Last night Xander and I were in the car on the way home from the pet shop.  We had just turned a corner when I saw a car coming towards us and I instantly screamed out… PADIDDLE!!! … then quickly smacked the roof of the car. To me, this was an instant reaction, a reflex, something I do without thought… …

This weeks FOAD is 100% dedicated to my cats.   Don’t be fooled by the photo, they look cute but they are evil, pure evil! By evil, I mean incredibly intelligent and crafty… and even a little insane. In the past I’ve had moments where I was sure I was going to crack and give them away, but I’ve had them …

When I moved to the Netherlands in 1999, one of the first things I did was visit the Anne Frank House.   Years before, when I was in high school, I went through a period where I read a lot of books about the holocaust.   I had just learned about it in history class and I couldn’t read enough about it.   …

Last week I was bored. I had run out of downloaded shows to watch and was wondering what I should download next. I’d heard so many people talking about the show Battlestar Galactica but have never watched it myself.   All I really knew about it was that it’s a newer version of a show that used to be on years …

Only 41 days left until Christmas and I’m giddy like a child! I can’t wait for the holidays this year.  I’m not really sure why since we’ll have no family in the country and all our friends are expats and will be going to their home countries, but I am!! I’m counting the days until Dec 1st, which is as …

Last night we went out for dinner at the Dream Cafe (formerly known as the American Dream Cafe) here in Rotterdam. It was a gathering for a group I belong to for expat women.   We had a reservation for 6:30pm but when we got there they didn’t have the reservation, eek! Luckily, Happy Waiter was working and he gave us tables …

Grab the Scavenger Hunt code. Photo Theme. Join the blogroll. Visit participants. When I heard ‘Growth’ for this week’s photo theme I thought about Bailey and how he’s grown. The photo on the left was not long after we got him home.   He was so tiny!  The photo on the right was taken last winter when we had him out …

Ok I’ve decided on a new theme, using the new header made by my friend Duncan (aka. Gravain for those of you gamer friends reading this). I have a problem though, I can’t get the drop down links to work that I used to use on my old theme, because I’m using sidebar widgets on this one. The code I …

Over the next few days my site may look completely retarded.  Weird colors, or other themes.   I’m too lazy to make a copy of this blog to test on so I’m just going to test on it live :) So expect that things won’t look or work like normal for the next while! I’ve got the theme-changing itch (no, not …

I need you to poke around my site a bit.  Click on things in my sidebar, try to go to the next page, check my categories etc and tell me if you get any errors or if things just look generally unwell. Please tell me: 1) What browser you are using. 2) What errors you are getting. If you remember …

Well winter is slowly creeping in here in the Netherlands.   The leaves are falling, the days are becoming shorter and the sun’s appearances are getting more few and far between. Any day now noon time will start looking like this photo, which was taken out my livingroom window at 11am on a December morning a few years ago. I’m nervous.   …