after leasurely waking up around 11:30, and lounging in bed until 12, my parents walked in as usual saying “22 years ago, you were just a little baby!”.

its my birthday!

i got a yellow towel (weee), a big bouquet of pink roses (smells so nice!) and an ansel adams calendar (weeeeee!!!!!).

i’ll post photos of myself, my towel (heehee), my roses, my happiness and my trip to south carolina later. now i’m gone to buy groceries, be happy, pretty and enjoy life! its the start of another year full of great things!

and i got a hesicard! weeeeeeeee

i should write a huge update on whats happening, or reply to all of my 30 emails backed up since november with updates to my life. but i’m so. lethargic. and. tired.

life’s good. i’m chilling up here, with +15C weather, sunny skies and no to-do or to-read or to-study list. good food and good people, good weather, and lots of sleep (14 hours yesterday).

i need to vegitate before the upcoming whirlwind. i still haven’t bought new running shoes, sporty pants and a sweatshirt! and i MUST get all those before i leave to NZ. anyone up for a shopping trip?

my exams are DONE.

i am done my exams

i am free, free FREE!!!!

the blue skies of south carolina await me. and then - my birthday (i am beginning to feel more and more like a little kid awaiting presents), and then and then and then new years and then some work and then a haircut and then i’m flying to new zealand and i SWEAR each time i think that this is all true, real and i can finally enjoy it i almost begin to cry.

and that’s after a *3 hour hot bath with a silly romance novel*.

i’m gone to the cssu dinner @ mandarin. flight is at 6:25am. WEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

i R the leet! check out the new fancy calendar, and now i have a flickr posting ability from within my posts.

hesi:
calendar
flickr posting ability

its SO nice.

cooking tonight: spaghetti in tomato sauce with ground beef and parmesean
ingridients:
1/2 medium onions, finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
1 stalk celery, finely chopped (cut length wise into 3 and chop into tiny bits)
4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 cube of vegetable stock (homemade!)
1/2 cup of water
1/2 can tomato paste
pinch teaspoon salt, or to taste
2 splashes red wine
bay leaf
1/2 teaspoon herbes du provence

1/2 pound ground beef
spaghetti (for, err, 2 portions, dunno how really much)

heat onion, garlic until tranclucent in oil on medium low heat, add the stock and celery and the water, and heat for about 5 more minutes. add the tomato puree, herbs, bay leaf and heat (for as long as possible , up to an hour - i had only about 30 minutes). add wine about 10 minutes before done.

when the sauce is about ready (or you’re about starving), cook spaghetti (add another cube of vegetable stock to the water to make it the real good thing). brown the ground beef in olive oil, add it to the sauce, warm the whole thing for as long as it takes for spaghetti to cook, serve, eat.

yum.

i wish i had basil! argh.

drinking tonight: kindzamaruli red sweet wine

so, 3 exams are DONE DONE DONE!! datbases went SWEETLY, and psych was tough (3 hours of writing non stop, 2 essays, 5 terms in 3 booklets for 21 pages of writing).

the evening was spent watching csi and enjoying the food and wine. life is so good when you only have one exam ahead of you. and i can sleep in tomorrow. and then i study. but i don’t care, because i am free FREE FREE!