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Ten days!

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

Is that the longest I’ve ever gone without a post? I think it may be.
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been completely absorbed in first getting my textbooks (a tip: never ever buy from Barnes & Noble’s website) and then catching up with my studies. The language department recommends spending two hours studying […]

Requiem for a mug.

Friday, January 26th, 2007

Friends, we gather here today to celebrate the life of my Voor de Liefste Mama! coffee cup.

We first met when my brother-in-law returned from several months in Holland, and presented it to me on my first official Mother’s Day.
At the time, my husband I were living in Florida with his parents. Within the past year, […]

How to reverse engineer gezellig:

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

The last time we went to Holland, my husband and I both got really nasty sick halfway over the Atlantic. It was the worst gastro-intestinal virus I’ve had in years, certainly, if not ever — and we spent the first 48+ hours of our trip in bed, shivering and miserable.
When we finally felt well enough […]

Goddamn, I hate CSS.

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

Wow, I spent way too much time today mucking about with various WordPress themes — and ended up hating them all. Basically, I made a bunch of title graphics and I can’t figure out how to make a random one pop in everytime you load the page. Well, whatevs.
Getting back to the food….let me see […]

Stoofpot = possibly my new favorite Dutch word.

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

Around this time of year, especially if it’s cold, windy, and rainy (like it’s been here lately), I start thinking about Holland.

The dashing young man you see in the foreground (hauling my ridiculously overpacked suitcases) is my husband of approximately 10 days. We spent a two week honeymoon traveling from Amsterdam to Delft to Maastricht […]