Back in 2006 I wrote an entry titled Just a Tree? in which I spoke about my visit to the Anne Frank House and the giant chestnut tree that stands behind it. At that time there were a lot of discussions in regards to whether they were going to cut the tree down because it [...]
Before I show this video, I must confess that I blatantly and shamelessly ripped this off from Avitable, who found it first. I couldn’t help myself, I’m on an 80’s kick lately after umm… *cough* acquiring an 80’s Teen Movie Pack which is 57 gigs and includes pretty much every teen movie made during the [...]
It occurred to me today that this month is the 14th anniversary of mine and Spencer’s life together. He has been with me from Prince Edward Island, to Toronto and finally over here to the Netherlands. I found him in 1996, I was 21 and had just moved out of home for the first time. [...]
One day I was looking through some craft websites and saw these friendship bracelets. Suddenly I was 12 years old again and itching to make some. I thought back to the day when I was a kid and making bracelets with gimp was all the rage, man I loved that stuff. I decided to start [...]
My father (seated center) and his band, The Morticians, in the ruins of Moxham’s Castle (1966) Today an old friend of the family posted these photos of my father and his band, The Morticians, on Facebook. They were taken in the mid to late 60’s. I’ve heard a lot about the band my father played [...]
A while back I went out for dinner with a friend and we somehow got on the topic of milk. They couldn’t believe me when I told them that we get our milk in bags back in Canada. They also couldn’t believe that we actually had a milk man who would come in the morning [...]
Our other expat friends gathered together at our house for dinner on Christmas Day The hardest part about life as an expat is missing your family and friends, I don’t think there is an expat out there who can argue that… and in the age of Twitter, Facebook, and instant messengers, it’s impossible to isolate [...]
We all know I’m terrible for taking long, agonizing walks down Memory Lane, right? Well… I’m at it again! Out of the blue a few days ago I started humming the theme song to The Littlest Hobo. When I told my husband about it he had never heard of the show so I started singing [...]
Baby remember my name! FAME!! Ok, normally I’m not one for remakes. I heard they are remaking Girls Just Wanna Have Fun and Footloose, which makes me go uuuuugh, and I’m absolutely dreading the day they even TRY to remake a great one like Dirty Dancing. I can’t help it, I am really looking forward [...]
This photo of me and my husband was taken almost 9 years ago in Paris. We felt so grown up but look at us, we were babies! I’d just turned 25 the week before and I was a wife! We were so cute though, still in that stage where we called each other Mr. and [...]
Yesterday was the five year anniversary of this blog. It started out on May 2, 2004 when I was anxiously awaiting my upcoming trip to Canada. I’d not been home in almost four years so I was long overdue. Now here I am, five years later… looking back on it like it was just yesterday! [...]
Well, Pixel is almost a year old now and has been with us for 9 months. It’s been a bit of a roller coaster of pee and poo but we’ve finally gotten it all under control *knocks wood*. She is so cute it’s hard to stay angry with her when she does things like, oh [...]
I saw this on Facebook and thought I’d put it on here instead, I love these memory lane type of memes! Man, I’ve been meme-ing a lot lately! Forgive me! **** 15 YEARS AGO (1994) **** 1) How old were you? — 18 2) Who were you dating? – Dana Reid 3) Where did you [...]
shoppers and crystal tree by wvs Every day I visit the website daily dose of imagery because I have serious photo envy, and because I like to torture myself by looking at photos of Toronto and getting homesick. Yesterday he posted this photo of one of the big shopping centers in downtown Toronto at x-mas. [...]
Today my crazy husband turned 34 years old. The other night in bed he threatened to divorce me because for some reason or another I thought he was going to turn 35. In my defense, he had me up talking for ages and I was so tired my eyes were starting to wobble. We also [...]
When I was 15 years old I met a boy. He was 16, tall (6’3, which towered over my rather short 5’3 frame), had long hair, wore a lot of black and … we hated each other. From the minute we met we did nothing but bicker and fight. I thought he was a sarcastic [...]
I was just thinking about some upcoming redecoration that is going to be taking place here and I got to thinking about the house and how it’s changed again. I started wondering if I’d ever shared our bathroom renovations. I searched the blog for toilet, bathroom renovation, bathroom before and after and a few other [...]
Fearless Fourteen
by Janet Evanovich
