Nail polish: Jesse's Girl Intensity Nail Color; Glee

As there's people working in my bathroom at the moment, I figured I might as well post something about the polish I'm wearing. It's kinda funny how they're (the workers) getting rid of the tiles in the same rhythm as the music I have on right now though. But anyway, let's proceed to the nail polish!

I bought this one more than a year ago in Boston and have gotten many compliments on it. Sadly we don't have this brand in the Netherlands, but we have many nail polish brands so I can't complain :)

Somehow I thought this color was names Island Girl, no idea how I came to that conclusion since that is nowhere written on the bottle. The color is Glee and it's pretty and sparkly! 

The bottle Jesse's Girl, Glee! And yes there's a drop of polish right next to the G. Happened when I just bought it :( 

The polish does not cover that well, so I had to put 4 layers of it on, but the result is very pretty! And also Christmassy! Here some pictures of my nails in different light :)

Tried out something different here to make the pic... Not sure if I like it, kinda looks like one hand is strangling the other... But you do see how the color looks in the shadow vs a bit more light :)

And here's a pic of how the polish looks in the light.

As you can see it has a green/blueish and gold shimmer to it. It's not a gel-like polish, so for me that's a good thing since it'll stay on longer - not easy to peel off. I really like it :)

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Throwback Thursday: Music

Because I absolutely cannot live without music, I figured why not do a throwback thursday with a song that I loved in the past? So without further ado, here is the first song ever that I can remember loving. 

Sinead O'Conner - Nothing Compares 2U

I think I was 2 or 3 years old and I was absolutely convinced that Sinead was crying in the video. It is a bit of a depressive song but somehow it touched me as a toddler and I still love the song to this day :)

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Small Christmas shop

As I was catching up with a friend I've known for almost 20(!!) years now, we passed a cute little Christmas shop in Amsterdam centre, so I figured why not share this deliciously yummy christmassy stuff? So here are a couple of pictures :) 

I am really excited for Christmas so there will be many more christmassy posts coming up ~ just so you know :D 

"I'm so excited! And I just can't hide it!" 

They had so much cute stuff! And we were very afraid we might accidentally bump something over and break it, thankfully that did not happen!!

Sorry for the quality, but as you can see everything was super expensive so we did not buy anything. But it's a nice store to visit either way :)

Random picture of the Christmas decor in the street, this one really reminded me of a DNA strand! Yes I find that cool, I'm a nerd :)

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Spooky nightmare

Yup I had a pretty intense nightmare last night, whereby I woke up all icky and sweaty and scared and afraid to fall asleep again even though my eyes did not want to stay open, which made it all more scary for me somehow. Aaaanyway let's get this story typed out now!

I was talking to my supervisor in Amsterdam about job opportunities and he mentioned a group in New York that performed excellent research in retrotransposon activity. Well I did prefer to do my research in GBM, but this sounded very cool as well, so I agreed to it. Catch was I would live in a student zone in NYC, I didn't mind since I'm used to that and as long as I have a place to stay in the beginning I'm happy. I figured I can always look for a different place there if it didn't suit me.

I was in NYC, walking down the street, it was daylight and very busy with many students running around and throwing with water balloons and having fun. 

Picture from google

I was with my sister and we just bought/rented (?) a house outside of the city. I didn't mind having to travel over an hour to work as long as I had a nice place to rest (doesn't sound like me here...). The garden was dead and the house looked like something from the 60's. But hey, my sister was happy with it and I didn't mind. Then the weird stuff started. There was

a lot of wind sometimes in the middle of the house, weird sounds... I remember talking to my dead dog and being happy that she was at my side and protecting me. I also had to tell my parents that she was very thankful for the life she had living with them. I was starting to worry that now that I openly accepted the link I had with my dog's spirit that maybe other spirits would also show, perhaps the bad kind. This scared me.

The weird stuff in the house continued, I got locked up in the washing room and could not get out. I screamed and kept hitting and kicking the door and called for my sister who was just in the other room, and all of a sudden she opened the door, like it was never locked. She never heard me, just wondered why I was taking so long. So we figured at that point that we're dealing with an evil spirit. She went to the bathroom and my parents came by to check on us. I kept looking at the bathroom's door, since I did not trust the silence, but my parents were not worried. My sister took very long so I decided to check it out, only to find that she was hung by the chain from the toilet. She was dead. 

We were all very shocked and because it was getting dark we figured to all sleep in the same bed so we'd be by each other's side. I then had an out of body experience where I saw the phone-cord choking all 3 of us at the same time, when I saw us waking up, I woke up from the nightmare. 

What also scared me was that my teddy bear positioned so it was looking at me. It always sat at the exact same spot so this is just normal, but at that moment I had to place the bear somewhere else. It's been a while since I've had a nightmare like this, and my morning was not fun because of it! So I was happy I was meeting a friend in the city.