Letter from Dr. Kelly Flanagan

Going through Pinterest and I found this again and thought I'd share:

 

 

Dr. Kelly Flanagan wrote this letter to his daughter. The letter in short tells all the daughters out there that no matter what anyone says they are worthy. It teaches the sons who will one day become the men what is important.

 

If you could write a letter to your future son or daughter... what you would you?

Nude Steve Madden

I purchased a new pair of shoes recently while shopping on SteveMadden. I got a cute pair of nude heels for less than $50.00 Talk about a steal. I have been wanting another pair of nude heels so although I always steer toward black I went with the nude. When I took them out the box I was skeptical about how they would look on. However, when I put them on I loved them. So now I am just waiting on the right moment to wear them.

BlueBerry CreamCheese Bread

I found this recipe on Pinterest (like all other recipes I have). My mom, sister and I all love blueberries so I figured it would be something we would probably like. Boy was I right. My family loved it. They loved it so much they are always asking me to cook it. I love the bread it's so tasty and moist. It's full of blueberries and has a delicious cheesecake center. I must warn you, it does take a little time but in the end it is well worth it.
 
This is how mine came out..
 

  

 

 
INGREDIENTS
 

FOR THE BREAD:

ü  ½ cups Butter
ü  ½ cups Sugar
ü  ¼ teaspoons Salt
ü  1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
ü  2 whole Egg yolks
ü  1-½ cup All-Purpose Flour
ü  1 teaspoon Baking Powder
ü  ⅓ cups Milk
ü  1-½ cup Blueberries (up To 2 Cups, Which I Prefer)
ü  1 Tablespoon All-purpose Flour
ü  2 whole Egg Whites
ü  ¼ cups White Sugar

FOR THE FILLING:
ü  8 ounces, weight Cream Cheese
ü  ½ cups Sugar
ü  1 Tablespoon Flour
ü  1 whole Egg
ü  1 Tablespoon Orange Zest

FOR THE GLAZE:

ü  2 Tablespoons Sugar
ü  ½ teaspoons Vanilla
ü  1 teaspoon Water

Directions

Filling:
In a medium bowl, combine cream cheese, sugar, 1 tablespoon flour, egg and orange zest; beat until smooth. (Be sure to use the measurements found under filling for these.) Set aside.

Glaze:
Stir together the glaze ingredients and set aside.

For the bread:
Cream butter and sugar (1/2 cup) until fluffy. Add salt and vanilla. Add egg yolks (save the egg whites as you’ll need them later) to the sugar mixture; beat until creamy. Set aside.

In another bowl, combine flour (1 1/2 cups) and baking powder. Add this mixture, alternately with milk to egg yolk mixture.

Coat berries with 1 tablespoon flour and add them to the batter.

In a separate bowl, beat egg whites until soft peaks form. Add sugar (1/4 cup), 1 tablespoon at a time, and beat until stiff peaks form. Fold egg whites into batter.

Pour 1/2 of the batter (or a little less) into a floured and greased bread pan. Layer the filling over the batter and then finish with remainder of batter. This will create a layer of “cheesecake” between the blueberry batter.

Pour glaze over top of unbaked loaf and bake at 350F for 55-60 minutes.
 

Enjoy!!!

 

I have actually never used the orange zest, the first time I fixed it I couldn't find it in the store so I simply ignored it. I'm sure it gives it an extra zing but as of now I still haven't used it.
 

I want to thank TastyKitchen for this  great recipe. I plan on trying more of her recipes.

Try it and let me know what you think...

 

 

Moving In.....

Heyyyy, I know it has been a while I've been kind of busy


Trying to find an apartment was tiresome. However, thank God I finally found something. So last week I  moved into my apartment. in order to be closer to my internship. I am actually excited to be able to have my own spot again. Even though I will only be there for 6 months (hopefully longer), I plan to decorate it up and make it all homey.

I have been checking out Etsy and Amazon for some home décor to use. I ordered a nice fur purple comforter. I love it. I plan on decorating my room purple and teal. I have a lot more stuff to purchase to make the room look like I want it. I also have to get some stuff to spruce up my living room.

I'm sooo excited...

Fantasic 4 Review

 

This past Sunday JB and I went to see Fantastic 4. Sad to say but we both were disappointed. I've decided I would attempt to start doing movie reviews as often as JB and I go to the movies... So here is the very first one.. Please bear with me...

Fantastic 4 is about four young adults who build a machine and eventually teleport themselves to an alternate universe. Pretty cool right.... Well after they arrived things go a little "green" and it alters their physical form. Their normal lives are gone and they are all holding some super power (The Human Torch, Mister Fantastic, Susan Storm, and Thing). 

 

Spill:

The film starts off with the main character, Reed Richards, as a child working on a teleporting device in his garage. He sneaks into Ben's junk yard and takes Ben back with him to show him his invention. Then it fast forwards to him entering a science fair where he is eliminated; however, at the fair Dr. Franklin Storm offers Reed a full scholarship to the Baxter Foundation to build a travel machine. The team is composed of 4: Reed, Sue (the director's daughter), Victor Von (loner and former student of Baxter Foundation), and lastly Johnny, the troubled son of Dr. Franklin.

 

After they work hard to build the device and it is confirmed that they are able to transport and return they are told by Dr. Allen that they cannot join the expedition. They are upset. The three guys (Reed, Johnny, Victor) begin drinking and decide they are going to be the first people in the newly discovered universe. They will not be forgotten.  Reed calls Ben who has been his best friend since grade school to come along for the ride.

Sue isn't invited on this trip but she sees from the computer that the teleporting device has been initiated. Once they arrive they decide to walk around and check out where the "green substance" is coming from. Victor decides to touch it which causes doom to follow. The ground begins to collapse and the green substance is breaking through the ground. As they are racing back to the vehicle, Victor ends up being pulled in and is left behind. The other 3 eventually make it back to Earth (thanks to Sue). As they arrive in the Baxter facility an explosion occurs which alters Reed, Johnny, Ben and Sue. Reed can stretch his body, Johnny can fly and engulf his body into flames, Sue can make herself invisible and generate force fields of energy, and Ben develops a body made of rocks which gives him incredible strength.

We see them shocked and scared because of their new found abilities. The government has them in custody as they are being tested and observed. Reed..... well, he blamed himself for the condition that everyone is in and fled the scene. He was last seen talking to Ben through a vent promising to fix it. A year has passed and no sign of Reed. Johnny is enjoying his powers and feels that just maybe this is what he is suppose to do. Ben doesn't like it however he allows the government to use him and his strength to help the military. Sue does not want to be used as a tool for the government. She is trying to master her power while waiting for a cure to return to normal.

 

At this point they pretty much have gained control of their powers. We get a glimpse of Reed who is created a containment suit for himself and trying to find a cure to help Ben. They use Sue to track Reed's patterns and catch him. They bring him back to Area 57 where is instructed to open another portal to Planet Zero. The explorers go back and get Victor, who has been in this alternate universe for a year. Victor now is a bad bad guy. He wants to destroy  the human race and Earth leaving only his new home. To be honest I can't tell you what his superpower is. I mean he kind of has a lot. He can make people's heads explode just by looking at them and he has telekinetic powers. Victor kills scientists, soldiers and even kills Dr. Franklin Storm. Victor then flees in the portal to Planet Zero leaving it open to create a black hole. Johnny, Sue, Ben, and Reed follow behind him. The portal begins consuming everything on Earth. The four confront Victor individually and  fail. It is Reed who realizes that they can defeat him if they do it together. After the four come together and confront Victor Ben finishes him off by punching him into the portal's energy beam  which disintegrates him and Johnny finishes him off by closing the portal. 

They return to Earth and the military thank them for a job well done. They choose to keep their powers and use them fort the greater good. They relocate to a location that is off the grid as their new home and place of operations. They choose to name themselves the Fantastic Four....

The End..

My opinions:
I loved how Reed called up Ben to go along for the ride. It shows that although we may have forgotten about Ben (because he was pretty much absent from the film after Reed arrived at Baxter) he did not. However, we never got to see their relationship really grow. We went from that moment in the basement to the science fair to him dropping him off at Baxter. Yet they became best friends.

I didn't understand how Reed got disqualified for his design. I mean the teacher reduced his experiment to a magic trick. I mean yes he did make it disappear and then wa la it appeared again, but come on. There is some science in there somewhere right...??!!

This whole time that we got to see these characters, we never got to really get to know them. We don't know how Reed and Ben made it through high school. How Ben interacted with his big brother who clearly thought it was okay to hit on him, we never got to see how Reed's parents reacted to him cutting off all electricity in the city with his first experiment or simply how him and his parents interacted.

There is no bond between any of the characters even between Johnny and Sue who yes are totally different, but are still brother and sister. In the very end right before coming up with a name, Johnny refers to Ben as a mere thing that nobody wants. This shows even more that the characters don't have a relationship with each other.

I don't like that fact that we did not get to see them and the changes/process they went through in order to control themselves and their abilities. I mean were is the challenge in dealing with powers so big.

Lastly, my main issue with the film is that the fight with Victor took all of 5 minutes. Actually in my opinion it wasn't even a fight. There was not one exciting moments in that five minutes. It was a simple fail and punch and BAM Victor is defeated. It wasn't a challenge at all. Like where is the intensity, the challenge, the fight.

As you can see I did not enjoy this movie. I am normally the type that can find some kind of good in anything I watch. Nothing is ever really just terrible to me (Pink Panther and Woman in Black are the 2 main ones so far), but this movie is knocking on the door.

Please tell me what are your thoughts on the film?

    - The Boujie Belle

August Goals

Well this month is the month that school begins. Lucky for me my internship doesn't start until September.


This month will be hectic and exciting. I hopefully will be moving into my apartment next Friday if all goes well. at this moment I will only be there for 6 months but I still want to make it feel as homey as possible. So I have the task of moving, getting everything in the apartment situated, finding home décor and preparing myself for my internship.


I am going to try something new. Every month I will attempt to set new goals for myself and hopefully when I come back at the end of the month (or beginning of the new month) I can tell you that I accomplished most of everything I said I would.
So let this month's list begin...

August Goals!!!!!

1. Remember to write in my journal more often... I have a habit of maybe only writing one time a month and that is probably on because something major happened. I want to get into the habit of expressing myself even when nothing big has happened in my life.
2. Remember (if not daily then at least weekly) to write on my daily notecards. Being that I keep up with my life in my calendars I normally just go back and write on the notecards when I think about it {like the end of every month:( }which explains why more and more notecards are being left blank for the year of 2015.
3. Read at least 3 books (preferably from the library; not off my phone). I love reading and I actually had been doing pretty well with it. For some reason or another I stopped going to the library. I have just been downloading free books and entertaining myself with those.
4.Watch 3 new movies (or ones I haven't seen in forever) and start (&& finish) a Netflix series. I love to just sit at home and lay in bed watching a good movie surrounded by pillows. That is in order for this month for sure.
5.Move into the apartment and decorate. My last house with my friends, we never got around to decorating. My room was full because I have a lot of stuff but nothing was really decorated. Even though I won't be in the apartment for a long period of time, I still don't want to come home to a blank bare house.
6.Create a binder which will help me become more organized with bills and such. I like being organized and this time around I plan to really be. I want to keep everything in order and
7. Save....Save....Save.... I don't like being broke. I mean who does. There is always something I am wanting to buy. With me moving in this apartment, it is definitely putting a damper on my ability to want and purchase, but with so much going on I need to work on my saving capabilities.
8. Plan for graduation wants and costs. it is right around the corner. Like seriously I will be graduation soon (if the Lord says the same) and I know there a lot of things I want. so I need to plan to see what I can and cannot have. Yikes
9. Attempt to do better with exercising/working out.. A long shot I know. it's like I start off good and then if I skip a day it just throws me off. I need a consistent partner to make me consistent. I should want to do it on my own, but I haven't got that far yet.


So it seems like a lot and 9 is such an odd number but there it is... Let's see how well I can do....
What are your goals for the month of August?