Recipe - Pea Pickin Cake

PEA PICKIN' CAKE  

1 golden cake mix
1 sm. can mandarin ranges with juice
1 1/2 c. cooking oil
4 eggs

FILLING:
1 lg. Cool Whip
1 (20 oz.) can crushed pineapple, chilled with juice
1 sm. vanilla instant pudding

CAKE: Beat all ingredients together until well blended. Use 3 greased floured round cake pans. Bake at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes.
FILLING: Combine pineapple and pudding; fold in Cool Whip. Spread between layers and on top of completely cooled cake. Refrigerate.






* On Side Note I had only 2 cakes and a lot of filling left over. I also messed up the filling because I used Cook and Stir pudding instead of instant. It still came out pretty. This a very sweet cake though. Hubby likes it but it amazingly 2 sweet for me.*--

Anime Review - Princess Tutu : Epsiode 1 Season 1

Title: Princess Tutu: Epsiode 1 Season 1
Series: Princess Tutu
Director: Shogo Kawamoto, Junichi Sato
Rating :



What is it about? A young girl in ballet school tries to function with her clumsiness, a crush and strange dreams or are they dreams.

My Thoughts:

I thought this to be strange and sometimes cute.   It also put me in mind of another anime Ranma ½ because the main character changes into an animal.  The strangest part was the ballet teacher. I couldn’t figure out if it was a Japanese reference to a joke or just plan silliness when the teacher would threaten them with marriage to himself.

I am not sure if I will keep watching because the first episode did seem a little slow moving.

Website:

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Sunday Sharing - Geek Comes Out

Something I can’t wait to come on YouTube is this series that will feature Felicia Day.  It is called Geek & Sundry http://www.youtube.com/user/geekandsundry.   I just started watching the episodes of The Guild I missed (for those that don’t know it is a web series by Felicia Day)  And to make me completely geeky I also joined a book club she is in called Vaginal Fantasy Book Club which is actually on Good Reads.

So that is what I am sharing with you this week.  DFTBA (Don’t Forget To Be Awesome)

Movie Review - War Horse

Title: War Horse
Series: N/A
Director: Steven Spielberg
Rating :




What is it about?

A strong will horse and young man find a connect with each but are then separated during World War I.

My Thoughts:

When I first saw the commercials for War Horse.  I really thought this was going to be a movie I cry at, mostly because the horse and his friend were pictured with so much emotion.   

Sadly watching the movie I had felt no connection or just not enough for the horse and the boy.  That does not mean the movie wasn’t good it was an absolutely beautiful movie.  Some of the scenes were so beautiful I wish I could paint them. It just seems like that director focused more on the imagery then the story.

Website:

Official Movie Site
http://www.warhorsemovie.com/

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Movie Review - Monsters

 
Title: Monsters
Series: N/A
Director: Gareth Edwards
Rating :


What is it about?

A photographer try to find a big story on monster while trying to get the boss’s daughter home before they get killed.

My Thoughts:

Very much in par with Cloverfield, this film has well done camera work and lesser known actors who do a pretty good job of keeping you enthralled.

The storyline of aliens taking over part of the U.S. and Mexico is not of course a originally thought but the way this is done is.    There is a way that the people living with the monsters are just there like nothing is really going on they are just living there lives.   This to me is very realistic to what something of this world catastrophe level would happen.  First people freak but then eventually you have live your life.   You fight, you struggle just as the characters in the movie struggled with there own lives and dissociation from the aliens unless they came into actual contact with them.

Eventually as you get to the end of this movie it drags and then picks up.  Then it story end so abruptly.  At least that is way I remember it now but I also remember that in a artistic way it made sense the way it ended.   There is a part of the chemistry between two aliens and then the end chemistry between the actor and actress that seem like a beautiful dance.

I don’t watch much Sci Fi.  I do prefer fantasy more but movies like this can be entertaining for those who are more interested in people drama then having it completely about aliens.

Website:
Monsters the Movie Official Website
http://www.monstersthemovie.com/


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Art Therapy - A Blessing In Disguise

Art Therapy A Blessing In Disguise

Presenting itself in many forms Art Therapy can be a blessing.   Whether it be from taking photos, to writing or to painting it can bring people support and even friendship where there wasn’t before.

“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Art can bring a closeness to oneself and joy to others. I say it can be in disguise as well because many people don’t consider themselves artists. That depends on how you describe an artist.  I think an artist is a being that was created to create.   That would make all of us right?

If you knew that you were an artist or if I told you right now you were... what would you create for me?  I bet

you have something right off the top of your head.  

Do you think “Oh well I am just a Mom or a Dad?”  You created a person who is still a work in progress! What beautiful Art!

Maybe you think from your childhood, “I’ll make a card!” or “I’ll make macaroni art.”   

Maybe you think in writing or pictures or cleaning.   Yes cleaning can be a form of art...have you ever heard of decorating you have to start with cleaning to decorate!

Do you love to cook? That is an Art!

Before I started the blog Confuzzled Books I probably would not have considered writing as a form of art.   Not because it is not, it was just because I did not think of it before.  Writing to me was as hard as drawing and more taxing.   Now I look at it as a form of recovery and as with all art it all takes practice but it is all art! We are all works in progress!

TV Review : Star Trek Episode 1 Season 1

 

Title: The Cage Epsiode 1 Season 1
Series: Star Trek
Creator: Gene Roddenberry
Rating :


What is it about?

Captain Christopher Pike and his crew on the Starship Enterprise encounter a telepathic race that can create a world into any they desire or make life a living hell.

My Thoughts:

I did not think I would enjoy this as much as I did.  For some reason I remember the original series growing up was less interesting to me.   As I watch it now I see that the acting is good (not as good as the second epsiode), and the story was interesting.

I had no idea that Captain Kirk was not on this first episode. It seems that Spock was the only one in all of the Star Trek episodes.   Although because from episode 1 and 2 Leonard Nimoy looked so different my husband and I argued whether it was him or not.  He thought it was not him.

I am definitely enjoying the series more then I thought I would.  I still think Star Trek: The Next Generation is the better of the series but that is besides the point.

Website:

Star Trek Site
http://www.startrek.com/

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