Tag Archives: Birthdays

Today the oldest inhabitant of the Netherlands is celebrating her 111th birthday. Grietje Jansen-Anken lived alone until she was 92 years of age, and has been living in a care home in Middleburg since.  Reports say that she is still in perfect mental health.   She apparently shuns the media at every turn, not wanting to take part in any of …

Well today is my 32nd birthday and yeah I feel old.  I miss my 20’s! So far my birthday has been great, but I’ve only been awake for a few hours.  I can now talk about my super birthday present though!  I’ve been keeping it somewhat secret for the last week because I wanted to post about it on my …

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 think I remember saying quite a while ago that if I disappear to send out search parties.. where the hell are they? .. and here I thought you people cared about me! This is probably the biggest gap I’ve ever had in my blogging but every time I thought about writing one I went “Meh.. I’ll do it later”. …

I just woke up and the world hasn’t ended… It’s my Birthday and I’m 100% 30 now.. ! Hmm.. I don’t feel any different…

Today is Bailey’s birthday, he’s two! Three sleeps until I turn 30.. only three days left of my twenties. I hope to god my thirties don’t go by as quickly! Seven sleeps until Xander and I have been married for 5 years. We don’t have any big plans for any of these occasions. For our anniversary we already bought tickets …

Today it was a whopping 27 degrees here in Rotterdam, and we don’t have our screens on the windows yet. Whew, it’s warm in here! We can’t open the windows wide because of the animals. I’d hate for one of my little fluffies to end up taking a three story drop. I’ll have to make a point to paint the …

Vandaag mijn man is jarig. Hij is nu 30! For those of you who aren’t as cool as my fly Dutch speaking self, that means “Today is my husband’s birthday! He is 30 now”. Check it out, my Dutch is already improving and I’ve only been going to lessons for a week! :P   Tonight we went out for dinner …

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MEEEEE!! So my last year as a 20 something. I don’t really care.. although who knows maybe I’ll be one of those women who freaks out when I’m about to turn 30. I somehow doubt it though.. but it’s possible, one never knows what I’m going to freak out about. It’s sunny in North Sydney today but …