The Mortal Instruments - City of Heavenly Firre

I just finished the last book of "The Mortal Instruments" series and it was amazing. I loved it. I'm not gonna spoil anything, but it was a great conclusion. I think I'll start re-reading it tonight. *gg*

There are many quotes I could write down, phrases I love, but this rhyme stuck with me the most:

Have you read it? Will you?

Only books like these can truly capture me, just like The Hunger Games series or the Harry Potter books. It's something special to emerge into those alternate worlds.

Love,
Guinevere

Vienna Haul

On Thursday I spent the whole day in Vienna thanks to two lecture which conveniently were six hours apart..

So I had time to do some shopping..

I bought the book I just talked about in my previous post a vegan mayonnaise and some beauty stuff.

I wanted to test Ebelin's and Essence's sponge nail polish remover. I wanna get back into stamping so the stampy polish had to come home with me as well.

Have you tried the sponge removers yet??

Love,
Guinevere

"The Fault In Our Stars" and what it thaught me

This is a very personal post, but one I want to put out there in the world for everyone to read. So, if you want to know my story. Go ahead.

I've heard a lot about this book "The Fault In Our Stars" by John Green and since I was looking for a good new book I bought it two days ago.

I try not to spoil anything, most of you will know it anyway, it's about two cancer kids who fall in love. It's such an incredible book, I basically cried the last 100 pages.

I just finished it and it reminded me of so much I had forgotten. I've been struggling with my life now for quite a while, but today I realized how lucky I am and how immensly grateful I am for my life. And I wanna talk about it, tell my story.

I have three chronical illnesses. Epilepsy, depression and a thyroid disfunction. They are a part of me and I'm not ashamed of them, so I don't care who knows that I have these illnesses.

Besides that I spend two years after my 18th birthday mostly in hospital, in a wheelchair and on crutches, cause parts of my bones on my ankles broke and ruined the cartilage. I had two cartilage transplants, one on each ankle and had to learn thrice to walk again. All in all I had four operations, because of that.

I have to take a lot of medicine each day to stay "healthy", although I know I will never be healthy. I will always be sick, but my illnesses are not terminal. I can live a fairly normal life.

This book reminded me of how lucky I am to be able to live my life. To only have to take some pills to keep my brain from disfunctioning and giving me a seizure that could be lethal (worst case scenario) and that stabilize that serotonin disfunction that might crush me and push me into a darkness I can't come back from.

I am so grateful for this medication that allows me to be as close to health as possible. For having a husband that loves me, even though it can be tough and for a loving family. I am grateful for that house we live in and our pets that give us joy.

I just want the world to know that. That I truly am able to see again how lucky I am and that I appreciate my life and don't want it to stop. Thanks to that fictional book about a story that sure happened in reality as well, I feel better than I have in a long time.

Love,
Guinevere