Day to Day Life

If you are a long time reader you’ll know about my crazy neighbour.  If not let me sum it up: Moved in this flat 5 years ago, upstairs neighbour was 16 year old girl W. and her 24-ish year old boyfriend, J.   Wasn’t long before we put 2 and 2 together.  He does a lot of drugs, he beats her …

It’s thundering outside with some lightning but I never bother to look at the lightning here because you can’t actually see it. I wish we got really cool fork lightning here that I could take photos of, but we just get the white sky kind. The closer it gets to summer the more and more irritated I’m getting watching people …

The tiles started going up last week but it’s slow going as the guy we are paying to do it is only available on weeknights or weekends so it’s mostly Saturdays that the work is getting done.  The grouting hasn’t been done yet but it’s still nice to have the tiles on the wall. Today he is working on making …

… 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 …

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 …