Hello again, blog!

First of all, Google is discontinuing Friend Connect from use outside of Blogger. It will be gone on March 1st and this blog will be gone from your feeds by then as far as I understand it. I’ve taken the widget down and replaced it with a Bloglovin badge, and if that doesn’t strike your fancy, I advise you to manually add my feed to your reader of choice (taking a wild guess here, Google Reader for most of you) if you want to keep following my updates without having to actually visit the site. I’m a little disappointed in this decision, but there’s probably no changing Google’s mind, hahah.

Anyways, on to the real entry. I decided to really try and start fresh this new year and I’m actually succeeding so far. I decided to cut down on both alcohol and smoking, which I have done starting January 1st and kept up with. I still smoke and drink but I drink way less and have cut down by about half on my smoking. I also decided to try and tone up a little this year since I’ve gained a bit of weight (which I don’t mind since I’m underweight) and it’s all gone to my stomach. I’m far too lazy to start going to the gym all the time but I’ve started walking a lot and doing some exercise at home. Once I get my student card I’ll start going to the gym near me, I haven’t been bothered to go yet since I want my discount. Cutting down on the beer and actually trying to exercise a little should be enough to at least not make it worse, lol. All in all I’m trying to live a little healthier than I used to and so far so good. I’ve also managed mostly to fix my sleep schedule that has been completely fucked up for a good two years or so, fuck yeah! I also decided to actually get over my ridiculous fear of dentists and get my teeth fixed. I booked a dentist’s appointment yesterday but unfortunately I didn’t get one until the end of July. :/ Anyways, I’m going to be very pleased with myself if I can keep this up!

Oh, and here’s a photo of the short hair I refused to show you guys a while ago. It was a buzzcut a few months ago, now it’s starting to look decent.

I also started at my new uni on the 3rd and I’m now absolutely certain I made the right choice by quitting my old one even though it meant moving back to a smaller city, I’m really liking it there and this definitely is what I want to study. I’m actually excited about school now, I love making and drawing things and since this course is mostly all about that, I’m so very glad I decided to switch.

Since most of you probably don’t know about my education history (I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned it here), I’ll just do a quick recap. I graduated as a dressmaker/fashion stylist from vocational school back in 2008. After that I worked for a while and moved on to take an art foundation course, after which I got accepted into uni for digital media. I realised it wasn’t for me at all but stayed on the school records because I had nothing else to do either until this fall rolled around and I put in an application for a design course at another uni. I went to the entrance exams a few months ago and found out I got accepted in the end of November. The course has a rather dumb title, “designer stylist”, basically it’s a mix of fashion and interior design with some fashion styling on the side. I’ll mostly focus on the fashion side of things in what it comes to choosing classes, but I’m also enjoying the interior design side of things since I’ve never studied it before. It’s only been three weeks now so I can’t report too much yet, but I’ll just mention that I absolutely love being able to draw in school and being supposed to do so. I spent most of my lectures at the previous uni doodling in my notebook, hahah.

What else? Oh yeah, the apartment! I still haven’t unpacked everything, I’m slowly and steadily getting there though, hahah. My new apartment is a 30,5 m2 studio with a kitchenette and a balcony, it’s tiny but it’s cozy and I don’t need much space anyways. I’ll post pictures in the near future once I finally get around to unpacking the last two boxes I still haven’t unpacked and organizing my decorations a little.

A snapshot from a while ago, I realised I haven’t taken photos of my dolls in ages.

I think that’s about it, two boring outfit shots after the break!

Bought a jacket and pants at the sales a while ago.

I’m suddenly feeling like dressing in all black again, too bad I’m lacking in decent-looking black clothes nowadays. (Also the faces of intense concentration I always make on cell phone photos make me lol.)