Yours truly

Where I work, the walls of the building are so thick, that I don't get signal on my cell phone when I'm in my office.

But for some odd reason, I get some while I'm in the bathroom...

Today, I was bored, waiting for an important text message from my sister while on my break, so, I snapped away.

I realized I'd never really posted pictures of me on Gossip Candy, so, here you go!

Yours truly!




Just being silly~

Cupcakes for the soul

Last weekend, Dan and I were driving around town without purpose and stumbled upon this little cupcake shop called "Isobel". The display for the store was pink, so it was I who spotted it, of course :) (I later found they have a website: http://www.isobelandco.com/home.php )

2.50$ for a cupcake is not what I would pay every day, but boy oh boy was that 2.50$ well spent on this one cupcake.

They seemed to have special boxes and prices, if you bought a certain amount it came down cheaper by the single cupcake, but I wasn't sure what I was getting myself into, so we only got one each.





All of their cupcakes have filling. Chocolate banana (mine!) on the left and lemon orange on the right. (Pictures with flash above, and without below.)





I did not taste lemon orange, of course Dan being his usual self would not share :P But the Chocolate banana was... well it was literally to die for! SO AMAZINGLY DELICIOUS!!

All made of chocolate with a custard like cream in the middle that tasted like a fresh banana! SO GOOD!!!! <3

I'll definitely be going back :3

New bling bling

This weekend my sunglasses broke in half, literally. I don't know what happened, they were in my purse, I grabbed them to put them on while I was in the car and they were broken in half. I'd had them for 2 years, so I guess it was their time to go.

So that meant SHOPPING! For new sunglasses.

This little kiosk at my favorite mall had a special, buy one pair and get another one for free! Right on!

I saw these guys and totally fell in love!





They're purple on the inside!!

I couldn't find another pair I loved as much, so the girl suggested I could get the same pair in a different color. The other colors were brown and dark red, which I didn't really care for. I was looking at a different pair that had a white frame and she said, "I got those ones in white too!"

YAY! +w+!!! Bling bling!




Their cases were only 6$, I already had one from my previous glasses, but now that I have two pairs, I figured I'd buy an extra one. They had the perfect one for me. PINK!




I was bummed my glasses broke, but now I'm totally happy they did! I love these ones so much better! I hope it's sunny all week so that I can show them off! Teehee~

What do you think? Like the rhinestones, or is that too much for you?

Chocolate mousse... in a box!

A little over a week ago, I had a friend coming over for dinner. A friend I hadn't seen in a long time, so I went all out... ON DESSERT!

I had this box laying around for a while and finally decided to put it to good use.



"Chocolate Royale"

The box claims it only takes 10 minutes to make. I didn't time it, but I'm pretty sure it took me more than 10 minutes since I was pausing and taking pictures of everything.

Basically, in the box, you have 3 bags, for 3 layers in the mousse. First, you take a square plate and grease it up!



Then, put the content of the 1st bag, in a bowl. And melt one cup of butter or margarine.



You should keep 1 spoonful of the crushed cookies (they don't say what it is, but it looked a lot like very well crushed oreo cookies to me). I used a big spoon, to later realize I'd only needed to keep a small one. This is for decorating at the end.

Mix the crushed cookies with the melted margarine until it's sticky. Tightly press all of the content at the bottom of the greased plate.



I used a fork, I found that's what was easiest to work with. Then, put in the fridge while you make the other layers.



Next step. Put the content of the 2nd package in a big bowl with 1 cup of cold milk. This package contented light brown powder. Smelled a little like chocolate.



Beat everything together on low for 2 minutes. And then on high for 3 minutes. The end result:



Apply on top of the crushed cookie layer. I used a spatula. Put back into the fridge.



Then on with the last layer. The 3rd and final package into a bowl, with 3/4 cup of cold milk. This powder looked the same as the previous one, but was much lighter.



I used the same bowl. Will be faster to clean afterwards :3 Beat on high for 2-3 minutes.



Apply on top of previous layers.



Last step! Remember that spoonful of crushed cookies? Sprinkle on top!



Put in the fridge for at least 1 hour. Then it's ready to serve!





Deliciouuusss~

Resident Evil: Afterlife

This past weekend I saw Resident Evil: Afterlife.


I've been waiting for it for a very long long time! I'm a big Resident Evil movie fan. I never played the games, and I never intend to. I'll watch my friends play, but I'll never play. Plans for me to have a heart attack and die. Anyway.

I really liked it! I like all of the Resident Evil movies. I love horror, suspense and zombies. Which this movie has, all of it. I noticed the reviews online are quite mixed, people either love it or hate it.

I do have to admit that the focus was put on the special effects that go with the 3D. If you want a deep storyline with characters that develop on many level, Afterlife will not deliver for you. It's about beautiful people fighting off monsters. Lots of guns, fights, special effects, blood, etc.


RE: Afterlife is the continuation of Extinction, 6 months later to be exact. Alice wants to finish all of this by finding and rescuing her friends and other survivors, as well as destroying Albert Wesker, whom was seen in the last scene of Extinction, hiding in his Tokyo Umbrella Headquarters.

They are bringing back a few characters and putting in new ones. New zombies, new creatures, new mutations. A whole bundle of fun!



But what I liked the most was the music! That movie has some REAL epic music! I was so amazed, through out the ENTIRE film, I wanted to take out my guitar (imaginary) and start rocking out on stage. No joke. Really good music!

A lot of the special effects reminded me of Matrix. And the big Axeman guy you see in the trailer (or as they call him on Wikipedia "The Executioner") reminded me a lot of Pyramid Head from Silent Hill.

But I found my heart pouding through out the whole movie, and I jumped in my seat several times too.



All in all, I give this movie 4.5/5. .5 missing because I wished it'd ended a bit differently. But overall Resident Evil: Afterlife was very good and entertaining. Definitely getting this on Blu-ray when it comes out!