Yesterday I was browsing the IKEA site, because I'm planning to do a complete reconstruction of my room. Not just because I'm bored of the white furniture that also suffered terrible damage when we moved here, but it just needs to be done, because they were putting new windows there, so the room needs to paint and repaire a little bit. The first decision I took was the colour of the walls. I was thinking about so many colours that in the end I finally picked white. I was used to white walls and to be honest, I started to hate this white-coffee colour I have now, just the second day after it was painted. White is just clean, goes well with everything and you don't need a professional painter when you need to paint it over. Then I started picking some furniture and stuff. This is my final top ten:

Starting from the left:

1. LILLBERG sofa. I need something comfy, because I'm usually taking the laptop to the bed and then I'm sitting there with a terrible back pain. And then, if I ever invite my friends to come and see me (I suppose I won't), they definitely have to have a place to sit. I simply love this sofa, it looks great and feels even better.
2. EXPEDIT book-case. I'm just afraid it's too small to take hold of all my books. I simply have too many books for too little space. And with my Murakami addiction it won't get better. Murakami's books are the only ones I buy. I suppose they will take the whole square in this book-case.
3. HEMNES chest of drawers. It's quite big, but I took the decision I won't have any wardrobe, so hopefully it will fit into the room.
4. REXBO stairs/shelves. Yes, they are RED. Everything will be dark, but these stairs will be red. It needs some colour, so I decided to make them a coloured point of the room.
5. ORGEL lamp. I'm not sure about this one. I'd like to have more little lights in the room instead of one big (I've always loved the scenes in French movies when they turn on little lamps). But this one looks so good. Maybe I'll put it into the corner and then I'll have some little lamps around. The architect will kill me, I know.
6. BRUNKRISSLA bed-clothes. They are black-grey-white and that's what I like. But I will put there a red rug to give it some color. I'm a huge fan of rugs, maybe that's why my friends call me "grannie", when I take my favourite rug with me when travelling (and at night they're jealous and trying to steal it from me).
7. LACK shelf. I will have it horizontally on my wall. I'm planning to use it for photos and stuff like that, but maybe it will end up packed with books. The good thing is I can put things inside and also on the top of it. So much space for my old postcards...
8. STOCKHOLM pillow. They write it's made of velour-cotton. I can't really imagine how it feels, but I expect it to be comfy. So it will probably become the thing I will hug at night. Now I usually hug the corner of my blanket. The destiny of the lonely girl...just kidding.
9. ALVINE BÄR bed-clothes. One side is black with white flowers, the other is white with black flowers, so it looks really nice when you turn it like shown.
10. ALVINE pillow. It has my letters, MJ, on it. So it's really a must-have for me. I'll have it on top everytime, it gives a vintage look to the room.

The real trouble I have is...bed. I'm used to my parents' old marriage bed that is quite large. I really need much space. But all the beds that I like in IKEA are just 160x200 when I'm used to 180x200. I also don't want the footboard as I'm not used to it. I was thinking about the japanese bed that is low and doesn't have any bedside nor footboard, but the only ones I've found so far were made of birchwood or pine. So I'm not sure if I will keep my old bed and just give it new upholstery or I will look for a new one.
   There's also one thing missing that usually is in an average student's room. The writing desk. I don't have it and don't wish to buy one. I do my homework on the floor sitting on a pillow and I have that desk pad that children use on the table, but I use it on the carpet. I have a Formula 1 picture on it :-)

Talking about home, I watched a movie yesterday that had a tagline "Don't go home alone.". It was "The Watcher" starring James Spader and Keanu Reeves. In fact, I already saw it a few years ago, but didn't remember the whole movie, so maybe I saw just some pieces. There surely are better movies and I don't think it's a thriller, because it doesn't scare me at all (but I've never seen a movie that would scare me, so maybe it's just me). But if you don't have anything to watch in the evening on Saturday, and in the Czech Republic it's very likely, it's great to relax.
   You don't have to think much as the plot it quite simple: there's a detective Joel (Spader) who once failed to catch a serial killer David (Reeves) and his girlfriend died because of that. Now he's retired, suffers from migraine and depressions, the only person he talks to is his psychologist, Polly (that's the most boring woman I've ever seen in a thriller). Once in Joel's house a girl is murdered and Joel realizes he's received her photograph by mail three days ago. It was David who sent him, because he wants to play a game with him. Everytime he sends him a photograph of his future victim and gives Joel some time to find the girl. If he fails, he kills her.
   Not that the character of a serial killer who has a great (though a little bit cynical) sense of humour and likes to play like a child didn't suit Reeves well, I liked him in this much more than in the romantic movies like Lake House (which I saw ten times, because my Mum loves it), but I think he could act even a little bit more, because like this, I would probably tell him to shut up instead of being scared or charmed or whatever the women in the movie were. But he really got my thumb up when he kept one of his victims' cat.
   By the way, I'm no fan of Reeves and I don't find him sexy or handsome (my Mum does, though). But I have to admit there was something sexy in that scene when he tries to comfort the victim and kisses her through the tape she has over the mouth. Maybe I'm a perve, but I really consider this the strongest moment of the movie. And the most stupid moment was when he knocks off the gas pump with his car and the gasoline just starts spraing out of the ground. Well, I'm just a girl, but even so I know it wouldn't result the gasoline spraying. So I try to imagine what the men had to think when they saw this...

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I've started writing a story. I don't know yet what it's gonna be about, all that I have are just random thoughts I wrote down when they came to my mind. It's somehow inspired by my own life, but just in details, the main line is completely made up. Since I have just some pieces, I cannot post more, so just a little glimpse of the story:

I'm cleaning the test-tubes in laboratory as if there was a sense in that. I don't remember how many times some acid splashed onto my skin, how many times a substance got onto the back of my hand, leaving there long red scratches that were so itchy that I couldn't sleep and I was putting yellow calm down cream with calendula on it until it disappeared, leaving almost invisible white scars that lasted over the winter...

I'm laying on the table and breathing the smell of grain soap I've made myself and I realize that I haven't made it well, I can still smell butter I've put there and I know that shouldn't be like this. Nothing should be like this.

In Switzerland, at the hotel there was a beautiful old sofa. I couldn't help myself, I just wanted to have a photo of myself on it. I've done some corrections to it and turned it into an old photo. Now I cannot recognize me there, it's just like a stranger was on it...

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My friend was given a new camera for her 18th birthday. A really expensive one. She wants to study photography and she loves taking photos. I had a look on the camera today and we talked about photography a little bit. She told me she doesn't like taking photos of people because she's shy. I would never think she's shy! But she said when she takes pictures of people she knows, it's OK, but she simply doesn't like taking photos of strangers. She said: "I always take it so quickly because I don't want them to notice, that I merely see what I have on the photo!". I hope she won't be shy and will show me some of her works. Two years ago I took some photos of her taking a photo and as you can see she would do anything to get a good shot!

Street chess in Salzburg. Too bad it was midnight, I would really love to play them!

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