There is this gland in your brain that makes melatonin. Melatonin makes you sleep. And sleep is a thing we all adore, don't we? But if this gland doesn't make melatonin, you've got a problem. I've got this problem. Before I started blogging I thought this was a huge problem. Then I discovered the brain waves occurring late at night, when I forget to take my melatonin pills.
When I'm riding one of my brain waves, blog ideas for months to come pop up. So what do I do the next morning? Write, post, write, post, write, post, write, post. Repeat this for about a week or two, three if I'm lucky. Then... nothing. Right now I'm waiting for the next big brain wave to hit me. In the meantime I'd love to introduce you (especially all my new followers) to the great posts my dysfunctional mind has given me!

#1: The Ordeals of Camping in Europe
Once upon a time, a seventeen year old girl who wanted to be anywhere but Europe was camping in Europe. Day after day she thought about how amazing camping in Australia and America had been. Europe was 'meh' at its best. Surrounded by European weirdness, I came up with this post.

#2 Camping Crowds: A guide to Europeans in Their Natural Habitat
Far, far away from any wifi signal, on a campground in France, I became very bored. I was reading books all day, but eventually, believe it or not, even reading gets boring. So I became this creepy stalker girl who observed everything that moved on the campground. You can read everything I learned about European campers in this post. I even drew the illustrations myself!

#3: Latin for Dummies
If there's one thing I miss about high school, it's Latin. I translated stories about the gods with ease, but speaking Latin wasn't part of the curriculum. After six years of Latin, these were the only sentences I could speak. Read this post to find out how to ask the pope if he's dead, or if you want to know how to tell people to draw pumpkins!

#4: Make it Happen #6: See Machu Picchu
I will keep shoving this post into your face until everyone on the planet has read it. You see, it's the very first thing on my Make it Happen List that I posted about. I'm still very proud of myself for walking the Inka Trail while I had food poisoning. It shows what Make it Happen is about and how awesome it is to walk the Inka Trail (even with food poisoning).

#5: The Curse of Fandoms
Back in May, I was seriously fed up with all my friends being in fandoms and being cool about it, but not being cool about the fandoms I'd been in since 2009. So I took all my anger and put it in this post. It's a bit of a critique on fandoms, with funny bits here and there :)

#6: The Rules of Fandoms
When I was done raging about the stupid things fandoms had turned into in my country, I made a list of what fandoms were about here. I took hits at fangirling, Harry Potter key chains and I might have mentioned Chris Evans' abs once or twice. Also: minions and Envy-made illustrations!

#7: How to Fail a Math Test, Part II
A post from back in the days when I still had math. I was very upset about this test I'd taken. So I did what I always did in those days: I wrote and angry blog post about it. It wasn't supposed to be funny. I didn't think it was funny. But my friends thought it was. Now that I look back on it, it is quite funny. My math class was full of not-so-smart people and every lesson turned into chaos. A perfect bit of everyday-2013-life, well preserved for future generations.
By the way, don't go looking for Part I. It sucked and I've probably deleted it by now.

#8: The ones that choose to be losers
This post was always first up in the stats. Most-read per year, month, week and day until this summer. I never understood why it was so popular. Recently I reread the post. It's actually quite moving. In this post I told about why everyone thought I was a weirdo and why I didn't mind. Now I understand why it was popular, even though no one ever commented on it.

Congratulations, you've made it all the way to the end of this post! I can almost hear you think: is she suffering from writer's block? Why is she linking up to old posts?
Well, my friends, I am not suffering from writer's block. I am taking part in Emily from Lynde Avenue's tag thingy #Reposted. Because we as bloggers tend to write amazing stuff that eventually disappears into the archieves, where no one looks at them again. I don't want that to happen to these nine post. Interested in any one of them? Just click on their heading and you'll be thrown right back into Picking up the Pieces' past!

Stay Awesome!