A return to WordPress: Eurovision 2023

Only Eurovision can make me return to WordPress. I keep seeing hundreds of videos of people’s top 37 Eurovision songs of 2023 and I desperately need to contribute. The last few months were rough, but once countries started releasing their songs for this year, I had something to look forward to. Eurovision gives me life, pulls me out of a winter depression. My enthusiasm for the contest cannot be contained; I need to share my love for it on my half-dead blog with another top 37.

Travel nostalgia: Bordeaux 2022

After postponing our trip by a whole month, Saapjen and I finally got to go to Bordeaux. I really needed it; the past year consisted of university stress, awful things happening in the family and worries about the future. This short week in France took my mind off all of that, as we had such a wonderful time there.

Weekly Antics: Shenanigans in the supermarket

I could’ve died of embarrassment when all of this happened. Saapjen just laughed and didn’t care; after all, cashiers see so many people every day that it’s easy to forget all those faces. So now I join Saapjen in seeing it as a funny incident.

Weekly Antics: Miss bright side

Life after finishing university is weird, to say the least. You’re quickly becoming completely independent and need to figure out how to have a stable life. When I look at my previous posts, my experiences with this don’t sound really positive. I’m mostly stressed about what I’m gonna do now that I’ve finished my thesis and I do have the tendency to look at everything from a negative perspective. It seems I have applied the 3-to-1 ratio (3 positives for every 1 negative) in reverse; for every 1 positive blog post, I created 3 negative ones. It’s time to let go of that.

Weekly Antics: My worst nightmare

As you might know, this week the weird bump on my knee had to be checked with an ultrasound. Believing the appointment was at 10:30 (am), I left an hour before so I would be there 30 minutes early. I was horribly wrong. Public transport did take me there at 10:00, but when the radiologist entered, I was met with the news I was late. The appointment was supposed to be at 09:30, half an hour ago! I apologized profusely, saying I’m never late and early everywhere I go.

Fortunately, they had some time to check out my knee; it’s the same old fluid that is always torturing me when I stand for too long. Whereas this news should have been a relief, the thought that people had been waiting for me for half an hour stayed in my head for a while. Being late is one of my worst nightmares.

Weekly Antics: A tough week

There were definitely some emotions to sort through, last week and the current. My parents prepared for their holiday in France, the heat and its accompanying anxiety had to be survived, and Saapjen fell from his bike. The latter was followed by anger and blame, but we figured out how to deal with the consequences.

Weekly Antics: Working like a dog

While I am not an advocate for productivity culture, I have been very productive in the past week. It should be mentioned, however, that for me, having food and drinks with friends, is among the activities that my introverted self likes to call productive. So that’s what I did as well 🙂

Weekly Antics: The neighbour’s music festival

After a wild weekend at Pinkpop and babysitting my cousin’s kids, the following week I could recharge again and focus on my thesis completely. No antics for me! The past week wasn’t very eventful either, except for a visit to another music festival…

Weekly Antics: When a sore throat becomes a wonderful reminder

My goodness everyone, last week was absolutely WILD. There was stress, true, with having to figure out the data analysis for my thesis and working at the university and the theme park. That last job was pretty relaxing though, as I had to stain a wooden building and with some music, it became a very mindful activity. The real crazy stuff, however, didn’t happen until Friday.

Weekly Antics: A broken knee?

Last week was pretty uneventful. Yes I had thesis stuff to do, work at the university and theme park, but all in all not much happened. Just a regular week. Except for my overworked knees.