No, this isn’t a top songs list, but it is a list of a bunch of songs that I enjoyed in 2011. I’ll admit I don’t feel like I was very up to date with new music last year but here are a few tracks that stood out for me. I’ve included a playlist for your convenience, please have a listen and check out some of these artists! :)

• Calgary – Bon Iver
• Feeding Line – Boy and Bear
• Lose It – Austra
• Somebody I Used to Know – Gotye feat. Kimbra
• Hanging On – Active Child
• Midnight City – M83
• Raiders – Owl Eyes
• Wilhelm Scream – James Blake
• Video Games – Lana Del Rey
• Wicked Games – The Weeknd
• Lotus Flower – Radiohead

Bonus List: Favourite Cover Songs of 2011

Just for fun, I’ve also included a few cover songs that I adore.

• Shelter (The XX cover) – Birdy
  
• Suburbs (Arcade Fire cover) – Mr. Little Jeans
  

• Limit to your Love (Feist cover) – James Blake
  
• Lego House (Ed Sheeran cover) – Hannah Trigwell
  
• Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (Cyndi Lauper cover) – Busby Marou
  

Thanks for checking out my list! I’d really love to hear what your favourite songs of 2011 were! Please feel free to leave some tunes in the comments section. ^_^

1. Plushies





2. TV/Movie Box Sets





3. Star Wars / Lego







4. Nintendo 3DS Games



5. Artwork




6. Books




7. Other Cute things




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Hey everyone, I made some cookies over the weekend! I called them brownie-oreo cookies or “broreo cookies” for short! They’re super easy didn’t take long to make at all. Keep reading for more pictures and also the recipe for these yummy cookies.



I got the recipe from an amazing recipe book called “Taste of Home: Baking Classics” but you can also find the same recipe on this website: http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Quick-Chocolate-Sandwich-Cookies (also pasted below ^^)

36 Servings Prep: 15 min. Bake: 10 min./batch + cooling

Ingredients

2 packages (18-1/4 ounces each) devil’s food cake mix
1 cup canola oil
4 eggs

FILLING:
1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup butter, softened
2-1/2 cups confectioners’ sugar
1 teaspoon Spice Islands® pure vanilla extract

Directions

• In a large bowl, combine the cake mixes, oil and eggs until well blended. Roll into 1-in. balls. Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Do not flatten.
• Bake at 350° for 8-10 minutes or until set. Cool for 5 minutes before removing to wire racks (cookies will flatten as they cool).
• In a small bowl, beat cream cheese and butter until fluffy. Beat in sugar and vanilla until smooth. Spread on the bottom of half of the cookies; top with remaining cookies. Store in the refrigerator. Yield: about 6 dozen.


The recipe required two packages of Devil Food Cake Mix but I only had one package so I halved the recipe! I didn’t even need a mixer for this recipe, I just mixed it by hand.


The cream cheese icing was so yummy. These are the cookie halves when they’re done baking! I may have over baked them a little bit ><


The finished ‘Broreos’ :D Yumyum.
ps. Sorry photos were a bit blurry, they were taken on my phone!

What are your favorite cookies?

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Happy December everyone! I think it’s now safe to post some Christmas themed photos to get you all in the holiday spirit. I’ve already been humming some Christmas songs all day!


I took these photos on my lunch break today. It’s really nice to work downtown, there’s always lots of things going on!


Today I tried one of the food trucks that sell Vietnamese food. I got the beef pho! Mmmmm it was actually better than I expected it to be. Not as good as a restaurant would be but definitely worth trying!


Now that it’s December, I can finally start my advent calendars that I’ve been so excited to open! I have two calendars this year, one of them is LEGO Star Wars and the other is Purdy’s chocolate.


The Lego one is so awesome because you get to build a different toy each day! The chocolate one is great too, so much better than the cheap ones from the grocery store. It’s like having a Kinder Surprise everyday except the toys and chocolate are 100x better hahah. What do you do to get yourself in the holiday spirit? Have you finished Christmas shopping yet? I haven’t even started! Eeek!

Thanks for reading! ♥

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I’m super excited to add a brand new category section to my site dedicated to one of my many interests, video games! Warning: super nerdy content coming up. I’m going start off this section by talking a little bit about my first love in pc gaming, Counter Strike ♥! Although I’ve played other games before I started with Counter Strike, CS was the first game to really capture my interest enough for me play it for several years! I starting out by playing casually in the early 2000′s at LAN cafes with some friends. I eventually got the game myself and played it fairly consistently from 2004 to 2007!

It was fun following the professional teams back then. Watching live matches with EG, Complexity, 3D, SK, x6, etc.. and a lot of these teams are still around today! Team EG was and still is my one of my favorite competitive gaming teams! I’m not a super competitive person myself and I played CS for fun more than anything, I mostly played pick up games (pugs) with friends or on esea. The only time I played in any real league matches was when I joined an all girls team at one point and we played in cal-open for a season hahaha. I made quite a few awesome friends from playing the game which I still chat to once in a while, although I don’t think any of them are playing CS anymore. Real life, jobs or other games took priority and my interest in the game faded also. I stopped playing in late 2007. I was in college at the time and had to worry about my final design projects/showcase and literally had no time to play games.

It’s been quite a while since I touched CS but ever since I heard about the new version, aka Counter Strike: Global Offensive, coming out, my love for CS has been rekindled and I have started playing again a little bit and realized how rusty I am! I sadly don’t have a key for the Counter Strike:GO closed beta but I’m hoping I can get my grubby hands on the game eventually, most likely when the open beta starts T_T. edit: I just won a beta key from twitter on Dec 1! So happy :D In celebration of the beta starting today I just felt like reminiscing on CS 1.6 days (source is cool too I guess..) and also sharing with you a couple of my favorite CS videos.


ESEA COTW featuring me

Okay, it’s not really a favorite video but it’s probably the only existing video of me playing. Besides, the kill is way too funny/random, I had to share it with you guys. ^_^ The other clips are pretty funny and awesome too. (My random kill was @ 2mins 34 seconds. I don’t even know how.. lol)



Yet another random HS on de_nuke, dude is so mad D:

Favorite CS videos:

The Underground


Pubmasters – The Movie


Other favorites

• The Underground 2
• Walle – Tiffany Twisted
• fRoD: The Clairvoyant

Hope you enjoyed! If you have any favorite cs videos, definitely post them in the comments. Also I’m curious what game did you start out with? ^_^ thanks for reading~

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