tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37643247948692455802024-02-21T02:24:01.810-07:00My thoughts and philosophiesHollie Robbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859531562565720369noreply@blogger.comBlogger319125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764324794869245580.post-20688785905969416762017-08-13T17:36:00.000-06:002017-08-13T17:36:14.620-06:00Aspergers Mental Illness and ChurchWithin the LDS church we teach a lot about things like<a href="https://www.lds.org/topics/marriage?lang=eng" target="_blank"> Eternal Marriage</a>, <a href="https://www.lds.org/topics/eternal-life?lang=eng" target="_blank">Families can be Together Forever</a>,<a href="https://www.lds.org/topics/service?lang=eng" target="_blank"> Service</a>, <a href="https://www.lds.org/topics/atonement-of-jesus-christ?lang=eng" target="_blank">Atonement of Jesus Chris</a>t and so on. <div>
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Today in Sunday School we talked about Eternal Marriage. What it was and how you should treat your spouse and children. Comments have came up, things like:</div>
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<li>It is ok to set strong boundaries with your spouse or anyone else, so you can have your time, and so that you can be you. Or to in-laws so that you and your spouse can be going in the direction that you want to go as a couple. </li>
<li>Love beyond the Grave. that is one of the concepts that we as a Church teach and can allow to have a Marriage that is not just "Death do you Part" your marriage can be forever if you are married in the LDS Temple. It is a beautiful concept and lots of couples or singles for some other reason do not have that chance to be married in the LDS Temple but, will have that chance. </li>
<li>Just because you are married in the LDS Temple, that does not guarantee that you will still have that chance to stay together for all eternity. If you don't treat each other right, then you're spouse might not choose you. </li>
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There where more obviously, but they were just the key points that I wanted touch on. You see my brother who has Asperger's, and Mental Illness, was having a hard time through that class. He wants his "wife". He wants it so badly everything that God has promised to him if he lived the teachings of Jesus Christ. My brother is no different then we are. Who doesn't want a love that will last long beyond the grave? Shakespeare, believed in it enough to write Romeo and Juliet. There have been countless Love Serenades and Ballads throughout the years. People believed in it enough to write them.</div>
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Then came the combine class about <a href="https://www.lds.org/topics/pef-self-reliance/manuals-and-videos?lang=eng&old=true" target="_blank">Self Reliance.</a> It was good, it was just an introduction on what you might expect from taking a 12 week course that the church provides. I have not taken that course yet, I am sure that I will.... However, as the class progress my brother got agitated and a little anxiety started to show through his bodily physical movements. I just put my hand on his back, patted him a little, told him that he was ok, he calmed down and then I asked if he wanted to go home. He said yes. So I took him home about 15 minutes before church ended. </div>
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You see, one of the tools that his therapist gave us is to be aware of my brothers needs and his anxiety, if we need to leave then ok, we will. We don't mean to be rude, we don't do it because the speaker might be boring, or we think they are stupid or anything in that negative sphere. It is just sometimes we need to take him out of the situation so that he can feel safe and or accepted. </div>
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Not everyone on the Autism Spectrum, will have the same reaction and need to be taken out of the situation. Some are ok, if someone just holds their hand and accept them for who they are. Everyone who are on the Autism Spectrum will respond different and therefore will have a different way to handle whatever is giving them anxiety/agitation/stress, or whatever it might be and it depends on how bad it is. Just pay attention to them and just give any extra help that they might need. </div>
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The key is patience and love. </div>
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Hollie Robbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859531562565720369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764324794869245580.post-16573974959177989762017-03-03T18:06:00.001-07:002017-05-20T20:07:50.873-06:00My expirence with the Autistic SpectrumI get the comment all of the time that people know what the Autism Spectrum is. They tell me that there nephew/cousin/neighbor/church member/ etc is on the Autism Spectrum so they know all about it. Hmmm.....Right. <br />
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No, you don't. Thank you. I have lived with my brother who is on the Autistic Spectrum, (Asperger's in fact) all my life, I am the youngest of my family. So yes, I do have life experience, but I am no expert, but then who is? And....first of all...not every person on the Spectrum are the same. They are
as individual as Snowflakes.( Not that new stupid political term, but
the it's-so-cold-the-water-coming-down-turns-into-ice crystals,
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Unbeknownst to my parents and I, we were going to have the ride of our lives. You see, just over a year ago this brother of mine developed psychosis on top of his Asperger's. It was a year of fighting for his rights with the state of Utah, and my Mothers right as a Mother to keep her son safe.<br />
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<li>My mother had to go to the Utah courts to get guardianship over him. She won. </li>
<li>Me, I fought with him to take his pills. He thought that we were poisoning him. Nothing could be further from the truth. I even wrestled him for the pills in question, he was going to throw-them-a-way in the garbage. Later I was told that you <i>never do anything like that with someone with mental illness. </i>Oh well....I won. </li>
<li>My mother fought with the State of Utah for my brothers Medical Care, and his medical insurance. She won.</li>
<li>My mother fought with the doctors to give her son adequate medical care. Long battle, but she won. </li>
<li>My mother fought with the creditors to get his Student loans forgiven. She found a company to help her. In turn he can't have a steady job for 3 years. Well we are not worried about that because of his disability and his mental illness, really he can't do anything for very long. His mental stamina along that come with his Asperger's and the mental illness wont let him. She won. </li>
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I assure you, if we need do it all over again....we will. My mother and I have become a force to be reckoned with.<br />
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We told a friend of ours what our year have been like. She was shocked, amazed. She told us that "enduring to the end" we think that it only means our own physical health, but no, it means to endure whatever life throw at us. This takes on a whole new meaning of "Enduring to the End"1 Nephi 13:27<br />
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<a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="37"> </a><span class="verse"> </span><i>And blessed are they who shall seek to bring forth my Zion at that day, for they shall have the gift and the power of the Holy Ghost; and if they endure unto the end they shall be lifted up at the last day, and shall be saved in the everlasting kingdom of the Lamb; and whoso shall publish peace, yea, tidings of great joy, how beautiful upon the mountains shall they be.</i><br />
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It has been a very hard year. Last spring we thought that we were doing good. Hmmmm. No, we were wrong. We are fortunate to have a therapist for my bother to come into our home and give him and us the tools that we need to take care of my brother. We needed these tools. We need to first make sure that we are ok, then we can take care of my brothers needs. Slowly but surely with the help of the therapist, we are making progress, they are there, no matter how stubble they are, it is still progress.<br />
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Now like the analogy of the fitness journey. When someone is on that journey, they eat right, they work out, but sooner or later, they will hit bumps in the road or that fitness plateau. It's normal. Well it is the same with our year. We have hit bumps in the road, and have hit the plateau, the therapist assures us that this is all normal and there will be more.<br />
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It has been emotional frustrating, taxing, and exhaustion. There have been times that we all wanted to give up, someway, somehow just give up. We have been blessed by God. He has gave to us the mental stamina, the will power, the knowledge, and more tender mercies. All of this progress it is all because of Him. If we do everything in our power to do what God wants us to do then He will bear us up.And He has. I am so thankful for Him and what He has done. <br />
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<br />Hollie Robbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859531562565720369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764324794869245580.post-57660288388902025342016-07-05T15:29:00.001-06:002016-07-05T15:29:41.100-06:00Love/Hate Summer/grown upsSo I came across one moms perspective on how she hate's summer with her autistic son, called:<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">I can totally</span></b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> relate on all accounts but two. 1), I am a little sister who has an older bother with Asperger/High Functioning Autism. Yes, they pretty much mean the same thing. You see Asperger is High Functioning Autism. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">No, there is no cure. No, the shots didn't cause him to be on the Autism Spectrum. And No, the Shots didn't cause this! No. it didn't, so don't ague with me on this!</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Yes, he takes showers, just about every day. Sometimes twice a day. Sometimes he'll go without taking a shower for 2 days. Yes, we do remind him to take a shower, brush his teeth, brush his hair, and etc. He just wont think of such trivial things. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Yes, he is smart. I mean Very smart. He was talking to a neurologist about the brain. What each part does, why it does what it does. How it works, why it works and yeah, everything. The neurologist, dropped his jaw and said "He has as much knowledge about this as I do. He could have my job!" While he was in 3rd grade his teacher could have let my brother take over teaching the class. Yeah, he is THAT stinking smart! </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">He is alone, almost all of the time. In so many ways he connects with the Young men. Ages 12-18. His social level is at 7(?), sometimes it is as 12-18. He has melt downs just like other people with Autism and Asperger. In some ways, he is like a child, a 7 year old child. So other people have a hard time connecting to him. Heck, so do we, his own family! He loves his sweets. He'll stay on his computer for hours learning about different things. Right now it is cake decorating. Way cool that he is learning, but hate it that he is alone. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Tries to "go with the flow", but really likes his routine, structure, things must be the same. While during Thanksgiving, I'll be just as Thankful with a BLT, he on the other hand, needs to have the full Turkey dinner. And the Turkey left overs just keep coming back, like some bad nightmare! You see, 11 years ago the family lost everything. Jobs, house, friends, everything. He tried to keep his cool, but no, things propped up and we are still dealing with the after math. That is because he hates change, I mean really hates change. He had tried to deal with it but had a very hard time in doing so. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> He needs to know everything you are doing. Like everything! Your day, if you are cutting back roses, or mowing the lawn, making brownies, cake, or simply what the heck you are making for dinner. What is it?!? Yes, he needs to know, and he'll hover for ever. And yes, it drives me nuts. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">He only plans for the here and now, not the future, not even 3 hours from now. It is the "here and now." That is ok, for the most part. but he needs to be reminded to do things and that things are coming up in the future. See number 4.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">You see while he'll eat just about everything, now he decides that he can ONLY eat some foods and not others. Why? See number 4.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">His mind keeps him wanting to learn more. See number 2. That is way cool, that he wants to keep learning more, but it exhausts him, to the point that he needs to have a nap during the day, sometime more times during the day. That is because both his right side and his left side of his brain doesn't communicate to each other very well, so he becomes mentally exhausted, so he takes naps. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">He is very trusting. That can be a good thing. The problem is that he really trust everyone else and not his family. He will to a point.We can say things that are true and he will believe us about whatever truth we are saying. Other times his mind is SO made up that no matter what we'll tell him, it won't do any good what-so-ever. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">He has learned to be every creative in just about everything he will do. It is fascinating to see what he can come up with, but still he need to follow the written directions. Because remember number 4?</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">He'll say things and does things that will hurt people emotionally, he doesn't mean it, and it is usually not his intention....because you know see number 3. I love to see him socialize, but cringe every time he does. I don't know if that person will become offended or not, or just be shocked. Usually I just think.....Pass the popcorn! We're having a party! And just set back and watch the reactions of people. Pass the popcorn, it can be fun!?! </span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">They can show pure love. They don't care what you look like, or what you are wearing. They are just happy to know that you are their, and safe. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> They can teach you patience and how to love in the purest of forms.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> He finds beauty in ugly things, like snakes, lizards, Alligators, weird painting's and sculptures. You name it he'll find it. I have learned to do the same because of him and others who I have worked with. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">He'll mix his food as he sees fit, because remember number 4? Yeah. I know, but that is just how it is. This is Special Needs, welcome to it. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Living with Special Needs and work with Special Needs are two different things. Very Different Things</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">No, two people who are on the Autism Spectrum are the same. No, they are not, don't even try to argue, no, just no. They are different. You can't put people with Autism or Asperger's in one box, you can't even put them in 100 different box's. You might in a 1,000 different box's, but that is being generous. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I have also learned that while working with special needs, the ones who are on the Autistic Spectrum, it is <b>Normal</b>, yes normal for them to have some type of Psychosis. And you thought that I was kidding about the box's? HAHAHAHAH! Not even! The best to prevent/help this is Psychotherapy or Counseling very early on, depending on the person, and what is gong on. Sometimes they need both. Don't believe me? The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon Cooper, that should explain it all. Or how about Sherlock Holmes? Know the signs, of Psychosis. Look it up, check out books, whatever you need to do to educate yourself.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Cheers!! </span><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></b></span>Hollie Robbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859531562565720369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764324794869245580.post-73577587875730665722015-08-28T15:21:00.002-06:002015-08-28T15:27:41.323-06:00Poetic Ironic Justice. Miss Gillespie is a teacher in a grade school in Utah. She has been their for years. In fact she was all of my brothers teacher. When I came along she didn't have me in her class. Another teacher came along with a higher seniority, only because she had a higher degree. She was upset, she even went to the principle crying, argued, and begged to have mien her class. She even said:<br />
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Come to find out poetic ironic justice have been in the works all these years. Miss Gillespie, now known by a different name, is my nephews teacher this year! So now she is starting on the "second set" of Robbs. </div>
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I just laughed when my nephew told me who he had as a teacher. She even told him that she new his grandma very well. Yes she does, and it was all my brothers fault. This time it really is, she was never my teacher. </div>
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Hollie Robbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859531562565720369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764324794869245580.post-85135151266856475912015-08-22T20:39:00.001-06:002015-08-23T09:21:29.265-06:00Adventures of a Temple Worker<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Not to worry I'm not going to put anything that shouldn't be on line, but I can't resist blogging about some of my experiences</span>. One thing I will say is that, in the Temples, miracles happen. Some are so amazing, so tender, you want to "Keep it in your heart" like Mary the Mother of Jesus did. <br />
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I have been a LDS Temple Ordinance Worker at the Jordan River Temple since February of this year, 2015. Things have been interesting. The questions that people asked me are interesting. The Temple Presidency have asked the workers to direct the Patrons to one of them IF they have a question that pertain to the Gospel of Jesus Christ or to the Temple it's self. I don't get such lucky questions. I get others. For example:<br />
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I always answer that question with a yes. followed by: "Do you want to trade?" People always laugh when I'll ask that question. What I really want to say when ask the natural curly hair question. "I took the wool from the sheep and stuck it on my head, only because I don't have anything else to do." Or "I wanted to know what it would be like if I stuck my finger in the light socket"<br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="color: black;">I have to really ask myself: "Where is my testimony? Is it in the people, or is it in the Atonement of Christ?" I decided that it was in the Atonement. So I still read the scriptures, I get frustration along with comfort from them. Frustration, but that is just Isiah, he makes everyone frustrated. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="color: black;">A patron had the last name as my first name, it was just spelled different, but not much. She told me that I need to marry someone with her last name. Now if you have ever seen<a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xmt9w5_the-ghost-breakers_shortfilms" target="_blank"> Ghost Beakers.</a> Bob Hope's character had the name of Lawrence. A line in that movie was: "His name is Lawrence 3 times!" All I could think of was "Her name is Hollie 2 times!" I couldn't wrapped my head around that and all I could do was laugh. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="color: black;">As you may or may not heard the Utah Jordan River Temple will be closed for extensive renovation. The Temple was opened the year I was born 1979. Now you know how old I am along with the JR Temple. The Temple is dubbed<b> </b>"The Peoples Temple". The land was donated, and the church wanted to have the people raise money to build the temple. It is currently the most visited Temple in the world! We are told that on average we do around 1500 ordinances a day in that Temple! It is still not used in full. We always have one endowment room closed, we just rotate the rooms, and if we had enough workers then all of the Initiatory booths would be open. Sadly we don't have enough workers, so the waiting time can be 1-2 hours on average. On February 15 all Temple workers will be released, yep, including me. Our Temple president and Matron wont be. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="color: black;">Now here is the Rumors that is now surrounding the Jordan River Temple. These are good,<span style="color: blue;"><u> <span style="color: #cc0000;">remember they are just rumors, nobody really knows what is going to happen.</span></u></span></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="color: purple;"><span style="color: black;">They are going to get rid of the escalator's. We don't know, they are expensive to run.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple;"><span style="color: black;">They are going to redo the kitchen, and cafeteria. It really does need it, plumbing problems and it is small. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple;"><span style="color: black;">They are going to rebuild it from the bottom up. If they do, then I hope they keep the outside design. It's unique, and gorgeous in it's own way. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple;"><span style="color: black;">They are going to make the Celestial Room bigger. Again we don't know. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple;"><span style="color: black;">Living Endowment will be changed, because of the bathroom/toilet chorus. Well the NN area also have the bathroom/toilet chorus. Yes, it's an interesting chorus to hear.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple;"><span style="color: black;">They are going to redraw the Temple districts. We don't know, but I can tell you that the Oquirrh Mountain Temple is freaked out by the traffic that is coming their way. I can't say about the Salt Lake Temple and the Draper Temple. I have also heard that the Provo Temple will be closed at the same time as the JR Temple. </span></span></li>
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Hollie Robbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859531562565720369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764324794869245580.post-12762314972443562342015-03-13T19:47:00.000-06:002015-08-28T15:23:00.478-06:00Pineapple Coconut Chicken Pineapple Coconut Chicken! Wow, this one is good! Not only I get to play with my one of my favorite spices....Ginger, but one of my favorite foods....Pineapple. You can also dub this as a all natural cough syrup. I'll tell you how later on. Really it works! I used this while I had a terrible cough...it's Awesome!<br />
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1 lemon<br />
3inch of Ginger root<br />
1 tsp Honey<br />
1 Tbl of coconut oil.<br />
2 Tbl shredded coconut<br />
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One whole pineapple pealed, discard the outer layer. Cut ALL of the fruit...yes even the hard core of the pineapple. According to <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Laura Flores, a San Diego-based nutritionist: the hard core of the pineapple is full of nutrition. Like high dosage of vitamin C, manganese, and enzymes. It's that stuff that helps the body brake down proteins and turn it into energy. Put all of the cut up pineapple into a food processor. Fresh squeeze the whole lemon in to the food processor with the pineapple. Peal the ginger cut it up and place that in there as well, with the teaspoon of honey. Put the food processor on high. Now you need a fine wire colander or a cheese cloth. Drain the liquid/cough syrup. So...the liquid is the awesome all natural cough syrup! Place the cough syrup in a mansion jar, or some sealed container, put it in the fridge. Take 2 teaspoons every 4/6 hours. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Now the pulp, is used for your chicken. Place chicken and pulp in a frying pan with coconut oil and 2 tablespoons of shredded coconut. Cook until your chicken reaches 160 degrees, or until you are confidant that the chicken is done! This is supper good! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Cheers!!</span><br />
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Hollie Robbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859531562565720369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764324794869245580.post-5351375041098133372015-01-11T01:55:00.000-07:002015-01-11T01:56:45.720-07:00Romanticizing: What Could BeWouldn't it be wonderful to wake up and everything will be Beautiful? No more killings, hate, or fear? How about walking at night alone on the streets of your favorite city? Possibly a city you've always wanted to visit, but haven't yet?<br />
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With all that is ugly things happening around the world, sometimes it is hard to find the simple beautiful joy. We hear or see of killings, threats, the terror people will cause on others. Why? Why must people do and say such things? Could it be jealousy, fear, or just plain zealousness? </div>
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We learn in the scriptures "<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them." (Matthew 7:20 & 3 Nephi 14:20). As in, look in what they are saying, and doing. A good tree cannot bare rotten fruit. How about: a genuinely good person will always do good, because they want to. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There is beauty still. Beauty is everywhere. It is in art, music, flowers, and etc. It is 1 am my time. How much fun would it be to walk alone in the dark in your city of choice and not have fear? You could enjoy the city at your own pace. Take everything in, all the sites, smells, the sounds. That would be a fantasy right now. </span></div>
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Everyone from time to time do a little Romanticizing. Be it for the past, present, or future. We all somehow, in some way do just that, romanticize. Does that make one a romantic or a hopeless romantic?<br />
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One of my goal is to find the beauty in this world. It may seem heard or overwhelming, but it can be done. Beauty is in the simplest act of kindness to the simplest and smallest of pleasures. Joy and beauty can be found. We just need to realize it, if we don't now. </div>
Hollie Robbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859531562565720369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764324794869245580.post-57708037311810074882014-04-23T18:34:00.001-06:002014-04-24T12:56:41.577-06:00Fashion<span style="color: #a64d79;">Ok, fashion....right. Truth is, I'm not a fashion expert. I don't do fashion policing. However this time I will. I am a tee-shirt and jeans and yoga pants (while I am working out) type girl. So in other words I have no idea what to tell you about fashion. I'm not even going to try and tell you what is the "must-haves-of-the-season" I will say this I am going to include an URL to this post to an other blog, and a web site. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><a href="http://sophiajenner.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/christina-hendricks-bra-size-controversy/" target="_blank">Sophia Janner</a>, talks about on her blog what every woman needs to know.....bras. Yes, bras. You might think you are waring the right size bra, but the truth of the matter is about 80% of women are not. It's not you're fault, so don't get defensive. The stores like WallMart, K-Mart, and etc <u><b>don't </b></u>carry all sizes that women need to find a good comfy fit bra. One of the tall tell signs of wearing the wrong size bra is:</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #a64d79;">Saggy looking boobs</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #a64d79;">You look bigger. Not in the boobs, but your overall shape</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #a64d79;">You have the "forth" boob effect</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #a64d79;">Bad posture</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #a64d79;">Your back and shoulders hurt</span></li>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">80% of women are walking around with their back and shoulders hurting, saggy breast, the "forth boob", and the sideboob." Come on what 20 something wants to have saggy looking breast? What woman for that matter would want to have sagging look breast?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><br /></span><span style="color: #a64d79;">My friends, sorry about the following language, but this is spot on. I know people who are like these</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #a64d79;">Is the center gore (which joins the center pice of the bra together) flat against you're chest? If not, then the band size is too small for your rib cage. The center gore should lay flat against your chest. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #a64d79;">Can you pull the center gore away from you're chest? Again, the band size is too small for your rib cage. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #a64d79;">Do you have the sideboob going on? If yes, then your cup size is too small.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #a64d79;">Is your band parallel/ straight across the back? If it is not and it rides high on your back, then your band is too big. If the band rides low on your back then the band is too small. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #a64d79;">Do you have breast tissue "bubbling" on top of your bra? If you do then your cup size is too small.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #a64d79;">Is the wire of the bra on your breast tissue? If yes, then your band size is too big. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #a64d79;">Is the bra straps digging into your shoulder? If yes, then most likely your band is too big. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #a64d79;">Is your wires are leaving a angry red mark on your breast tissue? Depending where the angry </span><span style="color: #a64d79;">make is, but it could just simply mean that your band is too small, with a too small cup size. </span></li>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">Again, not your fault if you are wearing the wrong bra size. We are trained to think that cup DD and </span><span style="color: #a64d79;">up are way too big and the girls need to go under the knife. Not really. It all depends on the volume of the breast tissue and how narrow your back/rib cage is. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">For example: 34D, 36C, and 38B have the same volume, but a 38 band might be too big for your rib cage. Now let's go bigger cups. 32FF, 34F, and 38E have the same volume. Now you might think that these are horrendously big, but again, it all depends on your shape. When you do have the right size bra on, then your natural body shape will look slimmer, and boobs will look perky, not saggy. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">Here is clip by Figleaves, they explan what you need to know when looking for the perfect fit bra. It is just a 5 minute clip. I also love their website figleaves.com. They do have a bra <a href="http://www.figleaves.com/us/fitting-room/bra-calculator/" target="_blank">calculator</a> that </span><span style="color: #a64d79;">helps. They also have "Ask our experts," they are helpful in finding the right size. Figleaves.com has </span><span style="color: #a64d79;">ALL sizes, brands, and style of bras, and they always do have some kind of sale going on, all the time. I haven't found another web site that is like this one....yet. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">If you do find out that you are bigger then a 24D, don't fret. Go ahead and get the right size bra even IF it is a 30G. You will find that you are way more comfortable in the right size bra, and you will look better also. </span><br />
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Hollie Robbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859531562565720369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764324794869245580.post-64303692088683555562013-07-04T15:14:00.001-06:002013-07-04T15:15:29.424-06:00The Declaration Of Independence <div data-key="icjj" data-num="4">
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IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.</div>
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<b>The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,</b></div>
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When in the Course of human events, it
becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which
have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the
earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of
Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind
requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the
separation.</div>
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We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights,
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from
the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government
becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to
alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its
foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as
to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should
not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all
experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while
evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms
to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and
usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to
reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their
duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their
future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies;
and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their
former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great
Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in
direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these
States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.</div>
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He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.</div>
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He has forbidden his Governors to pass
Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their
operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he
has utterly neglected to attend to them.</div>
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He has refused to pass other Laws for
the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people
would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right
inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.</div>
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He has called together legislative
bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository
of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into
compliance with his measures.</div>
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He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.</div>
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He has refused for a long time, after
such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the
Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the
People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time
exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions
within.</div>
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He has endeavoured to prevent the
population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for
Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their
migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of
Lands.</div>
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He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.</div>
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He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.</div>
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He has erected a multitude of New
Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and
eat out their substance.</div>
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He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.</div>
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He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.</div>
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He has combined with others to subject
us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by
our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:</div>
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For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:</div>
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For protecting them, by a mock Trial,
from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the
Inhabitants of these States:</div>
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For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:</div>
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For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:</div>
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For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:</div>
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For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences</div>
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For abolishing the free System of
English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an
Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at
once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute
rule into these Colonies:</div>
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For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:</div>
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For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.</div>
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He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.</div>
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He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.</div>
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He is at this time transporting large
Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation
and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy
scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the
Head of a civilized nation.</div>
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He has constrained our fellow Citizens
taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to
become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall
themselves by their Hands.</div>
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He has excited domestic insurrections
amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our
frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is
an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.</div>
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In every stage of these Oppressions We
have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated
Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose
character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is
unfit to be the ruler of a free people.</div>
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Nor have We been wanting in attentions
to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of
attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction
over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration
and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and
magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred
to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our
connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of
justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the
necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the
rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.</div>
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We, therefore, the Representatives of
the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing
to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions,
do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies,
solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of
Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved
from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political
connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to
be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have
full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish
Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States
may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm
reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to
each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.</div>
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<i>The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated:</i></div>
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Column 1<br />
<b>Georgia:</b><br />
Button Gwinnett<br />
Lyman Hall<br />
George Walton</div>
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Column 2<br />
<b>North Carolina:</b><br />
William Hooper<br />
Joseph Hewes<br />
John Penn<br />
<b>South Carolina:</b><br />
Edward Rutledge<br />
Thomas Heyward, Jr.<br />
Thomas Lynch, Jr.<br />
Arthur Middleton</div>
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Column 3<br />
<b>Massachusetts:</b><br />
John Hancock<br />
<b>Maryland:</b><br />
Samuel Chase<br />
William Paca<br />
Thomas Stone<br />
Charles Carroll of Carrollton<br />
<b>Virginia:</b><br />
George Wythe<br />
Richard Henry Lee<br />
Thomas Jefferson<br />
Benjamin Harrison<br />
Thomas Nelson, Jr.<br />
Francis Lightfoot Lee<br />
Carter Braxton</div>
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Column 4<br />
<b>Pennsylvania:</b><br />
Robert Morris<br />
Benjamin Rush<br />
Benjamin Franklin<br />
John Morton<br />
George Clymer<br />
James Smith<br />
George Taylor<br />
James Wilson<br />
George Ross<br />
<b>Delaware:</b><br />
Caesar Rodney<br />
George Read<br />
Thomas McKean</div>
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Column 5<br />
<b>New York:</b><br />
William Floyd<br />
Philip Livingston<br />
Francis Lewis<br />
Lewis Morris<br />
<b>New Jersey:</b><br />
Richard Stockton<br />
John Witherspoon<br />
Francis Hopkinson<br />
John Hart<br />
Abraham Clark</div>
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Column 6<br />
<b>New Hampshire:</b><br />
Josiah Bartlett<br />
William Whipple<br />
<b>Massachusetts:</b><br />
Samuel Adams<br />
John Adams<br />
Robert Treat Paine<br />
Elbridge Gerry<br />
<b>Rhode Island:</b><br />
Stephen Hopkins<br />
William Ellery<br />
<b>Connecticut:</b><br />
Roger Sherman<br />
Samuel Huntington<br />
William Williams<br />
Oliver Wolcott<br />
<b>New Hampshire:</b><br />
Matthew Thornton</div>
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Happy Birthday America!</div>
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Cheers Everyone!! </div>
Hollie Robbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859531562565720369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764324794869245580.post-35663992626788257172013-02-07T01:05:00.000-07:002013-02-07T01:05:05.704-07:00"That" Time of Year Once Again Yes, as we know Valentines is coming up once again, and for some reason it comes up every year. Somehow I do think that singles all over the world would agree with me when I say: "Boycott Valentines Day!" Guess what we have, by calling it: "Singles-Awareness-Day." Just so you know.<br />
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Now I have found a<a href="http://www.ksl.com/?sid=23977109&nid=1009&title=from-cute-to-clean-8-reasons-to-give-the-gift-of-a-great-love-story&fm=home_page&s_cid=queue-6" target="_blank"> list of books to read</a> for *cough* Valentines Day *cough.* To be honest I haven't read many of these books. One of the books that was listed was "Beastly." Many reasons why I didn't like this story, (I tried to but failed). One of the reasons that bothered me about this story, was at the beginning of the story where the main character gets groped, and there was drugs and alcohol in the story. Yeah, I was uncomfortable just reading about it; to say the lest, I don't recommended this book at all.<br />
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So now that *cough* Valentines Day *cough* is approaching fast, (Men, get the roses and chocolates ordered for your love), but I do have my own list of good reads for all ages. Yes, ALL ages. You can however be the judge. I like them for not only for entertainment, but they are clean<i>. </i>I just don't like to read junk.<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/princess-bride-william-goldman/1100210052" target="_blank">The Princess Bride </a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Book-Thousand-Days-Shannon-Hale/dp/1599903784" target="_blank">Book of a Thousand Days </a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fairest-Gail-Carson-Levine/dp/0060734108" target="_blank">Fairest </a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/My-Fair-Godmother-Janette-Rallison/dp/B0058M7EZY" target="_blank">My Fair Godmother</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/My-Unfair-Godmother-Janette-Rallison/dp/0802722369/ref=pd_sim_b_21" target="_blank">My Unfair Godmother</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Mark-ebook/dp/B004AM5P2M" target="_blank">The Mark</a></li>
<li> <a href="http://shakespeare.mit.edu/much_ado/full.html" target="_blank">Much Ado About Nothing </a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Austenland-A-Novel-Shannon-Hale/dp/1596912863/ref=pd_sim_b_1" target="_blank">Austenland</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mr-Darcy-Vampyre-Amanda-Grange/dp/1402236972" target="_blank">Mr. Darcy Vampyre</a></li>
<li><a href="http://shakespeare.mit.edu/asyoulikeit/full.html" target="_blank">As You Like It</a></li>
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That is it for this years list of good *cough* Valentine *cough* (I must have a frog in my throat??), reads. I could make the list longer, but that would be boring to read a long list.<br />
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Now in a previous post I have given a list of entertainment for<a href="http://mythoughtsandphilosophies.blogspot.com/2010/02/entertainment-for-singles-awareness.html" target="_blank"> Single-Awareness-Day. </a> I have now a new updated list. If you will, a list for all; a mixture of not just books, but poetry, and movies alike. Yes, once again ALL ages, and no junk. Once again they are about lost love, unrequited love, (admit it we all have been there), and just plain silly. So silly, it doesn't have anything to do with love/Valentine. <br />
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<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Unvalentine-Sam-Beeson/dp/1590388437" target="_blank">The Unvalentine </a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.online-literature.com/donne/720/" target="_blank">The Lady of Shalott</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Glass-Bottom-Boat-Doris/dp/B0007QS2ZC" target="_blank">The Glass Bottom Boat </a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Walk-Dont-Run-Cary-Grant/dp/B00008MTYC" target="_blank">Walk Don't Run</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rosencrantz-Guildenstern-Are-Dead-Stoppard/dp/0802132758" target="_blank">Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead</a> (why? you may ask, Answer....It's another view of Hamlet. By the way it's on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4SVVKuOr0c" target="_blank">Youtube</a>, in parts). </li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Disgusted-Handbook-Instructions-Surviving-Infested/dp/1885027095" target="_blank">The Disgusted Driver's Handbook--Instructions For Surviving On The Roads Infested With Idiots </a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Day-Book-Cheering-Yourself/dp/0740791877/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1360221552&sr=1-1&keywords=the+blue+day+book" target="_blank">The Blue Day Book: A Lesson on Cheering Yourself Up</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Austen-Jemima-Rooper/dp/B001PJRAUS" target="_blank">Lost in Austen</a>, (it's also on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz-9gmfXjTI" target="_blank">Youtube</a>). </li>
<li> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Arsenic-Old-Lace-Cary-Grant/dp/0790743949" target="_blank">Arsenic and Old lace</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rapunzels-Revenge-Dean-Hale/dp/1599902885" target="_blank">Rapunzel's Revenge</a> </li>
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There you have it. My 2013 updated list. I must admit I really thought about the Single-Awareness-Day list, the earlier post about Single-Awareness-Day list of book's & movies I didn't need to think. Once again you can enjoy my list or by all means, make up your own. These are just suggestions.<br />
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So don't forget the ice cream, or popcorn, and enjoy!<br />
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Cheers Everyone! Hollie Robbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859531562565720369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764324794869245580.post-62560270293864614252012-10-26T01:36:00.001-06:002012-10-26T01:42:05.700-06:00America deserves better.<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A great leader is an example of everything good. They are not scared to get their hands dirty. They will be an example of service, forgiveness, justice, humility, hope, faith, and charity. I don't know what kind of president Romney could be. I only know that he has the potential to be great.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The last four years have been a wake up call for most Americans. Obama and his administration have been a disappointment. Americans have felt betrayed. I have seen the real Obama in the debates this past month, he has been petty and tiny. Attacking Romney, telling lies and rumors about him. Even after the fact checkers has proved Obama wrong. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I don't know about you, but I want a leader that I can be proud of. As I have said before, I don't know what kind of leader Romney will be. What I do know is that, I am not proud to have Obama as my leader. He has not served the people of America with humility. Obama has not served America, only burden America's people with debt, lies, and irresponsibility. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Obama was presented to the American people a wolf in sheepskin four years ago. I am proud to say that I did not vote for him four years ago, he did not give me a good reason why I should. During the last four years Obamas sheepskin have been falling apart, little by little. The last two months his sheepskin have been striped away to show the wolf he really is. The sad thing is that people refuse to see it, and that is what Obama is counting on. America does not need this kind of leader. America deserves a better, nobler leader. Sadly, Obama is not he. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I want a leader that I can be proud of. A leader that is trying to be good. I want a kind of leader that other nations will be jealous. To have such a leader that will lead America to greatness. To have such a leader would be amazing. A lot of people would say that kind of leader only is in fictional story's. I don't think so. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">George Washington was a great leader. America needed him. Americans wanted him to be king. Washington refused, so instead he became president. Not only in his presidency was he a great leader, but before being president he was a leader of war. He was able to turn farmers, peddlers, cobblers, and etc into an army with service and with discipline, </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">who defeated the English with the help of the French. The best part of George Washington, he did fight along with his army in war, and he served them and the early American people into independence. The better part of Washington is that he prayed for devine guidance to lead. He prayed over his men, and the land that he loved. There have been other leaders like him in history, and there can be once again.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">To have a leader who will serve, and if needs be to discipline with love, humility, and faith will be a great leader. I pray to have that kind of leader that America needs and deserves. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Cheers Eveyone!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span>Hollie Robbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859531562565720369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764324794869245580.post-53691581704756190302012-05-23T22:28:00.001-06:002012-05-24T16:51:37.246-06:00Pina Colada CakeOk on Pinterest I keep seeing a Pina Colada Cake. What makes the cake is the icing/topping. The ones that are on Pinterest have the pineapple in the cake. Hmmmmm. This is my families recipe.<br />
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1 yellow cake mix<br />
1 can of chunky pineapple drained <br />
1 package of instant sugar free Banana pudding<br />
1 large tub of Cool Whip/or a small box of whipping cream; whipped<br />
1 package of coconut<br />
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Directions:<br />
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Mix up the cake according to directions. In a 13-9 in cake pan spray with cooking spray and sprinkle 1/2 cup coconut on the bottom. Pore the cake mix in the pan on top of the coconut, bake according to directions.<br />
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In a large bowl pore the Cool Whip/or Whipping Cream, mix the dry instant sugar free Banana pudding together, with drained pineapple chunks. Pore over the top of the cooled cake. Last sprinkle the rest of the coconut on top. Remember <i style="color: #990000;">refrigerate</i> any left overs, because of the milk.<br />
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Ok, I have forgotten to put on a tip for this cake. <b style="color: #4c1130;"><i>Tip:</i></b> Instead of using veggie oil like it says on the back of the yellow cake mix box, my family and I would put in Coconut oil. By doing that it changed the texture of the cake and made it taste amazing! <br />
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Cheers! <br />
<br />Hollie Robbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859531562565720369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764324794869245580.post-39883385603199461572012-05-20T17:49:00.000-06:002012-05-20T22:08:59.254-06:00FHE ActivityI was surprised that ALL of the programs was taken. The people in my ward would usually take a program, read it, and then put it back on the table after the meeting. This time there was not a program put back. I put on a scripture chase on the program, called Scripture Cookies. The idea of this scripture chase is to look up each scripture and you will find the ingredients for Scripture Cookies. Some of the clues are subtle, so check the list of ingredients on the bottom. This is the recipe:<br />
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<li>3/4 cup "The words of his mouth were smoother than<u> </u>" <a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/55?lang=eng" target="_blank">(Ps 55:21)</a></li>
<li>1/3 cup "Come unto me all ye ends of the earth, buy<u> </u>and honey"<a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/26?lang=eng" target="_blank"> (2Ne 26:25)</a></li>
<li>1 1/2 cups "To what purpose cometh there to me......the<u> </u> <u> </u>from a far country? <a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/jer/6?lang=eng" target="_blank">(Jer 6:20)</a></li>
<li>2 "As one gathereth<u> </u>that are left, have I gathered all the earth" <a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/10?lang=eng" target="_blank">(Isa 10:14)</a></li>
<li>2 cups "And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine<u> </u><a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/1-kgs/4?lang=eng" target="_blank">(1 Kings 4:22)</a></li>
<li>1 teaspoon "Take thou also unto thee principal spices,... and of sweet<u> </u>half so much<a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ex/30?lang=eng" target="_blank"> (Ex 30:23)</a></li>
<li>1 teaspoon "Ye are the<u> </u>of the earth" <a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/5?lang=eng" target="_blank">(Matt 5:13) </a></li>
<li>1/2 teaspoon "The kingdom of heaven is like unto<u> </u><a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/13?lang=eng" target="_blank">(Matt13:33)</a></li>
<li>3 cup "Nevertheless,....<u> </u>for the horse" <a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/89?lang=eng" target="_blank">(D&C 89:17)</a></li>
<li>1 cup "And they gave him....two cluster of<u> </u>" <a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/1-sam/30?lang=eng" target="_blank">(1 Sam 30:12)</a></li>
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<li>Beat first four ingredients together</li>
<li>Mix in remaining ingredients</li>
<li>Drop by teaspoonfuls onto greased cookies sheet</li>
<li>Bake at 350 F (175 C) for 15 Minutes</li>
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Answer: Butter, Milk, Sugar, Eggs, Flour, Cinnamon, Salt, Baking Soda, Oats, and Raisins.<br />
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<b><i>"Feast upon the words of Christ" 2 Nephi 32:3</i></b></div>
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I did two things different to this recipe. I took out the raisins and put in chocolate chips. I am not a fan of raisins, I really hate raisins. The chocolate chips, I thought made the cookies. And I took out the Salt</div>
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<b><i>Cheers everyone!</i></b></div>
<br />Hollie Robbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859531562565720369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764324794869245580.post-31226497723150134522012-04-09T21:05:00.000-06:002012-04-09T21:07:23.656-06:00Music Theory/Another PlayWow, have things been frustrating. My mom and I are working on a new play. This play is for special needs. Our protagonist ( good guy) is deaf. Yep, you read right; deaf. So in this play there will be signing going on, along with singing. Yep, my deaf protagonist will be singing in sign language. While the best friend will be signing terribly off key. It's still in the very early stages. You know writing, deleting, re-writing, deleting some more, screaming at the computer, then taking a break to work out coming back and the whole cycle continues again. Like the cycle of prosperity in the Book of Mormon.<br />
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We are currently writing one song. I have no problems with lyrics and melody, but translating what I have in my head on to paper is another thing. So yeah frustration is apparent right now. Craft, art, or whatever you would like to call it, takes time. The thing is that when you are your own critic, (a bad one at that), you need to be careful not to hate yourself and give up. Whatever creative thing you do is a new learning experience. You maybe painting, singing, drawing, or sculpting for years but it's still a new learning experience.<br />
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The question is now is why am I writing a play that will have sign in it, nobody but the deaf will understand what he is saying? The answer is: Well this is not the first time I have co-written a play for special needs. This one is the first time I have written about a deaf protagonist.. The deaf and hearing alike will be able to understand all of the play....we hope. I'm just hoping that the play will make sense. <br />
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Now my music program decided to take a vacation on me, it will not let me save my progressive work. I just need to find my disk and restart it. I worked so hard to figure out the rhythm of one of the songs. I refused to loose it so I ended up writing it down the old fashion way. On paper. Poetic Justice? Possibly. Beethoven, Bach, and all of the other classical composers are possibly applauding me or laughing at me right now. I'm thinking laughing at me. <br />
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Cheers Everyone!Hollie Robbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859531562565720369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764324794869245580.post-89967272782810649982012-02-29T20:36:00.005-07:002012-02-29T21:07:30.110-07:00Bad Cooks Anonymous<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp1Rq7aquEPm3q7Wc2eJEbi_V5-n_Kp_SCrwyrtjO-sUM67ApHEYckN2F5gg2JDAGaOAEp4KMhVlWGjB26YCqTZdR_UQ3ilDWr880cf6ON_OQ-FQLDlfVLWsDfY98rOQF6Mhmr-46l5_8/s1600/CIMG1310.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp1Rq7aquEPm3q7Wc2eJEbi_V5-n_Kp_SCrwyrtjO-sUM67ApHEYckN2F5gg2JDAGaOAEp4KMhVlWGjB26YCqTZdR_UQ3ilDWr880cf6ON_OQ-FQLDlfVLWsDfY98rOQF6Mhmr-46l5_8/s400/CIMG1310.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5714773058756486242" border="0" /></a><br />I'll start out with this. I shouldn't have used anonymous as part of the title for this blog post. I'm not very anonymous because my name will be on the bottom of this post, which in fact will not make me anonymous. So how about this?<br /><br />"Hello; my name is Hollie. I can and will cook better. I guess, if I half to."<br /><br />I'm not a the best cook in the world, but I'm not the worse either. But after what happen tonight well..........One would classify me as the "worse in the world."<br /><br /><ul><li> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> The pic, is in reality the toxic waste (Brownies) that I tried to make. Looks yummy huh?</span></li></ul><br />I took a brownie mix and tired to make brownies. Ha! You'd think that I'd be able to do that with no mess up!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA6Ie1BE-oPS_oRJjkEi72w1KEI8cwJihzKKIPWWRh7ZhAoeIOgZ3-T4RCLwuCV_Vehs4qPYOyhSbzZjnAvNTK6qt2linjyO1wWpjE0a5E0KpCUmPb3VhV90clDaZo5w2euvrzsAmyGw0/s1600/CIMG1310.JPG"></a><br /><br />I did follow the directions. To make things short, the batter came out as toxic waste. The things that I do because of chocolate cravings. Now this is what makes things interesting. I tried to make it better. You know by adding sugar, coco, vanilla, butter, and flower. It didn't work, it just made things worse. It tasted as bad as it looks after I cooked it.<br /><br />So now it is where it belongs. I thrown it way. It should go to where other low levels of toxic waste is being held in Utah. So what did I learn from all of this? Stay away from box mixes.<br /><br />Cheers everyone!Hollie Robbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859531562565720369noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764324794869245580.post-57770687281383544192011-12-22T10:42:00.004-07:002011-12-22T11:01:49.205-07:00Ginger and Pineapple ChickenI've been telling people that I'll put this up on the blog for a long time. I just finally have time. This is really good, my parents loved it.<br /><br />4 boneless chicken breast<br />2 cans of chunky pineapple<br />1 tablespoon of ginger or more depending of taste<br />3 cups of rice brown or white (I use brown)<br />a pinch of Frenches Onion<br /><br />Method:<br /><br />Combine the chicken, the juice of the pineapple and ginger. Place the pineapple chunks in a bowl. Cook the chicken in a skillet or Dutch oven until the meat thermometer reaches 160-170 degrees. Cook the rice use the directions on the box of the rice. When the chicken is done, cut up length wise, bite size if serving to children.<br /><br />Put about 2 tablespoons of rice on a dinner plate. On top of rice place cut up chicken. On top of chicken put 2 tablespoons of pineapple. Than sprinkle a pinch of Frenches Onion. Place on some fresh carrots, peas, etc as a side dish, then serve for dinner. Enjoy!<br /><br />Cheers Everyone!Hollie Robbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859531562565720369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764324794869245580.post-18409067651091594322011-11-27T18:32:00.002-07:002018-12-16T19:10:18.665-07:00Homemade Totally NutsI was happy when I have found this recipe on the net. My mom and I did a slightly different variation on this recipe. The original recipe is this:<br />
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1 cup granulated sugar<br />
1/2 tsp cinnamon<br />
1/8 tsp cream of tartar<br />
1/4 cup hot water<br />
1/2 tsp vanilla extract<br />
1 1/2 cups whole toasted almonds.<br />
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<li>Preparation: Prepare a baking sheet by lining it with aluminum foil and spraying the foil with nonstick cooking spray.</li>
<li>In a small saucepan, combine the water, cinnamon, sugar, and cream of tartar over medium-high heat. Stir until the sugar dissolves.</li>
<li>Continue to cook, stirring occasionally, until the mixture reaches 246 degrees on a candy thermometer.</li>
<li>Once the mixture is at the proper temperature, remove immediately from the heat and stir in the Vanilla. Add the nuts all at once, and stir with a wooden spoon until they are completely coated with the sugar mixture. Continue to stir until it becomes difficult to stir and the syrup turns opaque.</li>
<li>Quickly turn out onto the prepared baking sheet. Separate the nuts and allow them to cool and harden at room temperature. Nuts can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature for several weeks.</li>
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Ok, so that is the original recipe. As my mom and I found out we can and needed to do something different. This is our recipe:<br />
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1 cup of granulated sugar<br />
1 and 1/2 tsp of ground cinnamon OR 1 and 1/2 tsp of ground cloves<br />
1/8 tsp of cream of tartar<br />
1/4 cup of hot water<br />
1/2 tsp of vanilla extract<br />
1 and 1/2 cup of whole raw almonds<br />
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Preparation:<br />
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<li>Baking sheet sprayed with nonstick cooking spray. <span style="font-style: italic;">(the aluminum foil ripped and bits of foil was sticking to the almonds. So I got rid of the foil)</span></li>
<li>In a small saucepan, combine the water, cinnamon<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">/cloves, </span></span>sugar, and cream of tartar over medium-high heat. Stir until the sugar dissolves. <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></span></li>
<li>Continue to cook, stirring occasionally, until the mixture reaches 246 degrees on a candy thermometer.</li>
<li>Once the candy is at the proper temperature, remove immediately from the heat and stir in the vanilla. Add the nuts all at once, stir with a wooden spoon until they are completely coated with the sugar mixture<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">. (I didn't continue to stir until the nuts became opaque the second time. The mixture cools fast and it became hard to clean the saucepan of the nuts that was stuck to the sides.)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">I just coated the nuts with the mixture then pour onto the baking sheet. The sugar coated nuts will still turn opaque while you are separating the nuts on the baking sheet. </span></span>Cool at room temperature<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">. </span></span>Nuts can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature for several weeks.</li>
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By using ground cloves instead of ground cinnamon, creating a different unique taste. Both ways are equally good. Enjoy!<br />
Cheers Everyone!Hollie Robbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859531562565720369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764324794869245580.post-60117066267917315412011-11-09T14:23:00.006-07:002011-11-09T15:25:29.110-07:00The Dickens Theater Company<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisFmD6k3you3lOnh1E6Xhz6TPnEa8HI1V8DD985Sl1dF-CtI6K1Sle6GFJ3TcVYRVefGkRAfpUvGGtQawRqZZau-WIOsCTvpbZiMBcEyEggCJT-JBApgZjddRTgeCK29J8KeB2mnQ5Soc/s1600/I+made+it+up+Hollie.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisFmD6k3you3lOnh1E6Xhz6TPnEa8HI1V8DD985Sl1dF-CtI6K1Sle6GFJ3TcVYRVefGkRAfpUvGGtQawRqZZau-WIOsCTvpbZiMBcEyEggCJT-JBApgZjddRTgeCK29J8KeB2mnQ5Soc/s400/I+made+it+up+Hollie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5673120190940389618" border="0" /></a><br />I know that I have always said:<br /><br />"I'll never do theater again."<br /><br />Yeah, well "never say never." So now I'm apart of "<a href="http://dickenstheaterco.blogspot.com/">The Dickens Theater Company</a>" for Christmas. We are going to put on Oliver, Scrooge, and street theater. The performances are at the Utah State Fair Grounds, December 8,9,10-15,16,17. The Saturdays performances are pretty much all day long for me, because of the street theater that I get to do.<br /><ul><li>Oliver time during the week is 6pm. Saturday matinee is 1pm, again at 6pm<br /></li><li>Scrooge time during the week is 8pm. Saturday matinee is 3pm, again at 8pm<br /></li></ul>The picture above is part of a element in the choreography that we are doing in Oliver; Oom Pa Pa. We were all thrilled that all of the girls got up. I feel so bad for the boys who need to lift us up. I'm trying so hard not to put all of my weight on their arms. The boys *bump* us off, and I can't help but think:<br /><br />"A tone of women, coming down all at once!"<br /><br />For a while now I have been trying to get away from theater. The more I fight, the more people have asked me to direct a play, or be in it. So really this is the first time that I am on stage for a very long time, a very, very long time. I was actually shocked that I was chosen to be apart of both plays. I didn't think that I'd get into any of the plays, I mean it's just been so long that I have been on stage. It's been a challenge for me to *dust off* my acting skills. Yep, I think I stink on stage.<br /><br />I'm so used to putting together a play in about a month, putting it on, and then moving on. We have been practicing more then a month so now I am getting bored, well.....I have been bored sense the first of October. I am trying so hard not to show that at all, it's been a challenge.<br /><br />So far this has been an experience, I have learned a lot. Not only have I learned that I THINK that I stink on stage, but I have learned how to tape Shin Splints. By taping my legs I can dance on them, hmmmmm.........the things that I have learned.<br /><br />Cheers Everyone!Hollie Robbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859531562565720369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764324794869245580.post-44398067100080531702011-10-27T14:36:00.005-06:002017-12-08T12:28:20.054-07:00My great-aunt Glady's Butter Crunch<div style="text-align: left;">
I was looking for this for a long time. I am so glad that my Mother found it.<br />
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Butter Crunch<br />
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1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts<br />
1/2 cup butter<br />
1/2 cup Margarine plus 3 tablespoons of water<br />
1 cup sugar<br />
1/2 semi sweet, milk chocolate chips, or dark chocolate chips (optional)<br />
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<li> Line an 8 inch square baking pan with foil.</li>
<li> Butter or spray lightly.</li>
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In a heavy 2 quart saucepan or a 12 inch electric skillet combine butter, margarine, water and sugar. Place over high heat and stir constantly with a wooden spoon. The mixture will foam. Cook stirring constantly, until mixture becomes a light tan color.<span style="color: #cc0000;"> Do not let the mixture get brown! = come to a boil, then stir for 7 minutes.</span><br />
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<li>Remove from heat and poor over the nuts in your 8 inch square baking pan. Spread mixture evenly over nuts. Cool at room temperature for 24 hours then brake into pieces.</li>
<li>If you choose to use chocolate chips. While the mixture is hot spread the chocolate chips of choice on top. The chocolate chips will melt. Let cool at room temperature for 24 hours then break into pieces.</li>
<li>If you want to use a dipping chocolate instead of chocolate chips. Let the mixture cool for one hour at room temperature. Then spread the melted chocolate over the candy. Let stand at room temperature for 24 hours. Then break the candy.</li>
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Cheers everyone!</div>
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Hollie Robbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859531562565720369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764324794869245580.post-7656284603733380652011-08-28T14:25:00.002-06:002011-08-28T15:24:00.810-06:00My big epiphany I wrote on my twitter page: "Had a big epiphany last night. The result; I may not be going back to choir." I think I freaked out my Choir Director. Understand that I did not say this to get attention, the epiphany really did happen.
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<br /> It started when I was invited to audition for a musical or two. I was little confused, the person who invited me knows that I am not an "Show Tune Singer. " In fact I am a "Classical singer." Classical because if I say Opera, people will tune out and cringe. I am so much a Classical singer, I took a show tune and turned it into an almost Opera song. It was unintentional. I tried so hard to keep this show tune as is and not turn it into a classical type category. So what I sang during the auditions was only a fraction of what I can sing when I really try to sing Opera at full voice. It was weird, people that was standing on the other side of this big room, could hear me and was looking at me like I came from another planet. Go Venous!
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<br /> So my mom asked me how it went I told her from my point of view. Then I asked her: 'How do you sing "Show Tune."' She told me how I tried it and honestly, and please know that I am not exaggerating when I say this. I sounded like something was dying in my vocal cords. I wanted to claw out my own vocal cords and it was so harsh on my own ears.
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<br /> During choir my choir director would always tell me to "lighten up." Mostly because the natural tone of the choir is light and airy, they are not classical singers. As having a classical voice, I have a deeper tone with a natural dramatic vibrato. It is so hard for me to "lighten up" and sing the way the choir director wants me to. I have tired, heavens knows I have tried. While trying I have notice a problem and a change, a change that I didn't like. I started to back off like crazy and singing without spirit, without heart.
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<br /> I was thinking all of this over last night in the late night hours. I have realized that wasn't singing to my full potential, I was cutting myself short. I was having so much fun preparing for this audition, I was singing Opera songs, then I stopped myself short because I knew that I needed to sing an show tune and try and sing it as a show tune. As I said before, I failed to do that.
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<br /> By not singing up to my full potential, cutting myself off short, I am not happy by doing this. I am happy when I do sing in my full classical voice. So that is why I may stop going to choir. If I sing to my full potential I stand out and cant blend in with the other choir members. If I stay and back off like I have been, I'll become more and more unhappy.
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<br /> This decision didn't come easy and I am still on: should I or shouldn't I? I do like to sing. This has nothing to do with the auditions, or the choir director. I just want to be happy, and sing the way that I was meant and taught to do.
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<br />Cheers Everyone~
<br />Hollie Robbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859531562565720369noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764324794869245580.post-81985801514127756182011-07-29T17:46:00.004-06:002011-07-29T17:55:38.030-06:00Road ConstructionA <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/satire">Satire</a> poem by me....Hollie Ruth Robb<br /><br />Road Construction<br /><br />Oh road construction how do I love thee?<br />Who needs to have the smell of Eggs Benedict and Bacon in the morning,<br />When I do have the lovely smell of <span style="font-style: italic;">Asphalt</span>, and<span style="font-style: italic;"> Tar</span> instead?<br /><br />Road Construction....please never leave.<br />Thou have been here for over ten years.<br />Thou will never over stay thine welcome.<br /><br />Momma said that delays, confusion, and disappointments<br />will be apart of life...but who knew that it would come from thee Road Construction!<br />The orange cones, the smells, the road closes, what could be better?<br /><br />Dear Road Construction, you are perfect in every way!<br />Thou must know that I do love thee.<br />I just love that thou have blocked every road.<br /><br />Remember this is <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/satire">Satire</a>. It had to be done. I haven't read many poems upon this subject.<br /><br />Cheers Everyone!Hollie Robbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859531562565720369noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764324794869245580.post-56967703425207447562011-07-21T14:46:00.003-06:002011-07-21T14:59:40.302-06:00Rediscovering my curls #3<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11212922-curly-girl" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Curly Girl: The Handbook" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1303752667m/11212922.jpg" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11212922-curly-girl">Curly Girl: The Handbook</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/72522.Lorraine_Massey">Lorraine Massey</a><br /><br />My rating: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/187036751">5 of 5 stars</a><br /><br /><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Ok</span> I do love this book. But I still have a question. I live in a desert and the gel's that I have been trying on my hair have just been making the hair have the freeze look, and would weigh down the curls. And I have very curly hair.<br /><br />So now I am currently asking a pro. hair dresser also with curly hair about this problem.<br /><br />Also I love the added chapters and information in this book. The chapter about Chemo really touched me.<br /><br />I am trying to love this curly top of mine. It is a process.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1104749-hollie-robb">View all my reviews</a><br /><br />Yes, I am still on a quest to love my curls. But as living in the second most driest state in the US country. We have such extremes as in one day we could be 100 degrees with 0% humidity but the next day we could be at 90 degrees with 30% or more humidity. So I am having problems following the "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Curly-Girl-Handbook-Lorraine-Massey/dp/076115678X">Curly Girl</a>" cleansing and styling regime as prescribe in the book. I'll put in the gel and the problem is that the gel would make my hair look frozen and the curls would just be weighed down. I do have very curly hair, with the gel in it makes my very curly hair looks like a wave.<br /><br />So I have asked questions, as I have said above. I am currently hoping that my questions will be <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">answered. Once I do get the answers then I'll let you know.<br /><br />~Cheers Everyone!<br /></span>Hollie Robbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859531562565720369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764324794869245580.post-5075070024841411942011-07-19T14:19:00.003-06:002011-07-19T14:42:04.238-06:00Rediscovering my curls part zwei (2)I haven't been able to update on this, I haven't exactly had that time. I have been keeping an account in my personal journal, so I don't feel that bad.<br /><br />Saturday afternoon: The dry wicked wind blew and dried out the curls. The result: Frizz and untamed-unmanageable. Argh!<br /><br />Sunday: All I did was sprayed my curls with water and natural lavender oil mixed with water. The Lavender oil is a natural cleanser. How I made this stuff is:<br /><br />Regular spray bottle filed with cold water and about 3 drops of lavender oil and shake well.<br /><br />Sunday continued: That wind again was there and my curls this time wilted and frizzed. By-the-way if anyone in my ward reads this: thank you for not laughing at my hair. If you don't know by now my hair and I have issues.......still.<br /><br />Monday: Again I just sprayed my curls with lavender oil/water mixture. Left it to dry. The curls look good. Possibly/most likely because of the extra moister in the air. Also possibly because I was working with a lot of water. I was shampooing my mothers carpet.<br /><br />Today: Washed my curls with of curse conditioner and lemon juice. I toweled dried it and then jest let the air do the rest. While it was mostly dry, that is when I put in the all natural conditioner and left in. The abundance of curls are back!<br /><br />Note to self: Look for an deep conditioner for these dry and windy summer day's. That might help, but use it to wash the curls combine with lemon juice; to keep as much moister in as possible.<br /> <br />Cheers Everyone!Hollie Robbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859531562565720369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764324794869245580.post-24642932586080274992011-07-16T14:33:00.002-06:002011-07-16T15:02:21.242-06:00Rediscovering my curlsI hope you don't mind but I am going to wright an online journal about Rediscovering my curls. This is mostly to help me. I am also going to put in my personal journal. However if it helps anyone else then.......sweet!<br /><br />About 10 years ago I have stopped straightening my curls but still was at a loss on how to work with my curls. Then I got a book called <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126135.Curly_Girl">Curly Girl. </a> The book it's self explains that using shampoo will damage the hair and scalp, and make it frizzy and somewhat straight......mostly frizzy. So I had to use a lot of conditioner and oil; yes I do put oil on my hair. Now I was noticing that my curl was starting to get weighted down with way too much product.<br /><br />So Thursday night I washed my hair; not with shampoo but with conditioner and lemon juice. To take out build up and clean it. Then I decided that I wasn't going to put in any conditioner while it was still dripping wet, like I'd usually would do . I just used a towel to dry it, then let the air do the rest. The result was more curl then I could even imagine that existed on my head, and they stick out everywhere. However I still have a little issue with <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">frizz</span>. So while my hair was still slightly damp, I put on an possibly 1- 1.5 teaspoon of a all natural conditioner. By doing that it controlled the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">frizz</span> more still had some but not as much. And the curls looked great. <br /><br />Yesterday I didn't wash it at all. I just use an leave-in-conditioner. One that was free of silicone's, the curls did come back and they still look good.<br /><br />Today well, I tried to go without washing it again. Result was: it looked dirty, and the curls was seriously weighted down and unmanageable; as in the curls would not behave, some would only wave then <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">frizz</span>. So I washed it with of course conditioner and lemon juice. Right now it is currently drying. So I am hopping that I can somewhat repeat the process/cycle. We'll see how it goes. Then I'll do a new update.Hollie Robbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859531562565720369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764324794869245580.post-53303934275505909152011-06-07T15:12:00.006-06:002011-06-07T15:34:40.536-06:00Ginger and Lime MarinadeI have made this marinade. It was a big hit in the family!<br /><br />Ginger and Lime<br /><br />2 Tablespoon of Ginger (or to the preference of your taste)<br />2 cup of lime<br /><br />Mix the two together and then pore it over 4 pieces of pork,or chicken in a dish that you can cover. I used a zip-lock bag. Put in fridge over night. Now because of the lime juice it make the meat look like it is done. The meat won't be so you can either grill the meat, bake or fry. Just make sure that the middle of the meat reaches 160-170 degrees using a meat thermometer. The next time I use this marinade I'm going to dutch oven it, <a href="http://www.freeldsart.com/dutch-ovens.htm">Mormon style.</a><br /><br />~Cheers Everyone!Hollie Robbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859531562565720369noreply@blogger.com0