Annie made muffins, I revised

Annie laughed as I took the picture :P

I have 3 exams tomorrow and I have been revising like crazy, hence the lack of blogging. I am supposed to be revising right now, in fact... :P I just couldn't resist a quick break, eating muffins and taking pictures of kitchen utensils at "artistic" angles!

I'll be back tomorrow, after the 6 hours of exams, for my very first "awesome and awkward" Thursday post!

Love y'all,

Say :)

Being Mum.

As my mother had a week off this week (she was supposed to visit my uncle in Canada, but he came over here instead), she decided to go up north to stay with my dad's parents. The first thing my dad asked me once she was gone was whether I would cook! But that's ok, I'm fine with gender roles and stereotyping :P I like cooking :) So in the end I decided to make Mexican chicken wraps with a sugary lime marinade. It's good, I'm telling you, a recipe by Sam Stern, a young chef who has written a few cook books with his mum.

Oliver decided to change the camera setting to monochrome half way through cooking, so I have had to put ALL of them in monochrome :( Now it looks a bit like this post, sorry guys!

I am really pumped for my youth weekend away tomorrow! I won't be able to post until Sunday at the very earliest, but hopefully I will accumulate some good pictures for you :)

Love,

Say :)

Love and Cake

I believe in many things; love, marriage, family, community, selflessness, trust, beauty, that everything happens for a reason (summed up perfectly in the Beatles song, 'All you need is love' with the line 'there is nowhere you can be which isn't where your meant to be') and God.

However, I don't think people only fall for one 'right' person. I believe in love, don’t get me wrong, it’s just that I believe that anyone in the world could make a good couple. Take any boy and any girl and they could make a life together work if they both tried. 

It’s like making a cake. You mix up a bit of each of them and turn them from separate things into one new, beautiful cake (this sounded cooler in my head). Some cakes are better than (or just different to) others, some people will always have things which annoy you, no matter how hard you try, like me and my ex-boyfriend- we would have made a bad cake, a savoury cheese one with mint chocolate chips and raspberry jam in the middle maybe. We could have made a life together work, but it wouldn’t have been the best life we could have. On the other hand, Oliver and I complement each other, like a banana and chocolate muffin (omnomnom). So just make sure the cake is right, people, before you cook it.

Make of that what you will,

Say