SENDING YOU JOYFUL HUGS THIS EASTER

I hope this Easter holiday fills your home with peace, joy, and plenty of colorful Easter eggs. May all of your dreams and wishes come true!

HEY BIG SPENDER

Spend a little time with me.


As you may have noticed reading my first two blog posts, I'm a student. When it comes to my planning there isn't much time left to work and earn money. I'm actually busy enough studying, being social and going to the gym (yes I do that sometimes!). My parents help me out and I get some kind of student loan, so that should be enough. But here's the problem: I am TERRIBLE at budgeting. I do write down what I need to buy when I get my money, I try to make some kind of plan. And, I have to tell you, on paper it looks SO GOOD! It just never turns out that way for some reason.

I have some savings on a separate account, but those are meant for my trip to Thailand this summer. Yes, you read that right, I'm going on a packpack trip to Thailand this summer. I'll be traveling trough Thailand for 6 weeks with some friends. Maybe I'll write an entire post on that subject later, but for now I should get back to my money problem.
When, one week ago, I again had a lot of month left at the end of my money (see what I did there?) I had to take some money from my Thailand-account. I mean, I had to eat and pay my rent right!? But nevertheless I got really angry with myself. So this month I'm going to do things totally different.

Here's my plan:
1. Write a realistic list of what you spend your money on and how much it'll cost (you can't eat for only €15,- a week!)
2. Make sure you have €40,- left at the end of the month in you budget plan, that way you can pay for any unexpected expenses (like getting new locks because you lost your key AND spare key).
3. Go shopping for clothes at the end of the month, so you can see how much money is left. That way you avoid spending way more than you can afford.
4. No more restaurant meals! Or at least, keep them to one per month.
5. When it comes to food, buy only what you need and eliminate excess spending. (No, you don’t have to be an extreme couponer to save money on food costs!)

Hopefully it'll go better from now on: I'll keep you updated!

YOU SUCK!

I was shocked to see that over 60 people had seen my blog in the first 6 hours of its existence, since I only told three people about it. So I decided I should keep up the good work, and write my second blogpost. I put my study books back on the shelf and was ready to write and procrastinate (read all about that in my first blogpost) the hell out of the next 2 hours. But then..... NOTHING!

You want to know what happened? Well, ME happened: I am my own WORST CRITIC! Especially when I try to do something creative. That is the one thing I hate most about myself. Sometimes I critique things, before there is even anything to critique. So when I wanted to start writing this post, I just could not type the first sentence. Every time my fingers came even CLOSE to my keyboard something inside me screamed "whatever your poor attempt at writing is going to be, it is going TO SUCK". I've gotten into this bad habit of judging what I'm doing, while I'm doing it. And it's so frustrating! It's like the fear of judgement and the pressure to do things right has made me hesitant of doing anything at all.

Eventually I got over myself and just started typing. After all, I only told three people about this blog, nice people who don't critique me like I critique myself. The rest of the people reading my blog is reading it because they want to, so I've got to be doing something right then! Also, me critiquing myself has actually been a great inspiration for this second post and writing all this down made me come to grips with the fact that I'm maybe a little too harsh on myself sometimes. There is no reason in being like that, after all there are tons of people out there who'd love to tell you that you can't do this, or aren't good enough for that. But if you want to get anywhere in life, you've got to stand up to these people and tell them that you ARE good enough and that you CAN do these things. I know it's a BIG cliché but you can't expect other people to believe in you, if you don't believe in yourself.

PROCRASTINATION

So I came up with this idea to start blogging. But then I kept putting it off, and it just never got done.....

UNTIL TODAY! Because I found something even better to put off: Studying for the most difficult exam we're going to have this year! When we look up procrastination in the dictionary it states: "In psychology, procrastination refers to the act of replacing high-priority actions with tasks of lower priority". However I'd like to add to that definition that at the time you chose to do something instead of the thing you actually should do (in my case writing a Blog instead of studying), the thing that you decided to do first SEEMS like the task with the highest pryority in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD.

So here I am, attempting to write a blog while this feeling of guilt creeps upon me. So then I start to defend my procrastinating-self: "writing a blog will be great for my writing skills in general, that I will need for the rest of my life". And ofcourse: "I will learn a lot from writing in english" (since english is not my first language) and "writing a blog is just so cool! It will be like my own online diary!"

I don't really know where I am going with this quite yet. I think I'll just post something every once in a while when I have work or study to put off. ;p No I'm just kidding. I'm actually planning on doing this for some time and see how it goes. I've heard from a lot of people that they found blogging to be a lot of fun. So whenever I have something on my mind that I just have to get out: you'll read about it right HERE!

Now I should stop typing and start studying. But first i should DEFINATELY:

- clean my room

- read all seven Harry Potter books (again)

- text all my friends for no particular reason

- write a short story

- watch TellSell (the AhhBra is A-MA-ZING! besides the fact that it looks like a tent)

- do my nails

- Try to learn the pussycat dolls dance routine to buttons

- bake a cake

- grow a beard

- go online shopping

- watch all kinds of wierd stuff on youtube

- eat chocolate

- throw up from eating to much chocolate

And then I should start studying, that is, if I'm not too tired.