Yay For Holidays!

My social suicide of a semester offcially ended last Saturday at 10am (I hate 8am exams yet two of my three took place during that time slot ugh.) but I needed a couple of days to recouperate and laze around the house doing absolutely nothing :) Most of my Christmas shopping is done and my tiny litle Christmas tree is absolutely SMOTHERED with presents you can hardly see the poor tree beneath all the bows and ribbons of wrapped presents.





Holidays call for holiday baking ~ Today I will attempt to mix up a batch of Egg Nog cupcake but whether or not they will turn out well is really a toss of a coin, I have such miserable luck when it comes with baking at home I seriously think I'm cursed.

Which explains my first attempt ever at making my own macarons, I refuse to travel all the way to Nectars to pay 12 dollars for 6 macarons (but after the catastrophe on Monday, the option is practically begging me) I do love my macarons and after much googling, youtubing and blog-obsessing I thought I had mustered enough confidence and tips on making these delicious treats to carry me through. Okay, so they didn't turn out THAT bad, I had optd for pink macarons with white chocolate fillings and I may have somehow..ahem..made a mistake measuring the almond four...since I didn't have any I had to make my own from blanched, sliced almonds. I will try you again one day macarons, probably sometime next week.

I really wish my piping bags will turn up somewhere around the house...

Anyway I hope my cupcakes turn out :)

Bad Decisions

It's 8:10 (I pursuaded myself to blog for 5 minutes before cracking open the books), I have two finals that I've barely touched base on and did I mention they're both a day away? But somehow I've justified it with myself that it's okay if I do an avocado hair mask tonight because my hair needs it. :) I justify a lot of bad decisions in the same manner.

Lately hair care has been a top top priority for me, especially now that I've convinced myself that I'm balding (or just an extremely, extremely heavy shedd-er(???) ew. ) So I've purchased one of the Marc Anthony straight hair/heat/protective products (you have to look really carefully...some are heat tools mist which merely give you shine, some are straightening sprays to facilitate straighter results...) which I apply to the roots of my hair section by section before straightening. I've used this three times now and it's working pretty well, but I learned the hard way that A LITTLE GOES A LONG WAY.

Anyhow, my new obsession with haircare is what leads me to smelling and looking like someone who has tragically lost a food fight involving lots of avocado, egg yolk and olive oil. Credits to bubzbeauty@youtube for the recipe and tutorial. This is my second time and I find it makes my hair a lot softer, gives it more shine, anddd makes my hair feel a lot stronger. After perming my hair twice, chemically straightening it once and all the times I've dyed my hair...it really left me picking at straws. Literally.

I'm trying to change hair! Forgive me, I'm trying to make up for the lack of nutrients.

Monster

@Soompi

"Sometimes you climb out of bed in the mornng and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside - remembering all the times you felt that way." - Charles Bukowski

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I am utterly disgusted with my behavior trailing behind like a shameful existence all Fall term long. School should not be an excuse for my flaring tempers and irrational actions, I'm sorry I had to put you through that. Constant streams of assignments, papers, quizes, more papers, with taunting and snide feedback has pulled my patience (if any) taut an left me nothing better than a ticking time bomb.

I am seriously burned out by homework for this semester, I feel like all I know how to do is sit in front of my laptop and tap away paper after paper. Yet, each time I open a blank document I feel incompetent to fill it in.

One.Last.Paper. I'm only 2 pages into 10.