Meet my new Big Brother, Benjamin

Yesterday was a food shopping day with my mom. I always call an event, if it's with only me and my mom, mother~duaghter bonding time ^ ^ and the added bonus was the food :D &&&! My mom got me a big stuffed teddy (i think they call him "Costco Bear", oh yeah, we went to Costco and Wegmans) that I've been wanting since last year! Here's our little excursion:

free samples :) nacho chips w/ salsa. pretty yummy

sharpies!!!! YES

Wegmans has these new things called baby cakes? $6, they look pretty cute :)

i like this baby cake

wegmans fruit P: I want watermelon~~ my favorite fruit<3

bread we were going to get...but alas...it look so yummy

BENJAMIN! my new big brother :) He's helping us carry kettle corn, yum <3

Isn't he huge!! I put on his seatbelt for him, but he can hardly fit in the car!

home sweet home <3 I didn't think he was that big... and so heavy!
yup that's me, literally still in my bed clothes and everything :P ignore my face

big brother Benjamin sitting in the chair...he's going to have to lose some pounds!
I'll put him on my exercising regime :)

"hello! my name is benjamin! i think you'll be seeing more of me!"

bye everyone! Have a g'day! ^o^

Late Night Indulgences

Hi everyone! It's late, 1:02 am, but I can't go to sleep. My teeth kill because I put my retainer in for the first time in about two months, and I really should be tired because I was exhausted the entire day :P But I digress. Let's see...why have I decided to post something this late, or this early in the morning? Well, I've started to use stumbleupon.com which is a really great internet tool if you are extremely bored, or if you are like me, who just wastes time on the computer..It's like the gps of the internet: it takes you where you want to go and what you want to see :) I've found so many awesome websites through it! You simply mark your interests (I marked a lot of food, recipe, crafts, diy, etc so I'm getting a lot of amazing diys and recipes :) and the "stumbleupon" button takes you to websites that involve your interests! 

Well tonight, or I suppose this early early morning, I've found a really nice food/craft website tonight using stumbleupon and I thought I'd share. The pictures are almost food porn: the gooey chocolate-ness, yummy bread, cinnamon, sigh..I really want some chocolate right now. They're all delicious looking recipes, so if you got the time, go let your inner chef take over and get baking :)

2-min Chocolate Chip Cookie for One

original recipe here!

Literally a cookie in a bowl, late night snack if you will. It looks so good ^o^ As the website explains it, this recipe is perfect for those "I-need-a-cookie-right-now-or-I-die" moments. And all the "baking" pretty much takes place in a bowl!

Double Fudge Chocolate Chip Cookies

recipe: click!

yumyum, they look so soft and chewy~ This recipe combines the double fudge cookie and the original chocolate chip cookie :) The best of the best all in one delicious cookie~ {original, original recipe here from howsweeteats}

Bowtie Cookies: Holiday Cookies!

clickclick

I'm getting a little ahead of myself thinking of Christmas, but these would probably be perfect for the holidays! Just look how sweet and delicious they look. I'm pretty sure that's some jam inside there with powdered sugar sprinkled over it, it just looks so sweet. Definitely going down in my holiday recipe book. 

it IS jam!

Chocolate Pancake Cake

o-r-i-g-i-n-a-l

As the website claims, "this is a very healthy dessert with nearly no calories at all." ....true or not true? Oh, I read on and they say "okay, that's not true...but wouldn't it be awesome if it was?" Yes my friends, yes. That would be extremely awesome. 

Would you eat this for breakfast or desert though? It would be a sweet start to your day!

Cinnamon Sugar Pull-Apart Bread

I'm guessing you know what to do by now..

SO DELICIOUS LOOKING. BREAD <3 The website calls it "a gift from heaven". It LOOKS like a gift from heaven, I bet it tastes even better. I like how it's not in perfect slices; perfect for just tearing at. Plus I think the unevenness adds texture when you eat it. When something is just crumbly and not perfect, it just tastes more delicious, you know? Maybe not. This is probably just confusing. If you make this though, tell me how it tastes! {and mail me some! :D}

5-min Chocolate Mug Cake

sparkles {click!}

Last recipe and last picture of deliciousness. This is probably the best idea ever. A cake in a mug. How innovative could it get? It's like the first recipe: all the baking takes place in a cup. How simple :) A lot of thought was put into this recipe by the maker so I think this is definitely a must do mug-cake. 

Well now that I've given you all the goodies, why not make some of them or just get a snack and watch a movie? It's not the weekend anymore and school may have already started for a lot of you, but maybe on the weekend for just one last time of fun before you get really into the books you can eat merrily and watch a good movie. What movie? This one:

First words you see, "A Great Movie.." and that is so true. I actually just watched this tonight with my brother and dad. It's old, 1999, but it was just so good! Sometimes I think some old movies are somehow better than the ones that come out today. These days producers and writers mainly come up with plot lines full of action in order to draw in a lot of audience, but back then, even the inspirational, "based-on-a-true-story" movies could be successful. October Sky is just really inspiring, especially for someone that has expectations placed upon them yet they want to do what makes them happy, and it's not what is expected. I'll give a brief summary: Homer Hickens (hopefully I spelled it write) lives in town where coal mining is pretty much everyone's occupation. It's a generally small town and everyone becomes a coal miner, except for the few that get out into the world with football scholarships to college. Homer's father is the town boss of the coal mining business and since his older brother received a scholarship, Homer is expected by his father to take to the mining business. Yet Homer wants something more out of his life. This movie takes place during the time when Russia launched Sputnik and the great outer space was beginning to be explored. Homer sees Sputnik race across the sky one night, and his life is changed forever. He now chases after the dream of making rockets to fly and ultimately go to college to perhaps go into space. But what hinders his dream are his father's expectations which expect Homer to stay in the small town and take over the business after his father. This is a truly inspiring story of a young boy chasing after his dream. The main message I got was to follow what you are passionate about and that will lead you to a career with something you love. I still have to find that passion and I hope I do someday soon. I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up. This is definitely a good movie to watch though! I highly recommend it :)

Okay everyone, good night! Time for me to finally go to sleep x) I leave you with the one message below & have a good rest of the week!

bye :)

Links, Olympics, Updates, Randomness. My Life

Hi everyone!! It's been weird today not spending all my time on gmail, pinterest, blogspot, & other random things you can do on the internet :P Instead I was studying hard in my SAT class! ...right... My last post about the handwriting experimente gives you a good idea of what I actually do...didn't get to do any left hand writing today though. Friday is my last class and I'm so happy...I just have to get good scores on the final tests xP The studying and homework is not over -.-

This post will be pretty much fluff :3 Read the fluffiness below ~

(H)PoD:

But for a cheer-me-up, those who don't know what PoD is, it's the Picture of the Day! I found one today online, it wasn't taken by me. Actually it's not really an actual picture at all :3 the H in front of the PoD stands for happy :) So today's picture is going to be a happy picture!!! Here ya go:

some of my favorite things~ coffee & books :)

What makes you happy?

Random Links: 

Humans of New York

This is probably the most interesting photography blog I have ever seen. It is seriously awesome. The photographer/blogger is so creative with his pictures (they're all of people, but some are VERY interesting :) & his captions! His little notes on the bottoms of the pictures make my day :D Here are some of my favorites~

She's just fixin' her melon.

These guys were default league champions because all the other teams forfeited out of fear.

It's tough out there alone.

Let's hope HIS name is Ken, and not his barber's.

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

"May I take your photo? You look beautiful."
"OK, just make sure you can see the bag."
"Oh, I didn't realize you were advertising something."
"Isn't everything beautiful advertising something?"

The painter heard me laughing, and without looking down, said: "Boogie's looking at you sideways, isn't he?"

"You're all going to be famous!"
"Famoso?"
"Famoso!"

I had to stop myself from putting more!! They're all amazing, creative, and funny. All thanks to A Cup of Joe who shared this on her blog :)

Another random link...if you go on this, it will help the world...: FreeRice
If you're bored but still want to be productive, go on this link. It's literally an english quiz, asking you what certain words mean (it's really really easy, ex: penny------answer: cent). And for each question you get right the website will donate 10 grains of rice to the World Hunger Programme to fight world hunger. That's actually a lot more than it sounds because the questions are so easy!!! I got 100,000 grains before I stopped. I didn't even get one wrong...and I was really bored :P Play some!! It'll be one little step in helping the world :)

Olympic News:

Ally Raisman gets the bronze and gold!! So amazing!! She just squeezed in a bronze medal on the beam and performed perfection on the floor :) Her movements were so graceful and effortless. It was probably the best day of her life. 

Update:
Finished my scrapbook of letters!! It turned out way better than I expected and the post will be coming soon!!
Also, I spent yesterday making some origami boxes and things. Some of them were pretty cool (well as cool as boxes can get :) I'll post some tutorials and pictures of them.

Hope you guys are having a good day~ mine's nearly over..just need to go and watch more olympics!! (volleyball!!!)
Be Happy everyone! ✿

Google Hurdles

um..like the coolest thing I have ever seen and played on google?

click here to play!
Don't know if this will be available after August 7th so enjoy it while you can! :D
I got one star, 18.3 s...I'm not good at hurdles :P
What did you get?

Handwriting Experimente

This is what I do in my SAT class:

It's so bad, I should be paying attention to class :P But my hand just seems to wander around the page with a pen and does whatever...Usually it's more pictures and doodles but today my hand felt like practicing my signature and trying to teach my left hand how to write. How did that go? not so well...

While I was doing this though I got this idea in my head...

Happy Rd.

I would LOVE to live on this road...can you imagine?

address: 13 Happy Rd. Tomsville, MA

I would love to write that on forms!

ps. that town is not a real place...not that I know of anyways. I made it up (:

I Need a Book to Read...

Fellow bookworms! Stuck on which book to read next like me? Fear no more, for I bring you THIS awesome website!! If you didn't see the link, go click on it or here's an actual url you can click: http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/ . straight, plain, & simple. Good. now click on it.
It's exactly what it says: "what should i read next"~ hmmmmm well pop in the title of a book you just read or really really liked and BAM. Instant results of what books you'll probably like to read next. Only two steps~ its easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy (:
So go all out, search books like crazy, be a bookworm dawg.

Ps. If you have a book (or bookS!!) to recommend, please tell me! I need to find some books~

readingiscool~grace❤