A Delicacy of the Sea

Even though shrimp and coconut are not of the same orgins, they taste marvelous when combined.  Coconut shrimp.  Mmmm!
To make this deliscious delight, make handy
1 egg
1/2 cup all-purpose flower
1 1/2 cup baking powder
1/4 cup all purpose flower
2 cups flaked coconut
24 shrimp
3 cups of oil for frying

Once obtained, combine as so
1. In a medium bowl, combine the egg, 1/2 cup all purpose flower and baking powder.  Place 1/4 cup flower and coconut in two separate bowls.
2. Hond the shrimp by the tail and dredge in flower, shaking off the excess.  Dip in egg batter and allow excess to drip off.  Roll shrimp into the coconut and place on a baking sheet lined with wax paper.  Refrigerate for 30 minutes.  Meanwhile, heat oil to 350 degrees.
3. Fry the shrimp in batches: cook, toruning once, for two to three minutes or until golden brown.  Remove shrimp to a paper towel to drain.  Serve it warm with your favorite dipping sauce.

It tastes really good with coconut sauce and cheese rolls, like the ones they serve at Red Lobster.  The family, friends or party will love to come back again.

Figuring Out The Ropes

I see the lines of students waiting to get their cap and gown. I see invitations being ordered, senior pictures being taken and the hustle and bustle just to finish the final project of an undergraduate career. As I look around all I can think is, this is going to be me next year, and what am I going to do when it is over? Am I ready for it to be over? As this year comes to its close, the thoughts run though my mind that, when I arrive on campus next semester it starts the last of everything. The last choir camp, the last first day of school, the last….

Doors and chapters close and new ones open, that is the way life happens. As Maria states in The Sound of Music as she leaves the Alley to a new life ahead, “When God closes a door, someway he opens a window.” If we knew what was going to happen around the next corner, where would be the excitement to life? It would be kinda silly if we were all walking robots, just following our programed course and to the next destination. We are all training do do something.

Do you know that saying, “If you do what you love then you never have to work a day in your life.”? This expression has its pitfalls, but that is the basic idea of what I want to do. Photography is my passion, and I eventually would like to have my own photography business. A photograph is a moment in time captured forever, the documentation of life, a time that you can never re-live exactly as it had happened. Thats what I want to do: capture memories, moments.

Recently my parents and grandma bought me the brand new Nikon, a fancy little thing that is probably 'smarter' than I am. There is still so much I need to learn about using a camera professionally, there is a lot that goes into it. The place that they got the camera from gives classes which a buyer can attend for free. My dad and I have been going together. I am excited to keep learning more.

There have been so many things I have been learning though my three year experience at CBU that I wonder what really God is wanting me to do. Perhaps it is a combination of it all. All I hope for is that I glorify God with my life and do what he had called me to do, whatever that may be. I hope he tells me just in time to get to those different moments in life. *Click*.

http://www.ritztraining.net/drupal6/sites/ritzcamerauniversity.com/files/California/riverside_1323.pdf
http://www.allartschools.com/art-careers/photography/photography-business

Well, I seem to more often than not forget to post the links within the original bog, so here are the links that go with my last blog.

http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/tba
http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm

So Big, and Yet So Intimate

Life. Life is an all encompassing word. It can be confusing, or it can be laid out. Sometimes it is full of joy, and other times it just doesn't feel right or maybe it is just down right frustrating as you are here, at a university, trying to find out what to do with this thing called life. Many times life is defined by more than one thing. Life is complex, full of twists and turns and who knows what down the road. At this point, all we can do is take steps is the direction we are headed and trust God to turn us around if we are headed the wrong direction, perhaps only slightly to the right.

Live is a word associated with life. They are two different words, but they are one as well. In order to live, we must have life, and in order to make that life meaningful, we must live it. Technically, buy dictionary terminology, to live is to 'be alive at a specified time'....but to give real meaning to this word it needs action, going forth. If you look further in that dictionary, it also defines living as 'to have an exciting or fulfilling life'. Live....Life.

At this time in life, we worry a lot about how we are going to live it. Are we in the right place, studying to become the right thing? I'm I planning to live in the right place, going to serve in the right ministry? … Well, does it matter? I don't know. I know that there is a plan for each one of our lives and we are all meant for a certain purpose, but does that matter what these things are? I don't know. Only someone as big as God can know, and He is big.

Just recently, I re-started reading the Bible from the very beginning. Genesis 1. Everyone knows Genesis 1, at least everyone who knows about the Bible. Even the Jews and the Muslims have the Old Testament. God created the heavens, the earth, water, land, sky, plants, animals/mammals, and anything else their may be, and after each one He said, “And it was good.”

The Heavens. Did you know that our sun, which makes earth look like the point of a pen, is microscopic, like a pixel as some world say, in relation to the biggest star in the galaxy. Antares is its name and is more than 1,000 light years away. And this, if my memory serves me correctly, is all in the Milky Way Galaxy, after which there are many more galaxy's.

I had found this out in a video that was shown in my first Christian Studies class. In another, a video was shown where the speaker mentioned how each number mentioned in Genesis 1 is a multiple which relates to light, the galaxy, or something else in life. I don’t remember all the details, but I found all this extremely fascinating. God definitely knew what He was doing, and it all serves a purpose to sustain life, our lives and other lives in which He also created. The God that created probably hundreds upon hundreds of galaxies with stars like Antares knitted us in our mother's wombs, created each little microscopic cell and organism in our bodies and knows the amount of hairs on our heads and freckles of our faces. He created all this majesty in which He called good, and yet when He created us, He called us very good. This is just truly amazing, fascinating and all-inspiring to me. He loves us and cared for our needs, so I think He can take care of our uncertainties. Our meaning is to bring glory to His all-worthy name, so as long as we are doing that, I can tell you that is is good.

The Wonders of Simplicity

http://www.homemadesimple.com/en-us/pages/home.aspx

I have always enjoyed arts and crafts. I guess that is a good thing since my major is Graphic Design. It is always a lot of fun when I get the chance to make a scarf over the summer break, make a bag or a pillow with my mom, etcetera. One think I love about it is how it can easily decorate a home and is relatively inexpensive; a lot less than furnishing and decorating your entire home from already made and packaged items in a store, and they hold significant meaning to the household. You made it, your sister, brother or cousin made it.... your roommate made it. It's one in a kind, no one else has it. Inspiration and admiration always comes to me when I go into my friends' apartments and I see their wall art that they made out of fabric and a board, their drawings or printouts inside a simple but fashionable solid-colored cardboard frame from Michael's.

Home Made Simple is a show on TLC, channel 70 down here at school. I find myself watching it when I zap on the television, flip channels and see it there. It is amazing what they do to these homes. They look so much more elegant and clean, but.......they made it all, you know, besides the paint and etcetera. I have seen them make seats that will fit in cubbies under the coffee table while acting as neat little modern and artsy sides to the table. They basically took four boxes, added cushioning on top, fit blue fabric over them, stapled the bottoms and screwed in wheels. Let me just say, GENIOUS! Even if I need a little help with ideas, someday when I have my own home.....it is going to fashioned with hand made creations like this. I know arts and craft projects are not for everybody, but I hope the appreciation for what people come up with and how nice it looks is admired. Thank you Lord or the creativity you gave us all! We all have it in different ways.