Nee.

Ik kan geen vrienden met je zijn want

Ik moet je eerst missen.

Eerst huilen en je haten

Tegen je schreeuwen en willen praten

Verkeerde beslissingen maken.

Waarom houd je niet van mij?
Maar dat doe je wel,

Alleen niet zoals ik dat wil.

Laat me gaan.

Ylvis.

I love Ylvis, especially this song (although Jan Egeland is also genius). Enjoy this video for your daily dose of happy times (or procrastination, like I am).

Best Carrot Cake Ever.

Carrot cake is my favourite cake ever. I was a bit hesistant to try it, because whoever thinks of putting carrots in a cake anyway? Seriously though, mad as it may sound,  it is actually a brilliant idea! Genius and madness are remarkably close, I suppose. I've been trying out a few different recipes and combining some stuff and I've now come up with what I think is the best carrot cake ever. Although I can also do a brilliant vegan version, I think this version wins out in the end.

Ingredients:

Cake:
250g carrots
150g unsalted butter
150g light brown sugar
200g selfraising flour
3 eggs
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 cm cube fresh ginger
100g raisins
75g walnuts
zest of half a lemon

Icing:
200g cream cheese
100g icing sugar
juice of half a lemon
zest of half a lemon
100g unsalted butter

Preparation:
Preheat oven to 160/180 degrees celcius (depends on oven).

In bowl 1: Mix the flour with salt, dry spices and bicarb.
In bowl 2: Grate the carrots and mix with the ginger, raisins, walnuts and lemon zest.
In bowl 3: Melt butter, add eggs and sugar and mix until twice the volume (approximately 5 minutes).
Gently fold in flour mixture, then carrot mixture.
Pour into a greased cake tin, bake for 30 to 45 minutes.

Leave to cool. For the icing, add all ingredients to a bowl and mix well (add more sugar or lemon to taste).
Put icing on cake only when cake has cooled (or it will be horrible, the wait is worth it!).

Library time.

I originally posted this to facebook while I was studying in the library and trying to finish my essay. Needless to say, progress was a little bit slow sometimes.

"Why do they leave perfectly square papers lying around in the library? I'm now faced with the very difficult choice between origami birds and essay writing."

"I call this one Henry. Origami activities won."

"There's a Llama now, but it's a bit wonky due to procrastionation-guilt induced haste." [Sabine named it Freek-Willem]

"The girl in front of me is frowning at my origami activities. She's actually using them to take notes... Ooooh, so that's what they're for!"

"I made a penguin. I think the girl opposite me strongly dislikes me. May have to build a penguin army for self-defense." [Penguin is called Koos Naamloos]

"The girl in front of me fled the scene... I think my impressive origami army must have scared her off... Also, I think it might be time for coffee."

"Henry and Freek-Willem made a hybrid. Yup. Llamabird... Llaird? Llird? Bama?"

"They've managed to escape! My origami army is now invading the library... World domination in 5... 4... 3..."

Hope Leaves

Autumn leaves pour forth
Like blood from an open wound
Lie down on the road and
Let the wind take you