My dinner for tonight had faces! They kept on staring and screaming while I tried to eat them. I really enjoyed that to be honest. Let me explain why I ate pastas with faces drawn on them...
I finally finished my assignment for next Thursday. I had to make a recipe for something but I couldn’t use any kind of text. I made a recipe for Pasta with Argentine Bloodtomato’s. I continue to encounter ketchup everywhere! What a mess... And so my dinner for tonight had faces, seriously!
Check out the pictures HERE

Today we had a small change of thunderstorms. They were actually kind of cute and fuzzy. Took some snaps of one of them coming right at me. This one gave 1 blast and 5 minutes of heavy hail with a max. of 1/2 cm in diameter, some wind gust but all weren’t that severe. Within 15 minutes the sky was blue and the sun was shining again. Though the temperature suddenly dropped below zero...

Last night I stayed up because there was a slim change of an ice storm in the coastal areas. Ice storms are highly unusual out here but extremely pretty. An ice storm is happening when the temperatures outside are slightly above zero, but the service is still freezing, when starts to rain the raindrops are still liquid but when it touches something it will freeze up right away leaving a crystal clear layer of ice on everything. Because this is such a highly unusual event it definitely would have been worth it staying awake for the whole night. All though the layer of ice was hard to find, the trees just looked shiny in the moonlight but nothing else I thought until the first tram in the morning came by and scared the crap out of me! The thin topping of ice on the overhead line was scraped off by the tram what a bacon hoist gave to fire balls and lightning strikes. I’’ve taped he firstly next tram that came on video, it wasn’t as violent as the first one but still... To be honest, it’s kid of lame...

Got another picture of a beautiful icicle!

My portfolio is online, It’s noting more that a “summary” or a “best off” or whatever you like to call it. Tomorrow I’ll make some pictures of my friend Irene. She’s going to help me out with the home assignment I have to do for the big assessmentday at the St. Joost Academy. I have like no idea at all what it’s going to be... We’ll see.

I don’t really believe in global warming. What I do know is that the water streams which are called “El Nino and La Nina” are spicing things up a little lately causing some extreme weather conditions. But this happens every 10 years, it all natural. When you’re looking back at natures history you’ll discover that there have always been dramatic shifts in our climate system since the beginning with an accurate schedule. And since man is ruling the earth, we are running behind on that schedule. So I think that is what they call global warming. But non the less are we experiencing some extreme weather throughout the northern regions caused by El Nino. The winter wasn’t this severe since 1997. Europe is covered in snow and has temperatures far below average, the same is happening in the northern parts of America and Canada. Other strange conditions have been happening as well. Like The Olympic games in Vancouver are in trouble because they have no ice and no snow at all! And California and Florida are troubled by some severe thunderstorms and tornado’s. That’s unusual because it’s off season and out of location. Central America is awaiting for an winterstorm that will probably shut everything down for the upcoming 2 weeks.

So far we can be lucky out here in Rotterdam, no snowfall, no ice, no storms, just a temperature that you can describe as “cold”. Nothing unusual, but certainly not average. Otherwise we would be covered in sleet en rain with a daily temperature about 5 degrees celsius. The average this winter is about 10 degrees lower than that, not so bad, but definitely not exciting.

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been watching way to many DVD’s and TV-Shows. My collection is about to use up a whole room... Last week I decided to make a database for it because I was starting to lose count of which show I had seen and which I hadn’t and especially where the hell I left the files, on DVD, did I burn them, of did I lent them to anyone. It helps a little, but the database on it own is getting out of hand, an excell file of 1GB is kind of ridiculous I guess... So much for a new hobby.
Maybe I should go back to the basics and start reading again. But since I’ve always been some kind of computer geek, I’m going to read them online of course. Just needed some links to reach my books easily. Go ahead, read along with me.

Jeff Lindsay - Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Jeff Lindsay - Dearly Devoted Dexter
Jeff Lindsay - Dexter in the Dark
Stephenie Meyer - Twilight - Twilight
Stephenie Meyer - Twilight - New Moon
Stephenie Meyer - Twilight - Eclipse
Stephenie Meyer - Twilight - Breaking Dawn