Ok, enough is enough.   This ongoing strike of the Writers Guild of America has got to stop!  They are driving the viewers to desperate lengths, making us watch shows we might ordinarily avoid IF there was something better on to watch.   Not only that, but they canceled our Golden Globes! Bastards! Ok, I’m not totally unsympathetic to their cause.  I …

Today I went out for the afternoon with my girlfriends.  We met at Bagels & Beans in the big bookstore in the city center, had some lunch and gabbed our asses off.  Two of the girls arrived with their baby girls that are only 10 days apart, so there was a lot of oohing and aahing going on.   At one …

I often wonder things that I wonder if other people are wondering too, know what I mean?   If it’s just me, then I’m either really weird or I have a superior brain to everyone else. I wonder how conjoined twins ever have a sex life.  Does one twin put on a mask and stuff their ears to give the other …

Sometimes my cats are well and truly evil, at those times I ask around and try to pawn them off onto friends because I’m convinced I just can’t live with them anymore.   Like this photo I took of Spencer drinking out of the toilet years ago when I was living in Prince Edward Island. Then there was the time I …

Between yesterday’s skinny theme and today’s PMS, I’m feeling like a total lardarse.   That’s not even mentioning the holiday weight gain.   There’s only one thing that gets me out of it…  a little bit of MIKA!   I mean, Baby Got Back is so yesterday.  I think this is my new love myself theme song. Seriously, even on days that my …

This week’s theme is skinny, frig! What am I going to put for that? It’s not like I’ve ever been skinny.  At least that’s what the kids at school told me!   Ever since I was a child I was always the chubby kid.   When I look back at photos of myself when I was young, I don’t see myself as …

For reasons I won’t go into, I decided to test out how long it takes for my vertical labret (lip piercing) to grow over if I take it out.   Basically I wanted to see if I take it out for a day or so, will I be able to get it back in. Bad idea… I took it out at …

This week I want Eneco (our current, and soon to be former, energy company) to FUCK OFF AND DIE!  Argh, I hate them to the very core of my existence!! When we got back from Canada we got a huge bill from them that we weren’t expecting, and the entire amount was taken out of our account in one huge …

I hate when I read or watch something that the rest of the world raves about and seems to think it’s the best thing since sliced bread, and I don’t like it.  It happens quite often, like with the Kill Bill movies… or Monty Python.   It makes me feel like I have no taste, or can’t appreciate art.  I know …

Laura, Penny, and Tammy Originally uploaded by laura95368 One of my closest friends since coming to the Netherlands is Penny, a California girl who moved here to the Netherlands about four years ago. She is also married to a former skater boy and like all my other friends, is PREGNANT! Ever since I’ve known her she’s talked about her friend …

The other day while I was in the city center, I took some photos of the skaters at the man made ice skating rink by the city hall.   One thing that caught my attention was the orange rental skates everyone was wearing. If you’ve ever been to the Netherlands, especially on Koninginnedag, you may have wondered why the Dutch clad …