Tag Archives: Xander

My husband went to Belgium for a few hours this morning and when he came home he told me that he found a cure for my stress. Nice try, honey!

At the moment I am off work for a few weeks.  It sucks, and I feel like a total arsehole but I guess I need to accept my limitations. Going back to a 40 hour week after 9 years of being a housewife, ok… might have been able to manage if it wasn’t something too busy or stressful. Going back …

Today I am celebrating my 8 year anniversary with my husband.   When I say celebrating I really mean it.   Not in the partying sense but in the way that I truly recognize how lucky I am to have him in my life and can’t imagine my life without him. Our marriage hasn’t been perfect.  There have been strains along the …

Well we leave tomorrow morning and almost everything is ready.  Our clothes are packed, the animal care has all been sorted out (thanks to our wonderful neighbours who petsit for us when we are away) and we’ve stocked up on corny Top songs of the 60’s type roadtrip cd’s. We hope to get to somewhere around Lyon tomorrow and will …

A snippet from my Spats section: Dogs Balls – Repeated Since Bailey turned six months old Xander and I have had an ongoing argument about his balls. I want to get him fixed, Xander doesn’t. Now I understand it’s just male instinct to want to preserve all testicles on the planet, but there must be limits. Where I come from …

Today I went to get a remote for my new phone so that I could use normal headphones, the ones that came with it are garbage.  It’s not like a remote you use for the TV but a thing that plugs into the phone that you can plug your headphones into and it has all the buttons you need for …

I think anyone who knows me and my husband knows that we are major gadget geeks.  Rather than clothes and shoes, holidays and whatever else people usually spend their money on, we are always on the lookout for a new laptop, PDA, mobile phone, etc.   My working has really made this easier for us. This is my messy living room …

After having been back to work for the past 2 months, one thing I’ve not had a lot of is me time.  Something I’ve had nothing but for the past 8 or so years.   I get up in the morning and have to deal with the pets (feeding, walking) and then am off to work.  I get home and I’m …

I have no voice.  If I try to talk it comes out as a painful whisper, or if I really try hard, a croak.  My throat is so sore, I am sucking back Halls (which I’m so glad I brought back from Canada with me!) and Vicks Anti-Flu lozenges like nobodies business.   I even wake up in the middle of …

This morning Xander sent me a link to a funny video on YouTube. I love this for so may reasons… Firstly, it’s got the big dude from Shaun of the Dead, which is such a great movie. Then there’s just the topic of the video that cracks me up. Mostly, it’s funny because I’m the woman that disproves this rule.   …

My husband found this drawing on the Internet somewhere and we both laughed our asses off.   I shit you not, we have actually had this exact conversation. Honestly, it’s like a day in the life of the Soldaats right there…