This blog should be pink!

Everybody who knows me a bit will wonder now if I've gone crazy, right? The answer is as simple as short: no.

"Your blog should be pink!"

This was one of the answers when I was looking for inspiration for this (at this point really new) blog. Well, since I obviously didn't follow this advice - and I'm not planning on changing the layout of my blog either, by the way - I decided to compensate this with a pink blog post. I already had that in mind during my last trip to Ikea (yup, I've been there more than once this year, it's some sort of free time activity), I took a few pictures to make this post look really pink. I mean, seriously, they had a whole pink corner in the wrapping/paper section. And it was twice as big as the corners of the other colours!

The pink Ikea corner.

Pink wrapping paper.

Pink gift ribbon.

Pink... somethings.

And to continue with the pinkness, there is also a small "cake in a glass"-shop near my apartment. Of course, it's also very pink:

But at least they have a good slogan:

I dare to say that this blog is pink enough now. And even if not: I gotta go and save the planet now!* :-P

Just kidding, of course. It might be a bit late for cake, and I should better go to bed now.

My personal odyssey to find a blog address

Or: why are all the good blog names already taken?

Now, almost a month after my first post on this blog (OMG, where has all the time gone?!), finally the second post. The post which was supposed to be the introduction post. Whatever. :-D
Before I could actually post anything, I had to find a blog address. Which wasn't the easiest task, to be honest. I tried a lot of stuff, beginning with "life is a beach". I don't even think that's an established saying, but still the address was already taken by someone 10 years ago or so... That's the problem with addresses of blogs: somebody takes them, and then they are taken forever, even if this person only writes a handful of posts! And if it's a blogspot blog like this one, the domain endings of the countries don't even matter. I already found out about this when I was posting on my old blog: I could share the link to my blog as meinsemesterinmaynooth.de, meinsemesterinmaynooth.ie, meinsemesterinmaynooth.nl (blogger.com did that once, it wasn't my idea) or anything, it was all the same.
So I tried a few more blog addresses, for example these ones:

• just another random blog
• blog address unavailable
• all the good names are already taken

And, of course, they were all already taken, even though I came up with a lot of creativity trying different spelling and phrasing variants. But then, my creativity eventually came to an end (quite limited, I know), I gave up and decided on a German address. Actually, it's just the last one of the names mentioned above translated into German. I could argue this was meant to be a statement of mine - the blog address as the single part of German language of a blog in English language, the name being a rhetoric device, a means of internationality and so on - but, ahem, no. It was just easier to take a German address, because there's such a shit load of blogs in English language (okay, there's also a shit load of German blogs, but that's not really comparable).

I could also tell a story about the name of the blog. I actually changed the name twice. But let's just say, the current name was a suggestion made by a friend of mine. And it fits, since it's quite universal - which means I can write about anything and everything on this blog! :-D

And for those of you who are still wondering what the "life is a beach"-stuff was about: I also got that from a friend. She said she just made it up, so you can basically interpret anything into it. My first association was something like:

life is a beach - you can never know what you will find there!

Let me illustrate this by using the perfect opportunity to post at least one of my ~500 pictures of my trip to Rome in March: