the best layed plans

Okay, so I may not have gotten off to the great start (or any really if I'm being honest) that I had hoped for. But in my defence - here's my defence:
My parents (who I'm currently living with) went to Kenya for a couple of weeks leaving me my dad's car. Unfortuanately that meant I had to run my brother to work - a two hour drive there after 6.15 wake up call, and near two hours back for a late dinner and early bed.

I thought it was going okay until the tiredness took its toll. Unfortuanately on my dad's car rendering it useless for the best part of a week and left me stuck away from uni chasing up the garage to fix it before my folks got back (nobody wants to explain why there is a car less in the drive after a long flight.)

Fortunately for me the mistake I made (filling up a diesel car with petrol and driving it till it stopped) cost a fifth of what it should have in an amazing turn of events where the engine didn't need replaced. The very definition of relief given that my financial status is that of a student and I didn't want my parents to pay for my mistakes.

Should anyone find themselves in a similar situation take note of the following stroke of genius...

I made a heap of apple spiced muffins for my grandparents to thank them for coming to the rescue. Seeing the results I realised that this wouldn't be te worst way to break the news to my dad on his return that despite the apparent fineness of his car it may in fact die at any point over the next week. But muffins dont possess the caliber needed for such a task. They just don't cut it. What was needed, was brownies. Not just any brownies, but the best brownie recipe in existence to my knowledge, impervious to drying out and sufficiently gooey.

Lo and behold the 'but I made brownies' line never fails to bring a smile to any silly thing I may have done for the last couple of weeks. I tell you - genius!

To account for the time between te cars return and now, I must rely on all the catching up that had to be done mixed with a couple of bad colds.

So now I'm back, and although I have learned come to the realisation that during a final year at uni, it's actually not possible to blog every day, I will make every effort to do so at least once a week (probably a saturday) and more if anything interesting happens.