The Ten Commandments of Procrastibaking

I think today is definitely one of those ugh days. 

I mean, it was fine. Nothing special, but nothing very exciting either. Maybe it's because it's almost August. Maybe because I'm about to go back to school in 20 days. Maybe it's because my birthday is Sunday and I feel terrified of beginning a new decade in my life. Or maybe it's because I'm in withdrawal from a two-day long writer's high. I dunno. 

Gosh, I hate being a girl sometimes. It makes me so damn moody. 

So...the Ten Commandments of Procrastibaking:

Or you could try Pusheen's way.

Procrastibaking, according to Urban Dictionary, is really what it sounds like. It's what a compulsive, passionate baker does when they don't want to do whatever they're really supposed to be doing. I stumbled upon this term a few months ago and I knew, as soon as I read it, that I was one of these guilty bakers. Who probably should not have made those 20 banana bread muffins at 10 o'clock the night before her Biochemistry test. But in my defense, everyone needs hobbies right? Especially college students. They have it the worst. At my school, you'd probably need to go to an insane asylum just to catch your breath and mentally recover from a really grueling week.

Point aside, whether you are a procrastibaker or just a person wanting to satisfy your midnight heroin-like craving for chocolate chip cookies, there are still a few rules to baking that you need to observe. 

(In hindsight, I really should change my title to just "the Ten Commandments of Baking" because technically there is no difference between the two, other than the fact that one is slightly bad and the other one not)

Lessons Learned from English Class

Day 2 of blogging and all is going well (except my studying). Yesterday was a very exciting day for me as I had a magical epiphany about baking that somehow came together into a Treatise on Macarons (see below). 

On a different topic this fine day, I was sitting in my yard trying to concentrate on practice problems when I had another slew of inspirational thoughts come to me about future blogging ideas/things I would most definitely write about in the future. And one thing I have picked up so far in my short life is that when inspiration hits you, you don't let go. Ever. Because it's like that perfect piece of clothing you find at the mall. If you don't buy it, you will probably never find it again. 

3 pages of bullet points later, I also realized several things:

1. How am I going to have enough time to do this?
2. Whatever, this is going to be awesome!
3. I think some of these ideas stray a tad too far from baking/cooking.
4. Oh well, that's okay! I did say this was going to be about baking and random epiphanies about life.
5. Now...what to blog on today?

A (unrefined) Treatise on Macarons

So. I will confess. I did not intend to post more than once today but I have to admit that the only reason I started this again was because this summer I had absolutely nothing to do except study for this dreadful standardized test that will probably drain away my life and soul in two weeks and waste time on the internet. So I went and looked for foods online that I really really wanted to try to make once I got back to school. This included not only food blogs but also wish-list shopping on Amazon, FN.net videos, countless Youtube tutorials. Yup, I'm pretty desperate.

In my many wanderings I discovered macarons and immediately I knew I wanted to make them. But I was stuck at home, with no baking supplies and very unsupportive parents, so resigned, I waited it out on my macaron ambitions until today when I finally cracked, said "screw you" to my review books, and wrote this stupid thing on macarons. Actually I think it's kinda awesome. It's what I've surmised about macarons after two months of leisurely internet surfing and I think it's pretty entertaining to read. Note though that it's not really about recipes or flavor suggestions but mostly about really what a macaron is and what it means to people. And I apologize for many parentheses. I like making self-comments on stuff I write.

Warning: it's long and if you're not interested in macarons than forget it; go read something else.

The Brownies That Started It All...

First blog post yay! (If anybody reads this things haha...)

Nothing much to say other than "Hello, stranger!" from me (and also my favorite stuffed animals)! I hope you will enjoy what I have planned for this second blog attempt. For more info on me, please read the side description -->

This blog will not be just on baking/food but will also be about random things that happen in my life that I feel I should record for...unknown future purposes. I hope it will be as enlightening and constructive for you as it is sanity-saving for me. I'm sorry, but I don't handle college very well. The anxiety gets to me.

Having said that, for the record, I am an entirely normally human being and I love baking for my friends and family. I only started the summer of my sophomore year and have been baking consistently + food porn researching only for the past 12 months. I am still only a beginner and hopefully going through with this blog will make me a less amateur baker.