only two weeks left

I'm starting to get worried about finals right now. Only two weeks left of this semester and then I have both summer sessions and then the fall semester and then good bye Texas Tech University. Two degrees and lots of debt in the process. I just finished my last exam for Cupidon on Friday and I'm actually nervous. I don't think that I did as well as I could have, and now I just have to work on this project that is due I believe on the 7th and then I just have four finals to worry about.

This weekend was pretty lazy for me, Friday I went out, had an allergic reaction to something that I ate, took Benadryl and then slept. I finally finished watching Band of Brothers, then I decided to watch The Pacific and I'm halfway through that miniseries. I love learning about history but to hear and see those old soldiers stories is saddening. I'm glad that there really hasn't been warfare like that in Europe and the Pacific here on American soil. I can't even think of just the rebuilding process, or the magnitude of civilian  lives loss.

My 10am class was cancelled so my next class isn't till 11 so I'm going to work on my project. The more I get done on campus the less I have to do at home, and when I get home at 5pm everyday I do not want to spend any additional time analyzing data during my TV time.

Arbor Day

Arbor day

free food
ICC food
Olive Garden

I'm ready for the summer

I 'm ready for the summer already, My computer is acting all weird and not charging that is weird. I don't want to have to send it back in and be computer less for finals. It says my computer will be charged in an hour and 34 minutes so hopefully in the morning it will be.

ugggg Mondays are so bad for me

Today did not go off to a good start, maybe it began with Sunday night. I mean my day was kind of sluggish and it didn't really kick off till around 9pm, so I was so far behind. I did back a yummy chocolate pudding cake with almonds, pecans, and toasted coconut. I will post the recipe later. Well basically long story short I didn't get to sleep until 1am. I woke up around 7 something for class, but I am basically not prepared. I only managed to take my laptop and water bottle. So I left my wallet, glasses, and no food. I'm going to be starving by 5pm when we make it home. I decided that I am going to make Indian food tonight so that is going to be good. Me and Nisha did go the grocery store finally after about a couple of weeks, when we realized we had no food in our house. She has decided after she graduates in a few weeks to keep living with me for another semester basically until December and get into a master's program in the spring. This really helps me out as in I don't have to look for a place to stay for a semester by myself, and I don't have to move all of our stuff. I was dreading moving in the first place. I didn't even know where I was going to go in the first place. Speaking of Nisha I need to get her a graduation present, so far I'm thinking of a card with money but thats so lazy. I have my last managerial economics exam this friday and then all I have is one project, a couple of quizzes, a bit of homework, and then finals.... Oh the coming weeks are going to be amazing. Recipe for the cake below. I love these recipe because for some reason I can never keep eggs in my home, and I am too lazy to go to the store and purchase more. Also for my vegan friends I'm sure you can replace the little milk and butter this recipe uses to make this recipe vegan friendly.

3/4 cup all purpose flour
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/3 cup plus 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 cup milk
3 tablespoons butter, melted
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 3/4 cups boiling water
powdered sugar, for serving

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9 inch square baking dish or round souffle dish. Combine flour, granulated sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and 1/3 cup cocoa in medium bowl. Add milk, butter and vanilla, stir until just blended. Spoon the batter into the prepared dish. ( this is totally optional but I added sliced almonds, chopped pecans, and toasted coconut)

Combine brown sugar and remaining 1/4 cup cocoa in small bowl. Sprinkle evenly over batter. Pour boiling water over entire mixture; do not stir.

Bake 35 to 38 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the top layer comes out clean. Cool at least 10 minutes. Sprinkle with powdered sugar, dollop of whipped cream, or a scoop of vanilla ice cream, or just plain.

Water for Elephants

I just finished watching that movie. I know I'm a year late but I did download the book on my kindle, but since my kindle died on my I haven't had a chance to read it. I was actually side tracked because I'm supposed to be re organizing my room and desk area, but I've just managed to move junk around. I found so many dishes in my room, I'm officially a slob. Well I will have my room finished today atleast, that is my weekend goal. I also decided to keep my old laptop instead of selling it because it is actually working pretty good, so I have it set up sort of like a desktop/typewriter for the book that I will try to write daily. I also decided to put my sewing machine in it's case and clear off my sewing table to make an even larger desk area, I mean I need the space for all of my economic books as well as just a larger desk. I found my diploma still in the round little mailer that Tech mailed it in and I decided to put it in my shadow box that I bought two years ago. I can't believe I graduated two years ago, and that I will be graduating again in December. Learning and amassing copious amounts of debt is amazing.


I need to find a better job so I can save money and either repair my car or buy a new one all together. I need to get things together

typing by candlelight

it's so romantic looking. I decided to stay in and get some rest because I have the gigantic task of cleaning our little house this weekend. I need to throw some things away in my room and organize some stuff. This is the first weekend in a while that I do not have an assignment due or plans. So I am going to wake up early because I need to have this stuff done by tomorrow. I finally decided to make a pair of DIY TOMS sandals out of my old picnic table TOMS.  They turned out ok.

Don't Dream It's Over

I've been in an 80's rut this whole week. I mean it's great the music, the clothes, the hair style choices but I feel like I'm the classic 80's protagonist  in a John Hughes film. I need to find a guy while I'm still young, I know he is out there. So Depressing.....

I did it....

Well let me just say I have been a busy bee this week... school mostly, projects, baking for friends. I've been away and I know it. I'm ready for this semester to be over. Well anyways I shaved one side of my head out of nowhere friday night. It all began after I went to my friend Genevive's house because we had breakfast for dinner. hahah my most favorite dinners. Everyone brought food and it was fun. Nisha came with me and we made cheese danishes and blackberry cheese danishes. We ate waffles with whipped cream and chocolate chips, turkey bacon, hash browns, quiche, kolaches, and drank mimosas. It was a great night. Then all of a sudden I get home and grab scissors and just start chopping, it was to late to do anything about it. But the more I stared at myself the more I realized that I loved it. I've been thinking about it for a while and I just went with it.

Oh and I finally finished these super long braids.... no more wearing hats, no more high bun to conceal the middle that was not finished. It feels amazing, I am definitely keeping these in for a lot longer than my first braids. My next hair choice is going to be something with Ombre.

I registered for my last summer classes and my last fall classes hopefully at Texas Tech forever. I can't wait to be out of Lubbock. Me and my two degrees are going to leave and never look back. Nisha is graduating in about a month and she has not even bought invitations yet. I guess she isn't planning on anyone to come.   I don't know why I just decided to so laundry but I know I'm going to be tired in the morning. It's going to be bad

Happy Easter

Yay I have sour jelly beans...

So I'm cooking us a great Easter dinner of Stuffed pork roast, sautéed spinach, sweet potatoes, and rolls, oh and iced green tea.  Coconut cupcakes for dessert.

Oh I am also currently baking my neighbor a chocolate pecan pie because she paid to have our lawn mowed and this is what I do. You do home repairs for us and we bake you yummy things.

Here's the recipe with pictures. It will be ready around 3:15pm

I did not feel like making the pie crust so I just bought one pre made.

The chocolate-pecan filling:

3 large eggs
3/4 cup  packed dark brown sugar
1/2 cup  light corn syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons melted butter, salted or unsalted
1 2/3 cups pecans
3/4 cup bittersweet or semisweet chocolate chips

Preheat the oven to 375ºF  and position the oven rack to the center of the oven.

In a large bowl, mix together the eggs, brown sugar, syrup, vanilla, salt, and melted butter.

Stir in the pecans and the chocolate chips then scrape the filling into the pie shell and bake for 30 to 35 minutes, or until the filling puffs up slightly but still feels slightly jiggly and moist in the center.

Let pie cool completely before slicing.

So I decided

To start putting more recipes and pictures of what I cook during the day. I did have a blog dedicated to recipes but I deleted it a while back...ooops.

Well I guess I will just do everything on this one.

So today I made Toasted Coconut cupcakes... They are so yummy.

I totally made this recipe up but here it is

1/4 cup butter, softened

1/2 cup white sugar

3 eggs

1/4 cup sweetened coconut

1 1/2 cup flour

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

3/4 cup coconut milk

1/4 cup condensed milk

1/4 cup milk

Icing

1 package of cream cheese

1/4 cup powdered sugar

1/4 cup condensed milk

2 tablespoons of milk

1/4 toasted coconut for garnish

Preheat oven to 350F. Line a 12 cup muffin tin with paper liners. Beat together butter, coconut milk,condensed milk and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time until the mixture is uniform. On low speed mix in the coconut. In a separate bowl mix together flour and baking powder. Continue running the mixer on low speed and alternately add in the coconut milk, milk and the flour mixture, scraping down the bowl regularly. Pour or scoop into muffin tins and bake for 18 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

While the cupcakes are cooling you can toast the coconut and make the icing. To toast the coconut, heat a medium skillet to medium-low and toss the coconut until fragrant. It can burn quickly so pay attention. To make the icing beat together sugar and cream cheese until fluffy then add in coconut cream. 

Frost the cupcakes with the icing, topping each with a sprinkling of toasted coconut.

long day

I have a long day of cleaning ahead of me. I think I am going to bake coconut cupcakes and I have to make a chocolate pecan pie for my neighbor.

Work Work Work

I'm at work right now all day because I decided to skip work yesterday and go with Gen to the conversation hour at the foreign language building to help international students practice their english to native speakers. It was actually really fun, afterwards this guy from Saudi Arabia got my number so he could practice speaking in english. I think its amazing to learn new things from people all over the world.

well now I'm at work in the break room about to practice some Marginal Utility. I have a quiz tomorrow.
Me and nisha are going to make sushi rolls today. I can't believe she is graduating in about 5 weeks.

Adele

For some reason I have Adele on my mind. I stayed up last night studying from my Macro Theory exam and I think I actually did pretty good. So heres hoping that I made at least a B. Oh I got my International Finance exam back after worrying about it for weeks now. I made a 84. I know that class was hard but I wanted to make an A.... I've made B's on the past two exams and now all I have left is the final for that class. I want an A in there, my problem is that I don't have enough time to finish and my essays towards the end suffer tremendously. I could probably have made A's if I just finished in time.

I found the coolest fashion blog just by googling something, I never subscribe to other peoples blogs nor do I post the link to my blog for others to read. I feel like I'm too lazy to post things that interest me, and I also have a fear of people's opinions of me. I often delete previous posts because I think people will think I'm weird. I need to stop that. I'm ready for this week to be over, I'm ready to lay in my bed.

What the heck

Yes I have a good neighbor she just paid to have our lawn mowed, so I am actually broke right now so for compensation I will definitely make her a pie or cupcakes. I wish she could just move with me wherever I moved but she won't. I've been at work all day and I am so ready to leave. I have an exam in the morning that I need to study for. This semester is winding down and I am ready for it.


Oh I made a B on my Multinational corporations exam... 2 points shy of an A. I should have studied more.

So....

The only time I really blog is while i'm at school because when I am at home I am just so exhausted from the week that I just watch TV and collapse in bed. Oh when I picked Nisha up yesterday I decided to make us a wonderful dinner which consisted of chicken alfredo, a spinach salad with almonds and strawberries, french bread with olive oil and oregano and for dessert I made blackberry and apple dumplings with a coconut cinnamon cream. We had sweet iced green tea to drink. It was a nice change because we have been eating out a lot and are now super poor. We then watched all of our sunday programming Game of Thrones, Mad Men, RHOA you know the usual.

Now it's monday and the start of another hellish week. Macro theory exam on wednesday, managerial economics assignment due on wednesday. and lots of work and class in between. I don't know when I am going to finish my braids. Shit.