a day *or two* of life

 My day in pictures, well kind of 2 days in pictures. Breakfast yesterday was this American beauty of pancakes (well crepes, which are more French, but whatever) with maple syrup and crispy bacon! Delicious! I'd always though this was a bit weird, but we had bacon, pancake mix left from the weekend and maple syrup in so it had to be done and it was incredible (get it, edible ;])

So as not to be completely unhealthy, my mid morning revision break snack was grapes. I always count them out into mugs when I'm at uni, but at home we have glasses so I thought I'd be slightly classier (definitely wasn't to do with the fact that all the mugs were in the dishwasher). Pretty, hey?

 My Mum and I went shopping in the mid-late afternoon for some new shoes to go with the outfit I am wearing in the picture further down. We always walk past Paul, but never buy anything, but I've been ill so I think my Mum felt bad for me and bought me the most fabulous macaroon. I hope  heaven has macaroons.

Just look at that! It was a vanilla one, with vanilla cream. You can see my management science notes in the background *such fun.* I couldn't eat the whole thing yesterday as they're massive (which they really should be considering the expense) so this was my revision break snack today. 

This is the outfit I am searching for shoes for. I did buy a pair of shoes yesterday, but they don't go with this, they're more jean shoes. SO if you have any suggestions, link them to me in comments, I'd really appreciate it.

In the evening I went round to one of my friend's house for dinner, she has this AMAZING toaster oven, something which I've never seen before. We were making coffee and walnut cake (with a few sneaky pecans) so we popped them in the toaster. She's only ever seen them in Malaysia, so I guess I need to make a trip there. Have you seen them anywhere else?

 Here is our finished product! It is delicious! I have a lot left, so my connect group will hopefully enjoy this tonight (bar the one guy who's allergic to nuts...woops)

Outfit: T-shirt, H&M; Skirt, Next

IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL

Had my presentation today. So I had to dress slightly smarter than usual, hence the dress. Not super formal, especially as I had my thermal top on underneath. I thought it was going to be really cold. It wasn't, I was boiled, and had a cardigan on too because I couldn't have gone with my thermal sleeves out!  (excuse my face, I'd been tossing+turning all night and woke up mad early)

 I think it went well, the presentation that is, I hope. People said it was great..which is a pretty big compliment as I don't remember hearing that being said to anyone else..I don't know, maybe I just wasn't listening. Anyway I felt it went well anyway, which is important. I think. Oh I don't know, the thing with these things is that your marker/tutor/teacher/lecturer mightn't have liked it and then you're screwed. However, I made him laugh so I feel that that's a positive (?)

So I headed home because I felt I deserved it. It was such a lovely day and I'd finally completed all my coursework ( handed in some more yesterday) so I grabbed a snack (above) of pumpkin seeds roasted with garlic powder (YUM!) and headed up the Salisbury Crags. The views were spectacular; such blues! I romped around for quite a while.

Did a few sprints down the bottom and then up the hill, and found a new place (which I slid around in like a small child + got a few splinters in myself). I checked no one was around and just played. It was great. I know, I know, I'm 20 years old, but sometimes you just have to play, even when you're by yourself.

 Stopped for a snack and a quick selfie at the top. I packed the last of my nakd bars (apple pie) and it was lovely, to just look over Edinburgh, snacking on a healthy bar, seeing the snow on the Pentlands in the distance (below), in the sun..although it was windy

I hear its been snowing at home. Madness! I fly tomorrow so I'll see how that goes.

Stay cool, xo


Dress, Topshop; Thermals, Hand-me-downs so no idea :]

Oh Happy Daaaaay

 Handed my essay in today! Happy day, last essay of 2nd year!
I semi-apologise for the fact that this picture is a weird one, i.e. phone covering face, but I couldn't be bothered with make-up today so I thought the best thing was to hide it a bit. I liked my outfit, so I took a picture.

Why is there stuff in my sink? Our bath is being repaired, and everything had to be removed from it. Hope that's a satisfactory answer (:

My dress has a graphical(?) design of a study hall which is SO appropriate. I love it. And my jumper has zips.

What more could you want!?
Its quite large, I bought it a while ago, but its so comfortable and cosy, its love.
Oh also apologies (not semi this time) for the random bath mat..I'm going to blame the workman for that, blame on my part too for not realising when taking the picture.

Jumper, French Connection; Dress top, Zara; Jeans, Primark (as per), socks (hehe) Adidas (part of my Games Maker uniform, they're very comfortable)

Stay well, xo

LIKE A MIGHTY STORM

 As a Brit, I quite enjoy talking about the weather. So I apologise in advance, but this post is climate related.
It is the 29th March today, Good Friday, however, in Edinburgh, it has been snowing, and also sun-shine-ing like a beauty too. It is messed up, which means...layers. So I thought I'd show you what I'm wearing today, I have 4 layers of tops on, that's intense for the end of March, however, it is very necessary.

I had my last economics lecture of the year today. Don't really know how I feel about that. Just means I have to study study study, revise revise revise, for the next 6 weeks. For the first time ever I asked my lecturer a question and he told me I was correct in my questioning and inferred that I was clever. Good feeling.

I like to combine textures, materials, anything. My hair looks dip-dyed in this picture. Its not, unless that's still the hair dye from 2009. 

Yes I wore a jumper under my denim shirt..it was literally freezing this morning.

On a side note, I finished my thinking through Japan classes today too, which is pretty emotional as I really enjoyed the course, the people, the discussion, not all of the films though. 2 films that were weird were Akira (watched that yesterday) and The Insect Woman. Have you seen either of these? Interested to hear opinions.

Jumper, H&M; Denim Shirt, Oasis; Studded jumper, Papillone; Jeans, Primark (I know bad quality, but I'm pretty broke) 

Bracelet from church