31.12.13

New Years Eve




With a lot of tea and stuff exploding in the streets!

Well, I'm leaving with the rest of my family in 22 minutes to go to my mom's friend's place to celebrate new year. Some other people might come too.

At 10 AM fireworks were officially legal, resulting in me hearing stuff going of every second. It gives a really apocalyptic feeling, and I love that. I'm dressed in my favorite clothes. They are so comfortable and I want to be as comfortable as possible on this evening. It's Old Years Eve after all. I'm not going to look fancy for the crowd. I'll be bringing my camera to take photos and film this evening.

Apparently I missed a call from my work yesterday, why do they always call at times my phone's dead? Ah well, if they were going to ask for me to work this evening I was going to say no anyway. I heard my boss always goes into party mode on News years Eve; giving away random things and holding quizzes. It sounds like a lot of fun. Maybe I'll be there someday.

I've been very unproductive today, just sipping my tea like an old man, and putting washed underwear into my drying tower for it to dry. My mom's vacuum cleaner has been sitting in my room for the past two days, so I should really start using it. My floor is a mess; it really needs to be vacuum cleaned. That's why one night when I was bored I dragged the thing to the second floor where my room resides. I never got to actually vacuum cleaning it, though. I am such a procrastinator.

The whole 'new year' thing hasn't sunk in yet, still. To be honest I just want it to be over, but at the same time I really want to see the streets turn into a apocalyptic war scene for me to take pictures of and film. I often contradict my statements. An other year has passed and I feel like all that time has gone to waste. Maybe that's why I feel so down about it.

I have this feeling in my stomach of excitement and anticipation. Like right before you have a talk in front of 30 people. Only 24 more hours until episode one of season 3 of Sherlock; The Empty Hearse airs on BBC one. I'm so looking forward to that, maybe even more than the fireworks that will go off this evening.

My sister says she is going to become so wasted because as of tomorrow she can't drink for an other 7 months with this new law and all. I'm not going to hit the bottle since I don't drink. I rather enjoy myself some of that fancy alcohol free champagne. It's like apple juice with bubbles. 

For some reason I have to go to the bathroom every 30 minutes. I hate it. Maybe I've had too much tea.

Well, that is my day so far. How is yours?

- knetterzak

Crocodile sausage


With bad moods and molested sausages!

I'm feeling pretty down right now. I've been reading Fan Fiction on the "Agents of SHIELD" series. So far I haven't seen a single story that's up to 'book' standard. Pity. I drank a couple cups of tea. It feels as if my stomach is cannibalizing itself, which doesn't feel pleasant. At all.

While the kettle was boiling I accidentally burned my arm with the steam coming from the mouth, clever me. Luckily the burning feeling has subsided; the burn wasn't even visible. It just stung for a few hours.

I finally mailed my work today signaling that I would be more than happy to go on the business trip Paul, my boss, and the managers planned out for all the employees. It sounds really fun: First we are going to do archery, which is in my opinion really badass, and then we are going to eat something at a restaurant. Pretty fancy. Since I don't have a car I will be hitching a ride with someone. To be honest I am rather nervous about the whole thing. I am not such a people person and social contact comes difficult to me. Oh well, who doesn't dares will never win.

I've been getting back into playing Minecraft again. I think it will only last for a short while until I grow bored of it again. I play on this server that won't update to the latest version so all this cool new stuff isn't available yet there. The server owner is maintaining it poorly, which is a shame.

For evening dinner we had Teppanyaki. My sister always brutally molests sausages in the fear that they might explode. So she stabs them repeatedly and reduces them to meat pulp. At some point there was a sausage that looked a lot like a crocodile. It was pretty funny. After dinner we watched the movie Avatar on TV.

New Year's Eve is so close, but still it feels so far away. I can hear fireworks now and then reminding me, but still. It doesn't feel like anything special anymore. It's not like it used to be. I wonder what changed. We will  be celebrating New Years Eve at my mom's friend's house.

My sister made 7.50 Euros today for washing the dogs. I can actually touch them without getting grease all over my hands now. Our black Labrador, Boris, gets greasy really quickly so unfortunately that won't last for long.

I hope my mood improves soon. My productivity went to 2%. The only thing I did today was turning on the washing machine.

Well, that was my day. How was yours?

- knetterzak

29.12.13

ClaireQuiem Sunday

teapot 

With ClaireQuiem and tea!

My sister has a blog too, apparently, by the name ClaireQuiem. I'm currently sitting in her room hearing her rant about the size of her header picture; it's too big and she's trying to make it smaller. Her ignorance is stunning sometimes. I left a comment on her blog as Anonymous and she honestly believed it was just some random person. She didn't pay attention to the fact that a certain someone liked all her posts 10 seconds prior to the comment. I wrote that her posts look like a wall of text, which earned me a pout. I should win an Emmy for the acting.

I've been helping her to configure her blog the past hour, and she's complaining about me leaving the door open, saying "It's going to be minus two in here!". Right. I would help her with a banner. It was not wide enough so I was going to unleash some fancy art skills on it to stretch it out  without distorting the image. What I was going to do is copy a bit of the image, paste that along the empty space and then blur it out so it gives a cool effect, but she fixed it before I could do that.

I linked my sister's blog in my blog, expecting her to do the same for me, but no. She doesn't have a page list and so far we haven't been successful in adding one either. The bloody thing is just invisible or something. It doesn't show up in the page division, even though it says it's already added. Quite frustrating.

I finally obtained a container for my sugar; it's actually a tea pot set my mom gave me this evening. It's super fancy, and the first thing I thought was: 'They'll never suspect a thing...'.  Sugar in a tea pot set and all.

I woke up at around 3 PM; I had been up till around 4 AM last night. I read a few pages from that Java For Dummies book my Computer Science teacher loaned me. I really need to start taking notes. I stopped at the page where you actually had to be behind a computer. I couldn't be arsed to get up and type in "Static void, something args []; curly bracket". I'll get to that later.

Well, that was my day. How was yours?

- knetterzak

Catching Up after work


   
With a lot of catching up to do!

I would often get the most ingenious thoughts at the weirdest moments. Always on times that I can't write them down, due to social situations or lack of recourses. Often the first one; I always carry a pen and a notebook in my bag. Then I will often try to recall the deep shit I thought to seem all smart and poetical. Too bad my retarded brain won't recall anything during the late hours of the night with depressing music at the background, tearing my soul apart.

I always align my writing with justification and in big letters to trick myself into thinking I'm making more progress than I am. Big walls of text look more satisfying than tiny paragraphs with a handful of words.

A lot of stuff happened the past months. Days turned into weeks, and weeks turned into months. Where did all the time go? I kept procrastinating, thinking I could write it tomorrow, or in a few hours. In the end I'm just so obvious.

Well, to sum everything - well everything I can remember up, I am not seeing a psychologist. She's a nice young lady by the name Merel. We've had a few talks, and she gave me something to do. I had to rate my mood every morning, afternoon, and evening with information on what I was doing at the exact moment. Up to now I have been fateful in doing this everyday for a couple of weeks now. 

I have holidays now, and my boyfriend would come over if it wasn't for the fact that I friend zoned him. So that ship sank horribly. Christmas was nice, I guess. It wasn't super duper without gramps and grandma. My mom took it pretty hard; got totally wasted and started smoking again. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention: On November 30, my mom's birthday, she stopped smoking. That fort didn't hold for very long. It was the first Christmas without either of her parents, and it just didn't feel the same as it used to be. Like something in me died some time ago.

My mom gave me a water boiler for Christmas, for which I'm so grateful. It's all fancy designed stuff and it looks fab. It looks like an actual kettle, so amazing! I love it. 

Today is Saturday, so I had to work today. We had an other new person called Wijke. I didn't get to actually talk to her though. Now I think of it she just kind of disappeared without me noticing anything. I can be so observant at times.

Yesterday was the birthday party of my friend Birgit, it was really fun. There were like 10 people, and I finally got to see her brother. He looks a lot like her, actually. We started with a few matches of bowling. For some reason I was pretty boss at it (hell yeah!), but I really felt my ring finger at some point. I had broken it because I'm retarded at catching basketballs, apparently. I think it never healed properly; it still hurts when I do certain things with it, which is exactly what I feared. No helping it now.

We have had Christmas at school, which totally sucked. I'm the only one who brought something and no one wanted it! I had baked bread at freaking six in the morning. I had to prepare the dough at four AM. Four AM, and the only person who wanted it were the teachers. Luckily Mr Lier, my mentor and English teacher, was a dear and practically attacked the loaf. 

I pulled out the bread making machine to bake bread like Mr De Graaf, an economy teacher on my school, does every morning at 5 AM. That man has dedication to get up at 5 AM in the morning, every morning, to bake bread to eat it with chocolate sprinkles. So I got up at 5 AM and started on my dough. It had to rise for one and a half hour so in the time I could chuck it in the bread oven I had finished my Culture Studies assignment and studied some maths. I still failed that test, though. 

The past few weeks have been so weird. No matter what I did, all I could do was obtaining bad marks. I even scored a 4.5 for English, I mean English. Like, what? So that was quite the bummer. It's like my brain just said "Fuck it, just f- fuck it" and went on holiday one week prior to the actual Christmas holidays. And then exactly in that week every teacher in the school decides to throw tests and exams in our faces.

My mom gave me grandma's microwave, which is fab. She had bought a very expensive oven, multi-combo-microwave-super-fancy-thingy to do fancy stuff like steaming veggies, but it had a system error so it derped. Luckily she get's a new one. It appeared to be a common error in that product that the product manufacturers derped up in the design.

Only a few more day to go until the new year, and man I'm just not feeling it right now. To be honest I am not feeling anything right now. The world is just passing me by as I sit on my arse in a glass box that nothing can penetrate.

The blood test results came back in ages ago. I have the vitamin D level of an Eskimo, which is super uber bad, super low magnesium levels, and a vitamin B12 insufficiency that would make your eyebrows go like "OooOoooh???". So yeah, not good. Now I have to take magnesium pills every day, vitamin B12 injections every week, and once a month a doses of vitamin D. I hate it. I hate all of it. The first time I had my vitamin B12 injection I didn't feel so well. I just had the home base thought again like I had when they took my blood samples. All these vitamins have one thing in common: They regulate stress levels, so if one would be low on that it would mean your body would be subjected to such high levels of stress. Vitamin B12 helps with red blood cell production, so if you are really low on that it can cause tiredness and depression. I just hope that these injections and pills can get me back to normal. Currently I'm almost 2 weeks late with my B12 injection, I'm just too much of a chicken to show up. Damn me.

I took up laundry as a stress relieve, to turn my mind off and just do something, anything. The main reason was to get my dark blue shirt back that goes so well with this cute white top that needs to go with a t-shirt. I finally dug up my treasure after 3 weeks of intensive washing. Everything is clean now, though, which is nice. I had to buy 10 extra cloth hangers, and I'm falling short on those again. I also bought a drying tower, and damn I love that thing. So much stuff can fit on there! Me and my laundry, Best Friends For Live.

I've been social, as in hanging out with friends. Two times in total, hell yeah. One time with my friend, Katinka, and an other time with my friend Charlotte. I watched some movies with Katinka, and Charlotte and I watched Sherlock. We had PTA's that evening and Charlotte couldn't take the train back to where she lives due to money and all, and if I hadn't invited her to stay with me until we had to go she would have had to walk downtown for almost 3 hours. So I invited her over and we watched Sherlock, episode 1: The Pink Lady.

Talking about Sherlock: Season 3 coming up in 4 days! I am just, inner fangirl overload. I started watching an other series too: Marvel Agents of SHIELD, and it's pretty cool. There's this team called FitzSimmons, Leo Fits and Jemma Simmons, who are pretty fancy nerds. There were moments that I thought "Just kiss already!". I didn't just think it, I blurted it out in the presence of my mom and sister who gave me awkward stares. Then there's also The Blacklist; a very good series on a criminal guy who starts working with the CSI, but he will only talk to this girl. It gives a lot of questions as to Reddington's true identify. Raymond Reddington is the criminal guy.

I feel like I should do something useful with my time, but the hours just fly by as I sit on my bum doing unproductive bull crap. My Computer Science teacher, Mr Elsenaar, who is also the brother of my ex boyfriend Bart Bas, and Charlotte, gave me two books on Java, which is just so awesome. I'm way ahead of anyone in my class so after some persuasion he gave me awesome beginner books that weigh a ton. Love it. Now, if only I could find the time to actually read through them. I'm currently at page 1, go me!

My Physics teacher, Mr Endert, lend me a book on some fancy every day physics questions. I'm currently a few pages in and it's pretty interesting. Mr Endert looks pretty nerdy in a charming way that I can appreciate in a non romantic way since he's probably 40 years older than me, derp. I just wish his lessons weren't as boring as a donkey's dump.

I quit because no one was reading this, so this is for my reader Tyler who messaged me on Skype asking why I didn't do derp stories anymore. As Sherlock would say: "The game is back on!" This post was originally going to be some poetic nonsense about the meaning of life which you can probably tell by the first two paragraphs.

Well, that were my past few months as far as I can remember, how were yours?

- knetterzak