Day to Day Life

Yesterday (my birthday!) we decided to come home.  We’d been in France for over a week and were both feeling like we were getting a little tired of sight seeing.   It was time to pack up and head home so that we could be home in time to have a nice long weekend to chill out before returning to work. …

The minute I saw the photo hunt this week I knew what I would use… I took this photo in the Red Light District in Amsterdam when I moved to the Netherlands back in 1999.   As if it wasn’t shock enough being there, I was even more shocked when I saw this sign. I’m still not sure if it was …

On April 30, 2008 my hubby and I are taking off on our first ever European Road Trip!  Well, the first one with just the two of us.  No wait, three!  Bailey is coming too!  We will be gone for about 10 days and I will be celebrating my 33rd (GROAN) birthday somewhere along the way! Our end destination is …

This is me. This is me counting to ten. This is me killing everyone in my immediate surroundings in a PMS Rage. Today I am home having my turn to be with the plumbers and welders that are working on the pipes in the building.   What started out as a leak in our bathroom has turned into a leak in …

Today I was in a great mood at work, which was pretty remarkable considering it was a Monday.   On my lunch break I started realizing the world was working against me. No, that’s a lie, I really started noticing it on Saturday. We were leaving our flat and the sun was shining.  I commented as we were walking out of …

Do you have any idea what I’m talking about?  If not, then you are proving something I’ve been asking myself about all the time. I’ve been seeing these ads on trams all over the city but keep missing the chance to take a photo, but the other day on my way home from work I managed to snap this quickly …

I’ve been working at my current company now for almost three months and I’m finally reaching the point where I feel I have a decent grasp on what we do, which makes for a welcome change.   There is a lot to learn and for the first month I felt quite confused and came home every day feeling completely drained.   I’m …

I keep forgetting about the photo hunt lately, but there’s still a few hours left of this Saturday so I’m not too late. This is a photo of Seal Island Bridge in Cape Breton, taken from one of the viewpoints of Kelly’s Mountain. For me, it’s always the sign that I’m almost home.  Once we cross that bridge I know …

Today I went to get a remote for my new phone so that I could use normal headphones, the ones that came with it are garbage.  It’s not like a remote you use for the TV but a thing that plugs into the phone that you can plug your headphones into and it has all the buttons you need for …

I think anyone who knows me and my husband knows that we are major gadget geeks.  Rather than clothes and shoes, holidays and whatever else people usually spend their money on, we are always on the lookout for a new laptop, PDA, mobile phone, etc.   My working has really made this easier for us. This is my messy living room …

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 …