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IT'S ME AGAIN - 10-07-2016

Hey you,

It's been a few months since I've been gone, hasn't it? How have you been? I hope you are doing well. Are you enjoying the start of a new summer?
The past few months has been busier than I would have expected them to be. Alot has happened and it was alot to deal with. Because of all the negative things going on inside my head, I lost sight of the good things in life. A few times, I had lost all hope. I was very negative again, especially because I am unemployed again, but luckily, I found the hope again, which I had lost.

My mom found a new place for us to live, since we had to leave the place where we lived with her boyfriend. It's not the biggest place, but we can finally find peace with just the three of us now. I am glad to be back in my hometown. After leaving to Rotterdam last year, nothing really felt like home, as my hometown. I passed my finalsweek at school, and I got an official letter saying I have passed my first year of Marketing & Communications TTO (International Business). After many stressful months of working hard for finalsweek, I was quite happy to hear that I made it. I am currently looking for a new job and applying for them! My first year of IB has come to it's end, and a new summer has begun. 

I missed writing and vlogging, but I am back now. Last week I went to a hip-hop/rap festival called WOO HAH! in Tilburg, The Netherlands. I filmed a few things and I will be editing that along with another vlog, which I will make in Paris. Yes, I am currently packing my suitcase, because I will be going on a trip to Paris and Brugge upcoming week, with Nozomi and her parents. I am very excited, but since I haven't been able to buy my new laptop yet, I won't be able to edit any videos untill I get back from our trip. 

I just wanted to catch up on some things with you, since I haven't seen you in a long time. I want to thank you for sticking with me, even if I have been the worst blogger ever. I'm sorry. I will be better and see you soon with more posts and videos! If you have any requests or ideas for me to do, let me know! 


XO Ti Yumi




Hey guys,

I know I haven't been a great blogger, because I haven't been updating as much as I wanted to. But today I just wanted to share this with you. These past few months have been very rough for me. Alot has happened and alot is still going on. 

As I already mentioned in my previous 'Heart to heart' post (link to the post here), at the beginning of December, my friend had passed away after fighting her battle against cancer for years and my health was very bad at that time aswell. I started crawling back up with both my mental and physical health, during the beginning of January. I had spent alot of time with my friends at the end of 2015, and the beginning of 2016.

But soon, things changed drastically. Things hadn't been going well at home for a couple of years. After moving to Rotterdam things got quite difficult for me, even when I didn't want to show it most of the time. It was alright at first, and I thought I just had to get used to the fact everything changed. But days and months passed, and I started feeling less at ease living there with my biological father and his girlfriend. Somewhere in January I got into a huge fight at home. And at one point, they threw me out the house. I wasn't allowed to put on shoes, a coat or take my phone with me. It was around 8/9 PM.
Earlier that day, me and his girlfriend's ex (I used to babysit Levi at his other mother's place), had already planned that I would drop by to pick up the money for the last couple of times for babysitting or something. I ran there on my socks and picked up the money. Obviously she got concerned, but since her son was there and it was only a 10 minute walk from my biological father his place, I told her not to worry and I was fine. That was also the last time I had seen their son.

Now this isn't something you want to happen, nor expect. So noone can really prepare you for it. 
So I knew that I had to go to one of my friends I knew who lived the closest to me, which was my boyfriend.

(Before the entire fight started, my boyfriend, our friend Alysha and I, were supposed to start a skype call to work on one of our big school projects. Me and Alysha were talking on the phone, right before I got called to come inside the livingroom and the whole shabang happened. I told her I'd be back in a minute, and they knew something was up since I didn't pick up my phone and skype, reply to any messages nor replied to my boyfriend his messages.)

After I picked up the money, I ran to Rotterdam Central Station and took the train to The Hague. I walked to his place and yes, alot of people commented on the fact I wasn't wearing any shoes or a jacket, but I wasn't really bothered by it, because I got used to it after a while. I got to his place around 10PM I think. I messaged my best friends and called Alysha ofcourse, who had been worried sick ever since I hung up a couple of hours before that. I went to sleep not too long after that.

I was very lucky to be able to stay at his and Nozomi's family's for a few days, their family's are so caring and kind. Whatever it is, they take such great care of others, and I am truly grateful for that. 

Not too long after all that, my mother and I decided I would move back in with her. I didn't tell many people at first, because I kind of felt like nobody would actually care, but I really want to get all of this off my chest and since this has a huge impact on my life and the blog right now, I decided to share it with you guys.

During the months I started feeling less at ease in Rotterdam, my mental health decreased. My motivation for school had gone away and after I got kicked out, I got very depressed again.
I tried to be very positive about the entire situation, but it started getting really hard for me to keep the negativity to myself. Also, last week my family got some bad news. One of my mother's uncles had passed away. We went to the funeral on Tuesday, and it was very strange seeing family member I either had never seen my entire life, or only when I was only a few months old. It was strange, but very nice to know that he can finally have the rest he deserves and be released from pain and problems.

After all the things that happened the past few months, I got less social, and I think I can't really call myself as social as I used to be anymore. I just feel like we all have our own lives and I have just a small group of people I actually still talk to nowadays. And that is something that makes me very happy, actually. 

But besides the negative things, there are things on the bright side aswell.
My friends and (my mother's) family have been keeping me up these days and I am starting to adjust my life to these changes a bit more easy now. Moving to a village and travelling to The Hague for 1,5 hours every morning, it seems to just be a part of my life right now. I'm able to see Nozomi and my boyfriend alot more nowadays and I just feel l ike I am starting to become more positive again. It's great to see my mom again and to live with her again. I missed her so much.

I got a job offer a few weeks ago and I started asap. I am now a waitress at an AYCE sushi restaurant and I try to work as much as I can. I just really love the feeling of working for money, because you know you earned it and worked hard for it. 

But because I have internship every week, and I work 4 days a week, I started getting even less time for blogging.

I filmed quite alot the past two/three months (ID concert, daily vlogs etc.), but I just didn't have time to edit most of them and I tried to edit the ID concert vlog a few times, but I am just not happy with the results and I don't feel like uploading things, which I don't even like myself.

I will try to do, maybe like weekly vlogs, in which I will be vlogging monday to sunday and make it some sort of week vlogs compilations. I am also working out more now, and I hope to get back into shape after a while again, so I will also be doing lookbooks in the future.

I want to apologize for not being able to upload anything these days. 

Thank you for the great support and for still reading my blog. I truly appreciate it! You are amazing. God bless you all!

Have a great weekend and don't forget to smile!


XO Ti Yumi


HEART TO HEART || TI-DAY #11




Hey guys!!

It's been a while again. I want to apologize for not being as active as I used to be. But alot has happened while I was away. That is why I wanted to write this heart to heart post.

I want to start off with something very important and close to my heart. On the 2nd of this month, my family and I received bad news. A friend who I had known for almost my entire life, passed away on December 1st. She had been battling cancer for four years and she passed away at the age of 16. Since I had known her for so long and she was the very first best friend I had, it wasn't easy. Knowing her close friends, family and boyfriend had to go through all of it, was heartbreaking.

The following week, my mother and sister and I went to the memorial service, which was the most beautiful one I had ever seen. I couldn't be more proud of her. 

Also, as I mentioned before in previous posts and on Facebook, I have been very busy with school, which has been giving me a lot of stress. Luckily, I'm having my break right now, spending time with alot of my family and friends again. 

A couple of weeks ago, I went to see the doctor for my back, bleeding and low immune system. They had to take a few blood tests and I am currently still waiting for my results.
I have been feeling very ill and extremely exhausted for a couple of months now. So I hope they will find out whatever is wrong, although I am probably just low on iron and vitamine D.

I have been travelling alot to see some of my friends and family again, which was very hard for my health. 


Although it doesn't sound like much, it has been affecting my life alot these days. So I just wanted to give you guys a heads up on what has kept me away for so long.

I will be posting alot more from now on and I will have a very exciting announcement in my next post, which will be up on Wednesday!

Thank you for supporting my blog and have a blessed week everyone!

Don't forget to smile~


XO Ti Yumi





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