Lemonade Cookies

Filing these away in things that make me smile.

You can find the how-to here.

The Road Not Taken

Speaking of poems, I love this one too. I remember having to memorize and recite it in middle school. It has stuck with me ever since:

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

- Robert Frost

Invictus

I watched the movie Invictus last night. I had a tear - it was very well done. The poem from that movie is one of my favorites:

Invictus

Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the Pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll.

I am the master of my fate:

I am the captain of my soul.

- William Ernest Henley

Jungle Blooms

Trina Turk Jungle Blooms Belted Bonita Dress in Glo

One of my least favorite things is when you see someone wearing something beautiful, and they tell you they purchased it last year. Sometimes, I can get lucky on eBay. Then there are other times where dresses, like this amazing one, just cannot be found! It's fabulous and flattering in all the right places. I saw someone wearing this in a store the other day, and I could have cared less about anything in that store. I could not stop staring at this dress! If you spot it... Do tell.

HDH

Obi! He stopped by my office for a bit... Lucky me!