Tantrums & Rants

Living outside of my home country, I download TV shows daily via Bit Torrent.   There are a number of sites I belong to, some private, some public… and I depend on them to keep me up to date with the shows I am missing.   Dutch TV leaves a lot to be desired so I’m thankful to be able to do …

Ok, now this just ticks me off.  Who thought hot dogs could cause so much confusion and hassle. When I first moved here I found it so totally bizarre that they kept their hot dogs in bottles and cans with water… and not refrigerated.   I was used to hotdog’s in a plastic package in the cooler section.  How do these …

Why does psychiatric care in Dutch have to have PSYCHO in it?  It makes me feel so… Brad Pitt in 12 Monkeys :/ As any long time reader of my blog knows, over the years I’ve had some pretty nasty bouts of depression.  This was mostly brought on by homesickness, my lack of ability to cope and adapt to life …

If you remember a while back when we got Sydney (our new 3 Striped Mud Turtle) I mentioned that we had also wanted to get a Loggerhead Musk Turtle but had to wait for him to be ready to leave the breeder.  Well, he was finally ready this past weekend and we went to pick him up. His name is Chip …

A while back I was in the car with Xander and as we passed a car on the highway I looked over and saw a 20-something girl in her car.  I watched as she tried to hold the wheel, hold her cigarette, shift gears and take a drink of her fanta all at the same time and I wondered why …

Today I am FOADing the Canadian Embassy in The Netherlands, and possibly the Dutch influence on them.   How friggin’ hard can it be to change your surname when you get married?!  I mean, seriously!! These people make me insane! I’ve been trying to sort out a new passport because we are going back to Canada in October on holiday.   My old passport …

This weekend I have my husband home for an extra long weekend.   He’s bored at work waiting for some hardware to arrive so he decided to take his last few holiday days from last year and make this a long weekend.   He took a half day yesterday and is off today and Monday.   One of the things he was looking …

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 …

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 …

I really wish I hadn’t already used my little Idol Voter Massacre Drawing for this season, I feel like I wasted it on that little fag Sanjaya when it would have gone to much better use today, after watching Melinda getting voted off. It’s not because I really love Melinda or anything, I think she has no neck and her …