Hello wonderful winter – Goodbye beautiful Autumn!!!

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It’s been a while, sorry…. :(

I do want to share some of my autumn pictures with you! We had an absolutely fabulous autumn this year, I don’t remember the last time when the colours were this bright. We had a couple of days of heavy rain and storm, but I actually like that once in a while, but other than that the rest of autumn was gorgeous, sunny and warm.

So now it’s wintertime, this is my favourite season, but I don’t like it the way it is now, it’s too warm, no snow, no icy cold :( I hope it will come soon!

Hope you have a wonderful winter too wherever you are!

My autumn pics:

This one was my favourite of this series:

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Weirdly curled-up tree:

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Hope you enjoyed this selection!

Love,

M.

A lovely Autumn day at the beach.

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So Autumn is raging through the Netherlands at the moment with thunderstorms, hail, and rain showers. Most people hate this season and even though I understand why, I don’t. I love the change in scenery, the colours, the smell of rain on fresh fallen leafs and I love sitting on the couch with a nice hot cup of tea looking out of the window, watching nature’s story unfold.

I haven’t been to the forest yet, but I intend to do so soon so I can take some nice pictures of the fall colours. I did go to the beach today and even though the sky was grey the weather was actually pretty nice, chilly but not to cold, dry and sometimes even a bit sunny.

Here’s a compilation of the day, hope you enjoy!

Love,

M.

Balou:

Annemieke and Balou:

My Instagram website

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Hi guys! It’s been a while, I’m super sorry I’m not posting more regularly, it’s just… well, not much is happening at the moment.

I do have some really really good news! I graduated!! Yay me, I’m a Master of Arts now :) And the proof that I really did:

Other than that I do upload pictures on Instagram once in a while and since a couple of days they’ve finally got their web version up and running so now I can share my Instagram pics with you too. Just have a look, you might see some I’ve posted on my blog already but there’s loads of new ones too.

Here’s the link:

Somedaysoonart’s Instagram

So click, have a look and if you have Instagram yourself, follow :)

Have a good day!

Love,

M.

Funeral for my heart.

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“I’ll bury my heart, I’ll bury it for you.
Deep in earth’s soil, never to be touched again.”

What is it with love that makes us all so vulnerable. And why does it hit so fast and impact so greatly? Is this weakness or strength? And will it ever hurt any less?

Dating-sites eh???

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I’d like to talk about dating-sites… I was given the assignment of having a look at some of them and thought, why not? I am single and who knows, I might come across a nice bloke.

I never thought it would be such a terribly annoying experience and at some times I even felt ashamed, humiliated and angry. It even got up to a point were I could literally feel my blood-pressure go up and I started to scream at my computer (yes, that was one of the humiliating moments).

Ever heard of Zoosk? They actually make you choose between; yes I want children, or no I do not want children… Where is the option maybe??? I am 30, just finished my Masters degree and I have no clue whether I want children or not. And I certainly do not wish to be forced into such a decision by a dating-site… Plus it would give a false representation of who I am because if I say no, I will only get linked to men who also said no, byebye opportunity of ever having children. Or, if I would say yes, vice versa, I’m stuck with men who do want children and byebye freedom??? I do not wish to answer this question with either yes or no.

So I sent Zoosk an email, kindly asking them to add a maybe button, I’m still waiting for their answer.

So when I finally got through the whole registration procedure I started to look through some of the men, I got bored pretty quickly, none of them were even slightly compatible to me, sigh. I left the site open and continued with some other work when suddenly I got a popup saying that someone requested to chat with me. Okay, I looked at his profile and he seemed like a nice guy so I clicked yes, on the chat request. I got redirected to download a chat application… My frustration started to rise, but ok, I downloaded the app.

Finally after a couple of minutes I managed to get in touch with this man telling him I’m sorry, I’m new at this and still trying to figure out how everything works. He responded: **********

So I answered: I cannot read this, clicked on send and got a popup which basically said if you wish to continue please pay a stupid amount of money. I deleted the account there and then. I truly do not mind paying for these services but I do wish to have the chance of trying it out for a couple of days first. I would like to know what I’m paying for.

After this experience I thought maybe I should have a look at a dating-site that aims at higher educated people, not because that is my standard but in the hope it would cancel out some of the weirdos I came across on Zoosk.

My choice fell on Edarling, I liked the tv adds and the website looked nice. BIG MISTAKE!!!

It starts with me having to register my personal details which on page 1 are quite normal questions such as date of birth, marital status, education etc.

But then comes page 2, and this is where the anger, annoyance, shame and humiliation starts.

What is your profession: None of your business at this stage. (answer not accepted)
Hight… ok fair enough, ethnicity also a normal question.

Then come this part:
sense of style (ehm, excuse me, who am I to judge this?)
attractiveness (isn’t this in the eye of the beholder, who am I to say I am, and who in it’s right mind would answer this with no, I am butt-ugly…)
Athletic (What?)
Overweight (I am not kidding, they actually ask this! I am slightly overweight, and found this question severely insulting. I don’t want to answer this with yes! But if I don’t I would be lying. I felt so terribly ashamed and humiliated!)
Plainness (Excuse me??? Who would ever say I am plain, and isn’t this also a very personal opinion, person A might find someone plain where person B might find this same person extremely exciting.)
Sexiness (again, excuse me? Wasn’t this a dating-site for the higher educated? What kind of question is this? Yeah dear, I love to flash my boobs whenever I can because I’m just so damn hot)

The worst part is that you are forced to answer these ridiculous questions if you wish to continue, there is no option to skip them.

F-you Edarling! I cancelled my registration, didn’t even got the chance of meeting the men on this one.

Now what I would like to know is what are your experiences with these dating-sites? Pro’s and con’s! I am really curious!

Love M.

Time flies… and then you hit the big 3-0!

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Wowwww, it’s been a while hasn’t it? Well, I haven’t fallen off the face of the earth but I have been in a self-imposed exile. I only interrupted this for my 30th (yes, I hit the big 3-0…) birthday and a concert of my absolute no.1 band the Cure.

Both were unforgettable days! I spent my birthday with some of my closest friends in a tapas restaurant and we had a great evening. I had seen the Cure live 4 years ago when they played a 3,5!!! hour set. It felt like a 3,5 hour long dream and I wanted it to last forever. I cannot even begin to explain how much their music means to me and how much their music has helped me throughout the years. So seeing them live again was a treat! They played at a festival and were scheduled to play for about 1,5 hours. However, they started about 15 minutes early and finished almost 45 minutes late. Giving us a 2,5 hour set. I was over the moon! What a lovely break from stress that was!

So why have I been in exile? For the past month or so I have been working pretty much non-stop to finish my master thesis and as the deadline approaches my stress-level is rising. All I keep thinking is almost done, almost done, just a couple thousand more words :D

The problem is, I’m too much of a perfectionist when it comes to my work, I double check everything and doubt myself constantly. Another problem that occurred during my process of writing was having a supervisor that, let’s put this nicely, was not that much involved with my work… Furthermore, she gave me bad advise causing me to doubt my working-method altogether. Suddenly something I have been doing for the past 6 years was wrong. My style of writing was wrong, my approach was wrong and she basically asked me to change everything I had learned for the past years.

I took a year off to over-think everything and finally decided that I needed someone else to supervise me, someone who would help me instead of making me doubt myself. After some struggle I finally managed to get a different supervisor and I could continue my work.

I’m really drained at the moment and it takes every bit of energy to keep going. Just one more week and I have to hand in my first draft. Fingers crossed it will be good enough and that I don’t have to edit too much!

Ahhh, just look at all those books! It drives me insane :D Fortunately I have my little penguin friend to keep me motivated.

Wish me luck right now, I could use all the positive energy you can send me!

Love M.

Fantasy Faces ~ Elf Fantasy Fair at Castle Haar ter Haarzuilen.

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These are the fantasy faces of Elf Fantasy Fair 2012 on Sunday!

I don’t even know where to begin when complimenting the people that were there last Sunday! Your costumes were awesome and I could clearly see that most spend months and months of time working on them. They were simply brilliant.

I took about 1000 pictures that day and over 800 were of people. I took most of them with my standard lens but I also used a zoom lens, I think this is wonderful because you can capture people without them knowing it and those mostly are the best pictures. So if you happen to come across your own picture please do not feel offended, you are here because I loved the way you looked! However, if you want me to take it down just let me know and I will.

Having that said, enjoy these beautiful creative fantasy creatures!

This couple was by far my favourite of the day!

Some adorable children:

Dance-entertainment:

R2D2:

Obviously I wasn’t the only photographer :D

And Finally Robin Hobb signing books:

Love,

M.

Castle Haar ter Haarzuilen ~ Elf Fantasy Fair

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Elf Fantasy Fair is one of the biggest fantasy festivals in Europe and even though I am a huge fantasy fan I never went. But this year I did (last Sunday) and I have to say, I am a fan! The location is amazing, the people were awesome and on top of that I scored a signature of one of my favourite authors, Robin Hobb who was there for lectures and signings.

Of course I brought my camera and I took about 1000 pictures (seriously, I did) and I decided to split the selection I made over three blog posts. This post I will use to show you the castle, surroundings and nature, because that was just breathtakingly beautiful! The second post I will use to show you some of the HDR pictures I took and the third post I will use to show you all the wonderful and unusual characters I managed to capture.

It was quite a strange day weather-wise, it went from rain to sun to hail to sun etc.

I sincerely hope you enjoyed the scenery, I certainly did!

Love,

M.

Amsterdam Central Station

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I have to go to Amsterdam once or twice a week for my studies. For the past years they have been renovating the Central Station and I have to say it really is an improvement. Right now the platforms are getting a makeover.

Turkish president Gul was visiting our country and on Tuesday he visited the royal palace on the Damsquare:

It has been rainy and cloudy the past days, kind of miserable, but the Koger-church always looks lovely:

We did have a lovely sunset today:

And the cats were behaving well:

That’s it for now,

Night night!

M.

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