Posts Tagged ‘uni’

I have been mean­ing to dis­cuss this topic for the pass three months but due to uni­ver­sity I have not had a chance, it was not until Dez posted an arti­cle “Doing Noth­ing Changes Noth­ing” which really got me think­ing about it again.

There seems to be a lot of envy around and the whole woe is me atti­tude really grinds me lately, peo­ple jeal­ous of other people’s suc­cess, even I am guilty of this one, I caught myself being so jeal­ous over someone’s results from a piece of course­work even though a few min­utes before I had even heard their mark I was so happy with it.

I realised that I should be grate­ful and happy with what I have been able to achieve and my own life but peo­ple seems to for­get this when they are com­plain­ing about an aspect in their life but not doing any­thing doesn’t change any­thing, agree­ing with Dez, I just really wish peo­ple could be happy we what they have not what they haven’t got.

Okay, so now I have fin­ished rant­ing, my kitchen is com­pleted! It looks lovely, I just have to paint it and dec­o­rate it now I will have to upload more pic­tures later as I have to take fin­ished pictures.

Also, I PASSED SECOND YEAR! I passed every­thing minus one sub­ject which I am plan­ning on re-taking in Sep­tem­ber, I am so pleased, it was weird I was dream­ing about my results, I was at my father’s old house and I checked on-line to only find out that I had failed! So I woke up at 8.30am, hus­band had already left to take the car to the garage and I turned on the lap­top to find out I had got through. I didn’t know if I was dream­ing or not which is why my face­book sta­tus was like whoa.. I passed… ha ha!

Dri­ving test is booked for the 27^th Sep­tem­ber (which just hap­pens to be two days after my period, I could be preg­nant by then if it all hap­pens first go and all that!), I put myself on my hus­bands and I’s car so I have been spend­ing an hour dri­ving every day so I am clock­ing up 9 hours a week! I have a dri­ving les­son in 50 min­utes today, maybe my dri­ving teacher will be able to tell? Or will it go tits up again?

Back to my pre­vi­ous topic, what have you got the green eyed mon­ster about at the moment? And how do you think peo­ple should deal with being jealous?

Wow I really have been miss­ing in action, well I thought I would pop by and give a quick update…So here goes:

Exam-wise I am on num­ber 6 which is at 9.30am tomor­row morn­ing, so I have done 5 so far and I think they went bet­ter than I thought they were going to be minus one which I knew was going to be hor­ri­ble and sur­prise sur­prise was. I have only 4 includ­ing tomor­rows one left to go and my group project is going to be handed in on Thurs­day

Talk­ing about my group project, can’t remem­ber if I wrote that I was made project leader since our old project leader decided to re-take the year for a third time so I was stuck with this role. It has been going okay but I hate every­thing about group work just because I have to be rely­ing on some­one else and in this case 7 other peo­ple. I had a hor­ri­ble time with one of my team mem­bers who decided when we had two weeks to go he was going to jump ship because his exams were more impor­tant but every­one is doing exams, just a shitty excuse if you ask me.

My lap­top broke well my hus­band had a hissy fit with it and put it on the ground a lit­tle too roughly and then the hard drive was bug­gered, lucky enough it was not the moth­er­board or any­thing more seri­ous. The hus­band and I replaced the hard drive which on a IBook G4 there is like 50 screws!! You have to take off the back case, the pro­tec­tive case and then you have to go around to the front and do the same!

After tak­ing it apart we had the issues of putting it back together, we did but we have 7 screws left over but the lap­top works so I am not going to worry about it.

Other news it was my mother’s 50^th birth­day party over the week­end and I made 50 straw­berry cup­cakes with cream and straw­berry on top for it, it was a great party and my brother came home for the week­end for it

Aren’t they just amaz­ing, I should of taken more pic­ture and they were really yummy, I used this recipe for them:

Ingre­di­ents

Makes 1 dozen

• 2/3 cup whole fresh or frozen straw­ber­ries, thawed
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
• 1 tea­spoon bak­ing powder
• 1/4 tea­spoon coarse salt
• 1/4 cup whole milk, room temperature
• 1 tea­spoon pure vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted but­ter, room temperature
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 large egg, room temperature
• 2 large egg whites, room temperature

Direc­tions

1. Pre­heat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 12-cup muf­fin tin with cup­cake lin­ers; set aside.
2. Place straw­ber­ries in a small food proces­sor; process until pureed. You should have about 1/3 cup of puree, add a few more straw­ber­ries if nec­es­sary or save any extra puree for frost­ing; set aside.
3. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, bak­ing pow­der, and salt; set aside. In a small bowl, mix together milk, vanilla, and straw­berry puree; set aside.
4. In the bowl of an elec­tric mixer fit­ted with the pad­dle attach­ment, cream but­ter on medium-high speed, until light and fluffy. Grad­u­ally add sugar and con­tinue to beat until well com­bined and fluffy. Reduce the mixer speed to medium and slowly add egg and egg whites until just blended.
5. With the mixer on low, slowly add half the flour mix­ture; mix until just blended. Add the milk mix­ture; mix until just blended. Slowly add remain­ing flour mix­ture, scrap­ing down sides of the bowl with a spat­ula, as nec­es­sary, until just blended.
6. Divide bat­ter evenly among pre­pared muf­fin cups. Trans­fer muf­fin tin to oven and bake until tops are just dry to the touch, 22 to 25 min­utes. Trans­fer muf­fin tin to a wire rack and let cup­cakes cool com­pletely in tin before icing.

Source: Sprin­kles’ Straw­berry Cupcake

Other news it was my hus­band and mine 1 year wed­ding anniver­sary over the week­end on Sat­ur­day but with my mums 50^th birth­day party it kind of got over shad­owed, but we did man­age to go out for a meal but I have been hid­ing away revising.

Neigh­bour news, we have the coun­cil and their land­lord involved and we are seek­ing legal advice against them, but can’t really say much more on here

Okay back to revis­ing and stalk­ing my team members

I am alive It is 4 weeks before the end of Spring term so all the assign­ments have been com­ing out, so I have been so busy with them oh and my dri­ving lessons are going really well right now, fin­gers crossed I’ll pass at the end of April. I had to cut the lessons down to one a week while all this crazy uni­ver­sity work is going on but in my hol­i­day I am going back up to three a week!

My week is a lit­tle bit crazy at the moment, here is my schedule:

Mon­day — up at 6am, lessons from 9am till 3pm then home again (must add it takes me a total of 4 hours to get to and from uni­ver­sity).
Tues­day — up at 6am again, lessons from 9am till 4pm, home again
Wednes­day — all day uni­ver­sity work, from 8am till 9pm at night I am get­ting worn out
Thurs­day — up at 6am again, lessons 10am till 3pm
Fri­day — dri­ving les­son and more uni­ver­sity work
Saturday/Sunday — uni­ver­sity work, house­work and all that fun stuff

I am so tired from all the uni­ver­sity work I have to do, and it is all I do 24/7 well apart from sleep­ing of course. Drama the other day hus­band fell down a flight of stairs at the train sta­tion land­ing on his tail hone, he was in so much pain he couldn’t move all evening had to lie on the bed, I thought we would have to go to hos­pi­tal but he seems to be okay now still can’t walk very fast, has pain here and there but looks like he has just bruised it, I hope anyway.

Other news we had a power cut yes­ter­day, no power for two hours and I was in the mid­dle of doing an assign­ment and the com­puter went “bing” and every­thing went out, the thing that annoyed me the most was there was no infor­ma­tion on the helpline it kept just telling me that knew about the prob­lems, pfft!

I’m off to do some more assign­ment or sleep or watch Big Bang The­ory (just fin­ish How I met your mother all 5 sea­sons, so good!!), a green kitchen post tomor­row since I had to clean my kitchen for two hours today.

So the bath­room is nearly done, so about 80% done right now, we have bath­room choco­late brown floor tiles, they look so pretty, but it will be 100% once my wash­ing machine area isn’t done yet!

Hus­band took of the wooden bath side because he wants to pro­tect it was the shower water so we have to paint it Saturday.

Cats are not impressed by these tiles, I think they find it cold on their paws.  Oh that is Arthur btw

They are great tiles though

Oh and I did get a quote for my kitchen and it was this much:

Seri­ously!!! How much, this is just crazy, most of it is peo­ple com­ing and fit­ting it, £700 for just unpack­ing the boxes and build­ing the units, I think we are going to look else where but this is my favourite bit the designs! I love so I will show a pri­vate kitchen fit­ter and another diy store.

How pretty is it?? I want it!! I love it, it would change my life Ha ha my hus­band was like we will get your kitchen before the sum­mer we are just look­ing for a cheaper price, hope­fully for about 3grand, fin­gers crossed.  Do you like it?

I got a nice present from my mother-in-law, a slow cooker, I have wanted one for ages, so I am so pleased with it.  I am find­ing this blog hard to write since two of my cats have decided I MUST cud­dle them right this second.

I got excited news from my dri­ving teacher thinks I should go for my test at  the end of April which way ear­lier than I thought, so I am so excited!  The issues with uni are being sorted out at the moment I have to go for my meet­ing next Fri­day, I know who else is involved and I know the story behind it now so I am pretty sure that I am not going to get into huge trou­ble but now typ­ing that I will get into HUGE trouble.

I have been watch­ing TTC vblogs on youtube and I would like to do this when we start in about 8 months time, count­ing down and all that, we are super excited, we refer to our non-baby as Daisy as that is what we would call a lit­tle girl if we have one or Jessie for a boy.  My hus­band would really like a girl, we were dis­cussing if we would want to know the sex and at first we didn’t want to know but now I think it would be a good idea if we did but the hus­band still doesn’t want to know but I am sure he will change his mind when the sit­u­a­tion appears

Oh but I have been check­ing my cycles and ovu­la­tion, I am test­ing on the 19^th of this month just so I know how to go about it when we do start try­ing in 8 months, I want to be a pro at this when we get down to the “baby dance”.

Other than that I have been work­ing really hard on my uni work, so that is pretty much an update for me this week

Wow this has to be the longest I haven’t posted any­thing new, I have been really down lately, I don’t know if it is Jan­u­ary blues.  If you haven’t been read­ing my twit­ter updates, I received a let­ter over the week­end from my uni­ver­sity accus­ing me of pla­gia­rism, I spoke to my aca­d­e­mic adviser yes­ter­day and the whole point behind this is that mine and some­one else’s work looks sim­i­lar which is incred­i­bly upset­ting as I spent ages on that piece of work and I know for a fact I have not copied off any­one as I always do my work at home to avoid this but for some rea­son last term I’ve been help­ing peo­ple out and I think it has come to bite me in the bot­tom as it looks like some­one has just copied my work

Now I have to go sit in-front of a panel or just my head of school and they will judge me, I will either be let off, have to re-submit  the work or I will lose marks from that assign­ment, it is just so unfair.  Okay enough of that sub­ject as it is just depress­ing and I have decided that I am not going to mope around about it, what will be will be after all I can’t change what has hap­pened or what some­one else has done.

I so wanted this to be the hus­band and mine yeah, Jan­u­ary has been rub­bish but I am going to make sure that Feb­ru­ary is amaz­ing, I am going to try and be pos­i­tive about uni­ver­sity even though I am dis­lik­ing it at the moment and I will try my hard­est in my course­work this term, maybe even start them this weekend.

I have been off ill today, per­son­ally I believe it is down to stress as the home life hasn’t been amaz­ing since the hus­band decided to give up smok­ing.… not the best time since he has SAD as well… but he has decided to try again in a cou­ple of months.  The whole rea­son behind him quit­ting is one of my excit­ing news, in about 9 months the hus­band and I are going to be try­ing for our FIRST BABY, I am so excited and he is even more excited about it than me, we would like a lit­tle girl and would call her Daisy.

Also hav­ing the bath­room fin­ished, the kitchen being re-done and me learn­ing how to drive (booked 30 hours worth of lessons!!) is so we can try for a baby.

The plan is for me to hope­fully get preg­nant this Octo­ber — Decem­ber time, fin­ish my final year at uni­ver­sity, give birth and take a whole year off to be with the baby and then return to uni­ver­sity to start a post­grad­u­ate in IT teach­ing sec­ondary school level.  I have decided to become a teacher! In ICT (IT) at sec­ondary school level so 11 to 18 year olds, I’ve always wanted to be a teacher since I was 14 years old and I can’t believe I will hope­fully be going for it, I have an interview/chat with the post­grad­u­ate depart­ment at a dif­fer­ent uni­ver­sity next Monday.

Well that’s all my secrets out I am very excited, I just hope that this year goes as plans, so far so good in the money sav­ing area… Do any­one of you know of a  good on-line monthly cycle cal­cu­la­tor? I am rub­bish at remem­ber­ing my dates and I need to get on top of my cycles asap.