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101 in 1001 update 1 year later

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:47:43 GMT

It seems like a good time of year to take some time and reflect on my progress

Bold: Successful
Underline: I'm going to focus my energy on these
Italics: Underway
Strikeout: Not working out so well

And so my list:
Health and Mind
1. Stop trying to be vegan and just be [I've been trying as much as possible]
2. Write about the dreams that I have at night in my blog [Have to do this]
3. Learn about and do a detox [Bought a book, and am learning. Not ready to do this yet]
4. Write a list of 101 things that make me happy [52/101]
5. Me time once a month [0/33]
6. Take multivitamins, in particular iron, calcium and B12 as I’m deficient in each [taken on and off,need to be more vigilant]
7. Start a herb garden [I've had coriander, basil, thyme and chives growing]
8. Buy a bento box and create a new vegan lunch each morning [Making lunch most days for college, but have yet to buy a bento]
9. Swim 101 laps one day [Only on about 10]
10. Exercise every day, be it going to the gym or walking home instead of taking the bus
11. Plan a routine for college, work, fun and exercise and keep track of it
12. Drop X pounds and keep them off for the 1001 days [-Y/X]
13. Spend a whole day alone without mobile, internet or television once each year [0/2]
14. Join a horse-riding school
15. Appreciate the positives [Am going to try and write more to do this]
16. Learn a mind trick inspired by Darren Brown [He taught me about negative suggestion]
17. Eat less soy products. I had a tofu addiction [Eating less soy, I plan to do some research into where to find sustainable soy products]
18. ~~Get abs, even if they are only small ones~~ [This may take some time, and less other responsibilities]
19. Try the raw food diet for at least one week [Bought a book to research this]

Creative
20. Participate in each NaNoWriMo and NaBloPoMo [0/6] [They came and went this year, maybe next year]
21. Repurchase my flickr pro account and use it once a month [12/33]
22. Read at least one 'non college related' book for each month [7/33]
23. Complete 100 snapshots 100_snapshots [0/100]
24. Carry a moleskin with me everywhere [It's not always a moleskin, but I always have a note book on hand]
25. Finally buy a new lens for my camera [Bought two!]
26. Take part in embodiment embodiment
27. Use my camera to take part in project 365 [3/365] [Got half-way, stopped, and started again]
28. Fill 3 sketchbooks [0/3] [Need to do this! Have started painting again although]
29. Sell a piece of art
30. Go to life drawing sessions [Only been to a few, would like to make it a more regular thing]
31. Sew some clothing that other people would like to wear [Have done, wore them out and even got some complements]
32. Spend a week planning and making an awesome Halloween costume [This year, last year I was in Taiwan]
33. Be part of the creation of a short file and enter it into a film contest [Entered the Doritos ad competition]

Knowledge
34. Take a part-time course to learn a new language [I would like to sign up in October to brush up on my poor French]
35. Rekindle my passion for playing piano [The passion is there, I've been listening to a lot of modern pieces on you tube. Maybe next year I'll buy a decent electric piano]
36. Learn how to recognize the constellations [There is a course in my college on Astrology that clashes with other classes, again, maybe next year.. that or some personal study :) ]
37. Learn to identify and appreciate wine [Have bought a book, and plan to start a wine club this month]
38. Take swimming lessons [I have been taking aqua aerobic lessons, stopped, and plan to go back]
39. Practice cupcake decoration [Doing a lot of this ^_^]
40. Learn to kiteboard [Got a kite, harness, and the wet gear, been kiting,scared to death but I love it]
41. ~~Learn something new everyday~~ [The plan was that it be written into my moleskin as part of embodiment and update with photos, but this is taking too much time. I need to refocus this thing so that I can accomplish it better]
42. Be conscientious of my research question when developing new theories or creating experiments [Have based new implementations on sound psychological theories,not tested yet thought]
43. Be an ethical and critical experimenter [Experiment coming up next month I hope]
44. Learn how to use my unicycle [I suck, must practice more]
45. Learn 10 devil stick tricks [0/10]
46. Learn 10 more poi tricks [1/10] [Learning flowers]
47. Learn to amaze my friends with my contact ball

Work / College
48. Finish my research and graduate with a PhD [Some day]
49. Publish an article
50. Be referenced by another author
51. Build a professional portfolio and a well thought out five year plan
52. Buy a log book and write 100 words each work day [I have been writing every day in my log book. It's massively useful]
53. Lecture with passion. Do this by continuing to engage with my students, reading, and attending as many courses I can find. [Attained a postgraduate certificate in Academic Practice. I need to use some of the resources available to build a progress report for reflection over this coming year]
54. Take time to decide what I want to do in the future [Must do this, I have too many dreams and aspirations]
55. Recreate my website at least once a year [1/3]
56. Become a well known web geek [Vegan food blog was starting to take off but college was a priority, now I have load of foodie picture and recipies that I must upload soon, hopefully my personal one will take off this year]
57. Learn and use LaTeX [Learned the basics of TeXShop, wrote one paper in it so far, moved back to word. Will use as needed and learn more that way]

People
58. Collect my friends postal addresses and post a package or letter to each [I sent xmas cards and pressies to the ones that I had, I'm going to hound more people over the upcoming months and maybe send birthday presents by post, I'm starting to love posting parcels!]
59. Send a text to a different far away friend at least once a month [0/33] [Totally haven't done this yet :S]
60. Ring my grandfather [Planned to over xmas, chickened out, will set a date]
61. Develop and sustain a relationship that is on my own terms with my mother [Have been in contact more, learning what to say and what not to]
62. Organise a picnic [Forgot about this one!]
63. Cook for a dinner party of over a dozen people [Helped cook for several hundred at a party with immense success. It was vegan food and they were mostly omni as well ^_^]

64. Adventure
65. Go to the tourist attractions in Ireland and take a photo at each [This sounds like a good one for this year, I'll wait until the summer to start though]
66. Drive to France and bring back several cases of wine
67. Go on a road trip to the Burning Man [Wow]
68. Travel to see the Cirque Du Soliel [Saw it in Belfast, Vegas, and soon in Dublin]
69. Regularly go home to Sligo to see friends, family and spend time exercising my horse [I go quite regularly, and was out horse riding most days over xmas]
70. ~~Visit Japan~~ [I have been to Taiwan instead, I don't think I'll get to Japan in the next year or so]
71. Go sailing with friends to one of the islands on Lough Gill for a night of camping, bonfire and cheesy tunes.
72. Participate in GimmeYourStuff [Need to do this!]
73. Drive my car at it’s top speed on the autoban in Germany
74. Go “all in” at a table in Vegas
75. See at least one of the great Wonders of the World

Good Will
76. Plant at least one tree every year [0/3] [Haven't done this, but plan to buy fruit trees to donate to the old man so as I can work towards cancling my carbon foot print for the year]
77. Give up products produced by nasty corporations such as cocacola or those that test on animals [Trying to avoid products with Palm Oil, Glaxo Smith Clyne, Coke, and Nestle]
78. Volunteer in some form, eventually I would like to join the life guards [Need to consider this carefully when I have less responsibilities]
79. Donate 10,000 grains of rice on FreeRice
80. Create 101 graffiti art installations
81. Give away 101 things that I do not need to charity [34/101]
82. If a friend is in hospital make sure to visit them [I find this difficult but am working on it]
83. Hang a bird feeder [Bought one for my father]
84. Calculate my carbon footprint and cancel it out [Well, work on lowering it. About 4.8 roughly, have bought 4 energy saver bulbs for the house, more vigilant at recycling]

Personal Growth
85. Register and use my vote [Registered, waiting for the next chance to vote]
86. Post Secret and make it mean something
87. Find the right tattoo and get it done by a famous artist, even if that means traveling to a different country [Still thinking about this]
88. Start a savings account [Have done and have saved for Burning Man road trip, now I need to start saving again]
89. Start the FLYlady routines
90. Pass my driving test [Passed it second time round!]
91. Buy a house (This will be some time towards the end of my research) even if I don't intend to live in it
92. Learn a new recipe every month [33/33] [More than one a month at this point thanks to my blog
93. Do 27 selfish things and blog about it[0/27]
94. Do 27 unselfish things and blog about it [1/27]
95. Go busking at least once
96. Play a DJ set

Misc
97. Sell on eBay [I have way too many material things]
98. ~~Join 43 Things to track the progress of 101 things in 1001 days~~ [Joined, set it up, never used it]
99. Own my own kiteboarding equipment [Kite and bar so far]
100. Give my dreads the love and attention they deserve and maintain them at least once every two months [3/16] [They need a lot of maintenance at the moment]

Finally
101. On day 1001 publish another 101 list

tqc...

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:28:20 GMT

What tempts you?

My first Rhubarb Tart

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:33:09 GMT

Recipe over at my blog ommnomnom.com

Round Two: Vegan Jager Bomb Cupcakes

Thu, 01 May 2008 16:51:44 GMT

I finally managed to get the Vegan Jager Bomb cupcake recipe right, the recipe and more photos are over at my blog ommnomnom.com

Gooey innards of Vegan Jager Bomb Cupcake experiment

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:07:04 GMT

I made these as a test run. It's my friends birthday next weekend and he is obsessed with Jager Bombs so I had to give these a go! More info at my blog ommnomnom.com

101 in 1001 update

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:11:26 GMT

So I got thinking today about this project and was feeling very far behind. Yup, I needed to do an update, and things are actually going quite well. I'm plussed about getting stuck into some of the rest of the jazz on the list ^_^

Health and Mind
1. Stop trying to be vegan and just be it. So far, my boyfriend and I have finally cut out pizza, and we still have the odd fud that we're not too sure about. I have started e-mail places to ask the ingredients, and have started a vegan food blog ommnomnom to record the journey

4. Write a list of 101 things that make me happy. 52 things listed so far. I've learned form the list that I am easily amused.

6. Take multivitamins, in particular iron, calcium and B12 as I’m deficient in each. I had been taking vitamins for January, but ran out and never went to the chemist. It's on a to do list.

17. Eat less soy products. I have a tofu addiction >.< I've been doing this as my recipe repertoire has grown. My current food addiction is enchiladas.

Creative
21. Repurchase my flickr pro account and use it once a month [3/33] Bought it and am using it to document my project 365 journey as well as take photos for my website.

22. Read at least one book for each month [1/33]. I've only read one book this year so far, there's some catching up to be done.

24. Carry a moleskin with me everywhere. I do and it has been so useful from workshops to lists to doodles.

25. Finally buy a new lens for my camera. Got two lenses, a sigma 100 - 200 and an awesome (compared to my old lense) Canon 28 - 135 with image stabilizer and USM.

27. Use my camera to take part in project 365 [81/365]

31. Sew some clothing that other people would like to wear Sewed my first dress, well, altered. Although I love it, I'm not sure that many other people would like to wear it, but I have plans for some new clothes now that I'm getting the hang of the sewing machine!

Knowledge
37. Learn to identify and appreciate wine. I've come to appreciate a good Riesling, but I don't know much about other types of wine yet. This is defiantly a work in progress.

39. Practice cupcake decoration. Done and am doing this, I love cupcakes ^_^

40. Learn to kiteboard. So far Nick and I have bought a kite and a bar and have been trying it out. I'm super unfit although, and have got some nasty bruises.

42. Be conscientious of my research question when developing new theories or creating experiments. I have taken to writing key notes from every day in a hardback notebook, I then organize my thoughts into lists and plans of action.

Work / College
48. Finish my research and graduate with a PhD. Well, I'm still there anyways ^_^

51. Build a professional portfolio and a well thought out five year plan. I'm in the middle of completing a series of professional development workshops for lecturers in college.

53. Lecture with passion. Do this by continuing to engage with my students, reading, and attending as many courses I can find. I've learned a lot from PBL and have changed my attitude towards the way that I teach this semester.

55. Recreate my website at least once a year [1/3] I created a new site, and am in the process of updating my personal one.

People
61. Develop and sustain a relationship that is on my own terms with my mother. Although I am in contact, I'm happy to be at a distance.

67. Go on a road trip to the Burning Man. Tickets are booked and I've started to save for flights!

68. Travel to see the Cirque Du Soliel. Tickets booked and I have my driving license so can drive to see the show

69. Regularly go home to Sligo to see friends, family and spend time exercising my horse. I've been up and down to Sligo visiting, but have yet to go out horse-riding

Good Will

77. Give up products produced by nasty corporations such as cocacola or those that test on animals. I still haven't given up coca cola, but I have found a website that sells vegan moisturizer.

78. Volunteer in some form, eventually I would like to join the life guards

82. If a friend is in hospital make sure to visit them. So far, I've visited two people

Personal Growth

88. Start a savings account. This has been done, and I've started saving for the Burning Man

90. Pass my driving test (It's tomorrow January the 2nd at 3pm *eepe*) Passed it in February, second time around ^_^

92. Learn a new recipe every month [3/33] (Vegan Enchiladas, Peanut-butter brownie cupcakes, Wakame salad)

94. Do 27 unselfish things and blog about it [1/27] I made 2 dozen green vegan cupcakes for a research group get together.

Misc

99. Own my own kiteboarding equipment. We have a kite and a bar so far ^_^

100. Give my dreads the love and attention they deserve and maintain them at least once every two months [2/16]. I've been giving the tonnes of attention recently because they are falling out! I'll save them :)

project365 update - This one is a long one ^_^

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:36:47 GMT

project365 update

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:16:18 GMT

Day 12 - Foots

Day 10 - Vegan Sub for dinner

Day 9 - 3x3 Furry die

One or two more on my flickr.

7/366

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:39:06 GMT

I'm a bit behind..

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:58:13 GMT

It's amazing how fast the days speed by. Here are the previous two days project365 photographs:
Day 6:

and

Day 5:

project 365 day 4

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:53:17 GMT

I'm feeling trapped. Cabin fever is setting in, because I haven't left the house all day (A trip to the shop for some fresh air and tasty snacks is called for). Day 4 photograph. I'm not sure about it's artistic merit, but it describes my emotions at the moment rather well:

project 365 day 3

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 01:08:17 GMT

I figure I should post these here too

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:35:17 GMT

I've been, or will be posting all of my project 365 shots on my flickr account, but I guess I'll put them up here also. Here's day 2:

For today's photo - which I haven't decided on yet, we went to the zoo. It was quite the depressing experience, a dull and dark experience. The animals were quiet and motionless for the most part, either eating, sleeping or pacing. I wonder for what purpose, we continue to have zoos. Entertainment, education, some form of preservation? None of those traits were obvious. I don't know.

project 365+1 day 1

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:35:07 GMT

Starting Project 265 today. A bit late ^_^ I know, but I managed to carry my camera around all day ,even though I ended up taking my first photo at home. And *wee* check it out.

Nick bought me a sewing maching! It's got over 34 programs, 4 art stitches and 14 digital stitches so I can do embroidery and other fancy trim. I'm scared of the machine and the quick needles, I hope I get over my fear and can start creating beautiful clothing and toys. This is defiantly going to help towards
31. Sew some clothing that other people would like to wear
32. Spend a week planning and making an awesome Halloween costume
.. although it may take a while for no. 31! My first project is going to be a simple bag which I can carry my dSLR around in within my handbag, my camera bag is just too cumbersome to take everywhere.
We also bought two lunch boxes and some smaller containers to put inside them in order to create our own bento box (no. 8) Even thought I'm not back at college yet, I think I'm going to make some sushi later on if I can convince Nick to do the main part of dinner cooking.
Tomorrow, I'm going to begin draft eight of my paper, hopefully getting it to some semblance of a finished article before I go back to college. I'd really like to get a couple of weeks of lecture slides done for my lectures. I'm so excited that they're taking me back for more ^_^ I'm starting to love this lecturing jazz, especially now that I have lost the fear. Maybe I'll even be able to sew together some lecturery looking clothing over the next couple of months. Tweedy.
Oh and da took this photo of me out on Tequila over the xmas... He completely forgot to change the camera settings so it's totally over exposed, but I've got a soft spot for it in a ghostly way =)

I lost the driving test game

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:09:18 GMT

Sooo, I've failed No. 90. Pass my driving test (It's tomorrow January the 2nd at 3pm *eepe*) but I'm editing it to say February 21st because I have another test on that date!!! I pulled a Zoolander - I can't turn left! Got done on speed and observation turning left and a few little things. Boohoo, Nick and I are commiserating with a bottle of Champagne although. So, happy out.

Also, a few plans for No. 84. Calculate my carbon footprint and cancel it out - I don't want to just pay for trees to be planted, I'm going to:
- Eat as locally and organically as possible and
- Replace my light sources with natural, full spectrum and/or energy efficient sources

And to no. 80. Create 101 graffiti art installations, I'd like to make some origami cranes and leave them attached to trees by string at the park =)

I'm making a list of things to buy tomorrow to help with my creative tasks and FLYlady routine =) Feeling productive.

101 things in 1001 days.. starting today Jan 1st 2008

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:55:04 GMT

I've recently joined jan1_2008 in order to take part in the 100 things in 1001 days challenge. The challenge was initially created by Michael Green

According to the website...

The Mission:
Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.

The Criteria:
Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on my part).

Why 1001 Days?
Many people have created lists in the past - frequently simple goals such as New Year's resolutions. The key to beating procrastination is to set a deadline that is realistic. 1001 Days (about 2.75 years) is a better period of time than a year, because it allows you several seasons to complete the tasks, which is better for organising and timing some tasks such as overseas trips or outdoor activities.

And so my list:
Health and Mind
1. Stop trying to be vegan and just be it
2. Write about the dreams that I have at night in my blog
3. Learn about and do a detox
4. Write a list of 101 things that make me happy
5. Me time once a month [0/33]
6. Take multivitamins, in particular iron, calcium and B12 as I’m deficient in each
7. Start a herb garden
8. Buy a bento box and create a new vegan lunch each morning
9. Swim 101 laps one day
10. Exercise every day, be it going to the gym or walking home instead of taking the bus
11. Plan a routine for college, work, fun and exercise and keep track of it
12. Drop 25 pounds and keep them off for the 1001 days [0/25]
13. Spend a whole day alone without mobile, internet or television once each year [0/3]
14. Join a horse-riding school
15. Appreciate the positives
16. Learn a mind trick inspired by Darren Brown
17. Eat less soy products. I have a tofu addiction >.<
18. Get abs, even if they are only small ones
19. Try the raw food diet for at least one week

Creative
20. Participate in each NaNoWriMo and NaBloPoMo [0/6]
21. Repurchase my flickr pro account and use it once a month [0/33]
22. Read at least one book for each month [0/33]
23. Complete 100 snapshots 100_snapshots [0/100]
24. Carry a moleskin with me everywhere
25. Finally buy a new lens for my camera
26. Take part in embodiment embodiment
27. Use my camera to take part in project 365
28. Fill 3 sketchbooks [0/3]
29. Sell a piece of art
30. Go to life drawing sessions
31. Sew some clothing that other people would like to wear
32. Spend a week planning and making an awesome Halloween costume
33. Be part of the creation of a short file and enter it into a film contest

Knowledge
34. Take a part-time course to learn a new language
35. Rekindle my passion for playing piano
36. Learn how to recognize the constellations
37. Learn to identify and appreciate wine
38. Take swimming lessons
39. Practice cupcake decoration
40. Learn to kiteboard
41. Learn something new everyday
42. Be conscientious of my research question when developing new theories or creating experiments
43. Be an ethical and critical experimenter
44. Learn how to use my unicycle
45. Learn 10 devil stick tricks [0/10]
46. Learn 10 more poi tricks [0/10]
47. Learn to amaze my friends with my contact ball

Work / College
48. Finish my research and graduate with a PhD
49. Publish an article
50. Be referenced by another author
51. Build a professional portfolio and a well thought out five year plan
52. Buy a log book and write 100 words each work day
53. Lecture with passion. Do this by continuing to engage with my students, reading, and attending as many courses I can find.
54. Take time to decide what I want to do in the future
55. Recreate my website at least once a year [0/3]
56. Become a well known web geek
57. Learn and use LaTeX

People
58. Collect my friends postal addresses and post a package or letter to each
59. Send a text to a different far away friend at least once a month [0/33]
60. Ring my grandfather
61. Develop and sustain a relationship that is on my own terms with my mother
62. Organise a picnic
63. Cook for a dinner party of over a dozen people

64. Adventure
65. Go to the tourist attractions in Ireland and take a photo at each
66. Drive to France and bring back several cases of wine
67. Go on a road trip to the Burning Man
68. Travel to see the Cirque Du Soliel
69. Regularly go home to Sligo to see friends, family and spend time exercising my horse
70. Visit Japan
71. Go sailing with friends to one of the islands on Lough Gill for a night of camping, bonfire and cheesy tunes.
72. Participate in GimmeYourStuff
73. Drive my car at it’s top speed on the autoban in Germany
74. Go “all in” at a table in Vegas
75. See at least one of the great Wonders of the World

Good Will
76. Plant at least one tree every year [0/3]
77. Give up products produced by nasty corporations such as cocacola or those that test on animals
78. Volunteer in some form, eventually I would like to join the life guards
79. Donate 10,000 grains of rice on FreeRice
80. Create 101 graffiti art installations
81. Give away 101 things that I do not need to charity [0/101]
82. If a friend is in hospital make sure to visit them
83. Hang a bird feeder
84. Calculate my carbon footprint and cancel it out

Personal Growth
85. Register and use my vote
86. Post Secret and make it mean something
87. Find the right tattoo and get it done by a famous artist, even if that means traveling to a different country
88. Start a savings account
89. Start the FLYlady routines
90. Pass my driving test (It's tomorrow January the 2nd at 3pm *eepe*)
91. Buy a house (This will be some time towards the end of my research) even if I don't intend to live in it
92. Learn a new recipe every month [0/33]
93. Do 27 selfish things and blog about it[0/27]
94. Do 27 unselfish things and blog about it [0/27]
95. Go busking at least once
96. Play a DJ set (on my vinyl decks)

Misc
97. Sell on eBay
98. Join 43 Things to track the progress of 101 things in 1001 days
99. Own my own kiteboarding equipment
100. Give my dreads the love and attention they deserve and maintain them at least once every two months [0/16]

Finally
101. On day 1001 publish another 101 list

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:06:52 GMT

It's time for adventuring

I've been spinning around the countryside in Elmo, I have a new feeling of independence. It's quite nice, today Nick and I found moss, holly and white thorn to make xmas wreaths. I drove up to see Tequila and have her numnah in my car for a wash in the morning. I plan to head up and clean the tack tomorrow. See if I can convince Charlotte to give me a hand. Um, went out to Strandhill to watch the surfers. I'm terribly jealous of their passion. We climbed the dunes although.. I'm awfully unfit, but reaching the top was great, as was sliding down the 70 or so degree drop.

It was terribly cold, Benbulben disappeared in the haze..

I hope we'll go to Hazelwood tomorrow with Scruff and Taz. I've also made my first eva cake! Slight mishap in the oven although.. I put WAY too much cake mixture in the tin and it exploded out and all over the oven. I just turned down the heat and let it cook through and then sliced off the excess with a knife.. Covered up any holes with buttercream icing ::yum:: Took a while to clean up after although >.<

The cake is supposed to say "Vegan" but it looks more like Vegas.. Piping words is way harder than I expected. I had hoped that the cake would look well fancy, but that didn't quite work out. I don't have the bag skills! Looks tasty and tastes great!! I'm making another one sooon =)

<3 you

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:10:58 GMT

Someone pretty (:

I've decided to take things into my own hands...

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:02:57 GMT

... and not do work at the weekends unless I absolutely must. I'm going to make time for myself to do whatever it is that I do when I'm not thinking about some sort of work. Hopefully this will mean that I will be twice as productive tomorrow because I have a lot of catching up to do ^_^

In other news, this is mine! Meet Elmo, my brand new second hand automobile ^_^ I has teh gooshy wheels!

In the last while I've gone from

to no facial piercings at all. I miss them, sometimes more than other times, but overall I guess it is just one of those things that I knew would happen eventually and my career means more to me than something pretty. Not that I see it as being that necessary, but anything that helps me succeed I guess. I still have, and plan to have the dreads for a long long time.

Other changes.. I've been vegan, or at least have been trying to be for over two months now. Nick and I have had the odd Dominos pizza, but other than that it is going very well. I've learned a lot about nutrition and am eating more food now than I every was, but I'm also eating more healthily. In the two months I haven't lost any weight, and I've started on vitamin supplements to get the levels up. I've also started baking a lot of tasty treats like lemon, vanilla cranberry muffins; banana blueberry muffins; and CUPCAKES thanks to this book:

So far I've made vanilla and chocolate bases with a peanut butter and molasses icing. All completely vegan!

The ingredients:

I can't yet afford a cooling wire, so I've learned to balance them on their sides, pretty effective!

The finished product.. Soon I will own a cake icing kit and I'll make even cuter looking icing ^_^

omm nom nom nom

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:33:32 GMT

Updating my life. I've started playing a viral game called lost.eu. It's basically a social networking experiment started off as a student project gone wild. They are trying to become the game with the largest number of players ever - 7 million. Join with my invite and I'll get a point and you'll get a cookie: www.lost.eu/417fd

Picture posting the things that make me happy today :)

Sat, 21 Apr 2007 15:28:16 GMT

Can you find all the happy things in my room or in pictures in my room?

dreadtimeline up to 8 months old :)

Sat, 21 Apr 2007 15:00:02 GMT

Mah cat macros

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:13:16 GMT

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::dances::

Fri, 26 May 2006 12:44:10 GMT

I just got an e'mail to say that I have IRCSET funding for my PHd! How fucking legend. Now.. back to the library to do some more study. Only a week and a day until I jet off to Pink Pop and Amsterday. Everything is sweeeeet. ^__^

Commenting on the announcement of the Scholarship Call, Professor Jane Grimson, Chair of IRCSET said: "Our unique Postgraduate Research Scholarship Scheme focuses strongly on building research careers. Our scholars are among the highest academic achievers in terms of the grants applications process and assessment of their eligibility. IRCSET programmes provide exceptional encouragement to young researchers, supporting their personal academic and career formation and ensuring the long term future availability to Ireland of highly qualified, internationally recognised research expertise."

Brilliant

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:08:57 GMT

harridan: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2006/04/27.html
harridan: a scolding, vicious woman.