Spiders

When I was really young I wasn't scared of anything. I would eat worms, I would "cuddle" the vicious dog our neighbours owned, and I would catch spiders because I liked them. Yes, I know, I can't believe it either.
One dat when I was very young (I think I was around four or five years old) I was in my brother's room. We were playing with his power rangers, until we suddenly saw a black spot on the wall. It was a spider that was about the size of my brother's head (he was ten and had a very big head). Of course we ran downstairs to get my mom and she killed it. I spent the rest of the day telling myself all spiders would become even bigger than that one, so when they were hungry they had no other choice than to eat me. As a result, I am still terrified of spiders.
The last few years I tried to overcome my fear several time, but nothing seemed to really work. I can kill the tiny ones and sometimes I even dare to be in the same room as a bigger one. However, when I see a spider that's bigger than the size of the nail on my pinky toe someone else has to take it away from me.
I don't know why I told you this wonderful story about my life. I did just kill one of those creepy eightlegged crawlers though, and secretly I am a bit proud every time I do so. Do other people have that feeling too, or is it really just me acting weird again?

Love, Sarah

Challenge: failed

It's been a week and I haven't posted anything, which means I failed my challenge already. This must be a new record. I wish I could at least make up some lame excuse why I failed, but I don't like lying. Truth is, last Friday summer holidays started and since then I haven't done anything. I lay in bed for the first half of the day, the second half I spent reading books and watching YouTube videos.
I have found a new "challenge" though: getting a tan. You see, my skin is extremely pale. This means it doesn't like to change into any color except red. Or in other words, I just have to think about the sun and my skin gets burned. The sun finally decided to show its face and now it just has to make me look a little less like a bottle of milk.
Besides that, I also gave myself another "challenge": working out everyday. I don't really like sports -*cough* I hate sporting *cough*- but I would like to have a slightly more toned body. So for at least this summer, I'm going to work out everyday. I found this amazing YouTube channel, called blogilates, who makes amazing workout videos! The workouts are quite easy and they are so much fun. I have tried other workouts before (and failed them completely) but they didn't feel like they were doing anything. The workouts of blogilates are rather painful, but at least you know they are working. It's been two days since I started and I am completely sore, but it's all going to be worth it soon.
Anyways, that's all I wanted to say for today. I will write a blogpost again tomorrow, or else I'm going to have to find a way to punish myself....

Love, Sarah

Introductions

Here it is, my very first blog post. First blog posts are supposed to be bad, aren't they?

If this time last year you would have told me I would be the person I am today, I wouldn't have believed it. This last year I made friends with people I could have never have imagined to be my friends, I learned to do things I might be afraid of and most of all I gained a lot of confidence. So I decided to give myself a challenge: everyday for a year I will post something on this blog. This can be anything: from a story about my day, to random thoughts, to pictures I took off my dogs.  I want to see how much I will change this year (or maybe I won't change at all) and besides that I want to remember the memories I make this year. Now that I've told you about my challenge, I think it's time to introduce myself.

That's me (in my most flattering pose, with wet hair, because I just took a shower). My name is Sarah, I turned sixteen a few weeks ago and I live in a small town in the Netherlands. My friends would probably describe me as crazy, which I guess I am. I can't imagine a life without music, books and the the internet and yes, you can say I am a geek. My favorite tv-shows are Doctor Who, Pretty Little Liars and Snog, Marry, Avoid. I listen to a lot of music, but a few of my favorite artists are One Direction, McFly and Bastille. I play the guitar and pretend that I can play the piano, while in reality I am really bad at it. I love photography, but I haven't done that in a long time. The things I love to photograph most are my cat, my dogs and nature. I have a big group of friends and most of us are completely mental, but sadly enough a few of us have to switch schools next year. Lastly I would like to point out that I get distracted very easily and that I tend to forget things.
I guess that's it for today then. I really hope I can keep up with this, but only time will tell, right?

Love, Sarah