Tag Archives: Friends

Little self-scold there… seeing as I’ve been such a crap blogger lately. Not a whole lot new here. Been working on my quilting a lot and doing some knitting.. my scarf should be done just in time for when I’ll need it hehe. This is the example of the block I’m working on this week. I’ll pop a pic up …

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 …

So Tanya did a 69 Q’s meme and I figured I may as well keep it going. So here’s mine :) (Btw Tanya I giggle when I see 69 too :P ) 1. Initials: — TBCS 2. Name someone with the same birthday as you: — Harry S Truman 3. Where was your first kiss? — Monroe Park with Aaron …

Yesterday I met up with three other expat women who are living here in Rotterdam. I met them on one of my “Life in the Netherlands” type of yahoo groups when I made a post about knitting (yes, I know.. I’m obsessed with learning to knit lately). Usually when I go to these gatherings I find myself in limbo between …

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 …

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 …

People have “Memes” on their blogs… and I often wonder what “Meme” even means. I just see Me-Me and then I think of Mimi from Drew Carey and then the next time Xander speaks to me I’m dying to say “BITE ME PIG!” Anyway… As promised in the rules of this Mimi, I am posting it on my blog. These …

If any of you out there are religious or have any other kind of spiritual connection .. send a little prayer or voodoo magic the way of my friend Gail and her soon-to-be husband David who are dealing with much bigger issues than tiles and toilets at the moment… Love you guys and we’re thinking about you!

This morning I saw something in my last post that I think could easily be taken the wrong way: … where I come from if you don’t get your license when you turn 16 you’re weird. If you don’t have your own car by the time you are in your 20’s.. you’re just a complete loser. When I re-read that …

Our friend Erwin has been here visiting for the past two days. He’s an old friend of Xander and I that we met on the net and have known for about 12 years now. He is a Dutchie too but sadly lives all the way in Germany so we don’t get to see him that often. Last night we were …