Fangirl moment

Morning/Evening folks.

I would like to start today's post with a brief emotional and mental word diarrhoea.

OMGJESUSCHRISTBEYONCEISSOFREAKINGAMAZNGILOVEHEROMGOMGOMG.

Yeah.

That.

I mean LOOK at this woman

I am not sexually attracted to girls, I am just sexually attracted to beyonce. That should actually be a new category of sexuality, beyoncexual

Point 1. She is so goddamn hot. Seriously. I don't know a single person who isn't attracted to Beyonce.

Point 2. She is a successful music artist who creates AMAZING music and videos. Like her new album that she released without letting ANYONE KNOW ABOUT IT. with music videos for every freaking single one! that leads me to the 3rd point!

Point 3. Epic woman skills of multitasking. She managed to record and release the whole album along with music videos at the same time as her world tour, and looking after her baby and maintaining her marriage to Jay-Z

Point 4. Her family life. She keeps her private life relatively private and always appears to have an incredibly stable marriage and an OBVIOUSLY gorgeous baby. She prioritises her family and doesn't just let it slide whilst she focuses on her career.

Ultimate power couple

Tiny, beautiful, if unusually named

Point 5. Role model. As well as showing how you really can have a great career and a family, Beyonce doesn't take shit from NOBODY. She received a lot of stick from silly people who said she was being un-feminist by taking her husbands name, so what does she do? only name her world tour the Mrs Carter tour. HELL  YEAH. YOU SHOW THEM BEYONCE!!!

I really love everything about Beyonce. I also agree with her choices, I DO NOT believe that you are anti-feminist if you want to take your husbands name, I think its a perfectly valid choice and one that i would/will make too! not to say that you shouldn't choose to not take their name that's exactly my point, you should be FREE to choose. The only thing that is Anti-feminist is to deny someone their choice.

Anyway I'm getting off topic. lets refresh

HOLY CRAP SHE REALLY IS QUEEN B!

Bow down bitches indeed. I will be forever in awe of you beyonce. Thus ends my fangirling moment.

PS. someone buy this for me?

Love Frankles
xxxxx

How to annoy people with your happiness

Hello world!

Whats happening people. I am sitting in my living room cosied up in christmas get up enjoying the lights on the tree and the soothing sounds of my boyfriend blowing up zombies on the xbox. At least I think thats what he is doing I rarely pay attention.

ANYWAY!
I realised a couple of days ago that I have been behaving a certain way for a while. And though this behaviour is not a DIRECT result of, it is partly due to something my dad said to me a while back.

Trust me I hate to admit this. Admitting my father is right about something is more painful then having my fingers chewed off by rats that aren't even hungry, with the entire affair being narrated loudly by jedward. But he was right about this, THERE  YOU GO DAD ARE YOU HAPPY NOW? ugh.

Being happy in life really pisses other people off, and that is fantastic.

Let me elaborate. At some point in your life you will have been arguing with someone and found something they said really funny. If you at that point smiled or laughed during the argument that person would then get REALLY REALLY MAD and you would most likely win the argument. thats because when someone is arguing with you and trying to make you unhappy you being happy anyway is possibly the most annoying thing that could happen.

I have started to apply this philosophy to my everyday life without even realising it until very recently. Like if there is somebody present in my life who does not like me or tries to make me miserable, I showcase my happiness in front of them and they literally cant stand it. People have walked out of conversations mid-sentence with me when this happens. And of course you are doing absolutely nothing wrong to do that! you are not retaliating to their childish behaviour or enacting any kind of reaction apart from ignoring them and being better off for it. and that is how you win. At everything. Ever.

Now one other part of this is that it can be faked. as much as this is much heard advice it really does work, pretend you aren't affected by what someone says, in fact do the opposite! If someone tries to bully you and say crappy things act even happier! Even if you don't feel so inside if you can fake it enough to get them to believe you they are going to be incredibly pissed off. And then if you are a vindictive person on the inside like me them being pissed off will make you genuinely happy! and its a beautiful little cycle of your happiness and their irritation.

Of course this is quite a simplified view of things and I'm pretty sure it won't apply to a lot of cases, but for me it definitely does work and I am so much better of for it. I can still win in all of my bitch wars without lifting a finger or looking even slightly bad as I'm not retaliating in the slightest. Who said winning was hard?

Anyway I'm off to go laugh at babies falling over on the internet!

Love Frankles xxxxx

Why am I awake!

Seriously guys I need to go to bed.

And yet I cant. I just got home from work (well an hour ago) and I'm too wired to sleep so I'm just procrastinternetting away my time until Ian comes home and hopefully makes me get my act together and go to sleep.

It's these kind of things I do in life that make me sure of the fact that I will never be a grown up. I will elaborate with another example here but I warn you know those with a weak disposition or intolerance to extreme patheticness stop reading now.

3 days ago I sliced mostly through the end of my finger with a breadknife. Where do I begin in this tale of idiocy? Maybe when I began slicing some bread for my sandwhich and stopped paying attention to what I was doing, as I was having a conversation with my boyfriend in the other room and I had completely forgotten that bread knives are sharp, not to mention serrated.

When the actual slicing of the finger happened my reaction was also far below what anyone would expect from someone who is 22 and is legally allowed to drive and drink alcohol (though not at the same time clearly). I started crying and held the offensive finger out to Ian to deal with. I cried the entire way through him running it under the cold tap and the entire way through him putting pressure on it. I only stopped crying after about 10 minutes sitting on the sofa having a cuddle whilst holding my finger wrapped in kitchen roll above my head.

When I had calmed down and stopped leaking from my eyes Ian explained to me calmly that he needed to take me to the hospital as I had sliced through the nail and it looked pretty deep. Of course at this information I promptly started crying again and the whole affair had to be re-started.

My finger is now healing fine and only serves me now as a reminder to my moment of complete abandon of all pretence of being an adult. When I was hurt I was unable to look after myself and instead reverted to the kind of ugly sobbing tears that people over the age of 4 have learned to control.

I don't think that I will ever be the conventional grown-up that I see every day. Maybe I will just have to make do with this man-child type intermediate that I have going on right now. Oh well :(

Yeah I'm still not going to bed.

Love Frankles xxx

Pinterest weddings

Sup nerds.

Today I just wanted to talk about something that bothers me slightly. Wedding-inspiration shoots.

Now don't get me wrong, I like any girl can spend hours on Stumbleupon or Pinterest looking at pretty dresses and beautiful scenery and fantasising about when I get married. But I think too much of this over-styled, over-decorated and over-done setup that is only possible with a multitude of stylists and photographers is warping peoples ideas of what is standard at weddings.

Too often, these "inspiration-shoots" aren't correctly identified as such and people could easily mistake them for real weddings (albeit done by people so beyond on-trend its ridiculous) and this idea sets root in their mind. Now brides-to-be are difficult to please at the best of times. do we really want to be grooming the next generation of bridezillas to be unsatisfied with anything but the most perfectly kitsch, homemade and hipster wedding that takes place in an abandoned barn on a summers day, surrounded by newborn lambs!

This mass of visual information is subconsciously affecting the brains of these girls, ranging from preteens who go on pinterest with their friends after school and start planning their future weddings to girls my age and probably older. Now even though I recognise that this is happening to me I still cant help it. take this article on different "drink stations" to have at your wedding.

Adorable, yes, but also almost unobtainable

you would be scouring vintage shops for months collecting all of these things.

Hipster in flat cap not included

Now I'm not saying this is impossible. But really the time required just to get this one aspect of the wedding Pinterest-perfect would take so much time and effort that you would either need to have a trust fund and an army of wedding planners or too much free time and an army of overly patient friends who each owed you a million favours. And this is just one part! you would also need to get the perfect location.

Because frankly darling if it isn't a stunning castle in Ireland whats even the point in getting married!!

And if you dont take adorably perfect pre-wedding photos of you and your intended how will anyone know you are in love??

oh my goodness this is so natural and unplanned!!

So if you really want to spend the next 5 years of your life planning your wedding every second of the day just to be able to invite only 8 people as no more will fit around your refurbished art deco wedding table, and spend the whole day actually missing your wedding as you have to check the seating chart clothesline is in perfect place and that the ice cream buffet is restocked; be my guest. However I would rather plan a decent, realistic wedding in which my guests can enjoy themselves without worrying about ruining the prettiness of the event. And save my effort and money for something slightly more important.

Thats my piece and I just had to get that out, rant over!

Love Frankles

xxxx

Oops I fell off the internet.

Is that a good enough excuse?

yeah thought not.

I haven't blogged in a while. It might have been because I graduated and my life got so incredibly exciting and busy that I haven't had time to mooch about on the internet, but I think we all know that just isn't true. I live on the internet, we have a symbiotic relationship.

The truth is I just haven't wanted to blog about anything. I got a bit sad and lonesome when I graduated, all my friends scattered off to different jobs and places and lives. And I moved with the boyfriend to a tiny fishing town in the middle of nowhere and tried to find a job and a life of my own.
Well that went well clearly. I don't want to go into massive detail about how I felt about all of that because I finally feel like I am out of it. I have turned my imaginary corner and decided that I like things again. So I'm back! maybe. I enjoy blogging, at least I think I do now that I enjoy things again so hopefully this energy will make me want to write things and be a fun human being and express myself about stuff all over again.

In the meantime to entertain you all here are all of the webcomics that I read and waste my time on the internet with. Enjoy!

http://satwcomic.com/- Countries as people. I cant get enough!

http://www.xkcd.com/- Classic nerd humor. Don't know many people who dont read this actually! although maybe that says more about my friends??

http://questionablecontent.net/- Music nerds in like. adorable.


See ya later!

Love Frankles
xxxxx

Cake poppin!

Most people out there will have seen these beauties floating around the interweb. cake pops!

sexy tupperware right?

I got into making these bad boys around christmas time. Me and the boyfriend were going to his brothers house for christmas dinner and I wanted to make desserts. They have kids so I wanted to make something fun and kid-friendly when I stumbled upon these!

They weren't all lopsided

Christmas tree cake pops! I thought they were adorable and they looked fairly easy on the website.

You bake a cake (doesn't matter what shape tin you use) mash it up in a bowl when its cooled down and mix in some frosting (Betty crocker fudge frosting works a treat). roll it into balls and pop it in the freezer to firm up, then stick a stick in it dip it in chocolate and decorate!

For christmas tree cake pops all you do different is make the balls cone shaped rather then ball shaped and use white chocolate with green food colouring to cover them in. It may look like I made fancy spikes on it to look more like a tree but in actual fact the white chocolate was difficult to spread and did this because it didn't want to behave.

Now you can buy cake pop makers but they make very different types of cake pops then what I make. if you use the cake pop maker you make perfectly round cakes that you can then cover and decorate.

I prefer the handmade version. much more satisfyingly gooey and delicious.

Needless to say, these beautiful desserts went down amazingly with the kids and even more so with the adults! and then I was hooked on making them! since the appearance of this box of goodies

Christmas trees!

I have made another batch using milk chocolate (the picture at the top). And then two more various batches that I wrapped up and gave to friends who then treated me like a magical chocolate queen

wrapped up!

The wrapping by the way was incredibly easy. On amazon I was shopping for lollipop sticks for the pops when I saw that for £3.65 I could buy not only 50 cake pop sticks but also 50 cellophane bags to put them in and 50 multicoloured ties to do up the bags! Cannot for the life of me remember the shop on amazon that does it so I cant link it here but I am sure you can find it yourself :)

I do recommend making cake pops but I will give you a few hints here to make it easier for you.

1. DO NOT BURN THE CAKE. This only happened to me with one batch but it makes everything much more difficult

2. DO NOT BE IMPATIENT. Let the cake cool properly before mashing it. Also let the cake/frosting-mash cool in the freezer for AT LEAST 2 hours. If you take it out before because you are impatient and try and roll it into balls you will end up with chocolatey hands and no chocolate balls.

3. NEVER USE WHITE CHOCOLATE. Yes it looks pretty but it takes ages to spread on the pops as it doesn't melt properly so you cant just dip it in the chocolate you actually have to spread it. then the pops start to melt and you have cakey chocolate and its an absolute nightmare.

4. understand that even one batch of cake pops makes a lot. I made one cake (two cake tins enough to make one two layered cake) and one tub of frosting and I made 35 pops. they aren't tiny either. make sure you have room in the fridge.

Happy baking!

Love Frankles

xxxx

Jumping in the sea.

There is a little tradition at St Andrews university called the may dip. all students who have made academic misdemeanours (traditional ones such as academic incest or wearing your gown wrong) are cursed to fail their degree unless they complete the dip.
In my four years at St Andrews I have never done the dip yet, and for good reason. It involves going down to the north sea and running in at dawn, completely submerging yourself into the icy water and emerging curse-free.
So as this was my last year at university I had to do it this time round, and oh god it was far worse then I ever could have imagined.

Me and my friend hannah drove up to the beach at around 5am. It was already packed, people arriving left right and centre in various states of sobriety and undress. I had the great luck of doing the dip sober as alcohol is not a good idea for me at the moment so I didn't have the courage or the alcohol blanket of my fellow dippers. As we walked towards the beach I began to get more and more nervous. We got out of our clothes and started walking towards the sea. Very quickly we sped up and started to run so we wouldn't lose nerve.
Running
My heart was pounding.
Running
The sea approaches quickly looking deceptively calm for something so evil.
Running
And then my toes hit the ocean. It doesn't even feel cold it just feels sharp, someone stabbing my feet.
I've been running pretty fast by this point so my momentum keeps me going as my legs slowly get swallowed up by what feels like ice shards and knives mixed together. When the water hits my chest I stop breathing. By this point we can't run any further as our legs have seized up from the cold. So we duck down to submerge ourselves as much as possible and turn back.
My legs are spasming and I cant breathe but as I move out of the water the air feels warm on my skin and that makes me start running again. At first it feels like I'm wading through thick chocolate but as I get further out it gets easier and I make it back up the beach and then collapse next to my clothes.
Me and hannah just look at each other with a combination of relief for doing it and pain from the cold.
I dry my frozen body off and try and rub some feeling back into my legs with a towel.
We drive back to my house (at this point its around 5.40am) and sit on towels on my sofa with some hot chocolate. We say goodnight and I go have a shower to defrost my still frozen body.
I get into bed shivering for about 2 hours. And then, finally, I drift off to sleep.

And that was my wonderful story of the time I jumped in the sea. Although I am glad I did it nothing will ever make me do that again. Waking up that morning was the worst thing in the world. I was already feeling sick but my morning jump had made me feel like I needed my inhaler for the first time in three years. So excellent timing all round but I'm going to spend the next few days in bed recovering.
Goodbye all I shall see you after my mini hibernation

Love Frankles
xxxx

Proud yet frozen solid.

FREEEDOOMMMMM

I DID IT. Today, this happened

I'm smiling as nobody knows the paper is blank.

I handed in my 4th year research project! the culmination of my 4 years at this university, the product of the last four months of slaving away in labs going crazy from looking at worms, getting repetitive strain injury from doing too many injections and feeling guilty from avoiding so much work.
so naturally all I now want to do is this,

ALL OF THE INTERNETS

WOO IM AN OWL

and generally run around being a crazy person enjoying my freedom, and I fully intend to do that. I had no idea how many things I was missing out on until I was able to book social time with friends again. Do you have any idea how many different things I'm doing this week? I feel like paris hilton or someone from gossip girl, I have a minimum of TWO social events every day. THIS IS AMAZING

however at some point I am probably going to remember that I hate too many social events and end up sitting in my snuggie eating ice cream watching house re-runs.

but we can get to that later

for now

IM GOING TO GO TO SLEEP EARLY BECAUSE I DONT FEEL GUILTY ABOUT NOT WRITING MY DISSERTATION

hell yeah

living it large

Frankles xxx

Reasonable Affirmations

Serious post today so no silly pictures, sorry :(

I was having a conversation with my wonderful flatmate Sinead today and she told me about a wonderful WONDERFUL idea, which I had to share :)

Realistic affirmations.

It's such a great thing for me to do because sometimes I get so wrapped up in the things I haven't achieved or haven't done yet that I forget to account for all the things I do without thinking. Granted most people do these things but some people don't! And its still an achievement that I do them :).

Like paying all my bills on time. I do that. A lot of people don't and a lot of people do, and I am ALLOWED to be proud that I achieved that.

These affirmations also allow you to set more realistic goals with yourself.

Instead of saying amazing yet unachievable things like

"I'm going to do this whole essay in a day!"

"I'm going to cook fresh healthy meals every day!"

"I'm going to go to bed early every night and get up at 7 every morning"

you set yourself completely reasonable tasks, ones that most humans could achieve, and reward yourself for doing them, such as toning down the tasks above like so

"I'm going to FINISH this essay section and then watch TV"

"I will cook myself a healthy meal tonight, but tomorrow I'll have ready meals and bacon."

"I won't set my alarm for 7 and hit the snooze button till 11. I'll set my alarm for 9 and GET OUT OF BED AT 9"

It sounds silly and easy, but by switching out the unreasonable lying to yourself ideals and setting yourself completely achievable goals, you can feel good about doing them and set more rather then just disappointing yourself and doing nothing.

Now to the people who think those things above aren't even goals, get out. get out now. 

I mean I'm glad you have your life together and clean your house every day and have a spotless kitchen but some of us aren't like that. So don't rub our faces in it it makes us feel bad and then we do even less :(

As I am nearing the end of my dissertation hell I have applied these lessons to my own situation. So instead of sitting up into the wee hours of the night worrying that I haven't written 1000 words I can say to myself

"hey, Frankles, you worked really hard today. You reformatted those graphs 3 times when your supervisor kept coming over and saying they weren't good enough. you may not have got the word count you wanted done today but you worked solidly all day so you have done enough. Go home and let this rest till tomorrow. Relax and start fresh and you will work harder"

This is the kind of advice I usually dole out to friends who have deadlines looming and are stressing. 

But its very difficult advice to take yourself. Its difficult to let go and appreciate what you have done rather then being stressed by what you haven't

So there you go, thats my piece for today. I hope I can help someone else struggling with deadlines or stress or unmet expectations, to just sit back and appreciate how much you have done, so you can put what you need to do into perspective

Love

Frankles xxx

Procrastination

Good evening one and all and welcome to a little piece of irony.

I had a very productive day today and rewarded myself with a night off! a night free from graphs and word counts and larvae. I decided that I would blog tonight, for the first time not blogging to avoid work!

And then guess what.

I found myself procrastinating from blogging. . . .

Yeah.

That.

I don't think that I don't enjoy blogging, I think it's more to do with the fact that I CAN'T STOP DOING NOTHING. genuinely I procrastinate so much I get fed up with myself and I still stay exactly where I am.

So i thought to make the night even more ironic, I would stop procrastinating, write my blog on a night when I'm not procrastinating from work and blog about. . . procrastination.

INCEPTION.

I think I have actually started to hate that word, I use it at least 3-4 times per day and it just starts to lose meaning. Kind of like when you were little and said the word bowl over and over again till it sounded like nonsense. Anyway I'm going off topic.

So typical procrastination for me starts like this, Eager eyed Frankles sitting down to do work!

I don't work in my owl onesie it's just what
I'm wearing tonight.

"yay lets do work I'm gonna be super productive and I'm gonna do so much great work lalalalala"

Turn on computer, first page that loads is Facebook.

"well I'll just check my notifications first, it'll take a few seconds and then I'll get down to work"

15 minutes later. have twitter open as well

"oh god I really should start work now"- carries on looking at twitter, checking webcomics

"well I'll make it half an hour of break and then I'll start work, I still have loads of time"

45 minutes later I'm sitting on stumbleupon

"ohhh man I didn't notice the time! well I'm starting to get hungry now, maybe I'll work for an hour then get lunch"

So I work for maybe 15-20 minutes before deciding I'm too hungry and need lunch. Of course seeing as I'm supposed to be working it cant be a quick sandwich or something from morrisons, oh no. Today is the day I should try out that new recipe I heard off, or have a craving for baked macaroni cheese.

2 hours later after making an elaborate lunch, I'm halfway through an episode of some crappy TV show and decide to finish the episode before starting work.

Then by the time the episodes over I've already gone on the computer as well, and turn on another show without thinking.

this goes on for a few more hours interspersed with a few minutes of me actually working, which end with me getting distracted by the TV or a new facebook notification (which I cant get rid off no matter how hard I try, every device notifies me about facebook! it's maddening!)

Sometimes during this procrastination I am aware of what I'm doing. I could be lying on the sofa, mindlessly clicking the stumble button completely unaware of that or the TV programme thats on, and still, still I don't move, I don't get up and do something, I just lie there, a mindless zombie completely wasting my existence. and THAT is why I hate the word procrastination

it just isn't descriptive enough, I need a word that describes the absolute apathy, the absolute laziness and the inability to do anything else that grasps me when I "procrastinate".

If anyone out there can think of such a word, something that sounds appropriate for a word that makes me disgusted and hate myself for doing it, then please suggest away. In the meantime I will most likely be right here on the sofa, doing bugger all.

Love Frankles

xxx

An evening well spent

HELLO WORLD.
I have been incredibly unproductive these last couple of days. I believe it is due to a combination of me being UTTERLY DEMOTIVATED during the day, when I am at the library or in the lab trying to write my report (20 words total written today, woop woop!).

During the evenings my lack of productivity could be down to something else, something entirely more. . . feathery.

I BOUGHT ONE

Yes. I Frankles made the clever clever decision to purchase an item that distracts me and is incredibly comfy when I am coming up to the most important deadline of my university career

Well done me!!!

or you know maybe not well done as since I got it I have done nothing but make these faces

OOH look im an owl!!

And then put on my other onesie and dance around the house.

you know what im talking about

And then try and waste even more time! example. I tried to style my hair all sexy like to look like this

ooh check out that smoulder. Im so moody and interesting.

But of course had to endure several hours of this before I could manage that

Whats happening how do I even have this much hair?

Oh god this isn't working at all I look like a sad clown hooker.

So all in all I spent 3 hours faffing with my hair and putting onesies on all to take a photo for. . . .

yeah no reason. TIME WELL SPENT I SAY!

                                     

And to top of an evening well spent I trawled the internet and found a few images that made me laugh so hard I fell off the sofa (an incredibly easy feat given the low crotch of the owl onesie tangling up my legs) so I thought I should share them with you. To help make your evening as productive and hard working as mine was.

Enjoy!

Final note from Owl-Frankles.

HOOOOOT!!!

Of course I can fly?

Love Frankles

xxx

Um, yeah . . .

I don't quite understand what happened to me.
I know that I had a weird moment,
Weirder then usual.
but I still dont understand why this happened.
I dont know how else to describe this apart from desperate procrastination and disproving my blog title.
Yeah so. . .

Enjoy I guess?

Love Frankles
xxx

S-s-s-shoooooeees!

Once again Internet friends I am procrastinating, avoiding writing my dissertation like its a drunken leopard and I'm a poor baby antelope that smells like cheesy chips. The topic this time?

Shooooeeeeeessss. But not just any shoes, I'm talking sexy, sultry, shiny things that slip into your dreams at night and fill your mind with images of long legs and clicking floors and other such lustful imaginings. Want to keep me entertained for hours with very minimal effort? direct me to a Christian Louboutin website or shop please, you can rob the house and take whatever you want just put a picture of these in front of me first :)

STOP DROOLING ON YOUR LAPTOP!

So when I started avoiding work it obviously wasn't long before I went in to shoe overdrive. I lost hours just wishing I could own these. I probably wouldn't even wear them, I would just put them in a line and stroke them one by one.

To most people out there this sounds like something I should get committed for. But some one out there will understand, someone will read this and find a kindred spirit, someone else whose happiness can be made with a flash of a red sole or a gentle point of a stiletto. And for those people out there somewhere,  I made you this. . . 

Translation: OMG SHOES!

http://pinterest.com/theshort12/shooooooes/

I hope you enjoy this as much as I do, Stilettos and pumps and sandals. Bows and studs and prints and colours galore! Its everything a shoe lover could want in one web page, and it's only going to get bigger! Yay!

Every shoe image that made me oooh and aaah will get added to this, this collection of "shoe porn" for the real addicts out there :) I don't intend to stop adding to this board any time soon, I enjoy it too much. Although I really should write my dissertation at some point. . . .

Love Frankles

xxx

Lab crazy

As I mentioned before I am graduating this June. That means that at the minute I am deep in the hell known as 4th year research project.

The HORROR!

You can imagine that this is not something I relish doing. Lab work was supposed to be this fun thing where I could pretend to be a real scientist and look at fun coloured chemicals whilst making scientific progress that would change the world!!

ooh test tubes!

ooh beakers!

ooh look I'm all serious about SCIENCE

Eating computer will help me figure it out!

Yeah thats kind of what I thought it would be like. Instead I get this.

Nothing works!

These are the wonderful animals I get to work with. gross

And this is what they look like when they die.

Nothing I do works. Every experiment fails or produces results that makes no sense and most of my day is spent waiting around for cells to incubate or doing repetitive procedures 100 times in a row.

Naturally I get bored, and when I got bored I tried to find things to do with my time. The first thing I did was start making patterns in my Pipette tip boxes. . .

Loveheart!

Casette tape!

Diagonal pattern things!

Spirals!

Yeah I actually got so bored I started to find this interesting. . . I need a life again.

Then I started talking to my worms. I asked them very nicely not to crawl out of the petri dishes, and the ones who valiantly escaped were named Roger and placed in the control group to escape a gruesome death by infection. There is no way to state that fact without sounding like a lunatic; maybe I should get out of the house. . . .

OH WAIT. I cant because after my labs I have to write up all of my experiments in my lab book and do calculations and plan the next day (which normally involves repeating something that failed from the day before) and then by that time I'm too tired and stroppy to do anything but laze on the sofa watching house and shoving my face with oreos.

So yes the life of a dissertation student is hard, but the end is near! and at least on occasion I can escape at the weekend by seeing a friend for coffee, or staying up late to write a blog post (the best form of procrastination I have ever found by the way, I may even blog about procrastination to get really meta)

Now I'm off to go crunch some more numbers for tomorrow, see you next time!

love Frankles

xxx

Brownies

Sometimes when I crave junk food I crave HARD and there are only certain things that will fill that sugary hole in my stomach. Brownies are one of those things, not rubbishy crumbly prepackaged stuff that tastes like slightly sugary dirt, homemade all the way.

I'M SAD
FEED ME  CHOCOLATEY GOODNESS!!

I got this recipe ages ago and every time I make it I put a new spin on it. One time I put big chunks of white chocolate in and they sunk to the bottom and burned slightly, but I loved the burnt chocolatey flavour for some reason! Sometimes I sprinkle mini smarties on the top for crunchyness and once I poured the batter into cupcake cases and put an oreo in the middle of each one. thats something you actually HAVE to do, tastes amazing and you can surprise people with them.

Also. Add peanut butter. Best ingredient in the world ever.

these ones have oreos with peanut butter inside baked into them.
OM NOM NOM NOM NOM

Now the basic recipe I got from a stumbleupon session and I have never been able to find the site again :( I would love to name them though so all credit goes to you! you wonderful anonymous bakers!

Happy baking! love Frankles
xxxxx

Brownie mix recipe

1/2 cup White Sugar
2 tablespoons Butter (unsalted)
2 tablespoons Water
1 cup Semisweet Chocolate Chips
1/2 cup Milk Chocolate Chips
2 Eggs
1/2 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
2/3 cup All-Purpose Flour
1/4 teaspoon Baking Soda
1/2 teaspoon Salt

Step 1 – Add Sugar and water into a sauce pan.  Warm on Med Low heat to start melting the sugar.  As the water heats up add the butter.  Stir so the mixture does not burn.  If it starts to boil large bubble turn down heat.  We want a smooth even heat to melt the sugar but not to get the mixture too hot.  (If it were to get too hot the eggs would cook the instant we added them.)  Remove from the heat.

Step 2 – Slowly add chocolate chips to sugar, water and butter mix.  Stir the chips until they melt.

Step 3 – Add the eggs to the melted chocolate.  Gently stir the mixture until the eggs have mixed well.  Once the eggs have been mixed add the Vanilla Extract.

Step 4- Add the Baking Soda and Salt then stir.  Next add the All-Purpose Flour.  I add half the flour then stir then add the rest.  Gently stir until the brownie batter is brown again..

Step 5 – Pour mixture into a greased 8×8 inch square pan.  Place in a 325 degree preheated oven.  Bake for 25 to 30 minutes in the preheated oven, until brownies set up. 

Fashion and growing up

So lately I have been thinking about the fact that I have to graduate soon. As you can see this idea does not appeal to me in the slightest.

I don't wanna!

 I don't want to be an adult, I want to sleep in till 2pm (though I haven't done that much recently). I want to go out and drink pink coloured drinks in fancy glasses whilst wearing high heels and laugh until I fall off of my chair! (also haven't done recently, damn university work keeps getting in the way). I want to eat junk food and laze on the sofa watching movies in a onesie.

Preferably this onesie

Now although I can still do those things when I graduate I wont have the good old excuse of being a student to not feel guilty about wasting my time.

SO

To try and make myself excited about pretending to be a grown up I have tried to focus on the positives.

New wardrobe!!

In my new fake-adult life I will have to fool the world into thinking I'm vaguely sensible, whilst still looking young and fun. to help me I made myself a Pinterest muse board under this name

http://pinterest.com/theshort12/dressing-in-your-just-out-of-college-20s/

It's full of outfits and pieces to inspire my new look. Chic yet fun, fitting and professional yet light and happy. Well thats what I was trying for anyway, give it a look and see what you think! I'm going to update it fairly regularly as Pinterest is a great way to procrastinate :)

Happy pinning!
Love Frankles xxx

Hello!

So this is my first post and i thought i should introduce myself :)
HI IM FRANKLES

This is me!

I am an incredibly overdramatic and slightly strange person

this is my excited face

okay very strange. I have a lot of thoughts and opinions as well, from when people wear hideous outfits

Bleurgh

To puppies falling over or being snuggly or whatever

Squeeee

So I thought I would share that with all of you! I will try and post once or twice a week with something funny or at least interesting! and thats about it, hope you enjoy!

Love Frankles xxx