"Maybe mistakes are what make our fate...without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn't fall in love, have babies, or be who we are. After all, things change, so do cities, people come into your life and they go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart...and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away." ~ Sex and the City"Are there some women put in the world just to make you feel bad about yourself?" ~ Sex and the City"I love you, but I love myself more." ~ Sex and the City"My Zen teacher also said: the only way to true happiness is to live in the moment and not worry about the future. Of course, he died penniless and single." ~ Sex and the City"I'm looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't live without each other love." ~ Sex and the City"An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done." ~ Jane Austen"Change; we don't like it, we fear it, but we can't stop it from coming. We either adapt to change or we get left behind. And it hurts to grow, anybody who tells you it doesn't is lying. But here's the truth: the more things change, the more they stay the same. And sometimes, oh, sometimes change is good. Oh, sometimes change is everything." ~ Grey's Anatomy"It goes away. The feeling. That feeling that you have right now...today...that feeling like you can do anything. That clarity...it goes away. And you go right back to being the coward who can't tell the person you love how you feel." ~ Grey's Anatomy"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before." ~ Jane Austen"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony." ~ Jane Austen"The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love." ~ Jane Austen"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." ~ Jane Austen"There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves." ~ Jane Austen"The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait until the other is ready." ~ Henry David Thoreau"I had a ticket. I had my passport. And he had cold feet. I might have known fairy tales don't come true." ~ Dawn McKenna"The predatory Peter Pan, who preyed on a woman until she fell in love with him before he mad-dashed-it back to his pack of Lost Boys." ~ Cara Wilson"Love is a friendship that has caught fire." "You didn't love her! You just didn't want to be alone. Or maybe, maybe she was good for your ego. Or, or maybe she made you feel better about your miserable life, but you didn't love her, because you don't destroy the person that you love!" ~ Grey's Anatomy"Forgive and forget. That's what they say. It's good advice, but it's not very practical. When someone hurts us, we want to hurt them back. When someone wrongs us, we want to be right. Without forgiveness old scores never settle. Old wounds never heal, and the most we can hope for is that someday we'll be lucky enough to forget." ~ Grey's Anatomy"No more words. Hear only the voice within." ~ Rumi"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning." ~ Louis L'Amour"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart...Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." ~ Carl Jung"You knew what you wanted. You sticked to your guns. You proved that if you want something bad enough, if you're determined enough, if you're patient enough, eventually it will happen. And that gives me hope. So thanks for that." ~ Grey's Anatomy"It's good to be scared. It means you still have something to lose." ~ Grey's Anatomy"People are constantly asking you to tell them how you're doing. How the hell are you supposed to know." ~ Grey's Anatomy"Your life is defined by its opportunities...even the ones you miss." ~ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Spread some refried beans on the tortillas.
Cover the beef mixture with taco sauce.
Add spoonfuls to the tortillas and cover with Mexican blend cheese...
Wrap up and bake.
These were really good, but someone needs to teach me how to properly wrap a burrito.
Making the crumbles for the muffins...butter and brown sugar.
Cutting up granny smith apples.
Make the batter and add the apple pieces.
Spoon into the muffin liners and add some of the crumbles on top.
All done
Cliche' Arch shot...
Steve Miller Band!!!
Crowds gathering waiting for the fireworks.
Fireworks over Mississippi
And Ticket to the Beatles...even though I didn't get to see them for very long. grrrr.... Going to another one of their concerts in October next to the river.
We then went to cool down in the stinky penguin house!!!
Then watched these two goofballs mimicking each other...they were hilarious.
And saw the zebras going crazy cause it was apparently mating season and the female wasn't having it...
Then the next day got up early to go to the Susan G. Komen walk. It was stormy when I got up, but there was only 5 minutes of rain during the walk. These are some people who decided to paint their bodies and hope they wouldn't sweat it off.
And there was a tortoise in the walk! He was moving pretty fast too.
And here's the recipe that I thought was going to be full of chocolatey goodness. This is the batter...which there clearly wasn't enough of...which led to the disaster to come.
Crushed up Oreo's....which apparently I was supposed to pulverize...the directions did not imply this at all....
Mixed into the batter...which was supposed to be completely brown because the Oreo's should've been pulverized....
Layer some Hershey bars on top of half of the batter....
Then a layer of marshmellow fluff....
Then you're supposed to spread on the rest of the batter. It's really hard to spread something over marshmellow...especially when there isn't enough of that something....
Right out of the oven you could see the marshmellow bubbling up and exploding through the batter. Which left this hard, cooled lava look. Apparently it tasted fairly decent for looking like a pile of slop. Mary and Charlie ate a little and then I had to throw the rest away because I couldn't handle looking at it anymore.
Batter with peanut butter chips!
Ready to bake...and I don't have a finished product picture for some reason. I guess cause these were so last minute.
Next is the Taco Pasta Salad. Chopped up some tomatoes and lettuce....
Brown some meat and add taco seasoning....
Make rotini noodles....
Then add everything together with some Mexican blend cheese.
Then layer on top of the lettuce. You're supposed to eat it like a dip with chips...which didn't work so well cause the rotini noodles just roll off the chip.
Then mix in the fresh cut up strawberries...
Mix in 2 tubs of whipped topping and layer it in a baked pie shell.
Then add another tub of whipped topping on that. This was delicious and everyone at work ate it up! I'm sad that I got so full that I only had one piece and the strawberries were still frozen when I ate it. Here is the pie sitting precariously in my over-packed freezer.
Next are the pizza baked potatoes. I mixed some cream cheese with pizza sauce and I believe maybe mozzarella?? Looks lovely doesn't it?
Cut big slits into some already baked potatoes (which were not baked through at all) and layer on mini pepperonis and mozzarella. I have no after baking shot because the majority of these exploded in the oven. They were hard and didn't cook all the way through. Needless to say I went out to eat for lunch that week at work.
Spread it all with a bag of tater tots and steamed broccoli....
Cover with cheddar and bake. This is really good, especially since I love broccoli and potatoes.
Next up were cream puffs...I can't remember any of the ingredients...which is probably a good thing.
Whatever they were, they made some dough.
Which I then got to squeeze through my pastry bag!
Bake them and cut a slit in the sides...very tricky.
Fill with whipped up whipping cream...didn't really like that filling at all.
Then top with some bittersweet melted chocolate. That process was a pain in the butt and left me with a burnt hand. These cream puffs are only edible if eaten immediately. So when I took them to work the next day...lets just say a lot of them ended up in the trash...pretty tasteless.
