February, when did you get here?

First of all, I'm lousy in keeping a blog.
I love reading them though, when others write them.
So every once in a while I find myself in a whim to write one once again.
I just keep wondering what to write, what people like to read.
Do they like to hear the stories of my life? Would they like advice on certain topics or just some random ramblings, which - let's be honest - I'm pretty good at.


Today a rambling about how February got around so quickly.
Lately it seems as if I've been living in a bubble. Two bubbles to be exact.
One bubble consists of stress and hard work (internship was so much fun, yet much hard work!) and the other consists of very happy butterflies and juggling my social life around. I've been a very bad friend for the past six months. 

Being - as you've probably guessed - a busy bee, it is hard to reflect on all the good stuff that has happened.
Especially looking back to this time last year - being a mousy little girl that was knocking on a strange front door as a school assignment. This assignment was the start of what we call a minor-study, in which we learned to get self-confidence and use theater as a way of connecting to people and hear strangers' stories. 
I never thought I would be able to do that, but there I was, talking to a total stranger.
From that moment on I knew I was about tot change to someone with a little bit more confidence.
Little did I know that I would performing on a stage with a 100 people watching me play a bit scary Greek Goddess;

Meet me as Klotho, one of the Fates

Or that I would fall in deeply love that summer and come to the conclusion that - since then - I've been craving less for chocolate! 
Even that I would be able to finish my internship - after a lot of stress, a few panic attacks and a massive amount of work done right- with a fantastic grade and confidence in myself being an actual speechtherapist.

Spotted just now: Spring in my garden!

February is here now and like every start of February, I'm feeling poorly (it's like clockwork that scary).
But the weather outside is beautiful. The sun is shining and I woke up by a few birds that were already singing their songs.
Spring is coming and I couldn't be more delighted.
Right now I'm trying not to think about tomorrow, when I have to really start with my graduation thesis and the stress will only grow once again.
Therefore my goal for February is to relax a bit more, spend some quality time with my friends and to enjoy the oncoming Spring. It is time that I start to worry less, don't let anxiety get the best of me and just go with it. 

Is there anything you would like to achieve this month?




I watched 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' the other night and as dear Sonny said: "everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it is not the end". 

And with that saying I wish you all a very good month!

Toodles! Iris

Images are not mine, most of them belong to their respectful owners (via Tumblr). Photo of me as Klotho belongs to a good friend of mine and the flowers of our garden belong to my mother and mother Earth, I took the liberty of taking the crappy picture with my phone though, I should be arrested for the violation of this beatuy.

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A Sunday of Work poem

Sitting here, waiting for something to happen
Just listening to the wind that keeps blowing
Enjoying the sound of birds that keep singing
Such a peaceful morning of Spring

Another task shoots through my head
To worry over in a few hours
This is too quiet and too pleasant
To disturb the silence of the present

Yet the silent consists of sound
Wandering through the empty space
Steam from the cup filled with tea
Yes work can be nice to me

(picture by ~wiwionart)

-- A quick hello to this neglected part of my interaction with the internets. Again at work (I really should be working haha) but this idea of a bit of poetry shot through my head so I thought of sharing it here :) If you'ld like to read more of my work visit my DeviantArt: ~dazzling93 

Have a great day and enjoy every bit of it.
Toodles!! Xx

Awaiting Spring and catching up with friends

Hi guys,

I'm at work at the moment -- oooh she is writing blogs at work you sneaky girl -- yes I am, the privilege of my job is that as long as I get my work done, I can basically do whatever I like. I work at a small hotel in the town that I live in, as a hostess. And at the moment it is quiet and the laundry isn't done yet, so I thought I could write a blog whilst I'm waiting :)

Yesterday I had the chance to finally catch up with one of my best friends. Going to college in different cities and me working every other weekend and her having a boyfriend can take up a lot of your time, so we have to grab every moment we can have. And to our great shame, we hadn't seen each other since I believe January.
As we almost always do when we can meet up is having lunch in town, so that we have delicious food - one of our weaknesses - and have a few hours to chat. It was so good to see her; it was like we'd seen each other the day before and when she eventually went home my throat was slightly sour from all the talking!

It is so special to realize that you have so many incredible people around you. 

Sometimes when you see those quizzes in teen magazines or the internets about friendship, there is most of the time a question about 'would you rather have a group of friends or one or two very close friends'.

I definitely fall in to the category of having a few very close friends.

And I don't think I would want to have it any other way, they know you so well that one look can be enough to give you comfort or crawl over the ground in laughter.
Though all of my best friends - thinking about it is letting me realize that I actually have a lot of best friends - are girls, and I absolutely love them, I would also love it to have some more 'guy-friend's'. 

In my work-area, becoming a speech therapist, there aren't a lot of males. Which I think is a real shame and definitely sets the mood a bit. Girls can go on about stuff for so long, without any decisions being made, guys do that so quickly with some sort of no-nonsense. Plus they can bring that sense of humor that girls just don't posses and can be quite hilarious.
But I am subscribed to a lot of amazing people on YouTube, so I think I get enough of testosterone humor every week :')

So that's that for my small work-avoiding-update and I shall check on the laundry in a bit.

Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!

Iris

 - some Spring pictures since I can't wait for Spring to start, I'm in need for sunshine, flowers, singing birds and lovely days :)

Oh hey there, she's alive!

Hiya everyone,

One of my bestest chummies -check out stellavitrum.blogspot.nl she's amazing- also started a blog and that's when I realized I had one too!
*hides away in a corner of shame*
But ey, everything takes time to get used to and why not give it a go once in a while?
This time I didn't want to review a book, I wanted to chat away, so if you are not interested in that, cover your eyes and hum a good tune - or click on my chummy's blog :)

I've said in a previous blog that I am from the Netherlands in a teeny tiny town that has a lot of cheese and deliciously sweet syrup waffles -- there is honestly no proper translation for them, I am very sorry.
That can leave people to the question to why the heck I'm writing in English. I do that absolutely everywhere, my books, on Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, my journal and even in my mind.
I have a strange fascination with the language, it helps me think and it sounds better than in the sometimes rude Dutch language.
This fascination is so strange for the people around me, they cannot understand why I would do such a thing. But for real, what does my family care about the fact that I write in English on Facebook? They say I am too 'technical' and that sometimes they find it hard to translate my messages. I consider this not my problem, I may have motives. I actually quite enjoy the fact that they can't read everything I say -- if they would only quit complaining since it is my life.
I haven't grown up with the language, apart from the fact that I've watched Notting Hill and Pretty Woman from the age that I could read along with the subtitles. It only is getting a bit out of hand up till the point that I can't find the Dutch word and need to say the English word and translate that before I know what the right word is. Still - some grammar mistakes etcetera are still in order, I am no bilingual and a human - so I am allowed to make mistakes...?

Since I've also said in a previous post that I write books -- at least I attempt to write them. And they are also written in English. Why do I do that, some people may ask? It is for the simple fact that you can describe things so much prettier and some kind of fuller than in Dutch -- which no doubt will be horribly translated if they ever get published. For example, I absolutely love The Mortal Instruments series by the amazing Cassandra Clare. Some Dutch translator thought it would be all right to translate that into the Chronicles of the Underworld.
And I can say with every fiber of my human being, that that person should be fired from his or her job. Because if the Translator had read that book, he or she would know that the book isn't about the Underworld. The main characters are Nephilim - half humans and half Angels. The Underworld is only a slight part of it, yes they kill Demons or send them back to their realms but really - that isn't what the books are about. They are about the Mortal Instruments, the Mortal Cup, The Mortal Sword and last but not least the Mirror. It may sound like I am a know it all and stuff and I know that not everyone will agree with me but it literally pains me that the Translator hasn't read the books properly. Is it too much to ask that someone knows what they are translating?
And this is why I am trying to figure out if I want to study English after I have graduated Speech Therapy. Because I would love to learn more about the language and I might want to start translating books, so I know that I can pour my heart in it and give the books and their authors whom have worked so hard for it, their proper translation.

Having that said - phew that was my complaining part, again I'm sorry - back to my 'books' by lack of proper word for Stories Unfinished. I am currently working on three books that are progressing nicely, and I have about five - yes it is insane, I'm very aware of that - ideas that need to be worked out. I am really insecure about putting things out on the internets since you never know if someone will copy it and use it for their own stories. Plus I am also insecure about my writing style. At the moment I am following a minor - a small course inside the Speech Therapy subject - that includes Creative Writing and I am very excited about that!
We are doing some fun assignments like describing a paper bin or the person that is sitting opposite you. We also have to write a fairy tale based on an event in your life. So that's what keeping me busy lately :)

I hope that I can keep up with blogging from now on. I don't think that there will be many book reviews since school is taking up a lot of my reading time and I am re-reading a lot of books lately. Which means that there probably be more chatting types of blog posts. Maybe some hauls I did lately? My bank account is seriously complaining and I should start saving for my trip to London this summer. I already have a bit too large list of stuff that I want to buy over there.

Thanks for reading :)
Love, Iris