OMG PANCAKES

I like to consider myself pretty creative and I also believe that necessity is the mother of invention. Today I woke up and had a hankering for pancakes. Not just run of the mill, use the pancake mix pancakes. I needed thick, fluffy, melt in your mouth pancakes. 

So I have lately been interested, like every other 20-something girl it seems, in making basic recipes more healthy. One of the ways to do this are make some substitutions, my favorite example is plain greek yogurt instead of sour cream. Yesterday was also leg day and so today I'm nursing my pain with protein so my first ingredient of amazing pancakes was greek yogurt. I also decided to add a scoop of vanilla protein powder for an extra kick. 

I next couldn't decide between what I wanted in the pancakes. I don't like plain pancakes, that's wrong. The competing flavor were between berries and chocolate, my two true loves. Instead of picking sides I just threw them all together and came up with a combination of blueberries, chocolate chips, and white chocolate chips. I went heavy on the berries and light on the chocolate and it was amazing. 

These pancakes were the most amazing thing I have experienced in all of 2015. The consistency was just what I wanted, even a little gooey which was fine with me. I'm not even good at cooking pancakes, some of them came out a little burnt but that didn't even matter the flavor was just incredible. 

Here's my recipe:

1 cup of pancake batter(box or your own      recipe)

1 cup of greek yogurt-can be any flavor I used black cherry 

1 scoop of vanilla protein powder

1 egg

2/3 cup of water

As many blueberries as you want

Handful of white chocolate chips

Smaller handful of chocolate chips

Cook and enjoy! 

January Blues

Unemployment during the month of January is possibly the worst month of the whole year to be unemployed. It has not been warmer than 25 degrees since the New Year. Our thermostat never goes above 64, and our fireplace only heats one room in the whole house. AKA IM FREEZING ALL DAY EVERY DAY
...I go through wool socks like they are underwear now, and fleece leggings and long johns are my new best friends. This is not a joke people, this is a war on cold. All I want to do is go for a run outside, but I don't think frost bite and hypothermia are worth it...

So on top of the bitter cold dragging me down, I am also having no luck with this job search thing. I'm starting to wonder if this is even the field I want to go in. Everyone keeps trying to give me job search advice and bestow their wisdom on me, but it's getting really annoying actually. So when people ask me how the job searching is going, I try to find a new topic to talk about ASAP.

Part of the problem is the jobs themselves often look for a few to several years of experience, so I dont even qualify for most of them. Secondly, its a competitive field and I'm low on the totem pole, I can't even tell if my resumes are being looked at. The third problem is, people keep telling me that its my time to do anything I want. Well what I want is to be on a boat and follow Orca Whales in their migration and swim with them and love them (basically real life Free Willy) but I have 0 experience in boating, whale research, marine biology sooo why would they hire me at all? Also-those jobs are rare and there is like no chance of me ever finding my way on a whale research boat, unless I start up my own crew. But I'm poor. And have student loans I have to pay off....

I also want to own a house on a beach and be in walking distance of the ocean...im too poor for that also. Or I want to explore space, but I'm not an astronaut.

So I've spent about 2 or 3 weeks on the couch watching Netflix where I finished rewatching the Office, saw all the animal documentaries. I have read 4 books, 2 were great, and 2 were kind of bad but I couldnt put them down. I've slept enough to catch up on all the sleep I missed during my Master's program.  So basically now I am just really bored. This would all be easier if I had more friends who were home, I cant count my friends who are left on one hand, but they all have professions and have started their lives...P. Sawyer from OTH said it first: "people always leave" and its depressing being the one who is left behind. I just need a one-way ticket out of here, unfortunately the ticket needs to have benefits, a rate of pay I can live off of, and hopefully a fun place where I can actually start living. There isn't even a bar around here for me to go to and have a little fun, last night was a Friday...what was I doing? I finished a book and watched a movie with my parents. Who both fell asleep within the first twenty minutes...kewl. Anyways, I'm so bored, I might actually clean the house.

So yeah cold, bored, and lonely...Happy January, the most depressing month of the year. It can only get better from here right?

Adieu to 2014

Phewwww I am glad 2014 is over. What a crazy and stressful year...there were many ups and downs and lots of lessons learned for sure. 

I brought in the New Year with some of my college friends, we call ourselves The Dumps, and we celebrated it in true Dump fashion: with lots of booze and a big party. I was drunk as a skunk on New Years Eve and dead as a door nail on New Years Day. That was a hangover I never want to live again. So my first lesson of 2015 will be to remember I'm not a sophomore in college that can handle a handle of vodka, I'm a classy lady with the tolerance of a toddler. Maybe this year I will learn some self control with alcohol...lolll we'll see. 

Ok so it's a new year...I don't want to be cliche with the whole new year new me thing but 2015 will bring a lot of changes and experiences my way so literally a new me. Now that I have finished my Masters the main task of 2015 will be putting my degree to use and finding a job I can enjoy. I'm searching all over country for a job in my field, except in New York because I am ready for a new state.  I literally don't know where I'll be in 3 months, it's making my life a little hard to plan! But hey I'm ready for it! 

In March I'll be going to Europe with my very best friend. I can't wait it's going to be a trip of a life time. One of the places we are going has a teach English as a Second Language program and I decided that if by the end of our trip I don't have a job and loved where we were I will pursue that path and live in Euorpe for a year. How cool would that be?!!! 

I finally decided a resolution for myself for this year. One of my downfalls is impatience for others and I get pretty grumpy and snappy. I don't like being that way so I'm going to work on my new mantra: kill 'em with kindness. I'm going to be fucking bubbly and happy no matter who bugs me. Putting smiles on bitches faces from 2015.

Here are a few of mah goals for 2015:

1. Smile more

2. Stop beating myself up

3. Do new things and be more adventurous 

4. Learn to love my life

Ok, the end! Best of luck on your own New Years resolutions and goals and may 2015 bring you lots of happiness and good fortune, cheers!