Ramblings of a Silly Dutchie

Opgeruimd staat netjes. All Christmas decorations have been put away again.

testing the crossposterthingy for karen

It's a fact, woot!!

Hmm, that means I need a new DW icon too heh.

Just finished watching the last episode of True Bloods first season. Some quick notes: While I enjoyed watching the show I definately like the books better. Apart from the main setting and characters (and some of the stuff happening) I think there is not much similarity between the two of them. It's been altered A LOT and after having read the bookseries several times prior to seeing the show I really had to get used to the cast and all. But, overall, it was interesting and fun enough to keep me entertained through these 12 episodes - I just had to step away from my own images&the story of the books and enjoy the show as a seperate thing. This June season two will air, so I guess by then I'll be on the outlook for the new episodes.

In the meanwhile, it is almost time for the newest Sookie Stackhouse novel Dead and Gone. Though honestly I must admit that the first X books were more fun and "new" and interesting to me to read than the last 2 orso additions to the serie (there is 7 books total now I think). Still, obviously I am curious to see how Sookie her story continues... :) The hard cover will come out in May I think, though for the soft cover I’ll have to wait till next November or even next May 2010. I DO hope they will bring it out with the same type of cover as the previous ones, and keep their stupid HBO advertisement and all to a minimum. So far the cover of Dead and Gone shown on Charlaine Harris' website looks promising enough (though the one on amazon.co.uk kinda makes me wonder again - page also shows the covers of republished editions which have been changed to be linked to the HBO tv show).

I have been too impatient to wait for the soft cover version of the last book of Sookie Stackhouse, as well as the 3rd book of the Inheritance Series by Paolini.. but as money is a bit tight I think I’ll check the library first before resorting to buying an expensive hard cover this time as well.

Oh and btw, the True Blood soundtrack is worth listening to as well. I think it is anyway ;-)

crossposted to my livejournal

I'm kinda wanting to open a community for us dutchies (here) on dreamwidth. Already got a very cute icon for it thanks to helens78 too! But, being the undecisive (spelling?) indecisive person as I am I don't know what account name to choose! Nederland - as that is the name of our country after all, NL cause tis so nice and short.. or..? Help?

eta: It's a done deal! nederland

een roestige olielamp&kamperfoelie // a rusty oillamp&honeysuckle



crossposted from my livejournal

Two weeks from now friends of ours are getting married and we've been invited to both the wedding ceremony as well as the reception & party afterwards. :) They seem to have arranged a very lovely entourage for their wedding! As it is all the way down in Bergen op Zoom I really did not feel like having to drive back home after the party (and having to be sober for the whole evening too - as I don't drink&drive) I arranged us a room at a nice Bed&Breakfast at like 5-10 mins walking distance from where we gotte be. (It even has free wifi!! ;-)) The wedding ceremony won't be untill 7pm so I am planning to leave home around 2pm in order to get to BoZ before the heavy traffic hits the highway. We then can take a nice walk or do some shopping (weeh) downtown, go out for an early dinner and then go back to our room to get dressed & ready for the wedding festivities.

Then halfway May we have yet another wedding to attend. I guess I better start "worrying" about what to wear ;-)

Knowing that the link came from Dumpert.nl kinda made me expect something .. tasteless, not something that actually made me teary-eyed. Here's the same video but then from YouTube (not gonne bug you guys with all the stupid comments left on the video at dumpert.nl)

Britain's Got Talent : Susan Boyle

Recap: Susan Boyle went on stage in Glasgow for the show Britain's Got Talent and the Judges seemd to have already made up their minds that she wasn't going to impress them. But once she opened her mouth and began singing they were completely blown away. I love how the girl in the jury actually admits this and says that this was the best wake-up call ever.

Interview with Susan Boyle on the Britain's Got Talent website (gotte have to sit through the commercial I am afraid)

edited to add: There's been more little jewels on the show it seems. Britain's Got Talent 2008 @ givememyremote.com

Tutorial: Setting up a style on Dreamwidth before the style system is ready  by phoenix

Import helper

More links to be added once I run into stuff I wanne keep track of.

Hah, it feels really dump to start off with a silly "first post" subject line, but I really couldn't come up with something more interesting and well, this after all IS the first official entry here right? Thanks to marcelle42 I too was able to create myself a journal here on dreamwidth before the project opens her doors on April 30th and whoohoo I am sooooo excited!! As I lacked inspiration nor was sure whether I wanted/needed a different identity, I am still just 'ladyvox'. :)

Just had a quick look at the import feature and wow, it looks awesome!! I have yet to decide whether or not I will import all my journalentries from the past 8+ years over here or not.. I am leaning towards doing so but I think I'll wait a little while still till some of the issues that were listed are sorted out. I think it wouldn't be a bad idea to hold the complete import off a little longer, as I know myself and I'll freak out if things go wonky - am way to easily stressed out about silly stuff right now. Plus, my current taglist is a mess and I really would like to clean it up some before importing it over here.

I however did import my profile and it worked like a charm. Usericons are gonne be next. :) Then I am going to see if I can tweak my style some, and change my mood icon set. And.. And.. And.. /bounces

As I wrote on my LJ; I am hoping that eventually my dreamwidth readinglist will have a nice mixture of long-time friends and new acquintances. I am seriously hoping that I will be able to lure some/most of my lj-buddies over here as well, but I doubt I will be able to get every single one to migrate/crosspost. Time will tell. I do know I am also very much looking forward to making new friends too though! So for me, tis a win-win situation regardless! :)

There IS one thing I have to decide for myself.. and that is whether this journal will be completely 'access-locked' as well. Like I said, I would love to meet new people, and this simply works better if they can actually read what you write even if you haven't given them access.. but, there is a reason why I wrote my lj friends-only.. After getting trolled I just kinda no longer felt secure and safe enough, and even though it's been years since I ran into anything nasty/drama like that I don't think I feel comfortable publishing all my writings out in the open. Maybe it is time to play around with half-open access again?

Well, tis all for now!!  From now on I am going to try and crosspost between DW and LJ. I think someone mentioned being able to post to DW using their semagic client.. will definately have to check that out.

Owh!! I can set age restriction per entry?? That's neat. I don't think I will ever feel the need to use it - but just the fact it is possible is just awesome. Ditto with the ability to describe your usericon for those who can not display those or see them. /nodsnods