Julie & Julia

Last night my Bestie and I went to see Julie & Julia .

I have been waiting for this movie to come out since the very first time I saw the previews.

As a young child and teenager I have such fond memories of watching Julia Childs cooking shows on PBS. Even at that young age I was fascinated by process of taking seemingly simple ingredients and turning them into works of culinary art.

During the entire movie I laughed, smiled and visually ate each and every recipe that was prepared.

I felt connected to both Julie & Julia as they struggled to find their way and voice in this world. Something that I, myself am trying to do.

I walked away from the movie not only visually stuffed but inspired.

" Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it"- Julia Child

" The only time to eat diet food in when your waiting for the steak to cook"- Julia Child

" The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a What the hell? attitude"- Julia Child

" In spite of food fads, fitness programs, and health concerns, we must never loose site of a beautifully conceived meal "- Julia Child

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The Weekend

I'm completely aware that a new weekend is upon us, but I forgot to post about Sexy Stud's weekend home. I blame PMS, which would probably account for my mood lately.

anyway......

Friday Sexy Stud and I went out to lunch and then went to Target & Home Depot. We are looking for a wall like structure to put around two sides of the hot tub so we can have some sort of privacy when the neighbors are outside. I've seen what I want in a catalog but the price is out of the range I want to spend. So it looks like I will have to get my Dad to build it for me. That night I grilled steaks, potatoes and some corn on the cob. Which for corn in May it was REALLY good! After dinner Sexy Stud took B-Monkey to the store to get the game he has been saving for.

Saturday I talked Sexy Stud into edging the walk ways , something he said he would do last fall but never did. Only thing I had to do was clean up the mess he made..... no problem. While he did that I went around and popped out all the dandelions out of the yard. I put down weed & feed a few weeks ago, but it's not working fast enough so I did it the old fashion way. Of course I got sunburned.... when will I ever learn!? For dinner that night I grilled pork tenderloin on a cedar plank. The smell of cedar on the grill is heavenly ! Along with that I grilled garlic red skinned potatoes and more corn on the cob. That evening we just hung out on the front porch watching the lake and finished the bottle of wine we started with dinner.

Sunday ,Sexy Stud was going to leave, but when he woke up he checked the weather down in Arkansas and saw it was going to rain all day Monday so he decided to stay another day. Fine by me! That afternoon we went to a birthday party for a friends son who turned 13. Had a good time.... yummy food and conversations always make for a good time.

Monday Sexy Stud left around 9 AM which just left me and the kids for the holiday. Which was pretty much uneventful. I grilled some Italian sausage, made my grandma's fried cream corn with the left over corn on the cob and that was pretty much it for the holiday.

I think that's pretty much it. Better late then never I suppose....lol

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50 years apart

My favorite photo from the husbands surprise party isn't even the best shot I took that night. This is him with baby P, she's our dear friends little peanut and is just 3 weeks old. It's my favorite photo because of what he said to her. He said I hope you look at this photo when your 50 and remember all the great times we had together and all of the great times you had in your life. 

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Back in Arkansas

Well the husband is back in Arkansas. It's hard to believe that a week has gone by already. WE did manage to get a few things done while he was here. Like getting the car the daughter K drives fixed. And we ordered a new hot tub , since our old one broke a few months ago. So we did our far share of stimulating the economy this week. lol 

His surprise 50th birthday party was wonderful. The look on his face was priceless as all these people just kept coming in. I'm not sure what he thought was going on until someone finally said SURPRISE. He had a really great time, even more so since I invited his best friend ( his best man at our wedding) They hadn't seen each other since the beginning of last summer. After the party some very dear friends of our stayed and we watched movies and ordered pizza. The perfect ending to a perfect party and week.

But now he's 488 miles away for the next 3 weeks. So it's back to cell phone calls and e-mail.*sigh* 

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A late evening post- or what I've been up to all day

What a bust day I had. The first part of it was spent taking a friend to the doctor, the very same friend that I was suppose to take last friday to the doctor. Those plans changed when her Doctor had something come up. No big deal, I had nothing planned today all that important....... unless you count doing laundry and cleaning house important lol. The only down side to taking her to the doctor is that it's an hour drive one way. Who on earth has a doctor that's an hour drive? Oh well it's leaves lots of time for LOTS of girl talk. 

The rest of my day was filled with planning a surprise 50th birthday party for the husband. The biggest problem I'm running into is that I can't set a date yet. He's leaving for Europe again, only a few days this time ,  because of this I can't set a date. So I have to have everyone on stand by..... if he's leaving on Saturday, we'll have the party on Friday at this time. If he's leaving on Sunday, we'll have the party on Saturday at this time. It's driving me bonkers! 

So what about you..... what was your day like?

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