Devastated.

They cremated my cat today. I am so heartbroken that I wasn’t there with her, her last few days.. I can’t believe that next time I’ll go up to Rotterdam, she won’t be there. It’s a very hollow feeling that I’m having right now.

Yeah, that’s right! I have "bangs" as they say in America, or "a fringe" as they say in the UK. The dutch word is "pony", but in Belgium they call it a "froufrou" [I hope that's the correct spelling]. I don’t know how my posts always end up to be semi-language-lessons, but I guess I just like to communicate with a lot of people and felt the need to explain the word "pony". Haha. I also have other ponies, but you know. This is a different kind of pony

I’ll show pictures in a second. First, I wanted to apologise for my lack of updates recently. The problem is that’s it been exam month [which means nothing interesting happening to blog about, or just no time to blog when I did finally get out of the house to do something] and that the charger for Nymphadora is dying. Actually, I think it’s pretty dead. Which pisses me off, because now I’m on Muffin’s laptop and it’s running on Windows and blaaah. I want my own stuff! My own little desktop and Apple-goodness. But no… no charger means no battery life means no time for all that. Boo.

Second, I did go back to my dad’s house in Rotterdam, where I found my old photos! I made a CD-compilation of old photos from 2005 til early 2007 before I moved to Belgium, but they never moved with me and now I’m soooo happy to have these back! I was missing a few photos from 2007 and that made me sad [cause I just wanted to make a Day In My Life post with those]. But now I have them back and I get two more years of photo-goodness! That’s been a total blast, going through those CDs and just laughing at all my crazy stuff. Crazy hair, crazy clothes, crazy bracelets… you name it! Parts of me wants to share some of those photos since they’re just so hilarious, but another part of me is a little bit ashamed, haha. I did share a few on LiveJournal though, and might make another [few?] posts with the hilarity of my life, so if you have LJ, come on over! Haha.

So on to pictures of my face as it is right now! With a pony!

Thumbnails for joy, more after the jump!

[Note: I'm not a fan of the 'read more' thing, but you know how much I like big-sized photos in things. So I'm warning you now: there's 16 photos of the process of my shaving, cutting and dyeing my hair! And then some more photos of the result. So 25 pics, eep.]

That sort of rhymed! Happy New Year everyone! Or, as we say in Dutch, Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! And in French: Bonne Année. In Gaeilge one could say Athbhliain Faoi Mhaise Dhuit and the Vietnamese one will be saved for Vietnamese new year!

I really want to make an update about my Christmas and time in Paris, also about the time that followed in Rotterdam and New Year’s Eve back in Gent, but… I have to study! I have to study desperately, beh. So I’ll leave you for now with the promise of more updates later. I just wanted to celebrate the New Year. I hope 2009 will bring lots of updates and good stuff for striped-socks. As well as myself and all my readers I wish you all the best!

I made a desktop wallpaper thingie for the holidays, although they are now sort of over, my Christmas always lasts a little longer [as well as starts a little early. My Christmas starts in October and ends somewhere in January/February] so I thought you might enjoy it. I made it 1280×800 only, but who knows. I might make a desktop-page where you can download the desktop wallpapers I make, in other sizes too For now just enjoy this one if you want!

Happy Holidays desktop wallpaper. Copyright Viviane Cornelissen/mmmmuffins 2008.