Nov 19 2004
One problem of travelling back and forth to Europe is the jetlag. I always have a terrible jetlag. Because the change in my normal dayly pattern I often get terrible depressed and this time I got a cold on top of that. Beuh!
So I spent my days sleeping and in between watching TV and surfing the web. And that when I’m supposed to finish that closet. Ah well, I can’t help it and fortunately my client is understanding. Thank you Diane!
Nov 18 2004
Every evening, around 6, we give Pepe and Poupoune some pig’s ears. Because even though we don’t eat meat ourselves we don’t impose our diet upon our dogs.
We usually cut the pig’s ears in smaller pieces and hide them in our apartment and then Poupoune and Pepe can try to find them. This to train their hunting skills. Usually Pepe finds one piece and Poupoune, who has more teeth and can chew them faster, finds the rest of them. But this morning Pepe found a piece of pig’s ear that Poupoune apparently hadn’t found yesterday. This caused a lot of stress on Poupoune’s side because she felt left out and anxiously she kept sniffing around to find more missing pieces. Which, of course, there weren’t.
Nov 18 2004
In de Volkskrant van vandaag:
Na de moord lokt de rust van Canada
Van onze verslaggeefster Aimée Kiene
AMSTERDAM – Sinds de moord op Theo van Gogh lijken Nederlanders meer dan ooit geïnteresseerd in een definitief vertrek naar Canada.
http://www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/1100674737334.html
gebruikersnaam: registrationisevil
wachtwoord: haha
Nov 12 2004
Now I’m back in Canada we can continue with Pepe’s flying lessons. So far he’s not very successful in staying airborne, but he’s getting better and better in his landings.
Nov 12 2004
I just donated some dollars to support the recount of votes in the US state of Ohio. Stupid, I know, but now I can at least say that I did everything in my power to get Dubya out of the White House.
Nov 4 2004
When Alison first met me three years ago my ex-girlfriend Anne also hooked up with a foreigner. And when I moved to Canada she’d already left to live in Melbourne, Australia. But unfortunately things didn’t work out and now she is back in Amsterdam. Which made it possible to visit her.
Before Alison married me, she emailed about me with Anne, and now they first met. Both of them were quite nervous if they would pass ‘the test’. Totally unnecessary of course because they are both very nice. We went to Zandvoort, walked on the beach and had a lovely last day in the Netherlands.
Nov 3 2004
My mothers own clay sculptures side by side by sculptures she bought during her travels in Mexico, Egypt and other countries.
Nov 3 2004
Back in the Netherlands, after a tiring week in Paris, Alison rests in my mother’s bed.
Nov 20 2004
Winter ready
On my first day outside (I’m feeling much better) I start making the garden ready for the winter. Gather the leaves (the trees are all barren now) and putting the barbecue and the garden furniture inside. And draining the taps so they don’t freeze over.
Let the snow arrive!
By mare • english •