Hangover promises

Sundaynight we went out with friends to a party :) Lots of fun and lots of alcohol.... Even today my stomach was spinning :(

10:00 A.M. I'll never drink again
1:00 P.M. I'll never drink again
3:00 P.M. I'll never drink again
7:00 P.M. Perhaps a beer...
10:00 P.M. What was I saying?

Eye spy with my little eye...

... something beginning with ... infidelity ...

I'm still figuring out if this is either a joke or illegal?

Maybe both? :)

A little bit of democracy

Finnally we get to elect our mayor. As from 2006!

Untill then the Queen gets to pick them. I'm not a proponent of the queen (or a king for that matter). I believe the morachy cost a lot of money (they do get paid salary out of our tax money!!) and is not democratic. She gets to choose the mayors and the mayors usually can stay when their term is due. And I believe they don´t get judged on their actions (au contraire, they screw up and get to stay mayor!).

Luckely our new government wants to decrease the power of the queen. Cheers!

Fashion victims

Today I cleaned out my wardrobe. As always I trie to throw away old clothes too. I give them to my mother in law TO BE and she gives it to charity.

When I'm picking out things to throw away, I always feel sorry for the new owner because I'm not throwing away any new clothes (duh). NOOO I always pick the clothes that have been out of fashion for ages, but not long enough to be fancy again. I'm sure the people wearing it won't mind, but I realised they probably never wear something that's fancy & hot. Or would their "what's hot and what's not" depend on what they get from charity? Do they get their own Cosmopolitan???

BLAH

Dear asshole neighbor,

I´m writing you this letter to ask you to stop hitting our walls with
the purpose to wake us up early in the morning.

We´re not amused and since you´re driving me insane I can and will plead for temporaly loss of sanity when faced a judge. Not that there would be a reason to go to a judge or something...

BLAH

Should I hit it hard?

Or press it lightly?

Sinful party

This saturday FreezeM's boss (T-Mobile) organized a staff party. It was a theme party with "7 sins" as the theme. It was very well organised and we had lots of fun :) We took lots of pictures :)

We enjoyed nice music from DJ Ronald Molendijk & Soulvation.

Tihs is qtiue aamnzig!

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is
that frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a
toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae
we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.

ceehiro

Mall issues

There's a scientific explaniation to almost everything in life.... apparently men & women shopping together end up in a huge fight afer 72 minutes. Wanna know why?

FreezeM and I never fight, shopping, or not shopping. When one gets a bit ennoyed for some reason, the other laughes. And that works just fine for us. But the artice mentioned above did ring a bell. FreezeM is never really in the mood for shopping. Shopping isn't a fun thing to do as far as he is concerned. When we do go shopping he wants to know excately what we're getting... and when we have it.. he wants to go home. I now have a new shopping strategy. FIRST slowly wander through the stores and gather some girlie stuff and AFTER that go look for the thing we cameto get in the first place :)

The summer is magic

The season changed from summer to fall. For a week.

Summer's back. This website says it will be around 22 degrees Celsius (73 F), this website (Dutch) says it will be 28 Celsius. I'm so confused.

I can remember summers where like 1 or 2 days where nice & warm. It really seems the climate is changing last couple of years.. Although some scientist are still in denial about that.

What to do? Hit the beach?

That's QUEEN duck for you!

Today our Queen Beatrix (Bea for friends) spoke to the Dutch nation, wearing a dead duck on her head.

It's (not the duck) part of a yearly tradition called "Prinsjesdag" (Prince's day). On this day our Queen speaks to the nation about our politics & economics. When she's ready our minister of Finance will make the financial plan public.

Ofcourse they both spoke about the poor economics and that (I quote) "we all must bear the pain". Well I find that not surprising considering the fact that we haven't had a normal government in 1,5 years and the previous one screwed up pretty bad. Oh and did I mention that gawddamn wonderful Euro that made all of our lives a lot more expensive.

And man what´s with the duck?

'Pope' caught drink driving

Hello I'm Pope John Paul II and I'm allowed to drink & drive.

Really I am. Don't arrest me, please officer. I have spiritual immunity! You'll go to hell if you arrest me! Let me go!

Useless son of a blob

I was kinda down for having to go back to work tomorrow. But FreezeM's "Prime Minister falls of Nimbus 2000" post really cracked me up :))) Thank you FreezeM I needed the laugh!!

His today post is all about our useless son of a .... GREAT Prime Minister who has a striking resemblance with Harry Potter. I personally think we would be better of if he appliess for useless blob instead of trying to be a good PM.

Summer revival

Summer's back: it's 25 degrees (Celsius) outside :) This morning we took our bikes and went to the beach to enjoy the sun, beach and capuchinos!!

It's fall so let's make a U-Turn!

Decisions of our governement seem to change by season. While our Health minister decided in May that public smoking should be banned, now, nearly 5 months later, he dedides different. The restaurant and catering industry managed to get a 180-degree turn on national health policy. Public smoking won't be banned, keeping all of us in clouds of smoke in restaurants & bars.

The reason of this big U-turn?? Well, the restaurant business convinced our government that people won't go out to dinner & drinks anymore. And with that, thousands of jobs will dissapear. WTF????

In the majority of civilized country's this law can work and in Holland it can't??? As if people will not go eat in restaurants because they can't smoke in there.

Coffee dresses me

We just got back from some early shopping. It was quite early so we didn't drink any coffee before going to the stores. It felt like walking in my pj's. What is it with coffee that if I don't drink it in the morning I feel naked??

Finally!!!

I thought it was not going to happen this week. But it did. I'm excited. It's weeeeeeeeeekend ;) Whieeeeeeee!!!!

Wrinkle wrinkle little star

can you tell me how old I are am?

Remember

Even though we live "far" away in The Netherlands
The pain that was caused by this tragedy was still felt
Not stopped by ocean, distance or culture
I'll never understand how these monsters where able to do this
To the most beautiful country I know of

please remember 9/11

Heavy weather is on it's way...

.. I wonder if any dikes will burst.... ;) *grin*

Shame on you!

Today a Dutch man got sentenced to 15 months in jail. What did he do to deserve that?
Theft? Insulting an officer? Speeding?
Nope. This guy abused his 13 year old stepchild and she's now a mother of 2 of his children. That means she was just 11 when he abused her.
He'll be out in 10 months. In Holland there's a rule. Only 2/3 of your punishment has to be completed. So there you have it. When her 2nd kid can say dada, he's out of jail. Nice.
The article (dutch)

When you get sentenced to a jail in Holland you can be sure that you won't be in jail for long. Dutch judges don't believe in severe punishment and besides that, there's a huge jail shortage. Why building new jails when you can let criminals enjoy an early release?

That explains a lot!

Look what I can do! I can walk, I can run, I can
read! I like to do stuff, and there's a whole
big world out there to do it in. Just so long
as I can take my blankie and my Mommy and my
three best friends with me, of course.

Link thanks to One name left
How Old is Your Inner Child?
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Can't help it

I like the her music!

Oops... 2 late!

Please stand by for 1,5mb to load, click song name to play.
Buy Christina's Stripped cd @ Amazon.com
Lyrics of "Can't hold us down" in the "read more"...

Looking funny?

Today at work I saw that this design looks funny. It might be because I'm using Windows Explorer 5.5. there... So I've made some changes and hope it looks better now but can't check it untill tomorrow... Sorry if you're stuck with a funny looking design right now!

Celebrate good times

Yeeee new design is up (with a little help from my hero) AND extended entries now collaps inline! Thank you Lisa, Scripty Goddess & Girlie Matters for the collapsing-entries script :)

FreezeM and I are celebrating this moment ;) with a nice beverage.. CHEERS!

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Why CSS rhymes with distress

For the last few hours I've been working on a change in design for this blog. Colors & style will be the same but I want to have a 3 colomn page. And those CSS aren't co-operative AT ALL!. At school (graphic design) I attended about 3 lessons in CascadingStyleSheets. At that point I didn't really get the WHY-I-should-determine-positions- through-CSS-part .... *sigh* .... so I really didn't pay attention to the HOW-part. FreezeM (aka my hero :) will help me out tomorrow!

I have to stop being so damn pigheaded.

No hair-pulling ladies!!

Last night Dutch television showed the first episode of (Dutch) The Bachelor. I have to admit it was amusing. I just didn't get the "WHY women enter a show like that" part. I mean those women where angry little bitches to eachother while yearning for this one guy. Who I bet didn't feel bad at all.

That I find amusing but what really disturbed me that when I misspelled "thebachalor.com" in explorer I automatically got redirected to an anti-abortion website with some hideous pictures. You know people, with that you are not changing my mind on the whole abortion thing. You should get sued for showing me that, just minutes after breakfast. UGH!

In surfing mode?

I stumbled on this fun site: "Random thoughts of a large head". It's fun, check it out!

1 in 302,000!

When you search on "Sweety" , Google gives 302,000 results.
Guess who's #1?

This new gained fame could end in 15 minutes....

Fame... at last!!

Last week I attended a very cool video workshop. It was a workshop on how to make & use video material on websites. AND (more importantly) I learned how to be a reporter :) Well actually I learned that I find it very hard NOT to laugh... while camera is running..... :)
It was a fun day organized by "Het Stormt". a well known Dutch advertisement coorparation. They promised to send us the "end result". I'll put that up on this site when I do get it.... :)

Ofcourse this day was paid by my boss! I had a wonderful funday: thank you Boss! Oh.. did I mention they organised it on the beach?? :))

This was Sweety for the HelloWorldItsMe network. Back to you Google!

Harry Potter meets President Bush

Our prime minister's nickname is Harry Potter. Stop laughing it's not a joke!
President Bush initially envited "Harry" to his Texas' ranch. Instead of being "enchanted" with this generous offer, our Harry is offended by not being invited to the White House. So Bush envites him for breakfast. Dutch television this morning told us that our Harry wanted to talk about "values and norms" with the US President.

Living in a country where prositution is legal, 50% of Amsterdam police is addicted to harddrugs, criminality is rising and our biggest export product is XTC.... I find that a BIG joke. Values my ass Harry. Jump on your broomstick and clean up your own country!!

Pass the dutchie on the left handside

When I tell someone I'm from The Netherlands, young people grin, older & wiser people give a disapproving look. We are best known as the country where cannabis & prositution is legal. I'm embarrassed.
I'm proud of one thing, and that is that as of now cannabis can be prescribed by doctors as medicine for lasting ill people. So it's now legal to buy it at a pharmacy! Not that they weren't buying it already at one of the thousands cannabis stores but now they can claim the costs at their assurance company!