Canadutch

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 …

What Breed of Dog Are You? My Result: Basset Hound No bones about it, you’re a friendly, easy-going Basset Hound. Laid-back and very low-maintenance, “down time” is your favorite activity — you treasure the moments when you don’t have anything on your agenda except plopping down on the couch for a night of “Must-See TV.” Although you’re always gunning for …

Why is it that whenever we can’t use something, that is when our body wants to.   When we are carrying an armload of something, we get an itchy nose.   When you have stuff in your hair you don’t want to touch, you get an itch on your scalp.   When you are standing in a crowd and can’t bend over you …

Apparently Dutch kids are the happiest in the western world.   From DutchNews.NL: Dutch children are the happiest in the western world, according to a new World Health Organisation survey of 41 European and North American countries, quoted in Wednesday’s Volkskrant. Last year, a Unicef report also found that Dutch teenagers were the happiest in the developed world. The WHO report …

Spencer is, surprisingly, more quiet than we have ever seen him.  Since he has returned home he is like an entirely different cat.   I don’t know if he’s just on his best behavior because he’s scared shitless we are going to send him away again, or if he is just a happier cat without Salem here. Regardless, he’s much easier …

Before we left for the South of France a colleague loaned me a book titled 501 Must-Visit Destinations. One of the things that jumped out at me was Chateau de Castelbouc in the Gorge du Tarn. This is what lead us to stay there for the last few days of our holiday. It didn’t disappoint!! The tiny village is built …

Last night I had the strangest dream, and I blame this photo which I first saw on my friend Gail’s blog. In my dream I was with my husband walking up some random street in Toronto.   All along the street people were playing games like basketball and all those dart throwing, ball chucking games that you see at the fair.  …

Things have been a little ‘bleh’ here lately, I’m sick with yet ANOTHER cold (yeah, my third since October, wtf?!) and am stressed out and frazzled about a multitude of things. Thankfully I have like, the best husband in the world, so I know it’ll all be ok. So instead of getting into all of that, I’m going to post …

On Correr Es Mi Destino, fellow expat Zhu wrote about Stuff Canadians Like.   She is sort of the opposite of me, having gone from Europe to Canada and having to get used to my country’s customs and weird ways.   I have to admit, I like pretty much everything she listed. It made me think of what would be on a …

I don’t usually do memes, but I’m making an exception because my mom sent me this one and I can never say no to her! Four places I go to over and over: Work, Pet Stores, Ikea, Albert Heijn Four people who e-mail me (regularly): Nobody emails, this is the age of MSN and Facebook people, update this meme already! …

We passed this village every day on our way to and from our hotel.  I have no idea what it was called but I thought it was so beautiful nestled up there on the hillside.   There are so many villages like this in the Gorge du Tarn and it would take a lot longer than the time we had. I …