25 Things To Do This Summer

As y'all know, I watch a lot of youtube videos. They inspire me, some more than others.
A few days ago I stumbled upon one of Alfies new videos (well, when I say stumbled upon.. I am subscribed to him and watch all of his videos). This particular video made me very excited and inspired me to follow his example. In his video he explained that he had made a list of 25 things he was going to do this summer. He bought a notebook, put each thing on the list on a page. When he actually does the thing this summer, he'll make a picture and stick it on the page.

Wait you can just watch the video, he explains it way better:

I immediately took my own Petit Prince Moleskine notebook, which I use for 'special things', like quotes that inspire me or a little drawing. You might remember when Sindri wrote in it when I went to his show last year.

This is my list:

# 1 Make a fresh and fruity lemonade
# 2 Eat really great ice cream in Norway
# 3 Have a Lord of the Rings marathon
# 4 Spend an evening outside alone, listening to Sigur Rós (preferably a starry night) 

# 5 Have a picnic in a forest
# 6 Spend an entire day writing. Just writing.
# 7 Paint something
# 8 Finish reading a book
# 9 See live music
#10 Have at least one sleepover

#11 Have a perfect detective night: alone, on a hot evening with the window   open so you can hear the birds outside. Sit in your pajamas and eat a Frikandel. (That's probably a memory, but it feels like such a perfect night and I should try to relive it as much as possible)
#12 Try to assemble as many cosplay outfits as you can and blog about it (warning: this includes cloting shopping)
#13 Get to see a sunset and a sunrise (Tip: at Brygge in Bergen perhaps? Just a thought)
#14 Write in your diary every day
#15 Buy () by Sigur Rós

#16 Have a good pamper session
#17 Make a fruit salad. Eat it.
#18 Pick beautiful flowers
#19 Reorganise your wardrobe
#20 Travel to Amsterdam as a tourist rather than a student on business
#21 Make at least one picture a day and try to capture the whole day in it
#22 Watch a scary movie. Like, really scary.
#23 Get a really good milkshake
#24 Bake something really healthy, but also tasty
#25 Buy something for yourself that you wouldn't normally buy

If you feel as inspired as I do, please let me know if you're making a list and what's on it :) I hope that by documenting these things when I'm doing them will make this summer unforgetful, and that I'll enjoy it even more.

I hope you have a great day, and summer, and I'll speak to you soon!

Love,
Mia

PS: Look I have a new banner! Did you notice? What do you think about it? I also added some social media buttons on the right, you can check those out if you like :)

March week 3

Goodbye another week! 

This week I did a few exciting things! On Wednesday I voted for the first time in my life! It was for the local elections, and because I now officially live in Amersfoort, I had to vote for that city. It felt kind of weird, because it would´ve been fun to vote for people I actually knew. Still, it was fun to do. I remember it being extremely fast, because I took out my earphones on my way in, letting my music (Kveikur by Sigur Rós) continue and on the way out the same song was still playing. I felt like a real adult. Then I went to get chips. The next day, Thursday, had the most amazing weather of the whole week. I had a presentation on Runes, which I NAILED. I absolutely hate having to speak in front of an audience. Luckily there are only about ten people in my class, so it wasn’t even that big of a group to speak to. Anyway, I survived and after that I took the weekend off. I have an exam at the end of next week, so after writing this I have to go study very hard for that.

The whole week I kept seeing blossoms everywhere. If there’s one thing I love, it’s blossoms. It was great! I didn’t take any pictures, unfortunately, but here’s one I made last year with my analogue camera:

On Friday I got home and my new book had arrived! The Cracks in the Kingdom by Jaclyn Moriarty. I talked about my excitement last week, you can check that out. I’m about halfway through it now, which simultaneously saddens and excites me. I have been reading all day yesterday (Sunday). I haven’t read that much in literally months and it felt so good to get completely lost in a story as absurd and brilliant as this one. Moriarty does this thing where her characters become a part of you while you read. They become your best friends, the setting of the story becomes your hometown. When you read ‘the bakery’ you know where that is and who owns the bakery and what buildings are next to the bakery. That is one reason why I love Moriarty’s books so much. Another reason is that the words are like magic. Everything does something. Every sentence has something clever in it. I just love it. Go read.

I felt very inspired to make some 'drawings' with crayons. I'm not very good at art but I feel like showing them anyway. 

After dinner my mum and I took a walk while the sun was setting and I made some cool pictures of it. It was a nice evening to walk in. 

Today, Monday, I accidentally cosplayed Rose Tyler. I just grabbed my English-flag-shirt out of my wardrobe and remembered I have a leather jacket too and I just became Rose. Here’s me awkwardly trying to look companion-like. 

Song of the Week: Radiohead - Optimistic

I hope you have a great last week of March!

Love,
Mia