Yes, it's been a while

Well, after the hurricane I lost power until Wednesday and got internet back on Thursday. I didn't have very much time on Thursday though and all day yesterday was getting ready for my sleepover. And because I had a sleepover last night I only got about forty five minutes of sleep during a movie. I made these cookies and they were really good. I was going to make a cooking video like Martha Stewart while I was making them but the camera didn't have any charge. Anyway, they are really yummy.

White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies

Ingredients

1 cup butter, softened

3/4 cup packed light brown sugar

1/2 cup white sugar

2 eggs

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon almond extract (If you don't have almond extract and it really expensive so you don't want to buy any, just double the vanilla and it is still really good)

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cup coarsely chopped macadamia nuts

1 cup coarsely chopped white chocolate

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

2. In a large bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar, and white sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, then stir in the vanilla and almond extracts. Combine the flour, baking soda, and salt; gradually stir into the creamed mixture. Mix in the macadamia nuts and white chocolate. Drop dough by teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets.

3. Bake for 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden brown.

Today I am also going to write a very brief review for all of the movies I watched last night and this morning.

• Gnomeo and Juliet: Romeo and Juliet with garden gnomes. Cute and pretty funny but not spectacular.
• Happy Gilmore: A hockey player joins the pro golf tour to get enough money to get his grandmother's house back because she hasn't paid taxes in years. Love this movie! Absolutely hilarious!
• Love Actually: Romantic comedy about a bunch of people who all have interlocking stories. Really cute and funny and sweet, the kind of movie that makes your head want to explode from the adorableness.
• Barbie- A Mermaid Tale: I personally love Barbie movies, mainly because they are so stupid. This one might have been the stupidest Barbie movie so far, and that is saying something! Surfer girl/mermaid princess!
• Nancy Drew: I like this movie very much at two thirty in the morning, it was also pretty stupid but no where near as stupid as Barbie. I think if I had watched it at another time of day it wouldn't have been as funny, but I liked it.
• Howl's Moving Castle: I am a total anime nerd so obviously I love this movie. I have seen it a million times and if you don' know the story (if you haven't read the book or seen the movie) you really should see this movie. Sweet, romantic, and really awesome.
• How Can You Know?: It looked like an okay movie but I kept falling asleep because it was around six in the morning. If you watch five minutes of a movie and then sleep for ten to fifteen minutes any movie can suddenly become really confusing.
• Casino Royale: The first James Bond movie that I have ever seen. I really liked it. It just seemed that most of the movie was a very sweaty James Bond running after cars or fighting people. In a good way . . . My only problem with it was the ending. It had a little bit of a Lord of the Rings ending. You think it's over but then there's more, it ends, there's more, and when you think it is finally over there is just a little bit more. I thought it was going to end about six times before it actually ended.

Adios amigos!