Likehunter...?

Like if you think this kitten is cute!

Scroll if NOT!

We all know these pictures. They appear on facebook, twitter, instagram, tumblr, smosh & all these kind of social medias. But why do we like them? 

I don't know. Is it because the kitten is cute? Maybe. - But what if it was photos like these...

It's not because I don't love my grandma, I do. - But liking a picture to avoid her death? I could like it to be on the safe side. Do I dare not to? Why do these pictures appears on our startscreen on facebook or where ever they might show up. - Because the number of likes on these pictures rise steeply because people won't risk there grandma's life or be an accomplice to a little puppy's death. 

Another likehunter trick... Eeehm... I don't know much about this, but I sure know that a girl with that kind of profilepicture (to the right) gets tons of likes compared to photos taken in regular perspective. And why, could you ask... Boys will be boys. It's an attempt for attention and it works. 

What do I think of these pictures? I don't know. Do I like them? No. - I take the chance and visit my grandma during the week. I'm not a guy so the girl-trick doesn't work on me.

Should they stop? - I don't mind. Their photo, their choice.

I would like to hear your opinion...?

What do you think of likehunters?

Crime and horror...

So I've been watching murder mysteries in the television all afternoon, and I'm inspired. Today I'm blogging about murders.

Crimeserials

What have they got in common?

Jessica Fletcher, Miss Marple, Detective Columbo, CI Barnaby & Hercule Poirot.

They are all great "murder solvers". At least that's what we think when we see them. Of course they are all actors; Angela Lansbury, Geraldine McEwan, Peter Falk, John Nettles & David Suchet.

These crime-serials are not particular scary, but entertaining and enjoyable in their own ways. These detectives are soothing and reliable. In my point of view, of course. You know they aren't getting killed, so whenever they appear on the screen after a dramatic scene in the show, you can relax. They've gained this trust from the viewers, we know they've got everything under control.  

Have you every watched a horror movie and turned down the audio?

Why do we press the "mute"-button when it gets scary in a movie?

Sound-effects can manipulate you like a red scarf on a bull. As an example let's take Midsomer Murders theme song...

Yeah... They know exactly how to scare the wits out of you. They make the music either dismal or warning. Like the jaws theme song...

Oh Jesus!... Gosh. Sharks a my favorite animal, but seriously they scare the crap out of me! Just seeing those photos... God!... But you see what I mean, about the music? It makes it more... Dynamic and real. Like it's happening right in your own living room! 

Any good scary-stories?

 I'm gonna end the blogging for today. But before I do that, let me tell you what I get scared of in a scary-movie or a crime-serial:

When you start the movie and the credits says; "Based on a true story"...

What scares you the most?

Cookies & smoothies...

In a baking mood? Try these!

It's cookies with chocolate peaces & hazelnuts.

This recipe should have been on my blog weeks ago, but I never had the time so here it comes:

Ca. 15 peaces:

100 gram (1 3/4 dl)  brown sugar

100 gram sugar

125 gram soft butter (1/2 pack)

1/2 vanilla pod

1 egg

1 tsp baking powder

150 gram flour

1/2 tsp rough salt

ca. 60 gram hazelnuts (1dl)

175 gram dark chocolate

How to do:

1. Turn on your owen at 175 ͦ C
2. Mix brown sugar, sugar and soft butter into a bowl.
3. Split the vanilla pod and scrape the corn out with the tip of a small knife. (just a hint) mix it in the bowl with the sugar and butter.

Here i used vanilla powder instead, but if you want to do it old fashion, be my guest.

   

     4.  Crack the egg and mix it in the bowl.

     5.  Mix baking powder, flour and salt in a new blown and then mix it with the dough.

     6.  Chop the hazelnuts. Grate the chocolate, or chop it thorough with a knife. And mix it in the dough

          gentle. 

If you chop it with a bread knife (or a knife with serration) it will be a lot easier and it wont spread all over your kitchen. 

     7.  Put baking paper on two baking trays. Roll small balls of the dough and put them with a good distance

          on the baking paper. - The ball will flow out to a round shaped cookie in the hot owen.

     8.  Bake one tray at the time. Put the baking tray in the middle of the owen. Bake 10-12 min. to the cakes are brown in the brim. Let them cool of on the tray in 5-10 min. to they are firm. 

I can assure you this is the best cookies I've ever tasted!

Try them out a cold day where it's raining or you have an excuse for staying inside.

Smoothie:

The smoothie is more an improvisation. There is many ways of making smoothies. And it's all about your taste. I like this recipe. Actually, it isn't much of a recipe more an outline.

Blend yogurt and one banana and add some frozen raspberries (you can take whatever you like. I like raspberries) Blend it and add now some milk, if the smoothie is too thick. Add some sugar and blend again.

Very easy and quick to make.

Jump in a jumpsuit...

Have you ever felt like jumping into one of these...?

And then felt like jumping into this...?

With this....?

Sometimes there is nothing else to do than just let go of whatever you might be holding in your hand and then surrender to the TV. To do nothing can be the best medicine for stress, broken hearted, bustle and whatever the case is that you're running around in a hamster wheel. 

A hamster needs to use its energy somehow. But a hamster needs a break too. 

But you ain't a hamster, and stress is very hard to get rid of when you've already gotten it. 

Exercise helps avoiding stress too (because you releases endorphins when you a physic active), some people even say that they get it worse by sitting inside all day long.

(In Denmark this summer is nothing but average weather, not hot enough to swim and not cold enough to stay indoor the entire day. But what is there to do outside?) 

If you don't know what to spend your vacation on, then stay inside watch old movies with a peace of cake
and  the next day go out and do some exercise to burn the cake of you hips.

There's a time and place for everything.

What do U do when you are bored ?

Vacation with girls...

Girl-trip to Bornholm (Denmark's sunny island)...

Names from the left:

Cecilie, me (Katrine), Ida, Sara, Nanna, Anne.

Have you ever been on an island before? I've been on one. But then again... I've been on the island five times, I think. And every single one of them was with my friend Anne, - the girl to the right - She's one of my very best friends, and even though the island is in Denmark (where I live), it feels like we are on a total different continent. Maybe it's just because we are from a bigger town, and it all seems so... ancient.
But what can you expect of a small island in a small country like this.
Even though the ancient style, I couldn't think of a better vacation. - Well... I could, but let me tell you about it tomorrow.

What is your favorite vacation?

A small picture of me, the second day on Bornholm.

To move on is to apologize...

Lately I've discovered some bad habits among people...

We forget to apologize. And if we do so, we don't always mean it. We just say it so we can get rid of the issue we have with the involved. Have we got into the habit, not to give an apology? 

Of course when you mess up, and you know you've said or done the wrong thing you can give an excuse form the heart, I'm not saying that we turned into cold-hearted robots, but we do forget sometimes: 

"What is just words for you, is a total other deal for somebody else"

 Have you ever looked at yourself thinking: Who am I? After hurting a very close friend?

I have - (Let's not go too much into that).  And I did apologize. That's when I started thinking about the thing about an apology. It might just be words for you, but think about the person who receive your apology. I know that it meant a lot to my friend that i said i was sorry. 

Remember you can get a long way with anger, but do it with love and the result will be even better.

A small step for the chicken...

Today I let my chickens go outside for just a moment.
(And yes I have chickens)

 This is an old picture... Now they look like big eagles and crows... Some of them looks like vultures!
I have 13. I'm keeping six of them.
But today they stepped outside in the green lusty nature and felt the brisk wind against their feathers.
Do you remember the first time you did something?
I'm going to ask again in a minute, but I do. I remember the first time in the forest. I can see the crowns of the trees from a frog's perspective. I'm lying in my pram and by only this memory i can tell you that my pram was dark blue and white from the inside.
It is funny how some memories fill our minds forever, and then there's those who doesn't.
I can't remember my grandfather. He died when i was one-two-years old. I don't remember a single glint of a day with him. So what makes us remember some stuffs and forget the most important? Can't we control what our mind will hold on to? Of course we can write it down, and that's probably why we have photo albums. But still it seems weird that my mind rather want to hold on to a walk in the forest, than my own grandpa?

Keep your memories safe somehow, and don't forget them. Like my first day with my chickens outside.
Maybe I should take a picture...
I'll be back soon!


Do you remember the first time you did something?

Elderflower pancakes!

Elderflower-pancakes!

Elderflower-pancake with vanilla ice.

Today I celebrated the Midsummer's Eve with a lovely dessert.The elder flowers in my garden are out and I've used the entire evening, baking pancakes. 
This is the recipe:

Ingredients:

• 5 dl wheat flour
• 4 tsp sugar
• vanilla sugar (optional)
• Elderflowers
• 5 dl milk
• 3 eggs
• 2 tsp rape oil

Pour wheat flour, sugar and vanilla sugar into a bowl and stir it together. Now whip the milk and the eggs and mix it with the other ingredients. Add rape oil and elderflowers. Fry the pancakes to they'll get light brown at each sides. You can serve them with vanilla ice and jam as it suits you the best.

Enjoy the meal!

What is your favorite dessert ?

Happy on a stone

Listen to this:

While reading this:

Yesterday i sat on a bench with my mom, enjoying the evening. Have you ever just closed your eyes and listened to the nature? That's what we did yesterday. I had the most stressful week and to finish it by sitting and listening to the birds - (blackbirds) - was just what i needed. So if you're ever filled to the top with stress or any kinds of pressuring minds, take my word for it: It will help.
My sister couldn't do it. She broke into a laugh that could have stormed little Mr. Blackbird of the electricity pole. Why is it, we forget the value of life's value? Are we in too much of a hurry to just stop for a moment and be happy in the accurate instant? My mom tells me (very wisely):

"When you can live on a rock, then you know what true happiness really is."

Let me tell you something:
I got a shirt the other day. I love the shirt! It's just me! But i do know that  in a week or two I'll be searching for a new shirt. And when I find it, it will start all over again.
Don't find happiness in the stuffs you buy on smartgirl.com, at the shopping mall or at the pedestrian street.
Don't find it in the vacation you are heading to this summer. When the vacation is over, you'll be waiting for the next to come. Find it in the every-day-life. That is where you are the rest of the life! It's monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday and sunday that you are living your life in. It's the bird's sound every monday morning, or the friday evening sitting on a bench being happy just sitting there.
Try it out!

Going to school...

Have you ever had the feeling in the morning: Why should I go to school? What is waiting for me there? Do I need this day?

I've lost that feeling. I lost it one and a half year ago, I moved to another school in seventh grade. And I moved back again in seventh grade. I don't regret moving, 'cause by getting to know another school and know the students, how they interact with each others, how the teachers teach. I learned a lot. I learned that I had to go back. Do you have a special seat at the dinner table? Or in the living room? In the couch? I think we all have a special seat in our every-day life.

Mine is in my class sitting among the others, my piece can't fit in another puzzle, this is where my seat is. And I didn't know that before I left it. Like the quote says;

"you don't know what you have until you lost it."

So enjoy your days at school!

What is your special seat?

Welcome

Hi & Welcome! 

Well, this is my blog. My first real blog. I can't tell you precisely what it's about. Well. My head is quite messy, so my blog will most likely be the same.

You'll might get confused by my username; Brittle. My name isn't Brittle, I can just be brittle (crazy? nuts?) sometimes.

Yeah... That's me! I can't make a blog without You knowing how I look, right?Don't mind the guy in the background, the picture is from a day in Kongens Have (The King's Garden) Which is in Copenhagen, Denmark.By the way! A very important detail, I'm Katherine ; )

Please add me, this is just a supplement and my very first welcome-entry.