On cakes and movies and bedrooms
Below, the return of the low-budget photo essay- Making a Red Velvet Cake with Gina. (Note- not all steps required for the making of the cake are included in the photo essay. Do not attempt to bake this cake based soley on the photos. That would be stupid, and no way am I responsible if you try it. If you're seeing this, you have the internet- look up a recipe!) The cake is still here, and was featured in today's cake, ice cream and movie afternoon with Emily and Jen. We saw Alfie, (new version, haven't seen the old) which was better than I expected. I liked it more than the other two, mostly because I am bitter. But it was a good movie. Our first choice, Bride and Prejudice, was out, and Alfie was on all of our "well, I'd like to see it sometime" lists. Definitely worth a watch, especially since you only have to rent it.
And now, because it's my blog and I can, a list of random things found around my bedroom, where I am now sitting at the computer.
*My little pink iPod (last song played? Live copy of "Landslide" by Belle and Sebastian, very rare, performed maybe a few times, never recorded on an album, stolen from Ryan's B & S mix cd, made by some very nice friend I don't know. Don't worry, I gave the cd back)
*My cell (Last call? Barbara at 10:40 telling me to come out to Taylor's and party. Honestly, I was just too lazy to go. This weekend!)
*Extra sequins for the skirt I wore to graduation (It's beeeeeeaaauuuutiful and brown and turquoise with bronze sequins and if I could wear it everysingleday I would)
*The Misadventures of Saint Etienne (love. Japanese import)
*Copy of If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino (finally finished it- loved every page. I want to move on to other Calvino, but have a huge stack of other unread books)
*Copy of A Suitable Boy, by Vikram Seth (Which will last forever, as it is ten million pages long. And by ten million I mean over a thousand. No really- I can prove it! Over a hundred pages in and I've barely made a dent)
*Tin of peach lip balm from L'Occitane
*Red ribbon flower pin made by Emily to cheer me up one gloomy exam-prep day
*Stack of clothes that are too big and need to be taken to Buffalo Exchange or the like
*Fairy wings (Child size, worn for Halloween)
*Purple silk hanging (from market in Perros Guirec)
*Toy from inside KinderSurprise (bizarre king-like head)
*Visa photos
*First year French textbook (Themes- blegh)
*Home-made copy of Cent Mille Milliards de Poemes, Raymond Queneau (unfortunately, English version)
*Notebook from classes this year (all in same little red grid book- nice way to look back)
And a lot more, as my room needs to be cleaned. Oh, tired now. And I want to read read read! (Yeahyeahyeah- I may just end up re-reading the last Harry Potter book, as the newest comes out soon. Did you all know that it's APRIL who you have to blame for this Harry Potter addiction??? The lovely April lent me her copies of the first few books which I devoured our freshman year at Ripon, which led to the rest of it all)
And now, because it's my blog and I can, a list of random things found around my bedroom, where I am now sitting at the computer.
*My little pink iPod (last song played? Live copy of "Landslide" by Belle and Sebastian, very rare, performed maybe a few times, never recorded on an album, stolen from Ryan's B & S mix cd, made by some very nice friend I don't know. Don't worry, I gave the cd back)
*My cell (Last call? Barbara at 10:40 telling me to come out to Taylor's and party. Honestly, I was just too lazy to go. This weekend!)
*Extra sequins for the skirt I wore to graduation (It's beeeeeeaaauuuutiful and brown and turquoise with bronze sequins and if I could wear it everysingleday I would)
*The Misadventures of Saint Etienne (love. Japanese import)
*Copy of If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino (finally finished it- loved every page. I want to move on to other Calvino, but have a huge stack of other unread books)
*Copy of A Suitable Boy, by Vikram Seth (Which will last forever, as it is ten million pages long. And by ten million I mean over a thousand. No really- I can prove it! Over a hundred pages in and I've barely made a dent)
*Tin of peach lip balm from L'Occitane
*Red ribbon flower pin made by Emily to cheer me up one gloomy exam-prep day
*Stack of clothes that are too big and need to be taken to Buffalo Exchange or the like
*Fairy wings (Child size, worn for Halloween)
*Purple silk hanging (from market in Perros Guirec)
*Toy from inside KinderSurprise (bizarre king-like head)
*Visa photos
*First year French textbook (Themes- blegh)
*Home-made copy of Cent Mille Milliards de Poemes, Raymond Queneau (unfortunately, English version)
*Notebook from classes this year (all in same little red grid book- nice way to look back)
And a lot more, as my room needs to be cleaned. Oh, tired now. And I want to read read read! (Yeahyeahyeah- I may just end up re-reading the last Harry Potter book, as the newest comes out soon. Did you all know that it's APRIL who you have to blame for this Harry Potter addiction??? The lovely April lent me her copies of the first few books which I devoured our freshman year at Ripon, which led to the rest of it all)
2 Comments:
I lent everyone my Harry Potter books freshman year at Ripon. I had become addicted to them a fraction of a second before the rest of the population, so no one else had read them yet, and as soon as I moved in all three of my suitemates started to read them, and you, and other people too, and when the third one arrived from Amazon I had to hide it because people kept trying to steal it before I was finished.
(I do love my run-on sentences.)
And can I just tell you how excited I am about the new one? I can't believe it's the second to last one.
Yay KinderEier (as they're called in the Germany). I came home from Germany with so many little toys from them... Actually, when I was there, they had a line of Cavemen in the eggs, and I collected them and stuck them in my bamboo plant. (Random story of the day) :)
And yay for cake! :)
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