November 28th, 2009
These cookies are amazing. My friends go gaga for them. They’re so tasty and easy to make!
Mmmm, cookies
Ingredients
2 cups plain flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
170g unsalted butter, melted
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup castor sugar (regular white sugar if you don’t have any caster. I think caster is less chunky?)
1 tablespoon vanilla extract (I always use more. Usually double)
2 eggs
2 cups chocolate chips (hah. Or more. I use Cadbury Chocolate Chips, they’re the yummiest)
1. Preheat oven to 165c (That’s 330f, for those of you who still use ye olde system)
2. Sift the flour, baking soda, and salt into a bowl. This is so there’s no lumps in it, which makes it easier
3. Mix the melted butter, brown sugar, and caster sugar together, until it’s blended. Then add the vanilla essence and eggs, and blend all that until it’s a creamy mix. Actually, it looks kinda gross. Add the flour/baking soda/salt mixture to this, and stir it all together until it looks like actual cookie dough (and tastes it!). Throw the choc chips into this, and stir them through, so you don’t get fail cookies with like, three choc chips.
4. Spoon this onto a lined baking tray. I get about six to a tray, but as you can see, I make ginormous cookies.
5. Cook for about 15 minutes, or until the edges are a nice brown colour. Let them cool before moving them, or they’ll break apart
6. Enjoy. These things are like crack!
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October 10th, 2009
Topic given to me by Emma.
1. Kittycat paws
Pictured: My cat’s paw. Kittycat paws always make me smile. Well, cats in general do, but paws are just super adorable.
2. Glee
Glee is my favourite new show. It’s uplifting, fun, and just full of hope. There’s moments where you’ll want to cry, but they’re more than balanced out by moments where you’ll just want to hug someone. The music is also incredibly – so many legitimately talented singers.
3. Epic LiveJournal Comment Fests
Pictured: Glee Australia watching party comment count.
I don’t know why, but it’s just so fun to talk to people through LJ comments, especially when it hits over a few hundred comments. It’s even more fun when you look back after a while!
4. Cheesy Music
I live for this stuff. The cheesier, the better. It’s terrible and soulless but dammit, does it make me want to jump up and dance like I just got electrocuted. Or, in the other end, sing along like my heart was just broken by Jensen Ackles. Power ballads, 90s pop, girl groups, boy bands…
5. The Baby-Sitters Club
I started reading this series when I was seven. I haven’t stopped since. They’re definitely my guilty pleasure. Sure, the characters eventually because two character-trait shadows of their former self and the books had more inconsistencies than Twilight, but they’re cheesy fun. Especially Abby’s books, and Stacey’s books. When I grow up, i want to be Kristy Thomas. But less like a fascist dicator in jeans and a sweater.
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August 20th, 2009
Dear Twilight fans,
I get it. You’re dedicated. You really like the books. You own them all in hardcover and softcover, plus spare sets in languages you’ll never read. You own five different copies of the movie, because the cover was different. You’ll argue about Team Jacob vs Team Edward ’til you’re blue in the face.
However, you’ve gone too far. I was fine with the slap bracelets. With the “Team Edward” shirts. With the giant posters. With the really ugly overpriced plastic jewellery. Hell, I was even fine with the “sparkle like Edward” body glitter. But a Twilight-themed dildo?
No. Just… no. I mean, it sparkles. There’s going to be a mass amount of 14 year old girls losing their virginity to a disembodied sparkly cold vampire penis. If you can’t see the problem with that, I worry. Can’t you just imagine some girl getting hot and heavy with her boyfriend, taking his pants off, and freaking out because it isn’t sparkly? Guys, you’re fucked. Actually, you’re not, and that’s kind of the problem.
I mean, okay, on the plus side there’ll be less girls getting pregnant and naming the kid Edward Jasper Carlisle Emmett Hale-Cullen, but still! Do you think there were Hamlet themed dildos? No, and for good reason! It’s kinda creepy and skeezy and brain-explodey.
This thing has in fact completely broken my brain. When I first heard about it, my response was to go attempt to learn a second language so I could express the appropriate level of WHAT. My second was to tell everyone I’d ever met so that they could also suffer.
I mean, Twilight fans, was it not bad enough that one of you used an Edward doll as a sex toy, and then wanted to show one of the actors?
Please, stop the insanity. My brain is thisclose to exploding, and I doubt anyone wants to clean up my brain meat.
No love whatsoever,
Renee
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August 18th, 2009
Pet peeves. I have a lot.
- People who call themselves Danish/Swedish/Irish/whatever when they were born in America/Australia/other country, their parents were born in the same country, and the only link to the ye olde countrie is that great great great grandma came over from there when she was two. No, you are, for example, an American of French descent. You can’t be French, as you were not born there, and have never been there. It’s ridiculous.
- The fact women’s clothes sizing is so inconsistent. How is it possible that I have pants in four different sizes, all of which fit the same? It makes no sense! God, just give us the sizes in inches/cm, instead of a bunch of meaningless numbers. Please. For my sanity.
- People who think they’re the first person to ever have an opinion. You all know someone like this – they have opinions, and they’re right. If you disagree with them, it’s because you’re wrong, and you obviously don’t know anything about the topic. From abortion to gay rights to whether or not Mean Girls is overrated, this person knows all, and their opinion is the truth. Never mind that their opinion is based on what Perez Hilton said in his last blog, they still know better than anyone else. If you disagree, they’ll shove their opinion down your throat until you’re so sick of hearing about it that you agree, just to shut them up.
- People who use abbreviations, and then explain them two seconds later. Y’know, like BRB (that’s be right back). It makes no sense and completely defeats the purpose of abbreviations.
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August 4th, 2009
Okay, here’s the thing. If I’m to be completely, 100%, keepin’ my pants safely not on fire honest, I’m a terrible blogger. Sure, my Twitter is updated more often than what could be considered normal, but actual blogging? God no.
With that said, this is a way for me to force myself to update. If I have to pay for this, I’m making it worth my while, dammit.
And with that out the way…
I guess I’d better start thinking of real blogging topics, right? This is mostly so I can check stuff! I swear. Really.
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