Ok my new kitchen obviously didn’t come with cooking skill involved in the purchase price.  A while back my friend Penny was telling me about these no bake cookies she makes that are supposed to end up like this.  No baking sounded good to me because it greatly reduced the chances of me ruining them. Clearly this recipe was no …

… is Dutch for green, which is the color I chose for the kitchen!  I wanted a sort of country kitchen green and I think I got it.   I just slapped a quick coat on the wall with a brush to get an idea of how it will look. I took this photo for my mother to show her the …

This weekend I made my first trip to a Milieupark!  It’s basically a dump.  We had a lot of building materials from the renovations, pieces of our old kitchen and packaging for our new one and having it all in the house was making me nuts. I know a trip to the dump doesn’t sound exciting but I was surprised with what …

This week’s photo hunt is colorful.  I chose this photo from a stand in the Rotterdam Market.  It is always really pretty with so many colorful things. Grab the Scavenger Hunt code. Photo Theme. Join the blogroll. Visit participants.

A while back a friend invited me to Facebook and I joined to see what it was.  Since then I’ve been completely addicted to it because it’s like a time machine!  I’ve gotten in touch with so many old friends, and even some family.  I’ve caught up with over 50 friends from my graduating class and it’s been great. Another thing …

On the afternoon of May 18th, one of the gorillas at the zoo I went to last month here in Rotterdam escaped from his enclosure and went on a bit of a rampage.   He somehow managed to scale the wall of his enclosure, climb out, leap across a 4 meter moat and get out into the public. The gorilla, Bokito, had also …

Hooray! :)   Our kitchen is here and installed and I’m soooo happy!!  There still needs to be some plastering, painting and tiling but the best bits are done. Here’s a some before and afters: After seeing the kitchen together finally, I’ve changed my mind YET AGAIN about the tiles.  The ones I had picked out before just don’t seem to …

Today Xander and I got up at 7am to wait for the guys to come and assemble our kitchen.  They were originally scheduled to do it yesterday but it was a holiday here yesterday so we agreed to today.  This was confirmed with the shop we bought the kitchen from TWICE and also on the phone once when they called …

I really wish I hadn’t already used my little Idol Voter Massacre Drawing for this season, I feel like I wasted it on that little fag Sanjaya when it would have gone to much better use today, after watching Melinda getting voted off. It’s not because I really love Melinda or anything, I think she has no neck and her …

Our house is in shambles, I’m going out of my mind.   Not that I’m normally a stellar housekeeper but this is just beyond. Our fridge is in our bedroom, our stove is in the spare room, our washer is in the hallway. Our livingroom (in this pic) pretty much holds everything else. On the plus side, it makes getting a …

Well our kitchen has been demolished.  It’s been a bit of a pain in the ass and I’m stressing out every step of the way but here’s what has taken place so far. This is our kitchen the first day we started dismantling it.  Obviously, extremely cluttered and messy… it was hard finding places to put things from the cupboards …