Baking!!! :D

I have gotten back into my Martha Stewart mode (Antoinette says I should be described as Aunt Jemima instead. lol). I've been baking non-stop. My adventures started off with strawberry shortcake and it was SO amazing!!! Emboldened with my success, I tried to make apple tart and that was also very good (while it was hot, and then it got really hard, but it still tasted very good). After that, I tried to make scones. I had a real adventure making these because I totally went off recipe. I decided that by then I had enough experience that I could try to figure out what needed to be added and how much. So... with my new found confidence in baking, I found myself making rosemary/orange flavored scones. They were actually really good and because they were good, I decided that I needed to experiment with even more flavors. A couple of days later, I made cranberry flavored scones. I wanted to experiment further and added strawberry jam on a couple of the scones before cooking them, and they were even better than the plan cranberry scones! And then the good adventures ended....

So, you know how I said that I've been so confident of my baking skills because I have been basically altering all the recipes I make and they all turn out good? Well, that ended today. I was SO excited to make coconut cake today that I didn't even mind that it would take me forever to make. I started off by trying to find some shredded coconut at my house. I finally found some, but I realized that the recipe called for sweetened coconut, so I decided to be a pioneer with baking and try to make my own sweetened coconut bits. I added some sugar to a bowl of water and threw in the dried coconut. I mean, really, after all that osmosis stuff we had to learn in biology, I figured this would work to make the coconut sweet. (I like the fact that I was using science for real life today. lol). This worked fine, but I think I got a little to excited by my discovery and added too much of it into the mix. And then I got too carried away with the coconut milk (I really wanted it to taste like coconut), and the mixture got SOOO runny. I still tried to cook it, but feels too moist and sticky still. And, I cooked it for like 20 minutes more than the recipe called for. And, to top it off, it doesn't even taste like coconut still! Sigh. I guess I was in for a disaster sooner or later...

But not to worry. I have also recently had success making savory food. Namely, I made enchiladas and lasagna. So, tomorrow, I'm going to make gnocchi!! YAY! And, I really do mean that the gnocchi will be freshly made with fresh sauce! I can't wait to try it tomorrow!

Second to Last Day

So, today is my second to last day that I'm in Stockton for the semester.

I feel very strange. I know I'm leaving, but it still hasn't really sunk in, so I'm kind of just floundering around until my brain realizes that I'm not going to be back in school for 5 months. Sigh. So depressing.

I was thinking back on the semester and although I didn't accomplish everything that I wanted to  - I didn't get a job and I didn't try to do the research that I wanted to do - I still feel like I had a great semester. I'm going to count off all the stuff that I loved about this semester!

1. I got over being a failure! yay! :D

2. I got to spend a lot of free time basically doing whatever I wanted to do. I watched all the TV shows that I wanted. I hung out with friends. I worked hard for LKS!

3. I got to have 2 littles for LKS! I have a new Indian family. lol.

4. I've made many new friends from all the elective classes that I took.

5. I made a trip to SF and it was amazing!

6. I've realized that a lot of my close friends are going to be in pharmacy school with me next year, so I'm very excited for that!

7. I enjoyed my classes without having to worry about getting good grades. It's so much more productive for learning than when you have to worry about memorizing every little thing.

8. I went to Sky High. A room full of trampolines is AMAZING, but so tiring!

9. I read a lot of novels because I actually got to go to the library.

10. I've survived this semester. I was so scared of coming back, but I did it. I think I can finally move on now.

Ok. I'll write more after I get back from the barbecue at my business prof.'s house. I hope it really doesn't last until 9. God, that's going to be torture!

Nostalgia

Today, I talked to my old roommate Mariham and I feel so nostalgic now. I sent her a link to this music video because it's now "our song." We watched this movie together and we both absolutely adore it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HibG9l1xOYY

But, yeah, I just really love the lyrics to this song. It makes me feel so happy.  : D

I really want to watch this movie again too. It such a cute movie!!

Craving Adventure

I really want to do something adventurous. My idea of adventurous is of course going somewhere new. I really, really want to get away from school and away from home for a while. Today, I thought of going to Empresso Coffee House, just so that I could have an excuse to leave my room. I don't know what's going on in the past couple of days, but I can't stand being in my room anymore. I mean, it's not like I have a choice, but I really just want to leave!!! But where can I go? What to do? I don't know. I feel like I should walk around and explore Stockton like a vagrant, but being a vagrant can be quite dangerous in Stockton, and I don't want to get killed, so I'm once again left to sit in my room.

I never understood when people said they had Cabin Fever. I guess I never had much free time before and being able to do nothing was blissful, but now, I'm beginning to understand how being in your room all day could make someone go crazy!!!

For Your Enjoyment

This is totally for your enjoyment. Sigh. Ok. Fine. It's for my enjoyment too. Doesn't he just look so hot? God. I can't believe I'm still not over him.

P.S. Dear Gap (I think...)
If you let him be in more of your posters, I'll buy more of your stuff. Just saying. Sexy sells.

I Forgot

I'm all done with my take home final, FINALLY!!! YEE! OK. So, I had an idea for a post but then I forgot. I was super excited to write whatever it was too, but now I can't remember anything. Darn it!!! Any who, I can't wait to go back to school on Sunday and see everyone again. I feel so alienated after having spent a week by myself.

Also, it's raining outside! yay! I love it when it rains. Let me clarify. I should say that I love sleeping to the sound of rain.

P.S. I'm still working on trying to get my dad to let me go to England over the summer. I must go. I feel like my life is going to change once I go there. I feel so suffocated in California. I seriously just want to leave. I have never felt like this in all my life, but right now, I want to take a vacation somewhere and not think about school or anything at all.

In other news, pledging starts this week! I can't believe it's been a year since I joined LKS. I'm getting a little (and another little that I share)! I still have to go shopping for them. I have no idea what to get though. I must figure it out soon. Obviously, I would have to get my littles, a small lamb and food! Maybe I can make some brownies or something for them both.

If I lived During Shakespeare's Time

I was wondering how everything would be if I lived during Shakespeare's time... so naturally, I felt a compulsion to write a blog entry about that. And, since I haven't made my world famous doodles in so long, I thought this would be the perfect blog to draw as well. (P.S. So, you can tell I got tired of trying to make the drawings look good towards the end. I wish I had artistic skills. It would make this post so much better, but beggars can't be choosers I guess)

1. I would most likely be wearing a beautiful, flowing gown like Cinderella (unless I was a boy). Also, if I was poor I would probably look even worse than when Cinderella dressed as a servant.

Clearly, the left drawing is if I was rich and the right is if I was poor. 

2. If I was a girl I would be married by now... not cool.

3. I would have died of the plague by now.

4. I wouldn't understand the language.

5. I probably wouldn't know how to read.

6. I could go see an actual Shakespeare play. Wouldn't that be wonderful? But then again, the plague combined with unwashed people would probably not be enticing.

7. I could find myself a Romeo.

8. I could learn how to write with those cool quills. I've always wanted to do that. They even use those quills on Harry Potter. AM-A-ZING! But then again, did they even teach girls to read and write? Oh, but how tragic and ironic would it be if they didn't?

9. I would probably stand out because of my dark skin and be ostracized. GASP! I would not like that at all.

10. I would get my shoes dirty with crap (literally) every time I walked outside.

11. I would have to use a chamber pot. No explanations needed.

12. I would get to see the pristine beauty of nature before the industrial era destroyed it. (HA! I knew I could think of something good about this time period!)