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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 the urge to knit?! I have these …

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 can before the snow. I love going out …

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 it would make any difference, as my father always …

Found this on one of my yahoo groups that was posted from www.Expatica.com 23 September 2005 AMSTERDAM — At least 77 percent of the mainly expat staff of international agencies in the Netherlands want to leave the country. And more than half of the Dutch employees think their organisation should relocate to another country, according to a report in newspaper …

Today I had the two worst parts of the Profieltoets, spreken (speaking) and Maatschappij-orientatie (social orientation). Speaking is always difficult because you have very limited amounts of time to think of what you want to say, and the MO was difficult because uhh, well I didn’t even crack that book until two days ago and haven’t been to the classes …

Two really horrible things happened in the past few days. I somehow managed to lose a longtime friend. It was a friend I first made years ago when I was playing Ultima Online and we spoke a lot and got to know each other very very well. I had been upset about not hearing from her much and her apparent …

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 the scene in there.. the …

Xander is on a warpath. He messaged me from work today saying that he printed off this month’s phone bill and it’s higher than ever. According to the rest of the bills he’s printed off, our phone bill has been steadily increasing between May – September. This is quite a coincidence since the frequency of my annoying neighbour (see post …

I was just woken up by the loudest bang I have heard in a very long time. At first I thought it was thunder, but after getting up to close the windows I realized it wasn’t raining and there wasn’t another sound afterwards. I thought perhaps the cats knocked something off somewhere, but after a quick inspection of the house …

I found this game online and it’s making me nuts… Clicky Clicky for Crazy Game! The object of the game is to make sure that none of the lines are crossing.. I’m up to level 7 at the moment and starting to get frustrated with it. It’s one of those games that you just keep playing anyway, even though it …

My belly is absolutely bursting atm… Last night Xander tricked me into spending a long time with a full group of newbies doing something I really didn’t want to do in game. This made me very cranky so he promised to make a great Sunday morning breakfast. It is officially known as and will go down in history as “The …