Day to Day Life

I find it hard to think of titles for each blog.. my old blog I wrote in notepad didn’t have them. I mean a title should be something that catches people’s eye and makes them interested in what you have to say, but I struggle with titles. I chose “Manooky Juice” because it was the first thing that came to …

That’s what Xander calls the kids across the street. Mean I suppose, but I still can’t help but laugh when he tells me “The Musical Mongos are on parade!”. It’s that time of year again, when they workers at the special needs school across the street start putting their patients outside for a little sun and fresh air. After an …

Overnight I have become my parents.. my parents have become their parents.. and it scares me to death. On March 25, 2005 at approximately 3pm in the afternoon, my aunt Pearly took her last breath. She was in her early 80’s and until this past year they had all been healthy. I was sure she’d live to be 100 years …

Yesterday I felt like I was on my very own episode of House Invaders, only a shitload more expensive! In House Invaders they go to your home and use things you have hanging around to make over your house. The difference is, we didn’t have anything hanging around to do it, so we had to buy tons of shit. Wow, …

Ten Reason Why I Love My Husband He GETS me. We are almost always on the same wavelength and if I’m happy, sad, angry or frustrated he truly listens to me and understands why. He is has an abundance of patience, which makes up for my complete lack of it. Together we have the perfect balance. He is strong, but …

I don’t mean the actual word “WORD” but the program “WORD”. I managed to talk myself into going to school yesterday, thinking I’d go to class and listen to my teacher .. you know, teach me shit. Yeah … When I got there she took us to the OLC (Open Leer Centrum) and plopped us down in front of computers. …

Yesterday I was talking to a friend and showing him some pics of Cape Breton when I found this pictures online of North Sydney, the town I come from. I felt homesick but it didn’t take me over like it would have in the past. It’s been so long since I’ve lived there, almost 9 years now. It’s hard to …

Project Home Reno is a go. We’ve sucessfully stripped every scrap of wallpaper from our apartment, Xander has sanded the door/window frames and I am in the process of painting them white. Soon there will be no more pink!! I just sit in the livingroom now, looking at the door frame leading to the hall and it’s a nice clean …

I saw this on a forum I frequent and thought it was totally blog-worthy. **************** I never quite figured out why the sexual urge of men and women differ so much. And I never have figured out the whole Venus and Mars thing. I have never figured out why men think with their heads and women with their hearts. FOR …

Today I had my last two exams (toets) for this part of my Dutch course and I’m so glad it’s over. I really hate tests! I think I did really well on luisteren (listening), schrijven (writing) and lezen (reading), but my spreken (speaking) was a NIGHTMARE. I’ve already said that but I just wanted to complain about it a little …

So tired.. Had my first two of four exams today, listening and speaking. Listening was a breeze but speaking was a nightmare.. I really am quite worried about how that one went. I hate the way they do it, if they are going to test how we speak Dutch why not just have a conversation with us. They give us …