tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68017582012-01-29T08:57:48.038+01:00...what's there to say?!...CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4871100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-49272680338085008432008-03-09T10:19:00.002+01:002008-03-09T10:40:07.775+01:00

but i'm still here, if you're interested. real life just leaves no time left over for updating much... ;)short update (since das alex is driving a sleeping lotte around south holland):- we sold this our current house about 3 days after it went on the market;- we have almost everything important together (the paper/ financing stuff) for the new house. we're still trying to find tiles and a bathtub

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-83864782582962398632007-12-19T20:31:00.000+01:002007-12-19T20:52:22.750+01:00

Today, we have bought a house. This one:... obviously it has to be touched up a little...it's a "double upper house" (the first floor isn't ours, the upper 2(/3) are. 150square meters (without the attic, that still needs a stair in order to get there)); 6 rooms, a little bike shed, a mini yeard in front of the house, a huge park across the street. a nice neighborhood for missy to go to school and

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-65199067893332884422007-12-17T19:49:00.000+01:002007-12-17T20:39:09.394+01:00

i'm still alive and kicking...i'm still a still a mom with home employment and finally figured out, that that is great and will stay like it a few years longer.don't get me wrong, i miss going to work and talking to adults, bitching about work, gossiping during lunch.but we decided to have the baby and i wanna do it as good as possible. which means i will take care of our kid as the main

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-2152820270039145402007-10-12T08:01:00.000+02:002007-10-12T08:04:00.468+02:00

due to a lack of time i can't get the lotte update done as i wanted to.thus, we have a lotte -only blog now.anything lotte related will go: HERE....and i will get my blog back to post the occasional irrational thought when i want to.cheerios!

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-49456560529862494902007-10-08T10:48:00.001+02:002007-10-08T11:00:17.924+02:00

when i was pregnant, i was almost mad at the stuff they didn't do. at least compared to germany. no checks of anything in the important few weeks, where so much can go wrong. maybe just because i was missing some mineral due to my eating habits...once you made it past the first 12 weeks (the magical time, where your chances of miscarrying supposedly drops by a lot) they seemed to be caring

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-44860238061090108572007-09-30T14:47:00.000+02:002007-09-30T14:52:46.931+02:00

- incredible crotchety;- tooth number 7 is through (bottom tooth);- rolled off the bed a second time;- manages 2 ice cubes of apple sauce/ parsnip (heated up and mixed with a little baby rice);- says "papa" (even though "mama" was first!).we have also decided that i am not going to oklahoma or atlanta with alex. because it doesn't seem worth the hassle of it all. instead we will join him (well,

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-32034420658917725222007-09-19T09:42:00.000+02:002007-09-19T09:42:34.821+02:00

baby's little uncle came up with a brilliant plan yesterday.we went flowriding close by. and because grandma came with (watching missy) i could go in as well.it's been a blast, so next time we will drag alex along as well.if you don't know what flowriding is: take this link to youtube.p.s. kuschi, you should try it! you'd like it. dwd.nl in zoetermeer...

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-54974774830740542412007-09-16T18:37:00.000+02:002007-09-16T18:41:47.670+02:00

we thought it was funny.out of desperation we put her into that bouncing chair (which her little uncle has used years ago, i might add). needless to say she loved it.

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-30037529822696393102007-09-15T23:38:00.000+02:002007-09-15T23:54:08.254+02:00

...and missy doesn't develop an awful sleeping pattern. ever since we got back, we were pretty much fightin over sleep. i'd have to go in a few times (like 14 times yesterday between 10 and midnight, but who's counting?!)and calm her down again.for some weird reason, she'd wake up and cry right away.since we are not from the "let them cry, they need to learn"-fraction -because it is cruel!!!- it

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-25950744133888410352007-09-12T17:20:00.000+02:002007-09-12T17:24:51.940+02:00

we're back from our 2 week trip to the us.it's been fun, but more than exhausting for all of us.we saw a lot, slept in lots of different places, went to a real fun wedding (where we could actually stay til the end, because missy decided it was time to sleep and slept in her car seat on a table), visited friends in minnesota (i even saw todd very shortly) and lake superior.the flights weren't too

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-56420101575194887582007-08-13T22:09:00.000+02:002007-08-13T22:15:47.401+02:00

...can a bus driver yell at an old men to "move his ass out of the way" when trying to get around a corner. or yell at a old women that "i don't have to take cents, because they don't fit into my wallet and if you don't have the right fare you can get of the bus now".such charming people...(but i do miss it at times, mind you.)i wasn't bored to death either during the 9 days we (baby and i) were

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-17733384087753474822007-07-29T22:16:00.000+02:002007-07-29T22:18:06.463+02:00

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can somebody tell me why the german government evidently has problems recognizing official dutch (court) papers?!miss muffet's last name within german borders is mine, not alex', even though she has a dutch passport with that name.but no, because her parents aren't married, she automatically gets her mother's last name. which would make sense, if we'd live in germany and hadn' signed papers.but

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-60109721470695543592007-07-25T10:15:00.001+02:002007-07-25T10:18:21.446+02:00

the potter book came yesterday. but this time, i cannot just sit down and read it in once go (and a few hours), like all of the last volumes.lotte kinda did not let me do it. and reading while nursing her doesn't work too good either, for the book is too big.so i read the first 3 or 4 chapters yesterday and cheated. i also read the last one...and what a surprise (to read what i did).not.but now,

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-32173694272676004452007-07-21T21:32:00.000+02:002007-07-22T00:08:25.844+02:00

3 good things.1) we finally cleared the air with alex's brother and the blog is all mine again. (even though it kicked up a little storm, that needed attention.)2) lotte is starting to really laugh, which is funny as hell (but takes a little bit to render on my slow, but very nice 5-year-old iBook, that'll be replaced once i actually earn money again).3) i don't remember right now (nursing

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-13035747731987220572007-07-21T08:35:00.001+02:002007-07-21T08:36:07.780+02:00

over at wired.com:Delivery for Dummies: Simulators Walk Docs Through Childbirthnice. at least you don't have to be a guinea pig when already in pain.

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-75559230188918718412007-07-15T11:42:00.001+02:002007-07-15T11:43:42.134+02:00

...but this one about men and their dolls (instead of female partners) is really disturbing.

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...

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weddings, huh?! usually a place where at least 2 families and friends of the ppl getting married meet.plus fun to be had a few old and new rumors to be spread.we survived it with flying colors, i think. lotte and i attended the ceremony, the dinner and the party. we haven't been home until 11:45pm, which i a reaaaal long day for a little baby.i even had fun (if i gracefully forget about carrying

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-36857765912157592422007-06-29T20:19:00.000+02:002007-07-12T11:43:55.241+02:00

[...] censored [...]edited: 12.07.2007

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-88184263864052753602007-06-23T23:57:00.000+02:002007-06-23T23:57:40.701+02:00

i had to fill in some paper the other day, where i was also asked for my occupation. who'd have thought it'd be that hard to fill out that one little line?!i'm staying at home, entertaining a baby, like millions of other women i have a full-time job, that doesn't get paid and isn't good enough to be a full member of society. still weird, still something to get used to.but i can finally understand

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-16622887150125518342007-06-21T22:09:00.000+02:002007-06-21T22:09:15.699+02:00

teething children seem to have diarrhea. poor baby, if that'll stay for the next few months... i also heard and saw her laughing today. :)

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after her birth and lotte has had her first visit from the tooth fairy BRINGING her a bottom front tooth.it's out enough to sting when she bites into your hand...the trip to berlin was... eh... not so much fun.it took me 14 hours to get there, because i couldn't get any milage done, due to missy screaming on the backseat most the time. she was bored as hell, i think. and it was pre-gripping stage

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-54667347508774854132007-05-31T19:19:00.000+02:002007-05-31T19:19:21.920+02:00

...who doesn't. but being sick (fever and all) while having to log around an infant, is a bitch. 6kg are seriously heavy to carry all of a sudden...dublin waas great though. i like that little town.even though it was run over by tourists and eastern europeans. don't know where irish people work, but sure as hell not there...the hotel was right in the city center, which was great. i walked lots

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-50640203978612254252007-05-01T19:48:00.001+02:002007-05-01T19:48:33.561+02:00

baby is 7 weeks old and i am slowly, but surely getting some independence back.i started pumping milk, so daddy can feed her at least once a day. worked not so well 2 days ago, well yesterday and not so well today. lotsa crying on her part...a bottle isn't the same as the real thing. ;)we will not be flying to oslo in june, because he has to fly to mexico. during which time (3 weeks!) i'll be

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-87685490077966478292007-03-31T10:19:00.000+02:002007-03-31T10:19:00.945+02:00

baby has a cold, mama has a cold and daddy is making fun of us for it. (oookay, he suffers a lot when he hears lotte sniffing and having a hard time getting air at night.)so while he was holding her up and putting his big face into her small ones, she spit up some milk. right into his face.bwuahahahahahahahaha!my daughter after all...p.s. no, nothing exciting happening for me. i'm a mommy now,

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-16408810638318251402007-03-28T11:30:00.000+02:002007-03-28T11:30:02.191+02:00

today, i received a little package in the mail.it had my favorite (british) easter eggs and a congrats to your baby card - signed by mr. patrick stewart and miss wibke...i repeat my earlier question: how cool is that?!.thank you, wibke! very nice touch!!!

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i'm getting there!!!while baby's growing her 4th double chin, i finally fit into one of my old paints again.granted, the biggest one i owned, but hey, it's not one of these damn maternity pants!(and yes, it could go faster if i'd work out or something, but the only work out i'm willing to do is lifting up lotte and holding her with one arm for 15 minutes in one go while she eats.)and hey, springs

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-22442339113401563452007-03-21T17:18:00.000+01:002007-03-21T18:42:27.448+01:00

... but slightly sleep deprived.even though lotte is an easy baby, who sleeps at least 4 hours in one stretch at night, it does get to you.it also seems like we have her since months and it has only been 10 days. weird. i keep waiting for her to do something else but sleep and eat. but it's still gonna take some time...but hey, at least i'm allowed to leave the house again! so i went to town

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-37686182061794511702007-03-15T14:00:00.000+01:002007-03-15T14:00:42.538+01:00

last nite, she actually slept in her own bed and woke up at her supposedly feeding times. crappy part is, she only eats one side and falls asleep. then, there's no way, you can wake her up again to eat of the other side, as well. so we changed tactics, which means one feeding session can take a good 60 or more minutes.she'll get one side until she's passed out on a full stomach, alex changes her

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-31908532629967361032007-03-13T10:30:00.000+01:002007-03-13T11:36:23.719+01:00

i survived and the baby carrot did, too. both with flying colors, even.the water broke at 4:40am but nothing much happened until about 11am. no contractions, or anything helpful, just loss of more warm amniotic fluid.nice. ;)at around 11am, the contractions started. easy as pie, and not much more than menstruation pains (just in a row and without drugs). at around 1pm, they became regular, harder

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-39857767789274454092007-03-10T05:38:00.000+01:002007-03-10T05:40:31.121+01:00

...at 4:40am this morning, my belly did a funny gurgle and then i was laying in a puddle of clear warm water.finally, things are moving. and 8 days earlier than the eta! woohoo!now i'm sitting here with ice-cream and make myself some cds to listen to in the delivery room. it can still take hours, but as i said, things (specially one small female one) are finally moving.

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-74852655007613279622007-02-26T08:19:00.000+01:002007-02-26T08:24:43.462+01:00

baby and i finally made it. if she decides to be born now, she'll be considered a "normal birth" and not as a premature. good, because i'm ready. ;)and no, i didn't watch the oscars (too late for me) but they have a website and how cool is that?! the live of others won best foreign film.and "little miss sunshine" didn't make best movie... :(

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-1171119317084422142007-02-10T15:48:00.000+01:002007-02-10T15:55:17.120+01:00

das alex is off to denver in order to do something, something, work, something...i -off course- have to stay home. even though i was thinking of flying to germany today, but really thinking about it, i rather don|t go anywhere to far away from a home anymore.so i'll be lodging at his parent's place in order to not die of boredom right away...Battlestar Minimates

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-1170617584598651832007-02-04T20:25:00.000+01:002007-02-04T20:33:04.666+01:00

i'm listening to the "little miss sunshine" soundtrack on repeat these days. not to bad while playing zelda - twilight princess on the wii that has found its way into our household...and i have to admit, it is pretty funny to bowl and play baseball in front of your tv. sure, you could go out in the open, but you can also just move 10 minutes at home and not drive anywhere for it. ;)something

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-1170176439660406042007-01-30T17:58:00.000+01:002007-01-30T18:00:39.710+01:00

since monday, we own a microwave. yesterday, alex almost set it on fire.almost as in: the toast was standing in flames and you have these lovely leftovers on the microwave "ceiling"...very funny.we almost have everything remodeled and ready for the girlie, and he sets the house on fire.nice!;)

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so, baby shower has been survived by us as well.we had one yesterday, which was totally fun.probably because it wasn't a live one, but one over the phone with a few nutcases from minnesota on their and alex and moi on our end.funkily enough, we even managed to play some of the games and i already "know" the presents we'll get for missy.(they'd unwrapped them and "oh-ed" and "ah-ed" while doing so

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-1169926685293361592007-01-27T20:38:00.000+01:002007-01-27T20:38:05.666+01:00

latest news on the bbc:"Children whose mothers were stressed out during pregnancy are vulnerable to mental and behavioural problems like ADHD, [...]."for real? who'd have thought...seriously, what's news about this?! except for maybe linking the stress factor to adhd...

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so, went and watched happy feet today.a cute little movie about being different and still part of society. a little unrealistic, but then it's talking penguins, what did you expect?!i liked it.

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-1169474229534011102007-01-22T14:57:00.000+01:002007-01-22T14:57:09.916+01:00

Sciatica may also be experienced in late pregnancy, primarily resulting from the uterus pressing on the sciatic nerve, and, secondarily, from the muscular tension and / or vertebral compression consequent to carrying the extra weight of the fetus, and the postural changes inherent to pregnancy.it's lovely and hit me yesterday for the first time. hurts like hell and you never know when it'll start

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-1169152570373090722007-01-18T21:36:00.000+01:002007-01-18T21:36:10.606+01:00

so far, i have gained 12 kilos, while baby is only 1600gramms/ about 3 pounds, according to the scan last tuesday...where these 12 kilos went, i dunno. but then, i can barely twist enough to see my feet, so i'm guessing it went to my butt. ;)

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-1168718689056662792007-01-13T21:04:00.000+01:002007-01-13T21:04:49.090+01:00

The Amsterdam-based casting agency Castingcall is looking for native English speakers living in The Netherlands, aged 18 – 60, to participate in the popular TV quiz game 'That's the Question'. (cont.)well... we're not "native" speakers per se, but maybe we should try anyway?! ;)

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-1168717292363915532007-01-13T20:21:00.000+01:002007-01-13T20:41:32.456+01:00

yesterday we went to rotterdam to pick up a rocking chair. for that, we did get his step dad's car.on the way back, we thought, we put a few liter in, since the gas was very low by now. for some strange reason, it didn't click with alex when the nozzle didn't fit into the tank. he was putting diesel into a car that needs to have regular gas...ever done that?! if not, it'll tear your motor apart.

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so, yesterday we had the first trial run to the hospital. not because i was in (false) labor or anything... but because miss muffet hadn't moved all day, so we called the midwife, which then called the hospital and within 30 minutes, i was hooked up to the funky machine, that registered the baby's heartbeat and movements and the contractions of my uterus.her heartbeat was jumping from 180 to 120

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we actually got started on the baby room, who'd have thought.albeit, i'm not doing much, since i'm trying to avoid have to fight that icky stomach acid all day.the the top of walls so far are yellow, the bottom will be an orange... and the black dresser is no more, since it has been converted into an orange-yellowish (whatever it is when you mix pastel yellow with two spoons of orange) dresser,

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well, lets see what 2007 will have to show for in 364 days...sometime during this year, a new job would be handy, but besides that i already know 3 things i'm looking forward to.* babykeks in march* norway (for a prolonged weekend) in june* san fransisco/ minnesota in august/ september...and whatever else shall come my way...

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... and this year's christmas is history. hooray!which means, one more cheese fondue and creme brulee desert today and one huge breakfast tomorrow, and the house is ours again.here's what we'll do tomorrow: absolutely frakkin' nothing!three days of constant running someplace and going back to his parents home at night, in order to sneak out early in the morning (so we'd be on time for breakfast

CaRrOtnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801758.post-1166288960461363122006-12-16T18:09:00.000+01:002006-12-16T18:09:20.746+01:00

das alex is back and we're plotting on what to do against my current employer. they decided to terminate my contract a month before i'm going on maternity leave.because of "cost savings", as they say. riiight... funny, that 2 new people have started lately and one new person (number 3) has got a contract with a higher yearly salary than me. up to this point, i'm still the one with the most

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so, the agency called back. and they stick with the "you won't have to pay december and get your deposit back". i told her, that quite obviously somebody's already living there, and i expect the money for it, since i had to do the same thing when i moved in last year, but her reasoning was that "he only was allowed to put his stuff there, because the flat was empty, but not live there yet".nice.

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today, i actually found a voice mail on my answering machine at work. from the agency that was "trying to rent out my flat" since august.funny thing, considering i gave them my new mobile number, so they could get a hold of me. turns out they didn't have that. how very surprising.but now, they have actually managed to rent it out for dec 1st.woohoo!and because they couldn't get a hold of me, they

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the suv under strollers is standing in the living room, the car seat right next to it. the bed shall be bought with grandma and grandpa this saturday, and the tripp trapp is on its way.we haven't done anything to the bedroom/ babyroom yet, but are collecting all that stuff... how smart are we?!on the weird side: you can see baby kick these days. as in little fists trying to make their way through

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so, back from berlin and recovering...we didn't even have much of a game plan, except grandma's birthday and the appointment for the ultra sound. other than that, we were cruising the city for lotsa books and even some baby stuff.this is the girlie (and i stick with it, because the second gyno said the same!). only 4 more months to go...

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das alex has a "cleaning lady", which comes ones a week, for about 3 hours.which is quite nice, to be fair, because you don't have to vacuum, or clean the bathroom or worse the oven.on the other hand, it's a little dirsturbing to have somebody clean for you. specially when you're sitting somewhere reading (online) papers. i'd also like to do the 2 hours work for my employer now, but she's

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rubberballs are teh evil! at least if you don't get one of the more challenged screener at an airport...

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as we all know, i'm more than challenged in the fashion department. i have lotsa functional clothing from the outdoor store, which i love and even 3 skirts and the one dress.but a clue from fashion whatsoever?! none!to prove my point:das alex came home with a pair of these from australia. because i'm a girlie and because i always have cold feet.these are the funny looking ones, but heck, they do

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Earth To Americatoo bad doubleya didn't make it...

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here i thought my family people wouldn't never just show up around here.well, i was wrong.something i learned around 10am yesterday morning, opening the door and my mother and a family friend were standing there.they've been on the road since about midnight and made it just in time, to go to the midwife.the midwife is the dumbest of all appointments, i think.they take your blood pressure, ask how

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shame on me, i guess. i didn't think you guys were... ehm... interested in the name game. but angel proved me wrong.so far we only agreed on one name, if babykeks turns out to be a girlie. we can't agree on boy names, for i refuse "marc" (with a "c"!) or alex jr.names that got shot down already:captain janeway, jean-luc, number one, william (alex' 3rd name), laura (sorry, boooring), leia, han and

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Claim Your Old British Man by jgurlpunkrckYour NameYour AgeYour Old British ManYou met...he yelled "SAUSAGE TIME!" and you had sexThe relationship ended...when you left him for an even older British man

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i'm sure i don't have to explain what a trill is (or who) and how the symbiont thing worked out for them.does anybody remember if they wiggled around and kicked their hosts?!my symbiont started to actually kick on monday. two very distinctive kicks on the left. yesterday, when i was putting in my 2 hrs of work and was getting very annoyed at the crap unfolding on my screen, i got 2 very

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nice gallery by jill greenberg...

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and so it has started.have you noticed, how pregnant women seem to lose more and more of their personal space, the bigger their belly grows?! not because they simply need more room then, but because all of a sudden you find people touching your belly, wanting to feel what's swishing and swooshing inside.4 out of 5 won't even ask before they invade.weird, considering there's a lot of pregnant

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so, somebody's having a strawberry milkshake on tv and now i want it, too.and even though i usually don't like strawberry flavor, nor do i like mc donald milkshakes, i'm seriously considering getting into the damn car and getting me one.gross!

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a full week of "relaxing" in the netherlands with my mother and aunt. surprisingly enough, it went painlessly.most of the days, i even managed to get a nap, which is still essential these days.we went to amsterdam, to delft, to the beach and to town, to antwerp and even squeezed in the local hardware store this morning.easy enough for the three of us to stay at alex' home, since he's currently

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scifi channel makes music videos now?!this one is pretty funny, i thought. considering it isn't fanwork (or so i presume...)

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das alex is trying to get me out of my "i hate being pregnant and is it over yet?"-blues these days.last weekend with not little success i might add.we went to the hoge veluwe national park" and spent 2 days mostly outside.sure, i was considerably slower on a bike, than i used to and had to constantly refuel myself with food and water (which isn't much fun, when you are 10km away from the next

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well, according to the doctor i'm suffering from migraines these days, due to baby hormones.i never even had real headaches up until now...nice.on the other hand, me thinks the baby (albeit still small, since we're barely in our 17th week) is moving around and sloshing somewhat while doing so.like little bubble exploding inside your belly from time to time. if i move my hand, these bubbles will

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i'm bored to death at work...and it's dragging and dragging and dragging on.but hey, i know i'm a walnut tree!"Unrelenting, strange and full of contrasts, often egoistic, aggressive, noble, broad horizon, unexpected reactions, spontaneous, unlimited ambition, no flexibility, difficult and uncommon partner, not always liked but often admired, ingenious strategist, very jealous and passionate, no

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ever stopped a whole car wash with 3 cars in front and 4 behind you?!i did. because my brain all of a sudden decided that i needed to shift from "n" into "p". (since the motor was out, i believe was the reasoning behind it.)but an automatic car is then in park - mode, thus won't move at all anymore and confused the conveyer belt, which is pulling you through the car wash.why exactly i did that,

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another week and finally another weekend.i'll even to go maternity clothes shopping with alex' mom... how much relaxing the whole thing will be, i shall not know.what i've learned this week is that the babay will have to be legally acknowledged by his dad before it is actually born.otherwise it:a) won't have his last name;b) will never be dutch and german, but only german.and did you know, babies

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i found this old playstation 2 "x-files" game and didn't even manage 10 minutes (not counting the trailer). freaked me out. how sad is that?!other than that, the kiddo has been growing like crazy during the last week. all of a sudden i'm having a belly where nothing used to be.very weird.also means that in addition to the these maternity pants i have since a few weeks, i'll have to get longer

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so yeah, i'm milking the pregancy thing these days. but it's not like i felt stellar lately either, but just thinking about having to go to the office, in order to be surrounded by people, that aren't even doing half of what is supposed to be their job and still screw up and still copmplain, just pisses me off before i even left home.so i rather not and work from here.it does have to advantage of

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that's done. the little flat (now with two lovely water stains, thanks to the neighbor from upstairs) has only my lamps and the tumble weed left.everything else has been moved yesterday, by not so happy looking friends... have you ever moved while you weren't allowed to carry anything?! kinda weird.his mom helped to unpack my books this morning, so i have about 10 boxes left i can unpack slowly

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things i have learned today:- nestle's "nuts" just isn't "snickers" (even though, i suspected it, the one going to the store didn't believe me.);- vh1 counts "all that she wants" (remember ace of base?!) as a vh1 hit;- there is such thing as giving too much blood. i had to leave 8 (!) of these plastic rolls filled with blood at the doctor's this morning and still feel like shit;- being chained to

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not!how i dislike being pregnant these days... food is a constant battle, because nothing sounds yummy, and everything is accompanied with forcing myself. but you can't just skip it either, for obvious reasons.but hey, i'm off salads. since about a week, i can't even force myself to eat cucumbers or anything green and leafy... iceberg lettuce on a sandwich is very difficult these days... ;)

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i've been in my home country since 4 days and the charm of germans is slowly but surely withering away...i'm so ready to get back to the netherlands!even though, the weekend was fun. we went doen the upper rhine valley which looks real nice and is under the unesco's protection. the fact that they have castle/ fortress about every 2kms might have something to do with it...we even managed to get

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so, nena made a video to "99 red ballons" in the 80ties?! apart from having a hard time understanding her english, i like the german verson of this song waaaay better.but hey, learn something new every day, right?!das alex got his new car yesterday and is bouncy like a little kid ever since. "look at this light, see this button, hear the tires squeaking...", very funny. it's his gadget.and while

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well, das alex is on his first flight to new delhi and will hopefully have enoug time to connect to the more important flight, going back to europe.incredible, how many "everything's so different here" i have heard during the last 2 weeks...tomorrow then, we will have the first (out of two) talks about that little screw up some 8 weeks ago... i'm somewhat dreading his mom's (and stepdad's)

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Plans are starting to roll into action these days.I already put in a notice at the agency, where I’m renting the flat from. They said they’ll start “finding somebody else”, which probably translates into “do we care, you have to pay”.So I’ll put up signs at the coffee machines around here…Tefkaak, you guys do have a message board at work right?! You think you could put that “flat” thing on there?

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Surgery was required to save the 12-foot (3.5-meter) snake when it made a meal of a queen-size electric blanket, complete with electrical cord and control box, as seen in this July 19 photo. The blanket's wiring extended through about 8 feet (2.5 meters) of the the 60-pound (27-kilogram) reptile's digestive tract (inset). huh?!

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i was speeding yesterday and today.going a full 120km/h to the airport... *shakes head* weird speed limits on highways around here...since das alex left again, (hey, i did get to see him almost a full 12 hours!) i have done the -former- usual grocery shopping and am now on to actually clean this flat once again.then, i don't know.the weather almost screams for a little road trip somewhere within

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now, that's commitment...being back home reminds of how noisy the neighbor above me is. since 7am he was clomping around, me going nuts over it... but hey, i can hear the wbike rummaging (sp?) in the other room.which is good, my stomach is growling and i forgot to take at least chocolate with me.

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Bush, in ex-communist east, calls Germany key allyit's because of merkel-ferkel! that thing is a brown noser to the us... yuk!

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so, my little cousins is at least talking to her mother again, but still staying clear of her dad.my new job is fun. working 4 hours for one and the other 4 hours for the other team, kinda cool. only the laptop in the new team sucks beyond recognition. the lamest dumbass ibm thinkpad thing, one could find on the planet.amazon actually sent off a new dvd, since the first one kinda got lost in the

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around here people will put their flags out for just about any reason... including the graduation of their children. then, it is the flag and an old backpack, that hags in front of the windows...weird, me thinks. but that's probably a subject to dicuss...so, i'm at home right now. doing laundry, updating the forever tied to torrents pc and talking to the ogre.well, actually the ogre is doing all

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"For many Trekkies, contemporary science fiction on television — like "Battlestar Galactica" and the more recent Star Trek spinoffs — are too dark."hehehe, don't think so...(and since the nytimes wants you to sign up, here the whole funny article about ppl being bored and wanting shatner back'Star Trek' Fans, Deprived of a Show, Recreate the Franchise on Digital VideoBy DANNY HAKIMPublished: June

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this country went crazy over these little things: they were friggin' everywhere you'd look. and until yesterday aroun 11pm they'd be sold for rather a lot of money on ebay... there even is a funky little game to it...my sentiments, exactly... ;)i even survived walibi world on saturday, which was -while luckily not busy- a little weird. it reminded me of the kulturpark grandma used to work on.

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woohoo! how cool is that! the first time ever any african country makes it into the knock-out rounds!!!even if you don't care about football, this is huge...

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was pretty cool, actually.we sat on row 22, which means we actually saw something... the only thing somewhat disturbing were the french people behind us -obviously employed at the same company as us, since they had the same ticket-pouch thing around there necks. as punishment, i ignored everything french in my inbox today... ;)so, we spent some time in the city, some time with olibär's family,

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so, that was a bad start into the world cup for little moi. the germans actually won 4:2 against costa rica.4 goddamn goals...the funny part were the tons of parties going on everywhere in this city. and the police pulling people over and checking for alcohol when i was driving home...glad, i didn't get pulled over, though. i wouldn't have known where to find the papers and just guessed the glove

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i did wanna go back to work, but i really didn't feel like it this morning, thus i slept till 11am and am since slouching around. armed with nose spray, herb tablets and a box of kleenex, which are like everywhere by now.i shall go back tomorrow. yes.the senior home across from me has raised a bright orange flag. the sun -there's actually sun today!- is lighting it up quite nicely...i wonder, why

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...is still boring, no matter what circumstances. only this time, i have somebody taking care of me, which is rather nice, i have to admit.the weekend wasn't too bad at all. my sister & mother arrived around 6pm on saturday evening, and we went out to eat at a place called "wat de pot schaft" in den haag, which i rather like. you get to choose what "main ingredient" you wanna have (pork, vis,

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...means going out to clubs again, all of a sudden.like we did yesterday, when somebody started whining he wanted to go out at 11pm... so we went downtown and into a fun little club thing.very amusing, actually. veeery.while i was dreading meeting the praty crowd from work, we only met some girlies, that started screaming as soon as they saw alex and he started grinning.which i found veeery

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funny.they always have these stupid outtages around here. thus, i have not have access to the outlook server since about 2 hours and am surfing the net.has any of your guys ever watched Little Britain?i love that show! (and luckily, we get bbc 3 over here where they air it on tuesdays.)it's two weirdoes doing all these characters which are hilarious...

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yesterday, something weird happened. a like 12 year kid rang the doorbell stated his name, where he lived and the charity he is “working” for. then he asked if there was anything small he could in the house and he’d accept anything monetary he’d get for it.i pretty much would have a cardiac arrest if any kid I know would rings bells at people’s places s/he (i!) don’t know.you just don’t know who

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seems like everytime i actually post here, i had some awesome piece of mail in on my hallway steps.his time filled with tons of yummy cadbury crispi snaps and easter eggs next to chocolate cookies and another mmd movie.woohoo to both! (and once again bowing to the 12chen!!!i'm currently working on the chocolate, but the mmd will have to wait until i actually have "time". something elusive

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yesterday wasn't soo bad after all...i recieved a postcard from oxford, a small package from hull (postcard, dvd and chocolate from vegas. funny, how vegas seemed to have been the motto of the week...) and a bigger package from the us, containing caramel apple dip. thank you, miss 12chen!media market even got my (3 year old) ipod headphones exchanged, the tv-cable people took their internet kit

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so,no internet for me via the tv cable.that's nice...the dude came around this morning, looked at the 4 cables (4 people living in my house) going of the main connector and shock his head. since the "main" cable box isn't the main cable box (that one's hidden in one the flats going out front), there's no chance for me to actually recieve enough data-stream with cable i do have...great.that leaves

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okay, so the ogre came and went.which was nice. ;)i spent some time with 12chen in london, finally getting a picture with the mulgrew (and 12chen, o' course). spent less time in 12chen's surrogated town, eating tons of baskin & robbin's ice-cream. (hmm... cotton candy!)all in all it's been a great 3 weeks away from work and totally worth maxing out any plasitc cards i own (not many, mind you.)now

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