I've officially failed Nanowrimo. My final word count is 14.382. But I'm not sad! I'm still writing. For the first time I am driven not by the pressure of November, but by the story, the characters and the writing itself.

Also, I have just one more class and then no more for two months! I also have the fortune of well-spread exams, so no more excuses for failure. I am ready for the holidays. There will be parties and guests and sleeping for ages.

Lol. Kitties are playing in front of the window and attracting an audience. They're tapping on the window and aww-ing.

We went to a pub quiz the other night and the only question that I was able to answer correctly was, "What sort of creature was "Buckbeak" in the Harry Potter novels?" Ha!

Today the mother cat went to a new home. The female was taken into a good home last week, leaving just Pico and Gino with us, two rascals who like to play all day long until they fall asleep on my laptop.

I know I shouldn't be sad, that we couldn't have kept all four and that the other two have found nice, loving homes, but still it feels a bit empty right now. :(

BANANA.

Something we randomly did during our last practice session. I love Tyscha's voice! Not to mention her ability to just randomly make up lyrics.


Untitled | Online recorder

Hmmmm. I love the smell of fresh laundry.



I'm sorry for spamming kitty pictures, but actually I'm not sorry at all. I have to share their cuteness before it's over.



She's a teenage mom. But not to pity! She's curious, fearless, sly and has no manners at all. Yes, she has a funky ear. I like to think that she fought a dinosaur. He might have caught her ear, but she ran off with his cookies, mwahaha.

I'm online! Yay! I've been without internet for more than a week. This wouldn't be so bad, except that it was a week of holidays. Muu! Fortunately I had kitties to entertain me:



( kitty got youtubed )

Meanwhile, Nanowrimo has started and I'm on 3000 words. Also, our house is slowly filling up with stuff. Still, there's hardly anything on the walls yet. Looks so empty.

Our cats are awesome. They will attack you and bite you softly and then they'll lick you, like washing. And they randomly fall asleep in your neck or under the blanket or in your hands awwww. WHY MUST THEY BE SO CUTE ALL THE TIME. EXCEPT IN THE MORNING WHEN I WANT TO SLEEP AND THEY WAKE ME UP AND BITE MY TOES.

We've adopted a mom and her three children, who had washed upon someone's balcony and were freezing and lonely. We are going to keep two, maybe three, and they are so CUUTE. They're four weeks old now and they stumble around the room and pee in your lap and play with your finger.

Also, we suspect the mother is already pregnant again. -_- Which will make things even more expensive. And messy. But also terribly cute.

(it's okay. mom gave us two Billy's today.)

I just took my first salsa lesson. I had missed the first three (skipping class is a hard habit to break), but fortunately issamel and I caught up real quick. Since there were more girls than guys, we constantly had to switch partners. I really didn't look forward to dancing with random strangers, but it wasn't so bad. It was kind of like speeddating -- you'd introduce yourself, dance for a couple of minutes, say goodbye, and move on to the next. There were cute men and old men and gay men, and most of them had hairy arms (eww.), but none of them were too intimidating. Still, it was totally awkward. But fun. In an awkward way. Heh.

Eww. I really would like men better if they weren't so hairy.

Well!

We have a house! Actually, we've had it for almost two weeks now. We've been painting and cleaning it, and hopefully we'll move in this weekend, hmmmm! It is awesome and has a garden and bugs and a scary unusable cellar that is inhabited by a monster with three eyes and a mohawk.

Eeeeeeee! Eddie Izzard in Amsterdam!! I've got tickets!!!

I really dislike people who are rude to strangers. I don't care if your parking spot was nicked in front of your eyes or if your 2-year-old just got run over by a horde of elephants, it's not my fault, so fuck off.

I don't feel well at all! :( I have contaminated my mom and brother, or maybe the other way around, and now we're all sick in bed with stomach problems.

Still! I am happy, because we have a house! We went to look at it on thursday and signed the contract on friday. It's so much fun looking at furniture and picking out colours and thinking about the garden (garden! GARDEN!) and deciding on a television package and everything else. Hee! Exciting things!

One day

I will live in a castle.

It will not be big, it will not be well-kept, it will probably be in the middle of nowhere, but it will be gorgeous and awesome.

One day.

I've been going to class and it's been great! I haven't gone to class in ages so maybe it's great only because it's all new, but that doesn't matter. I might not even be able to continue all my classes, depending on my exam results. I've passed at least two exams, I'm just waiting for one more. I really do hope I've passed.

Also, I've been bringing bento boxes with me for lunch! I'm not as creative with them as Marilyn, who made the Superman logo and a sea full of fishies at her first go (I've only managed to make smiley faces, which disappear by the time I open the box to eat), but I like the variety it gives me! I like to fill it with nuts, fruit, cake, chocolate, crackers and everything else I can find in the fridge.

I remember now why class is great. It's because I get to pick my own subjects! Woohoo! Well, of course they still have to do with law, but I can leave subjects like European tax law (ewwww) and Copyright law for the more boring students. Ha! You must think me conceited, but that's okay. I'm a cookie anyway.

So yes! So apart from waiting for my exam result, next week I'm going to try some salsa classes. There are a million salsa schools around and they all want me to participate. I can refuse one, surely, but not all! Also, I'm starting a first aid training next month which I find scary and exciting and I really doubt that even if I ever find myself in a situation where it is useful, that I will be able to act. Hm.

My brother won the Dutch DDR championship. The prize money was a hundred euros.

LOL!

I was trying to install a patch for The Sims 3, but it didn't work. So I googled the error message and now the internet accuses me of having installed a Nude patch! SERIOUSLY?!

(oh and we didn't get the shiny house. but it's okay because there's a billion prettier houses out in the world anyway which we are going to rent instead)

My garden is the saddest thing ever. I will post pictures soon, once I can bear the disappointment.

I went to look at an appartment today. It was beautiful and sunny and had a balcony! There was one other interested party. We'll hear from the bureau next week. Wheeeeeee. I want a home with Marilyn! And a small dog! We'll be the happiest family!

Oh my god!



BABY CARROT!!! How fabulous?!

Also, I've figured out why my cabbage has been looking so squashed lately, despite having been off to a fine start. Apparently my fat cat

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thinks my garden is a good place to rest. No no, cat. Not good.