50/50

Too much love in one video. Is that even possible. Well yes. Watch:

I think Joseph Gordon-Levitt has a crush on Zooey Deschanel. I have a crush on both. I saw the movie 50/50 yesterday and I fell in love with him. He is an amazing actor. Blew me away. The movie was wonderful! Go check it out. Also this. Too funny.

I've packed all my shizzles and now I am totally ready for 2012 and for my stay in London. I've packed 10 weeks into 1 big back and a small suitcase. Amazeballs! Happy New Year! Cheers

Only. One. Day. Left.

Today is my last day at home. I still have to pack all my stuff. Yes, last minute is my middle name. It is going to be so cool! I'm super stoked! For those of you who can read that weird language that is Dutch, I'll be posting travel stories here. For those of you who don't, too bad. I'll try posting some here. Probably with pictures. Yes!

If ever you miss me, just build a huge slide through the countryside and I'll jump in a plane immediately because I do not want to miss that! So this is goodbye. Goodbye. Happy New Year! Be safe. Love!

This one is about Christmas, winter, Russia and The Black Keys. Also, it's a chaos.

On the first day of Christmas my family gave to me... WAY to much food!! It was crazy!

Christmas is over. Sad face. Mine was so great. On the first day of Christmas my uncle dressed up as Santa Claus and welcomed us with some wine. Epic uncle!

After that we had 4 starters, 4 main menus and 4 deserts. It was craycray! So much food. I loved it! We had dinner from 5 pm till 11 pm. Insane! We had such a good time craving food and telling stories about how our dads used to take a bath in a giant bucket and share the water. Sweet! I love Christmas. EAT ALL THE FOOOOOOOD!!!

Since the Dutch society likes to have loads of food and loads of free time we have 2 Christmases! Huzaaaa! MORE FOOOOOOOD!!! And more family time! This time it was the family on my dad’s side. This family is cookoo crazy and I love it! We played charades and made so much noise. That family always gives me hope since all of them were single and a geek at my age. It runs in the family. Awesome!

As for the winter, it was suppose to be the coldest winter EVAH! Well, so far so good. It is not really cold. I mean I can’t wear my bikini outside but it is relatively warm for the end of December. But in case the winter will arrive somewhere in freaking February I am prepared:

Hells yeah, that is indeed my homemade scarf. Turned out pretty well didn’t it? Better than the bauble in the tree!

Hey Robin, what’s that on the background? You didn’t tell us about your awesome map of the world underneath your bed where you put pins on the places you've been! I didn’t? Gosh, I am terribly sorry. Here’s a better picture:

This map has a funny story about it because I bought the biggest one in the shop just because I really liked it. That wasn’t my smartest plan since I hadn’t measured any spare walls in my room. Turns out it was way too big for any wall in my room. Oops. Therefore we had to cut out some parts of New Zealand and some islands on the coast of America. Sorry ‘bout that.

Also, Russia is my main supply of electricity. Yups. Next time I’ll think before I buy!

Last but not least I’ll tell you a little story about what I figured out the other day. Whenever I leave for a long time I start picturing myself in outfits walking down the streets of my destination. Therefore I’m already planning my days left here and when I have to wash the clothes I want to take with me. So, if you see me walking around in weird clothes or you think they’re new… they’re probably not new, on contrary they will be super old because I have to keep my awesome clothes clean to take with me. *weirdo*

That was not the last story! Muhahahaha. Today I went shopping (more clothes to take with me) As I was walking down the main shopping street in the beautiful city that is Eindhoven I noticed that there were a lot of couples shopping. I also noticed that usually the men of the couples didn’t look very happy. I also saw that in the stores the men are usually sitting on chairs outside the fitting rooms with all the bags and the women are trying on mountains of clothes. It is a very funny sight. Usually I’m the one sitting outside the fitting rooms with a pile of bags while my mom tries on all her clothes.

Guys! Guys! I bought a new CD. It is the new Black Keys album and it is rocking my speakers, booooy! I’m one of the few people who still buy albums because I genuinely believe that the money still goes to the artists and I love the little books that are in the front!

So The Black Keys is a band that I found when I had one of my crazy days and bought a gazillion albums just by the covers. I do that sometimes. If I think ‘hey, that album looks cool. It is not expensive. Let’s buy that thaaang!’ I buy it! Sometimes the CD is awesome, sometimes it is whack. The Black Keys are awesome!

This is the album I bought on the looks

This is their new album. It says "Play Loud" How cool is that!

That was it. It was a chaos but I had so much to tell you and didn’t want to split it up into 10 posts. Deal with it.

I am overkilling you with blogs. Sorry. I love Andy Samberg.

Is wanted to save this for tomorrow but it is too funny not to share! The lonely island is a group I guess, not really a band, from Saturday Night Live.. That in itself is awesome. They have a song about Jack Sparrow. Check it out:

It is just too funny! Yeah that was kinda weird but we're back in the club *Keira Knightley*

Also, The Creep should be a mandatory dancemove from now on.

No can do, Coca Cola

I'm slightly disappointed in the new Coca-Cola commercial. I wish (and secretly thought) that it was the same commercial every year.. turns out it's not. Bummer! No worries though Coca-Cola, I'll just watch the best version on YouTube over and over again. It's fine, whatever.

Wait, what? After some research I just did I found out that they have a new commercial every single year. Geeesj Robin, Captain Obvious.. Hold it! The one I'm looking for seems to be invisible. It is the one with the grandfather and grandson.. yeah, very vague Robin, not really helping. ARGH! GOOGLE HELP ME OUT!

YES! FOUND IT!! FOUND IT!! Google, you never cease to amaze me. My description: 'coke commercial grandson grandfather christmas' Wicked smartass Google! Sidenote, try typing in 'let it snow' It is cooooool! (this word is very funny after you did it)

Anyhooooow, here is the commercial I think should be on television non-stop:

It is not Christmas until the Coca-Cola commercial is on! Preferably this one..

Walt Disney tribute. Booya!

Yesterday we had a Walt Disney party. Those parties are the best! Are you kidding me, Disney movies are the coolest! They only last for a little over an hour and they are so rockin' it!

Elianne had so many movies, but we couldn't watch them all! So we cut some out.. with all the pain in our hearts of course! We started with a gazillion movies and narrowed it down to 'only' 10.









We started with Jungle Book, which is a very good start to be honest!
After that we watched Beauty and the Beast. I am telling you, that Beast is super scary!
Next was Peter Pan. That was our least favorite because Wendy said 'Oh, Peter' at least once every 3 minutes. It became very annoying, specially when you repeat every 'Oh, Peter' she sais and add some 'Oh, Jan' and 'Oh, Michiel' (those are the Dutch names).
After that we went to get something to eat (fries and a snack) and during dinner we watched Mulan. That is the coolest movie! I never saw it but it's magical! I really loved that one. And Mulan is the prettiest Disney girl, if you ask me!
Next up was The Lion King which of course is very sad but Simba is very cuddle-able (I'm pretty sure that's not a word..)

During our little break we had we played a very violent game where we had to kill zombies. It was very scary!

If you think: damn, that sounds like fun! I want to be a part of that Disney-club asap! Well, this is what you have to do: 1. be really bad at guitar hero unless you own the game then you're aloud to kick-ass. 2. Burp really loud every once in a while. 3. Know at least 3 songs you can sing a long. 4. sing really bad otherwise you're not in.. and at last you have to be able to eat like an animal! That's all you have to do really! Sounds do-able (that is a word)! See you next time? Next one will take place in London.

CHRISTMAS TREE. CHRISTMAS TREE. CHRISTMAS TREE.

I love love LOVE Christmas trees. They're so cozy and it gives you a warm fuzzy feeling. Specially when you come down in the morning, it smells like the tree. Awesome! Decorating it is even more awesome! So here's a visual story about how I decorated Mr. Christmas Tree.

Before:

The cat loved Mr. Christmas Tree right from the beginning. She smelled him for about 15 minutes. Sweet!

The decorations all the way from some dusty corner in the loft.
You can all see the yellow-red knitted bauble in the front. Yes, that is indeed a homemade piece by yours truly, thank you very much.

The life long struggle with the christmas lights. We just trow them in the tree as one big light, otherwise we would still be decorating Mr. Tree.

Noooooo Christmas tree don't eat me! I'm too young to die! Nooooo!


The lights are on! Yes! Baubles you're next.


Oops.. two...

three down! Oopsie daisy!

Looking goooooood! Fuuut fuuuuut! (pssh, that's my bestie! She's so cool!)

No Mr. Christmas Tree without sweets! Very tempting!

Le finishing touch..

Voila! CHRISTMAS TREE. CHRISTMAS TREE. CHRISTMAS TREE.

too much pictures!!!!

Robin and her promises. Huzzaa!

Well, that is not a very good start. I apologize. Let's rewrite that promise: from now on until I leave I will TRY to blog daily about my leaving-butterflies! Today was very busy and yesterday was very long.. excuses, excuses. I know! Now I'm watching Juno so this won't be a long one. I'm writing this during commercials which gives me quite some time because the commercials are TOO FREAKING LONG!!

Tomorrow I'll give you a rather long story on the adventures of Josephine and Robin and Mr. Christmas Tree. Stay tuned!

Here's a song to keep you satisfied, the clip is sort of awkward..

Oh, commercials are over. Bye!

The countdown has begun.

Yesterday I saw the worst movie ever. It was called 'The heartbreak kid' with Ben Stiller. I'm not very fond of that guy but I thought I'd give it a shot because in the promo it looked like a really sweet, romantic movie. Boy, did that promo manipulate me. Never give that movie a shot. I'm sorry Ben, but is was not cool! The story was lame, the editing was horrible and the shots even worse. No, never again. 90 minutes of my life wasted. Why didn't you turn it off then, you might ask? Well, whenever I start a movie I want to know how it ends. The ending on this movie was the stupidest, most annoying, terrible, disgusting end EVER! UGH! I never really intensly hate a movie. I can usually find something good in any movie but this one was just hopeless. I tried. In the beginning I liked one caracter, but then she turned out to be an evil freak so I stopped liking her and since then it went downhill. I'm all about recommending shizzle so: I HIGHLY recommend you NOT to watch this movie.

To make up for these horrible 90 minutes I'm having a watch-all-your-favorite-Disney-movies-on-one-day-sunday. You jealous yet?


HELL YEAH!! Going back in time. It is going to be TOTALLY AWESOME!! An update will follow later (hopefully with some pictures)

The countdown has begun guys. Only 19 days left until I leave for London. I'll make a deal with you. From now on, until I leave I will blog daily about my countdown. You in? Good. See you tomorrow.

It's the most wonderfull time of the year...

...well, NOT if you work at a department store. Remember how I told you about my horrible packing skills? Well, they've improved slighlty because I've been wrapping weird gifts non-stop the last 9 hours. I am not fooling you. It is super busy!

Before, as a customer you had 2 options: children's wrapping paper (which looks all cute at first sight because of all the colors, but if you look closer there are all these deformed animals on it which are really creepy) or black & white wrapping paper.

But now that Sinterklaas, Santa Claus and whatever old dude with a white beard are in town, you get a whole lot of more options: still the creeppy children's wrapping paper and the black & white but also freaking gold-digger gold and our super special Christmas-wrapping (it's from last year but shhh don't tell!)

So when you buy stuff you get loads off questions thrown at you. At least 5. If your lucky 6.

Fun fact about this, it is very awkward if the customer answers all the questions with no. You feel very useless if they do.

'Do you collect air miles? No. Is it a gift? No. Would you like to buy some candles because they are cheapass? No. Would you like to pay cash at least I'll have something to do? No. Would you maybe be interested in a bag, maybe, possibly, I'm guessing.. no? Uhm... well.. yes, yes, YES.. no, that's alright.. oh..ok. Do you want the receipt? No. DO YOU EVEN WANT TO BE HERE?!?!' That's sort of how it goes..

Other than that, I love December and all the holidays. Everybody is super excited and it is cold outside so you can dig into your scarf so deep people can only see your eyes.. You get presents and TONS of food! I used to hate Christmas.. but now I like it. Weird right.

I specially like the Christmas tree! And the Coca-Cola Christmas Commercial (that is a lot of C's) And I love the really sweet Christmas songs. There so sappy!

This song is very cool too. I kinda forgot about it until I read awesome Marieke's blog

Totes in love with the Noah and the Whale! How can I forget about them. I'm sorry, I'll never neglect you again.

Beyoncé vs. Robin

When I grow up, I want to be Beyoncé. Seriously. She is just the thang! She dances like a maniac and she is super pretty. Her voice is amazing and gives me goosebumps. Plus she got some swag, are you kiddiiiiiing me gurrrl! Gosh, I'm not even close!

This song makes me want to dance like her! That will never happen, but I'm close:

What? That is way different music! Yeah, I'm gonna need some extra dance lessons probably. It was a cool festival though. In Cardiff, super duper!

Fashionably late

You guys, I had a belated-spring-clean-up! It was craycray! I literally threw almost everything away. I'm not even joking.. I'm not the kind of girl that throws stuff away. On contrary, I save everything. The smallest ticket and the biggest shitty arts & crafts piece I made in elementary school are all somewhere in my room. I also have (or actually had) a truck full of shoes and bags in my room. But today was the day to say goodbye to all the bags and shoes that have been so faithfully to me over the years.
Ladies and gentleman I threw 4 garbagebags of shoes, bags, blankets, memories out of the house today. I nearly threw out half of my stuffed animals but it was too painfull. They all looked so cute and I could not bare to put them in the garbage bag. They have some more time to live before I have another belated-spring-clean-up. (My bed will be horribly empty when that day comes)
I hope to never have to do this again. It was mad in there, I'm telling you. Things flying around the room while I desperately chased dirty little animals with my vacuum cleaner. I hope this kind of dirt-war never happens again!

Picture time: I couldn't find a picture.
Song time:

Yes! Top of the Pops! And those suits! I want one! And the dances! Fo shizzle! I love boybands.

My socks didn't match today. Story of my life.

The combination of my socks was very confusing today. I don't think I had this kind of combination before. It made my feet feel awesome and I've been staring at them the whole day.
(Yes, I made a picture. Of course I made a picture, you know you love my pictures of all my weird unimportant things. Without them it would be dull and even more unimportant.)

I think it is very artsy. Little Piet Mondriaan-ish.
(I should really find an interesting, challeging, rare hobby I can blog about all day, because this is getting out of hand)

Other than that I have found my new school. You no longer have to worry about Robin's Future. She's got it all figured out! I'm almost finished with the fifth Harry-Potter-book and according to the biggest HP-fan-friend I have it should get interesting. I hope so, because up until now it is not really shocking.. I also earned tons of money with my new job as a cleaning lady. That is right, I'm cleaning the hell out of everything. No dirt is too dirty for me. Bring it on!

I totally look like this when I'm cleaning!

Please get an Uggcitrin. PLEASE!

It is very very important that every girl (and maybe even boy) gets one of these. This will safe the environment, the economy, the financial market, and many other subjects that are in great danger nowadays. It will even safe the Tree Kangaroo for no apparant reason. Would you want to be the death trap for this super cute animal:

That's what I thought. Thank you for saving the Tree Kangaroo!

Yes, I know I'm being lazy by only giving you video's instead of awesome stories.

Wait. What?

Ed Sheeran is awesome. He has a new song called Lego House. This morning I saw the video. It was a little confusing:

Huzzaa, that is Ron Weasley (no Robin, that is Rupert Grint. Geesh, get it right girl!). Holy smokes does he look like Ed Sheeran. Confusing much? Well, I was seriously confused the first minute. And again, it is an awesome song because building a lego house is very cool and painting by numbers is seriously the coolest thing in the whole wide world. There you have it.

Now I have to go to sleep, because I am having a sleepover at my grandma tomorrow. That is right. I still have sleepovers at my grandma's because she is rocking the boat of life!

Another Ellen thing

It's just... you know.. I mean... HELL YEAH!!

Paper Heart.

You know how you sometimes lose faith in love. Allright, you know how I sometimes lose faith in love. Well, I just watched the perfect movie if that feeling ever comes up again. It is called 'Paper Heart'. I love the title. Here is a trailer:

It is such a cool concept. It looks as though they are making a documentary but at the same time you are already sort of watching a documentary. It was new to me and I fairly enjoyed it. I am telling you if you love Michael Cera (check) and if you are akward (at least with love)(double check) then you will enjoy this movie too. It is the sweetest.

So for all those of you out there who should be studying but want to find something way more fun-crapping-tastic to do, this is your shot. This is the movie you want to see.
After watching this movie you'll sort of have faith in love again. Sort of.

Autumn leaves on the floor

I love autumn. It is one of my favorite seasons. After summer, spring and winter. I'm an all season girl! Back to autumn loving: the colors of the leaves are beautiful and the wind that rages through the streets is pretty nice!

In preparation to the icy cold winter we are suppose to face I am knitting my own scarf. Yes, you read that right. I am knitting like an old grandma. It is very fun to do actually. Look how far I've come:


It used to be twice as long and nearly finished, but then my little brother had a birfday party and all my family members were against my scarf (except my awesome cousin, she was totally rooting for my 'old' scarf!) It was to long, and warm and it looked like a blanket. So, I decided, after a lot of peer pressure, to say goodbye to my little friend and start a new scarf. This is the result so far. Huzzaa for Robin's knitting!

Song time!

Done. Close curtain.

Get a piece of cake 'cause it is time to celebrate!

FRIENDS! FRIENDS! FRIENDS! This is my hundredth post! Sweet! Are you still loving it?

To celebrate this I thought I'd give you a video of one of the coolest chicks on this planet:

She is just the sh*t! I mean, who can dress up their bandmates as doctors, sing while doing a backward rollover and wear wings on her head. Only a girl called Robyn can do that. I can do that to! It is all in the name!

Another cool chick is Ellen by the way. I read her book "The funny thing is.." and I read it in one afternoon. She is just so super duper funny! Incredible! This video is very funny. Taylor Swift gets to meet her biggest fan and that girl is just the sweetest and most annoying girl at the same time. She cries all the way trough it. And Ellen is being a little mean but still very funny. Check it:

My favourite part is by far 3:33! It is so funny but a little bit sad but SOOOO funny!! Aaaah, I love Ellen!

I have no inspiration for a fun, spontanious, enthusiastic title but do read on because the blog is wicked!

The other night, my bestie and I had a game night! Hell yeah! No computer, no television, no smart phones, no stupid phones just plain board games. We played The Settlers of Catan.


Now I have to tell you a story. I am a terrible, horrible, dreadful gameplayer. I lose e-ve-ry single game. But I am not a bad loser because for me, playing a game is just for fun. True story. I'm not the kind of girl who throws the whole board away after losing a game, or who is grumpy for a whole week or cheats as soon as she might not win. Nope, not me. I just change the rules.

For example, the game Risk. You know, that game where you have to kill everybody and everything that comes your way in order to rule the world... muhahahaha. Yes, that game. Well, the goal is to, as I said, get all the countries. That is if I'm not playing. When I am playing Risk, the goal is to lose all your countries as SOON AS POSSIBLE!! Guess what.. I ALWAYS WIN!!! WHOOP WHOOP!! See, I'm not a bad loser.

OK, going back to our game night. We played The Settlers of Catan. Guess what. I WON! This game might be the one and only game I can actually win. Hip hip hurray! I lost the second round.

Still, it is all about the fun and we had some! See, my bestie moved to the other side of the country. She is now a fabulous student and I am a proud mama but we don't see each other as much as I would like to. However, when we are together.. WORLD! WATCH OUT! We are dangerously fun! I am not even joking! Got a lot of love for that girl! OK, enough with the emotional shizzle, let's watch a fun video:

Hehe, that makes me grin.

Big girl, big decisions

"Whatever you can vividly imagine, you can achieve. Everything in your world and everything around you was once an idea in the mind of its inventor and creator"

- Jim Donovan

Yesterday was a major-decision-making-day. I decided to go to London in January and go get any kind of Cambridge diploma. That is a happy decision. For this happy decision I had to cut a lot of fun. Since London isn't the cheapest city I have to make some big money. The V&D only won't be enough, so I decided to become a hooker. I am telling you, that shit makes big money! I'm kidding, I will never do that. No, I just decided to become a brain surgeon, not that difficult most people are already screwed up as it is! OK, cut to the chaise, I decided to quit playing games and quit volleybal. Ouch! My heart just broke a little bit. I have to tell you I seriously think volleybal is one of the coolest sports EVAH! Isn't it strange how one Mr. William G. Morgan just decided to mix basketball, basebal and tennis together and started a completely different game? Thanks dude!
It hurts to stop playing after 10 years, but desperate times need desperate measures.

I also decided to stop my photography course. Damn sister, everything I like is gone. Now it is time to work my butt off and earn some healthy money.

Now, ladies and gentleman, this girl has been in the Netherlands for long enough and will soon depart to London to have a wicked awesome time! Whoop whoop! 100-SECOND DANCE PARTAY!!

Sure, you can come visit me. I'll be having my own apartment. No worries.

This is weird.

I was just cycling around in the city, trying to find an extra job because I want to go to China and America and England and that's all very expensive. So, while I was waiting for the red light to change (did you know that an average person waits 2 weeks of his/her life for the light to change. Talking about a waste of time) a guy came passing by. Now, that is not weird but for some reason he looked really nice and kind. This might be a little embarrassing but it felt like he could be my best friend. OK, this is super weird to tell, but I have to. It was a very strange feeling in my tummy, maybe butterflies, but it made me happy. Gosh, this is awkward. It didn't get any worse. None of these thoughts came out on the street. I didn't poor my heart out while he raced away because I was chasing him. We'll never know if we were going to get a little house, a little cat, a little kid and live happily ever after. Dum dum DUM. Face palm.

I'm new here so bare with me...

Hi, my name is Robin. I'm an addict. (Hi, Robin) It started when I was in Norway. The coolest girl introduced me to Glee. (oeh) Yes, it is true. We watched it together, even though she was already a 'gleek'. I enjoyed it. It was great being able to watch episode after episode without having to wait for another week. So, after season one ended, I had to wait for season 2, since it wasn't airing yet.
I was used to watching Glee, but since there were no new episodes I decided to find a new series. And there came One Tree Hill. Now, this show had been on television for a while with the result that there were a lot of episodes waiting for me. A hundred and eighty-eight. 8 seasons. It all happened very quickly. I started downloading it. Watching episode after episode. Started losing sleep, my school work suffered. It came to a point where I would study in the library for my exams, bring my laptop and watch an episode because then my parents wouldn't find out. That must have been my lowest point.
After I finished the old episodes of One Tree Hill, I could continue with the new ones since the show hadn't finished yet. Season 9 will be the last one and I'm still not sure if I'll be able to handle it. Anyway, a new Glee season started and meanwhile I also started watching How I Met Your Mother, Gossip Girl, Chuck, Off The Map and Rookie Blue. These are all still running series which makes it really difficult for me to keep track on which show aires when. Therefore I made a schedule so that I don't have to miss any of my series.

This all happened in early 2011. During the summer break I felt restless. The shows all had a break, I get that the actors need vacation too, but I felt very uncomfortable. I had too much spare time and I didn't know what to do with it. So, I started searching on IMDB for new searies and came across Friday Night Lights. This show has changed my life. Fortunalty, there were 5 seasons waiting for me. Unfortunatly the show has already stopped, so after spending a lot of my summer vacation behind my laptop screen laughing, bursting out into tears, raging of anger and biting my nails of fear I fell in that scary black hole again.

Again, I sought comfort in IMDB and found new series. This time it was Awkward. This serie is one of my favorite. It is very funny. Next to Awkward there was Everybody Hates Chris, which has a lot of seasons waiting for me. Even though I had all these series, I decided to watch New Girl. This has been the best decision in my life. Everybody should watch New Girl. The show is about a girl who has been dumped by her boyfriend. Now don't start immediately with the: 'Oh, classic. Of course, you're a girl, you need that kind of affirmation that you still have a chance to find the love of your life and that true love still exists' because in this show that is NOT the case. There are only 2 episodes up until this point, but that are some rocking, kick-ass episodes! I mean it! She found a new appartment on craigslist and now she lives with 3 guys. It is wicked awesome. The show makes me want to find an appartment with three of those guys. I know how it'll probably end, she ends up dating one of the three and it doesn't work out jadaajadaajadaa. IT IS STILL AWESOME!! I mean Zooey Deschanel is amaziing and she keeps making theme songs for herself. HELLOW, SUPER COOL!

So, this is me confessing. I don't think I will ever heal from this disease and I'm OK with that. I'll manage. Thank you for listening.

bye.

A trip down to memory lane

I am a collector. I save almost everything that I have some kind of emotional connection with. I save ALL my theatre tickets. I have a lot of playbills from theatre plays. I have weird post-its from playing a game of good ol' hangman just because I loved the creative words me and my friend came up with. I mean, it's sort of weird. But I also safe a lot of pictures. Which I personally think is not very weird.

So, I looked trough some photo's from a reaaaaaaaaaaally long time ago. And I mean reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaally long time. Maybe not that long, since I'm only 19, but still...

I came to realize that you have certain stages in your appearence over the years.

You of course have the cute baby-look. I'll save you the heartattack you will certainly get when seeing my baby photo's.

Then you have the: 'Aaaaaah she looks so cute unwrapping her gifts in her hand-picked dungarees she got from her grandma'-look:


Skipping to the next stage, which is the: 'Ouch, that almost went wrong, but at least it is all red'- look

(I am a mini golf master! Just saying!)

Then you have the: 'I am a big girl now, and big girls have problems that is why I look so worried'-look
And the last, most embarrasing face is the: 'WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING. What's with the hair? Wasn't there ANYBODY who could have told me? Geesh, thanks mom.'- look

(The zoo was awesome!)

This is the least embarrasing one. Just to save you from dying of laughter! Your welcome!

So, this is me exposing my different appearances. Have fun with your own little trip down to memory lane.

Awesome!

bye.

These are my confessions.

Oh! What's that? Did that just came in the mail? And did I have to kick my little brother to the ground in order to capture it? HELL YEAH!

Let me explain. I have a confession to make. I bought an Ipod Classic. I am sorry to dissapoint you but it was time for a new musical device. My wannabee-Ipod decided to just die on the day I left for Venice, thanks very much wannabee, I love you too.

Anyways, that wannabee was fully loaded, so I had to buy something new because I had SO much more music I wanted to listen to. An Ipod is pretty awesome. I bought a pretty big one. 160 Gb. Just in case.

I do find one thing unattractive about an Ipod and that is the way it looks. It looks suuuuper boring! But my awesome travelbuddy knows an wicked site where you can buy a new skin for your Ipod (or any other fruit device)

So, I searched for the perfect match for me and my new Ipod. It took some thinking and evaluating and killing of certain darlings but I came to a decision.

Tadaaaaaaaa. It has yet to be applied on my Ipod but it looks awesome already! It came all the way from Toronto! I want to go to Toronto!

And just to be clear, I will not stop buying real, actual albums because I love albums. Period.

Life's gooooooood!

Oh. My. God. Did I tell you guys about my vacation? No? Man, it was wicked awesome! Best vacaaa evaaaa!

Seriously, we had so much fun! We met all sorts of people, from French jocks to a guy who had a lot of big stories about himself and his drinking problem to a transvestite about who we weren't really sure what 'it' was. I mean he/she snored like a really fat, nasty guy but dressed like a girl including the b-e-a-utiful trampstamp (thank you Jim Carrey for teaching me how to write beautiful)

Basically, I suggest that everybody has a little Interrail-trip through England and Scotland. Oh, and be sure to take the Lonely Planet about Great Britain. That was our bible, I am telling you! A bible!

After England, I needed sun, so I went to Italy with my family. To Venice. Venice is such a weird city. There are absolutely no cars. Everything happens on the water. Literally everything. I am taking about the ambulance, the police, the fire brigade, garbage, post. Everything. Super awesome!

When you are in the Venice area, be sure to check out Verona. Yups, the hometown of Juliet. From Romeo. It is very funny because there is a house that says it is actually her house.
Little fact: Romeo and Juliet wasn't and still isn't a true story. It is all fiction. So basically, people are making a picture of a house with a balcony. (yes, so did I) It is kind of funny! Other than that, Verona is a very pretty city.
I also saw a opera. About Romeo and Juliet and it took them 4 hours to tell the story. It was so, so, so, so, awesome! Words can not describe how awesome it was! The original arena was where the magic happened and we were sitting on these banches of stone and my behind was sticking to my plastic cushion because it was so hot and it was packed because when you get cheep tickets you have to sit very close to each other and it was just epic! Sweet, sweet story!

And now I'm home again. Not knowing what to do with my life. Any suggestions? No, I'm playing with you! Nowadays I am hooked on Friday Night Lights. Awesome show! And I cleaned my room again. Even awesomer!

Happy song:

Life's gooooooood!

It is time to clean up!

When a girl finds out she is going to travel for the next three weeks, she needs to clean up. No, I do not mean her room, but her Ipod. In my case, a fake Ipod but who gives a pony..

So, I decided (while still unpacked) to clean up my fake Ipod. Here is a short report:
I came to notice that there is an overdosis of Coldplay hanging around on my musical machine. Not a bad thing though! I also saw that I have a couple of never-listen-never-delete-songs. To name one: Dolly Parton - Here you come again. Great song, I just never listen to it.

I am usually a intro-kinda gril so when I play music it's like: intro - next - intro - next - intro - next - intro - oeh nice song - listen to it a little bit longer - next - yes GREAT song - listen to the whole song until the end almost comes - next. It is very difficult for me to listen to a whole song. I always need to be the one that pushes the button for the next song.

For those of you who don't know, I prefer the cd over the fake Ipod. Yes, I do still own a discplayer. I'll give you a picture to remind you what it looks like:

Remember? For the record, mine is not as fancy! This one can read mp3-files as well, mine only reads cd's!

I prefer cd's over fake ipods because I'm a addicted-to-one-artist/band-listen-to-it-for-way-too-long-until-you-dislike-it-and-then-go-on-to-the-next-one-and-do-the-same-thing-all-over-again-kinda girl. And a cd is a great solution for my fake Ipods-shuffle problem. The problem with that one is that he/she/it always picks the wrong songs. I know my fake Ipod should only have cool songs, and it does, but sometimes you just don't want to hear that particular song.

Oh, and I also have a guilty pleasure on my fake Ipod. It is spicy, and they are girls, If you know what I mean. You are allowed to bust a move on this song:

(You just got of your seat and danced like a madman. It's ok, so did I)

Having admitted that, I should go packing. You know, tomorrow I leave for this awesome railroadtrip trough England and it is going to be totally awesome. I just have yet to pack. Yes, I am on time. As always! Bye! See you in a few weeeeeeeeeeeeks! :)

SUMMER SOUNDTRACK:

Amusement parks and animals go together like ramma lamma lamma a ding gadi dinga dong

Today, I went to the Efteling, with my friends. It is an awesome amusement park with all kinds of superfast rollercoasters and a lot of fairytales! We had a blast.

Today, I also came to realize that I just love animals and humans working together. There was a show at the amusement park that used birds, horses and humans fighting a big robot-bird. It can not get any awesomer (apparently, I was the only one who tought about the show that way, the rest of my amusement-park-gang wasn't very amused) Of course the human knights and there horses won. It was epic. I fell in love with the red-knight. I have yet to write my letter to him, in which I will explain my love for his heroic appearance and his bravery.

The next item in my human-animal-working-together-love is this video:

I laughed my ass off when I saw this video. I mean, Outkast is Awesome! And the animals in this video are just superdudes! They can sing! Especially the owl: 'forever ever, forever ever, forever ever?' As well as all the "ooeeeeeh" moments! Aaah, I enjoy this!

EUREKA!

Remember that time I was freaking out about my exams and stuff. Forget that. Because THIS girl PASSED ALL her exams and has PASSED her first year! 5 second dance party! Hold up.. Make that 3:12 minutes dance party while singing along with this song! WHOOT WHOOT!!

Lyrics: chacaron chacaron.. hununuhu nunuhu hubuwununuhu hubuwununuhu hununu hununuhu nunuhu hununu hununuhu nunuhu hununu hununuhu nunuhu hununu hununuhu nunuhu hununu hununuhu nunuhu hununu hununuhu nunuhu hununu waniwanahmanamanma hununuhu nunuhu hununu hununuhu nunuhu take a look to the right hununu hununuhu nunuhu hununu hununuhu nunuhu hununu hununuhu nunuhu hununu hununuhu nunuhu hununu hununuhu nunuhu hununu chacaron chacaron hubuwununuhu hubuwununuhu hubuwununuhu hubuwununuhu hubuwununuhu hubuwununuhu hubuwununuhu hubuwununuhu hubuwununuhu hubuwununuhu chacaron chacaron.

I will now drop out of school

Update!

Guys, meet my new friend:

This is Backpack. Backpack will join me and Marieke on our 4-week-interrail trip through England & Scotland. How cool is that?! I am so stoked! It is going to be Aaaaaaa-mazing! Backpack here will be my buddy through thick and thin, trough rain (hopefully, since it can rain pretty bad in England & Scotland) and sun (hopefully,, since it can rain pretty bad in England & Scotland)

I thought you might wanted to know what cities we will be visiting, so I made a little map for you. I worked hard on it! And it didn't quite turn out the way I wanted it. Deal with it:


Fantastic! Let's go! Wait, I first have to pack and pray I passed my exams. I'm leaving next Thursday! *5 second dance party* Super psyched!

Remember that picture of my little bit messy room? Well, I cleaned it. I tried to take a picture of it, but it was so clean and bright that the camera couldn't handle it. And 1 thing: you don't know what you got... until you have cleaned your room. I found so many things I thought I lost. It is awesome! Should do that more often!

Now, I will go and put some are in my inflatable chair I got as a birfday present! Whoop whoop!

A day at work

I've been working at the V&D for about a month now. The V&D is like a shopping mall, only a little bit smaller. Things I learned from working there: I am a terrible, horrible gift wrapper. It is true. I am. And what is the WORST floor to work at when being a terrible gift wrapper? Exactly, the toy department. All the toys are huge, and I always get too little wrapping-paper. My worst case was with a toaster (I know, that is not a toy) The sixt time I got the right amount of wrapping-paper, all the other five times it was too small and therefore didn't fit. The guy that bought the toaster was not very happy with it and decided to wrap it himself and asked for wrapping-paper. The first time was too small again.
The toys that I stumble upon are also horribly shaped. There is not 1 toy that is square and easy to pack. Only the puzzles, but those aren't sold very often. Even when it is square-shaped I suck at gift wrapping. I suppose it is another one of my super duper handy talents I own.

Another floor you absolutely do not want to work at as a clumsy-sucky-gift-wrapper is the tableware department. Why not? Well, because literally e-ve-ry-thing on that floor can fall and break into a bazillion pieces. It is bound to happen one day, and I warn my boss, it is going to cost you (or me)(probably me)(dammit)
On top of that, tableware is deadly to pack. It is mission impossible, I tell you. I am yelling at the wrapping paper, telling it to hug the gift, but it is fighting me like a warrior. After I have finally conviced the wrapping paper, I already have another battle waiting for me, and that is the tape versus the gift wrapper. Instead of sticking to the wrapping paper, it sticks to my fingers. You do not belong there, amigo. Go away, stick your body to the paper.

Meanwhile, the customers are waiting and either laughing at me or getting angry because their gift looks horrible.

When the tape is finally on the paper and of my fingers, I have already thought about how I am going to fit this gift into a bag. Because of all the impossible shapes things have these days, it is quite difficult to fit it into a bag. That is another struggle I have to face in front of the loyal customer (who is waiting for about 10 minutes now)

Sometimes I forget to get of the price sticker. Gosh, I am not the smartest gift wrapper the V&D has. Oh well, at least the customer has a little entertaiment. I am glad I could help with that.

So, if you are looking for some entertaiment, go to the V&D, get the craziest shaped toy you can find. Get some tableware and some pillows (I just LOVE checking out pillows) Ask me to gift-wrap it all apart but you would like the cup and saucer wrapped together (that is my favorite) To end it all, you would like to know the pricing off the bed sheets and if you can get a discount. You probably won't and the bed sheets are very expensive so, after you have talked about it with your friend for about 3 minutes, you decide you don't want it. That would be my heaven on earth, that would just make my day!

Unbelievable!

I'm not very keen on dogs. I'm sorry, they are just not my type. Especially not after they have been outside and smell like something has been lying around for a couple of days. Not good. But I have a confession to make. I do like this dog:


Oh no, she diiii-iiin't. This dog just make me laugh like crazy. It's just, look at those tiny mountains of fat. It's like it has been raining cats and dogs (nice joke Robin, nice joke) and this dog had to stand outside for the whole storm and its body shrinked, but its skin didn't. So now he has too much skin for his tiny little body. I'm sorry, you should see me right now, I'm grinning like an idiot. My family is looking like me and thinking 'that gal needs some serious help'
I mean come ooooon! Don't you just want to look this dog in the eye (if you can find them underneath that overload of skin) and say: 'Gosh, you are some creature! Don't ever go outside again when it is raining. But you do look very cute. Would you like to take a walk with me on the beach?' The dog will say: "Oh, well. Alright, I guess I could take a walk." I imagine this dog to be a laid-back-beach-surf-dog.

If anyone is treatening me to steal my dolly unless I have a dog, I want this one. I'll call it Rusty. Rusty will be the mascot of "Cat The Warrior And The Lobster"

Warning! Do not read when utterly cheerful.

I swear! Don't read when happy! This blog will be full of complaints!

I hate my life. Just shoot me now. Everything is going wrong. My bike broke down, there was an elephant on the road, my dog ate my homework, it rained and I broke my favorite pencil.

No, I'm only joking (irish accent). It is actually SUPER DUPER hot outside and I didn't even go to school today simply because I have to study for my French oral exam tomorrow. That is right. A French oral exam. Will you succeed? Well, in this state of mind, no. It is so hot outside, that my braincells, I don't know, melted away or are on a vacation. Either way, they are not working. At all. C'est terrible. (Look at that, one braincell came back! Where have you been all day, young fellow?)

Anyway, today is not such a motivative day I must say. I found out that I have 2 resits. I will not go further into detail because then it will just be jadaajadaajadaa. Boooooring.
The feeling of having resits sucks big time. While I'm lying dead on the ground thinking my life is over and finding a way out trough the carpet, all my fellow 'facebookers' are happy commenting: "I past all my exams. Huzaaah. Summervacation." Not cool!

Furthermore, one reason I am allowed to complain is because I am awesome, and this is my blog, and it is very hot outside and I want to go to my bestie in New York City. That's actually more than one reason. Pretty good reasons I must say.

To end this horribly complaining post, I will now cheer you up with some music since I think you are all so compassionate. Thank you for letting me complain. I promise, the next post will be all happy and cheerfull, since it will probably be about how I nailed my resits and my summervacation.

Here's the music by the way. Little bit of Phil Collins, nice and swooning:

(I have yet to see this movie again, will do soon, after I have found the bright light at the end of the tunnel. Gosh, that sounds very depressed. It's not that bad, I'm just over exaggerating. I'm good at that!)

Ah, don't you just love to spill every little thing you have in your body. Happy people still happy? Told ya!

Yes, that's right, I'm blogging like a mad(wo)man!

Who want to join me in this crazy dance party? All I need is about 40 people, some flashy disco lights, a lot of smoke and a school cafeteria. Oh, I also need an apple.

"Everyone can wide a bike!"

This kid is just... amazeballs:

If only I was as cool as him when I was four, but no, I had to ride into a wall (yes, I'm bringing that story up again! Traumatized I tell you, traumatized!)

This kid makes me laugh! I will have a kid like that because he is obviously as ridiculously awesome as I am.

I am just going to give you an overload of video´s this week. It is my examweek, and as you all know, eveything is way more important than studying during such particular weeks. Even staring at a wall is way more fun than opening your books. I caught myself staring at a wall during one of my exams today, hoping there was going to show up some kind of magical angel that would whisper the answer in my ear. Just like the movies. Didn't happen. Unfortunately.

Anyways.. these guys, The Gregory Brothers, 'songify' youtube videos (that aren't songs yet ofcourse..) and they also made a song out of this one....... My computer was stubborn.. I tried talking to him but he didn't want to listen.. so here is it: PICK ME! PICK ME!

That just has to make you laugh! They have more cool stuff!

My dream:

Whoooopie! Piccsy!

Now I know a car is just a way to transport ourselves from A to B and that it doesn't have any feelings/emotions/liveliness whatsoever but this one is just so effing cute! I have this thing where I give inanimate objects voices and emotions and I believe objects from the same species can talk to each other. If they are not from the same species I help them to communicate with each other. Anyway, I therefore believe this is the kindest car you will ever meet. Don't you just want to hug this car? Isn't it awesome?! I lurf it! One fine day, when I'm all grown up and when I have tons of money because I make cool photographs and theatre plays and because I have a gigantically famous band called either "Cat Warrior And The Lobster" or "Astronomic Artichoke" I will buy this car (without the cheese), ship it to America and make an once-in-lifetime road trip where I will meet the man of my dreams and then we drive off in my cool red fiat 500 towards the rest of our lives. The End

I want to start a band!

There is this music video, connected to a song (what? fo' shizzle?) which I very much enjoy. It is this one, and if I may suggest; close the door, put the video on wide screen and sit as close to the display as possible:

When I hear this song, and when I'm ridiculous close to my computer I sort of feel hopeless. I have no idea why, but the feeling doesn't bother me that much. It actually feels good.
The video is super weird, but I think it is a very beautiful one. It doesn't make sense the first time you watch it, but after a while (and after reading the comments on youtube) you sort of understand it. Turns out, this song is about advertisement and how it effects us all but we don't really know how to deal with it because it is 'bigger than us'.

Whenever I hear this kind of music, I always wish I could be as good as an musician as those people. I would love to make music and travel around the world making people dance. There's just one little, kinda crucial, part I miss... the talent to make music..

BUT.. Eline and I found a way to start a band. We will copy songs of other bands, that way we don't have to come up with the songs ourselves and we can meet our favourite bands! How's that possible? Well, since you have all these copyright-shizzle-manizzle, the bands will sue us.. and then we can say: "Oooooh, we are so, so sorry, we didn't mean to offend them. We want to apologise to them in person." Bam, meet & greet with our favourite bands! Let's start a band. The name you ask? Well, we are still in doubt.. It will either be "Cat Warrior And The Lobster" or "Astronomic Artichoke" Let us know which name you like the most! Or come up with an even cooler one!
We have all the people we need, some of them don't know that they are in our band yet, but we still need some back-up dancers. Any volunteers? We will be gigantically famous! Just sayin'

You know Robin has a deadline when..

.. her room looks like this:

HOLY SMOKES! What exploded there?! O MY GOD! I think I just saw a mouse running by?! Gasp!

I am very ashamed of myself right now. However, as the title already stated, I have a deadline this friday. Will you make it, my dearest and favorite blogwriter of all time? *insert cricket noise* Well, if I lock myself down like a hermit and if I don't clean my room (waste of time) then it might turn out just great!
As I am writing this I hear your precious little minds go: 'oh Robin, why is it that you can't plan properly and that you always leave all your beautiful clothes on the floor even though there is a handy Ikea-closet on the wall to put them in? Why?'
Whoops.... BUT, my exam period is creeping up which is the perfect time to clean my room! Then there will be a blog called: 'You know Robin has exams when...' Looking forward to seeing you then.

Blast from "the past"

Yesterday, I went to the high school prom of my bestie! It was wicked awesome!
We had a prom together 2 years ago. Here's a little comparison:



Whaaaaat? Super weird seeing it like this! How cool! We've changed, and grew and became more serious (wait, that's not true..it just looks that way)


See, no worries. We are still the biggest goofballs walking aournd on this planet! You don't want to see the pictures that are made later on.. I think we look very pretty. On all the pictures. Ha!

Me: "Whale you be my valentine?" You: "Dolphinitely."

I have to take back what I said 2 sundays ago. Remember how I told you what the perfect love song was? Well, I was a little bit wrong. This is the most perfect love song (same artist, 'cause she's awesome! Actually, you should listen to her album because every song on it is very beautiful and adorable. Like The Chain. Her coolest albums are 'Everybody' and 'Girls and Boys'. I will now stop this incredibly long story between brackets and let you listen to the song!):

The video is sweet although I'm not very fond of clowns. Turns out, I'm not very fond of cows either, but I won't tell that story. It is too embarrassing. I'm not ready yet.

Girls, we need to talk

Today, I learned something during my Marketing lecture *gasp*
According to some kind of research, this is a list of a woman's "most treasured possessions":

1. Mother	11. Purse
2. Photographs	12. Car
3. Mobile phone	13. iPod
4. Best friend	14. Favourite shoes
5. Boyfriend	15. Tweezers
6. Diamond ring	16. Mascara
7. Pet	17. Cuddly toy
8. Laptop	18. Old Love letters
9. Hair straighteners	19. Diamond earrings
10. Handbag	20. Slippers

Source

Ladies, I'm shocked! Are we really that materialistic? (I find this a very difficult word to pronounce) I mean, as long as you don't have a best friend, your not going to need a phone. And a diamond ring? I never had a diamond ring, and I'm perfectly fine with it.
I do also disagree with the fact that a cuddly toy is less important than mascara and hair straighteners (what kind of women did they ask these questions?) A cuddly toy is very important and makes you feel happy!
So, here is a new list:

1. Mother
2. Best friend
3. Boy friend/Cuddly toy
4. Pet
5. Photographs

That is all you need. The rest is just naaaah... You don't really need it to be happy! And did you know your Loreal mascara is exactly the same as the cheap-ass mascara in your local supermarket. Yes, 'fo real!