unpublished rhyme

I’ve been tossing and turning for over two hours in my bed. Then I thought; I have better things to do than this. And it’s true. Sitting here, with my sweet laptop and a steaming cup of winter tea, I feel much better.
Somehow it’s always night when I want it to be day, and day when I want it to be night. My body is telling me I’m tired, but the second I’m in my bed, the sun rises in my mind, and I’m wide awake.

Time, time, time, see what’s become of me
While I looked around
For my possibilities
I was so hard to please
But look around, leaves are brown
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter

Hear the salvation army band
Down by the riverside, it’s bound to be a better ride
Than what you’ve got planned
Carry your cup in your hand
And look around, leaves are brown now
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter

Look around, leaves are brown
There’s a patch of snow on the ground.

Photo's I made today: 

My dog: Jesse

Me and Tayfun

Jesse

I love the days where the sun and the winter are fighting over who owns the day.
It was one of the days when I loved being outside.
Before christmas, before newyearseve.
In the silence of the storm, with Ty and my crazy dog Jesse.

A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by
One after one; the sound of rain, and bees
Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas,
Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky -
I’ve thought of all by turns, and still I lie
Sleepless…

~William Wordsworth

”Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience
- unless they are still up.” 

~Ellen Goodman

Winter Wonderland

After reading this post you'll probably think I'm totally mad, but I don't mind, I'll post it anyway..:)

Today there has fallen a lot of snow, it kept falling and falling. I was planning on going running outside. Normally I always make a round of 5 -10 km in the weekend. But at the first place I didn’t think of going with weather like this, I changed my mind and tought “Ah, why not?”. I got my snowboots and ran 6 km. To my suprise I really enjoyed it. The running and the warm clothes kept me warm and it was suprisingly amusing to just keep running and running in a simple white surrounding. It looked like the entire world was vanished and it was just plain white you saw.. It was so strange, with every step I took it was like I ran into a world of complete emptiness.. 

It's defenately a refreshing way to clear your mind..

(me)

Iceland

It’s so incredibly cold!
And the cold is going to get worse every day.
I’m in my PJ’s right now, by the fire.
On top of them, I’m wearing sweatpants and a huge sweater from my dad.
On top of THAT, I’m wearing a handknitted hat and a big scarf.
& no, I’m not making pictures, cause I’m truly looking ridiculous.
But I’m warm.

It just keeps on snowing.
The streets are empty.
It’s like everybody is hiding inside their houses from the cold.
I’m sleepy all the time, and can imagine why animals have a wintersleep.
I would love one.

Besides the cold and exhaustion, I’m really happy.
My roommate and I made up, and I’m going back to our place after the weekend.
I never even made pictures, so I will soon.
And the last days I’ve spend with Ty, who’s growing closer everytime I see him.
My parents met him last night, and actually liked him, which is a new thing to them.
But positive ofcourse.

I hope the trains will be going without delays tomorrow, when we’re going to Amsterdam.
We were planning on going out a lot and see things, but I’m not sure if we’re ging to wanna leave the hotel with this cold. He was like whatever, we’ll just bundle up. Wherever we go, it will be warm there. And I guess he’s right. But he might have to drag me along. (:

Kids are skating on the frozen rivers outside my parents house.
I feel like pulling them in and cuddle them warm with lots of hot chocolate before they freeze.

I’ll go outside real quick and make some pictures.

…………….

Ok, seriously, I can’t even properly type right now. My fingers are frozen.
Here you go.

 

My Lola.
Snow makes her all weirded out about everything.
She even attacks my camera!

I Love Snow!

Bildersteeg (popleralley) in Dordrecht, closy to my parents house.

I love the way everything turns white. All one colour, like paper sheets waiting to be written on. I love the way it glitters, and the way it cracks underneath my boots.

Kids are lines up in groops aside of the roads with handsfull of snow, waiting for cars to pass so they can throw the snowballs at them. Their cheeks cold and red, dripping noses, but a smile from ear to ear. It’s funny how something like snow turns everyone into a kid. I even saw a businessman walking on the snowy streets today, getting down, making a snowball, and throwing it at a group of kids, who immidiately tried to get back at the man, while he clumbsy ran away, laughing.

Snow in Dordrecht

Its like being home is extra nice, warm drinks are extra good, and everything just turns brighter as the days grow darker and colder.
I have so much to blog, so much to talk about, but my time is filled up with everything else. I don’t thing my days have been this busy and fun in months. Yesterday I went to the cinema with Tayfun, which was again amazing. I feel like we really connect, and he cheers me up a lot. Today I went to school, to finish some stuff. I’m almost out of there, only one movie to go. After that I went to Utrecht, to hang out with the most awesome person ever. Yeah Marit, its you. It’s weird how we don’t need anyhting besides ourselves to have a great time. I hadn’t laughed till my stomach hurt in a long time.
I’ll write down everything in details later, including my uncle’s birthday adventure.
But now I have to shower and get myself ready for another night out with my Ty.
He’s getting a personal snowball attack.  (:

  

Poor horses in snowy Dordrecht

First snow!

I woke up very late this morning and guess what I see.. First bits of snow.. 

Just in small amounts- but still- I think it’s awesome :D

Garden from out of my window

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RUSSIAN SURVIVAL

Our rendez-vous yesterday:

I arrived at Utrecht CS to meet up with Marit. 

She had just biked her way from school to the city of Utrecht, in the storm!

Usually we run at eachother and hug like we haven’t seen eachother in years, but this time we both stumbled forward and just leaned a little.

We were completely frozen, below temperature..

We wanted to smoke first, to catch our breaths a little and relax, but the entire station is a non-smoking zone, obviously.

So again, we went out in the blizzard to light a cigarette.

We could barely take one out of the packages, because our hands were completely numb. And when we tried lighting them, the wind kept blowing out the fire. We ended up there for atleast 20 minutes.

Marit

Zombies: Lotte and Marit

We got back in ‘Hoog Catarijne’ (which is the shopping area of Utrechts station hall) like bluelipped scarecrows and walked right into the first store we saw, simply for the warmth. Its crazy how miserable real cold can make you feel.

Desperately we headed for the free coffee zone, when we came across the liqor.

We both stopped, and stared at it for 5 minutes.

Lotte: "That will make us warm."

Marit: "You're absolutely right..."

Lotte: "Russians do it all the time in winter."

Marit: "Haha, maybe it’s their way of survivling the cold."

Lotte: "Yeah. Russian survival."

Marit: "You get the Martini, I’m getting us something to eat."

So, five minutes later, were walking through Hoog Catarijne with Martini in our bags, and chocolate between our teeth.

Since public drinking is illegal, we headed for the station restrooms. (really clean and quite big, not as gross at it sounds) and bundled up close to eachother in a restroom.

Marit

Lotte

While drinking and making random pictures, a women starts pounding on the door, yelling at us to get out immidiately. We made up the first thing that came to our minds, and told her we couldn’t, because I was feeling sick, and was throwing up. (faking barfsounds) But she demanded us to come out.

We hid the bottle, and came out. I pretended to feel very sick.

It appeared that a women who was peeing in the cabin next to us, saw the flashes of my camera, and thought we had photographed HER, with the intentions of putting it on internet. WTF??

We assured her no such thing happened and continued our little restroomparty.

Moments later, warmed up and a bit tipsy, we headed for the H&M to take a look at the new collection.

Crazy as Marits plans always are, she came up with the idea of picking out the worst outfit ever for eachother, and of course put it on. I called it a plan.

Guess what? We kind of pulled it off and we matched. We laughed so hard.

Unfortunately, the employees didn’t laugh and their eyes demanded us to leave. So we did, and went to the trains.

Marit had homework and I had a kitchen to clean up before my roommate would come home.

We said our goodbyes, and owned another afternoon of kiddish stupidity, to BLOG in stead of forget eventually.

It was fun. (: