The reason I haven't blogged in over a month is because nothing really interesting happened in my life and/or I couldn't think of an interesting topic. My life has pretty much been overtaken by school and school related activities. The time I do get to jump on the computer isn't that often.
If I do get that chance for a couple hours of time on the computer, I'll spend it either in Espresso or Photoshop. I'm usually working on the new layout (which I totally love) which will go up eventually, or on my soon to be CMS. It gets too confusing trying to work with three sets of basically the same code!
That being said, my school life (LOL, did I really just say that?) has gotten so much better. It's 200x better than what it was. I now have betters teachers and a free first period. That first period is almost always spent in my AP teacher's room doing homework or just sitting there talking with him or someone in the room. Everything is getting better, we're just getting a lot more homework which is excepted. 
If this post isn't random enough, here are a couple things I really want to get but don't want to spend my money on because I want my 17" MBP so bad.
Yup. That would set me back quite a bit.
The true behind this entry was so that I could show you I was still alive, but had nothing good to blog about. 
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After discovering smitten kitchen, I went through the archives of recipes to find one that I really wanted to try, and that didn't require me to buy/use too many tools or ingredients. I decided to make the best chocolate pudding which seemed really easy and I only needed to buy the chocolate and whole milk.
The recipe says to heat the mixture over a double boiler for 15 to 20 minutes. Now, I don't know about you, but what I call a double boiler is a heat-proof bowl on top of a pot with some water in it. That's pretty much what I've seen every Food Network person using as a "double boiler". I swear as heck aren't going to go out and spend $40+ on a pot-inside-a-pot.
After I stirred/whisked the mixture of cornstarch, sugar, salt, and milk for 17 minutes, I thought I'd let it go to the 20 minutes mark. At 20 minutes, it was still watery. I was thinking, "great, now I'm going to have chocolate soup instead of pudding."
I then changed the pot of water I was using to something bigger so the bowl would sit lower to the water (therefore receiving more heat). After another 10 minutes of stirring and still the same watery mixture sitting in front of me, I decided (after my mother kept telling me to do this) that I should just put the mixture straight into the pot and stir that.
Five minutes later and the mixture was thickening like it should have been 15 minutes ago. Another 15 minutes of stirring and it was finally time to take it off the heat, add the vanilla, and pop it into the fridge. As I was going to put the vanilla away, I hit the pepper grinder into the bowl of chocolaty goodness. I had to pull the stupid thing out of the 100+ degree bowl of chocolate and then rinse it off. I then had to take the pepper out of the bowl before it sunk.
This chocolate pudding recipe took me 50 minutes to finish, not including the time it took to add and remove my "secret ingredient". It was supposed to take me 20 minutes tops. However, the little bit of pudding I tasted, tasted REALLY good. I might have to try this once more (seeing as how I still have 6oz of chocolate left) if this batch comes out tasting the same, if not better, than what I tasted.
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