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Bad Blogger!!
Little self-scold there… seeing as I’ve been such a crap blogger lately. Not a whole lot new here. Been working on my quilting a lot and doing some knitting.. my scarf should be done
Read More »Dude?! Where’s My Train!?
Learned two valuable travel lessons this weekend. I had a petsitting job in Den Haag and on my way there my train stopped part way and wasn’t going any further, leaving me with no
Read More »Can’t…. Breathe…
Today I read one of the best comments I’ve heard in a very very long time. An expat’s nerve-wrecking journey through Helland. Where even service is below sea level. Now that’s some funny shit.
Read More »Tanya’s 69 Questions
So Tanya did a 69 Q’s meme and I figured I may as well keep it going. So here’s mine :) (Btw Tanya I giggle when I see 69 too :P ) 1. Initials:
Read More »More Granny Hobbies!
Yesterday I met up with three other expat women who are living here in Rotterdam. I met them on one of my “Life in the Netherlands” type of yahoo groups when I made a
Read More »One Percent
I’ve come to love the website www.Expatica.com because it makes me feel like my sometimes negative feelings towards live in the Netherlands aren’t completely without foundation. I just read another interesting article about a
Read More »What’s Happening?
I have urges, and I think they have something to do with my age. Turning 30 has not only made me somewhat panicky about whether we are going to be able to start a
Read More »So It Really Isn’t Just Me!
Found this on one of my yahoo groups that was posted from www.Expatica.com 23 September 2005 AMSTERDAM — At least 77 percent of the mainly expat staff of international agencies in the Netherlands want
Read More »The Worst is Over
Today I had the two worst parts of the Profieltoets, spreken (speaking) and Maatschappij-orientatie (social orientation). Speaking is always difficult because you have very limited amounts of time to think of what you want
Read More »Double Whammy
Two really horrible things happened in the past few days. I somehow managed to lose a longtime friend. It was a friend I first made years ago when I was playing Ultima Online and
Read More »Ruh Roh
Xander is on a warpath. He messaged me from work today saying that he printed off this month’s phone bill and it’s higher than ever. According to the rest of the bills he’s printed
Read More »BANG
I was just woken up by the loudest bang I have heard in a very long time. At first I thought it was thunder, but after getting up to close the windows I realized
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