plastic frog

So as you might have guessed from the title I'm moving out very soon. I have only ever lived in one place and to now move somewhere a few hours away from home for a year is very anxiety enducing to me. I've compliled a list of things that help me deal with it, maybe it can help someone else who is in a similar situation deal with these things too Find out more about the town/city you'll live in One of the things that helped me the most was researching about the place that's soon going to be my home. With that I mean look at the town via google maps, find out as much via google as possible ... Maybe there is an interesting sounding coffee shop nearby that I would want to check out. Further, knowing practical things like how the public transport there works and where the bus/train stations are located give me security and I feel more prepared and not as lost.  Write a packing list This is pretty self explanitory but writing a list of the things you want/need to bring is i...

 If you've watched "High Fidelity" (the movie or the new series), you will probably remember the scenes where Rob talks about the art of making a playlist. This blog post is inspired by that, I've also added my advice and tipps. Here are 10 steps to a great playlist: 1. have a cool theme.  This can be either songs that all contain the same word (like for example "yellow") in their title or just have similar ~vibes~ (I prefer the latter tho, while it's fun to put playlists that contain the same word in the title, I don't find listening to them as interesting as to the ones with a similar musical theme). One example would be to have songs that have a light airy flow to them, or dark depressed songs. Or the most common probably ... love songs. 2. don't use too many songs by the same artist (unless that's your theme as Rob said lol). It showes more creativity (and that you know more bands and artists) if you use different ones and still manage ...