Top 10 things I hate about (early) train rides

Hy guys!

Some of you probably know I'm still a student. I travel to and from school two times a week by train. During my first three years of college I almost used the train every single day. So it seemed fun to share 10 things with you I hate about taking the train! Keep in mind I take the train around 7 am in the morning and 6pm in the evening.

1) Noisy People

People who keep talking, very loud, when taking the train with friends. Turn on their music too loud,... I always have my headphones with me but even I keep hearing those people talking and I hate it. 

2) Children who are too Hyper

I don't like taking the train during Rush Hour. A lot of children/young students are taking the train at those times and I just can't handle the hyperness of them. Stay on your seat, please, I beg you.

3) Breakfast eater

It's a reason it's called BreakFAST because you can eat it fast, in the morning...at home. I just can't stand people who eat their breakfast on the train. I don't have to know what you eat for breakfast. Thank you very much

4) Someone who wants to talk to me

..the whole freaking train ride. LEAVE ME ALONE I'm not a morning person, never will be. Shut up and leave me be. I do like to read on the train but I love listening to music while doing that. And if I don't have my music in the morning, it's better to stay away from me.

5) Too much people in one place

Again, I take early trains to avoid the Rush Hour crowds. Otherwise I get so annoyed.

6) Lookers... aka the people who keep staring at you

I don't know if it's on purpose or if they are just daydreaming but there's a reason I like to sit alone on a train in the morning. I don't like people in front of me and especially those who keep looking at what I'm doing. So Hatefull

7) People with an awful parfume 

...Who decide you get to enjoy that for the next half hour for free. 

Have you smelled yourself? No? ....

8) Delays

The most annoying thing when using the public transport, the delays! Waiting for a train that may or may not come soon... 

9) Telephone calls that are too loud

YOU DON'T HAVE TO SHOUT THEY CAN HEAR YOU loud and clear at the other side of the phone call.

10) Cold TrainsTrains that aren't heated during winter. Oh my god. Please, let me out, I will run to school instead..okay not really but you get the point.

bye!

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2018 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge

Hy guys!

Today I'm giving you my 2018 reading challenge. Maybe this year I will finally fulfill it.
(picture down below)

Enjoy!

Bye
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1) A book made into a movie you've already seen
2) True Crime
3) The next book in a series you started
4) A book involving a heist
5) Nordic Noir
6) A novel based on a real person
7) A book set in a country that fascinates you
8) A book with a time of day in the title
9) A book about a villain or antihero
10) A book about death or grief
11) A book with a female author who uses a male pseudonym
12) A book with an LGBTQ+ protagonist
13) A book that is also a stage play or musical
14) A book by an author of a different ethnicity than you
15) A book about feminism
16) A book about mental health
17) A book you borrowd or that was given to you as a gift
18) A book by two authors
19) A book involving a sport
20) A book by a local author
21) A book with your favorite color in the title
22) A book with alliteration in the title
23) A book about time travel
24) A book with a weather element in the title
25) A book set at sea
26) A book with an animal in the title
27) A book set on a different planet
28) A book with song lyric in the title
29) A book about or set on Halloween
30) A book with characters who are twins
31) A book mentioned in another book
32) A book from a celebrity book club
33) A childhood classic you've never read
34) A book that's published in 2018
35) A past Goodreads Choice Awards winner
36) A book set in the decade you were born
37) A book you meant to read in 2017 but didn't get to
38) A book with an ugly cover
39) A book that involves a bookstore or library
40) Your favorite prompt from the 2015,2016 or 2017 POPSUGAR Reading Challenges

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41) A bestseller from the year you graduated high school
42) A cyberpunk book
43) A book that was being read by a stranger in a public place
44) A book tied to your ancestry
45) A book with a fruit or vegetable in the title
46) An allegory
47) A book by an author with the same first or last name as you
48) A Microhistory
49) A book about a problem facing society today
50) A book recommended by someone else taking the POPSUGAR Reading Challenge

My To Do List for 2018

Hy guys!

I thought it would be fun to share a little to do list with you guys this week :)
I'm sorry I didn't upload a blogpost last week but I was really, really busy and just couldn't find the time to write a decent one.

So, I give you my To Do List of 2018!

1) Get a new Twitter Bio on my personal account. I'm getting tired of seeing the same one every single day. I need a new twitter bio! Hit me up if you wanna help :)

2) Do Blogposts for Eurovision 2018, starting next month with a top 5! :D There is, at this very moment, only one song known for 2018 and I LOVE it. I do think there will be an overall genre this year... but that's something for the blogpost in March when we know all the songs!

3) Start writing my christmas posts in summer. Cause seriously, I never manage to post them all on time so I really need to start writing those sooner. Maybe even now. Let me know what you wanna see!!!

4) Take awsome pictures and get a new program to edit them. I'm thinking of changing to photoshop or Lightroom.. still researching those two.

5) Read a lot of books. There are two books on my nightstand since the beginning of january. I haven't started one of them. #ShameonMe

6) Make more to do's.

:p

bye!
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Exam break atm! back next week :)

Top 10 photos of 2017

Hy guys!

Like these two past years, I gave my friends on facebook and twitter the chance to vote for my top 10 pictures of 2017. It's been a better year than 2016, thank god for that but it can always improve!

So, here we go :)

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Books I've read in 2017

Hy guys and happy 2018!

I hope you started the year with a lot of fun, love and some resolutions that actually are meant to be fulfilled :)

As you guys know, I read a lot and I kept track of my reading on my blog last year. And before I start a new one, I wanted to share this list with you guys :)

If you want me to do a book review on one of those books, let me know! I'm thinking of doing one on the duology I read during the Christmas holidays.

With every book I'm giving you guys an idea why I loved it :)
So, without further ado, here's my reading list of 2017!

(month/ Title - Author)

Dec/ Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo
What a series! I had a hard time starting this book. I had a lot to do for school, work and just was toooo tired when I got home. But I'm glad I kept reading because I am IN LOVE. I just adore books that take you to another world but with things you still can recognize from your life.
 
Nov/ Allemaal willen we de hemel - Els Beerten
Another favorite of mine, books that take you back to one of the two World Wars. And there's music involved.
Nov/ Team Mortis : De Spiegelmoorden - Bjorn Van den Eynde


Okt/ Team Mortis : Bloedlijst - Bjorn Van den Eynde

Okt/ Team Mortis : Kristalkinderen - Bjorn Van den Eynde

Okt/ Team Mortis : De Zwarte Zon - Bjorn Van den Eynde

Okt/ Team Mortis : Het Dodenspel - Bjorn Van den Eynde

Sep/ Team Mortis: De Bende van Venus - Bjorn Van den Eynde
Books about espionage (like Alex Rider from Anthony Horowitz or Sam Smith by Belgian author Jonas Boets) are fun when they involve spy's that are around my age at the time. It gives you the feeling of "What if..."

Sep/ Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban - JK Rowling
I read 4 harry potter books this year.... Well.. Actually 3, one was the script of Cursed Child. And you all know I'm a big Harry Potter fan :p

Sep/ Team Mortis: Het Romeo & Juliet Mysterie - Bjorn Van den Eynde

Sep/ Harry Potter and the Chamber of secrets - JK Rowling

August/ Farseer Trilogy - Robin Hobb
Honestly, I still haven't finished this one. I'm planning on it, for sure, but I have to charge my tablet for this.. Hard work, I know.

July/ The trials of Apollo 2 - Rick Riordan
Big fan of Rick Riordan here! His chapter titles crack me up every time XD

July/ Czarne Liście (Black Leaves) - Maja Wolny
Not the best book I've read this year but it's not bad.

June/ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - JK Rowling

June/ The Battle of Hackham Heath - John Flanagan
As a fan of those other worlds I told you about, the Ranger Apprentice series is another good example. Flanagan made a great new world for us to explore but it's still "human".

May-June/ Zoo - James Patterson (still not quite finished)
...And I probably will never finish this one. The series is just sooo much better. Read my blogpost I did on this HERE

Apr/ No Man's Land - Simon Tolkien
It was a thick, very long book and it took me a while to find the "flow" that goes with it. But I found it! Again, another book about one of the World Wars. At the time I was watching DC's Legends (SPOILER ALERT) and there's an episode where they are searching for Tokien (Simon's grandpa) in that World War... HERE is the blogpost I did on this book

Mar/ Sprakeloos - Tom Lanoye
Hard book to read (in dutch). Not because I didn't like it or it was difficult, no. It was a book that made my think about my grandpa, my family.


Mar/ Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children - Ransom Riggs
Now, this was one of my favorites this year! I still have to see the movie but I expect it will be as great as the book :)

Mar/ Girl Online Going Solo - Zoe Sugg
I still remember the day I did my first blogpost on this bookseries. Tumblr, 2015. But, tbh, I still have to do a blogpost on this one. Not quit sure if I will...

Mar/ The Valiant - Lesley Livingston
I LOVED this book! And I really want more. I NEED BOOK TWO.

Mar/ Allegiant - Veronica Roth
Allegiant, Insurgent and Divergent. 3 great books, 3 great movies. I'm a bit disappointed they never made a fourth movie.

Feb/ The Hammer of Thor - Rick Riordan
Again... Rick Riordan fan.

Feb/ Insurgent - Veronica Roth

Feb/ Divergent - Veronica Roth

Feb/ Reached - Ally Condie
A time, long, long, loooooong ago, I read the first part of The Matched Trilogy. I didn't really like the first book at the time. Probably because I was a bit too young to understand the feelings the characters where having. But this year I read part 2 and 3 and was HOOKED. Like omg, what a series!

Jan/ Crossed - Ally Condie

Jan/ Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Script
It's just weird to read a script.

Jan/ Ten Thousand Skies above you - Claudia Gray

Jan/ A thousand Pieces of you - Claudia Gray
This was the best NY gift EVER. I normally hate it what someone gives me a book as a present because most people don't really know what I like to read. But my friends did a wonderfull job on this one. Part 3 is out now so I really want to read it this year! HERE is the blogpost I did on this book last year.



bye!
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Blogmas day 24: What could go wrong, Christmas Edition

Hy guys!

I've made it! Blogmas day 24.
It's been a while since I did a blogpost like this but I've been looking forward to this one for a while now!

Things that could go wrong at Christmas - Weird Edition

Instead of Santa, his reindeer go through the chimney to deliver the presents.

Saint Nicholas didn't go back to Spain and is now in a big fight with Santa.

Saint Nick and Santa have a fight on the rooftop

Santa gets stuck in the Chimney

Santa's elves go on strike

Santa's reindeer go on strike

Rudolph his nose turns white

Rudolph starts his own business

Saint Nick Highjacks Santa's sleigh

A fire destroys all the presents

On his way to deliver presents on Christmas Eve, Santa gets stopped by air pirates and has to turn over all the presents.

Trump declares a sleigh flying ban.

The Easter Bunny is too early!

Santa mistakes a pack of paper for your glass present and accidentaly sits on it.

The Christmas Carollers scare Santa away.


Merry Christmas!

And a Happy New Year!

Bye!
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Blogmas day 23: Quotes I pinned on twitter in 2017

Hy guys!

As you all know ( or not, if you're new here (welcome!)) I never blog in the week between Christmas and New Years. So I decided to do this blogpost today instead. Every month in this past year, I pinned a quote as a tweet on my wall on my own twitteraccount ( @Sax_O_PhoneGirl). Because I like to look back on things, I've bundled them in this blogpost. Enjoy!

My favorites? August and September.

Bye
X

January
"Sometimes if you want to make change you gotta make a little noise." - #BA

February
"We push away what we can never understand. We push away the unimaginable." - #AS

March
Openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to. ~ #TobiasEaton #4

April
There us nothing noble in being superior to your fellowman. True self is being superior to your former self. #Kingsman #Quote

May
Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid. - #LangstonHughes

June
The flame of the diya,or lamp,reminds us that light will ultimately triumph over darkness. - @BarackObama

July
"Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us." - #SOTTP #Quote

August
Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door - Kyle Chandler #quote #quoteofthemonth #birthdaymonth

September
Just like Pippin, I’m going to find my very own corner of the sky. #BA #quoteofthemonth

October
I got no use for moonlight Or sappy poetry Love at first sight's for suckers At least it used to be. - #Jack #Newsies #INeverPlannedOnYou #DontComeAKnocking #Quoteofthemonth

November
Helemaal alleen Vervreemd van iedereen Ontspoorde ik bijna Herhaal alles supertraag Iets dat aan me vreet Op mij getatoeërd Het antwoord op mijn vraag blijft in alle talen vaag - #Quoteofthemonth @bazart_band #Tunnels

December

There may come a day when our courage fails us, when we forsake our friendships and break the bonds of fellowship. But today is not that day. And perhaps in showing our humanity, we might just save it. - #RipHunter / @RattyBurvil - @TheCW_Legends #quoteofthemonth

Blogmas day 22: Christmas party Musician Invite

Hy guys!

Today I'm giving out my last 4 invites to musicians!


First up we have Mister Leo Pellegrino. One of the best Saxophonists I know


Second, we have Mister Bryan Adams. My favorite singer since I was 5 and saw Spirit for the first time :D



Third musician invite is going to miss Michelle Williams. Go check out her work on The Greatest Showman !


Last invites goes to Adele!



bye!
X

Blogmas day 21: 5 ways to a perfect Christmas Dinner

Hy guys!

Today I'm sharing 5 tips for a perfect Christmas dinner.

Christmas is (for me) a family holiday. Everyone gets around the table, gives gifts, eat, some sing songs,.... It's my favorite time of year. It gets dark early, the fire is on, every tv station sends out the best Christmas movies (still haven't seen my fav yet though),....

So my first tip is to order our Christmas gifts soon. But really soon. Like March soon. Seriously. You don't want to have to order every single one of them a week before Christmas. It doesn't end well.

Second tip, go buy your food a the local shops! You'll help the self-employed and products are (mostly) better. But again, BE EARLY. Or at least give your order early so they can get your order ready for Christmas Eve. 

Third tip: Decorations are fun but don't go overboard. It will ruin a lot of things... Like the time you could use to prepare dinner. And we don't want to end up like Bonnie Wheeler now do we? 

4, DON'T go looking on the internet for perfect dinner settings, food, stuff like that. It will ruin your evening because you'll think it's not good enough. 

and Finally, have yourself a merry Little Christmas.  Go have fun, sing, dance and celebrate!

bye!

X

Blogmas day 20: If I would be one of Santa's helpers

Hey guys!

Today I'm going to tell you what would happen if I was one of Santa's helpers :)

First of all, I would provide music during work! And not just a cd playing, oh no! I would ask singers to come and perfome live for everyone! Pentatonix, Mariah Carey,... And not only Christmas songs, everything!

Second I would make every single World Leader a personal card. Probably with some rhyme... Maybe something like this:

And there was a politician

His skin as orange as the California sun

A smile that made children want to run

Such a man whom all loved to hate

With a belly that made you wonder what he ate

He wished to “Make America great again”

But he surely doesn't have it in him to be America's superman.

Third: Always ask for a raise... Duh.

4th... I would probably check every present to look for something I would want for Christmas :p 

And number 5, I would ask Santa to give us some vacation time on the Bahama's after Christmas. All-in anyone?

bye!

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Blogmas day 19: Christmas Party Actress invite

Hy guys!

Today I'm sending out my 4th Christmas party invite!

You all know the drill by now, 4 slots, 4 invites! Today : Actresses


First up we have Zendaya Coleman!
I am so excited to the The Greatest Showman later this year (or early next year)!!!


Second invite goes to Miss Emma Watson
If you are following my blog for a while now, you know why.



Third invite goes to Chelsea Kane



Fourth and last invite I'm sending out to this blogpost is to miss Caity Lotz



bye!
X

Blogmas day 18: My Letter to Santa

Dear Santa

When I was five, I got a cat for my birthday. A beautifull black, green-eyed kitten from my grandparents litter. She was the love of my life untill she passed away last year at the age of sixteen. During those years I had my forst boyfriend, lost both of my grandfathers and my grandmother on one side and had a lot of rejections and bad days. Especially the 25th of october 2016. The day I had

to leave my little black beauty at the vets(I didn’t give her one last hug which I still regret untill this very moment) and come home to my mom telling me she had to go back to the hospital for another round of surgery and Chemo.

So all I wish for this year is a little love in my life. From my parents, friends, family AND my knight in shining armour. Please Santa, send some true love my way for a change.

Thanks

M. X

Blogmas day 17: Top 20 of 2017

Hy guys!

on this link https://rankly.com/list/top-20-of-2017 you can vote for my top 10 pictures of the past year!
These are all the 20 pictures I picked out, so (obviously) 10 of these will make my top 10 ;)

Go vote! (please)
Bye!
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