I had a bit of a scary experience last night. I sat down to the computer after having avoided it the previous day (long depressing horrible making Han miserable/poor story there) and I smelt burning which after a while it got a lot worse. I look down at my laptop and out of the corner of my eyes there’s a small orange flame coming from the corner of my laptop where the power supply plugs in. I ripped it out and unplugged it from the wall but boy was I scared!

If my parents hadn’t bought me a stand for my birthday I surely would have set fire to my beautiful desk. (I made it!)

So today we went to the apple store - thankfully there’s one nearby now otherwise we’d have had to go up to London! Christmas eve I wasn’t expecting much but we were very lucky in that there wasn’t that much traffic or indeed people.

We went into the apple store and managed to get an appointment with a genius for fifteen minutes time! I told him about the power supply and that I’d been having issues with my battery for a while.

1. Its health suddenly went from 80% to 20%.
2. It doesn’t recognise the charger sometimes.
3. It cuts out at 40% battery when not using the charger.

He seemed to fill out a lot of paper work and tada new battery and power supply. I hadn’t noticed my battery was swollen and we all know what happens to swollen mac batteries! :S My macs from the batch that had all those problems a few months ago - I thought I’d escaped it but apparently not!

With regards to the charger the plastic had split and wires were protruding the new one I’ve got has a longer wire bit so here’s hoping it doesn’t split like my old one, if yours is split and fraying - get a new one!

But its all fixed now under warranty and yay for the three years coverage I took out!

After my little bit of excitement for the day its my time to say Merry Christmas to everybody and hope you have a good one tomorrow. Me I’ve seen the turkey for tomorrow and its the same size as the joint we had on Sunday for two, tiiiiny! Christmas is a sad affair in our family, its just the three of us - but we do buy each other awesome presents - I hope my rents like theres!

Depending on how you look at it mark and I had a pretty productive week. We had our anniversary dinner on Monday, rented some bluray (ew) movies on Tuesday which were amazing in High Def on 42″, We also rented the Simpsons game for marks PS3* which we’d completed by the next day. We also completed Ratchet and Clank - which if anyone who has a ps3 doesn’t have I command you to get, The story line is hilarious and the levels are amazing, especially the first. We went to Oceana on Wednesday too with a few people which was fun.

*note how I have to say the ps3 isn’t mine! I’m secretly wanting a wii :S! I despair of ps3 and crappy bluray.

Its three days till christmas, who can believe it! I suppose I’ve been so busy up till now I hardly realised to day! I’m gonna keep myself busy until christmas now by planning christmas dinner, mmm I can’t wait! Roast on Sunday, roast on Monday, roast on Tuesday and cold meat on Wednesday! mmmm I’m making trifle too!

Did you all like my chocolate banana cupcake recipe btw? mine were georgous!

New layout for christmas and hopefully consistent blogging. (pft!)

I have the best recipe for banana cake everyone seems to love it. I’m in the mood for cupcakes though so here’s my guide to making Chocolate Banana cupcakes.

This recipe is also easy on the washing up!

This makes six muffin sized cupcakes, just double to amounts for twelve etc. (if you want to make a cake just change the cooking time to 30mins and put the mixture into a loaf tin)
What you’ll need:
A saucepan
A mixing bowl
Muffin tin
1 or 2 over ripe bananas (the horrible brownish ones that noone wants.
1 tablespoon of vanilla essence
1 medium sized egg
1/2 a cup of sugar
60g butter
1 cup of self raising flour
1/4 a cup of milk

Icing/hundreds and thousands for the decoration (or if your not as lazy as I am - make the icing yourself!)

1. Preheat oven to 180c and place muffin cases into muffin tin. (you can also just grease the muffin tin if you don’t have cases)

2. Melt butter in saucepan, turn off the heat and add the sugar and vanilla essence. Mix well and leave until its reasonably cool, so that you can add the egg without cooking it!

3. Sift the flour into the mixture, but don’t completely mix.

4. Put your bananas into a bowl and add the milk. Using a fork squash the bananas as much as you can.

5. Add the banana mixture to the saucepan and now finish the mixing until everything is evenly mixed in.

6. Pour mixture into the muffin cases and place in the oven for 20minutes. Test with a knife to see if cooked. Leave to cool.

7. When their coolish smother with chocolate icing and sprinkle with hundreds and thousands.

8. Scoff the lot. nomnomnom.