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You are a Bewitching Butterfly!
Well hello my beauty, aren't you just fabulous? With marvellous breasts, bootylicious behind and juicy thighs, you've everything going on. You need to dress those curves and show them off for the world to see _ with so much to offer it would be criminal to hide it!


Ha! Thanks Gok! You just made my day!

I got the key of my new place yesterday, hooray!!!

I'm pretty stressed out now. I have to paint the whole apartment of 88 m2 this weekend, but I also need to work saturday and sunday and I am the leader of a project at school which isn't working very well so I need to call and mail all the time too to make sure every body is on time with the deadline. Not sure how I'm going to manage it all. Luckily I've got friends and family to help me out. Sam is not returning home before monday.

Our new place:

Sam is gone for a month now, on tour with a canadian band. It's the first time since we've been together that we are apart for more than a couple of days. I am trying to find out now if I am still me without him, how much I changed because of him and if that's a good thing or not. I sometimes feel guilthy for not seeing some of my friends more often. I feel selfish for wanting to spend my time with Sam. With him I feel I can be myself, even when I'm not in a good mood. But how much have I sacrificed for him. I know I can denie myself really well. Did those deep dark nightmares really disapeare? I'm scared to be allone now....

It's a week now since Sam went on tour, and 'm doing pretty well without him. I miss him, but can handle it, like a sailor's wife

Saw a documentary yesterday on a great project:

Favela Painting



I would love to do a project like this some day!

Wooohooooooo!!!!! Life can hardly get any better for me at the moment!

I started studying socialwork a month ago, and I it!

I started working at a new place yesterday (accomodation for multiple disabled children), and I it!

Sam and I are going to move to a NEW HOUSE in May, and I it!


I am going to this concert: Koninklijk Concertgebouw Amsterdam:
29/04/08 Cocorosie + Koninklijk Concertgebouw Orkest
And I just heard that I'm allowed to take pictures!!!!!!

What good things are going on in your life?

Hugs and kissess,
Eva

Looking back at 2007


1. What did you do in 2007 that you'd never done before?

I ate sushi for the first time and I loved it!


Posed nude on a Spencer Tunick photo:


2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Didn't make any last year. I would like to quit smoking and lose weight, but don't pin me on it. When the time is right I will make it happen.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
The sister of my sisters boyfriend had a daughter and gave it my name! (Not after me though)


4. Did anyone close to you die?
No, luckily not!

5. What countries did you visit?

Went to Sweden in June:
(click pic for more)


Went to Toronto, Canada in November:




6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?
A place to live for Sam and me!

7. What date from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
when Sam asked me to marry him in June.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Listened more to my own needs instead of doing what others wanted me to do.

9. What was your biggest failure?
I don't like to speak of failures, only of learning experiences, and there were plenty!

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Nothing big, few times sick from eating nuts (traces) which I'm allergic to.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
I got a new bike from my parents and a Diana+ camera from Sam.

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Sam, for still loving me when I'm a pain in the ass.

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Our government for coming up with short-time solutions for long-time problems in cases like education, health, criminal defence etc.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Living.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
My engagement with Sam.
Going on holidays to Sweden with a travelling scholarship.
Start working again.

16. What song will always remind you of 2007?
Can't think of one, but I went to a few memorable concerts:

Wolfmother, Melkweg, Feb 2007:


Bunny Rabbit at the Motel Mozaique Festival in Den Haag, April 2007:


Joanna Newsom, Paradiso, Sept 2007:


Bad Brains, Paradiso, Okt 2007:


Last show in the Lintfabriek, Dec 2007

17. Compared to this time last year, are you happier or sadder?
Happier!!! Haven't felt (really) depressed in a long time!

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Reading and meditating.

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Smoking.

20. How did you spend Christmas?
With family.
Went to a christmas gala dance preformance from Introdans.

21. Did you fall in love in 2007?
I am still very much in love with Sam.

22. How many one night stands?
None

23. What was your favourite TV program?
News and current events
Ugly Betty

24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Nope, I don't easily hate people and if I do it's never for long. Hate destroys too much!

25. What was the best book you read?
'The highly sensitive person' by Elaine N Aron
'A millon little pieces' by James Frey
'Helping fish from drowning' by Amy Tan

26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Nothing that really blew my mind.

27. What did you want and get?
More stability in my life.

28. What did you want and not get?
A house.

29. What was your favourite film of this year?
The wind that shakes the barley
Sisterhood of the travelling pants
Black Book

Rize (docu by David LaChapelle)


30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I was in a plane on my way back from Toronto, Canada. I became 27.

31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably satisfying?
Finding a house.

32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?
Casual with funny and sexy details in XXL.

33. What kept you sane?
Sam.

34. Which celebrity did you fancy the most?
No one.

35. What political issue stirred you the most?
BBC News 2007 in pictures

36. Who did you miss?
Didn't really have to miss anybody.

37. Who was the best new person you met?
Francine and Henry

Chris and Bianca


38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2005.
"When the time is right it I will make things happen."

39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
It's not a song, but a poem:

I reel a little revolution off ~ Lucebert

I reel a little revolution off
I reel a lovely little revolution off
I am no longer of land
I am water again
I carry foaming chalices on chalices
I carry shooting shadows in my head
a mermaid rests on my back
on my back rests the wind
the wind and the mermaid sing
the foaming chalices ripple

I reel a little rustling revolution off
And I ripple I fall and I sing

40. What do you want to accomplish next year?
Go back to school, find a house and find a new job.

The start of a new year is always reason to make 'best off' lists. While making my own I came upon this interesting list from the BBC NEWS website: (check the link below for full stories)

100 things we didn't know last year

The most interesting and unexpected facts can emerge from the daily news stories and the Magazine documents some of them in its weekly feature, 10 things we didn't know last week. To kick off 2008, here are some of the best of last year.

1. Coach travel is the safest form of road transport in the country.

2. Saddam Hussein's codename while in US custody in 2004/5 was "Victor".

3. Adding milk to tea negates the health-giving effects of a hot brew.

4. The word "jaywalking" came from the US slang "jay", a term popular in the early 20th Century meaning a rustic newcomer unfamiliar with city ways.

5. Cloudy apple juice is healthier than clear, containing almost double the antioxidants which protect against heart disease and cancer.

6. Dishcloths are purged of 99% of their bacteria during two minutes in a microwave.

7. A haddock's mating call starts as a slow knocking sound, before turning into a quicker hum similar to a small motorcycle revving its engine.

8. Newcastle is the noisiest place in England.

9. The people who built Stonehenge lived at an ancient village in Durrington Walls.

10. Brazil nuts are seeds encased in an outer shell that weighs more than 1kg.

11. Astronauts wear nappies during launch and re-entry because they can't stop what they're doing should they need to urinate.

12. Georgic is a punishment dished out to Eton pupils which involves the copying out of hundreds of lines of Latin.

13. Tony Blair does not keep a personal diary.

14. Antony and Cleopatra were ugly.

15. 10% of university work from across the UK is plagiarised.

16. Chimpanzees make their own spears for hunting.

17. Two cups of spearmint tea a day is thought to control excessive hair growth for women.

18. Burglar alarms, traffic wardens and crowded buses are good news for home owners, signalling an area is on the up.

19. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez hosts a daily radio phone-in show.

20. More than half (52%) of smokers haven't told their parents about their habit.

21. Only about half of China's population can speak the national language, Mandarin.

22. The brief flowering of the cherry blossom tree is taken so seriously in Japan that forecasts are used to plan festivals, and travel agents use them to plan tours.

23. To be found attractive, women should sway their hips and men their shoulders (although researchers call this a "shoulder swagger").

24. The are 30,000 wild parakeets in London.

25. Martina Navratilova has spent four years secretly working as an artist.

26. Harvesting rhubarb in candlelight helps preserve its flavour.

27. Drinking, drug-taking teenagers are in the decline, according to a survey by the Information Centre.

28. Designer discount retailer TK Maxx is called TJ Maxx in the US.

29. The average duvet is home to 20,000 live dust mites.

30. Serving anything more than tea and biscuits at a political meeting is an offence called "treating" and punishable by a year in prison or an unlimited fine, under the the Representation of the People Act 1893.

31. There is mobile phone reception from the summit of Mount Everest.

32. Anti-Americanism began in Paris in the 18th Century.

33. Female civil servants in India are questioned about their menstrual cycle as part of their appraisal.

34. Kryptonite exists.

35. Denmark is the happiest country in Europe; Italy the unhappiest. (The UK was 9th out of 15.)

36. A water-tight denial by a politician - as opposed to one that leaves room for later manoeuvre - is known as a Sherman pledge. The other sort is called a non-denial denial.

37. Spiralling obesity rates are forcing councils to upgrade their crematoria, to take wider coffins.

38. Gerry Adams doesn't own a credit card, so gets a friend to download songs from the internet.

39. The secret to happiness is accepting misery.

40. A new three-bedroom house must have at least 38 plug sockets.

41. There are 1,200 exhumations every year in the UK, but not all of those are part of criminal cases.

42. Nearly seven out of 10 (69%) of adults are still in touch with at least one childhood friend.

43. Bernard Manning worked as an armed guard watching over senior Nazis locked up in Berlin's Spandau prison.

44. Europe has a vodka belt comprising Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Denmark and Sweden, although the drink is also made in countries such as Britain, France, Italy and Spain.

45. Domestic cats can trace their descent to the Middle East.

46. Peanuts can be made into diamonds.

47. The prime ministerial Jaguar is called Pegasus.

48. You can be arrested for using someone's wi-fi network without permission.

49. CDs were nearly called mini-racks.

50. Left-handed people are called sinistral.

51. Nick Clegg, the Lib Dems' new leader, once took a road trip across the US with his friend Louis Theroux.

52. There are 17 surviving versions of the Magna Carta - or 17 Magnae Cartae.

53. Renowned atheist Professor Richard Dawkins likes singing Christmas carols.

54. The Australian town of Eucla has its own time zone.

55. Books used to be bound in human skin.

56. Eddie Irvine is Britain's wealthiest sports star - beating the Beckhams into second place by £30m.

57. Sleeping on the job is tolerated in Japanese work culture, as long as you remain upright and obey certain other rules. It's called inemuri.

58. The Romans had roadmaps.

59. The word Blighty comes from "bilayti", the Urdu for homeland.

60. The Queen took her corgi on honeymoon.

61. Janet and John were named Alice and Jerry in the United States.

62. Until the late 1990s, the RAF's nuclear bombs could be activated using a bicycle lock key.

63. Cats can be police constables.

64. King Tut had buck teeth.

65. The Italian Mafia have commandments.

66. Gun ownership per person in Finland is the third highest in the world.

67. The brain can turn down its ability to see in order to listen to complex sounds like music.

68. Of the waste in UK landfills, 0.1% is plastic carrier bags.

69. Dogs occasionally shoot their owners in the US.

70. IP addresses will run out in 2010.

71. An ai is a three-toed sloth from South America (and the word that clinched Paul Allan the title of national Scrabble champion).

72. Dumbledore is gay.

73. UN population projections go as far as 2300.

74. Sheffield FC is the world's oldest football club.

75. CO2 emissions from shipping are twice the level of aviation.

76. George Clooney and Pierce Brosnan have had Bell's Palsy - a nerve condition that can result in paralysis on one side of the face.

77. Leeches are used as treatment for cauliflower ears.

78. A bdelloid rotifer is a pond-dwelling organism that has survived 80 million years without sex.

79. Woodwork lessons are known as "resistant materials" in schools.

80. Adults use maths skills 14 times daily on average and literacy skills 23 times a day.

81. The opening bars to the theme tune of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em spelt the title of the series in Morse code.

82. The children who sang on Pink Floyd's number one hit Another Brick in the Wall (Pt 2) couldn't appear in the video because they didn't hold Equity cards.

83. Jack Straw has intervened in alleged crimes four times, apprehending a person on three occasions.

84. On average a UK commuter travels the equivalent of two-and-a-half times around the globe over a full working career.

85. A 23.8lb baby was born in the US in 1879, but it only survived 11 hours.

86. There is a monastery in every village in Burma.

87. Relocating crocodiles doesn't work - they come back.

88. Deep-voiced men have more children.

89. Being born without an ear is called microtia.

90. Chickens can be diagnosed with depression.

91. In Iceland, 96% of women go to university.

92. Zsa Zsa Gabor is related to Paris Hilton.

93. Dinosaurs had creches.

94. Osama Bin Laden is known to fellow jihadists as Abu Abdullah.

95. In Ethiopia the start of the year 2000 was celebrated in September.

96. Bees can detect explosives.

97. There have been at least two children given the name "Superman" in the UK since 1984.

98. Prison officers are on average assaulted eight times a day.

99. Each slug eats twice its body weight a day.

100. Dogs can have two noses.

Toronto was good. Unfortunately I've been ill for most of the time (flu), so I walking around town like a zomby! Chris, Dan, Mike and Christian from the band CURSED, where we were staying, were very nice dudes and their gf's were the greatest. I'm looking foreward to see them all in April when they're coming to Europe for a tour. The gf's are coming to Amsterdam after the tour, so that's going to be great! One of the best things from visiting Toronto was that I got to buy a lot of great new big size clothes, which is really had over here.

Some pics from Toronto, Hammilton and the Niagra Falls:

Going to Toronto from 21-27 Nov, wooohooooo!!!

My bf gets 2 free tickets each year from his work, to anywhere he likes. The only 'but' is that we can only fly when there are seats left on the day we want to go. The seats look ok at the mo, so will prob not be a problem.

Why Toronto? Because we know the guys from the HC band CURSED, who live there. Their new album is coming out early next year and Sam is planning an European tour for them for next spring, so this trip will also be a bit of a business trip for him.

Cursed - Fatalist


Next time pics and tales from Toronto!

Had to laugh out loud while watching this video! My nephew stealing his own bike:





Have been pretty busy lately. I started working again since two months after a 2 year break. I work as a pedagogic worker in afterschool care, something I did before. I really had to get used to working again and had some trobleswith finding my place in the team I'm working with, but things are fine now. I love working with kids.

I am following a procedure to get dispensation for classes for the study Social Pedagogic Work, based on former work experience and former education, and today I had an assesment for it. The interview went well I think. In a month I will hear when I can start classes and what classes Í still need to do. I quit psychology 2 years ago because I coulnd't find the motivation for it anymore. To just read books and not being able to work in the field is not the way that I learn best, so I'm choosing for a more practical study now. I want to start studying early next year, but because I want to study parttime I first need to find a relevant job (child care isn't relevant). So finding an other job is something I'm also working on!

An other thing I'm busy with is finding a place to live. I live in a student apartment now, but want something where me and my boy both can live. Amsterdam is not the easiest place to find a house though if you don't have a lot of money to spend..... We are searching for about 6 months now and still have nothing! Gggrrrr!

Last tuesday I went to the gym for the first time since a couple of years and it felt really good!!! I missed working out but had other priorities and for a while I was too depressed for it. It helps that I have a goal now, because Sam asked me to marry him!!!! We don't have a date yet because we first want to find a place to live and need some time to save money for the wedding. A friend of us took a beautiful pic which we gave our parents when we told them the news:



That's it for now!

Eva