Day to Day Life

Last night we went out for dinner at the Dream Cafe (formerly known as the American Dream Cafe) here in Rotterdam. It was a gathering for a group I belong to for expat women.   We had a reservation for 6:30pm but when we got there they didn’t have the reservation, eek! Luckily, Happy Waiter was working and he gave us tables …

Well winter is slowly creeping in here in the Netherlands.   The leaves are falling, the days are becoming shorter and the sun’s appearances are getting more few and far between. Any day now noon time will start looking like this photo, which was taken out my livingroom window at 11am on a December morning a few years ago. I’m nervous.   …

Grab the Scavenger Hunt code. Photo Theme. Join the blogroll. Visit participants. This week’s theme is safe and once again I was left wondering what to use.  I found the last few weeks themes sort of ‘meh’ and all quite similar.  I’m hoping the new batch makes for some more interesting photos. I thought of what makes me think of …

Today I sold my World of Warcraft account to an old gaming friend.  It’s sort of weird to know that someone else will be playing my characters but at the same time I’m glad to be free of it.   I’ve been much happier since quitting gaming and unloading the account means it’s even less likely of me ever returning. I …

This week’s FOAD is going out to the pancake makeup wearing, pissy attitude giving, hate-my-job-so-I-will-make-you-miserable waitress bitch I encountered yesterday. Yesterday I went into town to meet up with a group of other expat women for a bit of shopping and lunch.  After mass confusion and not being able to decide where to go for lunch, one of the girls  …

This week’s theme is Lost, and I resisted the urge to swipe some photo of one of the sexy LOST stars and use that. Instead I’m going to post this photo, taken about a year or two ago of one of the kids in our neighbourhood. I am using it for this week’s theme because I think it’s an example …

I’m a Pirate, I admit it, and writing about TV shows recently has made me think of just how much I love BitTorrent.  TV in the Netherlands blows, hardcore.  It’s getting better but it’s still nothing like back in North America. Recently we ordered digital cable but that turned out to be just more channels with nothing on them.   So …

This piece of pink paper has been causing me serious anxiety lately.  It’s a Dutch drivers license and dammit I want one! When I first moved to the Netherlands I had my Canadian DL for almost 10 years already.  Before moving here I got an international DL which was good for 6 months after moving here. We didn’t have a …

It’s been a week since my darling hubby ran off to the South of France to visit his family.  Like the times when he goes away for work, I’m weird before he leaves and just after he leaves, but then I’m fine. The week has gone by quite quickly and other than some shopping, a haircut and a visit to the …

Not separate exactly, as I’m not having one… but Xander just left to spend 8 days in the South of France and I’m here alone.   He’s going to visit his parents, which I’m really glad about.  Especially that he’ll get to spend some quality alone time with his mom.  That’s something they haven’t done in years and the last time …

… but who’s counting! (ok… me.) ~~ JINGLE BELLS, Bloggers SMELL a hundred miles awaaaaay, plug your nose until they go and then you’ll be ok, HEY! ~~ Yeah, I’m five. I also can’t wait for Christmas, like every other year.  Even though I tried to cancel Christmas last year, I still ended up enjoyhing myself with my darling hubby and …