Category: Lifestyle
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Slam FM Beach Break
Today me and Kimberley are going to the Slam FM Beach Break. It’s my first ever official beach party and I’m all ready to go! It’s going to be jam packed, as the event is sold out and many popular DJs will show off their skills. It’s been a while since I’ve been to any…
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It’s a sad sad day…
Well it is for me anyway. Tonight, I will have my final dance classes of the season as the school closes for summer. Classes won’t start back up until September. 🙁 So what to do now? I will have to do something about all of my excess energy… All I know is… I can’t wait…
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These are a few of my favorite things…
There is this tag going round on youtube where people show 50 random things that are lying around in their room. Now I don’t have to time to record a video and edit it, so I thought I’d turn it into picture posts. So here are 5 random things that are lying around my room.…
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I’m keeping my job!
On Monday I had my appraisal interview and was told that my contract will be renewed and I will be able to stay for another year! YAY!! So I think it’s time for a celebration! Every year it’s an exciting time at the end of the year. I have three appraisal interviews throughout the year.…
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My Bag Collection
Now this is not a very impressive collection, but just thought I would share. I’ve paid no more than 40 – 50 euros for any of these bags and I like bags that will hold a lot of stuff. I will list brands/ where I got them as much as possible. This is how I…
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June will be busy…
… but fun! First of all, today is my final day of teaching full days. I only have two more classes next week and then all of that will be over. That however doesn’t mean that I will have time to slow down just yet. Here’s what’s coming in the next month! Source: wehearit.com Classes…
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No Buy June & July!
I’ve decided to cut down on spending money on stuff I buy but which I don’t need. Sounds logical right? Well, I had promised myself to spend less come 2011 and since I’ve been doing sort of okay, but not as well as I had hoped I would be doing with it. That’s why I’ve…
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Handwriting Tag
Just in case you ever wondered what it would look like if I actually wrote you a message using pen & paper, rather than a computer! I came across this tag on another blog. Questions answered: 1. Name & name of blog 2. Blog URL 3. Write: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy…
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Pretty Pictures
Most of the images I use to illustrate my posts come from one website: weheartit.com. Well, one website. Not really. Weheartit.com is a website which you can join to gather images from around the web that you like. If you like something it is added to the thousands of pictures already liked by other people…
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Being home is so surreal
I’ve been back home for a few days now, but I still can’t seem to fully pick up on my old routine. The result: I’m tired, feel totally out of the loop and disoriented.Yet, life goes on and I’m immediately sucked into this vortex called work. It’s fun, but busy too. I don’t mean to…
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Not too many posts coming up
While you are reading this I will be boarding a plane to England. As you might know I’m away on vacation and a study trip for a few weeks to come. That is why I won’t be blogging as regularly. I have posts set up for the remainder of this week, but I don’t know…
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Hayfever Remedies: some quick tips
Ever since my hayfever became so bad that it actually made me physically sick (read: the flu and sinus infections), I have turned getting any type of relief into an artform. Here’s what I do to stay sane and not let the floral mating season ruin my life. Good luck to everyone going through hell…
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My biggest fear: heights
I am terribly afraid of heights. The type where I’m continuously afraid to fall. It took me years to learn to climb the stairs (I always had to be carried). To compare: my brother was born when I was 2,5 and he climbed the stairs before I did. ‘Open staircases’ are still one of my…
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Most Memorable Gift
I thought I’d share with you the most memorable gifts I have ever received. I am a lucky girl and have always been surrounded by lovely family and friends, so I have plenty of gifts to choose from. However, my favorite and also my most memorable gifts are jewelry pieces I was given or inherited…
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I Need Some Inspiration… Help me Out!
Currently, I am at a bit of a loss for fun topics to blog about. I’ve been searching for fun topics and I have a bunch written down in my notebook. Somehow, those topics are just not IT. I want a topic that I want to write about, but which is also something people want…
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Teaching is Fun! (Or: what I like about my job)
Sometimes, I feel I whine too much about my job and I may come off as not liking it at all. Yes, it’s stressful. Yes, I have lots of grading to do (there’s yet another pile waiting for my appraisal as we speak). Yes, there are usually too few hours in the day to get…
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What modern day item could you take back in time…
…that would make ancient peoples believe you were a God? I found this over at ‘I Always Wondered’ and thought it was fun! […] If you could travel back in time (sidebar: you can’t), and take with you one modern-day item, what item would you take in order to make the people you might encounter…
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5 Handy Cleaning Tips
Remember how your grandmother always knew how to solve things the old-fashioned way? Well here’s a few handy tips I got from my grandma, or which I picked up over time. 1. Peanut Butter Peanut butter isn’t just a very yummy condiment to make sandwiches with. It’s a very versatible product. It makes for a…
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5 Guilty Pleasures
Guilty pleasures. We all have them. Here are the things I like to indulge in every once in a while (or more often). Sweet Tooth I have a major sweet tooth. If it wouldn’t affect my waist line so much, I would live off candy, chocolate, cookies and ice cream. I love food to begin…
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Lil ol’ me
I was just aimlessly browsing my harddrive the other day and found a few pictures of myself as a kid. You already saw a pic of me from 10 years ago, but let’s go even further back in time, shall we? 5 days old. Still in the hospital. 9 months old. I was a fat…
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Quotes I like
A while back I posted my all time favorite quote, but I have a few more. Here are some other quotes I really like. Source: Weheartit.com We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves ~ Galileo Galilei “I look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend…
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It’s that time of year again…
… where I have to watch what I eat and stick to my work out routine more than usual. I’ve been noticing that come spring time I get major cravings for all sweet and bad foods especially chocolate. Giving into these cravings only results in me ballooning ever so slightly (more or less depending on…
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Perseverance is key
I think of myself as fairly successful in life. I’m not rich or famous, but I wouldn’t want neither of that. I’m happy with what I have achieved in life and I am working on doing more of it. Up to this point, I have always achieved the things I have wanted to achieve (going…
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Vacay is almost over!
Just a bit of an update post on lil old me. Today is the last day of spring break for me, and I was just sitting here thinking of something to blog about when I figured it would be nice to just write something about myself and how I am doing. So here goes. First…
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How to organize your stuff
Once a year, usually around spring time, I get this urge to sort through all my stuff and reorganize it. I throw things out, move things round and occasionally I’ll even move around my furniture. Since I went through another episode just yesterday and I am rather picky about organizing my stuff, I thought I’d…
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45 Things Tag
Thanks to Noelle, who posted this on her blog a few days ago. 9 things about myself: I’m a pack rat I still have all my old cassette tapes I subscribe to both Time Magazine and Newsweek My favorite color is red I live on a canal I love to try new things (esp. food…
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How not to get bored when traveling
My daily commute takes about 1,5 hours one way. I spend so much time on trains and in railway stations, by now I have perfected the art of fighting boredom when traveling. Here’s what I do to keep from getting bored. The first thing you need is a big enough bag that is sturdy enough…
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Uni is treating me well…
… my health however isn’t. Just today I was told by my doctor that I have bronchitis. So that’s where the week long coughing came from. Oh well. At least I now get to call in sick with a good reason and not some vague cold symptoms. I was given antibiotics which I’m gonna start…
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Bring on Spring Time!
I think February may be my least favorite month of the year. Why? Well, it’s not really winter, but the weather is still dreary, murky and cold. At the same time you know that you’re only a few weeks away from spring! Which means: the sun peeking in from time to time, the start of…
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My not so new ‘new’ bag
Remember yesterday’s wish list post? Well I can already scratch one item from that list, without spending a single dime. I have been pining for a nice sturdy, big enough, brown bag for literally years. However, none of the bags I ever found came close to what I was looking for. Until I was browsing…