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I’ve had the desire to start a blog for a while now, increasingly so in the past six months. It all started from my youtube addiction. Youtube, It’s ridiculously addictive. Whether you’re watching stupid fails, diy instuctables, music videos or, if you’re me, mainly beauty gurus blabbing on about the newest products they love smearing across their faces. Over the past year this love for youtube and connection to the people uploading videos and growing their channels has become a large part of my life. It’s actually become one of my hobbies… I know, one of my hobbies is watching people I’ve never met show me all the latest mascaras and facial cleansers they just bought at Sephora, it sounds terrible and introverted and consumeristic, but what the hell! I like it, and I’m okay with that.

Anyway, my growing involvement in watching youtube spawned the urge to create a youtube channel. After realizing that I don’t have a camera except for my Macbook webcam or my iPhone 4 to film with, I realized this may not be the right endeavour for me. Not to mention accruing viewership on a brand new channel, actually filming myself talking on camera and acting natural, as well as editing videos and posting them regularly. That’s lot of work.

After this realization, I left the youtube dream behind.

I arrived home from college much earlier than all of friends back home so I was left with lots of time to myself at home. I, of course, was watching loads of youtube, reading chick lit,  but also cooking and baking, which I have always loved.

I started floating the idea of me creating a blog instead of the youtube channel, which I actually kind of ripped off from my older sister, who was writing a blog a couple years ago. After looking back on some of her old posts, I started really loving the idea of just writing a blog for journalling purposes, even though I’ve never been a journaler. I’m hoping this blog will be a fun past time now and something that is a great memory to look back on later.

All in all that’s the long winded story to explain me and a blog.

 

Here, I’m hoping to create a sort of cross section of my life and interests. A collection of food and recipes that are delicious, homemade, not too labourious, and fairly cheap that will cater well to other young students like me starting to cook for themselves. Maybe some reviews on an array of beauty products that I find myself loving at the moment. Or even ‘outfit of the day’ s and fashion favourites.

Now I know the title of this blog is strange and practically jibberish, but I was having a hard time titling it and just wanting to put something there. I was trying to think of something clever and catchy but I was drawing a blank until I remembered last summer when my best friend, Anna, and I decided we wanted to start a cooking blog. We spent hours thinking up names for it, executing a recipe, and photographing the whole ordeal. In the end we never actually got around to writing that first post and starting the blog. Although the name we cam up with for it was Sunday’s Monkey. We got a huge kick out of that name and thought it was so perfect. Random, short, sweet, fun. It doesn’t make any sense… but in the end, does the title really matter?

So on that note, I suppose this first post is dedicated to Anna.

I’ll wrap this long rant up now, hopefully this won’t  be a ridiculous jumbled mess. Here goes nothing…