Epiphanies
- I need to stop telling people in “the real world” about my blog...
- … or I need to own up to my thoughts and opinions and face the music when stuff I write here reach the eyes and ears of people I know.
- (Hi friends and co-workers!)
Self-reflection
Just like everyone else, I need oxygen to live. I also need water and nutrients. And chocolate. Pretty straight forward stuff. However, I can also run out of animal love. I found this out last weekend, when I visited the petting zoo (don’t start, I live in the city, I need to get my furry fix somewhere…). I felt so replenished after having cuddled with a donkey that I realized I had run out weeks ago and only now felt complete again.
Uppers – Cowabunga
- Donkeys.
- I got a new bike after my previous one was stolen (again!). Thx Zeefje!
Downers – Bummerama
- Caitlyn supports Trump… Now this really got me fired up. This is some new level donkey droppings. WHY is this even on TV?! And why do I know about it? Argh… I don’t know where to start but my dog, it really truly deeply annoys me…
Denial
- When I was walking home on the 24th and saw many government buildings in The Hague had flags hanging at half mast, I decided that we had instated a national day of mourning in memory of Johan Cruyff, and decided to act as if terrorists didn’t exist.
Music
- My dad bought Coldplay’s latest CD for my mom… which confused me… and surprised me in a pleasant way…
- I’m going to see Beth Hart in June!
Movies
- New Indiana Jones in the making. O.o
(don’t want to get excited, but most of all don’t want it to suck. Still kind of hoping it’s an April fool’s joke…) - Deadpool: Very funny. Pretty brutal. Go watch!
- I re-watched Frozen, after having expressed my dislike for this film a couple of times, which is apparently “not done”. Friends told me I probably didn’t like it because I didn’t really get it the first time. I needed to watch it again. So I did.
- My summary of the movie before re-watch:
It’s about anxiety, poor communication and anti-social behavior - How people summarized it to me:
It’s about love, self-worth and letting go of fear. - My summary of the movie after re-watch:
It’s about bad parental advice, bad judgment and poor communication, with a small bit about love and family at the end. - What would have made me like it more:
- Explain the origin of the trolls.
- Better understanding of why the troll-king found it necessary to remove all memory of magic from Anna’s mind… Really don’t see the use in that.
- Explain the origin (and use) of the ice-magic gift/burden
- Leave out the Olav-song and the troll-wedding-song
- Explain Kristoff’s background. Did he just leave his parents because some rock troll decided to keep him? Or was he actually an orphan? Where are his folks?
- Make Sven more reindeerlike. Why does he have to pant like a dog?
- My summary of the movie before re-watch:
I still don’t like hearing kids sing “Let it go”. It’s not a healthy song. It’s a frustrated angry song. It’s an “up yours”, a “fuck you all” an “I don’t care” in a fancy dress. Elsa is not a likeable person.
It made me think about Hakuna Matata and I wondered if that isn’t also a “fuck you all”-song. I don’t think it is. I think the final effect might be the same; which is doing whatever the hell you want, but Hakuna Matata is not an angry song. It has a “Don’t worry, be happy”-message, that might have irresponsible and anti-social behavior as a side effect, but not as a goal.
Looky here
This new mind cleanup category will be where I will dump tidbits that I saw or read over the past month and that I want to share with the world:
- Mamani Mamani, whom I dedicated a blog to a while back, decorated a series of high apartment blocks in El Alto, a place I might need to write some more on in the future. Check. It. Out.
Epicureous
- I have been going through an avocado craze phase in my diet. I found a small fruit and vegetable store near my house that sells ultra ripe and yummy ones, which has spiked my avocado intake by 2681%. I have come to the conclusion that eating more than half an avocado a day makes me feel bloated though. Kind of interesting, kind of a bummer.
Epilogue – What’s up, April?
- I have a week off in the first week of April. Still no plans. Looking forward to it, though!
One particular man called Roberto, presumably with both a mother and a father with the last name Mamani, is who I want to introduce to you today. Roberto is an artist, best known as 
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