On June 12th Xander and I hopped in the car and headed off to the Hard Rock Cafe in Amsterdam for Bitchsterdam 2. For those of you wondering what Bitchsterdam is, it’s a gathering of bloggers, organized by DutchBitch, that has taken place two years in a row now when Dave from Blogography and Penelope [...]
Every once in a while blog awards and memes go around and this is one of those days! This week two of my blogging buddies asked me to ‘pass it on’ so that is what I’m doing. I’ll do one now and one tomorrow. First, Alison from A Flamingo in Utrecht named me as one [...]
Yesterday morning we woke up and it was foggy and grey. Not exactly what we hoped for on a Sunday morning but it would have to do. I had a lot of housework that I was avoiding, so I asked my husband how he’d feel about going for a drive so I could take some [...]
Yesterday Michelle over at Laundromat gave me this best blogger award. YAY, I FEEL LOVED!! I must say I was surprised and totally stoked to get it, as the whole little blog awards thing always seem to pass me by. Over the past few weeks there’s been one going through all the expats here like [...]
Years ago I made a post about people online and how they pretend to be something they aren’t, and I’ve been thinking about it again recently. I made that post almost exactly 5 years ago and this issue is still a bit of a thorn in my side, especially now that the blogging community has [...]
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! [...]
Today my mother sent me photos of the tea quilt I made her after she got it home and put it up. It’s kind of exciting for me because this is the first quilt I’ve ever made for someone as a gift that is on display somewhere. She hung it in her dining room, which [...]
A while back I saw that Zhu had a post called Pay it Forward. I first thought of the movie by that name, but it turned out she was taking part in the same sort of thing only over blogs. Here is how it was described: the exchange focuses on doing an act of kindness [...]
Today DutchBitch has given me the I love your blog award! Pretty cool! I’ll be honest. I’ve seen other people handing these awards out to each other and I’ve been a little jealous and unloved. Not anymore, I’m one of the cool kids now, so to speak! This is how it works, according to DutchBitch: [...]
Ok so we had contacted the company that hosts my domain and they said they were going to monitor the servers and see what was going on. This is what they sent to my husband the other day: We were able to resolve your website without any latency. We suggest you to try with other [...]
A few people have mentioned that they are having problems with my site being slow to load. It appears there are some problems going on with my host. I thought it might be the theme, since the problems mainly started around the same time I switched themes, but after doing some testing everything is slow, [...]
The new theme (WP-VYBE) is finally up! What do you think? You know me, if you hate it say you love it anyway because I just spent the last two days working on it. I’m ok with you just amusing me. This theme is awesome and I really must give a big shout out to [...]
At the moment I am working on some changes for my website. I have a new theme that I am working on and I will hopefully have it up soon. I’m working on it using the Theme Test Drive plugin for WordPress. So I can see it and work on it while everyone else still [...]
I was reviewed at Bloggyaward.com today. I was quite surprised when I saw it on my bloglines with my blog on there but was pleasantly surprised to see that I was a Bloggy Award Winner. The way the site works is, they review your site but only the really good ones get the ‘bloggy award’. [...]
Ok I’ve decided on a new theme, using the new header made by my friend Duncan (aka. Gravain for those of you gamer friends reading this). I have a problem though, I can’t get the drop down links to work that I used to use on my old theme, because I’m using sidebar widgets on [...]
Over the next few days my site may look completely retarded. Weird colors, or other themes. I’m too lazy to make a copy of this blog to test on so I’m just going to test on it live :) So expect that things won’t look or work like normal for the next while! I’ve got [...]
I need you to poke around my site a bit. Click on things in my sidebar, try to go to the next page, check my categories etc and tell me if you get any errors or if things just look generally unwell. Please tell me: 1) What browser you are using. 2) What errors you [...]
Fearless Fourteen
by Janet Evanovich
