Aug 3-Mini Cheesecakes

Short post for now as it is August 6th and catching up on the last few days.

When in Hawkes Bay during the weekend, Mum and Dad had a large supply of lemons growing outside on the lemon tree and also had a container of Lite Cream Cheese in the fridge they needed to be used.

My brain decided to combine the two above mentioned ingredients  together and I ended up asking Ma if I could make a cheesecake, among other items I felt the need to cook.

Mother dearest agreed and after googling for a while, as well as realizing I had made Lemon Cheesecake at some point in the past, I decided to turn it into Mini Lemon Cheesecakes :)

Although they did not quite turn out the way I had wanted, they were delish, not too sweet and really refreshing which was the best part.

Photos are on the parents' camera in HB but will try put one up ASAP.

Day 3 of something new has been achieved :)

August 2nd - MOSN

As I start to write this blog, I am currently traveling on a bus from Waikato to Hawkes Bay and let's be honest here, that journey for me is definitely not "something new" as I have done it many times before. 

We have just pulled up in Taupo and I am struggling to think what my new thing possibly could be for today. After the way my mind worked yesterday while trying to achieve my new thing for the day, I decided that some days I shall actually try and do something new and other days I will just reflect on the day and see what I have accomplished. 

Turns out that the bus trip was one of the longest or at least it seemed that way, in a long time and I got really really bored... So bored that in fact I was staring at my iPod for so long I realised my apps and folders were not all in alphabetical order - weird and crazy I know but this is something that would have previously annoyed the heck out of me. 

So what was my new thing for today? Haha, some will laugh but I did indeed alphabetise not only all the folders on my iPod but all the apps with each folder too :)      Thinking about it, I have previously done a similar thing with all the desktop icons on my computer however I have never gone through and fully put all the folders/docs with each folder (inside the folder), into alphabetical order! 

Another Month of something new - Day 1

Haha, right here we go folks... This month is going to be an adventure and will hopefully be an exciting one rather than just normal life :)

I wanted to kick off this whole month of something new, with a bang today but that just did not happen. It's interesting how life and the reality of everything  can actually change our daily plans. 

Today I thought I would make a recipe (or at least attempt) that I had not made before. While searching online through recipe websites as well as numerous recipe books, I was as usual distracted by what else was going on on the Internet... I had been looking at websites of lists of something new as well and had been going onto a few of the websites I had used as a major reference during the last 3 years - once a teacher, always a teacher. 

While still trying to find a easy but also interesting recipe (which did not use too many ingredients), I also wanted to look up a particular word in Maori so off I went to a common resource from my uni days. Before I even realised, I has spent almost 40 minutes on this website and had been totally absorbed by an interactive Maori Langauge learning tool.

Forget the looking for recipes because while my mind was wondering as it usually does, I had just embarked on my first new thing if August 2013 - not just learning a language but rather doing this through an interactive tool on a website. And if that is not awesome enough, I am pleased to say I actually passed the listening aspect which made a change from Year 11 French!

I love Maori Language and in some ways, I am actually grateful and thankful for starting off my month of new things by building on my knowledge and understanding of this beautiful langauge.

So that is Day 1 completed for you all (and for me) and I look forward to continuing my progress on the website as well as continuous posts throughout the month while embarking on numerous new adventures. 

Another month of something new

Hey folks,

So we all know how slack I am and have been at posting lately... I say I shall try to post regularly and then it totally doesn't happen. It's not like I have that much to keep me too busy from posting yet it still never seems to happen.

A few weeks ago I was talking with a friend and last week I also had a walk down memory lane for a while. During both of these events - the catching up and talking as well as the memory trip, I was reminded of my first year of uni and how exciting that year was. It was literally a year of all things new and undiscovered which was exciting and a real adventure. 

As well as all the usual adventures of moving out of home and beginning university, I had an incredible month of adventure during September 2010. 

Why? 

Well during that particular month, I decided to dedicate each day of the month as a special day to do something I had never done before - a whole month of doing something new each day. Some of my wacky and share worthy moments of that month included painting each of my toenails a different colour (or at least trying to), getting one of my friends to fully curl my hair, listening to music I would not normally listen to and I also believe watching 8 or 9 movies in one weekend made the list :)

Now, how does this relate to my blog post title? 

Well during this month (August 2013), I have again decided to do a month of something new each day so hopefully it will happen and I shall be able to continue posting on here... Who knows, I may even get 31 days worth of posts but will see how we go.

As well as posting about my adventures, I shall try to include photos where possible :)

So for now, I shall go and write the post for 1st August 2013. - My first day of something new for this year. Clearly I am off to a great start as I am writing this on 2nd August!!!!!

I shall make up for it, I promise.

If anyone has any ideas of things I can do during the month, let me know and will see how I can fit it in somehow.

That's all for now,

From the constant traveller Kath, somewhere between Tokoroa and Taupo.