2009

1. What did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before?
kissed a girl
kept my new years resolutions

2. Did you keep your new year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Yes, just because they were fun! (going to the sauna or have a massage at least once a month)

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Yes, as last year, and the year before that...

4. Did anyone close to you die?Yes, my grandad.

5. What countries did you visit?England, France, and some of them must have slipped my mind i guess..

6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?
Warmth

7. What date from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
memory of a goldfish, can't remember dates

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
getting promoted i guess.

9. What was your biggest failure?
getting promoted i guess :)

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
No, just longtermtiredness. And a mild spring/summer/autumn/winterdepression.

11. What was the best thing you bought?euhm....

14. Where did most of your money go?Ilia of course

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?Ilia of course

16. What song will always remind you of 2009?
Just say Yes, snow patrol. That's the spirit i want to see much more in 2010, no more doubts, no more chitchat, but action! Say yes, and see where it gets you...

18. Compared to this time last year, are you richer or poorer?
Richer, in friendship for sure. Lost a friend tho, still not too happy about that, but that's life i guess...

19. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Sports, spend some time with the little muppet, oh and travel.

20. What do you wish you'd done less of?Work

21. How will you be spending Christmas?Xmas at mum's place.

22. Did you fall in love in 2009?Yes.

24. What was your favourite TV program?4400

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?Try not to hate.

26. What was the best book you read?'koraline' neil gaiman (kids book but weird as hell)

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
And So I Watch You From Afardid blow me away live. Amenra did as well. Rediscovery of peaches and the notwist.

28. What did you want and get?a new car

29. What did you want and not get?a cool loving boyfriend

30. What was your favourite film of this year?inglorious basterds

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?31, not much.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
a little more happiness and a little less loneliness

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009?
Same as last year: nonexistent ;)

34. What kept you sane?Friends, but especially ILIA (he rocks)

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?Chris wee, drummer of asiwyfa :D

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
our crappy prime minister for the second failure in a row

37. Who did you miss the most?
Ronja, Henna, Liz.

38. Who was the best new person you met?Jurgen, Peter and Sacha

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009.
Live every day like it's your last. Dance like no one can see you, sing like no one can hear you, but have fun for christ sake... and stop whining.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be the star in somebody elses life
But why can't it be mine?

(Black - Pearl Jam)

sinterklaas

he met zwarte piet, they didn't put him in the bag. Now waiting for sinterklaas to come...

opening the window

makka pakka!!!!

thanks andy for sending him this cuddly, talking makka pakka!!!

it drives me insane but ilia adores it ;)

fucking fathersday

I hope that you die

and your death will come soon

i'll follow your casket in the pale afternoon

and i'll see you get lowered into your deathbed

and i'll stand on your grave till i'm sure that you're dead.

aMAZEing

BOOT!!!

Mummy, am i wet enough?

Ilia's godfather and Arne, the pirate seperated from us by splashing water

Yesterday we went to an amazing park, with a huge maze, petting zoo, playground, not that far from the Belgian Border. Arne and Ilia had so much fun (and were only in bed around 9.30!) and so did Koen and I. The weather was absolute brilliant so that really made the day.

hahaha

fudge

love those canadian magnets

love canadians.

magnets

boyish girl or girlish boy?

i wish i knew

yesterday, at les nuits botanique, i saw a wonderful girl perform. Just her and her guitar, it was too moving to be true (and later i discovered that she's a very nice girl as well!) Her voice was so utterly brilliant, i think it makes angels drool ;)
Ronja, sweety, don't know why, but i had to think about you... loved every second of it... here's one of her songs, or at least one of the lyrics of her songs ;)

i wish i knew

what to do with you

but the truth is

i ain't got a clue

do you?

i wish i had an idea

of what i need

but we can't know

and that's okay

that's okay

i wish you'd understand

i wish that i could know

the truth is i have no idea

i wish i could just run around

and only worry

about right now

i hate to admit it

but i don't know shit

and neither do you

do you

and

that's good enough for me

for you

for now

as long as we can talk about it.

Sharon van Etten

because i was in love

2009

extremely loud and incredibly close

nope, not about ilia, but a very good intens book i'm reading by jonathan safran foer.

"Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces than my heart was made of, I never thought of myself as quiet, much less silent, I never thought about things at all, everything changed, the distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasn't the world, it wasn't the bombs or burning buildings, it was me, my thinking, the cancer of never letting go, is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it."