Chocolate is the best breakfast.

Facebook wouldn't let me post anything. I think its partly FireFox/ my computer being stupid. Anyways Steph wanted the recipe for my made up gluten free chocolate protein pancakes so here goes...


Chocolate (Gluten Free & Vegan) Protein Pancakes

1/2 cup Buckwheat flour
1/4 cup Almond flour
1/4 cup Quinoa flour
1/3 cup (approx 1 serving- 1 big scoop) of chocolate protein powder*
2 tbsp cocoa
1 tsp   baking soda

1/2 cup unsweetened apple sauce**
1 1/2 cups almond milk***

Chocolate chips optional :)

Mix all dry ingredients .
Make a well in the centre and add apple sauce and slowly mix in almond milk.
You may need to adjust the amount of almond milk based on the amount of protein powder added.
Batter should be fairly thick.

Cook on a griddle. You can add a bit of oil (1 tbsp) to the batter to make sure it does not stick but on a griddle it wasn't necessary .  Makes approx 8 medium sized pancakes.
Serve with your choice of toppings. Strawberries and coconut milk  are delish! (or top with vegan whipped cream (chocolate covered katie has a couple different recipes))  

*I used Double Chocolate Vegan Protein + (Made by genuine health)
** You could substitute with mashed banana for chocolate banana pancakes
*** Almond milk or any other dairy free milk of choice.


Here is some more info from  Nourishing Flourishing on almond flour is also has a link to a tutorial on how to make it just in case. : )   If you dont have all of those flours I'm sure you can experiment with different ones. I just used what I had on hand. 

Enjoy!

"I can tell that we are going to be friends"

Hi girlies! I approve of this plan to get the blog going again. First of all: I miss you all.

Second: updates... I'm done undergrad now? I finished last semester in August (all of us did because of the co-op schedule)... senior year was pretty busy. I worked at a consulting company for most of first semester, and then had class + Capstone (final design project, the Engineering equivalent of a fourth-year thesis) for the next two. I got my iron ring in July (there's me at the ceremony with my raaang), and finished exams at the end of August, and then convocated three weeks ago. I hated my school portraits (the one they put in the composite) and I wanted to get them re-done on that day, so instead of going to a studio Rebecca hired a photographer to come and do them on campus that afternoon, so some of those pictures are down there.

Wow this post is so narcissistic, I love it. And now, I'm taking a bit of a break and shopping too much and working at the school board tutoring at a few schools (again) and working on my grad school apps, which are due within the next few months and turning into more time and energy than I'd bargained for.

Now... what's going on with you ladies? Twins, are you coming home this Christmas at all?

Autumns here.

According to my planner it is the first day of Autumn today. Of course it is form the US so it could be wrong.. :P

Anyways October makes me want to cry. Lets see..

Sept 21- Biotic Essay - done
Sept 27- Mapping Lab due
Sept 30- Fluvial Lab due
Oct 3- Biotic Lab due
Oct 5- Management Essay Proposal
Oct 11- Mapping Lab
Oct 12- Management Midterm (the class voted in class rather than take home.. why oh whyyy)
Oct 14- Fluvial Lab
Oct 15- Fluvial Field Trip
Oct 17- Biotic Lab
Oct 18-Politics midterm
Oct 20- Fluvial Midterm
Oct 24- Biotic paper and Mapping lab due
Oct 26- Mapping midterm
Oct 28- Biotic Midterm
Nov 4- Management Essay and Fluvial Lab
Nov 7- Mapping Lab
Nov 8- Politics Essay
Nov 11- Biotic Lab
Nov 18- Fluvial Lab
Nov 21-Mapping Lab
Nov 23-Biotic Lab
Nov 28-Mapping Lab
Dec 1- Biotic Paper
Dec 5- *Birthday* Politics Exam
Dec 8- Biotic Exam
Dec 9- Fluvial exam
Dec 10-Management Exam (SATURDAY NIGHT AT 7PM wtf.)
Dec 13-Mapping exam then FREEDOM

Not to mention the endless readings. One of the fluvial readings I have yet to start is 100 pages- and thats just ONE reading.

Hope everyone is having a lovely Autumn day. Its raining and miserable here.

Posted Without Comment

Except to say that November makes me want to cry.

steering towards failure...

I don't like driving. Plain and simple driving is stupid and driving instructors are really mean. AND driving lessons are way to expensive to be yelled at a lot. Anyways Im off to do a driving lesson in like 10 mins. Fun. I can't say I'm excited. I will update you all on how it went.. (Oh and my instructors keep saying I should practice in between lessons... if they are willing to give me a car sure thing I will practice.. but otherwise nice try.. its not like I can go to windsor to use my parents cars.)

Lame.

***update***
Emergency manouvers = not bad. Note to self do not run over pylones over. Especially when they have names. People may get upset despite them just being pylons. Really. Who names pylons?!

Anywho I don't have another lesson until Saturday, and I don't have class until 4, so I have time to relax and maybe make cookies. Oh and my class is with Kira :) yay! At least I won't be entirely bored in Environmental Politics and Governance.

well i cant really make my schedule appear here so im going to type it out and it will probably be very confusing. luckily tuesday/thursday and mon/wed/fri are basically the same so whatever.

Monday: 1130-1230 exercise nutrition, 1230-130 movement neuroscience, 230-330 olympic issues for modern times

Tuesday: 1130-130 sport in literature

wednesday = monday

thursday: 1130-1230 sport in lit

friday = monday

weeooooo excitement. second semester changes completely but i'm actually basically done at the same time every day as in first semester.

sooooo i have basically done a whole lot of nothing this summer. its been boring. and dramatic with the whole "lets be assholes and sign people to a year long lease and then sell the house 4 months in and also not notify our tenants about anything thats going on or how its progressing" funtimes that my landlords pulled. we now have a new landlord who im hoping is a hilarious asian lady (it is definitely an asian lady, that is not just wishful thinking.) and hopefully everything is all sorted. 2 of my roommates from before are gone because they graduated and we did get one new one but we're still looking for a fourth. that is basically all that has occurred. heaz i knew you would get addicted to arrested development, its kind of impossible not to. youre welcome for that.

peace out.

What have 12 legs, six eyes, three tails and can't see?

(three blind mice)

I was sitting home alone the other night (the one with the big storm), and I saw something scamper across the living room. I wondered if Buttons had some how escaped, but unfortunately it was a mouse (thank fully only one and not three). I then spent the next half an hour trying to catch the mouse but he was a tricky little guy and kept hiding under things, until he ran for it and disappeared to I don’t know where.

At least he was kinda cute?

So I haven’t really seen any of you recently so I will update you with my life…

Kristen and Sarah my lovely roommates :)

This is the necklace I helped make for Kristen. This was after she luckily was home to call 911 when my hand exploded. She kinda saved my life.

 

 

 

 

   <---- Blood. Everywhere. From the one cm hole in my hand.

 

Then there was a lovely month spent going to Toronto M-F. EVERY WEEK DAY. I didn’t get to spend much time doing anything fun. But I did spend a lot of time watching Ellen.

<--- I spent a lot of time in here. Like an hour and a half every day.  They had REALLY ugly scrubs. But I wasn’t allowed to where my normal clothes so I put up with the gross coloured scrubs every day.

I also went to Niagara-on-the Lake. I think that was in May. Either way the weather wasn’t the greatest.  You can see a lovely view of the falls in the picture below (with Brandon and his family).

 

We still had lots of fun, and drank lots of wine. I think we went to 32 different wineries. We should all plan a trip to go on a wine tour. It would be lots of fun!

 

 

 

 

 

Me and Brandon headed up to Ottawa for Canada Day.

We did not see the Royals. I didn’t really care. We did however go to the beach the next day.

I haven’t done anything else really exciting this summer. I have worked quite a bit.. I’m looking forward to going back to school. I will be restarting third year but I’m ok with that.

I’m going to be pretty busy as you can see by my schedule.

This post is getting far too long, there is an update from my life. It would be great for all of us to stay in touch more. I am not the best at keeping in touch but I will try.  Also Emsly thanks for getting me addicted to Arrested Development. I may be half way through Season Two. :)    Love you guys! 

-heaz

The Drought is Over!!!

So as I said on Facebook, I was feeling nostalgic and came on here...and discovered that Heather and Emily BOTH posted in 2011. We keep reaching out and missing, so I really do think it's time to start this up again. I will start by saying that I had a FABULOUS time in PEI, and thank you Steph for showing Tom and I around Charlottetown. It was so nice to see you after...three years. I think that's how long we decided it had been. I also forget how to add photos and make a new line and stuff (cuz "Enter" is too easy). So. This may be aesthetically unpleasing. Ok so summer was great, but now there are only TWO WEEKS left until I'm done with Campbell. I'm going to be sad not to see Campbell anymore because I mean, come on, look at her. Who doesn't want these chubby cheeks in their life???

I start school in three weeks, so I have one full week off (September 3-11) to hang out with my new roomies and get organized! I'm so excited about school, it's ridiculous. Please note that my schedule is clear and free of SWIMMING!!!!!!! YUSS!! I think that's probably the main reason why I'm so looking forward to this year - no swimming, ergo no obligation(s). I get to do anything I want, at any TIME I want (no more 9:30 bedtimes, so maybe I'll ACTUALLY get to talk to y'all). Admittedly, I think I'm starting to miss it. I get a little sad when I see my teammates gearing up for another year, but when I weigh the pros and cons, I know I'm better off without it.

So, full course load. First time in over two years, so I'm a bit anxious. I'm really looking forward to all of my courses though! My seminars are: Girls, Women and Popular Culture (badass) and Staging Politics (not sure, but I LOVE the prof). The other three courses are: Literary Theory (ew), Writers of the Middle Ages (not sure), and Canadian Women Writers (hopefully also badass). Five courses this term, one (online) next term and then I'm fucking DONE YESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!

How about you and you and you????

Hello my lovelys

Hello. I basically want to say that i love and miss you all. We should really keep in touch love--- heaz.

holla y'all.

hello hello

I've decided everyone needs to start blogging on here again. It was easier to keep in touch. That is all. -heaz

Yeah, it is too bad. Heh. Who knows when you'll see this.

heyoo

So.. I realize that none of you probably go on here anymore.. but I just wanted to say I miss you guys.. <3

Wintaaa 2010

Sup hos. I finally got my work schedule sorted. That last bit on the Friday isn't directed towards you, it's for my family, haha. Hucal/Emsly, I can't freaking wait to see you this weekend; Twinnies, I'm going to miss you SO much and I wish you were coming!

Winter 2010 Schedule

Happy New Year! Here is my new schedule for Winter 2010. I hope this year is a good one. :)

This Shit is Hilarious, Read Them All!!

http://1000awesomethings.com/the-top-1000/

Things you probably did not know, or need to know, but now know

Class-related things are smaller, because they are less important, but still included because they are also sadly still a big part of my life.

• Started at Bellewood this week; significantly better-organized than last year. Children may also be slower. Two of them asked me how to spell "aussi!" It really upset me!!!
• I'm listening to Christmas music right now.
• Last midterm is on Tuesday (DIRRRRRRRT). It probably won't go very well. Instead of studying this weekend I went shopping (and eating) in the States, shopping here, and am playing sawkker tonight.
• Presentation for my Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics project, "Diffusion and Dispersion in Natural Flow Systems," on Wednesday. Jamie, Ian and I fought a lot during this one. We all ganged up on each other.
• Going to Londontown to see Emily on Friday afternoon!
• University of Windsor Engineering Design Competition is on Saturday. Should be a blasty-blast.
• Planning and Construction Management project #2, in which we're supposed to estimate the total cost of the new Engineering building at the U, is due a week before exams start. That is going to end in tears. Not because we have a lot to do or anything, but because we're horrible at projects. We get together to do them at one of our houses, and end up watching four hours of Parking Wars or A Knight's Tale on DIVA or talking about how awkward it is when girls cry in front of boys (I'm planning on doing this to them really soon). It's just bad news.
• Handed in our Planning and Construction Management project #1 on Monday. Took us like weeks to put it together, I spent eight and a half hours formatting it, it was like, forty pages long... and the old man took less than 24 hours to mark them. We're pretty confident that he didn't even read any of them, he just weighed them.
• Exam schedule will be up laters! I have one I need to reschedule with the prof because it's on a Sunday.

A demain, cheries!

Pool's Opening, Bitches

Before and After. You cannot deny the glory that is the new pool. The pool repairs are what have kept me happy these past few weeks. Again, it's just amazing that we did this. My team made those repairs happen. Laurier, Waterloo, the Region, would not have a facility RIGHT now if we hadn't acted. It's kind of surreal to think about. We are due to be in tomorrow morning. The health inspection is today at 1:00pm, and if all goes well, 5:30am practice on Thursday, November 5th, 2009. I'm SO EXCITED to be back in our own fucking pool. Looking awesome, oui? Edit: We will be in on Friday. The blocks and bulkhead are not complete. Could be worse, but still depressing.

I don't get it.

Heather I don't understand that video. And that stupid song always plays at work. I hate my work soundtrack. I can't escape it - it's everywhere I go! I have a research methods midterm today. Should be awesome. I had an English midterm on Tuesday night. It was multiple choice. Why did I get a multiple choice midterm for a third year ENGLISH course? It's rhetorical, don't answer that. I hate that I go to class, I get lectured on a bunch of bullshit, and then I don't get tested on it. It was fact based. Here’s an idea: How about I re-start and NOT pay for the course, read the books on my own time, and learn the same amount. Don’t waste my time and my money. And it's not just that course, either. I hate school. Also, has anyone else noticed the exponential increase in stupidity? I can't STAND listening to people talk in class anymore. Don't regurgitate Wikipedia, and don't do it to sound smart. Don't reference things you heard in the hallway, because they are probably wrong. And don't quote comedians because you think you're hilarious. You're not. Shut up. Have you ever done a peer review? Me either. Do you know why? Because all you would do is read the first sentence, laugh, shred the paper and give up on life. Why can’t you use an apostrophe properly? Why do you get confused by ‘your’ and ‘you’re’? Why do you feel the need to use the word ‘like’ every two words? And why do you form all your sentences into questions, insisting on an upward inflection? I don’t get it. Hey, remember that time in grade twelve when I was like, “I don’t want to go to University,” and then I went because someone convinced me it would be a good idea? Remember that manipulation? Remember how I knew I would hate it and burn out, oh, halfway through? It’s happening! Right now! Listen to yourself, folks. If you think you’ll hate something, you’re probably right. Block out everyone and everything else. Know what you want. You know what I want? To not be in school. I’m not being crazy. Don’t ask me, "but Amy, however will you pay for life if you do not have a career that you got by a beneficial and fulfilling university education?" because that’s not the point. I NEVER wanted this. Ever. So why the hell am I wasting my time? Why do I have to plough through for the sake of getting it done? Why do I "NEED" an education, right now? Why do we let people tell us the stages in which things need to be completed? It's not a linear process. I should love this. WE should love this. I should be allowed to take a course here and a course there, without penalty. I should be able to take one, two, three years off whenever it pleases me. I should be able to move on with my life, get married, not get married, have kids, not have kids, and NOT have to worry about anything. Especially school. I can do it anytime. School is something WE CAN DO /ANY/ TIME. So why do we let it happen? Why am I going to look back on all of my schooling and say, "Thank goodness that's over. I hated it." Why is that process emphasized and supported? I don’t get it.

Lisztomania!!!

You must watch. That is all.