Wednesday, 28 August 2013
Visiting anime convention Abunai!
This Sunday my best friend and I went to an anime convention called Abunai! Those who have been following my blog will know that I have been going there for the past three years. This year, however, was my first time dressing up as an Elegant Gothic Lolita. For those of you who do not know what elegant gothic lolita is, please see my previous post on the topic http://somepreciousmoments.blogspot.nl/2010/08/gothic-lolita.html. I have had the dress and blouse for a very long time, but have only been able to wear the blouse in public once. It really isn't something you throw on and go to work in it... :D But I love it nonetheless.
Although Abunai always offers quite a range of activities, such as lectures, workshops etc. my friend and I decided just to check out the dealer room. ^__^" As such this blog post will mostly be a shopblog; sorry about that. :D But keep reading, as there will be a bit of a revalation at the end ;).
Thursday, 8 August 2013
100 POSTS! :D
Today is a
very special post! :D It’s my 100th post! Although updates have been
slow and irregular I still made it! So for today’s post I would like to look
back at the changes that have occurred since I first created this blog. I
started this blog a little over three years ago, so there is definitely a lot
to look back on.
A major
thing that changed is that I was still together with my ex-boyfriend when I
created this blog. About 3 months after the blog was created, however, we broke
up and I fell in love with someone truly amazing. And as you all know, we got
engaged pretty soon after that. I am still very grateful to have my fiancé by
my side. Really, going out with him was one of the best decisions I have EVER
made.
Another thing
that changed is that I had just gotten my bachelor degree when I started this
blog. As my dedicated readers know, I have now also completed a research master
in Literary Studies and have made it through to my first year as an externally
funded PhD student! :D I sometimes complain a bit about all the work I have to
do for it (who doesn’t complain about their job once in a while?), but I am
still greatly enjoying it! I am currently working on a chapter on detective
fiction… I read Sherlock Holmes for research! I honestly believe it doesn’t get
much better than this! Though I have to admit that I miss having a summer
holiday T_T. Anyway, for those of you who are interested, I have created a
tumblr account on which I post some stuff on what it is like to be a PhD
student. Most of it is just me poking fun at myself, so it’s pretty exaggerated
(again: being a PhD student isn’t all THAT bad). Here’s the link: http://aphdstudentslifeforme.tumblr.com/
Just after
I created this blog I was accepted for an internship at the Athenaeum
bookstore. This internship made it clear to me that editing is not for me… I am
simply too slow of a reader. So partially thanks to doing the internship that I
decided to go for a PhD instead. After the internship had ended I went to
search for another job, and I ended up at WoningNet. I still love working
there. My colleagues are simply awesome (everyone is sooooo nice!) and the
company really looks after their employees. Last week when it was super hot,
they had someone get lots of fruit for us, just to cool us down and make everything
a bit more bearable. :D How awesome is that?! Also, although I have been hired
as a call center agent, I have been mostly doing a lot of other tasks for the
past year. So that really keeps things interesting.
Something
that has not changed AT ALL is my love for Victorian literature, cutestuff and
Disney! Well, it is good to have some constant factors in your life right? ;) Hahaha I honestly think that some people would believe the end of the world to be near if I suddenly stopped liking Disney or Victorian literature for that matter.
Anyway, I really
want to thank all the readers that have stuck with me for such a long time! I
really hope that I will be able to keep you interested in my blog. :D I will
most definitely try!
Love,
Blacky
Saturday, 3 August 2013
Trip report Shrewsbury (with pictures!)
Long time
no see! A lot of things have happened since my last update; some really great
stuff, and some not so great stuff. Today’s post, however, will be dedicated to
my six day trip with my fiancé to Shrewsbury.
The first
thing people have been asking me when I told them I want to Shrewsbury was “why
Shrewsbury?” Well, my fiancé has a friend who lives in the vicinity and he
really wanted to visit him. At first my fiancé wanted to go to Birmingham… As
you might remember from my Birmingham trip report, I did not like that city at
all. So I pretty much vetoed that we would not be staying there. So he asked
his friend which nice towns were near Birmingham and we settled on Shrewsbury.
My fiancés
friend, who I will refer to by his nickname Beswick from now on, promised to
pick us up at the airport when we arrived. He was such a lovely person! As many
of my readers know I am a very shy person and don’t usually say a whole lot
when I meet someone for the first time. However, Beswick is a very open and
kind person, so it didn’t take long for me to open up to him. Perhaps it was
because he greatly resembles my fiancé, characterwise… Anyway, we stopped for
some drinks and dinner, had a chat and stocked up on some much needed water and
sunscreen in a humongous supermarket. ^__^” Although they had not had a heat
wave in 7 (freaking) years, we ended up right in the middle of one. >.>
Just our luck.
Saturday, 29 June 2013
Disneyland Paris and the Louvre; a shopblog.
Well it has been a while again. I have been
really busy and just when I was planning on writing a trip report on
Disneyland, I got a throat infection which pretty much forced me to stay in bed
for 1,5 weeks... You can’t imagine how glad I am right now to be able to do
something other than just watch tv or a movie. After a couple of days that
really gets old. I am still on anti-biotics though, so I apologize if there are
a lot of typo’s and such in the post.
As I have already provided you with a
number of Disney trip reports, I thought it would be nice to do something a
little different. I will be writing a shopblog instead.
Before going to Disneyland my best friend
and I had decided that we will not be going to Disney for the coming 1 to 1,5
years. We have been to the park quite often and we do not want it to lose its
magic for us. So, as I was walking through the stores I noticed that they had
some really awesome table ware. Now seeing that I will hopefully be living
together with my fiancé before my next trip to Disney, I thought it would be a
pretty good opportunity to buy some essentials for our yet to be found home. I
called my fiancé to discuss this. I even had a picture at the ready, but he
pretty much gave me the get go without ever seeing the picture. His reaction
was: “Well you know my taste” and “If I don’t like it.... well I guess we will
then just have some ugly dinner plates. That’s not the end of the world. So
just buy them if you like them”. So having received the get go (and having called dad
just to make sure my parents wouldn’t flip if I came home with a boat load of
stuff) I bought the following items:
Friday, 10 May 2013
Disneyland Paris Tips and Tricks: Enjoying your visit
Dear readers,
Because life got the better of me, I never
quite got round to finishing my Disneyland tips and tricks series, so here is
the third and final part! This post will give you tips and tricks for when you
actually are in Disneyland itself, Walt Disney Studios or Disney Village.
In case you had completely forgotten that I
wrote two previous posts, where you can find these or if you are new to my
weblog, please see the following two links to my previous posts:
1. General
tips.
a.
Bring your own food and drinks.
Disney is really expensive when it comes to
food and drinks (think 4,- euro’s for 6 kip nuggets... o.o that’s 0.67 cents
per nugget!), so you might want to bring your own food and drinks for during
the day. There are a few gas stations near the park, so you should be able to
get something there if you want. Example: at a nearby gas station you pay 0,50
cents for a bottle of water, in Disney you will pay 2,20 or more.
b. Make
sure to bring along some wipes.
Sometimes you might want to get a snack,
which turns out to be a bit more sticky than you were expecting. If you are
cueing up for a ride, things might get complicated (and yucky). Especially if
you have little kids!
2. Disneyland
Sunday, 28 April 2013
Chipmunk cuteness and high tea pictures!
Well in my previous post I promised you some chipmunk cuteness, so here it is! Below you will first find a (very) short video in which you can see me (well you can see my hand and legs lol) feeding a squirell! :D I was so surprised that it dared to come so close!
Please note: the cookies were simple biscuits.
Some pictures of the squirells in Hyde Park!
Sunday, 21 April 2013
Update and a trip report of London! :D
Dear readers,
I solemnly
swear that I will NEVER EVER write that things are starting to calm down in my
life EVER again. My gosh, the past couple of months have just simply been insane
(hence the lack of updates). In February my aunt had a heart attack, causing us
to have to travel to the other side of the Netherlands to visit her. She had a
bypass operation and everything seemed to be going well, until two weeks after
the operation. She was hospitalized again and the doctors were not sure if she
would make it… So we ended up traveling back and forward a while as we were of
course very anxious about her health. Thankfully, though everything is going
really well with her. She is currently going through rehabilitation and is
doing just fine.
Well a lot
of other things have happened in the meantime, but for today I will be focusing
on my trip to London.
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