About

My name is Joyce. I’m married to a wonderful, abundantly tattooed, handy, DIY-obsessed man named Rob. We live in a small town in the north of the Netherlands, with a cat that’s currently buried in our backyard. I mention this because I’d like to have another pet, but that’s probably not going to happen anytime soon, so I like to immerse myself in self-pity and look at our dead cat’s tombstone when the mood takes me. Actually there are two cats buried in our backyard, but let’s not get into that.

In the 22 years that my life has spanned so far, I’ve been many things, most notably: a child, a student, and a mental patient. Now I’m just a wife, and a recovering mental patient, looking for a job. I’ve been “recovering” for four years since I quit my meds and fled the therapy scene, but I have no idea how I’m doing without therapists telling me that I’m insane. I guess I’m alright.

I’ve been a student of many things, including Marketing and Communication, English Language and Culture (Literature), our cat’s tombstone, and God. None were able to keep my interest for very long. These days I just read, watch TV, design (fictitious) websites and drive my pretty car when I feel like it, and I still glance wistfully at the cat’s tombstone occasionally.

I grew up in a small town where there wasn’t much to do besides going to school and climbing trees, so that’s just what I did. I also ate a lot of candy, which somehow didn’t cause my teeth to rot severely. I’ve had no cavities to date, which is one of few things that I’m really proud of. Those things also include still having my tonsils, appendix and wisdom teeth. I dread the day that I might lose any of those. I think I’d feel terribly incomplete as a person if my anatomy were suddenly incomplete.

I spent a fair bit of time in the hospital since the day I was born with unilateral TEV (talipes equinovarus, also known as clubfoot) up to when I was about fourteen. I can honestly say that I really don’t think that that was the cause of my insanity, even though my first psychologist tried very hard to make me believe that it was at least a part of the cause. I actually somewhat enjoyed my condition. I was in a wheelchair once, which was pretty cool and everyone just loved to push me around in it, and I had a good excuse to sit on the bench in PE. Alright, having funny feet and differently-sized legs isn’t as fun as it sounds, and neither are the surgeries, but I lived.

Fortunately I met a man who didn’t care about my funny feet and legs, so I told him I wanted to marry him after only two weeks just to see if he was really a keeper (oh yeah, and also because I knew he was “the one” and he wouldn’t get rid of me even if he beat me with a sledgehammer). He told me he wanted to marry me too so that’s just what we did. After having been together for just short of three months, and passing the test that was Being Stuck in a House in Africa by Ourselves for Three Weeks, we got married on the 28th of August, 2006 without telling anyone and nearly gave them a heart attack when we did tell them a few days later. Rob’s mother still hasn’t fully recovered, but she’s getting there.

I love the Gathering and metal, death metal especially, but I can listen to just about anything, except country and schlager. I love vodka & Red Bull, playing darts, good films and TV, and books. I love books a lot. I love them so much that I won’t let anyone read mine because they might stain them. I love Rob more than any of those things and life itself, but that goes without saying.

[mid-2007]

Favourites

Bands: The Gathering, Nevermore, Immolation, Vader, Bolt Thrower and many others
Books: Hyperion series by Dan Simmons
Films: Englar alheimsins, La vita è bella, Un long dimanche de fiançailles, The Guns of Navarone
Colour: Purple
Food: Italian
Drinks: Vodka & Red Bull, Purple Rain (Blue Curaçao, Sprite, Flügel)

Site

I started blogging in 2003, and I still have every entry I ever posted (on DiaryLand, LiveJournal and Mo’time) but you don’t want to read them, trust me, I don’t want to read them. I started this website in December of 2006 because I was tired of free blogging websites and the restrictions they imposed. It serves as my creative, emotional and… something outlet. Just a place for me to talk about whatever.

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