I'm sitting here alone on Valentine's Day, with a major cold, sipping a cup of tea and attemting to recuperate from God-know's-what. I'm not really feeling too well. The problem is, I haven't been feeling too well for the last couple of months.
Truth is, I don't like the winter at all. I can't stand it. The whole winter long I'm sniffly, attempting to make it through the day with cups of tea and lots of tissues and vitamin pills. Winter is also extremely bad for my skin, and my eczema has been spreading itself throughout my body like some kind of bad disease. That's also the reason I haven't been using my super new cool webcam I got for Christmas lately (new...OK, it's been two months, but whatever,) because I don't actually want anyone to see what I look like at the moment.
Trust me, it's baaddddddddd.
Winter also shifts my mindset. It makes my brain settle down into a kind of foggy depression, and my energy level is generally very low. Winter also gives me dandruff, causes me to sleep badly, etcetera, etcetera...so if I'm ever grumpy, you know what my problem is. I always try to stay optimistic, though...it's almost March (half-way February) so the end is in sight. In the spring everything goes back to normal,and I go back to being happy and chipper again. :)
Happy Valentine's Day everyone, to everyone who is celebrating it.
Peace out,
Brooke
Friday, February 5, 2010
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Saturday, December 19, 2009
Finally-CHRISTMAS VACATION HAS ARRIVED. :o
I haven't been more glad with having vacation then I am now.
I slept for 12 hours last night and I didn't even wake up feeling that refreshed. :O Talk about having to catch up on sleep.
But yeah...the last days before the vacation were fun. :)
Thursday it was: the Christmas dance. There are pictures of me on my school website, but I'd actually prefer not to post them here, seeing as I look a bit far gone. :)
Yes, I must admit, I did drink something. (Me already being 16, the legal drinking age in the Netherlands, I allowed myself a drink or two.) It wasn't that much, only two glasses of rose, but I'm not used to drinking alcohol and got very sleepy at the end when they were taking pictures. It was fun, though. The only annoying things were:
1. I can't really dance so I was just sort of moving along occasionally to make it look like I was making an effort (haha.)
2. I was standing underneath a balcony ( they were celebrating the dance in a rented room at a party center/bowling alley) where a couple of IDIOTS were pouring beer on people and my beautiful dress got covered in it.
But other then that, I thought it was great. Some people were so far gone it was hilarious. Raoul, this friend of mine, had drunk 9 beers and claimed he wasn't drunk.... (yeah right. I saw the way he was dancing and it was pretty clear to me. XD Sorry, Raoul, if you ever read this. Not that it was that bad....but the way you were dancing with Thirza was kind of questionable.)
The next day we had to be at school at 9(!) o'clock for Christmas breakfast with the class and we had to give a presentation. And remember, the dance lasted until one o' clock. We were a class full of zombies with bags under our eyes and major hangovers.
Ow. My poor abused brain.....
But yes. I'm home now and I can cuddle up on the warm couch by the christmas tree.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! :)
Love,
Brooke
I slept for 12 hours last night and I didn't even wake up feeling that refreshed. :O Talk about having to catch up on sleep.
But yeah...the last days before the vacation were fun. :)
Thursday it was: the Christmas dance. There are pictures of me on my school website, but I'd actually prefer not to post them here, seeing as I look a bit far gone. :)
Yes, I must admit, I did drink something. (Me already being 16, the legal drinking age in the Netherlands, I allowed myself a drink or two.) It wasn't that much, only two glasses of rose, but I'm not used to drinking alcohol and got very sleepy at the end when they were taking pictures. It was fun, though. The only annoying things were:
1. I can't really dance so I was just sort of moving along occasionally to make it look like I was making an effort (haha.)
2. I was standing underneath a balcony ( they were celebrating the dance in a rented room at a party center/bowling alley) where a couple of IDIOTS were pouring beer on people and my beautiful dress got covered in it.
But other then that, I thought it was great. Some people were so far gone it was hilarious. Raoul, this friend of mine, had drunk 9 beers and claimed he wasn't drunk.... (yeah right. I saw the way he was dancing and it was pretty clear to me. XD Sorry, Raoul, if you ever read this. Not that it was that bad....but the way you were dancing with Thirza was kind of questionable.)
The next day we had to be at school at 9(!) o'clock for Christmas breakfast with the class and we had to give a presentation. And remember, the dance lasted until one o' clock. We were a class full of zombies with bags under our eyes and major hangovers.
Ow. My poor abused brain.....
But yes. I'm home now and I can cuddle up on the warm couch by the christmas tree.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! :)
Love,
Brooke
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Oh yeah.........
I was going to write about the Hague. I've been so terribly busy lately I haven't had time to breathe, eat, go to the bathroom properly (sorry...too much information...) floss or put on matching socks, let alone do something as properly useless as writing on a blog. Especially a blog very little people read except myself. :D But you never know, that might change one day...
Seeing as I don't have pictures (die horrible camera DIE) because I have a crappy-ass camera of which the battery dies every 5 minutes. I asked my dad for a camera last year
I must say, it was really awesome. :O
We went to Parlement, the Ministry of Defense, en the Haags Gemeente Museum (roughly translated, the County Museum of the Hague) where I saw works, close-up and personal, of artists like Cezanne, Piet Mondriaan (Dutchman, I'm glad some of his works are actually hanging in museums in the Netherlands) and Picasso.
I should actually be in bed right now (guility looks at the clock) and I promise, PROMISE, that I will actually write more useful things in my blog as soon as I have the time.( I still have to write about Sinterklaas, my awesome dress I got for the Christmas dance (which is Thursday) and perhaps fill out that interview I stole from Roseanne's blog. Not to mention do something about this freakish cheery Granny Smith lay-out, which is hurting my eyes.)
Next week is the start of the Christmas holidays so I'll have oceans of time to sip hot chocolate, crawl under a blanket, read War and Peace, or perhaps take time to write on my blog!
Seeing as I don't have pictures (die horrible camera DIE) because I have a crappy-ass camera of which the battery dies every 5 minutes. I asked my dad for a camera last year
I must say, it was really awesome. :O
We went to Parlement, the Ministry of Defense, en the Haags Gemeente Museum (roughly translated, the County Museum of the Hague) where I saw works, close-up and personal, of artists like Cezanne, Piet Mondriaan (Dutchman, I'm glad some of his works are actually hanging in museums in the Netherlands) and Picasso.
I should actually be in bed right now (guility looks at the clock) and I promise, PROMISE, that I will actually write more useful things in my blog as soon as I have the time.( I still have to write about Sinterklaas, my awesome dress I got for the Christmas dance (which is Thursday) and perhaps fill out that interview I stole from Roseanne's blog. Not to mention do something about this freakish cheery Granny Smith lay-out, which is hurting my eyes.)
Next week is the start of the Christmas holidays so I'll have oceans of time to sip hot chocolate, crawl under a blanket, read War and Peace, or perhaps take time to write on my blog!
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Yay, the Hague! :D
Right now it's 6:30 in the morning. I'm going on a school trip with my class to the Hague today, and we're going to Parlement and we get to interview people for a school project. It's going to be pretty cool. :) And we also get to go to some museums or another. But I'm in a bit of a hurry now so I will tell this all later.
'Til then,
Brooke
'Til then,
Brooke
Saturday, November 28, 2009
About Me
Anyone reading this blog might want to know something about me. So I'll give you a few facts.
I'm a multicultural sort of girl and am interested in different cultures, countries en languages. I have a love for writing and fashion. I am also a europhile and definitely an anglophile, because my TV is switched to the BBC more then it probably should be. :P I want to travel and see as much of the world as I can, which is also why I want to become a journalist.
Interests: writing, poetry, photography
Likes: poetry. fashion. life. love. Emily Dickinson. Shakespeare
Dislikes: rain. cycling in it. goat cheese.
Obsessions: Elizabeth I. Victorian/ Elizabethian era. James McAvoy. any movie with Keira Knightley in it. costume drama. anything British. peanut butter.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
This is Halloween.....:O
Halloween is in a couple of days.
Sadly, they don't celebrate Halloween in the Netherlands. Which pretty much sucks, seeing as it is my favorite holiday. I'm celebrating it this year by watching a scary movie at a friend's house and stuffing myself with candy, but it's not quite the same.
What they do have here in Sint Maarten (5 November.) If you've ever attended Sunday School, you would know that St. Martin is the saint that ripped his coat in half and gave it to a beggar that turned out to be Jesus.
(He also got torn on a spit later on or something like that, but let's not get into details.)
Children celebrate it here the same way Halloween is celebrated in the U.S., except they don't dress up. What they do is carry hand-made paper lanterns from door-to-door because it's dark..... smart!
Unfortunately it's really only for children, as a 16-year-old I'd probably be called a creep and get thrown in the bushes by kindergarteners.
This Is It is coming out in the movie theaters prettttyyy soon (30 October, I think) so I'm planning to get around to seeing that as well. :O
Peace out,
xBrooke
Sadly, they don't celebrate Halloween in the Netherlands. Which pretty much sucks, seeing as it is my favorite holiday. I'm celebrating it this year by watching a scary movie at a friend's house and stuffing myself with candy, but it's not quite the same.
What they do have here in Sint Maarten (5 November.) If you've ever attended Sunday School, you would know that St. Martin is the saint that ripped his coat in half and gave it to a beggar that turned out to be Jesus.
(He also got torn on a spit later on or something like that, but let's not get into details.)
Children celebrate it here the same way Halloween is celebrated in the U.S., except they don't dress up. What they do is carry hand-made paper lanterns from door-to-door because it's dark..... smart!
Unfortunately it's really only for children, as a 16-year-old I'd probably be called a creep and get thrown in the bushes by kindergarteners.
This Is It is coming out in the movie theaters prettttyyy soon (30 October, I think) so I'm planning to get around to seeing that as well. :O
Peace out,
xBrooke
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