The most erotic argument.

My favorite book/movie/scene from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.  I feel their emotions, I taste the salt of tears, and I hear the rain, and thunder, and I am there.  I have had this moment, I relate fully to the moment.  I of course also own the soundtrack and it takes me right there to that moment where in anger untruths are spoken and feelings misunderstood, and love is palpable, and the kiss that didn't happen but was being begged for by both, is hotter because they resisted every fiber in their beings, they denied their love, their passion, their heat and connection because of their pride, and hurt feelings. I know this scene, I have lived it.  Jane Austen you are my hero.

Sonnet 116 Deciphered & Fur Elise

Let me not to the marriage of true minds	Let me not declare any reasons why two
Admit impediments. Love is not love	True-minded people should not be married. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,	Which changes when it finds a change in circumstances,
Or bends with the remover to remove:	Or bends from its firm stand even when a lover is unfaithful:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark	Oh no! it is a lighthouse
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;	That sees storms but is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,	Love is the guiding north star to every lost ship,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.	Whose value cannot be calculated, although its altitude can be measured.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks	Love is not at the mercy of Time, though physical beauty
Within his bending sickle's compass come:	Comes within the compass of his sickle.
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,	Love does not alter with hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.	But, rather, it endures until the last day of life.
If this be error and upon me proved,	If I am proved wrong about these thoughts on love
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.	Then I recant all that I have written, and no man has ever [truly] loved.

Pacifica, California a/k/a Samara's hometown.

My parents loved Pacifica, they lived there before I was born, and it is where they brought me home from the hospital, and it's where we would find ourselves living again.  So the question is, can you ever go home again?  Pacifica is a small city with mountains encircling it and the ocean in front, it's usually cold, and wet and foggy and miserable and no city has held my heart like it has.  When I wrote the poem about the ocean found here on the blog it was about this cliff overlooking this six mile beach.  I was happy here once, maybe I could be again?  I went to Sharp Park and if we'd stayed I would have went to Oceana High School.  I love the view from Sam's Castle in Pacifica.

The second picture below is of the beach, and where we would take long walks, and do cartwheels in the sand with our parents.  Especially my dad.

The third photo is of the famous waves Pacifica is notorious for.  They are dangerous, and aren't to be trifled with, neither is the undertow.  The last photo is of a statue at Sam's Castle.

 

Gooey Butter Cookies

Ingredients

1 8oz. pkg. cream cheese
1/2 c. butter, softened
1 egg
1/4 tsp. vanilla
1 box of cake mix (your preference as to flavor)
1/2 c. powdered sugar

DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a medium bowl, cream together the cream cheese and butter. Stir in egg and vanilla. Add cake mix & stir until well blended. Powder sugar your hands well. Roll balls into 1" or 2" and roll balls thoroughly in powdered sugar. Place 1" apart on clean and dry cookie sheets. Bake for 10 minutes. Leave on cookie sheet for 3 minutes or more before removing to cool on wire racks.

Ice cream pie

Sam's concoction today:

Crust:
1 bag of miniature Chips Ahoy chocolate chip cookies crushed
2 cups of hot Hershey hot fudge
1 stick of real butter

Pour ingredients as is into glass baking dish and bake at 350 degrees for a hour.  Chill in freezer until cold and hard.

One half gallon of Blue Bell Great Divide ice cream poured and spread over crust, put back in freezer to harden ice cream to crust. 

After ice cream has refrozen completely take cool whip and use as "icing" and put back in freezer until 30 minutes before you want to serve it, to allow it to slightly soften.

Reflecting light..

TGIF this song is on my heart this morning...

First off,  Angie and Tammi, Happy Birthday to the two women who have stood by my side for decades and loved me and supported me, who I've laughed with, and cried with, I thank God he gave me the two of you!  It's fitting that you both share this day.  I am blessed to say I have two beautiful and kind best friends, and although we're not in the same state today, know and believe that you are loved and respected and thought of beyond measure!