April 2014

I am gonna get real with you now and speak some truths. Social media is a great communicative tool but it is also the worst thing man has invented. One too many times I have found myself feeling "upset" or "annoyed", to some extent, due to internetty things. I woke-up one morning to discover, to my horror, that I had lost 12 instagram followers over night! I was in shock. I was anxious. I was like "WHAT HAVE I DONE WRONG?!" After a good few minutes of searching through my list of followers I slowly calmed down. I remembered real life. I remembered nature and animals. Most importantly, I remembered enjoying food in real life and how a picture of food is NOTHING in comparison. As if I got upset that a number decreased. In the real world, what does that even mean?! Is the number of instagram followers I have going to define my life? HELLZ NO!

As you can imagine, the final few weeks, of my final year of uni, leading up to my final exams is pretty darn stressful. I think the only reason I am not a complete ball of stress right now is because I have been there and done that. 2nd year of uni I went off the stress scale, getting to a point where I couldn't actually do any work, because I was too stressed, which actually stressed me out even more. So how do I deal with the stress?

I was thinking back to my childhood to try figure out when I got into cooking/baking. I remember when I was a teeny tot, I used to take discarded bits of vegetable,s such as onion skins, stick them into a bowl and make a "concoction", adding ketchup and other such condiments that I could get my hands on. I would sit on the floor, mixing together the ingredients in my Pocahontas plastic bowl, thoroughly enjoying myself! My cooking methods haven't changed all that much, nowadays I tend to use the parts of vegetables you can actually eat though!