THE GREAT MYSTERIES
of life
Liesbeth is currently enjoying a well-deserved vacation, but since you probably can't go too long without her, we present one of her best posts. It's just like her pieces are with episodes of Sex and the City; you can never get enough of them.
There are those things in life that remain a great mystery to this day and probably always will. The Loch Ness monster, the question of whether Bigfoot exists, and what the story behind Stonehenge is, but also closer to home there are plenty of mysteries that we oh so desperately want to solve.
The Sock Mystery
The classic: how is it that socks always disappear? You put two in the washing machine and one comes out. Or three, that can happen too. But never just the same number as you put in, and after a month you are at least half of your socks missing.
The Shampoo Mystery
You wash your hair with shampoo and conditioner. If all goes well, you use the same brand and that shampoo and conditioner are often in the same bottle. In terms of content, that is. HOW is it possible that your conditioner is ALWAYS used up before your shampoo? Seriously, how? The other way around can happen too; that your shampoo runs out first, but in any case, they never run out at the same time.
Every shower results in a different hairstyle
This surprises me time and again and maybe it's just me, but I have a different hairstyle under every shower. As in, my hair looks different every time I stand under a different shower. Due to the renovation, I shower somewhere else for a month and sometimes I stay somewhere else, and every time it's a wait-and-see game with what kind of hair I start the day with. And also when I'm in another country. My hair always looks quite bad in New York, while it looks much better in London and Paris.
Bad mascara days
while I apply mascara, always in exactly the same way. I am blessed with fairly long eyelashes but the downside is that it is always quite a task to make those things look somewhat nice, and bad mascara days are not exactly convenient. 5. Why am I covered in bruises?.
Why am I covered in bruises?
Sometimes a wild night can turn out to be just a bit too wild, but I also sometimes get the biggest bruises out of nowhere. The real mystery, however, is why those things always end up in places where you can see them, preferably at a moment when you have to wear bare legs or need to look fabulous for other reasons and preferably without bruises.
Disappearing tampons
Tampons are always lying around everywhere and fall out of your bag at the most embarrassing and especially inappropriate times, but when that time of the month comes and you actually need them, they are absolutely nowhere to be found. There are things you always see lying around the house but never need, until you actually need them once and then it seems like they have suddenly fallen off the face of the earth. Tampons are at the top of that list of items. Little fuckers.
Beautiful times
So I often find that when I look at my phone, it is 12:34. Or 11:11, 12:12, 13:13, or something else illuminati-like. I also check my phone at least four days a week to accidentally see that it is 18:06, my birthday. Coincidence? I don't think so. There are higher powers at work here.
