Sunday, February 28, 2010

The Joys of Yogurt Cake

Alison asked me what yogurt cake was this afternoon. And since Fai had just taken the gem out of the oven, I decided to take a few photographs and ask her for the recipe so that people who chance upon this could try it out. It's very simple but moist, and quite delectable.


Cut that delicious thing!


Fai's Yogurt Cake

You will need:
- 1/2 cup plain yogurt
- 1 cup of white sugar
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 6 tablespoons butter (do NOT substitute with margerine)

Instructions:
1. Mix yogurt and sugar together
2. Mix in two eggs to the yogurt and sugar
3. Mix in flour
4. Add vanilla extract
5. Melt butter and mix in
6. Bake at 350F for 30min approx. (In a loaf pan or muffin tins.)
7. If you WANT you can pour a syrup over it after it's finished baking, comprised of the juice of three oranges and half a cup of sugar. You can also ice it if you feel like it or whatever.

Personally, I prefer to slather a little margerine on it and I'm good to go! :)


Productivity Take 2!

I have relocated to the living room.

Apparently my primary coloured bedroom primes me to watch Sesame Street on Youtube and chat online instead of actually getting anything done. I capped off at 3 tasks yesterday.

BUT TODAY IS A NEW DAY.

Fai is making yogourt cake.

I have my Sunnyday Sunday Playlist on!:



Overall, the outlook is pretty good.

Saturday, February 27, 2010

I'm serious

I am serious about this blogging thing!
I can't seem to figure out how to get the Blogger comments to appear, since Haloscan has been discontinued, but I'm not too torn up about it.

As far as productivity goes, I have never been a winning contender.

That is going to change.

Today, thus far, I have accomplished 3/11 tasks.
The sun is still out. This is good news.

Plus, I'm wearing a neon yellow t-shirt that Alanna got me from NY.
And since that is my favorite colour, I'd say it can only mean positive things.

Right?.... Right! ..... STRESSFACE!

Talking to myself

I've decided to blog again! (The Waverly in me smiles confidently.)

Talking to myself, I realized, keeps me focused and less scattered. It makes things more manageable and designates significance to otherwise minor details.

I have a room now. Did I mention?
Yes, my very own primary colored bedroom in a little bungalow with a spacious backyard and three lovely roommates. Two of whom cook very well and have fantastic taste in music and are human. What more could a girl ask for, really?

It's helpful make lists of What You Have and What You Can Do, when you're anxious.

This weekend is going to be a productive one!

And I think I might make Korean Glass Noodles if I get the chance!

Right now, I'm going to hop in the shower while it's still the middle of the night.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Motives and Thoughts by Lauryn Hill

a little Lboogie wisdom, folks!



Rotating bodies, confusion of sound
Negative imagery, holding us down
Social delusion, clearly constructed
Human condition, morals corrupted
Trapped in reaction, lawlessness war
Dissatisfaction from bowels to core
Devil’s technology, strategy for
Human mythologies, urban folklore
Sick of psychology, counterfeit cure
Wicked theology, robbing the poor
Scheme demonology mislead the pure
Strictly strategically studying war
Light shown in darkness, image exposed
Few can see through the new emperor’s clothes
Lustful this hustle turn humans to hoes
When the blind lead the blind
Just more trouble and woes
It’s the mind that they chose
Its designed to stay closed
Standard of jokers, court just a logic
Sick looking cosmics, from schoolyards to college
Primitive man with civilize knowledge
System collapse and he still won’t acknowledge
God is the saviour, studies behavior
Trying to fix the mix mind that he gave ya
Stiff-necked scholars on prescription meds
Wishing their problems were all in their heads
Morale dilemma, pride is the root
Misguided from youth, heart divided from truth
Egyptians and Grecians, spiritually dead
Imperially led, by the gods in their heads
Motives and thoughts
Industrial wealth
Global economy, in it for self
Heart full of madness, covered with kind
Pleasure designed to take over your mind
Furnished in godliness, painted in good
This tainted priesthood got real saints misunderstood
While classes in government, set up the veil
And cultivate minds for more mythical tales
Typical Hollywood follies good girl
While vice and corruption take over the world
Motives and thoughts
Check your motives and thoughts
Blind with the wickedness, deep in your heart
Modern day wickedness is all you’ve been taught
Lied to your neighbors, so you get ahead
Modern day trickery is all you’ve been fed
Motives and thoughts
Check your motives and thoughts

Friday, February 05, 2010

Shark

Apparently sharks never sleep and if they stop moving they die. I'm a shark up until maybe 6am every bloody night this week. Besides tonight, because it's 7:30 now and I'm still up. This part is my fault though because I'm here blogging about it instead of actually trying to sleep even though I have a dentist appointment in 3.5 hours. Go me.

I've been entertaining myself well though, through the supposed sleeping hours. I caught up on all my youtube subscriptions. That hasn't happened in a long while. I forgot what a computer-person I can be, because 2009 was pretty low on the computer usage since the pos was broken for the majority of the year. But the guilty satisfaction I get from all my online social networking sites hasn't really worn off that much. I'm admittedly a bit disenchanted by blogging now, but not tonight so you probably don't believe me. I don't love Facebook but it sucks me in once in a while.

Other than watching the 5AG and the Vlog Brothers and Mememolly, I've been perusing lookbook.nu and a bunch of different 'fashion related' blogs. It's really unhealthy to look at fashion when you're as broke and as frivolous with your money as I am.

I also randomly decided to paint my nails. I have my nailpolish in this basket thing under my mirror and I don't have a lamp yet so I went off the light of my monitor and two tealights-- couldn't really see the colour of the nailpolish I grabbed properly, so yay! I'm going to wake up to surprise-colour, poorly done nailpolish in 3 hours. I felt phartsy about it so here are some pictures.