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Pride and Prejudice + Darcy's Inner Struggles = A Blog Post

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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”   I was going to re-write the opening sentence of  "Pride and Prejudice" so that it would work with this post but then I decided not to. The other day when I was watching the 2005 version of "Pride and Prejudice" with TJ and Aaliyah and it was towards the beginning of the movie when I thought of one of the Fitzwilliam Darcy's Inner Struggles things that I had seen floating around on Pinterest. And it just so happened that today when I was on Pinterest I came across the inner struggles picture thingy that I had mentioned during the movie. So here it is.

7 Quick Takes Friday

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--- 1 --- As you probably saw from my post on Tuesday I had a nice Easter with my family. So I won't be talking about that really here :) --- 2 --- Found this on Pinterest.   Jane Austen  Disney princesses. --- 3 --- Even though I know that it will never happen I want a library like this in my house. It is the State Hall of the Austrian National Library, Vienna.  --- 4 --- I was going to write something here but I forgot what it was of course. It is so annoying when that happens. And this would probably be about the time that I complain about not knowing what to write about for my 7 Quick Takes this week. It seems like I go in spurts of knowing what to write for each quick take and then there are the weeks where I don't know what to write. This weeks is one of the not knowing weeks. Maybe next week I will be feeling inspired again on what to write about. Unless I decide to write a separate post about it before Friday comes around. --- 5 --- I...

7 Quick Takes Friday

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--- 1 --- I found this on Pinterest and thought that it was funny. --- 2 --- Even though I have probably beaten this subject to death already I had to bring up exercise again. A while ago it was suggested to me by my wonderful parents to start keeping track of all of the food that I eat so that I can watch calories and such and work on losing weight. Though I hadn't started doing that right away I have decided to start doing it, especially while I'm at work, and I only remembered the suggested when a friend of mine posted a link to a website called SparkPeople. The website helps you keep track of what you are eating, training and stuff like that so I decided to give that a try as well. --- 3 --- Though they started back in April 2012 The Lizzie Bennet Diaries " an online modern adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice " is a fun series on youtube that I think any Jane Austen fan would enjoy. If you haven't seen them yet but want to wa...