things i love thursday

yesterday i got held back about 50 minutes at school. it wasn’t too bad, after i finally got to discuss my work with my very encouraging teacher. after that i went straight to the train station & just made the train i had already accepted as missed, without even hurrying. then, while we were passing through den haag, they announced that someone was run over by a train right before the station i would have to get out & trains were not going further than we were. then i had to change trains three times, then take a subway where i’d have to change another time. it was so unbearably crowded & it took me SO long to get home & i was so tired (running on like 2 1/2 hours of sleep) & hungry & homicidal, what a fabulous time to write a gratitude list again.

♥ fight club after such a terribly long day, it never gets old ♥ my brothers new headphones from shure, which he lets me borrow, they are completely closed both ways & so very lovely in a noisy train ♥ hula hooping ♥ this new lack of sun & getting my ghostly pallor back ♥ fresh vegetables ♥ walden ♥ sylvia plath ♥ poetry in general ♥ having a tidy room again, all this newly cleared space still delights me. i can work again! ♥ strangers smiling at you in a non-creepy way & being nice & considerate ♥ being able to skateboard! sort of. my brother has been teaching me (: & often ending up ‘facepalming’ ♥ seeing my two oldest friends again, & the absurdness that ensued ♥ tarot cards ♥ converge, been way too long since i listened to them ♥ & speaking of music, motionless in white, they are so amazing, live, on cd, in what they have to say. they have a pretty spiffy style too ♥ that my brother randomly bought me my two favourite muse albums, because he couldn’t find anything he was looking for in the cd store & happened to see them & had money ♥ also, owning a new tom waits album ♥ spotify radio, i keep discovering new, amazing artists through it ♥ passionate teachers ♥ that one of them has a muse ringtone ♥ my not-so-new-anymore classmates ♥ melancholia ♥ walks in the morning ♥ the peaceful bustle in the morning ♥ actually, really, truly being able to understand french. i realized this when i was flipping through a french vogue a couple of months ago & as i casually read some articles it was like, HEY. I CAN READ THIS. when it comes to languages french has always been my arch nemesis, so this is something that’s continually delighting me ♥ vacation starting today! ♥

there has been so much more lately, but this is all i can think of now. here’s some brilliance to feast your ears & eyes on:

things i love thursday

haven’t done this in a while! consciously. about time i brought it back.

♥ MY NEW TATTOO ♥ how well my evaluations at school went ♥ this post-evaluations peace ♥ devin townsend live ♥ spotting people at the station/on the street of whom you just know that they’re going to the same show ♥ tivoli oudegracht, how i’ve missed that venue; way better than certain melkwegs ♥ utrecht in general, i can’t BELIEVE i hadn’t been there for over a year & a half ♥ at concerts, when very tall guys in front of you notice tiny you behind them straining for some semblance of a view of the stage & offer to trade places ♥ leftovers from the good old 90′s ♥ like boy meets world (forever & always) ♥ & hole ♥ compliments on the street by complete strangers ♥ the pants i made for sewing class, they’re SO comfortable ♥ my new haircut ♥ the beauty in science exhibition at boijmans, especially the underwater part ♥ that a certain order didn’t get lost in the mail after all ♥ spending the long hours traveling to school & back reading really absorbing books ♥ surrounded by the same people every weekday, there’s something so quaint about that ♥ my new series of unfortunate events books & special edition fight club dvd ♥ when i can almost immediately take the subway after the train after those long days ♥ running into old school friends on that same subway, under agreeable circumstances ♥ cloudy/rainy days, especially right after the absurdly sunny ones ♥ all the new things i’m learning ♥

twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did so. so throw off the bowlines. sail away from the safe harbor. catch the trade winds in your sails. explore. dream. discover.
–mark twain

feel free to add your own list of things you love this thursday in comments (:

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♥ discovering side-pockets in a coat i thought pocket-less ♥ buying books again! ♥ now having a sookie stackhouse boxed set with the first eight books! ♥ & on top of that a fresh stack of books from the library ♥ (book nerd alert) good reads ♥ writing & anticipating finishing a story of epic proportions, which i’d abandoned for over a year ♥ that high-waisted skirt i made last week ♥ being called strawberry shortcake when wearing said skirt (i probably should’ve done an outfit post about that) ♥ seeing my oldest friends again, they always make me laugh ♥ & speaking of things that make me laugh! my dad going over the back fence with loyal employees & cutting all the trees down from the neighbors when he thought they wouldn’t be back for a while & then hiding from them ever since they came back that very night, because those trees bothered him, dropping worms in our pool & all. it’s so absurd it kills me ♥ this sweet tweet from @marajade13: I feel so cool! A super talented artist and clothing designer is following me! @maraleopard! Check her out! She’s amazing! =^_^= ♥ getting contacted for custom orders & the prospect of self-earned money! i’d really rather have people buy already made things from either of my shops, but it’s still awesome ♥ new lime crime make-up! it’s been far too long. i am now the proud owner of countessa fluorescent, airborne unicorn, circus girl & empress ♥ how much longer the days have gotten ♥ dropping unwanted change all over town for other people to find, like stargirl ♥

spent most of the week being a nerd & reading & writing. i’ve read three books since sunday.

“read – and be curious. and if somebody says to you: ‘things are this way. you can’t change it’ – don’t believe a word.”
— cornelia funke

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♥ my amazing new camera! it really puts me in a photographing mood ♥ now having a tripod for that camera! it will make my life SO much easier ♥ hanging out with nadia again after such a very long time ♥ floral things ♥ people who see you & your friend taking pictures of each other & offer to take one for you ♥ having the first season of true blood on dvd, especially in such a lovely american boxed set (the boxed sets here are all so cheaply made) ♥ super girlie headbands ♥ & being able to wear them again! ♥ babywipes, they’re a real godsend when the bathroom floor has to be broken open to fix a leaky pipe & you can’t shower for at least a week ♥ mercury retrograde finally being over ♥ replacing long-overdue things ♥ very nearly having mastered drawing a good line with liquid eyeliner! i’ve always been clumsy with that ♥ riot grrrly music ♥ buying new underwear ♥ & makeup ♥ trying new looks with makeup, i’m not usually big with experimenting in this area ♥ not (unnecessarily) worrying about anything ♥ my items being featured by other crafters i admire, in treasuries & the dawanda festival fashion collection ♥

i’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. they don’t teach you how to love somebody. they don’t teach you how to be famous. they don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. they don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. they don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. they don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. they don’t teach you anything worth knowing.
–neil gaiman

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♥ getting to see despised icon before they stopped touring ♥ winds of plague, i don’t usually like bands who throw something melodic into perfectly nice & heavy music, but they do it pretty well. plus, they’re fantastic live & one of the members complimented me on my cancer bats dress when i went to buy their music :p ♥ having money again! albeit from my dad as opposed to self-earned ♥ pondering what to buy with that money ♥ the imaginarium of doctor parnassus, i bought it on itunes on monday & i’ve already watched it four times ♥ very angry sounding music with positive, empowering lyrics ♥ still having the house to myself; three whole more days! ♥ vertical stripes ♥ how much attention that open letter to audrey kitching (& consequently the rest of my blog & my clothes) has gotten, while i had expected it to disappear into obscurity like all my other articles. it’s far from the best thing on my blog, but exposure is always good ♥ that my hair is very almost long & manageable enough to be able to go outside without a hat, almost ♥ neil gaiman stories, i really should read more of his books ♥ when a group of intimidating boys approach you, which you’d expect to say something nasty to you because you don’t exactly look conventional, & then one of them smiles at you & gives you a genuine compliment. it’s always such a pleasant surprise when people are actually good ♥ waking up in the morning & being able to breathe freely! i’ve been sick so unusually long this time (usually i’m all better within a week) & it’s really almost over ♥ being so inspired to create things that you can barely focus on anything else ♥ fitting into my old pants again. i’ve missed wearing those pants. my legs look so good in them ♥

most of this week i’ve spent quietly recovering. but still, many awesome things :]

you have to do things that average people don’t understand, because those are the only good things.
–andy warhol