Adorable Birdies! :)

I cannot believe that it is already December! It's crazy how fast time has flown since I came to college....geez I'm so old it's ridiculous. I'm basically a grandma now, that's how old I feel. Now I'm definitely not saying that all grandma's are old, you guys are so young and hip, I love it! Ok moving on...

I've been feeling super old lately, and I feel all dilapidated and junk, so I decided to do something to make me feel young again, and I found the perfect pin! My roommate and I found a pin showing us how to draw cute little birdies. It was fantastic. :) It took me back to the days when I was all young and spry, when I used to draw things all the time. And color lots of coloring books. Back when I didn't have to worry about paying for rent, and food, and tuition, and clothes, and food, and ice cream, and gas, and treats, and did I already say food? Yeah, I just have to pay for lots of things on my own now. It's not so good. But, drawing this birdy made me feel happy!

This 6-step program takes almost no effort. That was the greatest thing about it. I picked up a sharpie, drew a few lines, and the next thing I knew a beautiful bird appeared. If only the rest of the things in my life were that simple right now! Finals week is crazy. This week is crazy. I can’t wait for life to not be crazy! But I guess crazy is a fun way to live, it keeps you super hyper! Until you crash and it’s 10:49pm and you’re trying to blog about drawing a bird, and you attempt to take a cat nap on the dining room table chairs but that hurts your back, so you try to get up but you can’t so your roommate has to help you, and then you feel all sorts of embarrassed, and then you realize you still have to finish making your post, and then you get depressed, and then you ramble on. Yep. This is my life right now.

Anyway, back to the pin. It’s fantastic. Seriously, if I were a little kid and I wanted to draw a birdy all by myself, I would love these instructions. It is so easy and it made me feel like a straight up artist. That’s a good feeling. So if any of you have children that want to be able to draw a bird all on their own (you know when they’re in the stage where they don’t want any help doing things but they kind of do need help) this is perfect! Give them the instructions, and let them create to their hearts content!

I give this pin a 7.78… it’s pretty fantastic and I really think that little kids would love this. College students loved it. My roommate Natalie, says, “It’s a pretty bird”. There you have it folks. Words of wisdom from a college student. That was quite a profound statement there Natalie! Thanks for that.

Haha, ok well I’m going to call it a day. I think that my brain is fried from how much school, homework, and studying I’ve been doing. Not to mention the time I spent on Pinterest and Facebook…maybe one day I won’t waste so much time on those websites. I’ll let you know how that goes. Oh ps…I may or may not have broken one of our chairs today when I sat down. It was a sad day. But also ridiculously funny and made my whole day. I guess all that ice cream is not so good for me. Ok, I’m really done. I promise.

One more thing, my family has what is called goodbye disorder…we can’t say goodbye very well at all. It takes us like a half hour just to say goodbye and finally come to terms with the fact that we are going to be separated for who knows how long! So yeah, it makes family parties super great. I mean, we have to start saying goodbye to each other right after the party starts practically. Haha ok that might have been an exaggeration, bye everyone! 

Natalie's Birdy!

My Birdy! 

Banana Trifles

The Original Pin

      If you hadn't noticed....I'm on a bit of a banana kick. I used to hate bananas. With a passion. But then one day my roommate bought some and I saw her eating one and I thought to myself, dang, that looks delicious! So I went to the store and bought myself 3 bananas. I ate the first one and it was SOOOO good. Now I really, really like bananas. And I've bought like 10 more since then.
     I also chose this pin because I had to redeem myself from the last banana treat that didn't turn out so well...and my mom was  needed to make these trifles for a Young Women's activity, so she helped me a lot. It worked out well.
     Making these trifles was unbelievably easy, but maybe that was just because my sister was helping, my mom was helping, and my adorable nieces and nephews were helping too. Many hands truly do make light work, and we had these trifles made in less than a half hour.
     The first step to making this delicious treat was to make banana pudding from a pudding mix, that part was easy and then you make another mixture of some sort....I forgot what it had in it but I'm pretty sure it was cream cheese with cool whip and sweetened condensed milk. We mixed each of those together separately and then combined them.
     That part was really cool because one mixture was white and the other one was yellow, so when they were stirred together it looked like a really cool swirl. Ok, enough about that....after the pudding mixture was put together we got to do the fun part, assembling the trifle.
     We laid out the cups and began by putting vanilla wafers on the bottom layer. After that, we put the pudding, then banana slices, followed by more pudding and then we topped it off with cool whip and a vanilla wafer. And to add a little pizazz we sprinkled heath bar crumbs over the top.
      They looked so dang good! Seriously. I was very proud of my family....we worked together and accomplished a wonderful thing. We made food! Except I didn't get to eat any of it which is extremely depressing.
      How am I supposed to properly rate it without even getting to eat it? Oh well, I'll just base my rating on easiness of execution and aesthetics. I'll tell you what, it was super aesthetically pleasing. In a major way. If I saw that in a window of a bakery I would race in to the store and see how much it cost, and if it was a reasonable price then I would definitely purchase it. And eat it. A lot of it. And I guess even if it was a little expensive I might consider buying it still just because it looked that good. I'm a poor college student and I would probably break my bank for this.
      That is why I am giving this pin a 8.97. I would have given it a higher score if I could have tasted it because I'm sure it was delicious. But still an 8.97 is an amazingly high rating. That is as good as hot chocolate on a snowy day. Actually, hot chocolate on a snowy day while you're sitting by a window and the Christmas tree is up is like a 3000 out of 10. So I guess it's almost as good as that. So yeah, this is a good pin. Do it. Enjoy it. Live long and prosper!

The ingredients...ok so the bananas are super ripe. Don't judge, we wanted them to be sweet!

Slice the bananas, don't they look pretty!

The two mixtures about to be combined...

Combining them....doesn't it look cool?

Beginning the assembly.

Another layer added.

Bam! The final product. They look dang good!

Yummy! And killer presentation might I add. :)

   

PB&B Bites. Yum.

The Original Pin

            Frozen peanut butter banana bites sounds super delicious, doesn’t it? At least that’s what I thought when I saw the pin on Pinterest. It looked so appetizing that I decided to make it and post about how well it turned out on my blog. And I also decided to make it because I had peanut butter and bananas are super cheap and yeah, I’m a poor college student.

            So after I made myself some super delicious dinner, I decided to make the frozen banana bites for dessert. They took less than 5 minutes to make which was way nice, and the difficulty level was 0. Seriously, they were so easy to make that probably a small child could have made them.

            I started off by peeling the banana and then slicing it into ½ inch slices. When I was finished with that I took a knife and spread peanut butter on to one side of a banana slice, and then put another one on top like a sandwich! It was super cute. And I was getting really excited. The only bad part about making them was the fact that the banana was really sticky and slimy which is gross. So minus a point for that.

            When all the PB&B sandwiches were put together, I put them in the freezer like a good girl because that is what the recipe said to do. It said to freeze it for at least 2 hours. I put them in at 8:45 pm so at 10:45 is when they would be done.

While I was waiting for them to freeze, I decided to finish my homework. That was probably the best decision I’ve made all night, because now I’m not stressed out about my difficult assignment for my journalism class! Yay! Woo-hoo! Go me! Ok that’s beside the point, I finished my homework and started chatting with my roomies.

            I was in my roommates room talking about the chocolate muffins that my other roommate attempted to make that got burned, when I looked at the clock. It said 10:33. I figured that that was close enough to 10:45 and raced to the kitchen to find out if my PB&B bites turned out good.

            Unfortunately, they didn’t.

            They were disgusting. Like ridiculously disgusting and I could barely force myself to eat two which looking back sounds like a lot when I should have stopped after the first bite of the first one. But still, you get the picture. They were bad. And if you don’t believe me, ask my roommates. Story time:

            It was a bleak November night on that fateful day, when Madeline and Shmerg walked into the kitchen where their crazy roommate, Anna (aka me), was making delicious frozen banana-peanut-bites. They were so thrilled at the sight of food that they didn’t even question where it came from, or if it was even good or not, they just hurried and picked one up and shoved it in their mouths. Freeze frame. This is where it gets good. Action!

            They hadn’t even chewed it for more than one second when they were running for the trashcan to relieve themselves of the burden of feeling like they were going to throw-up. That’s right. They almost threw-up. Maddie and Shmerg spit out the PB&B bites faster than you could say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (But you do have to give me some credit, that word takes a ridiculously long time to say).

            Moral of the story: the PB&B bites were awful. I would not recommend them, even to an enemy. No one deserves to have that torture put on them. Ok, so maybe I’m exaggerating a little, but they really were not very good at all. They were slimy and not sweet and banana-y and just plain nasty. But I guess that could have been my fault and not the recipe’s fault because I found out later that it was really only 9:33 when I took them out because my roommate didn’t changer her clock after daylight saving time happened. I’m going to blame the fact that they were disgusting on that; that they didn’t have enough time to mature and ripen and become delicious. I think that sounds right. Yeah. It does.

            I give this pin a 1.5 out 10. That’s almost as bad as running out of gas in the middle of the road. And that’s bad. Anyway, I hope that whatever I make next turns out better. That would be lovely. Until next time, Adios!

The seemingly harmless ingredients...

Almost there, just need to freeze them, oh my they're so cute!

The finished product....ps it's disgusting! Yay! Success. Also Sarcasm. 

Socks in Your Hair? Say What?

The Original Pin

     What an interesting name for a hairstyle….a sock bun? I know what you’re thinking; no one in their right mind would ever want to put a sock in their hair. But here’s the deal, the sock is clean when you put it in your hair so it’s not a big deal. Don’t let it freak you out. If you can’t get over how disgusting it is, I would advise you to buy a new pair of socks that haven’t ever been worn before. That’s much less creepy. But either way it’s really not that gross so I’m not even sure why I just spent that much time explaining it…ok let’s move on to how awesome this idea is!
      It really is so amazing. All I had to do was take a sock, cut the toe off of it, roll it into a donut, stick the sock at the end of my roommate’s ponytail and roll it up. Seriously, it only took 5 minutes to make the sock bun, and fix her hair with it. And it looked so cute!
      I was really proud of myself because I’m not normally very good at fixing hair, but the sock bun made it so simple. I was very pleasantly surprised. I think that anyone would be able to do this on their own. My roommate even liked it so much that she wore her hair like that today to school, she woke up this morning and fixed her hair all by herself. I was so proud!
      So I highly recommend this hairstyle for anyone who wants a really cute look in less than five minutes. Literally. It takes less than five minutes to throw your hair in a ponytail, and then roll the hair around the donut (aka the sock). I’d definitely rate this pin at a 7. 9 on a scale of 1 to 10. It is a very easy hairstyle to do, and it is so fast too! A 7.9 can be compared to a chocolate covered cinnamon bear. It’s delicious but it just doesn’t quite wow you enough to give it a 10 you know what I mean?
     Maybe not…maybe I’m just a super crazy person. That could be true, but either way chocolate covered cinnamon bears are delicious, and so is the sock bun! And I mean that in the least weird way possible, the sock doesn’t taste good but it looks great. So I encourage all of you to try it! And have a wonderful day! J

Just a normal sock!

Don't be afraid to cut off the toe...

Roll it into a donut.

Put your hair in a ponytail.

The finished product from the back.

The finished product from the side!