THINGS TO DO BEFORE I DIE

Well, I guess we all have those lists.

I honestly never really thought about such things but when the topic came up yesterday when I had coffe with friends, we talked about it for a while. Back home I thought about it myself and discovered that there are actually 3 things I've been deeply wanting for a few years now and that I would always say yes to. The other things are also important to me and I would really fancy experiencing them, but do you guys know the feeling of a little tension and pleasure about something that hasn't happened yet? Probably not, I guess I'm the only one with such weird feelings haha, let's go.

my top 3:

• Live in a lot of different countries when I finished studying

At this point it's not about the countries, it's about the cities. I adored Barcelona from the first time, as you might know from this post. And I would always return if I had the chance, though I don't speak the language. But it has this atmosphere and radiates freedom and a lifestyle I would love to experience.

• Work as a freelancer in a club hotel

My skills might not be good enough for working as a snowbard guide but I definetely want to stay in a club hotel for a couple of weeks/month. I know you don't earn much, but everyone who did this is telling me it's definetely worth it. I love the atmosphere in such hotels and let's be honest, they are in the most wonderful places you can imagine.
I guess what's really fascinating me is that you get to know new people almost every week. You stay with the guests, often eat with them and have colleagues around you that think the same way you do.

• Saying yesfor a while

This must be a wonderful time full of experiences. I think you gain a lot of courage when you just say yes to everything. - Wanna watch this movie with me? Of course. - Have you ever been to that Place? No but I'd like to discover it!


I'll continue this list as soon as I got time and new ideas for it :)  -

MATERIAL HAPPINESS

money, brands, stuff.

When I went shopping yesterday, I exactly knew what I wanted.
And I bought nothing of it.
Though I kinda became obessed with these things, which aren't expensive by the way, I ended up being disappointed because none of the shirts/shoes/whatever looked nice at me.

Can material things bring us down? Or up?
I guess so. Because, in general, even a nice meal sometimes is enough for us to be satisfied for a couple of hours. Or minutes.
When us girls buy an expensive mascara, these must-have-designer shoes or just some sweets that the lady in our favorite tv series owns too (hello maccarons. hello blair) we are happy. but why? in my opinion we like to allegedly enrich our life by things our role models or celebrities,  bosses or lady crushes have. And for us, their life looks way better than ours in the moment they're wearing their status symbols which, unfairly (?), symbolize a relaxed, classier or happier life from our points of view.

But do we really need this? Society, magazines and our social contacs tell us that the life we live in is good. And, lets be honest, me sitting on a laptop and you reading this from a screen obviously have good lifes. But does this automatically forbids us to wish something better? No. Not in my opinion. Because I think that it's important to face the fact you have a lot, and you should probably not bring forward the argument that other people have more than you when you feel like having more would be better. I guess it's pretty fair that the majority of people have to work hard for their success, though it does not come to everyone who would probably earn it. Or a 'better' life.

When I searched for 'material happiness' on the internet I was surprised because I didn't find any pictures of cars, expensive watches or houses somewhere on a white beach, which I actually expected to see. Now I'm aqsking myself - did I rated the world wrong? Am I the only one who is satisfied by a new shirt sometimes?

NAIL IT

On nails. In general. [after I complained about mine]
I don't know how close you are with your nails. But when I'm talking about mine, the only thing I can say is that they're a mess. A BIG mess. When they don't break, they don't accept the nail polish. Now I ask myself - do they just hate the color or do they hate me?

In general, my nails are kinda unshaped. I would love to have petite and long nails [in terms of their natural shape] but they totally are not. But wtih time I learned that complaining about it won't make them grow faster, more beautiful and so on, so I looked for other ways to hide their actual shape and I found a few options that will probably help you too when you have problems with that. And luckily, a lot of people suffer from this very very very big problem [got the irony? not the people. the problem].

With time I became quite good at discovering ways to paint my nails. So first of all, when your nails are long, try to leave a little unpainted part at the lower end of it. But don't leave out too much, that looks strange.
When your nails are kind of wide, try to leave out both sides. but again, not too much! Keep the natural look. I got a friend who used to paint one line in the middle of her nail. It did NOT serve the purpose..

I know this was not much, but it will probably help you. You can also do this with your toenails, but keep attention because on your feet, it's quite difficult not to make it look strange.

WHY WE LOVE BOYGROUPS

Like One Direction. And Boyzone. Ohh, and Blue!

Well, I guess we all know this. These days, singing isn't enough anymore. A lot of success belongs on the outer apperance - and hell yeah, a lot of boys got that!
At the moment I'm totally into Blue, more specific into Duncan James, and yeah I know he's way too old, unreachable, english and so on bla bla bla, but is that really what counts on a boygroup crush? I guess with time there developed an own word for that but i'm not educated enough to know that, so I'll keep talking about it like this. About it? Yep. Because, I guess, I'm not the only one with phases of 'obsession'. Obsession in a good way. Lasts a couple of weeks, then it's over. But these phases can show you new aspects of life, can't them?
Though I had no idea what to post about anymore for a while, this whole topic lead me to the idea of another posts. So I'm blogging again. Or, what happened to me once in an NKOTB-Crush [yep.], I met a lot of new people while searching for tickets. Because, curiously, I get those crushed like 2 weeks before there's a concert near my city.

But, why do we have these crushes? I got my own assumption of that. Boybands, especially those who were super successfull 10 years ago and look increadible handsome now, they have the sweetest lyrics of all. Take my current crush Blue - hello?! There in their 30's and still sing about how to handle girls like a gentleman and missing them. THATS what we want girls, isn't it?


Heutzutage ist der Gesang nicht das wichtigste an Boybands - auch das Aussehen spielt eine große Rolle, wenn man erfolgreich sein möchte. Und das tun viele der Sänger!
Momentan stehe ich auf Blue, eher auf Duncan James, und ja ich weiß dass er zu alt, unerreichbar und aus England und so weiter ist, aber ist das wichtig bei so einem Boygroup crush?
Ich glaube, ich bin nicht die einzige mit so einer 'Erscheinung'. Sie dauert immer nur ein paar Wochen, in denen man, naja, ziemnlich auf jemanden steht. Und dann ist es vorbei, es kommt und geht. Aber diese Phasen können neue Erfahrungen mit sich bringen!
Mein Blue-Crush zum Beispiel hat mich wieder zum Bloggen gebracht, obwohl ich einige Zeit no idea für einen Post hatte. Ein anderes Beispiel dreht sich um NKOTB. Als ich meine schrägen 2 Wochen hatte, in dem ich ein riesiger Fan war, habe ich neue und interessante Leute kennengelernt, als ich auf der Suche nach Tickets für die eigentlich ausverkaufte Show war. Denn komischerweise habe ich meine Crushes immer circa 2 Wochen, bevor ein Konzert in meiner Nähe ansteht...

Aber, wieso stehen wir auf Boygroup-Mitglieder? Oder andere Sänger? Ich hab da meine ganz eigene These. Diese Leute, sie sind meistens Mitte 30 und waren vor zehn Jahren extrem erfolgreich, sehen jetzt super gut aus und singen immer noch darüber, wie man eine Frau richtig behandelt und wie sie sie vermissen. Und Mädels. Das wollen wir doch auch. ;)