so lying around on a Sunday afternoon at home, i see this crazy ad for a crazy thing you’re supposed to wear while other human’s exist on earth ..
ok, some of the examples, the girls look semi-normal but most of the photo examples – woah. maybe i’m just realllly not into big hair.
this one – i’m a bit more suckered into – the Shamwow.. probably because i know what it takes to clean up a mess and my gosh, absorbency would make my day alot faster.. i’m such a mum. and a neat freak. (not really).
last but not least, the Ab Circle Pro.. again, i’m not sure that i want to pay someone to make me look silly… surely there has to be a better way to tighten my post-pregnancy abs? lol.
I ended up buying the HTC Hero to replace my older mobile phone – and it’s been a good experience with it so far!
I’ll make a proper post once I’ve spent a couple of weeks playing with all the features and using it properly, but so far I love the Twitter widget (Peep), love that it shows the weather straight up (I’m a bit of a weather geek..), love the 5MP camera (as opposed to my old 1MP), love the WiFi, love the browser, love the calender, love the easy access to things…. and it’s not bad looking too, really slick graphics.
As I mentioned before, I didn’t really want to spend that much, but given the fact we don’t upgrade our phones often and we’ve been saving our butts off this year – I wanted to do it right. I think we got it right!
Let me know your thoughts about it, and if you’ve got one aswell!
p.s. yes I did buy this as a grey import – it’s not widely available in Australia yet (unlocked), but I’ve heard that they will be available outright in December
i know i’m supposed to be trying to lose weight.. but i couldn’t help but whip these up yesterday while i was home with the kids.. these are amazing!!
220g dark chocolate, chopped
60g unsalted butter, chopped
1 cup (150g) plain flour (I’ve used gluten free, but you can use regular)
1/2 tsp baking powder
a pinch of salt
2 eggs
3/4 cup caster sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
1/3 cup (55g) icing sugar
1) Melt the chocolate and butter in a heatproof bowl over a pan of simmering water and stir until smooth. Let it cool a bit.
2) In a seperate bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and salt.
3) In another seperate bowl (blahh the washing up!), beat the eggs and caster sugar with an electric mixer until pale. Add chocolate and vanilla. Mix. Add flour mixture. Mix.
4) Cover bowl and leave in the fridge for 45 minutes.
5) Preheat the oven to 160c
6) Line baking trays with baking paper.
7) Put the icing sugar into a small bowl
8 ) Take a heaped teaspoon of the cookie mixture and roll into a ball.
9) Roll it in the icing sugar and then place on the tray.
10) Flatten it with your hand and then repeat steps 8 & 9
11) Bake for 15 minutes
12) Let the cookies cool a bit and then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
YOU’RE WELCOME! 😛
