Have you ever had Blue Bell ice cream? Let me tell you, it really is the best stuff on Earth (I don’t care what Snapple claims!). So, last night, I don’t know, around 10:30 PM, I decided that I needed some Blue Bell. The problem is that Wal-Mart is the only place I know of in Arizona that sells the stuff and every Wal-Mart in Arizona is in a baaaaaaad part of town.

So, last night at 10:30 PM, I truck my prissy little arse to Wal-Mart to pick up a pint. And let me tell you, I learned that there’s nothing more intimidating than a female with ice cream on the brain; Nobody was messing with me!

Remember I said my MooMoo was in town visiting this last weekend? MooMoo taught me how to make coffee about 12 years ago. Remember I said I was a coffee drinker now. She taught me to make it, “A scoop a cup.” My Uncle Steve jokes that when you put cream in MooMoo’s coffee that the cream never makes it back to the top. That’s good coffee huh?

Dark skies and thunder oftentimes accompany springtime showers. In the desert, we don’t have to worry about turbulent springtime weather, but sometimes we can find ourselves going through our own thunderstorms. I’m having one; BLAH!

Here’s what I’m struggling with. I have a pink freakin blog. Hello…it’s PINK. I moretimes than not, post about cupcakes…happy little cupcakes. So, what do you do when you think your pink blog looks like Pepto Bismol and you want to throw your happy little cupcakes at small children?

OK, truthfully, my aim is really bad, so I don’t think any halfway nimble child has anything to worry about.

Now that we’ve established that I’m all BLAH, I managed to make cupcakes. And if life wasn’t tough enough, I got a Rachel Ray magazine the other day. I know, you don’t have to say it…

I took a Lemon Meringue Cupcake recipe featured in one of the articles and combined it with a technique I saw over on 52 Cupcakes. I think they turned out really nicely: