Spring, where did you go?

Ugh. And the rain is back again here in Holland. How great. It's been raining almost non stop the past couple of days. And it's been cold too! Just rain; fine with me, but it is the cold that's killing me. Last week we were tricked into believing spring was finally coming up. Too bad...

Well, the weather may be terrible when you have to bike to school every day, but when it's late at night and you have a warm cup of tea and a good book, it's lovely. So that's what I'm about to do now! Just grabbing a new book (probably gonna read The Fault in Our Stars or Looking for Alaska) and making a hot cup of cherry tea. Have a lovely evening!

New Layout... again

 

As you may have noticed, I changed my layout again. What do you think? You like? (:
It is very basic and the only colours I used are black, white and purple. I am not a very consistent person when it comes to layouts. At first I will really like them, but eventually they get bored to me. Hopefully this one will be around for a while (:

Quokka

As usually I spend way too much of my time on the internet yesterday. And then I stumbled upon this:  a quokka. This small little creature is only to be found in western Australia. This is what Wikipedia says about it:

The quokka /ˈkwɒkə/ (Setonix brachyurus), the only member of the genus Setonix, is a small macropod about the size of a domestic cat^. Like other marsupials in the macropod family (such as the kangaroos and wallabies), the quokka is herbivorous and mainly nocturnal. It can be found on some smaller islands off the coast of Western Australia, in particular on Rottnest Island just off Perth and Bald Island near Albany. A small mainland colony exists in the protected area of Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve, where they co-exist with Gilbert's potoroo.

HOW CUTE IS THIS CREATURE?! This is probably the happiest thing on the planet. It just looks so happy. How cute! I can't stop looking at it. From now on, whenever I'm sad, I'll just look at these pictures and be instantly happy again. (: 
Some more pictures:

 

Mother's Day

I know, I'm a bit late. But still, happy mother's day. I hope you spoiled your mom a bit more than usual yesterday (:

My mom is the best and I love her so much and I am so grateful that I have her in my life, and it's good to remember those things every once in a while. Of course mother's day is mostly commercial, but the idea of thinking about how amazing your mom is and all the things she does for you, is very good in my opinion.

Anyways, that's all I wanted to say. So remember to give your mom a big hug every once in a while!

30 Day Shred

Wow. Last night I started the 30 Day Shred by Jillian Michaels. And let me tell you, it is tough.. Very tough. But I did it! Or at least, I did it once. Now the trick is to keep it up for 29 more days. Kind of proud of myself, even though I haven't done much yet. I thought I was completely out of shape, but turns out I am not as bad as I thought I would be haha.

If you don't know what 30DS is, I'll try to explain. It basically is a workout programme you follow for 30 days, in order to burn fat and build muscle. You have to do a 30 minute workout every day. There are 3 levels: 1, 2 and 3. The first 10 days of your shred you do level 1, the next 10 you do level 2 and the last 10 days of your work out programma you do level 3.

Wanna check the 30 Day Shred out?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pc-NizMgg8

Something came up

Remember when I said yesterday that I was gonna watch Intouchables with two of my friends? Well.. we ended up not watching it. Something came up, as usual. So that's too bad. Maybe another time haha, whenever that will be.

The weather has been so lovely! Last week when I was in London the weather was amazing, with lots of sun but in the Netherlands it had been a bit cold. And you need to keep in mind that in about 1 or 2 months of time we've had sun, snow, rain, heavy wind, clouds and much more! It seems like the weather doesnt know what she wants (: But the time is finally there! SUN! The weather man said on the tv yesterday that the temperatures will come above 20 degrees Celsius! Yay! Time to pull my short sleeve shirts out of the back of my closet!

I'm off! Going outside and taking a book with me! I am currently reading Percy Jackson & the Olympians.

Remembrance Day

Today, May 4th It is Remembrance Day in the Netherlands. Today we remember the ones who fell for our country during the second World War. (1940-1945 for the Netherlands). Tonight at 8PM the entire country will be silent for 2 minutes and think about all those people who gave their lives for our country. On television you normally see Queen (now princess) Beatrix and (now king) Willem Alexander on De Dam in Amsterdam where they lay a bouquet of flowers. It is now 7:35PM, and I don't know exactly how it will go this year, but soon we'll see how it goes (:

I am making this little extra blogpost in honor of Remembrance Day, and all of those who fell during the Second World War.