at a time, until desired consistency.
  5. Aint2nuts

    NO CAN OPENERS???

    My kids eat canopeners I swear. I can never find them when I need them. I have THREE swingaway canopeners. Can never find one. They are in the living room or a bed room, or on the table or on the FLOOR So I beat them at their game. Or I let them win...whatever. I went and bought some old key type canopeners that they don't touch -- mainly because they haven't figured out how to USE THEM! Now I always have a canopener. Even if I don't LIKE it.
  6. My daughter and I created a limerick, actually we created two, but one turned out...well unsuitable for turning in 'officially' so we created another one for turning in. However her teacher read the first one and gave her a grade on the first one -- A+ LOL She said "Eeewwww....good but eewww..." We started off with my daughter's name (Tya, age 11) and changed it to Mia (You will read WHY) There once was a girl named Mia Who lived in the land of Korea She cooked all the food It was bad, so they sued And she said, "Gotta go, Diarrea!" The second one she wrote was a poke at her teacher, whose name is Ileen, and she calls herself "The only Queen" (In her room) She has Queen up all over her room. LOL So, Tya did this one to poke fun. There once was a Princess Ileen Who wanted to be crowned the Queen Against it, her father, the King Because of all the MUD she did Fling! Little Princess Illeen wasn't Queen. Luckily her teacher has a great sense of humor and liked both poems. LOL Onto my garden. I haven't been able to come up with the 75 dollars required to rototill the yard, and can't physically do it. I am hoping the beginning of next month we will manage. Luckily there is something you can plant here every month of the year. I am planting rosemary in the front, and going to allow it to spread to cover as much of the yard as it wants to cover. My daughter Katy is having a birthday on the 23rd of Feb. Her party is going to be the 27th because I can buy pizza on that day (I will get paid the 27th because the first lands on Sunday). She is having a Twilight party. With a spectacular Twilight cake. I am trading children's books for a cake!
  7. Aint2nuts

    Daily Grind

    Pictures of the life and times (and eventually the garden) of Aint2nuts. Also kid pictures. LOL
  8. From the album: Daily Grind

    Took the kids to their first professional ball game. This is me, about 60 lbs heavier than I am now and very HOT it was a summer day with no A/C in Phoenix Hot hot hot.
  9. Aint2nuts

    Sax demo

    From the album: Daily Grind

    My son plays the saxophone, this is his 'demo' for Mom.
  10. From the album: Daily Grind

    My son Ricky.
  11. From the album: Daily Grind

    My girls. Katy on the left. Tya on the right.
  12. Judy, I love the way you write and it is true that the inner you isn't always the true you. Weird. Although I look like Marilyn Monroe in my mind's eye....it isn't going to be true for everyone looking at me from the outside.
  13. Last night at about 11 we heard screams. Sirens. I went to bed, with doors locked and the gun under my pillow. This morning, my kids reported to me that 'something was happening outside' and the police told them to get back. They told me there was police tape up and they went under it and the police told them to go back the other way (they walk to school via this road). Come to find out, last night two women were stabbed by a man. http://www.azfamily.com/news/local/stories...ing.c823bb.html He is on the run from police. This is the interview of me at my home. http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/peoria_attack_021009 This is the interview of me in my car, coming back from somewhere. From where I am sitting in the car, there you could see the blood on the street. There are gangs everywhere, Black gangs, Mexican gangs, Hispanic -- whatever. There is a black gang that hangs out three doors down from our house. Tonight there was a fight in front of the house and police were called. (By me and I am sure others). I have seen people smoking crack in front of that house, and marijuana. On the other side of the street, at the corner, there is another gang -- Hispanic - that hangs out. Mostly teenages, but sometimes there are small kids and older people in there too. That is where the stabbing was a few months ago. There is a crazy man who lives somewhere along the street where this man stabbed those women. Crazy on drugs? Mentally ill? I don't know, I do know he was smoking some kind of drugs in an apple bong the other day. My kids came to me with the story that the man was 'trying to light an apple on fire on the top" Google Apple bong, shows how to make one. That is what he had. Cheap, easy to make and you can always ditch part of it and eat the apple. LOL Anyway, the first interview that I had was with Fox news in my car. One of the things I said, that I am glad they didn't quote me on was "This neighborhood is going downhill like the economy". It is true, but I would be willing to bet my neighbors wouldn't like me saying it. Bad enough what I did say. It was interesting that at first I didn't know I was being interviewed, I had stopped the car to ask if they had caught the man, and the reporter came over to answer me, the camera man followed and had the camera at waist height. Then he put it on his shoulder after a few questions. ACK I look terrible. My hair is a mess, My face is all swollen and fat. That is my daughter in the background. The second interview was from News 3 knocking on my door. They had to walk past a messy yard full of horse dung. LOL It rained last night and it smelled -- like horse dung! LOL The entire yard is covered in it waiting for me to have enough money to rototill the yard. I hate this neighborhood, but like I said, I am putting in a garden. I am single, disabled, poor, living in the Barrio, in a bad gang infested neighborhood, but I am here and I have to live here, problably until I die. I hate that my kids are exposed to this and I have no way out.
  14. The ....things....I ordered came in. WOO HOO!!! Now I have to box up and ship the spring fling items. Ready to ship out on Monday! Can you say WOO HOO? I thought you could! I packed the box, and then -- it wouldn't all FIT, so I unpacked the box, and then repacked another box. It wouldn't all FIT, so I unpacked the box, looked at what I was sending, looked throuigh all my boxes and went with a BIGGER BOX....it all fit. WOO HOO. I had to use a little survival tool as packing material. *grin* Might take them a minute to figure out what it could be used for...but she...or he... will get it. There are some weird things in the box, and a clue as to who I am. They should get that immediately. It is a GOOD clue. LOL Today and yesterday I went yard saling. Yesterday I bought a BBQ grill. In good condition, with a 5 gallon propane tank. 10 dollars. Delivered to my house for 5. Good deal. I needed an alternative cook method, and I figured with the propane I could get more bottles and have a way to cook meals! WOO HOO! I bought something totally frivoulous. A Corner cabinet for my tiny porcelain dolls that my Mom gave me and my Delft. I keep worried about it getting broken so I bought the corner unit. It cost me 40 dollars. (It was listed on Craigslist for 50 and I talked her down 10). Also frivolous, but totally cool. The GOOD (bigger) Playstation 2, carrying case, cords, two controlers and three memory cards 20 dollars. 6 games for 5 dollars more. I felt like I was stealing from the kids because, even used, they go for 100 bucks on Criagslist. NON frivolous stuff. 5 dollars each for a big plastic bin of felt, a big box of fabric (mostly cottons, in pretty colors and florals, good for sun dresses for the girls), and a big basket of yarn. Books for 10 cents each. I bought 40 books from one place that was really stocked full of good kids books. Another place had bodice ripper (Historical romance) books and some mysteries (My Mom reads the mysteries and romance mysteries). Shovel 2 bucks. A brand new box with 6 canning jars, a jar puller, a magnetic lid lifter, a canning funnel, a spice bag, and some recipes for salad dressings / vinegrettes. All new still packaged! Two tables clothes -- retail price on them was 45 dollars and 50 dollars -- for 1$ each -- they were unopened! The one in blue goes really well in my front room! I use table clothes to cover up the fact that there is no finish on my dining room table. I wasn't going to buy them (didn't even ask the price) We left and signs led up back there from a different direction and I asked my daughter to go ask the price. 1 buck I couldn't pass up! Today I found more books. One activity book with some great ideas in it for kids. Several kids books. Clothes (summer) for Katy for 25 cents each. Every place I stopped at I asked about canning jars. No one had them but the one half box that came with the canning supplies. I went to Goodwill and they want 1,.49 for pints and 99 cents for 1/2 pints. Not going to happen.
  15. Back to school! August is back to school month -- the best month of the year!
  16. I love that blue dress Judy! It is beautiful!
  17. I went to Goodwill today to price canning jars. They are charging 99 cents for the small 1/2 pint jars! They are charging 1.49 EACH for the pint jars! They didn't have any quart jars but I am sure it would have been something rediculous! Can't afford a dollar a jar for USED jars! You can buy them new for that. Sheesh.
  18. Aint2nuts

    TADA!

    It is getting to be the end of the day./.. a long SUCCESSFUL day. Katy is in a virtual bowling league. I took her to do her last months and this months bowling this morning -- 4 rounds. Lets just say -- she is not a bowler and I am not a good coach! Her lowest score was a 7. Her highest was a 53. We then went and shared an appetizer at TGI Fridays. Good stuff, but too much of it. Then off to my therapist's. I have agreed that A. I will go to church this weekend and sit outside of the santuary for the first hour, then attend both of the other meetings. B. I will get my bed cleared off. LOL . After we got done there, we headed home. I completed a deal. Yesterday I got books that I am trading for a CAKE for my daughter's birthday! A Twilight Cake. Really cool one. If I can figure out how to post a picture I will post a picture of it. Then someone freecycled a box of food -- four mince pies, two containers of spinach, one container of lettuce -- HUGE -- two small containers- tins - of cookies, applesauce, oatmeal packets, 2 liter coke 0, three loaves of bread, two containers of hamburger buns, green tea, tomatoes, and green onions. Quite a haul for free! I love Freecycle! I made a ham last night (almost 8 dollars a Frys two days ago 88 cents a lb!) I have ham coming out my ears, so last night I soaked beans and today I made 16 bean soup. Good stuff. I love bean soup with a ham, and then I will make it into a minestrone in a few days. We will be eating for days off this pot of beans and ham, carrots and celery (from my food storage), and onions. If I had a pressure canner I would be processing about 4-5 quart jars -- this is a HUGE pot of soup. Tonight I am just relaxing. Wishing I had something more than Popcorn (Harlequin type romances) to read.
  19. Hey Judy -- your blog is blue! I didn't realize blue was one of the choices. :-) Need to pay more attention!
  20. Are you still there? Still alive? I just made cranberry juice and I don't expect that the shelf life will be QUITE that long! LOL!
  21. Aint2nuts

    Day 2

    Today is a 'day of running'. Running here and there, post office (No my box isn't ready -- well it IS but I ordered something that will be here in a few days and have to wait for that to ship it!) I have two other boxes to mail. I found sheets for my neice for her birthday -- Spongebob. She loves Spongebob, and her birthday is Valentines day. I also got sheets for my nephews -- Spiderman! They love superheros. I also got them vitamins (free after coupons -- or almost free in one case). I sent a long some of the tea that I had gotten free too. Then, I am trading someone for a Hyundai alarm/door opener thing for my car. Usually they are really expensive, she has this one that she is trading me for candles and three bars of soap. LOL Good deal! so BANG (starting gun) I am off. To get tape and then package these things up and off to my brothers kids and my trade. WOO HOO!!! See you all later. UPDATE: I went to the post office and mailed my packages. Went to the park and SCORED On some kids books someone was giving away -- freebies are always nice. Then I was able to take two HUGE boxes of kids books away with me and see if I can barter them for something! Cool beans. We got home and I relaxed and checked my mail ACK -- some idiot moderator on Freecycle told everyone to put a 'test' message out if they wanted to know if they were still on probation or not -- instead of answering the question for each person herself. So A LOT of my messages were stupid TEST messages. Made some really good corn bread muffins for an afternoon snack for my kids. 2 jiffy corn muffin mixes, 1 can of corn, drained, two eggs and the milk, and a can of chopped jalapeno peppers (whatever strength you like them at) Mix them all together and bake. Oh wow. I love corn muffins with jalapenos and corn in them. I have also added garlic and cheddar cheese. That is really good too. I found this recipe on a yahoo group I belong to: Homemade Cream Soup Mix- Use as a replacement for canned cream soups. This dry mix yields the equivalent of 9 cans of condensed cream soup! 2 c. instant nonfat dry milk 3/4 c. cornstarch 1/4 c. low sodium chicken or beef bouillion 1/2 t. dried thyme 1/2 t. dried basil 1/4 t. black pepper Combine and whirl all ingredients in a blender. Store in an airtight container. To substitute for 1 can of condensed cream soup, stir together 1/3 c. dry mix with 1 c. water in saucepan. Cook and stir until its thickened. Add to recipes as you would canned soup.
  22. You were the first person I friended. Still figuring all this out! LOL! Hugs.

  23. Well this place is amazing! I love it. Gidgits and Gadgets and places to put informations. I love it! Did I say that already? Well I do. I love it. There, I said it again. Today has been a run around day. Started way too early. Got free breakfast at Denny's. Good stuff Free. I have been trying to prove to my Dad that there is such a thing as a free lunch since I was in my 20's. He has always said "There is no such thing as a free lunch". Yeah well Pffft. I have had a lot of free breakfasts, lunches and dinners thanks to coupons, the US government and my church. LOL So during the day I went for free lunch a Denny's. The wait was an hour. Hey -- that isn't FREE! You have to WAIT -- that means I would have to PAY an HOUR of my life for the lunch. Forget it. Went to Olive Garden with a coupon. Had their all you can eat lunch. Two for one. Good deal! I might have had to pay -- but not with my LIFE! Onwards. Shouldn't have eaten at Olive Garden. Although with just one person having to pay, it was just a llittle bit more than free would have been a Denny's! (Drinks, Tax and Tip). Got home, jumped online to see if Mrs S was back up. Not. Gave my son marching orders about the manure pile in the front. Needed to be spread and moved more. He gave me guff, I gave him guff back. We guff each other very much! Went to my church. I am teaching the older girls at Girls Activity Day how to babysit. Got done there and headed over to the Relief Society President to pay her back some cheese cloth. I borrowed it when I canned 12 quarts and then some of cranberry juice. Needed it to strain out the berries. Gave her some of the extra Mustard I had too -- I have given away 12 of the 24 mustards I got for free. Yesterday when I went grocery shopping, I saved `175 dollars. bought a lifetime supply of tea. At least my daughter Katy seems to think so. She said as we were walking out of the aisle, "Mom, you better put this Tea in your will" Smart aleck. It is only about 40 boxes. If I have 20 cups a week, that is only a 40 weeks supply! Not even a year! LOL Like I drink that much tea! LOL Not hardly. Anyway, off I go, to explore great things, to learn new ideas and to post on MrsS! Thank you Darlene for keeping this great place open to us! I enjoy it a lot!
  24. Hey ANGELA, what's up with the "there are no friends to display" HUH??? LOL This is chopped liver sending hugs....HA

  25. Well I saved a penny or two, to see if I could resell some things. I found nice cloth table clothes Originally -- 8 dollars and more, for 1.75 and nice cloth placemats for under a dollar each. I found napkins for under 50 cents each. I plan on putting them together in sets on Ebay and selling them and see if I can make a FEW dollars on them. :-)
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