Friday, October 27, 2006


NOTHING MUCH

I am glad to see I am not the only one not posting on a regular basis. Some of my regular reads have not posted in a few days. I am sure they are a busy as I am not but still. I am ready for the weekend. My friends babyshower is this weekend. Oh I need to get a cake. She is due Nov. 29th. It's a boy. That's about all I have going on for this weekend. I hope I get to relax a little. For the past 3 or 4 weekends it has been really busy for us.

Tuesday we are having a pot luck at work. I am making Taco Soup. It is really easy and yummy. Here is the recipe.

1 lb. ground beef
1 can black beans
1 can ranch style beans
1 can whole corn
2 cans rotel
1 pkg. taco seasoning
1 pkg. ranch dressing seasoning

brown ground beef, add to beans, corn, rotel etc. let it cook together til its hot. I pour mine over fritos and add shredded cheese.

I will also be making kitty litter cake. I have never made this but it is funny and suppose to taste good to here is the recipe with a picture to funny!!
CAKE INGREDIENTS:
1 box spice or German chocolate cake mix
1 box of white cake mix
1 package white sandwich cookies
1 large package vanilla instant pudding mix
A few drops green food coloring
12 small Tootsie Rolls

SERVING "DISHES AND UTENSILS"
1 NEW cat-litter box
1 NEW cat-litter box liner
1 NEW pooper scooper
1) Prepare and bake cake mixes, according to directions, in any size pan. Prepare pudding and chill. Crumble cookies in small batches in blender or food processor. Add a few drops of green food coloring to 1 cup of cookie crumbs. Mix with a fork or shake in a jar. Set aside.

2) When cakes are at room temperature, crumble them into a large bowl. Toss with half of the remaining cookie crumbs and enough pudding to make the mixture moist but not soggy. Place liner in litter box and pour mixture.

3)Unwrap 3 Tootsie Rolls and heat in a microwave until soft and pliable. Shape the blunt ends into slightly curved points. Repeat with three more rolls. Bury the rolls decoratively in the cake mixture. Sprinkle remaining white cookie crumbs over the mixture, then scatter green crumbs lightly over top.

4) Heat 5 more Tootsie Rolls until almost melted. Scrape them on top of the cake and sprinkle with crumbs from the litter box. Heat the remaining Tootsie Roll until pliable an d hang it over the edge of the box. Place box on a sheet of newspaper and serve with scooper. Enjoy! "Kitty Litter Cake"


Ok I can not figure out how to get my picture at the bottom of the page and I do not want it to be the first thing you see so click on this link kitty litter cake to see a picture of it.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Food for thought

I have been noticing a trend lately. It really bothers me. I have noticed out and about and on blogs what people are eating. Or not eating should I say. I see women eating salads and their husbands or boyfriends eating burgers, fries, pizza. It is so frustrating that most men can eat anything they want. They don't count fat, calories, carbs or anything like that. Women on the other had most of them have to eat very healthy to not gain weight. I grew up on junk food, anything fried was good to me. Now I am having to watch what I eat because I have started to gain weight. I have to limit my Dr. Pepper intake. It just doesn't seem fair. I want to be able to eat what I want and not worry about it but I can't. It sucks big time.

Friday, October 13, 2006

Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. You are worthy to be praised. You are an awesome GOD. I bow down on my knees and worship you today and everyday. Your love gives me joy, peace and comfort. You are King of Kings and Lord of Lords. I will not waver in trusting you. The enemy wants me to doubt you and I refuse to. You are a keeper of your word and I will trust you. The enemy wants me to fail but you will prevail. My trust is in you.

Goin me in Praising GOD today.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

I have been really busy here at work. That's why I have not posted recently. I am very thankful that busy does not = stressful at my job. I have a very laid back job, no crazy people running around stressed out, causing others to stress. Sometimes I just have a lot to do.

I have read almost all of the testimonies on the bloggy tour of testimonies. If you haven't you should. There is a link on my sidebar. Most of the testimonies are people that have always known or had a relationship with GOD most of there lives. It's funny because those testimonies the people often say they had a boring or uneventful testimony but most of them are people who have begun a relationship with Christ at a young age. I feel like I am in the minority in the tour cause my is kinda crazy. However, they are all such a blessing no matter how you came to Christ. I am just glad there are others out there that love GOD as much as I do!!

In sad news we have had a loss in the pet world. Alan and Kara at flat nosed pups had to send there pug to doggy heaven. If you feel like it go leave them some encouraging words. Since I now own a dog I could not imagine what this is like for them.

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Unusually Calm

That's how I am right now, that's how I have been for the last couple of months, that's how I pray I stay. Right now there are things going on in my life that before a couple of months ago would have me stressed out!!! (Recap: my husband and I prayed about buying a house a couple of months ago, having one built actually, GOD said yes. And I trust him) We knew before we signed the papers for them to start building that we would need our down payment at closing. The builder told us it would be done Feb. 1 possibly a little earlier. It is Oct 4th and the builder is saying it will more than likely be done before the end of November. Several business opportunities were presented to us, each one would provide the down payment we need. None of them have came to pass. But GOD be the glory I am not stressing. My husband and I prayed, we heard GOD and he said we could do this and we trust him with the down payment. I am the happiest I have been ever. Even with all that is going on I am in one of those I could just cry because I am so happy and I love GOD so much. He is the best thing, person whatever you want to say it is to happen to me. He is so loving, caring, merciful I could just weep with joy. Thinking about him is all I want to do, with him there is peace, love, joy, comfort and so much more. He is so awesome to me. He is KING of KINGS, and LORD of LORDS. He is so worthy to be praised. I just want to share him with everyone. The way I feel right now everyone can feel like this if they will just turn over there worries, burdens, sorrows, pain, hurt, bitterness, anger, hate but most important there life. Turn it over to him and you will have joy like you have never had before.

Monday, October 02, 2006

MY TESTIMONY

If you want to read other testimonies please click on the Bloggy Tour of Testimonies on the side bar. GOD reaches each of us in different ways but its always his way.

I started going to church as far back as my memory will take me. My mom was a evangelist so my sister and I were in church 8 days a week. As soon as we came home we ate and rushed out the door to get to church on time. Sitting on the pew is usually where we did our homework for the night. We were of the Penecostal denomination. It wasn't the one where you don't cut your hair and can't wear pants. There are so many different ones I couldn't tell you if we were called something inparticular or not. It's odd to go back this far in my memory and think about all of this. It's for the good though.

I knew as a child that there was a GOD and that he did good things for people. I remember very vivid one night I was @ 4 or 5 my stomach was hurting. It was hurting so bad I just remember asking my mom to pray for me and to make the pain stop. Other than this I don't remember ever really knowing about JESUS. I am sure I learned in Sunday school but I never had a personal relationship with him. When I was around the age of 8-9 my mom stopped evangilising. I do not know what happened. I would like to ask my mom about it, I think I know but I am not sure I want to actually hear it. Anyway after she stopped we stopped having to go to church. In my teens I started drinking and getting drunk. My mom would often go off on the weekends and it would be my and my sis. She was out of high school at the time. My mom and dad divorced when I was 2 I think. My dad was not religious at all. He had issues. He was in the Vietnam War and my mom and his parents, well basically every one that knew him before he went to war said he was different when he came back. Even though my parents were divorced they argued when they seen each other. Mostly because my dad was drunk. He started drinking and smoking weed when he got back from War. He became an alcoholic. It was hard sometimes. I remember one year for Christmas he was in rehab and that's where we had to visit him. After him and my mom divorced he lived with his parents. Only 1 time do I remember that he rented a trailer for a little while but eventually moved back with his parents. He had issues but he was still a great dad to me.

Ok anyway the weekends my mom was gone my sister and I would have parties. Then she got married when I was in the 11th grade so it was just me and my mom. This is when I started dating black guys. No one in my family knew. I was hiding it. So after high school I go off to college and start drinking even more. I honeslty did not want to talk about GOD at that time. I knew he was real and I was doing wrong and it scared me yet I refused to change. My 2nd year of college I met "Dos" my future husband. He is a year younger so he was a freshman and I was a sophomore. He was a smoker. Weed Smoker big time. I swore I would never do that because I saw my father do it and thought that was what made him like he was.(it wasn't until later that I realized it was the war also) So when I found out that Dos smoked I told him it was me or the weed. He chose the weed and I gave in. I was smoking and drinking. 2 weeks after Dos and I met my father passed away from cancer. When he died I received $10,000 from his life insurance. I spent all of that on weed. I kid you not. I was getting high everyday, smoking 2-3 times a day. The college we attended was just a 2 yr school so I went back home after my sophomore year. I did not finish school. Instead I got low paying jobs, working 2 jobs to be able to move out of my moms but in with a roommate. During this time I was still seeing Dos. One night I got a call from this girl telling me she was seeing and sleeping with Dos also. I broke it off. I wasn't perfect either though. But we got back together. The summer after his sophomore year he told me he was living with his mother but she did not have a phone. I knew something was going on but could not prove it. He was living 2.5 hours away from me. He would come and see me on the weekends. I was still smoking and drinking a lot. The day before Thanksgiving 1998. I was sitting at my desk working when I got a call from the receptionist saying I had a phone call. When the call was transferred it was the same girl that had called me about a year before saying she was seeing Dos. This time she told me they were living together. I was crushed. He called me soon after she did and I told him I never wanted to see him or talk to him ever again. That night I went to my cousins so I could get high. I did not want to be at home. My mom called me @ midnight to tell me Dos was in town to see me. I decided I would stay out even later, so I eventually came home @ 3 a.m. Not much longer after that Dos shows up again. This time he looked different to me. He told me he got saved and he was changing his life. I believed him. Even after all the lies he told me because I could see GOD on him now. I however was still hurt. He wanted me to come back to his moms and meet her and eat Thanksgiving with them. I told him no. He said he would call me. He did Thanksgiving day, the day after Thanksgiving and I agreed to go to OKC to meet his mom on Saturday. I was still being stubborn. Saturday morning before I drove up there I did 2 lines of coke and on the way up there I smoked some weed. I was good and high by the time I got there. I sat and talked with him and his mother and I could see the joy and happiness that they both had. I was unhappy and had been most of my life. I knew that could change though. That day in my mess I accepted Jesus as my LORD AND SAVIOR. That was the best decision of my life. 2 months (Jan 99) later Dos and I got married and we have been living for Jesus ever since.


PS please do not pay attention to my grammar I did not check it all that well.

ALSO AS SOON AS I CAN GET MY HUSBAND TO WRITE HIS TESTIMONY I WILL POST IT. IT IS AN AWESOME ENCOUNTER WITH GOD.