Omg, you guys. You guys. Omg. I HAVE THE BEST HOUSEMATE IN THE WHOLE ENTIRE WHIRL.

She'd told me she planned to go shopping today, and I told her I'd come with but I overslept like crazy, so by the time I got downstairs she had already gone downtown. I was secretly kind of relieved because I always fail at stopping myself from buying clothes when I really need my money for food, and I've already spent all of my non-grocery money for this month (a month starts on the 17th for me money-wise though, so it's not ENTIRELY as bad as it sounds :x).

And then Renée got back home, and she was all "Oh I saw something at H&M that I thought you'd really like, but then I remembered that you're broke so I bought it for you!" So I thought "omg I'm getting a necklace or something :O" or, you know, something similar from the 'oh I'll just buy this small cute thing for someone on a whim' price category.

BUT IT WAS A SKIRT.

A GLORIOUS, GLORIOUS SKIRT. THAT MY HOUSEMATE BOUGHT ME. BECAUSE SHE IS THE BEST HOUSEMATE EVER.



IT IS SO QT I LOVE IT. AND HER. AND IT.

(Plz excuse my haggard face and hair though! I'd feel weird cropping my face out of photos so I don't, but today was a hot mess couch potato pyjama day and it kinda shows D:)

rofl this is like the fifth time that I've posted something along the lines of OMG RENÉE SWEETEST EVER, I guess that proves my point!

So many awesome things going on! IL my life right now.

Firstly of course MY BROTHER PASSED HIS FINAL EXAMS HELL YEAH \o/ he did so well, I am v. v. proud! I want to buy him a gift since I have money again (I spent the last two weeks basically without it, no lie) but I don't know what he waaaaaants D: Possibly I have located the most difficult person in world history to buy presents for. He never wants anything, HOW CAN HE NEVER WANT ANYTHING? Idk idk. I will find him something though, I am determined!

Besides this I have been doing a tiny bit of studying and a lot of hanging around with friends, which is the way I feel things should be since I am at heart a lazy bum. I went to see my housemate Jonathan play Rosalind in an A+ hilarious version of As You Like It, watched Top Hat and a couple of... um, interesting Jason Isaacs films with electricwitch (man Jason Isaacs you know I love you A LOT but I just, I mean, what the fuck), spent time with my family for father's day, and just got back from inspecting fantoom's new crib which IS AMAZING and which I would basically move into asap if it was... not already someone's crib. Also a friend notified me that Regina Spektor is playing a gig in Amsterdam in July so we will be going to see her play next month!! I AM EXCITED.

Idk idk I think my point is that life is rly nice right now? Yay \o/

Also I am the laziest person in the world so I have already shooped three whole pictures of my room into something resembling acceptable quality, and this is them:







More to follow when I am not lazy! I love my room so you're gonna have to put up with a big-ass picspam at some point, guys.

It is rly late though so I'm off to bed now, since tomorrow I am to visit my nan and watch Bollywood films with her HELL YES. It's been too long since I've watched any!

Man, sometimes I really fail at online shopping. Renée and I have decided to make our house less fug, so we're both looking for nice posters and prints to buy. This sounded like a good idea to me, because... it allows me to buy tons of pretty posters? Also, since it turns out that I don't have as many posters and other wall-covering pretty things as I thought I did, I need a few for my own room anyway. So I was all "HELL YES LET'S DO THIS" and sat down with my trusty internets to look for posters I wanted. And then I couldn't think of anything to search for!

Normally I have no problem going "OKAY I WANT THESE FIVE MILLION POSTERS THAT I FOUND RANDOMLY ON THE INTERNETS, LET ME JUST oh damn guess what I'm broke", but somehow every time I actually have the money or the opportunity to buy something like posters or other decorative nonsense I have no idea where to start! I know I'm going to be buying these two for certain:



But besides those I am totally drawing a blank, so once again I must turn to the internets for help! There are probably a million films I would like a poster of and a trillion great artists whose shit I want on my walls, but I can't think of anything to buy so idk where to even start looking D:

So: WHERE DO I BUY PRETTY POSTERS AND/OR PRINTS YOU GUYS?? I know y'all have good taste so help a sister out! I feel like I should be too proud to also add AND WHAT SHOULD I BUY to this enquiry, but fuck it, plz tell me what you would buy if you had the money and space for a million posters!

Also speaking of making the house less fug: I have finally started painting my room! Um, painting it green that is. I already painted it white to avoid having to look at the previous owners' paint job, which I am fairly convinced basically consisted of them rolling around in ugly dark red paint and then throwing themselves at the walls - not very attractive! But now I'm finally gettin' started on the colour and I am excited! It is v. pretty, I approve. Soon my room will be beautiful! And hopefully also containing posters. THESE ARE EXCITING TIMES.

EDIT: HOLY CRAP LOOK AT THIS



NEW FAVOURITE POSTER IN THE WORLD. Only it costs £40. £40. Wryyyyyy D:

Omg guys I am living in Leiden! This is really awesome. Also a little weird, but mostly awesome. The most daunting thing is cooking (because I... can't), which I haven't attempted yet because I had class from 7-9 pm yesterday and so settled for bread, but tonight may be the night where I set the house on fire. Exciting!

Also today I got my first mail at my new address! It was a very serious contender for Most Appropriate Postcard Ever Received By Me, from my parents and brother - this one, to be exact:




Awesome!

Err I am out of interesting things to say already it would seem! This is mostly due to the fact that all I am doing lately and all I will be doing until the 9th of March is working REALLY FUCKING HARD so as to not fail the most important resit of my life - if I fail this one the law faculty will kick me out because you have to have passed all your first year classes by the end of your second year. Which, you know, sounds reasonable and all. Unfortunately though, this particular course I haven't passed yet is the biggest bitch in the ENTIRE UNIVERSE, and I say this as someone who normally doesn't even have to study to pass her exams. I've failed this one twice now. I am so nervous, it's insane D:

Okay back to studying I go!



...in my new house FUCK YEAH

So I had this date planned where I was going to move to Leiden, right? It was all good, I felt awesome for having a set date and it was a safe distance away so I could get shit done. AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN THAT DATE WAS TOMORROW. TOMORROW, WTF

THIS IS WEIRD AND ALSO PACKING FUCKING SUCKS AND ARGH.

But I am moving, which is good. But it's also tomorrow which is... kind of less good considering how much I still have left to pack and how much I have no idea how to go about it (lol can you tell I have never moved before in my entire life?), and also how much of my room I haven't even finished painting yet. RAJ;SDLGKASGKFA;SDVLK

In conclusion: dear internet, if you feel like giving me some much needed emotional support through pretty pictures and videos and shit like that, I WILL LOVE YOU FOREVER. Am dying help meeeeeeee D:

Ohhh stupid landlady >>>:( I FINALLY got my contract (through e-mail, which also sucks because I already know that if I have to print it out, sign it, send it to her and ask her to send me a signed copy back, it will take a month before she even remembers that I asked her D:), and reading through it I realised that even though television taxes and internet costs are included in my rent, she hasn't put either of those things in the contract. Like hell I'm going to sign anything that doesn't explicitly state that I won't have to pay extra for that shit when that's what she told me! Ughh I foresee another month going by before I get a response from her, I've already asked if I can just change the contract myself since it'll take even longer if I ask her to do it.

WRYYYYYY


BUT I did get started on painting my room, and it's going pretty well so far! I have to paint over red walls but my white paint is covering it a LOT better than I'd thought, so maybe I'll only need two layers of white paint?? I HOPE SO because I have a lot to paint. Moving next week if all goes well, though I've already set up camp in the house (causing me to actually make it to class today, CAN YOU BELIEVE IT??) and am using the landlady's old furniture until my stuff arrives and I get rid of her crap.

Err I was going somewhere with this post, but I forgot. I think it was going to be just me being pissy about the contract/landlady and then I ended up tacking a lot of things on? But yeah, I... forgot. This is kind of becoming a staple phrase for me actually, I have so much stuff to do but I suck at being organised SO BAD, so my brain is trying to cope by basically consisting of gaping holes so I don't have to remember that I have to remember things or something. Unfortunately this is not very practical D: but yes, I think my next job is to bring more practical stuff to the house like my own plates and stuff, and buy some groceries so a_suitcase won't have to put up with my leeching anymore :D

OKAY I'M GOING TO STOP TALKING NOW BECAUSE THIS IS ALL BORING. Let me just distract you with this skirt because it is AMAZING:



LOOK AT THAT. I will not deny that I considered prostituting myself to buy that skirt, except then I realised that it wouldn't suit my figure. PHEW, prostitution averted!