New social media!

Up until this weekend, I was thoroughly confused by this new fad "Vine". It's a new form of social media that allows you to take videos adding up to 20 seconds, for one large but short video montage.

I downloaded it and was definitely doing something wrong right away. My videos can be best described as an epileptic's nightmare. I wasn't holding down my finger for long enough and I thought that since the video was fast, everything happening also had to be fast. The product was not good.

Eventually one of my roommates realized what I was doing wrong and taught me how to make much better videos.

I feel like this trend is normal for social media though. No one really knows what they're doing right away and then you get used to it! It starts to come so easily that you wonder how you ever didn't get it. Know what I mean?

What new social media have you tried lately? Anything worth joining?! Help a sista out!

Happy Monday everyone! Be productive and look forward to the nice weather we're supposed to have this weekend!

The search for the perfect cookie..

You may or may not know this by now, but I really like to bake. My COM 400 group was holding a focus group, so I was first to volunteer to bake for the group.

As much as I love to bake, I'm really picky about what recipes I'll use. My theory is is that if you don't want another piece of whatever you just ate, you didn't make it right. That being said, I've never found a cookie recipe that I was over the moon about.

At the risk of sounding like a housewife, I've been searching for the perfect cookie recipe. I think I found one that will hold me over until that day comes.

I searched via Google for a chocolate chip cookie recipe and stumbled upon the Nestle Tollhouse website. I decided to go with this recipe, apparently known as the Original chocolate chip cookie.

The dough was delicious. It was a little salty, so I was worried that the cookies would come out that way too, but they turned out fine. All I had on hand was mini-chocolate chips, so I added them 1/2 cup at a time. Turns out, 1 1/2 cups of those was just enough, rather than the 2 cups of regular sized chips.

I also decided to omit the nuts that the recipe called for. I was afraid that people would be allergic and have nothing to snack on at the focus group!

The recipe says that it yields 60 cookies, but as you can see from the picture, I tend to make larger cookies that most people. I got 45 cookies out of this recipe, and they were all gone at the end of the focus group!

I hope you all had a great weekend! I know I did. :)

The final stretch.

Graduation is only 1 month and 8 days away. So naturally part of me is panicking, part of me is hysterical, and the other part of me is just going to have as much fun as possible until I find an actual job.

Luckily, there is a ton to look forward to from here until the end of the semester!

This weekend is parent's weekend and I can't wait. My parents are bringing my dog down to Peoria with them and we're going to see my brother's off campus house for next year while they're here. Hopefully it's nice out too, because we were planning on grilling out!

This little girl is making her way to Peoria this weekend!

The following weekend is my boyfriend's fraternity's formal. We're going to Grizzly Jack's Grand Bear Resort in Utica, Illinois. It's the same place we went last year, but we get to spend an extra day and night there this year. The villas are awesome and I can't wait to spend all weekend with a great group of people. 

The rest of the semester includes my sorority's karaoke themed date party, senior send-off activities, senior walk, and of course graduation. I'm really excited and looking forward to everything the rest of the semester has to offer!

On a completely unrelated note, I met up with two of my friends from my floor freshman year. We went to One World Cafe in Peoria and I had some of the best falafel I've ever tried.

When I worked at Subway, we had falafel as a specialty sandwich and they haven't brought it back since then. I've been craving it like CRAZY lately so I was so excited to see this on the menu when we went out to eat! You can get it in a wrap or on pita bread and I chose the pita. It also came with hummus and the cucumber dressing. So. Delicious. It also had a little kick to it, but I like spicy food so it didn't bother me at all.

For those of you that don't know, falafel is a vegetarian patty made up of chick peas, garbanzo beans, and a variety of spices to make a protein-packed, vegetarian delight. I really recommend trying it once, I don't think you'll regret it! I've found a recipe to make my own, but it's definitely a task that needs a lot of preparation and time, which I just don't have at the moment. Hopefully soon, though!

Happy Wednesday! I hope you're all enjoying this great Spring weather!