The Next 22 Days...

Good morning!! If you follow my twitter, you'll know that my boyfriend has run away to Miami for 3 weeks! This means that I've been left to my own devices in Australia!

Now, Trent and I usually spend so much time together, I've been having a hard time trying to figure out what to do, so I decided to write a list of things I want to accomplish while he's gone!

1. Read The Storyteller by Jodi Piccoult

2. Go to the gym 4 times/week

3. Go to the beach at least once

4. Eat breakfast every morning

5. Keep track of my food intake

6. Don't eat any takeaway/fast food

7. Read Damned by Chuck Palahniuk

8. Catch up on Grey's Anatomy

9. Tweet at least 5x per day

10. Blog 4x per week

11. Adventure somewhere I haven't been before

12. Catch up on my scrapbook

13. Do at least 3 outfit posts

14. Spending Freeze! Do not buy anything I don't absolutely need!

15. Wear my hair down on every day off

16. Get my hair/eyebrows did

17. Get a mani/pedi

18. Sharpen my knives

19. Watch the Super Moon on the 23rd

20. Move all my music to my iPod

What about you? Do you find yourself going stir crazy?!

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Cooking With a Camera (And #5/19)

MakeaGIF.com kills picture quality... anyone have any other gifmaking solutions?

I've been regularly blogging since January, and since then I have not had a camera. Not even an iPhone camera. All I have been able to use to take pictures is someone else's camera, or my webcam.... not anymore! 

I am not a photographer, nor am I a professional blogger by any means, but I do love documenting the little things that go on around me, and finally I will be able to! This also crosses off number 5 on my 19 before 20 List! Success! It's a Cannon Elph, and I love it. It's only a point and shoot, but hey, buying a car was also on my to do list. 

I've got to be honest here, I'm pretty sure the only reason I made breakfast this morning was because I wanted to use my new camera. 

Yum, I just want to eat it all over again.

Eugh, ugly writing. Gonna take some time to get used to this whole tablet thing!

 Fisheye effect!

 Toy Camera Effect

And a cool shot of a whisk taken with the high speed burst mode.

The point of this post was pretty much just to try out my new camera... which was also pretty much the point of the eggs. BUT - some helpful words of advice from a breakfast cook:

When making an omelette, make SURE you,

• Put a little bit of oil at the bottom of the pan. A little bit of oil. Maybe a tablespoon if you have a big pan, and please don't drown your eggs. 
• To make an actual omelette (unlike mine) be sure to have more eggs than stuff, the eggs are the glue keeping your stuff together, and without it you just have scrambled eggs
• Salt and Pepper!!!!!! Don't forget these key ingredients in your veggies, and most certainly in your eggs.
• To keep that circle shape, make sure you use a rubber spatula to carefully lift up the edges of the eggs. This will allow the eggs to run down below the already cooked eggs, giving you that excellent circle shape.
• To give a little extra kick in your eggs, try whisking in a little bit of horseradish or grainy dijon mustard. MMmmmm good!

April Goals

Life/Health:

• Read 3 whole books (gosh, I used to be such a bookworm and now I have to make a goal to read 3 books)
• Enjoy more time outside in the sunshine
• Talk to my parents more!
• Focus on changing what I'm eating and being more concious about what I put into my body.

Creative:

• Start baking, once or twice a week.

Blogging:

• Update on a regular basis - 2 or 3 times a week.
• Get a real life camera to blog with (PLEASE)

School:

• Study for all of my exams and finish up the year with flying colors
• Don't procrastinate!
• Make school sweaters for everyone in my program

Business:

• Start thinking more about The CupCapers and see if I can design any pamphlets/flyers
• Save up more money than I spend - bills don't count.