Tonight my husband and I had a meatball themed night. We didn’t even really plan it that way, but I’m taking advantage of the coincidence so I can blog about it. It started off with our dinner plans, Xander was cooking Knorr Chinese Beef Shanghai, which I never remember so I just call it Nutty [...]
This afternoon I was sitting in my living room watching TV and thinking about how crappy the weather was outside when I happened to look out our front window . That was when I noticed this rainbow. I tend to leave half of the curtains closed because we live across from a tall building full [...]
Dear Mother Nature, What’s with the snow? I woke up this morning and this is what I saw out my dining room window. I must say, I was somewhat confused. It would appear that there has been some sort of miscommunication here. I SAID winter was over for the year, remember? Spring is coming, winter [...]
Spencer’s not the only one to enjoy the sun that comes into our living room in the morning these days. The dogs have taken to lazing around in it as well. As promised, Rotterdam didn’t see any snow this weekend! It’s still sunny and beautiful just like I planned. Only 13 days now until the [...]
This lady definitely made the best of the recent snow here in Rotterdam. When we saw her coming we initially thought she had a kid in the sled, but when she got up close we realized it was her groceries. We told her how clever we thought it was and she said she figured if [...]
This is the weather forecast for Rotterdam for the coming days. The top bit is the weather conditions here this morning. ONE HUNDRED FREAKIN’ PERCENT HUMIDITY. You can literally see the air, you can feel it. It’s disgusting. This is summer in the Netherlands. This weekend I was in Friesland with my photography club. We [...]
April doet wat hij wil is a saying about the spring weather in the Netherlands. It means “April does what it wants”, and boy does it! A lot of people get irritated by not knowing what the weather will be like from one moment to the next, but I like it. We go from days [...]
You know that saying ‘Stick a fork in me, because I’m done’? Yeah, that was me yesterday afternoon. We went to a BBQ at a friend’s place in Beneden Leeuwen, which is about an hours drive from here. It was a gathering of an expat group that I belong to online. The same one that [...]
That’s how long until the first day of Autumn. It sounds like a long time but it’s not really, and we’ve not even had a summer yet (we didn’t last year either). I want to go back to France, where it was warm and dry. Barring my horrid sunburn, I loved it there… and I [...]
Today I was in a great mood at work, which was pretty remarkable considering it was a Monday. On my lunch break I started realizing the world was working against me. No, that’s a lie, I really started noticing it on Saturday. We were leaving our flat and the sun was shining. I commented as [...]
Today I crashed our payroll database at work… oops!! I won’t get into how one manages to do that but it’s not that difficult, I mean I managed to do it easily enough! I was a bit worried when my colleague told me I had done it, but then all the girls in my department [...]
A few years ago, actually… more like 15 years ago (ugh!) my friend Peggi and I went out for a drive and were looking for some nice places to take pics. We drove about 15 minutes away from home and found these really nice waterfalls tucked in off an old dirt road. If we weren’t [...]
I have a PERIOD KEY! ……………………………………….. No more cutting and pasting! It’s wonderful! How do I have a new period key? It’s one of many new keys on my NEW LAPTOP! I know, this story just keeps getting better and better doesn’t it? It’s a Sony Vaio FJ Series and the things I love about [...]
Well I made it through the hitlergolf and managed to sweat myself off another 2 lbs, go go gadget heatwave!! Maybe I should move to some tropical island and all I’d really have to do is drink a lot of water so I don’t die, as I’d sweat every time I moved and lose weight [...]
HITTEGOLF – When I first saw this word today the first thing that came to mind was Hitler, don’t ask me why. I’d probably have the same reaction if I heard Hitler was coming to the Netherlands next week though. So I’ve decided to create another Canadutch word (along with Hubbetje and the like) and [...]
What is it with men and their ability to sleep through anything? Last night we had the worst thunder and lightning storm I can remember in a long time.. I leaped up out of my sleep, ran around the house closing windows and came back into the bedroom. I stood there for a minute observing [...]
It’s been raining for the past few days in the Netherlands, which is a bigger threat here than in a lot of other places in the world. The Dutch struggle constantly with water because a large part of the country below sea level and is reclaimed land. They’ve come up with an ingenius set of [...]
Fearless Fourteen
by Janet Evanovich
