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I FAILED!!!

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HAPPY PANCAKE DAY!!!!! We made lots of scrummy pancakes and I made cookies too! Had a very productive day. Not much time because am doing uni work so I shall see you tomorrow!

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So I went shopping today and decided that I love this top. But I resisted the urge to buy it . I did good!!!!!!

Anyway that's not what my post today is about. Today it is about one of my best friends. She is pictured below with me in Edinburgh. She text me earlier saying that she missed and that's what made me decide to dedicate this post to her. I am so stoked about going on holiday with her and our boyfriends as it means we can hangout since we don't get to much because she lives too far away from me. Also I will  be visiting her soon which I'm excited about but it's still too far away. To be honest, I don't think anybody gets me quite as much as she does. Anyway, Emzy this is for you! I miss you!!!

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So was out last night and slightly hungover today. I say slightly which is actually true as I'm mainly just tired. However I have a craving to bake cookies!!! haha

We went to Korova and it was the first time I'd ever been and I had a great time. I knew so many people that were here and saw some friends I haven't seen in years.

Above I am pictured with the awesome Laura and Rachael =) They seriously are the best friends in the world!

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Going out tonight and am very excited. It has been such a long time since I went out and had a drink or two with my girls. Not 100% sure on the outfit, but oh well! Shame I have to work first. Because to be honest I just want to go drink!

HAHA anyway, have a good Saturday guys!

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Haha we are so cool! Night out tomorrow night with my girlies. Am well excited as we never go out on a Saturday night haha

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Hello everyone.

Had a great long discussion (more like a debate) in Film today because as hypocritical as I am about the subject (I eat meat so can't really speak much about it) but the slaughter of animals for entertainment purposes is beyond me. People kept saying that the slaughter would happen anyway due to the animals being bred for eating, but yet the director's bought these animals and instead of saving them and letting them live, they then kill them. It seems pointless and a waste of a life. Then you have the added thing of, if an animal is allowed to be taken off of deathrow and used in films, can a convict in the same situation be taken and used in a film whilst getting killed. Controversial much?!?

Anyway guys, I have to go finish reading my book for English tomorrow so I shall speak more later. Thanks =)

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David and I on our post valentines date! We went to see The Bow and I cried my eyes out like a little baby! It was very good though! I thoroughly recommend everyone to go and see it!

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HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!

I have been spoilt rotten today, if I am honest with you. We are going swimming with dolphins when in Portugal and that was my valentines day present! I am so lucky! That and my Kinect 

Was watching my films for this week and I actually thought I was going to be sick. The main film is called Blood of the Beasts and it's all about the slaughtering of animals and it is very graphic and it shows literally every bit of the murder and dissection 

I got my exam results for English this morning. (I found it ironic that the Romanticism results came out on Valentines Day) and I passed. I got a 13 which is quite good, but I'm not happy enough and there is room for improvement. I am away to start writing my essay for English so I can get some people to proof read it as I want to do really well this term.

SO I am offski!

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I'm wearing pink and lots of it haha! This is an unusual occurrence!

I said I would update lots but I don't have time as lots of uni work to do! So I will do a brief update yet again! This week is going to be a hard week at uni due to the films we are watching. The are short films all about the death of animals within film. Whether it being a documentary or the use of documentary footage in fiction film. After today's class I felt physically sick.  We watched Electrocution of an Elephant by Tomas Edison which he made to show how much better DC electricity was from AC and it is shocking.

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I am terrible at this! Works been crazy and have been having early nights but I've been taking the pictures, just uploading them slightly later. So this is for yesterday (12/02/2012) will update properly in the next post!!!!

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Not feeling like taking a photo today so have an old one!!!

My works have just changed my shifts all around! AAAAAAAAAAARGHHH!!! annoying!

I honestly can't believe Whitney Houston is dead!!! Shocking news!!!RIP!!!

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HAHA! Poser picture!!!

I just got an order for 25 wrist bands!!!! I just worked it out and I have raised just over £50 for charity at the moment through my wrist bands. So I am really chuffed. Plus thy have put posters around Uni for me too so everyone will be able to see it. 

I think I've pulled a muscle playing the Kinect. The Disneyland game is amazing! I played it for 2 hours straight and then realised I was in pain so figured that I had to stop. My Daddy was laughing at me because of it. Haha!

I GOT ACCEPTED FOR A DIRECTOR'S WORKSHOP AT UNI! There was only 20 places so I am so chuffed that I am allowed to go to it. It's on the 29th of February!!! Cannot wait!!!

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Went to the Bobbin today for studying! That didn't happen to be honest. We sat and drank and ate too much food instead as students do!

I got my Kinect today for the Xbox!!! I am so excited to start playing it!!! So this is a short post because I am away to play and really can't be bothered writing much more.! Enjoy!

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So the story behind this photo is Sarah saying: "I need to think of something funny before I get my photo taken... Like Monkeys... In that tree over there... Having sex... And its funny!"

I said the other day that I would post the recipe for my cookies on here and I haven't done it yet so prepare for it below:
Ingredients:
9 T. butter (125 g.)
1/2 c. sugar (100 g.)
1 T. vanilla sugar or 1 tsp. extract
2 egg yolks
1 egg (50 g.)
2 c. flour (250 g.)
1 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 c. Nutella or chocolate nut spread
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 c. chocolate chips
1 tsp. butter
Preparation:

Mix cold butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolks, then egg and vanilla extract, if using.

Add flour, baking powder and salt and mix until the dough forms a ball. Wrap in cling wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

Mix Nutella and cinnamon in a small bowl.

Form a ball with 2 teaspoons of dough by rolling it between the palms of your hands.

Place about 1/2 teaspoon of Nutella in the middle, then bring the edges of the dough up and around the filling and pinch closed.

Roll the dough again between your palms until a sphere is formed, then place on a parchment-lined cookie sheet. Repeat with remaining dough.

Bake at 350°F for 15 minutes in a preheated oven. Cool and decorate as follows:

Melt the chocolate chips and butter in the microwave on high in 15 second intervals, stirring after each 15 seconds. This should take about 3 intervals before the chocolate chips are smooth and hot.

Spoon the melted chocolate into the bottom corner of a sandwich bag. Close the bag. Cut off a very small corner of the bag and squeeze the chocolate through the hole to drizzle in an attractive pattern onto the cookies.

After the cookies have cooled, store them in an airtight tin between layers of wax paper. You may also freeze them.

SO yeah, that's the recipe for the cookies.

I watched the film Au Hasard Balthazar last night and it was really good. I constantly sympathised with the protagonist of the donkey rather than the human characters and I also did my conversation post too which went as follows:

Au Hasard Balthazar is quite distressing in places due to the different techniques that Bresson uses throughout the film. At many points the viewer is forced to sympathise with Balthazar rather than anyone else in the film mainly due to the sound effects and also the use of close up. The viewer is constantly being put behind bars and is made to sympathise with different animals and people within the film. The gaze that is received by the viewer from these others makes us feel like we are the one who are in captivity and hat it is not the animals and humans that we are viewing on the screen.

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Hello peepz. 

Had work today again and am so tired which sucks but yeah. I fell asleep while reading my book which I find quite funny although it was really interesting so will have to read some more tomorrow. 

We started studying a film called Au Hasard Balthazar today which is about a donkey. Am going to watch it tomorrow so will let you know what it is like after, but it seems so interesting.

Am away to bed now!!!

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So last night was my works Christmas night out... in February. It was either really early or really late. This is me with my work friends Hugo and Charlotte. We went to the Carmelite Hotel in Aberdeen. To start with the night was not that great but then the music started and the free bar (not until after 10 and I was sober all night anyway) and everyone seemed in better spirits. We had a buffet thing but to be honest all we really ate was nachos. There were 3 of us who managed to much our way through 2 tubs of nachos.

All in all last night was really good. This morning however, everyone seemed to be suffering a little bit. I was fine though. Just hammering away at bars and such. It was great fun.

More work tonight to go to however and lots of reading to do for English too. I should probably watch the film for this week too. So much work to do and little time to play makes Rachael a sad girl.

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cop out of a picture because I don't have much time.

My Christmas Night out for one of my jobs is tonight at the Carmelite Hotel featured above.

Shall let you know about it tomorrow.

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Looking quite 60's today I feel.

I had uni this morning where we were discussing Jane Eyre. Personally, although I loved the book, I feel as if it only gave us great details about her life when something negative was happening as when she was happy it kind of skipped through it all the way through to the very end. I don't want to give too much away, but I recommend everyone reading it. The novel merges elements of three distinct genres. It has the form of a Bildungsroman, a story about a child's maturation, focusing on the emotions and experiences that accompany growth to adulthood. The novel also contains much social criticism, with a strong sense of morality at its core, and finally has the brooding and moody quality and Byronic character typical of Gothic fiction. It is a novel often considered ahead of its time due to its portrayal of the development of a thinking and passionate young woman who is both individualistic, desiring for a full life, while also highly moral. Jane evolves from her beginnings as a poor and plain woman without captivating charm to her mature stage as a compassionate and confident whole woman. As she matures, she comments much on the complexities of the human condition. Jane also has a deeply pious personal trust in God, but is also highly self-reliant. Although Jane suffers much, she is never portrayed as a damsel in distress who needs rescuing. For this reason, it is sometimes regarded as an important early feminist (or proto-feminist) novel. (Thanks Wiki)

Next book we are reading is Great Expectations. I'm slowly getting there although it's not as interesting to me as Jane Eyre was.

P.S the cookies were really tasty that I made, recipe shall follow tomorrow!

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I got an Aberdeen Uni hoody today! Feel like part of the team now. And it's purple!!!

I feel really poroud of myself as for once I had watched the film and done all the readings for film. It doesn't happen very often but we have to discussion posts now for it so I will every week. The film we watched was called Nenette. Nénette is a 2010 French documentary film about a 40-year-old female orangutan living in the menagerie of the Jardin des Plantes, (the zoo in Paris, France). The film, directed by Nicolas Philibert presents an intimate portrait of the ape, originally from Borneo, who has spent her most of her life in captivity. In accord with the Cinéma vérité style of Philibert's earlier works, the camera rests on Nénette and her son Tübo in their glass-fronted enclosure. We hear the conversations and see the reflections of the zoo visitors in the glass as they regard Nénette, a mother of four who has survived three mates

I think I am away to go and backe some Nutella cookies and see how they taste. If they taste good I'll post the recipe on here. I may sell these in my resteraunt/ice cream parlour that I want to open. Nobody seems to be taking me seriously with it but I am. I even created the wall that I would like and have the theme all organised.

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Hiding from the cold. I had a day off today and it was epic, even though I did go into uni for a study group at the Bobbin. I finished Jane Eyre and I loved every page of it. Now to start on Great Expectations.

GLEE!!! OMG!!!! It still hasn't been on in the Uk  but OMG!!!!! haha that is all on the matter, but Cory Monteith and Lea Michelle had me in tears.

Thinking about getting a Kinect for the Xbox. I reckon it would be so much fun.

I can't wait to move out on the pure fact of I want a cat.