Seb picked me up with his motorbike today and showed me this little valley overgrown with flowers (that you can’t really see here) that he discovered this morning. Then we sat around in the sun and talked and it was a good afternoon. :)

Seb picked me up with his motorbike today and showed me this little valley overgrown with flowers (that you can’t really see here) that he discovered this morning. Then we sat around in the sun and talked and it was a good afternoon. :)

real life post-its Noukka and mefilm, early may 2012

real life post-its

Noukka and me
film, early may 2012

They say it takes 21 days to get used to something.

I just came back from a 67-minute run and so today marks day twenty-one of going running every other day (I missed one day because I had to hand in my application, but I made up for it the next day and went running two days in a row).

I think it’s actually getting easier to motivate myself now, because running is slowly becoming a constant thing in my daily life that I just do no matter what.
I feel a little bit better when I get up every day, Don’t Break The Chain is just the perfect way for me to help me work on my self discipline.

Reblogged from etiquetteforalady

I took this two years and two days ago and I still love it to pieces. :)

I took this two years and two days ago and I still love it to pieces.

:)

maybe is not my thing

a moment of silence

a moment of silence

dorcs replied to your photo: a normal barbecue at my house or Julian is not…

you and your friends have to be awesomely crazy :D whose idea was this? yours? :D

Haha it was actually quite funny: We were sitting in my garden and when we moved to catch some last sunshine, Chrisse’s chair suddenly tilted to one side when he sat down because the chair legs just sinked into the ground. Julian even wasted a film photo on documenting ith, and later I got my digital camera and we put them all next to each other (that might have been my idea) to take more photos because it amused us quite a lot. It wasn’t all too easy to get the chairs like that when Nina and I sat down, though. :D

a normal barbecue at my house or Julian is not amused to be the only one who’s not falling

a normal barbecue at my house

or

Julian is not amused to be the only one who’s not falling

As much as I don’t like heat, there’s just something about summer that brings out life in people.

And I’m very much looking forward to that this year.

It wasn’t until I found these plates that I realised I was going through a paper stack from 2009. How ironic that I put them in a box full of stuff “to go through at some point” after taking the bottom photo… Emphasises the point of it, huh?

the winter months were not as real

and here comes another kind of ready

a lovely day

I couldn’t fall asleep last night and when I woke up before eight this morning to say goodbye to my mum who left to go on vacation, I wasn’t a big fan of my plan anymore to wake up really early. I went back to bed for half an hour and drifted in and out of sleep, and eventually got up and took a shower. I left the house at quarter to ten, the air was still fresh and the world was covered in morning dew, took the car and drove to Stuttgart. I went into town, got myself a coffee at Starbucks and sat down to work on my motivation letter and some other application stuff for uni.

The coffee shop was almost empty and after two hours I treated myself to a mango passion fruit frappuccino, so I had a reason to stay a little longer. I left at one and took the underground to go to Seb’s house. We talked a little, he showed me some photos from his trip to Prague with his family last week, and then we went outside and wandered about the streets talking some more. He looked really good and at ease today, which made me happy. Around half past three we went to Nina’s and Julian’s house because I had planned on spending the afternoon with Nina. After Seb had left, we sat around in Julian’s room for a bit and eventually Nina and me left to take the underground back to where I’d parked my car. We drove back to Tübingen and went into town there to get some ice cream around half past six. We went into a café that had a really nice terrace facing the river that we’d seen from the bridge we’d passed before, and shared a yoghurt wild berry sundae.

We were all alone and enjoyed the view and the evening sun, talking about running and proving something to other people, and how sometimes we feel down without any reason. We went to the other side of the river to catch some last sunrays and had quite interesting conversation topics, and I really like how honest we’ve become with each other lately. As the sun was going down we sat down in the grass and kept talking about everything that came to our mind. We went back to the car around half past eight and I drove her home. On my way back home there suddenly appeared really thick fog which I’ve never knowingly seen before, so I stopped the car and took some photos.

When I noticed I had my little tripod with me, I set it up to take a few self portraits, and in that very moment I was so happy I hadn’t just driven past and thought “how pretty”. I came home at quarter to ten and had dinner with my dad.

And now I am sitting here and I’m smiling because this was the first good day in over a week and I made it good all by myself and I spent it with lovely people and just got out of the house and out of my routine that I hated and I like days like these. They make me realise why I love leaving the house in the morning and equally coming home after a long day.

First time ever using the free wi-fi at Starbucks, I don’t usually go there because the next one is in Stuttgart and I live about 45 min away. But I got up really early today and came here to be productive after too many days of no motivation whatsoever and not getting things done. Attempting to write the motivation letter for the second uni I’m applying to now, and later today I’m meeting up with Seb and Nina! :) I love the atmosphere in coffee shops.

First time ever using the free wi-fi at Starbucks, I don’t usually go there because the next one is in Stuttgart and I live about 45 min away. But I got up really early today and came here to be productive after too many days of no motivation whatsoever and not getting things done. Attempting to write the motivation letter for the second uni I’m applying to now, and later today I’m meeting up with Seb and Nina! :)

I love the atmosphere in coffee shops.

to the girl I can’t put into words Dear Noukka,I don’t know why I always find it so hard to start writing something for the people who inspire me most when there’s a million feelings about their photos inside of me. But putting them into words is something I tend to avoid because it’s just another thing I could easily put on my to do list, and I just caught myself smiling writing that because you’re probably the first person to understand what I mean. So what I did is I got myself a cup of coffee the other day, sat down in front of my computer and went back to one of the first pages on your photostream. Not all the way back, but to the beginning of your first 365. I started a slideshow, which I have never done before, and looked at all the photos you’ve uploaded in the past two and a half years. I thought I would just let it play, but the truth is after every other photo I paused it to read your description, because I suddenly found it so interesting to discover how you were back then, and why you took the photo the way it is. So all in all it took me four hours on two different days instead of maybe just half an hour, but it was probably the best spent four hours of my whole week.I still remember the day I discovered your photos or rather a few days after. I don’t know what day it was exactly and how I found you in the first place, but I remember the happiness I felt when you added me back. Because it’s one of the most wonderful, and rarest, things when someone who inspires me, somehow, is drawn to my photos as well. And still I would never have thought that some day, I would get to meet you in person, for you were so far away at that point.I usually have a concept in my head when I go out to take a photo for someone, something significant that I connect with their photos. But with you, there is just so much. I got to know so many different sides of you over the months that I can’t express anymore what it is that always makes me come back to your photos. As simple as that might sound, I think it’s just you. You as in the girl I can’t put into words. I think I’ll just leave it at that and not try and display why you’ve come to mean so much to me. I think you know and that’s all that counts.So in the middle of going through all those photos you took, I went into my forest and set up my camera to deal with all that I’ve seen and to explore it a little further. I didn’t know what I was doing at all, nor did I know what I wanted to do. But although the final photo turned out to be quite simple and I still cannot explain what exactly there is to see in it, I can say with certainty that it is made up of hundreds of small parts of your soul and mind that spoke to me through your photos. I just wanted to try something different because I didn’t know how to approach taking a photo for you that doesn’t simply say “happy birthday!” (which was the first reason I ever made anything for you exactly two years ago) in the first place, and I hope in some way it does make sense to you.I want you to know I will always be proud of you for everything you’ve done so far, and even though your 366 didn’t turn out the way you probably thought it would in the beginning, I still loved it and I can’t wait for the rest of the photos that are part of it to appear on your photostream. I also hope you’re having the most wonderful day right now, and that you’re spending it with lovely people and with lots of positive thoughts on your mind. Happy birthday! :)When I first met you in person in summer last year, I was in awe because you were actually that wonderful, talkative, pretty, imaginative girl I had pictured, and to be honest I was a little proud to be able to say I know you. And then you came visit me only three weeks ago and I think it changed things between us a lot. Before, you were the girl I knew from the internet that I had met once and that I was so inspired by. But suddenly you became a lot more. You became someone I could share ideas with, who helped me with what occupied me most, who made me come closer to taking that one photo I absolutely loved, who I could sit in the same room with in silence, who understood. You still are all of what you used to be for me, but there’s this small part between us that wasn’t as clear until now. That small part that came from nowhere and suddenly has had such a big impact. That small part that I will simply call a friendship, and a special one at that.Thank you for just being there these past two years, and for staying yourself all that time. To be able to call someone who so many people look up to,  and deservedly so, my friend, is something I will forever be grateful for.With lots of love,Rona

to the girl I can’t put into words

Dear Noukka,
I don’t know why I always find it so hard to start writing something for the people who inspire me most when there’s a million feelings about their photos inside of me. But putting them into words is something I tend to avoid because it’s just another thing I could easily put on my to do list, and I just caught myself smiling writing that because you’re probably the first person to understand what I mean.
So what I did is I got myself a cup of coffee the other day, sat down in front of my computer and went back to one of the first pages on your photostream. Not all the way back, but to the beginning of your first 365. I started a slideshow, which I have never done before, and looked at all the photos you’ve uploaded in the past two and a half years. I thought I would just let it play, but the truth is after every other photo I paused it to read your description, because I suddenly found it so interesting to discover how you were back then, and why you took the photo the way it is. So all in all it took me four hours on two different days instead of maybe just half an hour, but it was probably the best spent four hours of my whole week.
I still remember the day I discovered your photos or rather a few days after. I don’t know what day it was exactly and how I found you in the first place, but I remember the happiness I felt when you added me back. Because it’s one of the most wonderful, and rarest, things when someone who inspires me, somehow, is drawn to my photos as well. And still I would never have thought that some day, I would get to meet you in person, for you were so far away at that point.
I usually have a concept in my head when I go out to take a photo for someone, something significant that I connect with their photos. But with you, there is just so much. I got to know so many different sides of you over the months that I can’t express anymore what it is that always makes me come back to your photos. As simple as that might sound, I think it’s just you. You as in the girl I can’t put into words. I think I’ll just leave it at that and not try and display why you’ve come to mean so much to me. I think you know and that’s all that counts.
So in the middle of going through all those photos you took, I went into my forest and set up my camera to deal with all that I’ve seen and to explore it a little further. I didn’t know what I was doing at all, nor did I know what I wanted to do. But although the final photo turned out to be quite simple and I still cannot explain what exactly there is to see in it, I can say with certainty that it is made up of hundreds of small parts of your soul and mind that spoke to me through your photos. I just wanted to try something different because I didn’t know how to approach taking a photo for you that doesn’t simply say “happy birthday!” (which was the first reason I ever made anything for you exactly two years ago) in the first place, and I hope in some way it does make sense to you.
I want you to know I will always be proud of you for everything you’ve done so far, and even though your 366 didn’t turn out the way you probably thought it would in the beginning, I still loved it and I can’t wait for the rest of the photos that are part of it to appear on your photostream.
I also hope you’re having the most wonderful day right now, and that you’re spending it with lovely people and with lots of positive thoughts on your mind. Happy birthday! :)
When I first met you in person in summer last year, I was in awe because you were actually that wonderful, talkative, pretty, imaginative girl I had pictured, and to be honest I was a little proud to be able to say I know you. And then you came visit me only three weeks ago and I think it changed things between us a lot. Before, you were the girl I knew from the internet that I had met once and that I was so inspired by. But suddenly you became a lot more. You became someone I could share ideas with, who helped me with what occupied me most, who made me come closer to taking that one photo I absolutely loved, who I could sit in the same room with in silence, who understood. You still are all of what you used to be for me, but there’s this small part between us that wasn’t as clear until now. That small part that came from nowhere and suddenly has had such a big impact. That small part that I will simply call a friendship, and a special one at that.
Thank you for just being there these past two years, and for staying yourself all that time. To be able to call someone who so many people look up to,  and deservedly so, my friend, is something I will forever be grateful for.
With lots of love,
Rona