things I want to see before I die

The Great Wall of China


The Forbidden City - China


Serengeti National Park - Kenya


Christ the Redeemer - Rio de Janiero


Inca city - Machu Pichu - Peru


Taj Mahal - India


Victoria Falls- Zimbabwe


Grand Canyon - USA


Angkor Wat - Cambodia


Chichen Itza - Mexico


Perhaps: Ngorongoro, Amazon Rainforest, Dubai

Already seen:
Luxor Temple - Egypt


Stone Henge - England


Statue of Liberty - New York


Eiffel Tower - Paris


Niagara Falls - US


The Little Mermaid - Copenhagen (hehe)


Colosseum - Rome


Jerusalem - Israel


Northern Lights


Dolphins - Eilat, Whales - Canada

wishlist

Now it's less than a month to my 24 birthday. (I am still surprised at my own age. Time goes too fast)

And so here is my wishlist:



An iPod Nano 16GB, and A Nike+ iPod Spot Kit


Yankee Candles - scented candle in glass jar


DKNY Be Delicious Fresh Blossom


Gucci Eau de Parfume II

my playlist

songs playing on my playlist these days.

Ida Corr vs Fredde Le Grand - Let Me Think About It
Flo Rida - Right Round
Guru Josh - Infinity 2008
Franz Ferdinand - No You Girls You Never Know
Mason vs Princess Superstar - Perfect Exceeder
The Fratellies - Chelsea Dagger
Maskinen - Alla som Inte Dansar

What's on yours?

spring indoors

This weekend we went out in the sun - yes spring is here for real - and plucked some flowers (daffodils) and cherry branches. I put them in vases inside, and they are already beginning to blossom. It makes such a difference in a room when you bring spring inside.

I really hope it won't snow in April like it did two years ago. I want spring to stay and summer to come, and school to be over! yay. Or at least this round. I am really looking forward to starting something new at Reading Uni.

turtle love

some wedding stuff

Our website for the wedding is almost finalised now (I hope) and the invitations are being made right now and should be out within a week. It's so exciting.

Thank you to Jonathan for taking and making time to do the website, and thank you to our families for putting together the invitations.

You can go have a look if you want on: www.andreasmarianne.com

Now I am off to IKEA... yes again, I know. This time I want to get things for the hall way, and Andreas wants to buy that big bed :)
Prakash, the guy that moved into Andreas' old flat is coming with us he needs EVERYTHING for his new apartment. So this will be exciting, but probably we will be back around midnight as usual, so no studying tonight... great excuse huh? :)

painting at Pearson's

Me and Andreas said yes to do some DIY interior decorating at Mike and Helen's house in Wokingham. It took a lot longer than we thought it would. Maybe because we're not professionals and had to be extra careful because of the wall to wall dark blue carpet on the floor that we (and probably not them either) did not want white paint on.

We worked there every evening from about 7 to 11pm from SUnday to Wednesday, and I worked there every afternoon from 2-5pm mon, tues, wed. So a break well spent I guess, considering that I usually just watch tons of movies and sleep a lot anyway. And of course I didn't get any of the school work done that I had told myself I would do.
pics:

dyed my hair

Because my hair is so affected by light and salt water especially you can see the seasons in my hair. Blonde dark blonde dark, and now my roots had become very dark compared to the ends and so I decided to colour it all so that it would have somewhat the same tone.

Bought a cheap "Nice n'easy" colouring kit at Tesco's and did it on Sabbath morning by myself. (made a stain on the carpet by the zink... oops! don't tell anyone)

After:

the new apartment

Okay, so now I've uploaded tons of pictures to facebook from the apartment. Go have a look. What a transformation.
I remember first time I went in there, when Helen was still living there. Wall to wall carpets EVERYWHERE. Dark blue in the kitchen and burgundy red AND grey in the bedroom (yes two different colours in the same room) and then of course the PINK in the bathroom.

First thing we did was rip out all the carpets, and the college agreed for us to get laminate flooring. So now we have oak laminate floor in bedroom, lounge, and hallway. Kitchen and bedroom is vinyl.

Tuesday evening we went to IKEA and got tons of stuff. Most of today we've spent putting together the furniture we got and putting up curtains and curtain rods. And now I think we're getting close to having a nice looking apartment. I still need a few things for the hall way, and really want a new shower curtain, but sitll haven't found a nice looking one. But I guess you can't find everything at once, and I have the rest of my life to be collecting cute things I love =) It took all day to get it all done. We finished around 11pm. And my feet hurts so bad now. But I feel like it made a huge difference. So now that the appartment is almost in place I can start focusing on wedding planning again.

In the album on facebook there is both before and after pictures. So go have a look