Day to Day Life

Learned two valuable travel lessons this weekend. I had a petsitting job in Den Haag and on my way there my train stopped part way and wasn’t going any further, leaving me with no idea how the heck to get to my destination. Lesson learned: ALWAYS plan an alternate route when using public transit!! On the way back I learned …

I’ve come to love the website www.Expatica.com because it makes me feel like my sometimes negative feelings towards live in the Netherlands aren’t completely without foundation. I just read another interesting article about a poll done on expats and their feelings about living in NL. I appear to fit in among the 15% of foreigners in NL…. that % of …

I can’t believe it’s been almost a year since my last I LoveThe Fall photos and posts. This is one of my favorite times of year for so many different reasons. I always get the feeling like I should be out buying pencils and getting in as many bike rides as I can before the snow. I love going out …

Found this on one of my yahoo groups that was posted from www.Expatica.com 23 September 2005 AMSTERDAM — At least 77 percent of the mainly expat staff of international agencies in the Netherlands want to leave the country. And more than half of the Dutch employees think their organisation should relocate to another country, according to a report in newspaper …

Today I had the two worst parts of the Profieltoets, spreken (speaking) and Maatschappij-orientatie (social orientation). Speaking is always difficult because you have very limited amounts of time to think of what you want to say, and the MO was difficult because uhh, well I didn’t even crack that book until two days ago and haven’t been to the classes …

Two really horrible things happened in the past few days. I somehow managed to lose a longtime friend. It was a friend I first made years ago when I was playing Ultima Online and we spoke a lot and got to know each other very very well. I had been upset about not hearing from her much and her apparent …

What is it with men and their ability to sleep through anything? Last night we had the worst thunder and lightning storm I can remember in a long time.. I leaped up out of my sleep, ran around the house closing windows and came back into the bedroom. I stood there for a minute observing the scene in there.. the …

Xander is on a warpath. He messaged me from work today saying that he printed off this month’s phone bill and it’s higher than ever. According to the rest of the bills he’s printed off, our phone bill has been steadily increasing between May – September. This is quite a coincidence since the frequency of my annoying neighbour (see post …

I was just woken up by the loudest bang I have heard in a very long time. At first I thought it was thunder, but after getting up to close the windows I realized it wasn’t raining and there wasn’t another sound afterwards. I thought perhaps the cats knocked something off somewhere, but after a quick inspection of the house …

My belly is absolutely bursting atm… Last night Xander tricked me into spending a long time with a full group of newbies doing something I really didn’t want to do in game. This made me very cranky so he promised to make a great Sunday morning breakfast. It is officially known as and will go down in history as “The …

I keep thinking of that song Ironic by Alanis Morisette… A few weeks ago a friend was diagnosed with cancer. Being a bazillion miles away (as I usually am when things go on with the people I care about) I thought I’d try to do something nice to let him and his fiance know I was thinking of them. I …