Gravity :)

Hey! So can you tell by the title? I am a little obsessed with “Defying Gravity” (the Glee version) at the mo! Can’t decide if I like Kurt or Rachel singing it better!

Now I’m watching Gilmore Girls as I write this – luckily I am an impressively good multi tasker (hehe, it’s the eppy where Emily gets arrested!). Ok what else did I get up to today… nothing much but we finally got a new dish washer which is a relief! Lol! It’s a second-hand one because we are moving soon so the door is a little broken but it works just fine so I’m happy 🙂

Here was the usual breakie:

Followed by Lunch (left overs from last nights dinner):

And lastly din dins:

Chili con carne over long grain basmati white rice with broccoli, cauliflower and butternut pumpkin. It’s funny – I’ve always pronounced the dish as chili con carne not saying the “e” on the end, so like “carn” instead of “carn – nay”. Then I was watching something, actually I think it was an episode of “Bones” where they said it and I realised I’d been pronouncing it wrong all these years!

Hehe it’s funny how things like that happen. Must get to bed now anyway – all you early risers would be shocked to hear at what hour I finally awoke this morning!

Jem xx

 

Good day ;)

Hey all~ My list was pretty well done! Happy with my new hair too! My hair is really long and I only got it trimmed so it takes a long time to put in all the foils. I generally get sort of blonder highlights – two shades and I haven’t had my hair done for at least 6 months so I had an obivous (well, too me) grow out line!

Here’s the new look: Started off with a healthy breakie and my usual coffee. Interesting to find other people also don’t like drinking water in the mornings 🙂 Coffee suited me this morning.

Three weetbix, 1/2 cup milk and a sprinkle of blueberries.

Ooh here is a pic of some gingerbread cookies I made a few days ago:

Here was lunch:

Carrot, sandwich with tomato, cuc and a slice of edam cheese and pineapple, pawpaw and coconut yoghurt!

My hair took up pretty much the whole afternoon – like I said – my hair takes ages 😉

Not much else up – spent the time before dinner typing up stuff for my parents, here was dinner:

Brown rice with a peanut sauce with tofu and veg! Yum!

Cya! Jem xx

It’s Sunday!

Heya folks! Once again my photographing has been pretty minimal over the last few days but when I figured out that pictures weren’t anything I really did want to do a post! Hope everyone is having a nice weekend! I really haven’t been up to much over Friday and Saturday! Worked on Fri, relaxed on Sat! Must get some things done today though!

It’s currently pre breakfast on Sunday so no food consumed today yet but lets see. Okay, so today I want to 1) book a hair appointment (seriously, I think the last time I had one was like April :(! I have terrible split ends 🙂 ) 2) Get some sort of exercise (trying not to be to strict on this – if I do end up getting my hair done I’ll walk and that’ll count – It will add up to a good few k’s anyway.) 3) Type up some stuff on the computer as requested by the parents 4) HUmmm… well my parents have been away and there is nothing much else left to eat some sort of baking would be nice!

So that’s my list – if I accomplish those things I’ll be happy! Sure I’ll think of some others along the way!

Anyway so the grand total of my photos over the last two days? 1! That’s right! This was my breakie – actually now I think about it I had basically the same thing both days:

Homemade bread with about 1 tbsp of plain natural crunchy pb and a nana and a glass of non fat milk! Yum! I really don’t much like drinking water in the mornings – it tastes funny! Does anyone else find that? More specifically just when I have got up! So I prefer a hot drink or milk!

Haven’t eaten anything else very exciting this weekend – mostly just leftovers for dinner involving chicken because that’s what we had!

Must work on my photographing skills and resolve to GO AND FETCH THE CAMERA instead of just eating my food first because I can’t be bothered lol! I am so lazy sometimes!

I’ll be back later! Hope your saturday afternoons/nights are all going well!

Jem xx

Long Time No See!

OK – so muchos apologies for my long absence, rwally it was mostly just this week. I must confess, I really haven’t done much at all it is just the post exam relaxation period! So what have I been doing? A lot of sleeping (;) ), reading, eating (nom nom nom), catching up with friends and baking and just generally relaxing – a lot of tv and web surfing and time wasting! Love the freedom to do what I want when I want.

I will try to repair my blogging however – I think this week was kinda a holiday for me – I must confess – I haven’t used my camera today so must get back to that!

Here are a few photos, however, that were taken during my absence:

If you spot the picture of the blueberry scones in the midst they were really good! Yum!

Nite for now,

Jem xx

Done done done!

Heyyyy! Long time no post! Sorry, but on the bright side I am DONE! Finished! Free! Yay! It’s officially summer – actually it’s still spring but you get my drift! I’ve had three exams over the last four days you might kind of see why I’ve been MIA! I have been photographing though I have heaps of photos to come!

Thinks there is four days worth so here is the first day:

Breakfast: cornflakes, yoghurt, blueberries and coffee!

Tuna salad, yoghurt and apple!

Vegetable frittata – the tofu one! Yum!

And dessert plain greek yoghurt, boysenberry and corny! Mhmm!

Day 2:

Bread with marmite, an in action coffee shot and a nana!

A sort of fried rice: brown rice, beans, peas, pumpkin and chicken! Amazing~

Mhmm berry flakes with milk and yoghurt!

Okay we’re onto Day Three:

More marmite and bread with another nana and coffee! the shape in the coffee did resemble a heart but it dissipated ;(

Hummus and apple! Ooh and some not picture yoghy!

This was a yummy dinner too! Spaghetti, carrot, feta and parmesan and mixed veges and a few pine nuts

And now we are onto Today!

Pretty sure I turned out having this breakfast on all my exams days! Blueberries = brain food!

Normal salad sandwich, carrot, sweet chili sauce yoghurt combo! Muy bien!

Fish (Gurnard), Pumpkin, Broccoli penne with mushroom and carrot sauce!

And the dessert! I actually made these cookies yesterday as a break in study! Turned out I did a lot of baking whilst procrastinating! I think it was because it felt like at least I was doing something a little worthwhile – well more so than watching tv shows on my laptop or surfing the net!

Anyway here are my pretty pretty cookies:

I have to admit! I totally made these cookies for the fun of the shape and decorating them! They were quite a simple roll outable sugar cookie recipe (You know, butter sugar egg baking powder a bit of salt and flour, oh and I added lemon essence instead of vanilla as we had run out but turned out yummy!)

The icing was the fun part! Made a very liquid sort (on purpose) because I’ve only ever made buttercream or fondant before and I wanted to try to make proper cookie icing! The recipe I had called for corn syrup which even if I could buy in New Zealand I probably would avoid so I used cream of tartar instead as found advise that this would be a good substitute! Think I may have added to much milk but with some help from the freezer and then the fridge they turned out great! Oh and I added a sprinkling of silver edible glitter at the end 🙂

This one I actually had last night for dessert

And this was tonights one! And I think the sentiment in the middle of it is a pretty good way to finish off this post! Nite all! Your guys all rock!

Jem xx

Double Dose

Hola – long time no see! Well one extra day…. 🙂 You guessed it study as usual! But things are looking up! At the end of this week it’ll all be DONE! Woohoo! Lol! I just have to get through these last few days!

Anyway this was yesterdays foods:

Typical c + c breakfast (coffee and cornflakes for those not in the know 😉 ). And some yoghurt and milk too!

Studied until this procrastination set in:

Tres bien! Me gusta mucho! And yes – I do realise three languages have just been used on this line!

Tuna salad: well tuna (duh), cucumber, gherkin, tomato, lettuce and carrot.

Dessert of a pacific rose apple cut up and yoghurt!

Waited until dinner for this! Something I cooked for once!

Red lentil curry over long grain white basmati rice with pumpkin and broccoli!

During the afternoon I exercised another effect procrastination technique – this time it was baking 😉

Raspberry muffins of allrecipes.com again – def my muse when it comes to cooking! And so of course I had to try two one for dessert! Delish 🙂

Started today off pretty similarly:

Actually that was a total lie! Forgot what I had for breakie until I added the pic! Turns out I actually went for some homemade bread with 1 tbsp crunchy peanut butter with an awesome pear (think the type is called a winter nellis).

Lunch: more homemade bread with cottage cheese and another apple! Actually added some sweet chili sauce as a topping for the sandwich after I took the photo which made it all the better 😉

Had a nice early dinner (the best sort!) of couscous with chicken and veg! Yum!

Finished off with this:

Which is a common starter or ender to my day – oh cereal, beloved cereal, what would I do without thee?

Nite ya’ll

Jem xx

Happy Halloween!

I swear, I have officially announced to the world that exams suck! Lol! I find it hilarious when lecturers tell you that really they think so too but that you have to sit the test… 😉

Anyway my day consisted of lets see…. study…. and eating… and procrastinating! Well I did cook dinner…. So here are the photos:

Berry flakes and another Eve apple! Coffee not pictured…. 🙂

Uncertain as to what I craved for lunch but eventually decided on two eggs fried with a tiny bit of butter and salt and peppered. Two gherkins and carrot! Oh and a non pictured yoghurt again!

Did make this! Looks very pretty but rather a cheat to make… I’ll admit it! The pasta sauce came out of a can (*blushes*) – my laziness won out! Oh well, it tasted good with the extra carrot and cauliflower I added to it on the penne pasta (we didn’t have any whole wheat left!) with some grated parmesan cheese and parsley sprigs on top! Yum!

Finished off with the ever present:

Cornflakes, milk, yoghurt, blueberries and a choc chip cookie. Oh – I made a batch of them this afternoon too! Apparently baking is another one of my super effective procrastination techniques!

Totally didn’t celebrate Halloween at all but hope you all had great times! Once again – it’s not such a big holiday here in NZ!

Better get some sleep – it’s almost the first of November! I can’t believe how fast this year has gone!

Jem xx

Eat! Study! Work!

Early start this morning! My parents left for the weekend – well they left early this morning – Friday for me! When I mean early I mean it was 6am! Which I know is normal for some of you (;)) but extremely early for me! Oh well! Let me watch a couple of eppys of bones over breakie before getting into the study!

Cornflakes, skim milk and yoghurt! And an Eve apple! Muy bueno but still prefer the pacific roses! 🙂

Study: Spanish and then for my 2 law subjects! Ahhh! Spanish is fun but law is well…. law 🙂 Held out for a few hours anyway before having this crunchy plate for lunch:

Some yoghurt and a pear not pictured! Too delish!

Had a fun break reading blogs! Always so entertaining – I look forward to it 😉 Got myself off to work on time – I like how when you dread something it often turns out better than your thought! Had a fun convo with a new work mate. The time went by pretty fast too which never happens for me at work!

Came home to this:

Thank you to a Bro who when told to cook and left in a house by himself with no other option actually does it! Lol! His signature (one of a select menu 😉 ) dishes – green curry tofu with beans and peas over rice and pumpkin! Good though!

Better get out of my chair and move the great distance to my bed – I’m guestimating it’s about a metre? 🙂

Nite, Jem xx

Good eating day

Hola! So today was good for the eating at least. Definitely getting back to the study tomorrow 😉 Started off simply:

Black coffee and cornflakes with milk! So used to having them with yoghurt that it was kinda nice to have a change! Still had the slight crunch left over which was nice!

It was fun to hear everyone’s favourite tv shows! I guess I kinda missed the “Friends” boat. Think it’s because when I was a kid I never really watched tv except for the news and those Saturday morning and night cartoons. Ooh and the rugby – lol – official national sport of NZ! Go All Blacks…. Lol! But I really wouldn’t be a Kiwi kid if I didn’t grow up watching the rugby 😉

Went of to my Granny’s house mid day which was nice! Came back to a very late lunch however but surprisingly wasn’t as starving as I had imagined I would be and this filled me up nicely:

Toasted whole wheat bread with the usual hummus and pickle. Strawberry yoghurt, carrot and a few more cornflakes to crunch on!

Hummm what did I do until dinner! Honestly I have no idea! Another one of those sort of waste-time-days! I am very good at them but must resist tomorrow!

This was a yummy one! About 60 g whole wheat pasta with a few chunks of pumpkin and sweet potato. Then lean beef mince (about 100g ) with a sauce of chopped carrot, tomato, celery, mushroom. Oh, and as my Mum informed me BEER! Well I couldn’t really taste it which is a plus! 🙂 Sorry… I know I’m not a true uni student not liking beer – (note: in NZ the drinking age is 18 🙂 ). Anyway it was a great dinner!

Did a little grocery shopping after – was running low on the essential ingredient – yoghurt! And a few others….

That looks tres grande I know but it is an itsy-bitsy spoon! Like half the size of a teaspoon? So actually it is a little bowl 😉 Filled with a goodness mixture of apricot flakes and yoghurt! Yum!

Cya! Jem xx

Mooch day ;)

Hola peeps! ‘Twas one of those days! Lol! Most relaxing but very did-nothing-sort-of-day. Good for one day but must get back to the grind tomorrow! My first exam was certainly worst for the amount of material I needed to know off by heart but there’s just a lot of knowledge for these next three!

Started off today with pb on homemade bread with some hot choc over a couple of episodes of Bones! Tres bien!

Most of day – I must admit – was spent watching bones, Gilmore Girls, Reading (currently East of Eden by Steinbeck) and crosswording it! Lol! I’m such a geek 🙂

This ’twas lunch:

More homemade bread with tomato and basil tuna and a pear that escaped picturing! Oooh I must ask, what is everyone’s all time favourite TV show? Mine has to be One Tree Hill! Been obsessed since 2003! 😉

Dinner was:

Which was eaten over the course of about 2 hours! Half eaten before 6:30 and half after 7:30! I teach a little girl the cello for an hour on Wed nights! It’s really fun, especially when I can see her improving – when she practices 😉 Finished off with a very aesthetically pleasing smoothie, tasty too!

Ingredients: frozen boysenberries, banana and plain non fat yoghurt! Some berry flakes on top!

Humm I’ve mentioned both TV and books in this post! As for music! I’m currently obsessed with (some of which I have already mentioned) the Glee soundtrack (and the show 😉 ), Taylor Swift, Owl City, Oooh love Muse‘s new album…. hummm and lots of others!

Night all!

Jem xx

P.S Any thoughts (pro – con) on using a program to blog from? I have a MacBook pro so was looking at Blogo? Think it’s the closest equivalent to Windows Live Writer? Anyone? Lol! I currently just use the web.