Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Stacy Burke`s Cucumber Salad 1 & 2

The Spicy/Sweet Way:
In a Glass Jar put following ingredients:
Thinly Sliced Cucumbers (I use 3 Cucumbers)
Sliced Red Onion (I use 1/4 Red Onion)
Sprinkle a few drops of Lemon Juice
Sprinkle as Much Desired Rice Vinegar
Sprinkle a few shakes of Garlic Powder
add a Finely Chopped Cerano Chili
Sprinkle as much Desired Sugar or Sugar Subsitute (I use one 2 packets of Splenda)
a dash of Pepper
a dash of Sea Salt
-Close Glass Jar with Lid & Shake to saturate Cucumbers-let it sit in Fridge for at least one hour -Cucumbers will be good for about a week- but more than that- they will get soggy.

The Sweet Way
In a Glass Jar put following ingredients:
Thinly Sliced Cucumbers (I use 3 Cucumbers)
Sliced Red Onion (I use 1/4 Red Onion)
Sprinkle as much desired Lemon Juice (I use about 8 shakes)
Sprinkle as Much Desired Balsamic Vinegar (I use about 6 shakes)
Sprinkle as much Desired Sugar or Sugar Subsitute (I use 2 packets of Splenda)
a dash of Pepper
a dash of Sea Salt
-Close Glass Jar with Lid & Shake to saturate Cucumbers-let it sit in Fridge for at least one hour -Cucumbers will be good for about a week- but more than that- they will get soggy.

Stacy Burke`s Homemade Salisbury Steak

Patty Mix:
Ground Beef
Packet of Onion dip/soup Mix
Chopped Onion (optional)
Chopped Celery
Chopped Mushrooms
Raw Eggs
Crushed Crackers/Coutons or Bread Crumbs
Salt & Pepper
Garlic Powder or Fresh Garlic
Cumin
Flour for coating patties
Cooking Spray or Oil

Gravy Mix:
Beef Boulion
Water
Chopped Red Onion
Sliced Mushrooms
Sprinkle of flour

Mix Patty Ingredients 2gether- make Patties- Coat each Patty in Flour- Coat Fry Pan in Cooking Spray or oil- brown both sides of patties.

Take Gravy ingredients-Mix 2gether-Microwave until warm-stir-pour Gravy mixture into fry pan w/patties-Cover-simmer for about 5-7 minutes-Turn Off Stove or take pan off burner-Flip over patties-let sit covered in pan for about 5-7 minutes- serve patties with spoonfull of gravy on top.....best served over Garlic Butter Mashed Potatoes.

Monday, September 28, 2009

Roy - The Eyes have it!

A lot of People don`t know that my New Husband Roy has a fake eye....he is legally blind....he cannot get a drivers license, so I am his driver whenever he needs to go anywhere....however nothing stops him and you would Never Know.....here is an interesting article below about him & his eye.
He was Blind Completely for almost 2 yrs- had to go to the Braille Institute & use a cane to go about life. He regained sight in one eye- but the other Eye is gone. His one good eye is not good either- has to have a lot of work, fancy contact lenses & eye drops to see.

The eyes have it


Tustin ocularist uses his art training to craft as-real-as-life replacements.
By CHRIS KNAP
The Orange County Register
http://www.ocregist er.com/ocregiste r/news/atoz/ article_710953. php
TUSTIN – John Kennedy pries out Ronald Luse's right eye with what looks like a screwdriver and presses it firmly against a whirring grinder.
Luse is cheerful.
"It falls out about once a year, but it's usually my fault," he reports.
Kennedy reinstalls the eye and appraises it like a jeweler.
"I think we could improve it a little," Kennedy says.
"My grandkids have a field day trying to tell which one is my real eye," Luse says. "I think it's perfect."
Kennedy, 53, smiles and sits back on his stool.
The patients who come to Eye Design Ocular Prosthetics have been through some of the most frightening diseases the mind can conceive.
Take Roy Hetherington, 36, whose eyes were attacked by the autoimmune disease iritis. His left eye withered and died, then shrank in his head.
Or Brenda Storz, 35, who lost her right eye to retino blastoma, a voracious cancer, when she was just 2.
And now Luse, 70, whose eyeball shriveled and dark ened two years ago after a stroke and glaucoma.
"It died on me," Luse says matter-of-factly. "It was very, very painful. If they hadn't taken it out I would have dug it out myself."
These are horror stories to curl the hair of most people, but Kennedy's patients are mostly past the pain. What they aren't past is the social stigma linked with disfigurement, the jerk of the head when someone notices there's something more than a little odd about their eyeballs.
"This eye is not for me. This eye is for how the rest of the world perceives me," says Storz.
That's where Kennedy comes in, a meticulous craftsman with an easy manner and an encyclopedic eye for color. He's an expert in the obscure science of reopening the window to the soul.
One of just 200 ocularists in North America, Kennedy has made eyes for babies born without, for war veterans who sacrificed an orb for honor; for people of all ages attacked by accident or disease.
When Hetherington came to Kennedy, he was still stinging from a comment by a former boss bothered by his wandering, shrunken eye.
"Can't you get that fixed?" the man demanded.
Turned out he could, although the first version, by another ocularist, bulged strangely and hardly matched his original hazel.
Kennedy made a perfect match, colored by sight and paintbrush, and today it's impossible to say which eye might not be real.
Still, Kennedy's not satisfied. One eye opening appears slightly wider. He removes the orb - turns out the tool is actually a suction cup - and attacks it with a grinder, removing material along the edge to relieve pressure on the eyelid. Reinserted, the eyes match.
Hetherington is ebullient, reporting how much his girlfriend, his family, his co-workers like his new eye.
"We live in a visual society. We are very into appearances. The first thing you look at is the face, and flaws stand out right away," Hetherington says. "When you lose an eye, it takes away part of your confidence. Once you get that part restored, you can almost forget that you lost it in the first place."
Kennedy says many of his patients share that feeling.
"I approach this as an art, but it's also real rewarding. I am helping people feel complete again."
THE PAINTER
Kennedy opens a tattered portfolio and removes 20 years' worth of watercolors.
He once pursued art as a career, but came to believe it wasn't practical.
In 1974, he disappointed his art teachers at Orange Coast College by switching to dental technology, where he would learn to make dentures.
"I could still sculpt and paint and get paid for it."
He took a job in the dental school at UC San Francisco, and became known as a master at creating lifelike dentures.
It was a good job, but something was missing. Kennedy wandered in the woods near Half Moon Bay, rendering landscapes in gauzy colors.
Rubbing shoulders with the dentists, Kennedy realized what it was. They were working with patients, while he was toiling alone in the lab.
"I wanted to be more directly involved with people."
In 1990 he quit his job and took an apprenticeship at a VA hospital in Delaware, where he learned to make ocular prosthetics.
He absorbed the new training quickly, standing out for his ability to relate to people and to match their real eyes.
His watercolors from this period are more vivid, infused with brighter colors, subtle reflections, and life. Kennedy had found his calling.
In 1997 he returned to Orange County to start his own shop, struggling to set up an ocular practice from scratch. In those first years, he made custom dentures to help pay the bills.
"The day I stopped doing dentures, that was a great day," he recalls.
THE MECHANIC
While waiting for Brenda Storz, who is driving from Thousand Oaks, Kennedy pages through an old British sports car catalog, looking for parts for his MGA.
Finally Storz arrives, a fashion-model- tall mother of two with emerald-green eyes.
For 20 years Storz wore a "stock eye," an off-the-shelf model fitted by an ophthalmologist. It was a little smaller, a little off in color, clearly not the same as her real eye. She compensated by being twice as outgoing. After a two-year fiasco with another ocularist, who kept promising high-tech solutions but delivering nothing, Storz was careful about choosing a new ocularist.
Was his approach primarily artistic or scientific, she asked Kennedy? (He said artistic.)
How long would it take him to make the eye? (One day.)
You might think that modern eye prosthetics are some sort of high-tech science, miracle polymers matched by computer chromatograph.
Not so - and perhaps that's a good thing. Kennedy's not much for computers. He makes eyes using technology developed by the Army in the 1940s, when the supply of German glass eyes dried up.
He make a gel impression of the eye socket, a wax model of the eye, then a plaster cast of the model. The artificial eye is cast out of methyl methacrylate, an epoxy-like plastic.
Now comes the most intense part: Staring at Storz, he colors the sclera, iris and pupil, scratching his brush in dried pigment and simulating veins with scraps of thread.
Essentially, Kennedy has painted a portrait of her good eye on the plastic model.
He tops the colors with another layer of plastic, presses the model in a vise and cooks it at 212 degrees, then polishes it with pumice. Now Storz has two emerald orbs, an overwhelming change.
"You've stepped in a really intimate place with people like that," Kennedy says.
"It's a huge emotional impact when they look in the mirror and they're whole again."
Contact the writer: (714) 796-2240 or cknap@ocregister. com

July 3, 2008

Gian Temperilli/ Peter James/ Queen Mary

Gian Temperilli- of Gian & Shirley 'The Ozbournes of The LBC' - The one with The SUPER LONG HAIR.well- say bye-bye to his long locks.because of the tight finacial times he has decided to go to the Police Academy to become a cop (the only people hiring).but he has to cut his hair.this is really traumatic for him cause he has always had long hair.all his life!! Good newz however- Gian is donating his long locks to 'Locks of Love'- they make wigs for cancer patients. Gian has great martial arts knowledge and is very book smart- so after 4 years on the beat- he hopes to be a detective.
It is sad still though.I wish his book would take off. His real love is writting & the paranormalhe wrote a great book about Peter James - and is very close to the people who own The Queen Maryinfact anytime I wanna go Ghost Hunting & get into the 'closed-to-the-public' Ship`s Pool- I canhehe!!
Anyway- here is a few pix (attached below) of Gian to remember his Hair.(tear).

Gian Temperilli- of Gian & Shirley 'The Ozbournes of The LBC' - The one with The SUPER LONG HAIR.well- say bye-bye to his long locks.because of the tight finacial times he has decided to go to the Police Academy to become a cop (the only people hiring).but he has to cut his hair.this is really traumatic for him cause he has always had long hair.all his life!! Good newz however- Gian is donating his long locks to 'Locks of Love'- they make wigs for cancer patients. Gian has great martial arts knowledge and is very book smart- so after 4 years on the beat- he hopes to be a detective.
It is sad still though.I wish his book would take off. His real love is writting & the paranormalhe wrote a great book about Peter James - and is very close to the people who own The Queen Maryinfact anytime I wanna go Ghost Hunting & get into the 'closed-to-the-public' Ship`s Pool- I canhehe!

Gian`s MySpace page: http://www.MySpace.com/PeterJamesLives
oxox Stacy


Gian`s MySpace page: http://www.MySpace.com/PeterJamesLives
oxox Stacy

Friday, September 25, 2009

Our Bills shared 50/50

fYI_ Just because -I don`t want anyone 2 claim anything different- plus -I (Stacy Burke) does ALL THE cooking, cleaning, sending the bills, making sure they are on time, etc......


Stacy`s Monthly Bills:

Internet/Cable ____200.00

Both Cell Phones _200.00

Webmaster ______________400.00

Car Insurance ………_______300.00

Webhosting____________300.00

Electeric …………55.00 (approx)

Sparkletts/Water____65.00 (approx)

Groceries_--------400.00+ (approx)

Car Gas....…(Through out the Month)____________200.00 (approx)

P.O Box......($300- Per Year)____________________25.00

Car Registration____($300- per year)__________25.00 ($150- due this month)

Domain Names___________________________200.00

Avon (twice a month)______________________200.00

Stacy`s Total Monthly Bills = $2670-





Roy`s Monthly Bills:

Rent ……______________2050.00

Credit card bill ____________50.00

Gym___________60.00

Medical expenses _______200.00

Groceries ($50-a week)________________200.00

IRS OverDue Bill______________________100.00

Cell Phone: __________________________PAID BY Stacy

Roy`s Total Monthly Bills = $2660-



= Combined Monthly Bills: $5310 =

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Grocery/Household Stocked Items

Grocery Check List - Household Stocked Items:

Low Fat/Healthy Meat (Ground Turkey/Chicken/Pork/Etc)
Smart/Delicious Tortillas (Corn/Whole Wheat)
Fat Free Cottage Cheese
Frozen Burrittos
Eggs/Egg Beaters
Oil/Cooking Spray
Foil
Paper Plates
Plastic Forks/Cups
Ass. Fruit & Veggies
Wine/Champaign
Chips & Salsa
Trail Mix
Low Fat Cheese/Sliced/Shredded/Cream Cheese
Ziplock Baggies
Can`t Believe it`s Not Butter/Butter Spray
Lysol
Glass Cleaner
Cleanser
Triscuts/Flips/Melba Toast
Wheat Crackers
Coffee & Tea
Filters
Non Fat Creamer
Onion
Celery
Polident
Startch
Sugar Free Koolaide
Sugar/Slendia
Weight Watchers Whole Wheat Bread
Spinach/Lettuce
Can Veggies: Peas/Corn/Mixed
Fat Free Miracle Whip/Mayo/Mustard/Katsup
Fiber Powder
Microwave Popcorn
Low Fat Soup
Manwhich
Low Fat Chili
Fat Free Pinto/Refried/Pork Beans
Low Cal Frozen Dinner/Pizza
Bleach
Laundry Detergent
Fabric Softener
Shampoo & Conditioner
T.P/ Papertowels
Trash Bags
Acne Medicine
Cotton Balls
Polish Remover
Scotch Tape
Vitamins
Flea Collar/Spray
Rogain
Chocolate
No Sugar 100% Juice/Grapefruit
Fat ree Yogurt
Nose Spray
Allergy Medicine
Special Care Katfood -Dry & Wet
katlitter
Mac n Cheese
Ramen
Soy Milk/Milk
Stamps
Gummi treats
Gum
Cereal/Fiber One/Oatmeal
Batteries
Pickles
Tuna
Cilantro
Tomatoes
Taco Seasoning/Seasoning/BBQ Sauce
Cheese Spinkles/Seasons
Cinnamon
Honey
Low Sugar Jelly/Jam
Bug Spray
Drain-O
Sunscreen/Lotion
Safety pins
Pens/Pencils
Paper/Printer Paper
Envelopes
Empty CD`s
eye drops
Face Scrub
Concealer/Make-up
Krew Komb Pomade
Deorderant
Shave Gel
Hair Die
Hair Spray/Gel
Lite Bulbs
Toothpaste
Spaghetti
Spagehetti Sauce
Razors
Mac n Cheese
Rice/Mash Potato Buds

Monday, September 14, 2009

Tidbits

Cool tidbit I learned:
Need Directions? -do not have On Star or GPS? -all you gotta do is dial 1-800-Free411 -or- 1-800-373-3411 -or- 347-328-4667 on your cell phone and you will get a Text Message with turn by turn Directions!!


Not so Valuable Info- but cool:
Cool Idea -Local Business -Real Waitresses -Great Cause
http://www.lastradaon2nd.com/ -and Buy a Calendar-I did!
The Pin-up Models in this Calendar are All Really the Real Waitresses at this Charming Family Owned Local Itaian Restraurant!


BTW: See Me & Roy @ Pyrate Daze Aboard The Queen Mary this Weekend - Sept. 19th-20th - Details @ http://www.pyratedaze.com/ -We are gonna have a booth- so if ya have anything you would like me to try to sell at Booth -please let me know!!


Whaaat-Jim Caroll Died?? Noooo-I love him!! Incase you do not know who he is - The Movie Basketball Dairies was his life story-Talented Musician-Dramatic Life!RIP Jim Caroll - I love you! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Carroll
http://www.catholicboy.com/


Kanye West is suppost 2 be on Jay Leno 2Night???? Jay- cancel him- PLEASE!!!!!!! Book Taylor Swift instead!!!