I really want to try to do a challenge for writing drabbles or fics. I hope I can do it. I got alreayd an idea for one. I post about pairings and such when I got approved for the claim.

( The table with the prompts )

I wish my boss wouldn't be such a pain in the mikta. He manages to do that even on vacation.

I wish the sun would decide to give us a few hours of sunshine each day.

I wish my colleagues wouldn't be so negative all the time.

I wish I was stronger and more positive. But it gets harder each day.

Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday, dear Kathie!
Happy Birthday to you!

*throws confetti all over you* I hope you have a wonderful day, filled with laughter, smiles, cake, presents, confetti, friends, family, loved ones, good health, etcetera. *big hug*

Snagged from nerfgunqueen and mistokath13

Reply to this post, and I will tell you my favourite icon of yours. Then post this to your own journal using your own favourite icon.

*snagged from nerfgunqueen - If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, (even if we don't speak often) please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL memory of you and me. It can be anything you want - good or bad - BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE. When you're finished, post this little paragraph in your journal and be surprised (or mortified) about what people DON'T ACTUALLY remember about you.

Snagged from mistokath13 and nerfgunqueen

According to The Big Read, the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books on their list.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)


1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare [not all, but I've read 'Midsummer Night's Dream' and 'A Twelfth Night']
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16.The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [was forced to read this one at High School and really hated it]
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot [if only because I read the book 'The George Eliot Murders' by Edith Skom and 'Middlemarch' is constantly quoted and referred to, made me curious about it]
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (started it)
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73.The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [not all but I've read 'The Hound of the Baskervilles']
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Woohoo! I read 18 of these.

It's been sitting on my laptop for a while now, so it's time to post it... finally!

Both mistokath13 and nerfgunqueen gave the letter N.

So the first five songs are:
1. Not an addict - K's Choice
2. Nobody's wife - Anouk
3. Never mind the stranger - Rapalje
4. New Year's Day - U2
5. Name of the game - ABBA

The second batch of five songs:
1. No one needs to know - Shania Twain
2. Nothing compares 2 U - Sinéad O'Connor
3. Nah Neh Nah - Vaya Con Dios
4. No more cry - The Corrs
5. 's Nachts is alles anders - VOF de Kunst


If there's interest in any of the songs, I'll upload and link them.

Just to keep myself busy I made some more NCIS icons. :D Enjoy! I'm not totally happy with the border of icon #4, but I'm too tired right now to change it. Besides, not sure whether I remember all the steps I took to make it so making a different border might cause a totally different look and feel of the icon.

Subject: NCIS
Artist: mefeather
Rules: 1. Don't hotlink; 2. Please comment when you take one of them or simply to say you like them or not; 3. Credit? Yes, please do. It's not mandatory BUT very much appreciated; 4. Textless icons are NOT bases.
Credits: 1. Credits for the resources I used to make these icons can be found on my user infopage

( NCIS Icons this way )

It's been a while since I last posted some icons, but... one of the lists I'm on has a new rule. For every OT post you have to write something or do some art. Since I had no inspiration at all to write, I figured I make two new icons. It's not much, but I'm a bit rusty.

Subject: NCIS
Artist: mefeather
Rules: 1. Don't hotlink; 2. Please comment when you take one of them or simply to say you like them or not; 3. Credit? Yes, please do. It's not mandatory BUT very much appreciated; 4. Textless icons are NOT bases.
Credits: 1. Credits for the resources I used to make these icons can be found on my user infopage

( Icons this way )

I think it was 2 years ago that I issued a challenge to write a fic, getting inspiration by an icon I made. :D I had so much fun that I wanted to host another Birthday Challenge. My Birthday is on 16th May and I would love to have something on that date, but if you can't come up with something before December I won't mind. As long as you notify me when it's done. :D

Title of the Challenge: Sweet Tooth Challenge

Fandoms and Universes you can chose from: Magnificent 7 ATF AU, Magnificent 7 LB AU, Harry Potter, CSI NY, NCIS, Numb3rs, Criminal Minds, Bones, CSI Miami, CSI, Stargate SG-1, Empire Records

Genre: Slash, I prefer slash, but I will put some het pairings in as well and you may chose those. But, if I don't name the het pairing you are searching for, I don't want to read it. Sorry. No exceptions. :-)

Pairings you can chose from: Chris Larabee/Vin Tanner, Ezra Standish/Vin Tanner, Chris Larabee/Ezra Standish, Chris Larabee/Vin Tanner/Ezra Standish, Chris Larabee/Buck Wilmington, Chris Larabee/Buck Wilmington/Vin Tanner, Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter/George Weasley, Harry Potter/Fred Weasley, Harry Potter/Weasley Twins, Harry Potter/Charlie Weasley, Harry Potter/Bill Weasley, Harry Potter/Neville Longbottom, Severus Snape/Harry Potter, Lucius Malfoy/Harry Potter, Sirius Black/Remus Lupin, Severus Snape/Remus Lupin, Mac Taylor/Danny Messer, Mac Taylor/Don Flack, Mac Taylor/Danny Messer/Don Flack, Hawkes/Stella Bonasera, Gibbs/Tony Dinozzo, Tony Dinozzo/Abby Sciuto, Colby Granger/Charlie Eppes, Colby Granger/Don Eppes, Ian Edgerton/Don Eppes, Aaron Hotchner/Spencer Reid, Morgan/Spencer Reid, Morgan/Penelope, Booth/Bones, Hodgins/Angela, Horatio/Speed, Horatio/Eric, Speed/Eric, Horatio/Speed/Eric, Eric/Ryan, Horatio/Ryan, Nick Stokes/Greg Sanders, Nick Stokes/Warrick Brown, Jack O'Neill/Daniel Jackson, Daniel Jackson/Paul Davis, Joe/Lucas

Twosomes, threesomes, moresomes, crossovers: Please do. I love threesomes and moresomes. *wicked grin* I have already provided some threesome pairings in the list. I also love crossovers, but I would prefer a fic that crossovers plotwise, not pairing wise if you know what I mean.
If you want to write a pairing that's a crossover. Let's say Tony Dinozzo paired with Vin Tanner, please ask me first. I don't like all characters of some fandoms and I really don't want to read a pairing that has a character in it that I don't like. Sorry. *shuffles feet*

Rating: Whatever the writer wants

Explanation: You have to include some sort of sweet in the story. Whether that will be desert, chocolate, jelly beans, cookies is totally up to you as long as one of the characters in the pairing is totally hooked on it. Maybe even addicted. So, yes, please write another story about Don Flack having a cookie addiction or Greg Sanders doing anything to have another bowl of Ben & Jerry's. :D

Type of story: You can make the story a hurt/comfort or an angsty one BUT it has to have a happy ending. I don't want a death fic. Please, it's for my birthday I don't want to cry from anguish. I prefer crying from laughter. :D


Have fun!!

OMG! OMG! *bounces* *bounces some more* *is totally excited* I'm going to Paris really soon. I'm going to meet Dru and I'm going to have FUN!! Yay! Saturday I'm picking up the ticket I booked. *bounces some more* Paris, here I come!

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Poll #1159126 Help me please
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What to do with my birthday?

Seriously. *winks* I love to sing, although, I mostly sing in the shower. Anyway, I'm going to sing Still loving you of The Scorpions. Here's the video I sent to the judges for my application. I'm sharing it, so you can cheer me on when I'm going to be on Idols. :D

My music video

It's snowing!!!

Golden oldie. :D

Today I went to the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague. It's a fantastic museum. My parents were planning on coming too and so the three of us waited patiently in the queue to enter the building. Eager to see the paintings, sketches and ceramics made by Pablo Picasso.

It's a very unique exhibition, because normally an exhibtion of this size is not easy to build for a museum. You need a lot of space. It so happened that the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, one of the place to be for art made by Picasso, wanted to exhibit works of Piet Mondriaan. *grins* Now, the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague has a huge collection of Mondriaan. Therefore it was easy to make an art swap.

More information about this exhibition can be found here

Yesterday I watched the news and they had an item about the artist Lucian Freud. They also said that an exhibition of some of his works can be found in the Gemeentemuseum. Nice! So killing two birds with one stone, so to speak. :D

Well, the main event for us was Picasso. Freud had to make do with a run through. :D Sorry, but we had reached our tax with reading exhibition texts and such. It just was too much.

More information about the Freud exhibition can be found here

Very funny!

Ok gang, I will be out of here in a few hours. I won't be able to access the Internet much, as I will be visiting my parents. I will be back January 2nd. Don't do anything I wouldn't do and hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and a blasting changing of the year. :)