Tammy

A Canadian living in France with her Dutch hubby after 17 years in the Netherlands. A total TV and movie junkie who is never not knitting. She also enjoys other crafts, nail art, cuddling her dogs and general geekery. Otherwise just working on getting by and making a life for herself in her 'new' country.

MMM Pancakes!

Last night our friend Bart came over with his new girlfriend Marijke. Well she’s not really new to him, they’ve been together for like 3 years or something, we just haven’t seen him in that long. Shameful huh? One of my absolute favorite people here in NL and haven’t seen him in years! I’d try to describe him but he’s …

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Will you impress me today?

You need a change of scenery. Join a group that will get your mind racing. You will be at your best when you are contributing to something worthwhile. Someone new will impress you on many different levels. That’s my horoscope for today from Horoscope.com! I hardly ever check it but it’s fun sometimes to see how it fits in to …

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Downloading in my sleep?

Yesterday, after a painful 24 hours of non-downloading, we checked our data stats on the datagebruik.chello.nl site. It said we had used another 2 gigs, which is bullshit. I phoned them and they gave some lame excuse about someone probably using our wireless, which we told them wasn’t true because we have it fully secured. I guess it was asking …

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Murphy’s Law

I got my new hard disk yesterday! 200 gigs just waiting to be filled with downloaded movies, tv shows, music and whatever else I manage to get my mits on. I was so excited! I couldn’t wait for Xander to get home to put it in my computer! He came home and told me we got an email from our …

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Not-So-Bitch?

Yesterday I got paired with the girl formerly known as “The Bitch” during our groups portion of the lesson. Over the past week our paths really haven’t crossed, either she wasn’t in class or I wasn’t. Yesterday she seemed absolutely trilled to see me, which shocked the socks of me fer sure. She’s quite a bit more friendly than I …

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I am a HEATHEN!

I just got off the phone with a girl from my class. She’s American and I love her to pieces! I honestly don’t know what I’d do if she wasn’t in my class because she is so nice and really helps to motivate me. (By calling and saying “Where the heck are you?!” if I don’t show up, just the …

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Blast from the Past!

There was a girl I knew when I was a kid. She lived up off of Musgrave’s Lane and used to hang out with my friend Sarah a lot. Her name was Angela and I used to think she was such a goodie two shoes. She never wanted to do anything really risky, she was so pretty and polite and …

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3:30am

I remember when I used to see that time of day when I would just be coming home after a night out with my friends. Stumbling my way to my bedroom and falling into a deep slumber. That’s how 3:30am should always be seen, if you ask me. I saw it this morning after being woken up by yet another …

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Pornolize Me!!

Someone posted a link somewhere for a website that will Pornolize any website you want. I did it to my website and Xander and I were in stitches laughing. My favorite part was: The first thing he did was scoop me up in his arms, kiss my cheek and whisper “You’re beautiful!” I squirted.. from Xander’s page in the description …

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I’m Gone Dutch…

Today I got up and was checking my email before school. For some reason I decided to check this yahoo group I’d belonged to for ages but rarely read. It’s called Gone Dutch and it’s basically just a group of foreigners who are living in the Netherlands. I saw that they had planned a gathering in Rotterdam for today so …

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People piss me off!!

Within the last 24 hours 2 people have been added to my “People I’d like to biff off a cliff” list. First is one of the new girls in my class. We got 3 new people with us who failed the test for the level above us, so they had to come back and do this section over. One is …

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