Island Tiffiney's View ...blogging from Emerald Isle, NC

Tiffiney's Summer Easy Peasy Cake in a Hurry

Ingredients
1 Premade angel food cake
2 Regular sized packages of vanilla instant pudding. (and the 4 cups of milk that the packages call for!)
1 Small jar of your favorite fruit preserves
1 Small container of Cool Whip (or real whipped cream if you prefer)

Directions
1. Follow package directions for instant pudding, set aside after mixing.

2. Slice cake into 1 inch slices spread the slices out evenly to cover the bottom of a plastic dessert pan
(roughly 9" x 13")

3. Spread preserves over sliced cake as evenly as possible.

4. Pour pudding mixture over preserves.

5. Top with Cool Whip, or whipped cream.

6. Refrigerate until set. (about 1 hour)

Note: You can use any flavor of pudding that you like, but vanilla goes with any type of fruit preserves so well!
Best preserves for this cake IMHO are: Peach, Apricot, Strawberry, or Cherry. Get creative and enjoy!

7. Enjoy.

I’ve been tagged by Eaglehawk for a seven things you (possibly) don’t know about me meme.

The Rules?

* Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post.
* Share seven facts about yourself in the post.
* Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
* Let them know they’ve been tagged.

1. I can't tolerate silence, so I rarely stop talking. Seriously, if I'm writing/typing it, I'm probably saying it.! ;)

2. I love hip hop music. Especially Notorious B.I.G., Snoop Dogg, and Ja Rule, they each have incredibly sexy voices. I don't find the lyrics offensive, but I would if they were spoken in conversation. Doesn't make sense, but all true. Other artists voices that I find incredibly sexy include: Shawn Mullins, Eve, Toni Braxton, Toby Keith, and Randy Travis.

3. I love the thought of camping, but have never been. There was a massacre in NE Ohio before my birth, so camping was prohibited by my father.

4. I have ridiculous phobia's, including bathophobia, and acrophobia. Living at the beach, I rarely swim in the ocean beyond shoulder depth, and will immediately body surf back to shore once my feet leave the sandy bottom.

5. I'm an avid fantasy book reader. My favorite authors include J.R.R. Tolkien, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, Terry Brooks, Tad Williams, Christopher Paolini, J. K. Rowling, and George R.R. Martin.

6. I am mildly Obsessive Compulsive and know exactly how many pieces of cutlery, Dishes, Pots, Pans, etc... that I have at any given time. I also have a difficult time breaking routine for the sake of saving time, if any part of a task can reasonably be skipped.

7. I was foolish enough to watch a P.I.T.A video back in 2006, and was unable to eat meat for eight months after! The only way I eat it now is by convincing myself that the meat purchased in the store was never an animal at all. they just made that package in the store just for me!

I am tagging:
Sheryl
Mom
Shailee
KDFrawg
pritcharddesigns
Matthew Hughes
Krysta

I ran across this video while surfing YouTube. I didn't realize that the spiral dance was such a large practice with non Native American cultures. I wish I too could travel to San Franciso this November! It looks like a lot of fun celebrating the never ending cycle of life and death.

Make sure to visit Starhawk's web site at:
http://starhawk.org/
There is a lot of useful information there.

Dave and I have spent the last few days going through our local MLS to find houses that we like, and are considering purchasing our first house to call home. Yesterday, we drove by a few of the homes that appealed to us.
The first home is in a community on a creek that leads to Bogue Sound. There is a community boat ramp about 400 feet from the house. The house is 2 story with a basement and a detached shed. We felt very drawn to the home and neighborhood, and decided to look at a few more houses that caught our eyes.
The second home for consideration is a bit older, sits on an acre of land. The square footage is a bit smaller at 1518 sf. but it does have a basement with electricity, heat/air ducts, it just needs finished walls, overhead lighting, and defined rooms/spaces. The finished basement will add an additional 1160 sf. bringing the total square footage to 2678! We're not too crazy about the location, but with a bit of landscaping, finishing the basement and a few minor improvements, and we should be able to make a significant profit in a few years time. That will move us closer to our dream of having a large sand castle home ocean front on the island!
The third house up for consideration is actually a modular home, in a neighborhood that borders the Croatan National Forest. The price is ridiculously low, resale might not be as quick, but the financing will be very easy.

Dave and I decided to call in a professional, and called Kitch Ayre, Broker, ABR She won the top honor of Top Producer for 2007, selling an astounding 24.3 million dollars worth of real estate! I hope to have great experience with her, I can't think of a more knowledgeable real estate agent in this area.

We shall see how it all goes :)

Dave and I just spent three days in Atlanta, Ga. We had a wonderful time. We arrived Sunday night (5-11-08) and left Wednesday noonish (5-14-08). Monday night we caught a Georgia Force Game. Anyone who knows me, also knows that I am not a sports fan, but I had a Great time! Arena football is a lot different than NFL/AFC game. The field is 5o yards long 85 feet wide,and has 8 yard end zones. The padded walls mark the sidelines, so it's a little like hockey as well!

I came across this beautiful dance video while surfing youtube. The most amazing thing about this troupe is that all of the young performers (male and female) are deaf. What an incredible performance!

Last week I purchased my first deck of "Oracle Cards". They are absolutely beautiful! I purchased this deck. The most reoccuring cards for me personally are Kuan Yin (Compassion) and Isis (Past Life). All of the Goddesses are intricately illustrated. I pick a random card each morning for my personal Goddess of the day.

What is the difference between Tarot Cards, and Oracle Cards? The main difference, in my opinion is that the Tarot deck usually consists of 78 cards (56 minor arcana and 22 major arcana cards ). The minor arcana can further be divided into 4 suits. and the major arcana (or trump cards) consists of 22 cards.
The Oracle deck is usually themed (animals, fairies, angels, goddesses... etc...) and there are no minor arcana bad cards (i.e. death, the fool, the hanged man). I use my cards as a form of self focus, and a tool for meditation.

Last Friday, me and a few of my friends took Brittany out for her birthday( this is an older pic, Britt actually had a beautiful baby girl named Emma 2-14-2007!). We let her pick, and we ended up at Applebees! I decided to go with a turkey sandwich, and the salad bar. I'm always looking for new, exciting dressings, and they didn't dissapoint me. They had an Avocado Ranch Dressing.I found that in a pinch mixing one cup of Wishbone Buttermilk Ranch Dressing with the the fruit of one avocado in the food processor is a wonderful and quick way to get great results!
Another favorite dressing of mine is Green Goddess. I used to buy it at any grocery store premade, but it's no longer avaliablehere. So, I have no choice but to make it from scratch now. Homemade is better anyways :)

Okay, I think it's about time to post. Dave helped me set up this new site, eleven days ago. I'm not too sure in which direction it's gonna go. I think that I'll start with videos out there that interest me. I actually got here after watching "The Family Guy". Stewie made a reference to Wilford Brimley, so I googled him, since I couldn't quite place the name with the face. One of the top ten hits was a video on You Tube. Yeah, a Liberty comercial about diabetes. Of course, as usual after viewing the Wilford Brimley video I stumbled across this video on "Big Cats" by National Geographic. I absolutely love the magazine, and the National Geographic Channel is one of my favorites as well, this was the first time I saw the special on "Big Cats" though. I was surprised to hear that the tiger is the biggest cat in the world, I always thought it was the lion! Enjoy the video.

Thank you Dave for spending the time and effort in helping me set up this site, and for buying me, my own domain :) I love you very much, you enrich my life in every way and I am eternally grateful:)