Uhm. Ouch!
It’s a slippery slope
I know it’s kind of mean, but it’s also hilarious.
Lelystad turned into Icestad
I think, having fallen down with the bike myself this winter (who hasn’t fallen down this winter, I wonder???), I’m allowed to laugh.
Sleep Cycle
Let it snow. Let it snow. Let it snow.
It’s been white almost all of January so far. White and cold. I’m not complaining. It feels like winter and that’s much better than the usual drizzle (read: poring rain) we have during this time of year.
My new years resolutions are going good so far. In April I’ll be going to a country I haven’t been to yet (Belgium!) and I’ve been keeping track of my finances ridiculously well. I found this online application Yunoo that makes it fun (I think so anyway) to keep track of your finances and making budgets and everything. The only problem with it is that it’s making it even more fun to spend money. Which is never good.
Everybody that knows me knows that I have a weird capability of remembering a lot of dreams every night. Some people think I dream more than most people, but that’s not true. Fact is, everybody dreams. Most just don’t remember them.
What I’m getting at is that I found this cool iphone application that can tell you how much time you spent dreaming each night. The application is called Sleep Cycle and it uses the iphone’s accelerometer to register your movements while you sleep. Apparently during each sleep cycle you move differently so they can tell if you’re in deep sleep, dreaming or awake. The goal of the app is actually to wake you on a time that you’re already out of your deep sleep. To ensure that you don’t wake up all groggy and ready to kill the world. So, when you set your alarm at 9am and the app senses you’re already out of your deep sleep at 8:45am it will wake you up then so you won’t risk falling back into your deep sleep at 9am and then have the hardest time getting up.
It’s pretty neat. I’ve tried it out for three days now and it does seem to work. The thing I like most about the app though, is that it shows you a graph of the whole night, so you can see how your sleep cycle was.
These are my past three nights.
Sleep statistics for 24 – 25 jan (ma).
Went to bed / woke up: 23:58 / 08:35
Total time: 8h 37m
Sleep statistics for 25 – 26 jan (di).
Went to bed / woke up: 00:14 / 08:45
Total time: 8h 31m
leep statistics for 26 – 27 jan (wo).
Went to bed / woke up: 02:20 / 09:32
Total time: 7h 12m
Apparently, tonight I slept like a bear in wintersleep. For a couple of hours at least 
. Yesterday I didn’t sleep well at all and I guess the graph shows it. I keep waking up at 6am too!
I have no idea how accurate this application actually is, but I’m having fun with it nonetheless. If you have an iphone and want to try it out: http://www.lexwarelabs.com/sleepcycle/
Happy 2010!
I hope everyone enjoyed the holidays!
I enjoyed them a lot. Santa brought me lots of presents and lots of food and I got to stuff a chicken (which is YUCKKK but also YUMMM).
I also had a lot of fun in the snow with Murphy. I fell a total of 3 times so far. Twice in the park being stupid and once while trying to use my bicycle on a road covered with ice. But that’s the cool thing about snow. It doesn’t hurt if you fall in it!
Muphy likes the snow a lot. Some pictures:
Murphy wasn’t the only one enjoying the snow though…
This was after my second fall of this winter. I tried to jump over something.. I failed.
Isn’t my dad cute
With my schwester
Mom’s cute too
Proof for all RR owners that you CAN make them sit on cold snow!
My sister and me tryting to bomb my dad with snowballs.
He pretended to forgive us..
… but soon took his revenge
Murphy always tries to protect me by jumping on me. Thanks Murph! 
Second try at cute family picture succeeded
My dad’s new car which he bought just in time to cross through the snow with.
Good times 
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But now it’s 2010 and it’s time to get serious again. So I better log off and start on the report I have to hand in next week.
Oh yah, before I forget. My new years resolutions are:
1. Get my diploma
2. Visit at least one country I haven’t been to yet
3. Read more
4. Keep better track of my finances
2 Kinds of People
Just read this one another blog. I liked it so I thought I’d repost it here.
2 Kinds of People
There are two kinds of people on earth today,
Just two kinds of people, no more, I say.
Not the good and the bad, for ’tis well understood
That the good are half-bad and the bad are half-good.
No! The two kinds of people on earth I mean
Are the people who lift and the people who lean.
There are two kinds of people on earth to-day;
Just two kinds of people, no more, I say.
Not the sinner and saint, for it’s well understood,
The good are half bad, and the bad are half good…
No; the two kinds of people on earth I mean,
Are the people who lift, and the people who lean.
Walk on the Beach
Murphy says: ‘hullo’
What do you mean? My ears are supposed to stand up like that!
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Seeing the rabbit (next to the green bin)
Chasing the rabbit (no worries, he didn’t catch it)
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My new computer background
Murphy’s Messy Mess
Sometimes when I come home from a long day of work I don’t get the warm welcome I expect. Instead I get something else. I’ll let the photos speak for themselves.
(and just like me he leaves the healthy stuff for someone else)
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I’ve really been using youtube a lot lately . I was looking back at the last couple of entries and it’s basically only videos.So, I thought I’d change that right now.
It’s December. Can you believe that? December! It’s impossible how fast this year has past. Where did the time go? And, more importantly, where is it going?
I’m still struggling with the same old: school. Will it ever end? I took this week off from work to make some good progress, but like always I seem to have some engine problems, because I’m not moving very fast.
I just read on Facebook that a childhood-friend just got married and is about to be a father. That’s crazy! All these people around me are so grown up! They have normal jobs, serious relationships, grown up problems. I feel like a toddler when I compare myself to them.
Anyway. The holidays are coming up and I’m really excited about that. My sister and her boyfriend are coming over from Spain to spent Christmas with us. And I have so many resolutions for New Years that I should probably write them down or I won’t remember them all. I’m a sucker for new years resolutions. I know most people hate them and don’t make them, but I like them. Because when you do make them it means you believe in the fact that you can change things around. It’s having hope. Hope and believe that next year you WILL be able to do it. No matter that you didn’t do it last year, here’s a new chance! It does get a little depressing though that this year my new years resolution will include ‘finish school’ for the third time. It almost makes you lose hope in yourself. ALMOST! Because this year, unlike the previous years, I’m actually confident that I WILL finish school.
I wonder what comes after that. For the last couple of years I’ve been standing still because of the unfinished school thing. But when school is done and over with, I guess I have no excuse to stay in the same old, same old. I have to stop standing still and start doing all the things I dream of doing. It might be a little scary. But, I guess growing up is.
Who knows, maybe next year I won’t be a toddler anymore. Maybe I’ll be walking around in kindergarten.
Oh my cuteness