Have your cake and eat it!

Hello! How was your weekend?

Mine was kind of low key, but fun nontheless! Spent most of it hanging out with Adam and Izzy! It's nice to be able to get some time with Adam, he's been working crazy hours lately as has recently started a new business!

On Sunday, my parents invited us round for dinner. It was delicious! I didn't snap any photos but we started with a turnip soup my sister had made which was SO NICE! I'm going to attempt to make it at home myself sometime soon. We had a roast dinner made by my Mum (also delicious! Is it just me or does anyone else think you just can't beat your Mum's cooking?!) and then for dessert I brought these:



They were so good! I love to make desserts but myself, my parents and my sisters are all on health kicks. I was going to bake a cake at first, but I know how hard it is to control your portion size when presented with a gorgeous looking dessert. Then I remembered my Auntie had given me a square cupcake pan for Christmas, so I decided to make individual cakes. I just used a regular sponge mix, sliced them in half, added some sliced strawberries and a little whipped cream, then dusted them with icing sugar. They were really nice, and it was so easy to just have one! (Well, my Dad had two, and Adam had about four!) We all felt like we'd had a treat, without derailing our diets.



I hope you all had good weekends too - what's on your agenda for the upcoming week?

The Chickens

I'm in bed at the minute next to Adam, who's fast asleep and has been for about 45 minutes. It's too early for me to feel properly tired, so I'm just messing about online on my iPod.

I've just changed positions and snuggled up closer to him. Adam often talks a lot in his sleep; in fact last night he actually sung a song lol andwhen I cuddled up to him just now, he said "what?" but I knew he was just asleep so I just said "I love you" to see if he'd reply or not.

I can't stop laughing, because Adam then said "have you broken it's neck yet?" I said "what's neck?" and he said "the chickens!"

What on earth is that boy dreaming about?!

Christmas 2008

How was your Christmas? Mine was good!

I got some really lovely pressies, I got:

An iPod touch
A CD player for my car
Some gorgeous diamond earrings from Adam
Loads of Urban Decay make up from my best friend
Chocolates!
A lava lamp
Pyjamas
DVD's
An Indian recipe book which looks so good, so much gorgeous food!

Everyone loved what I got for them too, which makes me happy. My sisters and I have been having a family photograph done of the three of us in private and we gave it to my Mum and Dad and they loved it!

I know it's late but...

...Happy Halloween!

Alton Towers

I'm a bit pissed off right now. I'm at Alton Towers (a big theme park) at the minute with my friends, but they're going into the Haunted House and it has live actors, which REALLY scares me, I hate it. So, I didn't go in. But I'm annoyed because I've already missed out on two rides today. One because my friend didn't want to go on Air and I felt bad for her sat waiting on her own. And the second because both myself and my friend got into one of the carriages on the ride but due to neither my friend or me being skinny, I couldn't fit my legs into the ride properly coz I'm tall as well, so I got out as I knew she'd been wanting to go on that all day. But they've all just left me sat here! It's absolutely freezing too, and the line is really long so no idea how long they'll be. I thought that was a bit unfair, sometimes it's hard being nice, you always seem to get taken advantage of. The one ride I really, really wanted to go on, we haven't been on at all! It'll be our last ride of the day too, we're off home after this. It's a good job we got the tickets half price otherwise I'd have been so annoyed!

Update!

I forgot to bring my book to work today, which means I am now only 20 minutes into my lunchbreak and very bored. Work here is attrocious; it's so boring and I've had so little training I'm still not quite sure what it is I'm supposed to be doing. I can't wait for 5 o'clock though, there is a really nice restaurant right by where I work and my mum and dad and sisters are going to meet me there after work for our tea! Then I'm stopping at Adams after. I'm really looking forward to a (hopefully!) nice, quiet, relaxing evening!

Thanks Dad!

I went for a daytrip to the seaside with my parents and two younger sisters earlier on this week. It was actually a really lovely day! I enjoyed it so much, it's really nice being able to catch up with everyone again after so long away from home.

We went to a place called Bridlington which is on the North East coast of England so it was quite chilly! We packed a picnic lunch and I made some bulgur wheat salad, which was actually really nice but I was so busy enjoying it I forgot to take a photo! I still have some left in the pantry though, so I'm sure I'll make some more soon.

While we were wandering around the town (it was too chilly to spend any time on the beach, which is typical of English seaside hehe) we passed a cooking shop, so being the avid baking/cooking fan that I am, dragged all my family inside for a thorough look around. I could have spent a fortune there! My friends are all obsessed with clothes and shoe shops, but me? Give me a cooking supplies shop anyday! I found a massive tube of cookie cutters while I was in there too, which my dad kindly bought for me as a gift!

The next day my sister and I couldn't wait to try them out, but first things first, we laid them all out on the carpet so we could get a good look at them! I'm such a kid, I love any stuff like this and I've never had any proper cookie cutters of my own before. My grandma used to have some when I was little, and I used to love it when she'd let me use them.



So this post is just really to say thanks to my dad for the present! And also to let you know to stay tuned, as an extremely delicious cookie post is coming soon!

(This post is one of a few that have been transferred over from an old blog as part of the process of updating this blog with all my old entries from other blogs/journals for posterity)