Yikes!

Two days. Only two days left and I know how smart I am in English. It's too long. I can't handle it! 

When I came back from London, it was so far away. I sort of forgot about it - not completely of course, I studied 10 weeks for it - but now it is super duper close. The past week I have been restless.. I'm driving friends and family insane.. sorry 'bout that!

See, there is this system in my head that works very strange. In high school, whenever I had a very good feeling about an exam, it turned out I failed miserably and vice versa - when I thought I failed harder than ever, I got straight A's. I have an incredibly good feeling about this exam so I'm freaking out! I'm hoping the system is only applicable on high school exams and none other than those. Unfortunately I won't know until Monday, 11 am. For God's sake, why?!

It's a good thing it's Queens Day, so I don't have time to really think about it. I'll just drink it all away. Just kidding, I'll be babysitting my cousin. Hell yeah, I'm going mommy style this Queens Day, while my aunt is partying. Something's not right. 

Here's an 'inspirational picture'... I'm a sucker for those. 

Wheeeeeeeeeeeee, I'll go dance around the room to lose some energy. Bye!

This could easily be a page in one of my scrapbooks..

Look, I am a daydreamer! Is it too much? I like it, it looks weird - in a good way.

I decided it was time to make a new story. I want to write more often because I miss it a little. I just don't really know what to write about so bear with me while I'm discovering my next topic.

Lately I've been thinking about writing a proper story. An actual book. Don't get too excited, it's one of my many ideas. Just like I had the idea to make a portrait series of random people or my documentary about people and the content of their bags. Yes, loads of ideas but no execution. One day, all of this will be reality, I will make this happen. You are now my witness. It is written in black and white - I, Robin Voskuilen, swear to make all my dreams come true. I do.

Dreams are wonderful. It is great that there is a place you can reach with your mind where anything can happen. You fall in love with the greatest person in the whole wide world and everything goes as planned. Nothing is extremely difficult or embarrassing. You can twist and turn things as much as you like and it all makes sense. One moment you are in a swimming pool and the next you are fighting a big dragon in order to save the life of your beloved prince - I tend to be the one that needs to do the saving, instead of being save by a knight in shining armour. That's just how I roll.

Did you ever notice that dreams enable you to have a perfect conversation?! It's true. The other person - the one you spill your heart and soul out to - says exactly what needs to be said in order for you to use your most beautiful and poetic sentences ever. I know I'm not the only one who does this. If my dream conversations would actually happen, boy would my life be epic!

I hope to never stop dreaming. Once you're not afraid of your dreams anymore, they are not big enough. Go big or go home!

Well, this didn't turn out to be that spectacular. Thank you for letting me ramble on, I appreciate it. I hope it wasn't time wasted.. For me, it wasn't!

Money, money, money!

Today is Easter. Happy Easter y'all! Easter at the Voskuilen-residence means sleeping like babies, then eating our hearts out on the fancy diner plates and searching for Easter eggs. After all this excitement - I love searching for Easter eggs, I really do! - it's just a lazy Sunday and nothing really happens. So, I decided to count the money in my two piggy banks. That's right, I have two!


However, these are not your every-day piggy banks. Since I like to spend all my money, I'm not really an expert in saving it so these lovely piggy banks hold just foreign currencies that I'm unable to use here. Interesting, isn't it?
I thought so too, so I decided to count them and put them into piles. So I did:


From left to right: Norwegian crown, dollar, pound and euro - the kind that we do still use but somehow found their way into my piggy banks..

I have to say, I was a little disappointed with this treasure. I expected there to be a little more but still.. It's a little awesome! I also found a coin in there that I couldn't quite define:

After some long and difficult research (I found it on Google within 2 seconds..) it happens to be from Swiss.. Amazing! How did that end up in my piggy bank? I'm afraid they come alive at night and go on little holidays. They look so innocent but meanwhile they are the most bad-ass piggy banks you've ever seen. I'm sure.

Beautifully sad

I have something for you. You might like it. I'm a fan of strong feelings. If you don't have a strong feeling about something, forget it, it's not worth it. That's how I see it. So here's something I got a pretty strong feeling about.

Put this song on, if you please:

When it is ready to be played, go to this website: www.rainymood.com.. What do you think?

It gave me a beautiful sad feeling. Sometimes I like that feeling, like today.