Busy Life

All though I only have a part-time job, I don't know where to find all the time I need to fix everything I want to do..

A month ago my boyfriend bought us a kingsize bed for in my little tiny room..

I love it! I adore it! but there wasn't much space left.. a week ago I moved all the stuff I had in my room in Hasselt to my room in Aarsele.. wooooooow.. my couch just fitted behind my bed put then I needed to move my cute round table.. :( So my mum began to clean the gangway so I could create a little practice room by putting my round table and my massage table over there..

But there were a lot of boxes with stuff from primary school, secondary school, books, teddy bears,... well, yesterday I cleaned already 9boxes.. and there are still 7boxes left.. From the 9 I cleaned, there are only 2 boxes left: one filled with all the stuff from primary school I want to keep, and the other filled with all the stuff from secondary school I want to keep..

But today I got a little message from my teacher that tonight there's no evening class.. well, somewhere I regret that.. but I'm glad to have a little more time to organize all the stuff here in my room..

My mom still needs to fix the wallpaper in my little space she created in the gangway.. and my dad (or my boyfriend) needs to fix the ceiling.. and then I'm ready arrange that little space of mine. :)

don't know now where I should start first :D

The things I love

Another day in rainy Belgium..

Yesterday got a theoretical test about the beauty specialist stuff.. went pretty well. after that we did "pedicure".. need to say that I really didn't liked working with that little knife! iewie! but anyway I had fun! (as always)

The person I work with, well, we talk a lot, and she told me that she loves making and

decorating cakes in her free time! well yeah! I love that too, I love making cupcakes! and tried to make some toppings once.. but well, she told me that it's all quite easy and she even does workshops!!! my eyes were already twinkling! Our teacher had heard our conversation and asked how many people you need for a cupcake workshop. Around 4, Nicky (the girl sitting next to me) directly said (or yeah, it was more like enthusiast yelling) "count me in!" We were

already with 3! yey, Caroline (our teacher) said she certainly would find another girl and then we'll set a date! woooo! I'm so looking forward to that!!!

I stayed up late that evening, I was so trilled that I couldn't go to bed.. Round 2hours after midnight I thought I really needed some sleep.. 'cause today, my alarmclock was already waking me up at 9.20..

I wouldn't wake up so early! but hey, time to go back to the boyfriend!

2.30 on the train (well 1.30h on the first train, 0.30h waiting on the second and another 30minutes and I arrived at Galmaarden. finally!)

My boy needed some new trousers, and so we went straight to the store "Zeb" in Denderleeuw. Way to go, I loved it! Got myself a new winter coat, 2 "Lee"trousers and a "Superman"sweater, hooray for that! but my boy didn't found anything.. bummer! time to help him! Finally I found one that fitted him! not too big, not too long, not too short.. Actually I also found him a REALLY AWESOME cardigan.. but he didn't liked it.. he thought it was gay and cheap! definitely NOT! I could eat him straightaway! He was so amazingly handsome!! I really need to get that vest! whatever he thinks about it, he's too sexy in it to leave it in the store!

but when will I find the time to get to that store, and how will I get there!??! We'll see..

x

learning time (and a little shopping in between)

I should definitely get some sleep!

right now!

but hey.. I keep running out of time.. damn!

Last week, I didn't got a test on my evening class, the teacher forgot the tests at home. yey!

Thursday I did definitely nothing! yey again! well yeah, sometimes I love doing totaly nothing.

Friday I worked hard to start making my stylebook for my final exam. Well, hadn't had a lot of time again, but Saturday went fine! I had fun, like I always have when I do something I like..

I think I did well, teacher was happy though! so than I'm superhappy! hooray to myself!

I took a little brake and went babysitting! earning pocket money! hooray again! Although it wasn't an easy evening.. Sunday I got up at noon and realized I needed to start studying for my exam on wednesday.. booh! I began searching my books and.. oh no! that's a lot more than I expected it to be.. so I double "boo"ed.. I learned chapter 1 and went to my niece to let her draw a picture for me.. yeah yeah! that was another task till wednesday.. after that we went together to my granny's to wish her a happy new year.. yeah, really not ok that I'm so late with that this year! I know. Late in the evening I packed my stuff and we went to my boyfriends house, there I read the second (very small) chapter and went to bed after midnight. So happy I was in bed! goodnight new day. Another day, monday, time to start working at the two task I needed to complete.. till 17h they were done, finally! now I still needed to read chapter 3 (a big one) and again off to bed! (start talking about the daily grind, it felt like that! but wasn't at all!)

Tuesday I left my boyfriend (he had to go to work) to go to Hasselt. Passing Brussels I looked for the "cyclosprint" magazine to see the article about Brian Matter. Well, I found it and couldn't resist buying it.. loved the photo's!! (well the webcam picture sucks, 'cause you can't see the beautiful colors of the pictures.. I traveled further to Hasselt reading the article and then opening my books again to study half of chapter 4, the last chapter! I was half way that one when the train arrived in Hasselt. Took the bus to centre of Hasselt (yeah, lazy ass) and walked to my place.

First things first, I needed a break! And seriously, more than 10days period of sale and hadn't had the time to hit the stores!? Now I can't longer stand it. books aside and shoping it was!

First thing I bought: black bow for in my hair (2€)! stopped at the "New Look" and..

hooray! I love children clothing! more cuteness, better fits, way less expensive, more sale,..

found trousers for 3,5€.. wow! really? that's nothing! I know! and found a cute butterfly ring for 1,25€ (weird price, i'd prefer they left the 0,25€ aside.. )

and went back to "Zara" to go and check the awesome pumps! I knew they wouldn't fit.. but I wanted to try them so bad! I loved them so bad! I adored them! And yeah, they were not big enough, but hey, I loved them, I needed to have them.. so, I bought them.. they fit, put aren't that comfy they should be. but hey, what do they say: who wants to be beautiful needs to stand a little pain.. (heels at least 10cm, oh I adore them!)

So for now I should be studying.. Exam this morning went pretty well (I hope) but there's still the test for this evening.. didn't do anything for that one.. will be a pretty big disaster.. sure if I love blogging and especially Tumblr.. damn! I'm really addicted to it.. as I am to my new shoes!

really gotta go now! still half an hour left to try to learn al Latin (and dutch) names of all the muscles in our bodies.. and everything about the skin etc.. o god, not a good idea.. won't work this evening! but no problem, I'll make it.. (not at the test) but no big worries.

x

Back to real life..

Well.. I wanted to blog every cyclocross race I've been to..

but the races were already started before I began blogging..

and it was to chaotic, to hectic (if this word does exist in english :D) for me to blog every day..

but I will give you a resume of the whole Cyclocross adventure later!

for now, we'll get back to "real life". -> Couldn't really call it "the daily grind" (as I learned a few new english words) 'cause I don't have found a certain routine yet.

I slept till noon today because I was so tired of my first cyclocross adventure (and everything that was going on before that: school,..). It was a lazy day! and I liked it!

I got back to my own little place here in Hasselt.

On the train ride I spoke with a couple from Italy. They were on a holiday, their first time in Belgium, they told me about their visit to Brugge they did today.. made me think of the Americans.. they went to Brugge also..

Ow god, I think I really miss them already.. Had such a great time while they were here!

Good.. I explained them which ticket they should buy to get the cheapest way to Antwerp tomorrow, 'cause today.. NMBS had just been lazy (yeah, nothing different) and these Italians had payed like 25€ too much because of no good information.. There was also a very funny old man in front of me. His english was quite bad (just as the english of that Italian couple actually) but that made the man just so funny! He didn't understand much of what everyone was saying and so it seemed he was living in his own funny world. He had to be a rich man though 'cause he left us in Brussels-central to travel to the sun! .. don't remember the name of where he was going to, but the Italians told me that if you translated the city's name it means "a lot of wind" or something like that.. (a little island I remember)

Anyway.. tomorrow I should study a bit, 'cause in the evening I've got my evening classes again and there will be a little test.. after that manicure! Looking forward to that!

Then we'll head to saturday for my first exam.. Stylist!

still a lot of work for that too! Realy need to start working at my Stylebook!

Then we also need to do 2 little homeworks for Learning Psychologics (yeah, that's a free translations :D ) and the exam will be 12jan. lot to learn for that one..

In between I'll really have to search for a job!

and it would be so nice if I could find a way to get to America!

I need some (yeah, you can read "a lot" instead of some :p) ben & jerry's, and need to try a burrito there,.. and need to get a birthday present for my boy too.. see the link? yeah.. mission impossible..

maybe someday! it would be great!

Dreaming and hoping keeps people alive I guess

This.. is only the start.

It has been pretty chaotic the last few weeks.. and even more the last few days..

At the beginning of this month I decided to quit school and then everything became very chaotic..

Well, how should I begin..

When I had to go to high school I asked my mom if i could just become a beauty specialist.. now, my parents said "no", I had to go to high school first.. So I did. I went to study Productdesign for 3 years, so I got my bachelor. It was funny but I missed a few things, I wanted to learn decently how to work with photoshop, flash, aftereffects,.. all the adobestuff (or most of them). But the thing I really really wanted (like very bad) was becoming a beauty specialist. My mother wasn't happy with that, so I worked in summer to be able to pay those studies myself. I decided to start studying Graphic design. Definitely something for me, my mom was very happy, and me too.. although I still wanted to become a beauty specialist so bad!

I was able to skip the first year because I already had my degree in Productdesign. I learned a lot! more than I ever did while I was studying Productdesign.. Yeah, that felt pretty weird! but also verry good! certainly if you know I'm addicted to learning :D (note: only learning things that I'm interested in!!).. The first year I did this I also did evening classes to become an allround Make-up Artist (so also hairstyling included).. And then we came to this year..

Again I worked in summer and now I had enough money to pay the evening classes to became a beauty specialist! School (-> Graphic design) began somewhere around the end of september and the evening classes would start mid november.. I was like really looking forward to november! I wanted to stop my studies to become a graphic designer, but thought it wouldn't be wise because after this year I would have another bachelor.. Unfortunately I lost all of my motivation to become a graphic designer when I met my new teachers for interactive and webdesign.. bummer! I had too much work for school and didn't liked it anymore. I had started weekend lessons to become a stylist too, so when november came.. It got all too busy and I was like constantly tired because I couldn't get enough sleep, I couldn't practice enough for any of my classes.. So I was like really getting frustrated!

Not much I could do about it, cause I didn't wanted to quit my evening and weekend classes, so there was only one left.. graphic design.. but that one, I couldn't quit because my parents would be really furious, and I love them too much to upset them, to hurt them or what so ever..

I talked again with them about this issue and.. finally! I couldn't believe it, they told me that they would support me and that I could quit school. They weren't and still aren't really happy with that, but it's my decision.. and they could see now what I really want (I guess).. (-> their support)

It was a hard decision! really! because I would love to be a graphic designer.. but in the end, I have the skills now, I learned it all.. Allright, I do not have the degree. For me that's only a piece of paper, I don't need that, whatever all the companies and people are saying.. I want the skills! Not a stupid paper that tells you a bunch of lies.. (well, sometimes it's just a bunch of lies, that's only my opinion.)

Anyhow, it took a long time to decide what would be the best to do now. I wanted to arrange everything with school before christmas.. but yeah, obviously those people aren't that fast to fix everything.. (come on, they had like 3 weeks!)

Well, this is only a start..

hard part to read through,

next will be more fun I guess

well, I hope :D