On February 14, 2010 (Valentine’s Day) the Lock of Love art piece was placed in Rotterdam’s popular district of Delfshaven. The Lock of Love ritual has been taking place all over the world, and is now here in Rotterdam as well. Not just a rail on a bridge or a chain around a lamppost, this [...]
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 [...]
Over the years I’ve had a lot of issues with seasonal depression. Not something I’ve ever suffered from in Canada, but it hit me quick and hard here in the Netherlands. I wasn’t expecting it but it happened, and it continued to happen for the past 10 years. Granted, for the first half of that [...]
God I’ve been meaning to write about this for ages but I’ve been so busy the last while with my friend Penny being in town and a few other things that have been going on (that I will write about soon), my blog has suffered.
Anyhow, a while back my mother in law asked for some [...]
Today two of my favorite people in the world are celebrating their 36th wedding anniversary… my parents!
This photo was taken three years before I was born when my parents were almost 10 years younger than I am now.
I love my mom and dad, but I’ve decided that they’ve passed down some pretty rotten genes.
I have my great grandmother from my mother’s side, Grannie’s, ass. I know this because my sister has the same ass as me and Grannie is the only person I can think of when I go up the family [...]
It’s Wednesday and I’m writing this now and pre-dating it for Thursday as my very first FOAD Thursday post, because I know if I don’t by tomorrow I’ll forget I was ever pissed off about it.
I decided to join in the Foad fun when I came across a post on someone elses blog that reminded [...]
So, I did some shopping online for presents for my mom and dad. From what I saw on the website, it would arrive after the 21st of Dec, by the 27th at the latest.
Today I got two emails saying that they’ve been sent and will arrive January 3rd and 6th.
WHAT THE FUCK?!
*Sigh* [...]
Today a friend sent me an MSN and demanded I write a blog so he has something to read while at work today. The pressure!
I don’t actually have a whole lot to write about. I could ramble on about the usual day to day life but I’m sure most who read my blog [...]
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 family, more aware of the grey (not even grey, WHITE) hairs growing on my head… but now I have [...]
I can’t believe it’s been almost a year since my last I LoveThe Fall photos and posts. This is one of my favorite times of year for so many different reasons. I always get the feeling like I should be out buying pencils and getting in as many bike rides as I [...]
The grandfather I never knew died today. This morning I was speaking to my mother on the phone and she told me he was dying, that they’d heard it through my father’s cousin who didn’t want my father to just see it in the paper or something. Not that I think [...]
I have been having some really weird and horrible dreams lately. A few different nights I had dreams about my family, that I was home again and all kinds of weirdness was going on. I can only remember two of them vividly though.
Friday night I had a dream that me and my [...]
Overnight I have become my parents.. my parents have become their parents.. and it scares me to death.
On March 25, 2005 at approximately 3pm in the afternoon, my aunt Pearly took her last breath. She was in her early 80’s and until this past year they had all been healthy. I was [...]
Today is my friend Jolynn’s birthday, Happy Birthday Jolynn!! Hope you have a great one! :)My husband is a genius. Now I know you all have heard me talk about how geeky he is, maybe some of you have even read his blog and seen for yourselves. He’s so incredibly intelligent! Yesterday [...]
Well I’m sitting here wrapped in my Toronto Blue Jays towel after the most dreamy shower ever. I swear there’s nothing that feels better than a shower just after doing something exercisey (Is exercisey a word?). It’s funny because my head gets so hot, when I get in the shower the water will [...]
Yup, the washer can’t be fixed. So now we have to buy a new one, which SUCKS!! We actually had a new washer that we bought when I moved over here, but when we moved to our new apartment the guy who lived here before us was selling his appliances. They were [...]
Man, what a world we live in. Am I the only one who thinks about the world and how fucked up it really is? OK so I don’t think about it all the time, actually I try to avoid thinking about it at all. I don’t read the paper, I don’t watch [...]
Tunnels of Blood (The Saga of Darren Shan)
by Darren Shan
