Today at 5:40pm we were told that we were going to have tomorrow off as well as Monday.   While some colleagues were complaining about how they wished they’d had more notice to make plans, I was thinking ‘Oh Yessssss!’. Four whole days to sit at home if I want to, knit if I want to, not wear nice shoes if …

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 …

This was me once, when I was 15 years old, in 9th grade. My boyfriend’s name was Aaron Tuck, I have no idea where he is now but wherever it is I’m sure he’s causing lots of heartache to some poor woman who loves him desperately regardless. I thought I was massively fat, even though I’d love to be that …

Have any of you seen the movie Juno yet?  If not, you really have to check out the trailer. Yesterday my friend Penny came into town and we met up after work.   I get off early on Fridays so I worked through my lunch so I could get off even earlier so we could hang out.   She is way pregnant, …

The new-ish thing for public transit here in Rotterdam is the OV Chipkaart.    It’s a card that you can charge up with credit and use on the public transit to get around the city. In the past we used something called a strippenkaart which was a long paper thing sectioned into blocks or ‘strips’.  Depending on how many zones you …

If you don’t live in North America, you probably don’t ever see the Jimmy Kimmel show, or like me didn’t even know who Jimmy Kimmel was until recently.   Or Sarah Silverman for that matter.. So the backstory is Sarah Silverman is a comedian who has been dating late night David Letterman-like show guy, Jimmy Kimmel for a few years.   This …

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 …

Yeah, well all hope of it just being allergies is gone out the window.   I went to work this morning feeling slightly crap and by the end of the afternoon I was downright miserable. I can’t stop coughing, my throat hurts, I’m sneezing my brains out and am full of snot.   Those aren’t even the worst bits though.  The fucking …

Buying Immune System!  Does anyone have one for sale? The dizziness is almost totally gone now, finally.  The doc told me that my bloodwork came back ok but that there was levels of something or other that lead him to think I have a virus, which was causing the vertigo.  I was all, cool… give me something to make it …

Ok not quite jaws, but still…   Chip is looking mighty stalker-like in this photo.   If you’ve ever wondered what guppies look like when they are babies, well that’s it… and that poor little fry had no idea that Chip was sizing him/her up for lunch. He never did catch it, mind you.  At least not that I know of…

Ok so get this.   I was just talking to my friend Matt and was telling him that I was watching the latest episode of The Biggest Loser.  Then he told me to pause it because he had something interesting to tell me. You see, Matt and I first met on one of the turtle forums I visit quite a lot.  …