A positive outlook will get you far

I had a shit day yesterday.

Thought I would get the negative stuff out of the way first! It was a bad day, I won't go into it, just trust me that it was bad. It was however, followed by a very pleasant evening of food, films and friends :)

I had two options with regards to my bad day, sulk, dwell on it and let it ruin my week or get over. I did the first one for a few hours before realising that by doing so I was 'letting the bad guys win', so picked myself up and got on with it. 

Today I decided recycle yesterdays bad energy and put it to good use. So I completed my PGCE application form and have sent it off! Just have to keep my fingers crossed for an interview now! After I post this I am going to get on with the mind map I have decided to create. I am going to start a scrap book to help me visualise all the things that I want to achieve this year. That way, when things don't go to plan I can take a look at it, remember the end goal and get back on track. 

There are so many things that I want to do this year on top of the things I am already doing. There's my trip to Magaluf with the girls to look forward to first. Then there's my wedding-the result of 18 months of planning, and honeymoon which I am sure will be the highlight of the year. 

I am hoping to get a place on the PGCE course I have applied for, and get some teaching work in the meantime and hopefully clear my debt and start some savings. 

There are lots of things to look forward to and a positive attitude is the best weapon I have i the fight to getting it. Sometimes it is so hard to remember to be positive but that is my biggest task of all for this year. x

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12 things I have learnt this week...

The things I have learnt this week include the following:


1. Just because more things go wrong than right doesn't necessarily mean it is a bad day


2. This also works in the reverse, as good things still happen on shitty days


3. When you have good friends and good family not a lot else really matters


4. It is possible to eat TOO MUCH fruit-ulcers and stomach ache ouch!


5. You can't please everyone. You can try, but be prepared to fail.


6. If you go 'on a diet' you end up 'treating' yourself for being 'so good' and actually eat more junk than you would have if not on said 'diet'


7. No matter how much you know you should go to the gym, and how determined you were the night before, its unlikely you will go at the crack of dawn on a Saturday!


8. Newspapers will do almost anything for a story


9. Be prepared to go above and beyond for a friend in need because you never know when you might really need them


10. Sometimes you have to give up the things you have wanted for a long time to prioritise the things you now know to be more important


11. No matter how busy you think you are someone will be busier than you! (Usually Alice!)


12. Sometimes even the happiest news can still make you feel sad but a smile from the right person will brighten up your day.




You really do learn something new everyday! Oh, and I also learnt how NOT to make cream cheese frosting....but the cake tasted absolutely delicious anyway!!

Beat the eggs, not your husband!!

My friend and I have tonight been attempting to bake a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. It was the first time that either of us had made cream cheese icing and the first time I had made carrot cake. 


I love baking, its fun. It also really de-stresses me. It is what I do to relax if I have had a particularly hard week. Beating the eggs, creaming the butter and sugar together, getting those arm muscles going as you mix in the flour-it really calms me down, and by the time the cake is in the oven I feel like I can sit back and chill out. The boyfriend doesn't exactly mind my baking either...It means I take my anger out on the ingredients not him, and bonus! He gets to eat the results too. 


This being the first attempt at tricky cream cheese frosting it didn't go exactly to plan first time-especially as I don't own electric whisks so usually do everything by hand. There was just no way it was all going to combine in that tiny bowl so, drastic times calling for drastic measures, out came the liquidiser and in went the now mashed up ingredients. A few whizzes in the liquidiser and we had some very runny cream cheese on our hands.


This needed to be corrected, preferably without having to start over. I consulted the many baking forums on the internet and now feel like I know everything there is to know about cream cheese. For instance, did you know that English cream cheese has more water than the US or Aussie varieties, so you need to firm it up in the fridge. Also, American icing sugar has cornflour in it so their frosting ends up thicker too.


So now you also know almost everything there is to know about cream cheese frosting too. I'll let you know how the cake tastes once I've scoffed it all in a sec!
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lalalalalaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

It is moments like this that I realise I shouldn't take everything so seriously, and that sometimes its better to sit back and enjoy the ride....


Yesterday was a bad day. From the moment I woke up after a turbulent nights sleep the day was bad bad bad. One thing after another went wrong and problems popped up left, right and centre with no solution in sight. I felt stressed, I felt upset, I felt panicked. The world was not a good place to be....


A cheeky glass of wine before bed and I slept like a baby, and today the world seems full of joy and light. I have had a complete transformation of outlook. Solutions to yesterday's problems pop in to my brain from nowhere, the bad things that happened yesterday appear trivial and I can see the good times in sight just around the corner.


The point I am (very badly) trying to make is that life is what you make it. If you take everything to heart and make mountains out of mole hills then you will be miserable. Sometimes it is possible to be trying TOO HARD! Just relax, don't let the moment pass you by and when you wake up in the morning, things might not look quite as bad as they seemed. :)


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Band of the day

Check out my Band of the day blog on the Propaganda website....


http://thepropagandamag.com/articles/band-day-clement-marfo-frontline


Enjoy!

back to school...?

It's like being 18 again. The personal statement, listing your GCSE grades, deciding which course is right for you and where you're going to apply....back then it was on UCAS, this time round I'm.doing it all on GTTR.




I am currently in the process of applying for a post-graduate course and the application process is just as scary as the first time around! In fact, I think this maybe even more so as I have no one to help me this time!




At 18 all of my peer group were applying for uni so there were people I could discuss the application process with. On top of that there was the help and support of our tutors and specialist carters staff to guide us through! Now its just me, hoping for the best! Eeeek!!!