Oh, how time flies

      I can't believe this weekend is already over. Right now I wish I would have gone to grad school so at least I could prolong adulthood for another 2 more years (which mean I would have been in school for tens years with three degrees which isn't a bad thing) but anywho, besides doing most of my To-Do list I decided to make some things.

For some reason I was really craving crab, so I made a crab appretizer and I made a dish that I found in Food and Wine magazine. The appretizer was one that I made before but I added crab to it. I usually has bacon in it with the chive and onion cream cheese but I used the crab instead this time.

You mix all that together, cook it for 15 minutes at 375 degrees and they end up looking like this

And the for dinner I made an item called Buttery Crab Bread Pudding. You need:

• 10 ounces lump crabmeat
• 1 tablespoon of parsley and chives (I used green onion though)
• 2 teaspoons of lemon juice
• a pinch of cayenne pepper (I used a spice mix that included cayenne pepper)
• salt and pepper
• 1 stick of unsalted butter, softened
• 1 24-inch bagette
• 4 large eggs
• 1 cup milk
• 1 cup half and half

-Preheat the oven to 350, butter the dish and mix the crab meat with the first 5 ingredents.
-Then you slice the baguette,buttering each side. Using a spoon, take the crab mixture evenly between the slices of bread.
-After that, mix the last four ingredents in a bowl forming a custard.


-Pour the custard evenly over the bread and let stand for 10 mintues.
-Bake the bread pudding for 30 minutes until the top is lightly browned and the custard is set.

-Let it sit for 10 minutes before serving.

And then I made a cake today after finishing the rest of my list. I'll probably post pictures of the at some point but it's a white cake with strawberry jam and fresh strawberries as the filling.

Well, the weekend is over :( and here's to the start of another work week.

With the ridiculous weather down here (I mean there techinally was has not been a winter), I have been in a skirt mood. I think its because I know spring is right around the corner. Here are a few of the skirts I like right now:
         
                      
                              

    
I love wearing skirts year round because you can through tights and boots in the winter/fall with it or sandals in the spring/summer.

Favorite Stores: Week 1

I think every Tuesday I am going to post about some of my favorite stored. One of my goals (I wish I had a large abundance of money to do this now) is travel for a whole year and see the world. Looks like that is not going to happen soon so the closes I am going to get to that is World Market. I am a little bit obsessed with the store, so much that they are starting to know my face in the store since I am there every weekend I am in town. Just wanted to post some of my favorite items in the store right now.


             
I love this runner. It makes me think about the spring. Not only that its' reversible and there are matching napkins to go with it.

        
And I am loving some of there dinnerware too:
 
            

And do not think for a second I forgot about furniture for a second:

 

 

                                   

And I have to include lighting

                           
                          

                                

                                                     And Rugs. They have such fun rugs:

 

I clearly need to stop looking at this stuff because I can't go into the store without buying anything.
If you have never been in a World Market, you will find yourself having the same issue I do:you want to buy everything.

New Beginnings

I have decided that since it is a new year that it is also a new beginning for my blogging. With that said, I am going to stay true to myself here and not try to be one of the "Cool Kids". Starting this new decision in my "Blog Life" (I like quotation marks, if you have not noticed) is this post. Last Sunday was the Oscars, which I missed but this is fitting with the season (actually a tad bit late, but better late then never). I am going to talk about some of my favorite movies.
I am kinda the anti-girl in a sense:never seen The Notebook (by my own choosing), saw Titanic for the first time almost 10 years after it came out. For some reason, I have never been into the love story, happy ever after movies. However, there is one of my favorit movies that would be consider a "love story" just based purely on the name and some of the stories that are happening in it.

Before I go on an "Why I hate those unrealistic views of love and relationships movies" I am going to start the list:

1:Clueless

This is a sign of when I grow up that this is my favorite movie. Literally, my favorite movie ever!!! Yes, its cheesy and some of the acting is so so but I love it. Wanted a white jeep wrangler as my first car after seeing that movie. Even have the soundtrack that I got when it came out in 95' and yes, I still listen to it. Wish I had a closet like Cher's even now.


2:The Godfather

Great storytelling, great acting, the kind of movies that once you start watching the first one you have to watch the rest to see what is going to happen. Spent almost five hours yesterday watching it on AMC (yes, I need to find something better to do with my Saturdays). And there is a small love story in there, but that does not end to good. If you have seen them you know exactly what I am talking about, if you have seen them you should watch them along with Godfellas (on the list) and The Untouchables.

3:Animal House

Have seen this movie more times that I can count. Can even quote lines from it. Still laugh every time I see it. I appreciate because it is the original college comedy. There would be a whole genre gone if this movie was not made (no Old School, Road Trip, Going Greek which I think I am the only person who has seen that movie besides my friend's I forced to watch it).

4.Goodfellas

I like mob movies, if you have not noticed yet. Goodfellas is one those you can clearly tell was made closer to when they started using more blood and violence in the last eighties. Lots of people getting shot, things being set on fire/blown up. Crazy thinking about the fact that movie is based on a true story.

5:Love Actually

I DO NOT like movies that are centered around love but I love this movie. Maybe it is because it is a realistic look at love where everyone does not end up with someone or it could be the small crushes I have on Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. It's a good movie with good story telling and it gives you hope that your love life will workout even if it is a mess sometimes.

There are a whole lot more including Caddyshack and Sixteen Candles but those are the 5 movies that when they come on television I still watch them even though I know what is coming. I like comedies and drama but we all have out preferences. Next movie list is going to be about my favorite documentaries because I am that girl.

I have come to a decision

I have decided to change the way I write my blog. Not like anyone is reading it anyway but I think I am going to do more of the stuff that interest me which at this point those things are music, food, entertaining, and just having a good time (I like being social can't help my social life has suffered greatly since moving). Until then Laters....

Random Post!!!!!

Random comment of the day (even thought the day is about to be over on the East Coast): H & M kinda has a real website now. I might be the only person out there excited about that. It's not really a full-site because you can't buy anything on it :( But I guess that means I am going to the Atl at some point.

The thing I am actually most excited about/sadly addicted to on the site is the dressing room. They have were you can pack you own model and change the background and all that jazz. It's great to see what the clothes will look like on an actually person. Even though I'm not a size 2 or 4 I am about the same height as some of them so I can at least see what the clothing will not be to small unlike forever21 (which they have cute clothes, but if you have any kind of curves whatsoever you can forget about it).

So, that is the random comment of the day. Now back to listening to my 70s rock on my Pandora and checking my profile on an online dating site..... The story will come later about that but let's say my friend LMR can pretty much talk me into anything and at 29 that is a sad thing. There are some pretty normal guys are there and some that are kinda interesting. Anywho

Laters.....

Life.....

Things have been super crazy for the last few weeks. Over the next few weeks though I'll write about all the craziness that has been happening including:a new puppy, celebrating a cat's birth day, an interesting night on the town, even more interesting match.com experiences (yes, I said match.com and that will definitely be a few post just about that), me making the 4 hour drive to get my car back (YEA!!!!!!), and some more interesting/random things that have happened. Plus, since school is starting back (first time I am not going to school in the last 8 years and I am not sad at all) I am going to share some of my college experience and stories. Some, A few of the stories are really funny but that's because they did not happen to me and some of the ones that did happen to me are funny now. At the time they were not by any means but now I can laugh at them.

I start my new job today. I guess it's my first post college job. At least I will not be laying around watching One Life to Live trying to figure out who the real Todd Manning is. The fact that I know that means that I have been spending too much time on the couch.

Until tomorrow. Oh, and I want to say congratulations to one of my besties MK who is starting her teaching workshops today.

She is going to be an Art Teacher for kids in K to 8th grade and I'm excited for her. She's freaking out a tiny bit. She'll be fine. It will be an experience to say the least.