Wednesday, 21 October 2009
My brain hurts
Today we learnt more than ever the sheer amount that is required of you in the acting industry by potential employers... my brain hurts a bit. Good to know it now though i guess...:-S
Monday, 19 October 2009
Adventures of an October weekend
Hey,
So, I really want to chat a bit about my weekend coz it was really goooood :)
Umm... Friday night did some line learning with my house mate's help and then went out for what was gonna be a quick drink for a friend of our's birthday (he's also the boyfriend of my house mate who is also on my course). We stayed out a little longer than planned just chatting and relaxin was nice :) My housemate and I got McDonalds on the way back :P
Saturday I went to church 'Worship Team Day' which was really good and great to get to know some ppl a bit better that I don't know so well and spend time worshipping and praying with each other and stuff :) (I also got a sausage butty from a fish and chip shop at lunch - gotta be worth a mention!).
When I got back home I had a totally amazing like 2 hour nap, after which my housemate brought me a cuppa which was sooo sweet (this is totally the way to my heart! lol) and made me feel like I was at homehome, hehe.
Then had Macaroni cheese amazingly made by the same flat mate for a few of us :) That evening we went out for the same guys actual birthday party and on to a really nice cocktail bar - was such a fun night. I also came back fairly early but still felt like i'd been quite a while and having an ace time so that was cool.
On Sunday went to church meeting which was brill as always, and lots of baptisms which is totally awesome!!
Afterwards went for a spontanious lunch date with a very close friend of mine. We went to this brilliant little Italian coffee shop and sat and ate outside and talked and talked and pretended we were in Europe. :) hehe it was so nice. I love that coffee shop too! Also got a new cardi and some yummily scented Original Source shower gels.
When I got back I mooched on the sofa with my sleepy housemates as we all watched Ugly Betty :) ....then did bits and pieces...cleaning and such...
...then went to worship group practice before the evening church meeting. Really awesome time of worship and discovering a deeper dimension of the fathers love for us...and how we have literally THE BEST dad in the world :-D
Finished the weekend with a bit more cleaning and vegetable stew. so good weekend. God is good! :) Hope everyone had a good refreshing weekend! I'm afraid i managed to wreck my throat a bit though :-S ooopss...
So, I really want to chat a bit about my weekend coz it was really goooood :)
Umm... Friday night did some line learning with my house mate's help and then went out for what was gonna be a quick drink for a friend of our's birthday (he's also the boyfriend of my house mate who is also on my course). We stayed out a little longer than planned just chatting and relaxin was nice :) My housemate and I got McDonalds on the way back :P
Saturday I went to church 'Worship Team Day' which was really good and great to get to know some ppl a bit better that I don't know so well and spend time worshipping and praying with each other and stuff :) (I also got a sausage butty from a fish and chip shop at lunch - gotta be worth a mention!).
When I got back home I had a totally amazing like 2 hour nap, after which my housemate brought me a cuppa which was sooo sweet (this is totally the way to my heart! lol) and made me feel like I was at homehome, hehe.
Then had Macaroni cheese amazingly made by the same flat mate for a few of us :) That evening we went out for the same guys actual birthday party and on to a really nice cocktail bar - was such a fun night. I also came back fairly early but still felt like i'd been quite a while and having an ace time so that was cool.
On Sunday went to church meeting which was brill as always, and lots of baptisms which is totally awesome!!
Afterwards went for a spontanious lunch date with a very close friend of mine. We went to this brilliant little Italian coffee shop and sat and ate outside and talked and talked and pretended we were in Europe. :) hehe it was so nice. I love that coffee shop too! Also got a new cardi and some yummily scented Original Source shower gels.
When I got back I mooched on the sofa with my sleepy housemates as we all watched Ugly Betty :) ....then did bits and pieces...cleaning and such...
...then went to worship group practice before the evening church meeting. Really awesome time of worship and discovering a deeper dimension of the fathers love for us...and how we have literally THE BEST dad in the world :-D
Finished the weekend with a bit more cleaning and vegetable stew. so good weekend. God is good! :) Hope everyone had a good refreshing weekend! I'm afraid i managed to wreck my throat a bit though :-S ooopss...
Friday, 16 October 2009
The youth of today! :P
Just want to mention a totally awesome and encouraging blog my old youth leader writes:
ch-ch-ch-check it out! :) x
ch-ch-ch-check it out! :) x
Thursday, 15 October 2009
Something tasty...
There are lots of things I could mention... but they're mostly boring and course related, or only interesting to me coz I was there... so thought I'd just share what I had for tea...
Recipie for yummy pork and dried apricot dish :
INGREDIENTS:
Pork Belly strips
Honey
A few Dried apricots
About half a parsnip
1 Pork stock cube
About 1/3 of a green pepper
About 3 or 4 mushrooms
New potatoes
Green beans
Kettle full of boiled water
Lay the pork strips on a baking tray. Make a few cuts/ dints in each strip, into which push half an apricot in each (so I usually put 2 halfs of one dried apricot into each strip).
Peel and cut up the parsnip, place this also on the tray with the meat.
Start to cook this in the oven.
Boil water and put in a pan. Add to this the potatoes and green beans. Simmer (Overall for about 20-25 mins - can take the beans out a bit earlier).
Chop up the pepper and mushroom into medium sized pieces. Also about 3 dried apricots chopped in half. Start cooking in a frying pan with a little sunflower oil. Once the oil has mostly gone, add some honey over these.
Also drizzle the honey over the pork (after it's been cooking for about 15/20 minutes) and the parsnip.
Once the honey has cooked in quite well (to the frying pan stuff!) , crumble the pork stock cube over the stuff in the frying pan. Add a little boiled water, and stir it, crushing the cube and using the spatula to crush the apricots a bit too - I then keep adding a little bit over water and stirring it in/ cooking it on low till it becomes gravy thickness, taste it, add a little more water and so on and so on until it's the right amount of sauce and not too strong.
Once the meat looks like it needs maybe just another 5 or 10 mins, I turn it over and continue to cook it for a bit (and also the parsnips).
Once the meat and everything else is fully cooked. Drain the beans and potatoes and serve, add the meat and parsnips, then dribble the saucepan full of veg and sauce over the top.
Eat it! Very yummy :)
Recipie for yummy pork and dried apricot dish :
INGREDIENTS:
Pork Belly strips
Honey
A few Dried apricots
About half a parsnip
1 Pork stock cube
About 1/3 of a green pepper
About 3 or 4 mushrooms
New potatoes
Green beans
Kettle full of boiled water
Lay the pork strips on a baking tray. Make a few cuts/ dints in each strip, into which push half an apricot in each (so I usually put 2 halfs of one dried apricot into each strip).
Peel and cut up the parsnip, place this also on the tray with the meat.
Start to cook this in the oven.
Boil water and put in a pan. Add to this the potatoes and green beans. Simmer (Overall for about 20-25 mins - can take the beans out a bit earlier).
Chop up the pepper and mushroom into medium sized pieces. Also about 3 dried apricots chopped in half. Start cooking in a frying pan with a little sunflower oil. Once the oil has mostly gone, add some honey over these.
Also drizzle the honey over the pork (after it's been cooking for about 15/20 minutes) and the parsnip.
Once the honey has cooked in quite well (to the frying pan stuff!) , crumble the pork stock cube over the stuff in the frying pan. Add a little boiled water, and stir it, crushing the cube and using the spatula to crush the apricots a bit too - I then keep adding a little bit over water and stirring it in/ cooking it on low till it becomes gravy thickness, taste it, add a little more water and so on and so on until it's the right amount of sauce and not too strong.
Once the meat looks like it needs maybe just another 5 or 10 mins, I turn it over and continue to cook it for a bit (and also the parsnips).
Once the meat and everything else is fully cooked. Drain the beans and potatoes and serve, add the meat and parsnips, then dribble the saucepan full of veg and sauce over the top.
Eat it! Very yummy :)
Saturday, 10 October 2009
People Power
so....I have some amazing people around me! ;
Yesterday I had a minor breakdown while discussing 'THE FUTURE' with my tutor. lol. rubbish. I left anyway and another tutor said a friendly hello and I cried. lol again. but then he took me aside, took time to listen to me and reassure me and help me come back to the here and now for now. Afterwards I came back to my awesome houseful of girlies and ended up mentionin it to a couple of them when they asked how it had gone and stuff. Later that day two of them independantly bought me a treat of rainbow drops (luv!) as a cheer-me-up :) so so sweet.
second, our washing machine very recently conked out (house with 6 girls - argh!). I mentioned it in passing at church student lunch and was pointed in the direction of a guy from church who was selling one. - we offered £75, he said "You can have it for £50". It's a really good, perfect condition, less than a year old machine...; Yes Please! hehe.
Today one of my housemates dad came to uninstall the old one, drive us to pick up the new one, and installed it in our house for us (yey!) and another of 3 guys from uni came to help us out. We now have a working washing machine! And so many people gave up of their time to help us out!
thirdly, my lovely mum sent me a little surprise of new socks and student asda tokens in the post which I got this morning...my mum is great ^_^
Just brilliant.
I'm sure there are many more amazing things over the last few days but that's three main things that spring to mind. <3
Also, over the last few days I've had quite a few conversations about my degree and what comes after...those conversations were with my housemates, some good friends from my course and as I mentioned a couple of my tutors... and lots of advice and things that I need to think about... But one thing I just wanna mention that one of my housemates said that really stuck in my head: It's about when u get your result for your degree - and we were talking about what we'd be happy with and stuff, and she said that at the end of the day when you open that piece of paper and see your grade, you've gotta know that you've done all you possibly could to get that, and if you know you've put your all into it and done your best then you can be satisfied with it whatever it is. And I think that's so true. And it makes me wanna do my best - I don't wanna open that piece of paper and think - whatever the grade - that I've let myself down.
Yesterday I had a minor breakdown while discussing 'THE FUTURE' with my tutor. lol. rubbish. I left anyway and another tutor said a friendly hello and I cried. lol again. but then he took me aside, took time to listen to me and reassure me and help me come back to the here and now for now. Afterwards I came back to my awesome houseful of girlies and ended up mentionin it to a couple of them when they asked how it had gone and stuff. Later that day two of them independantly bought me a treat of rainbow drops (luv!) as a cheer-me-up :) so so sweet.
second, our washing machine very recently conked out (house with 6 girls - argh!). I mentioned it in passing at church student lunch and was pointed in the direction of a guy from church who was selling one. - we offered £75, he said "You can have it for £50". It's a really good, perfect condition, less than a year old machine...; Yes Please! hehe.
Today one of my housemates dad came to uninstall the old one, drive us to pick up the new one, and installed it in our house for us (yey!) and another of 3 guys from uni came to help us out. We now have a working washing machine! And so many people gave up of their time to help us out!
thirdly, my lovely mum sent me a little surprise of new socks and student asda tokens in the post which I got this morning...my mum is great ^_^
Just brilliant.
I'm sure there are many more amazing things over the last few days but that's three main things that spring to mind. <3
Also, over the last few days I've had quite a few conversations about my degree and what comes after...those conversations were with my housemates, some good friends from my course and as I mentioned a couple of my tutors... and lots of advice and things that I need to think about... But one thing I just wanna mention that one of my housemates said that really stuck in my head: It's about when u get your result for your degree - and we were talking about what we'd be happy with and stuff, and she said that at the end of the day when you open that piece of paper and see your grade, you've gotta know that you've done all you possibly could to get that, and if you know you've put your all into it and done your best then you can be satisfied with it whatever it is. And I think that's so true. And it makes me wanna do my best - I don't wanna open that piece of paper and think - whatever the grade - that I've let myself down.
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Friday, 9 October 2009
Out, damned spot!
hey, so...thought i'd mention that i am currently in rehearsals for Macbeth and today we found out our parts. It's not a huge company (our class will be split into 2 groups each performing the whole play - so about 9 per group) and so each person is playing a few characters. I am playing King Duncan, Lady MacDuff and a soldier. So that's cool, am excited to get stuck in. We're going to be touring it round a few schools in the area along with workshops. I've had experience - on a very amateur level - of that sort of thing in primary schools but not in secondary schools (and not shakespeare or anything close!). So, I'm a little apprehensive but I sort of feel if i can face that then there wont be much I can't face lol...so we'll see how it goes.
It's been a tiring week but this evening has been nice and relaxing with the girls and now chillin out in my room - so now i'm gonna get to bed - and tommorrow should be a much more laid back day :)
It's been a tiring week but this evening has been nice and relaxing with the girls and now chillin out in my room - so now i'm gonna get to bed - and tommorrow should be a much more laid back day :)
Thursday, 1 October 2009
Excuse the cheese but...
i had a nap today, and when i woke up i thought noooo i dont wanna get up - i jus wanna lie here and not move - not majorly gloomy or anything but just like - i have no reason to get up, why should i? But then i remembered that it's my sister in laws birthday - and so i picked up my mobile and gave her a call. Chatted to her for i dunno just like 5 minutes, and suddenly I felt better - I wanted to go next door to my flat mates room and chat to her... ok doesn't sound very noteworthy moment but i mean it just reminded me there are some such awesome people around and i wanna be spending time with them, talking to them and connecting while i have the chance...and that's worth getting up for.
