Ah, I love this couch. I love. it. I didn’t even take pictures of my old couch to compare but uhm, I’ll update this post later I guess, I just have to write a little post now that I’m sitting on this couch with Nymphadora on my lap.

So let me tell you the whole story!

On Friday, I had a bit of stress because lots of things had to happen and nothing went right. My sister and cousin were coming and the house was a mess… Plus I was held up by one of my teachers [during feedback] so I missed my appointment with the duder that was going to help me fix my classes this year [so I know what my schedule is]. Argh! In the end though, all was well and my sister and cousin came after Muffin left for the Netherlands. Time for Weekend Cousines!

My cousin is French and so we spoke French all weekend. My mind is a blur. All sorts of French and Dutch and English gets mixed up and I end up not making sense. Haha. But it was so much fun, and the weather was so nice! We walked around in the wonderful city of Gent, ate Fritten [fries], sat at the Korenlei, went to the Pink Flamingo’s café [love it] and watched almost the entire first season of the L Word.

Shout out to my sister! Because she bought a new couch, and so Muffin and I inherited her old couch. It’s awesome, because it can turn into a bed. It’s pretty huge and takes up a lot of space in this tiny room, so I have to organise a bit more, but I loveeee ittttt soooo muuuuuch.

Muffin’s Dad went all the way to my sister’s house with Muffin, to get the couch and drive it all the way to Gent. And now it’s here and now I’m happy. YAY!

Oh, and by the way, I updated my mobile blog

To be edited with pictures because I love this couch! Infinite x’s and o’s!

I wanted to do a nice update this morning about how I fixed the comments and stuff [this site is slowly coming back to being a whole, but I'm still working on it] but actually I didn’t and then I gave up. Though I’m pretty happy overall of the image I have in my head, I have a good idea of what this whole site is going to be. That’s half the work, no?

I was up all night waiting for Muffin because he had some geeky-people-stuff to do [Adobe User Group, if that means anything to you] and then I had only 3 hours of sleep before 8 in the morning arrived with the sound of the doorbell. The doorbell rang, but nobody answered and I got up anyway and never went back to sleep. Right now, I am knackered.

So in short: I’ve been feeling like some sort of zombie all day, and didn’t get much of the cleaning done that I planned to do. I had my first class though. There were supposed to be two classes, but luckily one was cancelled so I only had about an hour of class! HA!

We were with soooo many people though, the room was packed. A lot of people had to cram into places on the floor and the steps. It didn’t take much adjustment to get back into the whole school-thing, surprisingly. I started taking notes like usual [luckily I was in a seat!] and followed the class on Art History – The Middle Ages without too many problems. It was just that she was a bit fast sometimes, and I don’t take notes that fast when I’m all zombie-like.

I was supposed to go to the big student event "Student Kick-Off" in Gent, but I was soooo tired. So I missed that. I missed it last year, too. Blah. I’m going to crawl into bed, because tomorrow at 08:30 is Photo History.

I just want to do a photo post soon, text only is booooring. Sleep well, infinite x’s and o’s and nice dreams and all that.

Okay, not true, but tomorrow school starts again, so I’m just going to finally cave in to that whole "I have to get back to some sort of routine" kind of life. I have a few nice things to say though. Like the other day [Friday] Muffin and I went to the supermarket and we saw a Chuck wagon. Apparently, a Chuckwagon is a real something, but I just laughed and took that photo. Muffin said "I thought you might find that funny", then proceeded to explain why: 1. Chuck from Gossip Girl [my favourite character, he's such a genius] and 2. Chuck, the title of Sum 41’s record. I mean, how are we supposed to know what a Chuckwagon is? I just laughed – but it just got ten times funnier when on the way back we saw a Serena wagon. haha!

Now that I know that a Chuckwagon is an actual wagon, it’s less funny, but whatever. I’m Dutch, I’ve never used a Chuckwagon, so I can still have fun trying to picture Chuck Bass in that wagon.

So eh, what else? Ya, today I spent time repairing my bike. You have to know a few things about my bike before this is anything news worthy.

1. I haven’t used my bike in months.
2. My bike has been broken [flat tyre] for months.
3. I don’t have a legal place to park my bike [inside] so I just parked it against the wall, tied to a pole. A streetsign-pole.
4. Muffin’s bike used to be there too, and I just used his… but then it got stolen
5. My bike has had a few warnings before, stating that it was left-behind-property and going to be taken away.
6. There was all sorts of dirt on my bike that indicated that it had been motionless for so long.

But! It’s still my bike! Though I don’t really like riding my bike in Gent [because of the way the streets are annoying and trams get everywhere, I'm just really scared all the time plus I can walk just as well] I don’t really feel like having it taken away and seen as pollution. Plus, I figured I owed Muffin one. His bike got stolen, and I used his all the time… so he should be able to use mine.

Soooo… after stalling forever and ever and then some, I finally went out to just get it done and over with. But behold! after all my troubles [it wasn't easy, blah] it wasn’t just a flat tyre, noooo. My bike is factually still broken because the chain is just a piece of meh.

In the end, I fixed my bike, and it’s still not fixed! Gahh. So I have to take it to someone else anyway! Blargh. I’m not really pleased. But oh well. I have to get back to crocheting now, and then rest before school starts again. I wanted to do so much more [I'm working on this theme, and my own desktop and icons] but I’ll guess I’ll finish that some other time and show you when I’m done and satisfied.

Infinite x’s and o’s!

Yes, okay, I don’t really know. It’s not really my business, is it?! But then again, I can write what I want on my blog and I can write about the men I admire and this is one of those cases where I want to just write something. I mean, I don’t really want to show the world that I follow celebrity news from time to time. I don’t know why that is, maybe I should just embrace the fact that it’s out there, accessible and easy and read by thousands of people. The internet is making us all involved, and sometimes it’s fun to look at photos – you get to know more about people this way. Celebrities have MySpaces now, we don’t have to wait for interviews to show up in magazines, we just read about them on their blogs [or other people's blogs].

Why I don’t really want to discuss this is because I am not sure I agree. I don’t like the paparazzi. As a photographer, I think being a paparazzi is about the lowest of the low you can go. Have you ever seen videos of celebrities being stalked by the paparazzi? It’s awful. You get out of your car and it’s flash-flash-in-your-face and constant questions or remarks. What’s worse, is that some of those people dare to complain when they get hit by a car when they were in the way in the first place! People deserve some space. I know being a celebrity puts you out there "in the public eye" – but paparazzi is just meh.

So I guess, because I dislike the paparazzi and a lot of the whole "Hollywood-business", I don’t really like to admit that I do read a celebrity gossip blog. Only one though, on LiveJournal. It’s Oh No They Didn’t and I swear it’s also a great source for news on television shows I watch, or upcoming movies. But yeah, lots and lots of candid photos are posted there, and it’s not always pretty.

But I haven’t been reading in a few months, and I just got back there because I read this news somewhere else. I’m going to link to ONTD though, just because they have the most and best updates. I’m talking about this: Travis Barker is badly injured after a plane crash. And not only Travis, but also DJ AM, the two performed together (I don’t know if you watched the VMAs but yep, they were the house band). They are the only two survivors of the crash, there were six people in total on the plane. They’re both badly injured.

Four people died, the pilot, co-pilot and Travis’ bodyguard and assistant. All of this is just awful.

Of course I don’t know any of them personally, and I’m just some girl who is a fan so so far away. [If you didn't know, I'm a slightly obsessed fan.] I never know how to feel about this kind of thing. I mean, I’ve never even met Travis. Though I know this is terrible, and it must be so hard for everyone involved. So that’s why I’m sending good thoughts and my best wishes to them.

I can’t really say much else, and I don’t want to let celebrity stuff take over my blog. But this news particularly hit me personally, and it’s my personal website, so… We’ll get back to regular blogging by tomorrow. I just hope Travis and DJ AM will be fine.

It seems like every time I log in, I have to update. What’s up with that?! Oh well. Anyway. I have a clean MacBook now, so I guess I can do it. Only a few more days until school starts, so why not do it now.. hmmm?

Also: I am not going to import posts from Blogger anymore, and I deleted some that weren’t interesting, but the rest is still here. So from now on, I’ll just make a little announcement here if I have updated my mobile blog again.

Well, it’s 03:55 [it's still holiday, and I can do what I want - don't you feel that the most inspiration comes late at night? Well, for me it does, so I spend my nights doing a lot of stuff and then sleeping the day away.] and while I am backing up my website in order to update Wordpress. AGAIN. I decided to write a bit more visitor content.

I always think of visitor content at the most inappropriate moments. Like when I’m on a train and can’t actually write it down, or during a conversation. It’s always as follows: an idea pops op, I write the first paragraph in my head… and then it dies. PFF!

So let me think about it now, now that I have some inspiration and can be bothered to make a little list of things I want on my site. I mean, I want a site that is representative of me. I find it pretty damn hard to create such a thing, because how am I going to portray my whole person – body, mind and soul, if that’s what defines a person anyway – in a thing as a website? Pfff.

I already have the blog, that’s the most important step.

Then there’s the about me section. I HATE THOSE SECTIONS. I always think there’s too much, or not enough. And what are people interested in? Do they really care about my really weird obsession with Davey Havok and the history of Davey Havok Day? Blah… I always read those sections and they’re either too basic [with lists, like "I hate liars", yaa, duh. Who in their right mind likes liars?!] or very long and elaborate and I rarely read them if they’re too long. So there has to be a little in-between thing. I tried to solve that with my long part and the quickies.. and I still think that’s the best I can do. But the problem is to update those. I only do that about once a year. Ah well.

Next is about the site. That’s simple and easy

But now, for the actual content. There are a few questions that are very important for this step. What is my site about? What would I like to see on such a site myself? What do I want others to gain from this?

My site is a personal one, so I can put whatever the hell I want on it. Yet I want it to be original [that's pretty much the key to a site that is useful, copying others is pretty much pointless] and appealing and also serve a purpose. Yes, well. I used to not know what the heck the purpose of my site was. Now it’s clear: it’s another document of my life. If you hadn’t noticed, I’m pretty much obsessed with holding on to memories. So what I want with this site is to keep track of my life through my blogs, but also through other documents. I don’t need a photo section because I have a Flickr for that, and I upload my other art on to other sites, so I’m pretty much stuck with articles.

Are articles about myself really that interesting? I used to think I had to give something back. Occasionally, yes, I might write something handy. But for now, I just think I’m going to stick with my personal stuff. The visitor can read it for entertainment, for inspiration [who knows?] or maybe they can find something useful in it anyway. For me, I think it’s pointless to have icons up because I would never download icons from another site, I like to make them myself. So I guess my “giving back” will be through my own experiences.

You’ll just have to wait and see!

04:24 – yes! updated! Pfff! Thank Davey!