December 31, 2013

『books』Gelesene Bücher im Dezember/ read books of december

finished:

1. Fahrenheit 451(english) - Ray Bradbury (158 pages)
★★★★★
2. Revealed (english) - P.C. & Kristin Cast (320 pages)
★☆☆☆☆
3. Rubinrot (Ruby Red) - Kerstin Gier (343 pages)
★★★★★
4. Saphirblau (Sapphire Blue) - Kerstin Gier (388 pages)
★★★★★
5. Smaragdgrün (Emerald Green) - Kerstin Gier (482 pages)
★★★★

pages: 1691


started:

1. Fyre (english) - Angie Sage (720 pages)

2. Selection (english) - Kiera Cass (327 pages)

December 30, 2013

『2013|12|24 - 2013|12|26』A very Merry Christmas!

『2013|12|24』
The day started quite stressful, like every Christmas Eve day. XD" We had to prepare dinner, clean up the rest, decorate the christmas tree, we always decorate it on Christmas Eve, and get dressed up a bit. ^^

After breakfast my mom started to prepare rice salad and tzatziki for the raclette we would be having for dinner. My sister helped her and while they prepared things for dinner my task was decorating the christmas tree. (⎠^o^)⎠ I love decorating the christmas tree and i do it every year. No one is allowed to put anything on it. Except for the lights. XD

                   
                       without anything
with the lights
fully decorated



a few close ups of the decoration ^^
When I was finished with decorating I started dressing up, putting on make up and painting my finger nails. This year I went for a simple black and gold look. ^^

pretty bad outfit shot XD
I wore my black lace dress and black tights with golden glittery stars on them, my hairband was also gold and glittery and I had golden finger nails. ^^ 
Just ignore my bright red socks, but these are my new christmasy socks, which I got in my advent calendar this year plus they are warm and fluffy. ^^

make up shot ^^
I went with the Catrice LE Feathers and Pearls palette, because it's so glittery (which you can't see in the pic) and it has gold, silver and black colours in it.



After getting ready we decided it's time for the handing out of the presents. ^^

the presents under the christmas tree ^^

all of my presents ♥

everything is unwrapped

Everything I got from my sister ⬇

except the Milka Chocolate Nicholas 

cute penguin bag O(>o<)O
Everything was in this cute guy. He's so super cute and made out of felt. I wanted to name him Privet, like the one from Madagascar but my sister said he already is called Pingu…


some cute bow hair ties in light pink and black

a new charm for my bracelet 

Despicable Me 2 on dvd
I so loved it that she gave me the dvd as a present. The whole fam love the Despicable Me movies. ^^



Everything I got from my parents ⬇

 a wrist watch from Fossil
I was allowed to pick it out and it was in late summer when we bought it. I had to wait the whole time for my new beautiful watch. *-*


panda ear piercings

a charm for my bracelet from Thomas Sabo
This is the most perfect one, because it's a tiara. So fitting for a little princess. ^o^


a ticket to see the new show of Apassionata
This was such a surprise, because we never talked about it. I'm sooo happy about it, because a few years ago my mom and I went to see a show of Apassionata and it was so beautiful. Not only the story but mostly the horses. The little princess just loves horses forever.


Darth Vader ear plugs XD
haha, my addiction for everything Darth Vader is supported. XD I just love Star Wars and when I saw the advertisement from tchibo that they are having Star Wars merch again I was like "I NEED EVERYTHING WITH DARTH VADER!!!" XD"""


Darth Vader portable loudspeaker
I also got the loud speaker. But I won't use it because the sound is horrible, but it's just so cool to have it standing in the shelf. XD" 


and a Darth Vader tote bag
We saw it on the Christmas Market at Alexanderplatz and my mom decided I have to get it. ^^

Lovely mommy.


I also got something from my sister's boyfriend ⬇

dm voucher
The rest of the day we spend in the living room, drinking cocktails with and without alcohol and eating Mohnsemmeln (poppyseed rolls <= not sure if it's the right word…). I just love Mohnsemmeln sooo much and we have it every christmas, it's something with buns, poppyseeds, raisins, almonds, and milk… 

…and looks like the encircled things
and the old advent wreath


『2013|12|25』

The next day we had a relaxing breakfast and did nothing special. But since we didn't really went to the christmas market as a family we wanted to go that day. Unfortunately my dad still felt sick and that's why my mom, sister and I decided to go there alone.

We went to the one at the Schloss Charlottenburg, because it's so beautiful there. Sadly it was raining. ;__; It had a good side too, it wasn't that crowded and we where able to walk with our umbrellas. The sad thing is that I did not take any pictures, because I did not want to take out my iPod in the rain and balancing it with the umbrella in the open.

We had some Baumkuchen (something like this) with cinnamon and sugar and crepes. ^^ I took one with apple puree and cinnamon and sugar.


anis and salammoniac-liquorice bonbons 
Like every year we got some bonbons. ^^ I just love the liquorice ones and my sister decided for anis. I'll get the left overs. XP


and some nougat
I also got some self made nougat. I so love nougat.


and an outfit shot

+ make up
Never take make up shots at the end of the day. It looks like I had a bruised eye. XD" 

After we returned home we just had dinner and did nothing special, except reading and relaxing on the sofa. ^^ And we watched The log Kiss Goodnight like every christmas. XD Everyone knowa that it's such a "christmasy" movie. XD"""" ~feel the irony~ I think it's just because of the german title, it's Tödliche Weihnachten, which means something like Deadly Christmas

『2013|12|26』
The last christmas day was just some chilling around day. Original we wanted to go ti the cinema to finally watch The Hobbit - Desolation of Smaug, but since my parents didn't feel good and still sick we decided to stay home, plus my sister was packing again. She is visiting her friend in Austria for the rest of the year. 

『2013|12|22 - 2013|12|23』PART II: a few long days, a birthday party and my reawoken love for reading

The second part's following now:


『2013|12|22』
It was the day of the days, but since the birthday party started around afternoon we were able to sleep in. Which I was super happy about. ^^ Finally a day starting without stress and such.
After everyone woke up and was nearly dressed we had a relaxing breakfast together. After that we had a bit fun with the kids and watched TV with them, which ended in the three of us having these stupid kids shows (Dora and Little Einsteins) songs stuck in our heads for the rest of the day.
Gosh can someone please tell me why? WHY little kids have to watch this rubbish? I just can't get it!!! Not only that it's annoying also just so stupid….

While watching the kids shows we started dressing up for the birthday party and helped my cousin to dress the little boys. While putting on the rest of my make up my parents already came to pick us up. While they had to wait a few minutes they helped with the rest and we could start off to the restaurant.
As always we had do drive to Hotel Neuenhof in Wuppertal, the restaurant and hotel of my cousin's husband's sister.

When we finally arrived everyone was already there and we sad hello to them. My cousin arrived a few minutes after us and after everyone was finally seated the starter soup came in. Like always I got something special, and I was allowed to decided which I wanted and I decided for a pumpkin cream soup. It was sooooooo good. *p*
After that we could pick what we wanted from the buffet which was already laid out. I went for all the vegetable and a few fries. That was enough for me, because I waited for the cake. I'm always most excited for the cake. XD I just LOVEEEE cake!!!!

The Maulwurfskuchen (banana, wipped cream and chocholate)
my cousin made
the Micky cake
it was a strawberry cake

While evryone was talking all the time I discovered the christmas decoration outside, but sadly it was raining the whole day and I couldn't go out to take funny pictures with it. So here are a few pics through the rainy windows.

a rendeer and a slight

another rendeer

aaaaand big Mr. Snowman ^^

After eating and having cake everyone was ally family like as always, talking, looking at pictures and just having a bit fun with the kids.
At the end of the day the obligatory family pictures taking broke out again. It's always like that. When the first people start leaving everyone suddenly want's to take pictures. XD

a selfie from that day

After everyone left we went bacl to my cousin's home. The boys were already asleep and we sat together again and also had a few leftovers as dinner.


『2013|12|23』
The next day started quite early again, because we planned to visit my grandpa after breakfast. Like always it didn't end up as planned, because my grandpa decided that only my parents should visit him. Only because it wasn't really cleaned up, but well…

My mom called while we were getting ready and after her call we decided to relax a bit and not panic while dressing and packing. We had enough time now.
While we got dressed my cousin also got dressed and dressed the kids, because she decided to go to the doctor. Both boys were sneezing and coughing the day before and because it was right before christmas she wanted to get some medicine.
We had to say goodbye and stayed there until my parents picked us up. While waiting we watched TV, they have Maxdome and an abo for the kids section. XD We first started to watch Hello Kitty, but it was just too stupid, than we clicked on one episode of Saber Rider, to listen to the opening, watched a few episodes of How to train a Dragon (like the day before XD") and a bit of Ben 10.

Finally we got picked up and made our way home.
The drive wasn't special at all and nearly the same as the way there. We stopped at Paine again, but this time at Burger King and ate something. This time I was able to get my beloved Chilli-Cheese-Nuggets. *p*

Because the drive was so boring and I felt quite well, I decided to finally started reading Rubinrot. I always take a book with me for such a long ride. I made it through half the book and was just caught up in it. With that my love for reading came back. I always read one or two books, depends on how much time I have and if I have to read a book for some lesson, but it was so different this time. It was nearly like the Harry Potter time. I just ran through all three books over the christmas days and I really liked it a lot. 

When we arrived home we had to clean up and we spent doing it the rest of the evening.

『2013|12|20 - 2013|12|21』PART I: a few long days, a birthday party and my reawoken love for reading

Finally catching up with the last few post for the end of the year. Hopefully I'll finish the two long ones today and at least two of the shorter ones tomorrow.
So let's get started. ⎝(^o^)⎠


『2013|12|20』 
Since the semester of school ended right before the christmas holidays and no one was planing to go to school that day I had off. Even the teachers said we could stay home.
But it wasn't a relaxing day at all. I had planned a lot for that day. I decided to use the additional free day to finally go to all the university libraries to look for books, which I need for a research. I also planned on meeting a friend at my last stop.

Well, like always nothing went as I planned it. >_> I overslept… but I decided not to panic and just do everything one by one including having breakfast before leaving for a travel around town.
While I had my breakfast I turned on the TV just to discover Avatar - The Last Airbender to be streamed on Nick. That made me so happy, because it's like an eternity I last watch an episode of it and I sooo love this series. ^^ Well, sadly I had to turn off the TV after that to finally get started with my small travel around. ^^

First stop was the Hu,bold library in my district, because the day before I accidentally lend the third volume instead the first of the Edelsteintriologie (I'm going to stick to the german names, because it's the original ^^). XD" So I decided to just get volume one and two, too. I planned on reading it over the holidays.
I just went in grabbed the two books and went strait back to the lending machine and back to the station.

Second stop was Humbold University's Grimm-Zentrum, but I did not even get the chance to enter the library. I was so annoyed by that. Not only that I couldn't find the way right away but also that you aren't allowed to take your things into the library. You have to lock them away but need a lock for the locker, which I hadn't with me.
I then decided to give my mom a call and tell her and already made my way back to the station to get to a few of FU's libraries. My mom and I decided via phone to try it another time at Grimm-Zentrum, because it even is open during holidays. Since FU is closed during holidays I had to get there that day.
Finally there I was lost again. Someone please tell me why the campus is like over the whole district? It's so annoying to get to everything when you have to walk like 20 minutes between the different buildings. I found my way, luckily I had a map with me (on my iPod) and the second stop wasn't that far away form my first one.
After a long discussion with Riki (she thought she knew where I would be ending up, but no XD""") she decided to go home first and meet me there when I'm finished with my library-journey. Original plan was meeting at one of the libraries… but yeah since it's so big and everything is spread over nearly the whole district we ended up not meeting there.
I finally entered the first library and nothing I looked up beforehand was available which annoyed me so much that I just did not go to the second one. I decided that I'm not willed to travel there like a million times for this stupid research. -.-" But I have to go there again anyway….

After that unhappy ending of my travel I finally reached Riki's home. The driving around town itself wasn't that bad, because Lulu and I skyped a bit during that. That's always the best during long train rides.  ^^ Finally at Riki's she cooked something for me *^* and even made me some scrambled eggs when I was still hungry after the Ramen. XD" Instead of going to the Christmas Market we decided to stay at home and talk. I was just too exhausted and annoyed and didn't feel like going there.
Like always we had a lot of fun and we also watched "stupid" openings and endings of old kids shows and Animes, which was so much fun.


『2013|12|21』 
This day started quite early for the whole family, because it was the day of our travel to Hagen to visit the rest of the family. Next day was the first birthday party of my cousin's second baby.
That means nothing really special happened that day. We had breakfast together and packed the last few things into our travel bags.
Like always we weren't in time, but it did not really matter because we had the whole day to arrive there.
The drive itself wasn't anything special and my sister, her boyfriend, my mom and I nearly slept the whole drive. We then stopped at McDonald's in Paine like always. It's a family tradition to stop there, and even when it's only to go to the toilette. XD" In the end we decided to eat something, while everyone went for burgers I wasn't happy at all, but my mom discovered that they now have baguettes with tomato and mozzarella. I decided to try it. Well it was a okayish one, just too much sauce. >_> I'll never get why they put so much sauce on all the things. Without it, it would have been so good.
Mom and dad changed places and we took off again.

Finally we arrived at my cousin's home and took the sleeping stuff into the flat. After everything was in we sat in the kitchen and had cookies. christmas cookies are just the best!!! *^* We also gave them the presents we had with us and while unwrapping them my aunt and uncle arrived there too.

The rest of the day was just family, talking, laughing, playing with the two little boys and having dinner together.
After my aunt, uncle, mom and dad left we decided to watch a movie. We watched Pacific Rim, which was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. It just reminded me too much of Evangelion. I actually think if it had been a japanese movie it would have been a good one, but I just did not like how they tried to sell it to us like it's something new and oh so special.

December 08, 2013

『cosmetics』My top 5 & my Flop 5 of the year

Since I'm still writing on a longer entry and don't know when it'll be finished I decided to post a different one instead. ^^ This is just a small one with a top 5 and flop 5 of the year of cosmetics. It's in no specific order and is only based on my own opinion.

Top 5:



  • essence Superheroes LE nail polish remover
  • Balea Handlotion Sheabutter and Arganoil
  • essence Me and My Ice Cream LE Blush 01 Ice Bomb
  • Catrice Glamour Doll mascara waterproof
  • p2 pure color lipstick 101 Rue de Rivoli


essence Superheroes LE nail polish remover

First I didn't know if I would like this product. It's the nail polish which should remove glitter polishes a lot better and faster than normal ones. On the one hand I thought it would be an awesome idea and on the other hand I was really skeptical if it would work. 
But I have to say that I really never expected that. Not only that it works perfectly fine, it'S super fast and you only need a small amount of nail polish remover. I really love that, since I love to wear glitter nails a lot. Because of it's more jelly texture tissues or cotton pads (or what ever you use to remove polish) can't absorb it instantly and the nail polish remover has some time to be absorbed by the polish to get under the glitter particles. For me it works perfectly fine and even quite fast. I love this one and hope that essence will put this or something similar to be something regular available.


Balea Handlotion Sheabutter and Arganoil

Second is this hand lotion from Balea which turned into my favourite one ever since I discovered it at dm. Not only that I like the packaging but also the lotion itself. I like how it feels on my hands, it's not sticky or anything and it smells so yummy. 


essence Me and My Ice Cream LE Blush 01 Ice Bomb

This is my beloved Me and My Ice Cream blush from essence. I never was fond of these cream blushes but this one totally got me. In general I love the howl LE but this blush is so nice and shimmery. It gives just a nice light pinkish shimmer to your cheeks. It makes you all cute and girly. 


Catrice Glamour Doll mascara waterproof

This one I discovered recently and only got it because someone on youtube mentioned it how awesome these are. And I have to agree. I love these. When I normally used like three or four different mascara to give the perfect touch to them, I only need to layer this one a few times for a nice natural look. While my lashes are naturally quite long and thick, this mascara underlines my normal lashes perfectly and makes them stand out more. No clumps and no weird thickness.


p2 pure color lipstick 101 Rue de Rivoli

This year was my personal year of lipsticks. I never wore so many different lipsticks and I added a lot to my collection this year. In the past I mostly wore no lipstick, but this year I had to put it on daily. No matter if a light pink for cuteness, a flashy red to stand out or a nice dark color for autumn. 
This one is one of my most favourite lipsticks this year. It's one from p2's new pure color lipstick series.
These are super nice to wear. Not dry at all. Not super long lasting, but they have a nice and comfortable feeling and give a lot of colour. 




Flop 5:


  • Catrice Quick Dry & High Shine top coat 
  • p2 Mirror Mirror on the Wall LE mystic reflection eyeshadow palettes (010 addictive beauty, 020 glowing night)
  • essence Happy Holidays LE snowflake topper 01 Let it snow!
  • essence nail art paper print 01 get the news & transfer solution
  • essence get big lashes mascara triple black & volume boost waterproof (double pack)


Catrice Quick Dry & High Shine top coat 

I only bought that recently, but I do not like it at all. I'm looking for a nice and good top coat to seal my nail polishes. I always used one from essence, but wanted to try something new in the hope to find something better. But this one got me really mad at the first try. I always wait until my nails are dried through so nothing gets blurred or the color gets removed. Luckily I only tried it on a solid colour so it wasn't that bad. But I could see that some of the colored polish got removed and stuck to the brush of the top coat. I hate that and it's super annoying. I love to do nail art and when I have more time I would like to start it again, but I need a good top coat for that so nothing will be blurred again. 


p2 Mirror Mirror on the Wall LE mystic reflection eyeshadow palette 010 addictive beauty

p2 Mirror Mirror on the Wall LE mystic reflection eyeshadow palette 020 glowing night

Onto the next. It's the most sad and disappointing of them all! I myself was super hyped about this LE from p2. I loved the theme and the packaging and the colours of the eye shadows. When I swatched them in the drugstore I was still super fond of them and the colours are super pigmented and really nice. I fell in love! But when I finally tried them out I couldn't believe what I saw or not saw. With or without base, they just did not stay in place and where I wanted them. Even while I was still putting on my make up! I got so annoyed and just gave up.


essence Happy Holidays LE snowflake topper 01 Let it snow!

Since the paper print is still popular and normally is something easy to try out I decided to get these two and try them. I really liked the idea to get a paper print which in the end is the right way and not mirrored. That's why I decided for essence's paper print manicure. Holy, I was so annoyed trying it out the first time. I got so angry at the things I couldn't believe it. 
While normally it's super easy and a really fast process this took me an eternity until I finally reached a more or less (more less) acceptable result. I did the exact steps and how their described but it just did not work at all. Every time it put the paper on top of my nails and went over it with the solution it got stuck to the polish and REMOVED the polish. How annoying is that? I don't know how I managed to go through it and in the end having a more faded (like it was worn for weeks or sth.) look on top of the polish and I don't even know how the polish managed to stay after  the millionth try.
I really hope the take these out and come up with a different solution, because I really liked the idea.

 
essence nail art paper print 01 get the news & transfer solution

This one also was a super cute and nice idea, but turned out to be a big disappointment. It's the snowflake topper with "snowflakes" and glitter in it. You have to shake it before applying to the nails. After a while the flakes sank down again. It's like a snow globe for nails. The only thing is that it's not really working. Well the effect in the bottle works fine, but it's nearly impossible to get the snowflakes to your nails. Some of the glitter is transferable but the snowflakes are just to heavy and are sinking back to the ground immediately and it's only possible to get one or to onto the brush. 
It's a really nice idea, but it should work better on the nails too.


essence get big lashes mascara triple black & volume boost waterproof (double pack)

Last but not least are these mascaras. Since I bought them in a double pack I count them as one. Quite a while ago essence brought these out and had them on a special price as a double pack. Since I was on the look out for a really nice mascara I thought I could try these. One price for two sounded good and since essence doesn't cost that much I bought them. 
While these aren't a total flop, I also do not really like them. Plus I only kinda liked the waterproofed one (the purple one). They are described as big lashes which will give you a nice volume, but I was desperately looking for the volume on my lashes. I just did not find it. They also are kind of sticky and clumpy that's why I don't really like them. But if you still want to try them I recommend to pair it with another mascara or to brush your lashes afterwards, to get rid of the clumps and the stickiness.