Tadaaa, our toilet being all sparkly.
I photographed it with my Holga, the all plastic all fantastic camera.
I’m feeling slightly better than yesterday. I haven’t gotten my appetite back though, so I’m staying home for the day.
Kat is about to go to the dentist. She did submit a form to register at a dentist yesterday, but [...]
Archive for September, 2007
Our toilet
Posted in Health, Holga, House on September 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Sick
Posted in Health on September 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Blegh, some bug that’s going around has got its tiny claws in me. Thankfully it seems to cause a very short term sickness, so hopefully I’ll be back in the running again soon. In the meantime I’ll be on this couch, feeling sorry for myself, and getting nauseous even of the noise and movement of [...]
A language all our own: Rapsnelleniks
Posted in Family, Language on September 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I love reading about other people’s, families’ and couples’ own language - the mixture of languages/dialects, family in-jokes, regional sayings etc. that cause each close-knit group of humans to have some expressions that only they will understand correctly and appreciate the meaning of in particular contexts. It’s so interesting to me how such things grow [...]
Life, the universe and everything
Posted in Family, Food, housework on September 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Life is treating both Kat and myself well at the moment.
We more or less found our rhythm on workdays. Going to bed early to sleep and snuggle, waking up early to snuggle some more and not having to haste a whole lot during the day. Perfect!
Kat finds that having to get up early and being [...]
Time for an Aspartame rant
Posted in Food, Green on September 19, 2007 | No Comments »
From time to time I amuse co-workers, family and friends by pronouncing phenylalanine without stuttering. Whenever a food contains aspartame - an artificial sweetener , it also contains a source of phenylalanine, because that’s a component of aspartame. In The Netherlands (and I think in Europe) companies have to report this source [...]
Sad but funny
Posted in Culture, LGBT on September 5, 2007 | No Comments »
Nigerian woman goes into hiding after unlawfully marrying four women
It’s an old news article, and since this the woman has said that it was a lie, and she was only trying to raise money to get the four other women married to a man. But oy! FOUR women hahahaha Now that’s overdoing it a little. [...]
Secret project #1 revealed
Posted in Animals, work on September 4, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Hmm we haven’t updated this blog for more than a week…oops!
We’ve been very busy though, because we can finally reveal Kat’s secret project:
She’s got a job! As a translator She started yesterday, and this is our second day of the new early early early morning routine, so we are still trying to find our [...]