Quotes Vol. 24

"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

Potato Broccoli Bake and Cream Puffs

Here's my last broccoli recipe for awhile...finally got rid of all of the broccoli in my freezer. First you make a mixture of cream of mushroom soup, cheddar and Worcestershire sauce. I'm not sure what else went into this mix....
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.

Breakfast For Dinner and Flowering Things

So I finally found a good recipe for breakfast casserole. First layer dish with a bag of hash browns.
Cook up a pound of sausage...

Mix up some eggs and I believe there was another ingredient in this one....

Layer everything with cheddar....

Layer the sausage....

And more cheddar.

It was delicious and reheated very well.

This is the bouganvillea plant I got my mom for mother's day.

It blooms orange of course, but has since been destroyed by all of the tornado activity recently. Not sure if it will survive.

And here are the flowers my mom sent to my office for my birthday.

And I saw these little chicks in Walnut last month, so Bob had them shipped down for me! They kinda hang out on my kitchen table...not sure what I should do with them exactly. They're made out of little paper flowers.

Chicken with Black Beans and Rice and Triple Layer Mousse Cake

First up, cook some pieces of chicken...
Add tomato juice, frozen corn, spices tomatoes and black beans to a skillet.

Layer everything in a dish...

Done. This was good but reeally spicy. It had cayenne pepper in it and I think I still have an ulcer.

Triple Layer Mousse Cake. Make a graham cracker crust...

Melt some semi-sweet chocolate chips...

Layer in a springform pan and cool...

Make a box of mousse....

Layer and cool.

Top with whipped cream and chocolate shavings....

I still don't know how to keep the sides from sticking to a springform pan. I just ran a butter knife around all the edges....

I made this for Easter and it was delicious!!

Quotes Vol. 23

"You're always trying to break up with me, and we're not even together." ~ Elizabethtown

"Just tell me you love me and get it over with." ~ Elizabethtown

"Hate has a reason for everything. Love is unreasonable." ~ V. Raiuhes Ahaefuthe

"All my life I've wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific." ~ Lily Tomlin

"Do you think, everything, everyone, is going mental, it seems to me that it's spiraling outta contral and it's inevitable." ~ Lily Allen

"I'm sorry if you feel that I'm being kinda mental, but you left me in such a state. But now I'm gonna do what you did to me, I'm gonna reciprocate." ~ Lily Allen

"We have all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the power we choose to act on. That's who we really are." ~ Harry Potter

"I loved you with my last breath." ~ Buffy the Vampire Slayer

"Dreams, dreams of when we had just started things. Dreams of you and me. It seems, it seems that I can't shake those memories. I wonder if you have the same dreams too." ~ Lily Allen

"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." ~ James Baldwin

"Do you ever stop talking?" ~ Buffy the Vampire Slayer

"Look at me. Look at me! You suck, to me you suck. I kind of hate you. But you do not get unlimited chances to have the things we want. And this I know. Nothing is worse than missing an opportunity that could change your life." ~ Grey's Anatomy

"She's sad because her lover gave her twelve gold coins, but then the wizard cut open the bag of salt, and now the dancing minions have nowhere to put their big maypole...fish thing." ~ Buffy the Vampire Slayer

"In the end, we all are who we are, no matter how much we may appear to have changed." ~ Buffy the Vampire Slayer

"I know I haven't been myself lately, but I'm me again, so I was thinking maybe you should sleep over, because the me that I am is horny for the you that you are." ~ Grey's Anatomy

"Why don't you stay? I'm up off my knees. I'm so tired of being lonely, you can't give me what I need." ~ Sugarland

"That girl needs the stick out of her ass and a dick in her coochie, pronto!" ~ Sex and the City

"I can't even begin to explain to you how much I'm gonna miss you. When I think about not seeing you every day, it makes me not want to go...Okay, so if you think that I didn't say goodbye to you because you don't mean as much to me as everybody else, you're wrong. It's because you mean more to me." ~ Friends

"I'm a cross-dressing homosexual pacifist with a spot on my lung." ~ Across the Universe

"Women are like the police, they could have all the evidence in the world, but they still want the confession."

"I feel like I just found out that my favorite long song was written about a sandwich." ~ 27 Dresses

"Oh yeah, I'm a real good cocker." ~ 27 Dresses

"If you're a whore, what does that make me?" ~ Sex and the City

"My social skills are eerily similar to those of notorious homicidal maniacs."

"There's no excuse not to dream."

"As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot." ~ John Lennon

"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans." ~ John Lennon

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." ~ John Lennon

"Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist." ~ George Carlin

"Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that." ~ George Carlin

"When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat." ~ George Carlin

"Men are like lightbulbs, you keep screwing until one fits." ~ Swingtown

"We're so over, we need a new word for over." ~ Sex and the City

Earth Day plants and things

I took my clients on an outing to a Green Fest at SWIC in mid April. It was pretty small, but they were giving away red pine trees.

Then I took the day off, but still met Mary and our clients in Forest Park for the Earth Day Festival. If you have never been, you need to go! It was crowded of course, but you get lots of free stuff and all the food is organic and delicious!

I did a tree scavenger hunt and got a free pink flower to plant for completing the hunt! The stick in the picture below is a flowering bush that I got too.

Then the next day I started planting stuff at Mike's house. Here I started a lot of seed packets I got.

A plant my mom had at work....

And the three plants I had.

I bought a vase and decided to start keeping fresh flowers in my house since I don't have anywhere to plant any.

Got orange roses of course...

The seedlings popping up a week or so later....

The stick starting to sprout....

Hopefully my mom will decide on a place to permanently plant these after all the rain stops and before they die....

Chicken broccoli and rice, new shoes and Easter eggs

I found some new recipes that called for broccoli because I've had a bunch of frozen broccoli for the longest time, and nothing to do with it. So first you cook some Zatarain's yellow rice...
Cook some chicken...

Cut it up into small pieces....

Layer everything with the broccoli...

I don't even remember what this step was...possibly cream of chicken soup???

Add a bunch of cheddar...

And top with bread crumbs....

Done. It was really good and also reheated well....as have all of the other things I made with broccoli.

I have also been finding a lot of cute spring shoes. I usually hate shoes, but I found these new flats for work.

The blue ones were supposed to go with my Easter dress for church...which never really happened.

I haven't dyed eggs since I was a kid and have never done it by myself. So here is my try at it.

I got a tie dye kit (of course) which required you to wrap the egg in a wet cloth and put it in this plastic case with holes poked in it. Then you use a dropper to add colors inside the holes.

The tie dye thing worked, but the eggs weren't very bright. So I invented a new way to make cool designs. Plus I tried to write names on the eggs with a crayon...and that didn't work either so I don't know what I did wrong.

I stole some of those pantyhose footies from the shoe store (when I was getting the flats), put the egg down in one and tied it off. Then I rolled it around in different colors of dye.

This created a sort of ombre effect with a starburst at the spot where the gathered part of the toe was.