SUMMER LONGINGS

Vogue, November 1950.

"Hello, is it me you're looking for?"

Hi Lionel, I love to meet you someday. But for today I only long to see the sunlight in my hair and getting actually sun-kissed instead of using the out-of-a-bottle solution a thousand times.

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May wanted to go on a vacation and instead of trading shifts with July or August, the bitch convinced October to switch. Let's say he's doing it with conviction. Cold temperatures, pouring rain, freezing wind; it feels like we're in the midst of fall in Belgium. 

But let's stay positive. 

1.

My moving abroad dreams and visions about marrying a very rich man, like Leonardo Dicaprio (that man just has to settle once...), that maintains my new life overseas are getting so much easier to defend to total strangers.

2.

It's pseudo fall, so you can pseudo act like it. Daydreaming, drinking hot chocolates and eating casseroles (can't do, may challenge), staying in your pajamas all day, staying in bed all day, catching up with all tv-shows and magazines and keeping up with the "new in" pages of all online shopping brands, which ultimately totally sucks. Because what's fun about looking at pictures of models wearing the bikinis you just bought (look and drool) instead of wearing them yourself with sunny weather?

Sometimes a positive attitude is so overrated. 

I'm off switching my breezy May personality into my dark October alter ego.

Bye.

Okay, taking that goodbye back, October-me is too grumpy for that.

SHORT HAIR, LONG DAYDREAMS

Marloes Horst for Vogue Australia.

I'm feeling very discombobulated lately. 

Which is equivalent to I'm coveting short hair. 

Regardless my winning 'never have I ever had short hair' line while playing the infamous drinking game, I want to make the plunge and get rid of some inches.

Those who say: "long hair is much cooler", are so right. I mean, you can have fun with it, let it down, twist it, mousse it (okay, not too much with the moussing), do up-dos, let it get tangled and knotted thanks to the wind, spend hours blow drying it, find it back in your food (yummie), get it caught in your zippers every single time...

FUN!

So back to the not-so-sudden appearance of my crazy idea, and the incredibly sound argument that any woman with things to do on her agenda can't spend her entire life with her hair down. That's just not possible.

I'm thinking about cutting the long bob. Unfortunately I've never found a beautiful example of it gone right with a blonde. So I already wanted to store it back in my box filled with unrealized ideas. Until the picture above showed up in my life. This photo of Marloes Horst on the cover of Vogue Australia is so awesome I'm thinking about tattooing it all over my body just in case...

The thing that I'm wondering though is whether or not you have this kind of hair in real life? 

Or am I swimming too deeply in the deep-end of some fashion pool to realize that a long bob like that is just going to make me look like a new member of Hanson in 1997?

If that’s the case, I’m begging you, please tell me.

Just write mmmbop and I’ll understand.

MAY CHALLENGE

It was hard to find a new worthy challenge for this month. Not drinking alcohol turned out to be a piece of cake. Ignoring coffee was a different story, but I did it (except for two cups, but who cares). It was surprising for a hermit like me to realize how many times I had to say NO to people who offered me a drink. Apparently I leave my house more than I used to think.

Anyway, April 2013 is gone forever. But so is not my enthusiasm for becoming a better version of myself. 

* Audience applauds, laughter track starts to play *

May 2013 will be my healthy month. 

* Audience bursts into laughter and cries of joy *

After reading the first 50 pages of Kimberly Snyder's The Beauty Detox Foods I found out that I only eat crap. It's not that I have to lose any weight but "having a youthful, glowing skin, lustrous hair and feeling energized" sounds good, n'est-ce pas?

No french fries, no ice-cream, no pizza, no burgers, no everything-that-tastes-delicious... You get it, there will only be room for the boring food in my stomach. With the aim to not finding it drab anymore. 

My soul will be on a highway to hell. 

Luckily there are over 85 delicious recipes in the book. There is "miracle gluten-free vegan pizza dough", "gluten-free vegan lasagna supreme", "portobello mushroom burger", "raw gorilla taco wraps "and even "raw coconut macaroons". I won't miss a single thing. Score!

Let's toast to another successful monthly challenge!

Who's joining me? 

Hello? 

Is anybody there? 

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