Tuesday Legal Brief

Here's a quick "legal brief" for ya...


perp charged with possession of crack, the state offers to recommend probation, no jail time if she pleads guilty and opts out of trial (at a trial she can get up to 8 years if found guilty), she has given a "confession to the cops" but she doesn't think she has confessed and doesn't think she has done anything wrong...


perp: I told them I had smoked all my crack right before they got there (confession here)

me: blink

perp: so the rest of the crack that was sitting there wasn't my part, it belonged to the other guy that was smoking crack with me... (continuation of the confession here)

me: blink

perp: so I'm not pleading guilty, Imma go to trial (and promptly go to jail)

me: blink

perp: what? why you lookin' at me like that?

me: did you get high this morning?

perp: giving me a toothless smile...no response

I'm bored, therefore I cook...

Since I've moved, I've been on a cooking freenzy. I stay on the internet trying to find recipes. I was just over at Pserendipity's spot and she was posting about recipes, go figure!? Anyway, last night I cooked a meatloaf. I've never been a big meatloaf fan, partly because I could never get mine to come out right! I don't eat beef so I use turkey and could never find the right combination of ingredients to make it come out tasty and loafy...mine always came out bland and tooo moist...falling a part moist. So yesterday, I found a recipe called Brown Sugar Meatloaf that had high reviews from "the people"...and one lady said the ingredients worked just fine with ground turkey. So I printed it and dashed off to the grocery store for the items I needed. Boy oh boy, that meatloaf was a smash hit. I think it was the ginger. Deeeeeelicious!

Here's the recipe if you are interested and if you have any good casserole dishes you wouldn't mind sharing, please let a sister know?

INGREDIENTS
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup ketchup
1 1/2 pounds lean ground beef
3/4 cup milk
2 eggs
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 small onion, chopped (I used Lipton's Onion Soup/1 package)
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
3/4 cup finely crushed saltine cracker crumbs (I used seasoned bread crumbs)

DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 5x9 inch loaf pan.
Press the brown sugar in the bottom of the prepared loaf pan and spread the ketchup over the sugar.
In a mixing bowl, mix thoroughly all remaining ingredients and shape into a loaf. Place on top of the ketchup.
Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour or until juices are clear.

Changes...

Soooooo, since the last time I "posted" I took a new job and moved to another city. Let me tell ya, I thought I had purged before, but when I began to pack in June and July to prepare for the move to a city 3 hours away, bay-bay, did I purge. I must have thrown away and given away more stuff than I actually put in boxes to keep and take with me to my "new" city. I know the trash people were frustrated with my a** (or delighted, you know they say one woman's trash another man's treasures).

Well, we (me and the kids) moved to a smaller city near the beach. Literally, we can cross the street from out home and be on the beach. The kids love it...thus, I am happy! So, we are here. A little, not much, drama has followed us here (insert bad karma from ex) but we are dealing with that and expect to be drama free in about 2-3 months of service of process. Stay tuned for the post(eseses) about that soon.

My coworkers are fab and I've even found a basketball trainer for BabyBoy! Life is good.

I miss hanging out with Pserendipity and my nephewcousin Aidan but I'm sure they will put me in the rotation when they come this way, and I'll be swinging through their neighborhood quite often.

Change is good, right?