Day to Day Life

A quick Dutch lesson… In Dutch, ‘ee’ is said like we would say ‘ay’.  So for example, Nee is said like ‘nay’. Yesterday I dragged Xander into town while I went shopping for fabric to make some liners for the hedgie cage. The conversation with the sales girl went like this: Me: Ik wil twee meters fleece kopen, alstublieft! (I …

Ok first, Harley is home! I’ll have some pics later when I actually see him awake! We made pretty good time, getting to Moers, Germany and back between 2pm – 12am with time to stop for dinner in the city center and take in a little bit of the local scenery. Ausfahrt has been replaced as our most amusingly dirty road sign.  …

About 5 minutes ago as I was eating my fish sticks, I was listening to the wind howling outside and remembering how two years ago around this time of year I was sunburned from spending too much time in the sun. Two days from now two years ago I was laying on the beach in almost 30 degree weather. It’s …

Going into my appointment with my fertility specialist today, I had everything figured out. We were going to take 1-2 years off from trying to get pregnant to give me time to lose my extra weight and for us to figure out if we even really want children afterall… or if our (my) previous obsession with having children was brought …

Holy christ on a crutch! It actually exists!! As I mentioned in one of my prevoius posts we recently ordered a Juwel Rio 180 aquarium from our local pet store. When we ordered it, the guy said that they would set it up with the backing on it, set the filter up and deliver it straight up to our flat. …

Ever since I my friend Shirley told me she got a hedgehog … or no wait, ever since I saw a photo of him… I’ve wanted one! I absolutely love these little Pygmy Hedgehogs, they are soooooooooooooo cute!!! I looked into it but I couldn’t find anyone in Holland who breeds them and it was too expensive to buy one …

As I was walking the dog this morning a man rode up to me on his bike and commented on what a cute dog I have. Duh… anyone with eyes can see that. He continued chatting with me… I got the usual… where are you from, how long have you lived here, yada yada. He was from some place I’ve …

As some might remember, one of the things Xander and I disagreed on was the topic of sleeping with earplugs. He thought it was great, I thought it was not-so great because someone could come in and kill me and he’d never hear it…. although, that could be the reason he wears them, who knows! Anyhow, it’s true… I’ve been …

Last night we went for our first Sunday drive in our brand new car. We had our dinner and took the dog and drove out into the countryside a bit. It was a beautiful evening and the perfect time for a drive… it was heaven! Bailey totally thought so too! His little snout was stuck over my shoulder almost the …

It’s 5:48am and I’m awake. Well, awake might be a bit of a stretch but I’m out of bed. I got out of bed for yucky girl reasons I’d explain but I fear it would make the boys never come back. It sucks being one of those people who can’t get up and go back to bed. If I have …

A while ago I wrote about the best day of summer 1996, well this is definately going down in the books as the BEST DAY OF SUMMER 2006!! w00t!!! Today Xander started with a new company and this is one of the perks: OH MY FUCKING GOD ALMIGHTY WE HAVE A CAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ***** FAINTS ****** A quick little back story …