Scraps

February, wintertime

2012-02-03T23:06:00.000+01:00

It took long enough, but this afternoon it finally started snowing. Only a little bit... Pictures was after about 3-4 hours of snow.

The lack of events makes for a lack of posts.The christmas tree was pretty much the same as last year, so I didn't even bother to snap one of it...

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Hyacinth

2011-12-01T20:07:00.001+01:00

By lack of events, a flower! Next week I'll have my christmas tree up again, so that'll be fun ;)

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Glow 2011

2011-11-10T16:53:00.000+01:00

Well, as promised some pictures of Glow Eindhoven 2011. Sadly, it wasn't as impressive as last year, so there aren't that many pictures. I'm not sure why it wasn't like last year, but I really missed the colours this year.
These pictures are from pieces at the TU/e (Eindhoven University of Technology), KvK building (Chamber of Commerce), Luminarie de Cagna at the trainstation and the "Tunnel of Love".
Hopefully still somewhat enjoyable ;)

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My guinea pig, the contortionist

2011-11-02T14:58:00.000+01:00

Due to oneof my guinea pigs, Pien, positioning herself in one of the most awkwardpositions again today, I decided to find back other pictures of her. Ever sincewe got her she's been a bit of a weird one.

We've had afair amount of guinea pigs (currently we're looking after number 4 and 5,Beertje and Pien) and they all have some quirk of their own.

The firstone was a "special" guinea pig, Sjakie, he didn't get very old but hewas a great pig.

Number 2 and3 were a pair of females, Trijntje and Koosje. They were relatively normal forpigs. Trijntje was mean to anyone who wasn't me (weird) and Koosje was a pigthat preferred to be alone (weird). Needless to say, this was a bad match.

Beertje andPien, however, have to be the weirdest ones we ever had. They get along great with eachother, which is insanely cute to see.

BeertjeADORES people and is very curious. I could just as easily find 10 pictures ofher with her nose in the camera.

Pien is...Pien. At first sight she seems to be afraid of everything, but by now I'mpretty sure it's her way of playing. Whenever you try to pick her up she runsaway (as opposed to Beertje; she just sits there looking at you practicallybegging to be picked up), but once you grab a hold of her she becomes aragdoll. Which is sometimes kind of annoying, because when she's for example onyour leg and tips over she makes absolutely no effort to correct herself, soshe just falls off. If you're lucky she'll get up then, but half the time shejust keeps sleeping next to your leg.

I guess she just loves her sleep. Anywhere, anytimeand in any position.

It started when she was a little piglet and decided myhoodies were a great place to sleep during cuddle-time:

Nice and warm.

Then shedecided the position doesn't matter much either:

Comfy!

Just like a baby.

Streeeeeetch!

The best way to sleep is with a buddy to keep you warm:

Next to eachother...

or under her butt, that's warm too.

Sometimes we need our own space.

And as for todays remarkable piece...

I can almost sniff my own butt!!!

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Trees!

2011-10-17T09:57:00.002+02:00

Looking for a job makes a person slightly lazy, I found out. And if something's not good for me, it's being lazy. So lately I've been finding a lot of activities to do, that I would normally not even occur to me. I'm working out 3 days a week, starting ballroom dancing this week (or salsa, we decide tuesday. But I'm leaning to ballroom.) and for the last few weekends I've found all this stuff to do! My rollerblades came out from all the spiderwebs covering it, and using them made it obvious the wheels could use some greasing. Standing on a hill and not rolling down is not how wheels are supposed to work.
Yesterday we took a walk in the forrest. Our town has two, so the other one is going to need discovering too. But maybe next time we should figure out the routes, before we walk into it. Turns out that if you don't know the way and just follow the arrows, you're walking for over 2 hours. But it was pretty and quiet, for the most part. And muddy. Of course I had to find that out accidentally. The result: I have some shoes to clean today.
We didn't see many spectacular things. There was a little mouse that seemed to wonder whether my man's shoes were a nice place to sit on, but the constant moving made it impossible to take a picture of it. So scenery will have to do for now ;)

Only a few more weeks until Glow 2011 (which means my birthday is coming awfully close too, eek!) and next week is Dutch Design Week, so who knows...

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Lichtjesroute 2011

2011-09-26T10:12:00.001+02:00

Just a quick one. At the moment the "Lichtjesroute" is set out in Eindhoven. Throughout the city there are ornaments of light leading you around (in a circle, ha!). It starts every year at the 18th September, to celebrate the end of World War II for Eindhoven. The pictures aren't great, but good enough to get the idea!
Early November will be the start of Glow again, so more lights then ;)

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Rainbow

2011-09-23T10:17:00.001+02:00

This pretty rainbow showed up the other evening, right before we left off to go to the fair. It was a really clear one, opposed to the usual ones that are only vaguely visible.
We have a Dutch saying that goes: "When there's a rainbow, there's a fair in hell.". Talk about a scary coincidence?

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Butterflies

2011-09-12T15:41:00.005+02:00

I like bugs. Or animals, but with the spiders here and now the butterflies it's probably safe to make the former statement. This time I went to visit the Blue Beauty Butterflyfestival, with butterflies from South-America in a teensy weensy greenhouse. Since butterflies are pretty, I took some pretty pictures; I'm sure that logic is valid! They're probably not as pretty as the pictures the people with the huge intimidating camera's took, but since I'm poor I'll have to deal with my cameraphone. Say what you will, but I think my pictures turn out pretty decent :p So enjoy!

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Pets

2011-09-01T08:43:00.003+02:00

I just want to mention that my guinea pigs are the cutest ever. Spoiled rotten, but still: the cutest ever. Usually my mom feeds them, but when she's gone on vacation I get to feed them. They have always liked me, but somehow when I'm the one bringing the food they like me even more. Guess they're kind of like men... ;)
Now, their cage is situated pretty much next to the kitchen door. You actually have to kind of walk around the cage when coming out of there (they have a pretty big cage). And since I'm in charge of food now, this is what I see whenever I try to leave the kitchen. I'd almost pity them... But trust me, they couldn't have possibly been hungry. They have their normal guinea pig food, lots of hay ánd they had 6 thick slices of cucumber, pieces of pear, half a paprica and a carrot that day. And on top of that they each get a guinea pig treat from my brother every day. But their day just isn't complete without andive. Like I said, spoiled rotten!

We also adopted a new pet. According to my manfriend (I don't consider a 25 year old a "boy") it came running out from under my mom's hangbag. After taking evidence I decided this new roommate got to live in the vacuumcleaner, but we haven't seen it since. Very rude, if you ask me!
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Scheveningen beach

2011-08-30T08:59:00.006+02:00

More beach pictures! This time from a place in the Netherlands. The weather was (obviously) much worse than when we were in Belgium, but through all the clouds I still somehow manage to get sunburned. Pretty badly too, it hurt like heck. Not to mention I "forgot" to switch sides (I didn't think I'd get burned with so little sun). So that made my weekend complete: a sore behind from riding a bike with the most uncomfortable seat ever and an entire sore backside from catching some sun. Luckily it all went away in a matter of days.
First, a picture of a cow. I'm not sure if they have this system in other places, but I didn't see it in Belgium. Different images on high poles are spread all over the beach, so when kids get lost it's a bit easier to find their parents (or it's easier to find your stuff back, after a swim) as they remember the picture. It looks kind of weird, having animals straight out of a Bruna book on a beach, but whatever works!
Then a pictures with a bunch of kites. At one point there were seven of the same type of kite up there, together with a plane shaped one. It looked amazingly cute and I'm not sure why none ever got stuck together. Those kids must have been experienced kiterunners!

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Park Hilaria

2011-08-10T09:31:00.004+02:00

Park Hilaria is an annual fair in Eindhoven. The pic is a view of the "skyline", except maybe in the wrong direction... (The direction of the highways that leads out of town, the A2 and A50) But considering the Park is almost in the middle of the city I guess you can't really get a skyline picture, huh? I took it after a few rides that left me nauseated... But hey, we kept on smiling! I'm just glad the picture didn't turn out upside down ;)

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Ghent and Paris

2011-07-26T14:55:00.006+02:00

So I went on a little vacation for a week and ended up in Ghent (the festivities are awesome) and Paris. Paris was a flash visit, arrived on a fridayafternoon and left on sundaymorning. So basically we ended up seeing a lot of stuff in one day. Lots of walking, lots of stairs and luckily they had lots of metro's. The picture is a view from the dome of Basilique du Sacré-coeur. 300 steps in a tower to make you dizzy as heck, but very worth it!

While in Ghent we spent a day at the beach in Blankenberge, where I tried out my kite and visited the Serpentarium. As usual, the pictures say it all :)
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P.S. I have no idea why that one picture keeps screwing up on me, but whatever... It'll just be an odd layout this time :p

Vacation

2011-07-12T10:29:00.005+02:00

So it's been a while since the last post, which has more to do with my lazyness than anything else. It's not like making a post takes hours or anything... Granted I have been kind of busy last week. Summer vacation started unofficially, so that means having a few days off and then having to go back to school to pick up the grades from the exams. They weren't good enough to pass, so in a month or 2 I officially won't be a student anymore (going to re-take O-chem and biochem in september, probably). Sucks, because I made great friends in the last half year, but on the other hand I'm kind of sick of studying, especially when it's all theory. I'm more of a hands-on kind of person.

On the 5th I went to shop in Germany, where the sign you see was found in a parking garage. We found it funny, yet insulting. Even though when we went back to the car we saw why it was there... A woman parked her car diagonally across one of those parking spots, despite the extra signs telling the women to park decently. I obviously never parked there. For one because all the places were full, but also because I always made a point of practising my parking when I first got my license (and still do) so that I never had to be one of those women who can't park. So as a protesting action I parked in a "men's spot", I guess you would call it?

So my vacation started and last week I've kept busy. Saturday was a wild night, lots of fun. One to remember, although it was kind of creepy and weird. This week I'm already bored. I guess that's vacation for you. Luckily I'll be off to Belgium again this weekend to enjoy the festivities for a few days. And that's how we keep busy for a few days at a time! After that I can study for those exams again, hooray... Enjoy your summer and I'll take a few minutes to post again, soon!

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Best idea ever

2011-06-28T17:48:00.002+02:00

One exam left for us to take, this friday. Most students are by now done with theirs, but we're going until the very last day of this period. Needless to say, motivation has taken a dive. Especially after monday's dramatic events (a teacher asking if you didn't have enough time to study, and then later asking if perhaps the whole class had an exam the friday before). So I wanted something that would at least resemble a break. With it being so hot today (and yesterday) and no sign of any of the predicted rain, I sent out a message to a few friends if they maybe wanted to go to the park and study there. One didn't answer early enough, but the other was easily persuaded to come along.

She ended up reading the stuff out loud, because that's how she best learns things, and I ended up listening, because that's what works best for me. Win-win. And of course it's easier to remember things when there are muscular topless men sitting around. Linking memories and all. :) It should be this hot more often... All the nice bodies come out, rawr!

Either way, while studying my eye was caught by this lady bug. I have seen black with red ones before, but never with a spot shaped like a half-moon. It didn't like me much, so I'm pretty proud I managed to get a picture of it. I actually got two, but the other one had the focus on the grass, so that didn't work out too well...

Luckily now rain is on the way, hopefully it will cool down a bit. 34 ˚C is a bit too much, even for me!
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Found it!

2011-06-23T13:02:00.003+02:00

It seems the sun has been lost the last few weeks. Not that I mind, nothing is worse than studying when it's ridiculously sunny and warm outside (yes next week, I'm talking to you!). But I found the sun! While studying, in my ecophysiology course! Hooray! (Yes, I'm bored. It's my lunchbreak and I'm going nuts over all this studying. 60 pages per day!)
I better enjoy this moment while I can... This weekend I get to (try and) study 600 pages. In two days.

Yeah, I don't see that happening either.
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Exams

2011-06-16T10:09:00.005+02:00

I hate exams. I'm sure no one really likes them to begin with, but this year is a whole new level. In the three years of my bachelor I never really minded them much, we had fairly easy courses and they were a lot more interesting than what we have now. Somehow they all made more sense, too. Now we just get huge courses and we have to remember stuff you can't really use or relate to. Like a whole lot of Latin names for groups and families of bugs, 300 pages of them.... Or chemistry exams where the answers to the questions can't be found in the course.
I'm starting to understand why only 40% of the students managed to pass the year, last year...
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Cows

2011-06-02T10:06:00.005+02:00

Turns out not running is good for something. To end up petting cute cows on a hill, for example.
A few days earlier we went running and I tried getting up a pile of sand. Which worked, but one foot slipped right before I reached the top, so I guess that hurt my hip.
On this particular day when I tried to run, we ended up walking instead. And I figured we'd at least need a good view from a hill. We ended up finding two meadows with cows on there, all young animals and very curious. A little bit of waving caught their attention and cows being cows they just had to come over to see what was up.
Just be careful when you try this. Their tongues are slimey as heck! :p

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I'm still alive

2011-05-08T21:48:00.002+02:00

In case anyone was wondering... You never know. I'm wayyyy busy though. Social lives are apparently overrated in Belgium. That being said, I think I should get ready to go to sleep now. So more later. Like, in 5 months :p Or not, we'll see! At least I'm still alive :D
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The christmas tree

2010-12-12T22:19:00.006+01:00

Behold, the end result of me decorating my tree! I did an exquisite job, if I may say so myself ;)
Yes, I realise that I can't see the tv this way, but the thing is not connected anyway, so all I could watch on it are DVD's. I can watch those on my laptop just as well!

And while we're working on the christmassy ambience anyway, I guess I could include a picture of my very first snowangel ever. I've been told I did a pretty good job, apparently making a good snowangel isn't easy. I didn't notice much of that, to be honest.

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Fresh start

2010-12-09T16:25:00.004+01:00

I've noticed Mark removed my other blog, which I used to post absolutely nothing of any relevance. So I decided to go use this. As long as I can remember my password, I should be good :p

I do ramble on a lot. I pretty much type what I think, and I rarely stop thinking. The times that I do are the times I have my "blonde moments".

Anyway, I spent my day today getting things in check. I started a new study, and it's hard on me. I needed a day out of school and anything related to it, and a day away from people. Since I only had 2 hours of class anyway, I figured today would be the day this would hurt the less. So de-stressing it is!

On such days I sleep, watch movies and clean. I love it. Especially the cleaning part. I'm not sure why, but I always feel much better about myself after I cleaned :p I still need to mop the floor though, but that would require me to go to the store to get tile cleaner. And since I wanted a day without people I'll save that task for like.. Next week or something.

Now, it's already much later than I thought, but I'm going to put up some christmas songs and then decorate my christmas tree, for all the world to see :D (I appear to be a teensy weensy bit poetic today). See you there :)

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Dentist

2009-09-03T11:30:00.006+02:00

I have always been under the impression that one would go to the dentist if they had a toothache. Turns out you can go to the dentist fine and come home with a toothache, too.

I've never been afraid of the dentist, in all my life. Better yet, I loved going to the dentist, because nothing ever really happened, but whenever something did I'd get a Disney story book. I still have them all, though in my memory there were more. Guess I didn't get holes fixed as often as I remember... (I only remember getting the books and virtually nothing of the procedure)
Mom just never made a big deal out of it.

I think I might change my opinion now though, I really believe one shouldn't come home worse than they went. Imagine doctors worked that way...

So two days ago I had my 6-monthly regular check-up, which went fine. I just needed to go back the next day to have some tartar removed from behind my (fixed) retainer. Nothing shocking, been there, done that. Although the last time was years ago.
But yesterday apparently was a different matter. I did notice the woman did a lot of tugging on my molars. "I'll clean your whole mouth, so it's nice and neat again.". Yes, very neat indeed. The teeth are clean.
So clean that this morning I woke up with my molars aching. After a closer inspection I noticed one of them is a bit loose.

So here I am, with pain in my mouth and my precious molar hopefully trying to fix itself back in my jaw. Hopefully next time less tugging! And I didn't even get my Disney Book :(

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2 pictures for today

2009-07-31T20:32:00.005+02:00

First off, something that I've been noticing while driving home. It's on a tree right outside our town and the tree's been marked. Not sure what it is exactly, but it's huge and it sounds like wood when you knock on it :p Maybe someone could tell me?

Second picture was made yesterday, a pretty rainbow :) Nothing else to add there!

Lazy guinea pigs, ahoy!

2009-07-27T17:26:00.005+02:00

And of course they're unbelievably cute, so I've added their handsomeness to it aswell :)