It’s now just a little over a month until we go back to Canada and I’m still trying to get off as much as I can before we leave.  Not just because I want to be as less fat as I can but also because I want to be as comfortable as possible in those ridiculously narrow plane seats. Since …

My friend Matt was dissin’ my potato mush today. He obviously has no taste…  I call it Pink Mush With Blobs, because that’s what it looks like.  It tastes much better than it looks though, I swear.   I think I’ll make some tonight so I can get a photo. Breigh says (8:21 AM): brb gonna grab some food Matt says …

Last year I wrote a blog about The Best Day of Summer 1996 from an old blog entry.  I was looking back to where I was 10 years before. To sum it up, where I was 10 years before was spending the day driving around the Cabot Trail with my friend Peggi and two friends we had picked up hitchhiking. …

Why does psychiatric care in Dutch have to have PSYCHO in it?  It makes me feel so… Brad Pitt in 12 Monkeys :/ As any long time reader of my blog knows, over the years I’ve had some pretty nasty bouts of depression.  This was mostly brought on by homesickness, my lack of ability to cope and adapt to life …

Passport – CHECK! Tickets – CHECK! Petsitters – CHECK! I AM GOING HOME! YAAAAAY!! Now all I have to do is wait until it’s time to go.  It’s not so bad because we leave in just a little over a month.   I know the time will go by fast though because it seems like just yesterday I was saying ‘Only …

I’ve decided I don’t want my own hippo anymore.   I think I’m really afraid of them now, as I probably should be. Last night I had the strangest dream.   I was walking down the street with some friends, I was in my home town but other than a few of my old friends from High School everyone was Dutch.  They …

I love this video!  I can’t get enough of it.  I just sit slackjawed watching it and wanting a hippo of my very own! haha My little zoo pales in comparison to this!

This morning Xander and I went back to the walking track and I remembered to take my camera.   We did the full track again and it didn’t seem nearly as long as it did the first time.  After 30 minutes of hard walking I was beet red, as usual. I’m hoping one day I’ll be able to exercise without looking like …

This past weekend Xander and I went to visit our friends Penny and Yuri.  They are housesitting for Yuri’s boss here in Rotterdam and it’s been great having them so close.  They live in Roosendaal, about a 35-40 minute drive from us, so we get together once every 1-2 weeks if we are lucky. The place they are housesitting is like …

Ok so Project Fatass has been back in action now for the past two weeks and things are going really well.  Keeping track of what I eat and my exercise helps a lot.  I stay within my calorie range every day and eat a lot more healthy food than I did before. It’s funny because I always thought of eating healthier …

If you remember a while back when we got Sydney (our new 3 Striped Mud Turtle) I mentioned that we had also wanted to get a Loggerhead Musk Turtle but had to wait for him to be ready to leave the breeder.  Well, he was finally ready this past weekend and we went to pick him up. His name is Chip …