Day to Day Life

Having been completely unable to decide which camera I want, I’ve decided to put that on hold until another time.  Instead, I’ve decided to sort out a proper enclosure for Sherman.   For the last few weeks he’s been living in a large rabbit cage I picked up for 10 euros on Marktplaats, but it’s not suitable for a forever home …

I was reading An American in Amsterdam this morning and saw a video posted that left me slackjawed. Fox News completely trashes the Netherlands, I was shocked.   Many of the things they mention in the report are things I love about this country and I found myself rolling my eyes and ‘pfft’-ing to my husband at the way the report was …

This morning I woke up with a little friend… a cold sore.  GROSS, I have herpes!!  Herpes simplex is commonly referred to as cold sores or fever blisters. It is a viral infection of the skin that may occur once or return again and again. This is because when the virus is cleared from the skin by the immune system …

Right so I’ve been working at this call center again for the second time and just finished my first week of work.   It’s been a learning experience and I’m happy to say the atmosphere there is much better than it was a few years ago. I learned a few things about being an outbound (telephone surveys) call center agent this …

How do you not giggle when saying that?  It was almost as bad as the time I had to call a guy named John Holmes and none of my co-workers understood why I found it so funny. I did manage to get through the call without laughing, but I came very close at the end of the call when I …

I’ve been feeling so great lately about being out working and feeling ‘normal’ again… but there is one thing I forgot about.   That feeling when the weather is absolutely crap and you have to get up and go out in it to go to work.  Gone are the days of staying home under a blanket on cold rainy days. Yesterday …

This week’s theme is Memory.  I went through a few different ideas before choosing a photo.  Good memory, bad memory, scary memory, funny memory… I ended up going with a memory that gives me all of those feelings. My wedding day.  The day I literally married my best friend and the love of my life all rolled into one. May 12, 2000, …

I got home this evening at about 7:30 from my training day at work.  Having gotten there at 9am, it was a long day for me.   I call it a training day but it was more of a sit and re-learn stuff I already knew day… which made it sort of boring at times. It was still dark when I …

It’s off to work I go… Yeah, work.  Something I haven’t seen much of since I’ve been living in the Netherlands.  Partly by choice but mostly due to an utter lack of options. It’s been almost 3 years since I had a job, and even then it was only for a few months.  The last time I had proper employment …

This is how we started ringing the New Year this year.  Looking through a rainy window wondering if we want to go outside or not. It wasn’t freezing cold like the last few years, it was actually surprisingly warm (about 11 degrees Celsius), but it looked generally nasty outside. I was so disappointed… the fireworks is one of the things …

This morning I got up hellishly early.  I couldn’t sleep so I got up and was arsing around on the web for a while.    I had a quick peek at the summary for my blog traffic and had to laugh when I saw that someone found my blog when searching for ‘Hairy Porn Freaks’.  Omg, how did they know?! Oh …