I have addicted to Reese’s white chocolate peanut butter mini cups since I received a packet from the States. Almost running out, I’ve been trying to see where I can buy some more cheaply and came across this recipe which I’ll try out when I all finished of my Reese’s ones.

image from American Sweets on a UK site

image & recipe from Erin’s Cooks blog

White-Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups
Loosely adapted from Nigella Lawson’s recipe for Chocolate-Peanut Butter Cups

For the base:
2 ounces soft dark brown sugar
7 ounces confectioner’s sugar
2 ounces butter, softened
7 ounces smooth peanut butter
For the topping:
16 ounces white chocolate (not white chocolate bits)

Place all the ingredients for the base in the bowl of a food processor. Blend the mixture until the mixture takes on a sandy texture.

Place 12 cupcake liners into a muffin tin. Using a medium ice cream or cookie scoopplace 1 scoop of the base mixture into each cupcake liner. Press the mixture down into the cases to form an even layer at the bottom of each cupcake liner.

Melt the chocolate over a double-boiler. Using your scoop, top each peanut butter filled cupcake liner with 1 scoop of chocolate. Smooth the tops of the Peanut Butter Cups with the back of a spoon.

Refrigerate for 1 hour or overnight.

Another week of job hunting. I went for another interview today at a recruitment company and the job they described to me sounds promising. *fingers cross*

I’ve been waking up early since Friday and the exhaustion finally got to me today. After the interview, I kept nodding off on the train and when I got to my car, I was too exhausted to drive so ended napping for an hour and half. Thank-goodness for my new neck pillow, I slept like a baby. But it didn’t end there, after lunch I ended napping until 6PM. *sigh There goes my sleeping pattern.

My desktop failed on me this week. Having a ol’ skool scanner, Canon doesn’t have a driver for it on Window 7. As I needed to scan and send my MQ Academic Record, I decided to install XP on my other partition. However, I (don’t know how because I’m sure I choose the right one) installed it on my main partition where my Window 7 was. So I lost everything on that drive. Luckily I have made it a habit to transfer my files over to my data hard drive every week. So I only lost come Open-Opp files (backed up on my server thank-goodness) and some movies. But my problem didn’t stop there. The XP installation was damaged (no idea why since I was scanning my records on it) and I kept trying to reinstall but it wouldn’t boot the O/S. But it is all fixed now. At the moment, I finally reinstalling everything.

Friday 29th January 2010: I dropped off the Tarago to get it serviced. I have a bad shopping habit. I have been spending too much this month, so while I was at Westpoint I ended up forcing myself to sit in a cafe reading a magazine for over an hour while I wanted for the courtesy bus. After that, I ended out to Ken’s to spend some time with him for our monthiversy. It’s almost 2 years!

Saturday 30th January 2010: Suppose to head to the beach but weather wasn’t that great so the girls ended up at the Fish Market and DFO. I had some yogurt at the Fish Market and it was sooo good. Thick yogurt mixed with fresh chunky berries and apple crumble. Sooo good. By 3PM, I was completely exhausted from so much walking. I managed to be good and only spent under $50 on food, a shirt and belt. The girls and me ended getting stuff from Dotti – I got a top in a bigger size so it looks more flow-y on me which was $49.95 to $9.95, and a gold leaf clasp waist belt that I’ve been eye-ing for a while, was $19.95 to $5.95! DFO does have its bargains. Afterwards, I ended up at Ken’s for some pork chops Surprisingly, we been eating less than we used to, which is a good thing because we are both getting a bit heavy.

Sunday 31st January 2010: As result of shopping (over exercising) I woke up with the worse back pain and my whole was soo sore. Ended up cancelling shopping with Jane (for her birthday gift) but I was already awake so I spent the day fixing my computer.

Another long busy week! Although I have been feeling unwell, reacting terrible to the weather change. A lot of dizziness, upset stomach, dehydration and soreness. On top of that, I have a bad allergy reaction to something.

The past week, I did some shopping and score myself two pairs of shoes, lined up an interview, belated birthday dinner with Buie, belated XMAS dinner with North Shore guys, spending time with Ken and catching up with Amanda who just got back from America.

I got showered with gifts from Totran, Chauan and Brenda. Thank-you sooo much and now I’m in love with white chocolate mini peanut butter cups. I’m going to go and make some of my own when I finish them!

Dinner with Buie was at Leo’s, a random restaurant at Granville. My pasta was nice but too oily. Purposely order a main plate so I could take away it later for Ken, and he told me after he microwaved it, it was full of oil! Ewww.

Dinner with the North Shore guys at Canley Heights and we got to meet Jess’s new boyfriend. Must be one special guy since I never met any of Jess’s boyfriends before, let alone have her take them to North Shore dinner! Went back to Geoff’s to chill and have interesting conversations about relationships and picking up. Apparently, I’m a “movie and cafe” 1st date girl.

I made prawn dumplings yesterday and I’m proud of myself. No photos because I ate them all as I made them. Although they weren’t exactly like the one at yum cha, but still good. Determine to make them exactly the same one of these days.

Open-opp update: we have a new client! A paying client! Trying to finish previous projects off but lack of information is delaying the process. Hopefully I receive the information soon so I can move onto the new client project!

This week is one busy week! So far I have to:

• Do lots of filing
• Shop for BFF Jane’s birthday gift
• Do some experimental baking
• Book and get the Tarago in for servicing
• Book my baby Euro in for servicing. It’s also a year old!
• Banking and bills
• Take dad to see a special herbal doctor
• Help mum with sewing
• Beach with the girls
• Australia day with the girl
• Interviews

Betts Ivy $109.99 $43.99

Diana Ferrari Portugal (light bone/black) $99.95 $74.95

Busy busy week. Been feeling so tired lately that I need to nap but I’ve been napping at the wrong time resulting me staying up until 3am!

Saturday 9th January: Jane and me went to Castle Towers! My 1st time there and definitely be back .. I can shop for hours and its free parking! wOoOoO! Yum cha at Hilltop Phoenix was really good! Better than Cabramatta especially the service! I only ended up buying bits and pieces, which is where most of my money goes. I should of bought the Review handbag I saw at Myers but I was worried it was too expensive.

Sunday 10th January: Spent the night with Ken. I love how we can just lie down side by side in each others arms and just talk about anything.

Monday 11th January: Went to MQ university to hand in our ‘expect to graduate’ forms, get an unofficial academic transcript and pay for 6 months parking.  The business advisor didn’t reply to my e-mail so I thought I might as well go up and see him but there was such a line, I decided not to. We went to Burwood, hoping to go to Sushi Train to use my gift card Jane gave me a year ago but they got replaced by another owner and changed the name. So we ended up at Georges Cafe and we only had one dish, but that ended up just enough for us to finish and be stuffed!

Tuesday 12th January: Interview with Minter Ellison at 4pm. I got to the city early to find the place, and it was really close to the train station. My feet started to really hurt, so I put in heel grips which ended up being a bad idea because it just made it tighter and by the time I took them out, it was too late. I had a cheap lunch at Wagamama because I couldn’t walk anymore. Got my bill right after I finished eating, and felt like I was getting kicked out, so I went to illy the cafe across the street from Minter Ellison. $5 for a ice peppermint tea, abit of a rip off but boy, it was so refreshing. It was so hot, sweating through my shirt.

The interview went for an hour, and got to know heaps more about the position. It sounds really interesting and I hope I get  a second interview. I hope I didn’t screw up during my interview. 1st one I ever had.

Wednesday 13th January: Woke up early to cancel the home building insurance but after waiting for so long, they couldn’t verify my mother identity properly because  they asked her complicated questions. Never had this problem before. Usually they just ask her the standard questions and then I do all the talking, but for some reason this insurance section of this bank is different. So we went to RTA to pay for all the regos for the cars then we went to the bank and waited for like 40  minutes because there was 1 person serving enquires and 6 people waiting. When we finally cancelled the policy, we went NRMA to pay for the Euro’s insurance and open a new policy. By the time we finished, we figure we wouldn’t have enough time to go shopping. It was such a long day of waiting. I did end up buying a very hot white/stone colour bag at Forever New. <3 <3

On a different note, there is always two sides of a story. I wish people would realised that the story they hear will always be bias. Not everyone is a bitch/asshole and should be treated like one or in most cases outcasted. There are reason why people do the things they do, it just annoys me that some are so narrow and closed minded, they refuse to see the other side. I was starting to think that we were getting old enough not to worry about having to be the ’sheep’ and we were able to be different and weird/interesting. But I guess not and we may never grow up.

This week has been a bit busy. I’ve been unwell during the weekend so had to cancel my shopping plans with Jane but I’m feeling so much better now! So we are going to Castle Hill Towers (which we both never been to).

Been working on portfolio and Open-opp project during the weekend. Finally getting close to completing some things.  During the week, I have been writing up cover letters for job applications. It is a bit difficult ’selling myself’ on paper considering I don’t have that much experience but I reckon I have enough knowledge and skills through my studies to help me accomplish the goal in hand. So far I have applied for 7 jobs since Tuesday and got 1 response indicating that I’m shortlisted!

Mum and me spent the whole of yesterday shopping! Super exhausting but this particular outing made us just a littler closer. She had indicated that I should get myself a boyfriend. Out of the guys she knows about, she thinks Ken will make an ideal boyfriend. I think I’ll wait another year until I tell her. I’m worried how my dad will take it. Last time, it was a disaster. I didn’t buy much but I got everything I needed. I realised I can only buy jeans at DFO Homebush. Most of the other clothes, especially corporate wear are quite a large size. 14+!

$24 at Cabramatta. I love the smell and thickness of this cream.

SuperSoft Style Elani from $129.95 to $89.95 to $62.95!

I wanted these shoes a couple years back but they were always too expensive. I was about to get them for $89.95 at Taylors but I’m lucky I waited until DFO Homebush.

It’s been a long time since I’ve bought shoes or wanted shoes. There was one year where I went crazy at DFO and Myers and got myself 10 pairs of shoes! Now they been worn to death and I catch myself wear only my Diana Ferrari sandals, Naturalizer black heels or Cotton On thongs. But now I found new shoe love …

If I could turn back time, I wouldn’t change a thing.

I would of never found love, experience the heartbreak, understood the boundaries of friendships, and feel the achievement

If the events never occurred they way they did, the order they occurred this would of never happened.

The consequences were worth it, as I found you and my happiness.

For XMAS 2009, I got everything I wanted. Pretty by Elizabeth Arden, Sex and The City: The Movie DVD, a slim personal 2010 diary, 6 Pandora Beads and chocolates. xoxo Mummy, Ken, Jane, Greg and Nhung.

At the moment, I’m trying really hard to finish the booking appointment e-mail form for one of my Open-opp’s clients. After this, I can finalise a few sample websites before working on my portfolio. It has been a long time since I was fully active in website designing and I never realised how particular I was when it comes to colour scheme. It used to be coding would take me longer but now it is the other way around.

Looking at my TODO, I realised I haven’t gotten around to sorting out my clothes. I can probably throw out my whole wardrobe as I’ve been wearing the same clothes over and over for the past year. My little pile in my room and on the ironing board is basically what I live off on. Come to think about it, it is a lot of clothes to throw out. Hopefully I can get to it by next week.

I’ve spent the past couple days drafting and revising my resume (thanks to Totran and Ken) so I can start submitting on Monday. But before that, I need to finish my sample websites and work on my portfolio in case I get a request from any of the design jobs I plan on applying for.

Happy Birthday Cherie Saturday + Beach here we come!

Recap
December 2nd 2009: Jess’s 24th at Maurizio’s Restaurant. Bought her chocolates and a lollipop (which Geoff broke) and Oreo mini cupcakes.

December 3rd 2009: Watched Wicked with Greg. We bought Capitol Class Package where we received a Wicked! program ($20), drink (+ cup $10), a VIP lanyard (+ access pass) and ice-cream. We also sat in awesome seats, right in the middle! I really enjoyed the story as well!

December 5th 2009: Dinner at Valley Thai and dessert at San Churro with Ken.

December 9th 2009: Teresa’s 24th Dinner at Valley Thai. I made her a chocolate cake, earrings and gave her some more chocolates.

December 11th 2009: Dinner at Candeloris with Jane to catch up. Expensive food but it was so good!

December 15th 2009: Shopping with Buie for XMAS gifts. Feet hurt. Needed to refuel after 4 hours of non-stop walking and standing. A couple more gifts to go.

Also been working (slaving) for parents lately and slowly setting up my computer and restoring (and organising) my files. *yawn I’m so tired. I wish I was in U.S.A right now .. but too poor.

Filofax Tropic organiser (Bamboo or Mahogony) $280.00

Benefit Brows A-Go-Go $38.00

Benefit Big Beautiful Eye Palette $32.00

House Season 5 $60.00

M*A*S*H The Martinis & Medicine Collection$250.00

Pretty by Elizabeth Arden 50ML $75.00

Essence by Narciso Rodriguez 50ML $87

Coach Bow Ring $98.00

Coach Butterfly Ring $78.00

Coin purse (same style as Oroton Raisa Slim Frame Purse) $95.00

Purple Sony Cybershot case

Plantronics Discovery 925 Bluetooth Headset (majestic purple) $105.00

Nokia N97 (white) or Nokia N97 mini (cherry black)

Aliph Jawbone II Bluetooth Headset with NoiseAssassin

Wacom Bamboo Creative Art Tablet $265.00

Logitech webcam C300 1.3MP $79.00

Too Faced retractable kabuki brush $30USD

TODO:

• Clean my computer tower .. so much dust in each fan *cough
• Install Windows 7 & all my other programs and games
• Organise my hard drive .. it is so messy atm
• Work on business venture websites
• Work on web portfolio including on the new wp theme
• Sort out my clothes .. oh dear .. all the clothes I have worn in the past year are on one chair, one ironing board and one basket. yet there is still a closet full of clothes .. >.<
• Find a JOB .. casual work is hard to find atm esp when XMAS positions all closed.
• Need to go shopping for gifts … what to get what to get?

Watched Wicked the other day. It was AWESOME! If you haven’t watched it, I recommend you do.

Been eyeing the N97 for a while .. can’t wait to get it next year!! XMAS is coming up. I have no idea what I want … >.<