I'm sorry to all you mothers, but really, when your kid reaches two years old, just say two years old. Don't say 27-month-old. Honestly, I think the month stuff should end after one year, but really, by two, it's just getting silly.

So yeah, a bit of a peeve of mine. Feel free to ignore this. Just needed to vent.

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I've woken up at 5 a.m. the past couple of mornings, but this morning, I gave up on trying to fall back to sleep. It's kind of hard to sleep when you're feeling all weepy. Why was I weepy? Because due to Facebook and the fact that I've found a few old friends/acquaintances from my Florida days, I ended up remembering some details of my 10th grade ( Read more... )

My mood wasn't so hot this morning as it was, since I didn't sleep well last night. In fact, despite going to bed around 8 p.m. -- ostensibly to read for a few minutes before likely falling asleep soon after -- I didn't actually get to sleep until after 3 a.m.

Things took an even greater turn for the worse when the mail arrived. There was a large ( Read more... )

Not much of that these days, is there! Even my Utrecht journal has been a bit short on content, although I've added some photos recently.

Since I do talk about food a lot on this blog, I'll talk about our dinner tonight.

A few days ago, we were at the Potdeksel (our local) and were talking with Kris, who is the son of the owner of the bar. We've ( Read more... )

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I actually got a nice one first, but it was boring and there were too many nuns. The naughty one was much more fun!
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"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

--Albert Einstein

A music meme copied from friends and posted here and on Facebook:

Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Strike through the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly.
Step 4: For those who are guessing -- looking the lyrics up on a ( Read more... )

I'm dying here! A friend in London has a suddenly spare ticket to see Fat Freddy's Drop tomorrow night and offered it to me, but I just can't justify the airfare right now, even on airlines such as easyjet. *sob ( Read more... )

Although I may not sound Southern, I am a Southern girl at heart. I love okra, grits, cornbread, collard greens and pecan pie.  I was worried that I'd have trouble finding a few of the ingredients necessary for some of these dishes once I moved here to Utrecht, but I've been pleasantly surprised.

The outdoor market on weekends at Vredenburg has been ( Read more... )

Pippo saw his first horses up close today. I just took him out for his evening toilet run and two police horses went "off-road" and ended up walking through a bit of the honden toilet just as we got there. Pippo didn't seem to know what to make of these really big dogs! For once, he didn't even bark or growl, although he did rear up a bit as I ( Read more... )