‘My’ Picture

I use this picture almost everywhere:

It’s so lovely.

It is my picture on last.fm, YouTube background and I’m pretty sure it’s on on more sites…

I found it at @U2, which you might have guessed, because it has the @U2 site in the picture :P

I  knew and used this as my picture for about 2 years when I bought U2 & i by Anton Corbijn and I discovered that 1. Anton Corbijn had taken it and 2. That this picture was taken in Arnhem in the Netherlands!!!!! I was shocked that it was taken where I live!

But now… after almost 3 years of using this pic on last.fm I’ve had enough of it…

Old:

And new:

Haha been listening to some songs in between taking the two pictures :P

Dream, dreams and some more dreams

U2 dream:
Brilliant! I started writing this on Wednesday and a day later I had another U2 dream! :D

There was a small car and I knew that U2 was in that car so I got in. I looked  happy, but then Larry walks to the car and says that I’m sitting on his chair. I had not thought of that and I wonder how I should make room. I say to Larry that he could use me as a chair. I meant it more as a joke, but Larry takes it seriously and sits on me XD How many people can say that Larry Mullen Jr. used them as a chair?!!! Hahaha XD Now we’re about to start driving and I realise that Larry is not wearing a safety belt, because I’m using the one from the chair… So I use my arms as a safety belt :P It was GREAT to be Larry’s chair and safety belt!!! 28 January 2010

[H]OUSE dreams:
So, here are all my [H]ouse dreams. Most of them are very random and are not that interesting… You can guess from the dates when I became a true House fan and was catching up with 9 more episodes that were already aired in America. Haha I watched them all in 3 days. On the second day I watched Under My Skin which made me very happy and I wondered if I should watch another one (it was already late). I did watch the next one which was not a very good idea… The season finale shocked me! I lay awake for a long time thinking about it, while I could have slept soundly after seeing Under My Skin…

My Favourites: 1, 6, 7, 8, 15, 19, 22, 29

1. Cuddy hurt her back and can’t move. House is very concerned and says that she has to be moved, but most people disagree with him. He wants to lift her up himself, but he can’t because of his leg. In the end Wilson carries Cuddy to a hospital bed. Cuddy is very grateful to Wilson, while it actually was House’s idea. House looks a little worried, but tries to cheer Cuddy up (he has bought a puppy and a pony for Cuddy XD) 15 February 2009
   Haha it was so incredibly adorable! :)
2. House is in prison, but gets released (or escapes, not sure). He leaves his cell, but goes back because he forgot his orange juice. When he is back and has the orange juice a guard appears who points his gun at House. Stacey is now also in the cell and House is protecting her by standing in front of her. The guard shoots House in his leg and leaves. House and Stacey now leave the cell, House now limping. They have half an hour to get away from the grounds. They come across a farm and they’re making notes in case they get a quiz about where they’ve been. They now reach the jail again and tell another guard that they’ve been at the farm. The guy doesn’t believe them so they show the notes they’ve taken and a postguard that they bought at a bakery. The guard is still not very convinced, but a doctor is and tells House that he shall now put him in the queue for medical help (his leg still hurts from the wound) 20 February 2009
3. House has a dog and he shows it to some children at kindergarten :P 30 March 2009
4. House and Cuddy are having a conversation on the stairs in the hospital.   20 April 2009
5. I’m a cashiere in a supermarket and House wants to walk past me without paying. He does come back however. He has vicodin, chips and more in his shopping cart. He has not enough money to pay for everything so he only wants to buy the vicodin. He gives me a lot of change money and it takes me ages to count it. Now I suddenly realise that this is House, so I buy some cookies for him :P 29 June 2009
6. House and Cuddy are a couple!!!! They are having a holiday and they’re at a nice house in a forrest (with a pool). And… Cuddy is pregnant! She needs to go to the hospital. House is hysterical and his hair is standing in the most awkward angles…  15 September 2009
7. I was looking for a video on YouTube where House was playing Cuddy’s Serenade. I watch a video where House is playing the song, but suddenly it shows a video from future episodes that I hadn’t seen yet. It showed the wedding between House and Cuddy and I was really upset, because I didn’t want any spoilers. 29 September 2009
8. I’m in a helicopter with House and I’m talking about the fact that I didn’t get tickets for the U2 concert in Paris. I somehow think it was his fault (?) and I’ve written him about 50 letters because of that. He had replied at last with a letter and I guess that it said that I should come to the helicopter. He looked me in the eyes and gave me tickets for all the U2 concerts!!! :D When my first shock was over and I begin to worry about how I’m going to get to all of the concerts, he says to me that the helicopter will always bring me! :D 19 October 2009
9. House gets (medical) advice from a woman who hasn’t studied Medicine, but House does listen.
   (I really can’t read what else I’ve written down. It says: “From aduraïne” or something like that which doesn’t make sense in any language) 19 October 2009
10. House says: “There is a woman I love”. I know that he means Cuddy, so I’m very very happy to hear him say that! :) 23 October 2009
11. House drinks a lot of water. Liters and liters. 24 October 2009
12. House is a teacher and gives away cards if you give a good answer. I see one of the cards and it has a picture of Bertie Wooster’s duck on it! I’m now paying more attention, because I want Wooster’s duck! :P 24 October 2009
    
13. House and a 19 year old girl are telling jokes to each other. 24 October 2009
14. I walk with Hugh Laurie through the University of Amsterdam and we talk about House.  I ask him something something about House’s cane, but he needs to go to the toilet so I decide to go somewhere else.  28 October 2009
15. I’m at a train station sitting on the ground waiting for the floating train (there was no train rails, so naturally the train floated). When I’m in the train the person next to me tells me that there will be no season 7 of House. I become grumpy, because I want more seasons. I look up and see House and Cuddy sitting opposite of me on large blue thrones. They’re smiling at me (they heard my conversation) and I started to laugh very loudly. 28 October 2009
16. I’m getting a tour around the set (in a bus) and on one of the outside walls is the text “House blooper” followed by a time. I understand that that’s when the blooper happened, but why it’s written on a wall remains a mystery. (The guide saw it too, but could not explain it…) 28 October 2009
17. A man says that he has studied medicine, but he has to do a test, because the authorities don’t believe him. He asks House for help and House does help him :) House learns the man how to multiplicate numbers, which the man could not do XD The test takes place outside and House is watching it. The man gets the question: “What is 0×6?” and the man cheerfully answers “zero” while he looks at House.  31 October 2009
18. 2 House dreams??? I can’t remember more :( 1 November 2009
19. House is in Cuddy’s office and Cuddy is angry with him. The reason was that House had ruined Cuddy’s shoes during Where The Streets Have No Name. Cuddy fired House which I thought was very reasonable since House ruined the shoes during WTSHNN (Cuddy however thought the ruined bit was more important :P) So Cuddy had fired House, but she now said to him that she was going to hire him back, because ‘they’ made her do that. The ‘they’ included Wilson. A moment later they’re good friends again and House, Wilson and Cuddy are going to a 80’s party ;) They had to bring dates and they were going to find a date for one of the others, so Wilson was going to find a date for Cuddy, Cuddy for House and House for Wilson. It all ended with House and Cuddy being each others date which made me as a Huddy fan very happy! And House and Cuddy looked happy too! :D 3 November 2009
20. House walks from his spaceship to Cuddy’s house to tell her that she has to hurry up, because they needed to go somewhere. 3 November 2009
21. Foreman says to House in a mysterious voice that someone is going to die. 13, who was also in the room suddenly stops breathing! :O 8 November 2009
22. Chase and Cameron are looking for diseases under a microscope, but they can’t find any (I don’t know a lot about medicine, but I think that one of the reasons they couldn’t find what they were looking for,  was that they kept putting tomato sauce on the glass of the microscope so they couldn’t see a thing… :P) Chase suggests that they should just ask the patient. Cameron doubts if the patient will tell the truth, but Chase says: “In 40% of the cases they’re not speaking the truth.” Chase tries to prove his theory, by asking the lady behind the desk “Are you pregnant?” The lady answered “No” and Cameron now says “Ah yes, I see!” I didn’t get it.  15 November 2009
23. I’m in a supermarket and I see House. I ask if he got a job for me and he says that I could put stickers on all the products… so I put stickers on everything while House was watching if I did it right… 15 November 2009
24. It’s season 4 again and House needs to hire a new team. There were 5 people left. I remember Amber, Taub, 13, an older guy and someone from Belgium. House got into an elevator and so did I. He said to the rest that they shouldn’t follow him, but I saw that he had his fingers crossed, so he did want them to follow them (it was a test!). We went to the roof and only 3 of the 5 also went there (Amber, Taub and the guy from Belgium). House is saying something to them, but the guy from Belgium is looking in another direction, so he can forget his place in the team.  18 November 2009
25. Square blocks and House. 20 November 2009
    ??? That’s all what I’ve written down and I can’t make any more of it…
26. I’m making a documentary about a duck and whilst I’m filming the duck it somehow reminds me of House. 21 November 2009
27. House????? D’oh I can’t remember more! 27 November 2009
28. I woke up and thought: “Known Unknowns!!!” I knew I dreamt about House, but it had nothing to do with Known Unknowns… The only thing I could remember was that House said “What else?” repeatedly in my dream. 28 November 2009
29. I was thinking about House and U2 in my dream and suddenly I thought Wait a second!! Didn’t U2 show House on the screen during their concerts? I wasn’t certain, so I typed “U2 House MD” in Google images and found my own pictures! I clicked on one of them and saw House (wearing his red shirt) on the screens! I thought Why can’t I remember this?!! but then I have a flashback and am in the Amsterdam Arena again :D U2 are playing a song and I now see a younger Hugh Laurie on the screens :) 2 December 2009
30. Wilson is in the hospital walking around and saving all the patients he meets. He was brilliant. I thought If only Amber could have been here now, I’m sure he would have saved her. As I thought that he has a vision of Amber and breaks down. (poor Wilson!)  3 December 2009
31. House, Wilson, Cuddy and a patient of House are sitting outside round a table. The patient has to eat cherries for medical reasons and House and Wilson are also eating them. 3 December 2009
32. House is babysitting Rachel although it’s a boy in my dream and called Sien :S Cuddy is grateful when she comes back. She’s holding a dinner party and actually wants House to stay (a bit like the Unfaithful episode). Wilson is also there and House says goodbye to Sien (it was really to adorable for words) 9 December 2009
33. I had a ticket for a train, but it wasn’t ‘working’ when I scanned it… I go to the desk and Wilson is there! He understands the problem and gives me a new ticket. I do have to answer some questions first. He first asks me things like my name and birthday and as I answer the questions he scribbles the answers on the ticket. He also asks me: “When did you start reading Harry Potter?”. I don’t see what that has got to do with anything, but because he asked so nicely I rack my brain to get the right answer. When he gives me the ticket with a lot of text scribbled on it I see House walking towards him. I stand still, but when House looks at me I don’t dare to stay, so I walk towards the train. 13 December 2009

Fry & Laurie dreams
The first dream is actually the first entry in my dream diary!!! I’m rather proud of it :) (the diary :P) My handwriting is usually very bad and it also has some very bad drawings in it, but otherwise it’s lovely :P Haha without it, I would have forgotten my crazy dream about 10 trolls in an elevator! XD

My Favourites: 3, 7 and of course 8 :D

1. I’m buying ‘A Bit Of Fry And Laurie’ dvds in a supermarket. It are 4 dvds and it costs 30 euros. When I’ve paid I discover that they are season 2 part 3 instead of the season 1 part 3 I wanted to buy. I go back to the place where I found the dvds (an umbrella stand) but they don’t have season 1 part 3… 23 December 2008
   
2. Hugh en Stephen are singing a song. When they finished they said: “And now Anna is going to do some standup comedy for you!” I thought: What?! I can’t do standup comdedy!!! But I couldn’t say no to Stephen en Hugh, so I went up the stage and was silent for a minute. I was very busy thinking of something extremely funny, but I couldn’t think of anything. Then I think that I’ve been silent for long enough and really have to say something so I say: “Eh, yesterday I was playing scrabble… and I played it with a boy… and he made the word ‘tutu’. ” It stays incredibly silent in the room, but then one man starts laughing hysterically…
   23 December 2008
3. Stephen Fry comments on my blog that he thought it was a brilliant idea to put all my U2 dreams on one page :) (And so I did! :P) 10 September 2009
4. I walk with Hugh Laurie through the University of Amsterdam and we talk about House.  I ask him something something about House’s cane, but he needs to go to the toilet so I decide to go somewhere else.  28 October 2009
5. There will be an ‘A Bit Of Fry And Laurie’ tour in 2025 2 November 2009
6. Hugh Laurie tells me that he’s a fan of Monty Python and is about to meet Eric Idle. 9 November 2009
7. I was thinking about House and U2 in my dream and suddenly I thought Wait a second!! Didn’t U2 show House on the screen during their concerts? I wasn’t certain, so I typed “U2 House MD” in Google images and found my own pictures! I clicked on one of them and saw House (wearing his red shirt) on the screens! I thought Why can’t I remember this?!! but than I have a flashback and am in the Amsterdam Arena again :D U2 are playing a song and I now see a younger Hugh Laurie on the screens :) 2 December 2009
8. I was in a building (called ‘C’) and there was going to be a U2 quiz there. Anyone was allowed to join, so I  happily joined the other 20 contestants. Now we had to wait for the presenters to arrive. The presenters of the quiz were Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie!!! :D The quiz started, but there were no questions about U2 in it. There were questions like: In which of these 5 videos acts Jeeves like John Cleese? (Stephen Fry is Jeeves in the series Jeeves and Wooster) I thought: “I should know this! I’ve seen Jeeves and Wooster, I know John Cleese and I have seen those 5 videos before on YouTube!” I answered that it was the 4th video, but I had it wrong! I somehow managed to survive this round and made it all the way to the semi-final. In that round you had to cook something. You were in a team and we decided to make spaghetti with a sauce. Another team was making tea with butter and for some reason I decided to help the other team (also big U2 fans). I successfully made tea, sliced the butter, put the butter in the tea and the only thing that remained to be done was to pour the tea into a cup. I tried to do it very carefully, but somehow I spilled everything! The man who I was helping watched me in despair and managed to say “We appreciate that you tried to help us.” I knew however that he was thinking that I wasted their precious time. I felt sorry for them and returned to my own team. The spaghetti looked OK, but the sauce was a disaster. It was fine until we added another ingredient to it and we had to make the sauce all over again. The time was now almost up and in the last minute we just added all the ingredients to the spaghetti in the hope that we would get some points. The spaghetti looked rather funny (it looked more like a salad bowl than spaghetti), so we hoped that Stephen and Hugh would give us points for that. They didn’t. At least not enough points for us to go to the final. I wasn’t that disappointed not to be in the final, because Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie were doing sketches while the ones in the final had other things to do. I don’t remember a lot from the sketches, but I do know they were very funny! 12 December 2009
   
9. I’m in the Q.I. audience and I’ve made a banner with “GO STEPHEN!” on it :P 19 December 2009
10. Fry and Laurie, wizards, train??? 28 December 2009
    
11. Stephen Fry doesn’t want compliments about the way he acted Jeeves 17 Januari 2010

Statistics:
Total U2 dreams: 73
Total [H]OUSE dreams: 30 (not counting 18, 25 and 27)
Total Fry & Laurie dreams: 11

Adam: 15
Bono: 23
Edge: 23
Larry: 14

House: 26
Cuddy: 9
Wilson: 6
Chase: 1
Cameron: 1
Foreman: 1
13: 2
Taub: 1
Stacy: 1

Hugh Laurie: 6
Stephen Fry: 6
Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie: 3
ABOFAL: 2

House and U2: 3
Fry & Laurie and U2: 2

U2 dreams:
In 2006: 1.
In 2007: 4
In 2008: 17
In 2009: 45.
In 2010: 3.
Not sure: 2. (2007 or 2008)

[H]OUSE dreams:
In 2009: 30.

Fry & Laurie dreams:
In 2008: 2.
In 2009: 8.
In 2010: 1.

Record most U2 dreams in one day: 5
Record most [H]OUSE dreams in one day: 3
Record most Fry & Laurie dreams in one day: 2

(Day)dream

Lately I haven’t had much U2 dreams :(
I did have some daydreams, but they don’t really count…

Daydream:
While I was listening to Worn Down Piano by the Mark & Clark Band I imagined that I was sitting at a table with U2. I had recommended the song so we where all listening. Then someone (I don’t know who) started playing piano on the table. Edge then started to play violin and everyone joined in! It was really funny! But still just a daydream…

Real dreams:

• There was a rumour a little time ago that U2 would play in The Netherlands on 10 and 11 September. Sadly the rumour was just a rumour, but in my dream it came true! 16 December

and now I can’t read my own handwriting :S
Usually I can read it, but it can be hard when I’m writing down something very fast in the morning, because I’m in a hurry and don’t want to forget the dream…

This is what I read: Bono / spm joord pruat Nederlands
I’ll try to think what that means some other day :P Something with talking Dutch, but I can’t remember a dream like that :S

• I was again in the Amsterdam Arena for the 20 July concert and this time I went to the place where they sold U2 things and I intended to buy EVERYTHING! :D 3 January 2010
  

• I was in a barber shop and they had dvds. I looked through the dvds (there was not much sense in getting a hair cut since there where no barbers) and I found It Might Get Loud! It was a special edition and had a big picture of Edge on the cover. It also had 3 dvds, one for each guitarist. I wanted to buy it, but I then discovered it cost 700 euros!!!  I didn’t  want to pay 700 euros so I wondered how much the Edge dvd alone would cost, but you couldn’t buy it separately :( 9 January 2010

I think that I shall post all my House dreams and the Fry & Laurie ones tomorrow :)

U2009

One of the advantages of living in the 21st century is being able to put an U in front of the year and being reminded of U2.

U2009
It was a very good U2 year!

January

• My computer did not have internet back than and I could not leave the computer unused, so I often played Hearts against U2.
  It’s something that I would love to do in real life: playing a (preferably long) card game with U2 ! Of course them playing new songs for me or even dedicating a song to me are also on that list :P
• Also in January: Get On Your Boots! I loved it instantly and could not get enough of it! (I listened to it 81 times in January!) and now… it’s stuck in the first position on my last.fm… I think it’s been stuck there since March or possibly April… no wait. I remember that GOYB was the first to reach the 100 plays so it must have been February! That’s a pretty long time… :O

February

• The GOYB video
• No Line On The Horizon 2
• 30 second previews, I think I shall try better next time to wait until the full songs… but I don’t think I can resist them if they would come… I could resist the GOYB preview a day or possibly 2 days and the album previews an afternoon :P
• Leak!

March

• Box edition arrives
• ticket buying!!!
• starting a countdown until 20 July (which I discovered is incredibly far away from 14 March)
• oh, and endlessly listening to NLOTH :)

April

• I posted all my U2 dreams until then on my blog :)
  Speaking of U2 dreams, I’ve had 45 U2 dreams in 2009!
  That’s 60.81% of all my U2 dreams!
  And 28 more than in 2008 :)
• By the end of April the need to listen NLOTH every day is gone… I think I switched NLOTH for ATYCLB at the end of April…

May

• I was in a very creative mood writing a poem/song for Bono’s birthday XD “Bono Ate A Birthday Cake”

June

• U2 started touring! :D
• I discovered a very old note from me with the ”lyrics” from Newyarsday, which was very funny :P

July

• FINALLY JULY!!!! I WENT TO TWO U2 CONCERTS!!!!!!!

Augustus

• I had to survive a holiday with only a few U2 albums… You won’t believe how much I missed certain songs…
• After the holiday I got a U2 iPod!!! It’s so lovely! :)

September

• I put all my U2 dreams in a special page :)
• U2 anounces 2010 dates… without The Netherlands :(

October

• I think my House fandom really started back then.
• First House+U2 dream

November

• The Unforgettable Fire box edition! :D
• and I finally have Zoo TV on dvd…

December

• First Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie + U2 dream! (still makes me smile)

My House MD U2 song spoof!

It’s been a while since my last post, but I’ve been busy :)

Watching 4 series of Jeeves And Wooster and watching lots and lots of Q.I. episodes takes some time :P

I’ve also been busy with making a House+U2 video and monday I finished it! I had the idea in my head for months (after first seeing other House MD song spoofs) and last week I decided to try and make it… It’s my very first video I’ve ever made and I’m rather proud of it :)

EDIT:
I made a second one!