
Hyundai I20: Ice Blue

Hyundai I20: Ice Blue
This morning I read the great blog Heart Stops from a fellow SCA survivor. It shows really well the paradox we/I are in. On the one hand I also feel a deep gratitude for being a survivor with hardly any brain damage. On the other hand being a survivor is also sometimes hard. Like last week, being at the beach, feeling the wind and the sun on my skin. It hits me hard to realize that I am not 'just standing there'. It feels like there are Capital Letters everywhere, shouting to me: YOU ARE STANDING ON THE BEACH!!! YOU!!! This is NOT to be taken For Granted!
Lovely Etsy scarf; I can sure need one of these today, because I am home sick with a super sore throat and no voice left to talk with! Thank God my mom is here to watch my kids. She even picked up the vacuum cleaner and is ironing all the laundry. Me? I can jump back in my bed to get some extra hours of much needed rest. Thanks Mom! 



Every week I still check out the Minimal Switch of the week. But these last weeks all the tips and tricks made me realize one thing: do I really need to minimalize? Why and how? All the challenges are no challenge for me. Like: get your TV out of your bedroom. (What TV?We don’t even have one!) Or have a Blanc-day: one day per year (!) without any appointments. I have Blanc-days several times a week! (Sometimes voluntary, sometimes not) Or take a Twitter & Facebook vacation. (Excuse me?) All of them: no challenge for me. Not that I am that minimal I guess. The subject still really interests me.To be honest, since I became a mom, music is a lot less important to me. Or…I guess I just don’t make a lot of time available for listening. But I really miss it! Everytime I put on a CD I am moved by how good music makes me feel. Recently I read somewhere that music has a very positive effect on the brain, just like doing sports. So let all the endorfines come to us and create some happiness for a little moment in our bussy lives.
The first song I wanted to share brings me back to 1998. That summer was awesome. Friend S. and I went on a trip to the USA. Going from Everett, to San Fransico, to Bakersfield, to Hollywood. We had such a great time, meeting so many cool people.
Starting off in Everett/Seattle with friend Miss J. We visited all the ‘grunge / Singles places and had a fantastic time! Seattle was magnificant; I could easily live there! Then off to San Fransico (could definitely live there!!!), meeting with Jean (Nuclear Rabbit) and going over to his place and to the rehearsal studio. We hit it off straight away. Meeting those guys was great, going to a show by Papa Roach (who got just turned down by a record company). Then the Greyhound bus took us to Bakersfield. We met with Juice (now partly Adema) and stayed with Tim and Dan.
That was probably the best night of the whole trip for me. Everything just completely flowed. Normally I can by quiet introvert, but this time even though there were many people there, I felt super confident. All my senses were open, we joked, laughed, flirted with those guys in a way that I had never experienced before. Loved it!
This song by Air, always reminds me of that vacation and of that night. The music, the video, the couple who is in it. It also takes me back to my youth, when I used to dream of living in the United States. Somewhere in California, with the sun, the free way of life. Sweet memories.

A (real) silver necklace in a fun and beautiful design. It was all black at first but after some cleaning it looks pretty good. My spiritual neighbour from across the street loved it and mentioned the fact that it must have been written in the stars; this necklace waited for me to find it. And even better...it was only 0,75 eurocents!


Lots of sightseeing, lots of talking, lots of lovely drinks and good food, lots of sunshine hopefully, lots of photographing, lots of fun!


Vandaag met vriendin F. (Hoi! Vond het heel gezellig!) afgesproken op Amsterdam Centraal. Zonder plannen nog, maar het prachtige weer nodigde uit voor een goede wandeling. En aangezien het heerlijk is om jezelf te laven aan mooie spullen en lekker eten, togen we naar de Haarlemmerstraat/Haarlemmerdijk. Wat is Amsterdam toch prachtig zo in het voorjaarslicht!