call your folks.

Last night I was chatting with one of my best friends (you can see her in the picture. We look funny though, but I like this photo - it was taken during our trip to Berlin in the summer 2010:). So I asked her without what she couldn't image me. And her answer was surprising.
She said: my life.
That was one of the sweetest things someone has said to me.
And this morning I've found this quote:
And every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling "This is important! And this is important! And this is important! You need to worry about this! And this! And this!"
And each day, it's up to you, to yank your hand back, put it on your heart and say "No. This is what's important."
via I Wrote This For You
So call your folks - that is what's important today.
xoxo
Ak.

happy Father's day!

 photo via Pinterest

They say that from the instant he lays eyes on her, a father adores his daughter. Whoever she grows up to be, she is always to him that little girl in pigtails. She makes him feel like Christmas. In exchange, he makes a secret promise not to see the awkwardness of her teenage years, the mistakes she makes or the secrets she keeps. ~ Anonymous

Have a cozy weekend with your dads!

xoxo

Ak.

P. S. How adorable is this picture of Sofia Coppola (one of my favorite directors!) and her dad, ha?

P. S. P. S. Song for the weekend. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros new album is out!!

heaven is here.

photo via Nienie Dialogues

Here's a video just in case you would like to complain about something today. Don't.
Because sometimes it looks like those people are stronger to accomplish something than those who hasn't got something crashed in their lives.
Maybe we need something to collapse in order to see the beautiful view.
Or to watch another person's story to feel more ashamed about how we don't cherish what we have.
Because life changes, but it doesn't always mean that it's bad. 
xoxo
Ak.

the Office.

photo via Pinterest

Now when I have to study, I always start watching TV-series. Very productive.

Anyway, I was watching The Office (wow, the list of awards!) for a long time and I have to say it's the best TV series ever! I love it!

You have to see at least 10 series, so you get the picture and start getting the jokes. But when you do, it's soooooooo funny. 

I think it's mostly funny not because of situations, but because the strong characters. The alcoholic, the gay guy, the cat lady, the slow guy... Dwight is another story. And Steve Carell is soooo good (That's what she said is perhaps the best joke ever made.)! He plays a manager Michael Scott who always wants to be better than other people, but he's so bad at work that he just offends people in order to feel better than they are. While I was watching the first episodes, I was like "it's not funny, he's sooo offensive!", but later on when you get to see the whole idea, it's brilliant!

Here's another joke I heard yesterday in season 7 episode, when Michael (Steve Carell) wanted to ask his colleague if she has a boyfriend, but he was too shy:

Phyllis (Michael always highlights that she is fat): Michael, I can talk to her.

Michael: You think she would talk to you about it?

Phyllis: Why wouldn't she?
Michael: Yeah, you're right... She's so nice, she talks to anybody...

xoxo

Ak.

Inspiration Monday.

It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want – oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! ~ Mark Twain

P. S. It's one of the four photos I made during the weekend. I didn't check the battery of my camera, lol. Actually I was a bit lazy to take photos anyway..
Have a good week!
xoxo
Ak.

Inspiration Monday.

photo via We heart it

Now I'm reading a great great book by P. Coelho, "The Zahir" - I love it!
It's one of those books that gives you answers to the questions you've been caring around for some time - it really suits me right at this moment.
Here's one of the quotes for your week inspiration:
All you have to do is to pay attention: lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step.

Have a good one!
xoxo
Ak.

Inspiration Monday.

 photo via The Sun

Hello, my darlings,

I hope you had a wonderful Easter! 

Although it's not Monday anymore, I want to share some things I've found during my holidays.

Remember when my best friends gave me Robbie Williams book for my birthday? 

Well, I've just read it. 

Yes, I know, it's been a long time. The thing was that I've got this book just a few days before I had to leave to Germany and it was hell heavy, so I couldn't take it with me (it was heartbreaking!..).

And then I had to leave it at my parents, because it was too heavy as well to take it to my place, so one more month without it..

Anyway, now the Easter was just perfect with it!

Robbie Williams was my absolute idol when I was a teenager, but now still, as I was reading the book, I understood it why. 

He was never the Britney-Spears-kind-of-popstar. He's very clever, sincere and he said many things in the book that fits me a lot. 

This is one of my favorite quotes from the book:

I'm all different things every single day. All over the place. Morning amazing, afternoon indifferent, evening miserable. The next day: morning miserable, afternoon indifferent, the evening amazing. Underneath it all, I'm happiest I've been. Yeah, underneath it all, I'm happiest I've been. But I'm human, I go up and down, up and down...

Have a fantastic week!
P. S. Remember that Robbie Williams is writing a blog??
xoxo
Ak.

[..]

photo and quote via Zoe Sees

if there’s no way out, the only way out is to give in.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

photo via Pinterest

Good morning, my lovelies,
what are you up to this weekend? I don't have some special plans, but I'm really into cooking something new!
And I've found this nice recipe for breakfast! What an cute way of sharing recipe, by the way!
I should say that I'm not really a big breakfast-eater, but on weekends I love having long and tasty breakfast!
The second picture was taken in Berlin, in summer 2010. Our wonderful friend Justė made us this adorable and absolutely delicious breakfast in the balcony, that while looking at this picture, I can still remember that feeling sitting there, eating so tasty sandwiches that just melted in my mouth, drinking white coffee and talking without no rush, just like that :).
Here I somehow forgot, how I really enjoy weekend breakfast, so this weekend I'm going to make a king's breakfast for myself :).
Have a delicious weekend, everyone!
xoxo,
Ak.

quote via Pinterest

good company.

photo via Pinterest

Since I came here, to Germany for five months, I still can't really, with all my heart, enjoy my time here, because I miss my family and my friends so much.
And before coming here, I was thinking about it, I knew it's going to happen, but I was telling myself that new places, new people, new adventures will be so inspiring that it won't be that hard.
But now, I must say, although these new things are really inspiring, the heartache sometimes seems unbearable.
And at these moments I start asking myself - why I came here? What I was willing to find? The grass is always greener, isn't it?
But I really thought this new place will help me to find myself, to find some different parts of me that can't be reflected in my usual environment, when everything around me has some expectations on me.
And then the answer was given me:

There's no way of knowing for sure, where the safiest place is, so the best you can hope for is to have some good company.

xoxo,

Ak.
P. S. yes, that's me on the right :).

stop.

print via Jesslc

Sometimes you just have to wait.
xoxo,
Ak.

happy birthday, to me -

photo via Pinterest

photo via Flickr

I must learn to love the fool in me--the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my fool. ~ Theodore I. Rubin.
xoxo,
Ak.

quote via A Cup Of Jo

a midsummer's dream.

Just for this evening I want to go back to my summer!
Just give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know ~  J. Keats

P. S. This picture is taken last summer in Jurmala, Latvia. What a lovely beach, what a lovely weather and what a lovely book was in my hands that day!

Don't forget to warm up your hearts with summer memories (it's already November, you're allowed to do that) & have a sunny thursday, my lovelies!

xoxo,
Ak.

[..] into her dark eyes --

photo via Flickr 

When he looked into her dark eyes, and saw that her lips were poised between a laugh and silence, he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke – the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love. Something older than humanity, more ancient than the desert. ~ Paulo Coelho 

Perfect quote, perfect photo selected via Little Reminders of Love!
xoxo,
Ak.

let's.

photos via Inspiration Daily

Have a beautiful weekend!
xoxo,
Ak.
P. S. this song on repeat for the last (!) crispy October weekend!

[..] doesn't mean I'm lost.

photo via Pinterest

Crispy leaves and sun beams flashes through my eyes as I'm wandering once again in the street, which I do not know (one thing I always know about it - it's not the street I need. I mean, seriously, how does it always happen like that??), and yes, it's already 3 weeks since I'm here on my own in Germany..

It's just the way it goes. I've always depended on the kindness of strangers :).
But the strangest feeling that I'm always carrying out here with me since my arrival is that I'm somebody.
A man without the past. It's like we don't have anything with us. Hand luggage only.
Have you seen How I met your mother episode about our personal baggage? This is the main idea I want to tell you now.

photo via Serialmente

I lost my baggage. I lost my studying WTF sciences, my laughs at everything she sees, my the best story teller (perhaps it's due to a language barrier..) and my has a depresion every 2 months baggage.
And perhaps many ohers.
It's some kind of freedom, some kind of eliminating yourself or it's better to say what you've been.
It's time to become somebody you can be.
Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. (~ Herman Hesse, one of my favorite books - Steppenwolf)
And the first layer is always brown, because it reflects the surroundings mostly.
But you have to find chances in your life to become another layer.
So my hugest wish in life is perfectly defined by Katherine Mansfield - I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
You know where I found this quote?
This summer when me and my parents where staying at my mother's hometown (which is small & absolutely lovely town!), we went to a cafe for lunch and there was a book of quotes on the table. While we were waiting I've turned some pages and accidentally read this.
You never know what you can find. Serendipity :).
Have a nice week, my lovelies!
xoxo, 

Ak.

explore. dream. discover.

photo via Paintinghere

photo via Wikipaintings

Have you heard about Google Art Project? I've found it last spring - it's such a wonderful way to use new technologies to explore art!
You can find more than 1,000 works of art there, like Vincent Van Gogh (one of my most beloved painters!) or Rembrandt (the second painting, "The return of prodigal son", I remember from my art classes, when I was at school. This painting is very very sensual, it somehow has a spirit that leaves a mark on my heart everytime I see it. Father is somehow shining with humility and forgiveness - it's amazing, how you can feel it.) paintings, you can explore the most famous galleries of the world, like Palace of Versailles, Tate Gallery in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and many others!
And what is more, you can save specific views of any of the artworks and build your own personalized collection! How amazing is that, ha? Comments can be added to each painting and the whole collection can then be shared with friends, family or on the web using the integrated goo.gl URL shortener.
Now that is something you must try!
xoxo,
Ak.
P. S. a bit off topic: when I saw the poster of the new Woody Allen movie, I was absolutely in love with it - beautiful idea to use Vincent Van Gogh painting!

haha.

photo via Lolroflmao.com

xoxo,
Ak.

hope floats.

photo via Pinterest

photo via Pinterest

Here it is, I'm leaving and my head is full of thoughts I'll never thought I'll have when this moment will come.
You know what? I can't believe that I won't have an iron for 5 months! 5 months I will be wearing wrinkled clothes. 5 MONTHS. Jesus.
AND I'm going to a country, where they say hand-shoes (die Handshuhe) for gloves! (??) Hm..
Anyway, I'm feeling a bit melancholic. :) I couldn't help but wonder: how many times in life do we leave something behind? Old places, bad times, forgotten friends, bad habits, issued lovers.. But it's always not about the end - it's about the beginning. Even if it sometimes mean the return. It's the middle that counts the most.
The next post will be from Nuremberg! I still can't imagine it. And as for now, here's the most hilarious goodbye kisses:

photo via Pinterest

photo via Pinterest

goodbye, my lovelies!
xoxo,
Ak.

what up!

photo via Pinterest 1 & Pinterest 2

Today I've just realized that the next episode of How I met your mother I'll be watching in Germany. Oh so soon.
So I've got a little sad, but, when I'm starting to feel that way, I stop being sad and get awesome instead. True story.
Here's my 10 favorite Barney Stinson quotes:  

• If you are not sure, ask yourself, "What would Ted do?" Then do the opposite. 
  
  
• A lie is just a story ruined by the truth.
  
  
• God, it's me, Barney. What up? I know I don't talk to you enough, although many women cry out your name during sex. Awesome!
  
  
• The world is coming to an end. As predicted by Nostradamus. Notre Dame. Fighting Irish. Irish. Saint Patrick's Day. It's your last day on Earth, Bro. Brocopalypse now. Bromaggedon.
  
  
•  He's the awesomest, most best-lookingest, greatest guy ever! Lily: He's exactly like Barney. Barney: That's what I just said.

• Jesus waited three days to come back to life. It was perfect! If he had only waited one day, a lot of people wouldn't have even heard he died. They'd be all, "Hey Jesus, what up?" and Jesus would probably be like, "What up? I died yesterday!" and they'd be all, "Uh, you look pretty alive to me, dude..." and then Jesus would have to explain how he was resurrected, and how it was a miracle, and the dude'd be like "Uhh okay, whatever you say, bro..." And he's not gonna come back on a Saturday. Everybody's busy, doing chores, workin' the loom, trimmin' the beard, NO. He waited the perfect number of days, three. Plus it's Sunday, so everyone's in church already, and they're all in there like "Oh no, Jesus is dead", and then BAM! He bursts in the back door, runnin' up the aisle, everyone's totally psyched, and FYI, that's when he invented the high five. That's why we wait three days to call a woman, because that's how long Jesus wants us to wait.... True story.

• Did you sleep with her sister?...Sleep with her mom?...I'm losing interest in your story.

• Hey, Ted, you know what always picks me up when I'm down? Other people's misfortune.

• You dumped a porn star? Friendship over. FRIENDSHIP OVER. 

• You can do this, but to be more accurate, you probably can't. You're way out of practice and she's way too hot for you. So, remember, it's not about scoring. It's about believing you can do it, even though you probably can't. Go get 'em, tiger!
  
  quotes via Pastemagazine, Buzzpirates, Facebook, Zoranov Blog & Tv movie quotes