OH SNAP!! It’s not like I’ve never cheated before, so whatever. Truth is, I got home late, and started surfing [with the intention to eventually blog because, hello, it's Blogathon, even if nobody reads I still want to update everyday] and then Muffin finished making dinner. My mind eventually went into "foooood!!!!"-mode.. and forgot all about updating. So. It’s not officially the sixth anymore as I type this, but I haven’t slept yet, so I say it still counts. It’s not like I start and end a day at exactly midnight, anyway.

About today: it was Muffin and I’s 34th anniversary, as in, we’ve been together for 34 months! Holy wowzers, that’s almost three years. Lots of fun, especially since we’re in our own little house.. I love that boy! Now, normally we go out for dinner [but we already went out for dinner on Friday and it wasn't exactly cheap, plus we had to do train-traveling today] or eat icecream on our anniversaries.. but today we felt a cup of chai tea and a muffin would do. They were delicious, hmmmm. And we also wanted to do the whole photobooth-picture every month, but I guess we forgot about it in the rush and we should do it some other, random, day.

Cheese aside, I also bought makeup today. Makeup. As in, stuff that girls are super familiar with, normally. Well, I’m not. I’ve always only owned super cheap makeup and the best use for my liquid eyeliner is painting crosses on my hands.. but.. okay. I just couldn’t resist the Fafi-line from MAC and bought some eyeshadow. How that will work out you will have to find out later because now I’m going to crash before waking up and going to school again tomorrow. Eep! Sleep tight!

Okaaaaay, so yesterday we went out for dinner, which was really nice. Nice people, okay food and good singers. Yes, singers, because the waiters were all singing live songs. Though getting back home was kind of a new adventure. We had to take a detour and it took a little longer, there were no more direct trains home, so yeah. But I decided not to rant about trains anymore.. right.

We got home, I fell asleep. Then I woke up this ´morning´ at one-ish and Muffin and I went to Ikea.. with his mom and brother. We spent too much time there, to be honest. I’m not the biggest Ikea-fan in the world [sarcasm] but okay. It’s always like this: you go there because you have to and you think "I only need two or three items". Yet you come there and there is no end to the madness, there are children and parents everywhere and you never leave with what you came for. Argh. So yes, we got some things. [I hate to return with nothing.] No, I don’t regret buying them or anything, I got some nice bedspreads [which is ironically because I was sick of our other Ikea bedspread.. I hope this one won't be so ridiculously recognisably Ikea.. I think things lose their fun when everyone immediately says "oh, that's Ikea!" instead of "oh, that's so nice!" -__-] and other random stuff.. but I spent a small fortune on that stuff. And then I don’t even have the things I should be spending money on, like bookcases or night-stands. Gahh.

True, Muffin doesn’t mind Ikea and it’s affordable for basic things, but I don’t think it’s such a pleasure to go there. Not anymore anyway, because I used to like it as a kid. And now I know why: with some of the children’s stuff I still go "awww!" or "eeep!". Too bad I’m too big for all those things now, it would make the decorating of my house sooo much easier.

Either way, we wrote down what we liked, now we need to measure if we can fit it in our house, and then when there is a car available to transport the things.. Muffin can go to Ikea WITHOUT ME. Yes. Ha. I am already looking forward to that, and I already have to put up with having those things in my house, so I would rather not step into an Ikea ever. again. in my life.

A girl can dream, and back in Gent [we're still in Rotterdam now] there’s a Laura Ashley catalogue waiting for me.. Whooo. Not that I can afford [or justify] decorating my house with Laura Ashley items, but they’re sure eye-candy and it’s much nicer than going to Ikea. Going through a catalogue like that is like window-shopping. And like I said, I can dream.

When I was small, I used to get a catalogue from the toy store and circle everything I wanted, so Sinterklaas could give me the right presents. It’s exactly like that with my interior design magazines – except I don’t circle on the pages [too precious!] but stick little notes on them. Ahh. Yes. I do that with my fashion magazines too, with arrows and remarks such as "Ooooohhh socks!". Haha. Maybe I should scan those in to share with the world.. and one day, when I have a house big enough to fit a library and a dressing table in my bedroom.. Sinterklaas can help me decorate my house [and fill my wardrobe]. Heeheeeee.

Now, apart from helping the things in my house get out of boxes and into closets.. I am also going to take part in the Guinness World Record-breaking-attempt harp concert. In July, the World Harp Congress is held in the Netherlands, and my old teacher [and a few others] thought the record-breaking-attempt would be fun. I hope we can make it. Now, the problem is I haven’t played harp in forever. And the bigger problem is: I don’t have a harp. So the past few months I’ve been trying to figure this problem out. No good results. Harps aren’t cheap, and they’re not really accessible either. It’s a tough job, getting a harp in your house! Damnit. So now I received the music for the concert on a CD and it sounds awesome, but also like I need to start practicing. I’m going to rethink all of this a little bit more, and then decide what to do. Wish me luck!

Aarghuuuu! I totally have to pack my stuff and get ready and catch a train to go back to the Netherlands today, because we’re celebrating my sister’s birthday tonight! And I woke up late and I can just feel myself not being on a computer again.. so I’m just updating this with this random information! How boring!

edit: I wrote this on the train. Enjoy!

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15:17

We’re on the train now.. an old kind of train but oh well. It takes us where we want to go. This day didn’t start off well, and now things have gotten a little calmer so I feel a little bit more confident, but argh. Just one of those days, you know?

I wanted to get up early, and we wanted to leave early so Muffin could go get some comics in Antwerp.. but then we woke up late.. and all of a sudden he has to do something for work, and we ended up not only missing the train so we could get off in Antwerp and get those comics, but also missing the train to make it to Rotterdam even without getting the comics.

So now we’re on the train that will arrive half an hour after we were supposed to leave in Rotterdam. Which is lame.. but oh well. The trains only go once every hour so we’re only one train late ;] [We were supposed to arrive early in Rotterdam, then leave half an hour later, now we're arriving late and leaving directly from the station].

I hope all that just made sense. But yes, we’re going to be in Antwerp now around 16:00 – the time we should’ve arrived in Rotterdam. Oh well. Nothing you can do about it.

I finally managed to get a new, cheaper, different train card though, so I’m happy. That will save me a lot of money in the long run. I’m getting a little sick of trains and having to travel and paying a lot just to go to the Netherlands.. argh. But I’ve ranted about that for so many times already, I’m also getting sick of ranting. So now I’m just happy. Yay, I got my card. Whoo.

While we were on our way to the station though, we ran into a policeman. Or rather, he just almost rode into Muffin’s bike [I was sitting on the back]. He was like “so what’s two times fifity?” and we were all flabbergastedly going “uh, one hundred.” He responded with “okay, so do you have that on you?” and we answered him we didn’t. He asked if we were planning to go on riding like that, and that we shouldn’t, because it was not allowed. It was hard trying to make sense of it all because really, come on, one hundred euros just for sitting on the back of a bike? “Fifty for the driver and fifty for the other”. Gah. I just couldn’t believe it. Luckily he didn’t fine us, though, that would’ve really made this day suck.

Just blahh.

Not feeling the love today. Today was just a day where I didn’t feel like anything, and everything is a big pile of blah.

I am sooo. out. of. inspiration. to. write.

I have no idea what to write about! I should just finish this layout and content and whatever and get on with it. But I’m lazy. Hmmm. Maybe it’s something to do with the fact that I only got out of bed at 15:40? Ha. But I woke up to something good though! Shoes!

I ordered new shoes and in this life of mine, my favourite wardrobe items are socks [deh], pretty jumperskirts and skirts and then obviously shoes! I mean, come on, what girl doesn’t love shoes?! Haha. I should upload the pictures, they’re just so great!

The most wonderful things about pair two is that they have platform heels. WHEEEEEE! I have a secret [ha, secret?] love for platform shoes. People may think they’re ugly but I think they are a-we-so-me. I guess it’s because I’m a short little girl and ever since I walked on a pair of super high platform shoes I fell in love with being.. tall. Mmhmmmmm. Yes.

Okay, so this is confusing. Watching TV, thinking about cleaning my table so I can go ahead and get on with my crafty project.. and in a minute, The L Word will be on. And that’s a show I religiously watch, one of the reasons being Shane. And I could go on and on and on about what I like about the show and the character Shane, but I won’t, because I’m just going to stop writing and go on with business. Ladida. Cheers.