Although this is not one of my original recipies, it is easy and good.  This is an excellent one to make with the budding chef in your life.

12 oz bag of Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips

1/3 C Powder Sugar

1 C Milk (I use whole but nothing less than 2%)

1/4 C Butter or Margarine

Optional:whipped topping

Directions:

Place chocolate chips and powder sugar in blender; cover and process till the chips are coursely chopped.  In a saucepan over medium heat, bring milk and butter to a boil.  Add to blender and process until chips are melted and mixture is smooth.  Pour into dishes or bowl and refrigerate till ready to eat.

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Tina

They say that money doesn't make the world go around...but it sure doesn't hurt any....I am one of those people who fall distressingly below the poverty line.  While figuring out my taxes recently for the year I was shocked to find out how much I really live on.  I have an idea, it's been said before...but I would like to switch plces with my Senator for one month.  Let him stretch out my meager income to pay the bills, put gas in the car, buy toiletries, buy food, buy clothes needed...and anything else that comes up.  Perhaps then they would understand what it is really like to make less than $10,000.00 a year (WAY LES and survive...

People are talking about Stimulus Packages from the government...lets see, none of these packages will help me any...some Senator will appropriate the money for his or her own town to fix some budget flaw for money not wisely spent...not to create more jobs.  I do not really know how to fix the economy, except to say that perhaps if those incharge had to live for one or two months like the rest of us maybe they would make better choices in how to spend this money???

Many times we search our whole lives to find that one, true, once in a lifetime type of love.  I never thought it was out there for me, never thought I would find it....  It found me when I least expected it to, but right on time...  

I could list hundreds of reasons that I love him...I could wax poetically about his charms, his virtues...but truthfully, there are not enough words in the known vocabulary to say how my heart truly feels.  If he could see himself through my eyes...there would never be another day of self doubt again in his lifetime.  He is my friend, my confidant, my hero and my love.  I could search forever and never find someone to love that is better than he is. 

Theses are just 10 of the reasons I love him...

Happy Valentines Day Seth!

Life is strange....you go along getting used to the same old some old and then "WHAM!" a curve ball.  I have been getting them left and right this past year...I left an abusive relationship and found a healthy one, cut the ties that bind to my mother, moved to a new state, found a sister, a neice and nephew.  Moved in with new found sister.  Got a dog, had to give it up because it was aggressive..got another dog, had to give it up because my new found neice and nephew liked to torture the dog.  Moved from sisters house into my own apartment, miraculously found the dog I gave up at the animal shelter and got him back.  Made ammends with sister, love the kids, And through it all.....kept faith that it would be allright. 

That wasn't always an easy thing to do...but I did it!  Mustard seed faith and all of that! LOL  We found a church, and left that church and are now investigating another...I spend alot of time at my sister's with her and the kids and long for spring when I can walk the dogs again!  Today looks nice outside, so perhaps I can go for a walk with Seth when he takes them out.

Today is my sisters birthday, and I am making her a cake and some other things(read candies into that!) then going over there for dinner.  So, my Valentines Day will be a full one.  I hope that whomever is reading this finds love, peace and happiness not only today but everyday.  Life is strange at times...but it is also short and to waste one day without someone to love you...is not living life to it's potential.  What I mean is..that I used to think Love was just a stupid myth perpurtrated by the greeting card industry.  I never had it...well, one time I did and he passed away.  But to live your whole life without feeling a kind touch, hearing a loving word...I didn't believe that it was out there looking for me.  Then, one of those curve balls that life throws at you hit me...I met Seth and my life has changed.  For the better I think.  Still, it's crazy at times but now there is someone to share the craziness with.  So, to whoever is reading this....Happy Valentines Day!

Some people wait a lifetime to find that one special person, the one who they will love for a forever.  Some people never find them...I am so glad that I did.  I searched for years and years, looking for him and was just about ready to give up and accept that for me there was no "love of a lifetime". 

Then I went back to work.....One night in walks Seth.  He lives in the apartment upstairs of the bar I work at.  Seth, with his eyes that make you want to fall into them,  and never come back out.  His eyes are so amazing!  They say that the eyes are the gateway to the soul....and this is true, because when I look into his eyes, I can see his dreams, his goals.  The next thing that I noticed was this smile that is a cross between a heart melting smile and impish grin.

We were freindly at first, but whenever he came into the bar for some reason or another I would have the most hard to resist impulse to throw him against a wall and kiss him silly.  I asked him one time to just cuddle with me, but the timing was not right at all...but a few weeks later...I got my chance.  It was the beginning of our relationship and the way he made me feel safe, protected, wanted, desired, needed...it made my heart break.

I still remember that morning when I had to take a trip and the drive down I would think of him and get this goofy grin on my face...my heart would speed up and I couldn't wait to get back and see him again.  We have never been apart since.  I just intuitively knew that he is the other half of me, the other part to my soul.

I would walk through fire to get to him, I would give him anything within my power to do so and protect him against anyone or anything who would try to hurt him.  He is my Sun, Moon and Stars; my better half, my friend, supporter, lover and more.  I know that I have finally found a home for my heart and it is in his arms.

With Seth, I can be anything I want to be and what I want to be is simply HIS woman for the rest of my life.