tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-169651012024-03-22T00:11:41.982+01:00Young AmericanI live in Belgium. I'm American.mandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663645617659295199noreply@blogger.comBlogger130125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16965101.post-21500683912787021542008-01-31T16:56:00.001+01:002008-01-31T18:01:20.381+01:00******NEW BLOG**********I JUST SWITCHED BLOGGING SITES BECAUSE BLOGGER IS *ALWAYS* MESSING UP. ITS COME TO THE POINT WHERE NO ONE CAN COMMENT, I CANT SPELL CHECK, I CAN'T ADD HYPERLINKS, MY PICTURES ALWAYS POP UP AS HTML AND THATS ANNOYING WHEN TRYING TO POSITION THEM ON THE PAGE. SO WHILE POSTING HERE AND I RAN ACCROSS ALL THOSE PROBLEMS, I THREW MY HANDS IN THE AIR AND GAVE UP ON BLOGGER. I'VE HEARD OF OTHER PEOPLE SWITCHING TO WORDPRESS BECAUSE OF BLOGGER PROBLEMS AND I FINALLY DID THE SAME. ALL OLD POSTS WILL REMAIM HERE, IF YOU WANT UPDATED INFORMATION PLEASE GO TO MY NEW PAGE:<br /><br /><a href="http://snowflakesnbunnies.wordpress.com/">http://snowflakesnbunnies.wordpress.com/</a><br /><br />SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />-goodbye blogger. you are dead to me.-mandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663645617659295199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16965101.post-12041605528333226992008-01-25T08:56:00.000+01:002008-01-25T09:23:02.417+01:00ROXY IN THERAPYWe've recently put Roxy in therapy because we want the move to go as soomthly as possible for one reason, another is; even though she has improved tremendously this first year, we still can't take her out and feel comfortable that she wont freak out at someone. we can't take her to the center of town to do shopping because we can't take her inside (too many people, too close together) and she gets freaked out waiting outside (too many people passing too closely to her)and no one wants to wait outside and take turns poking around in stores. PLUS we love her so much and her barking and growling and lunging is all because she's stressed about something and we don't want our dog to be stressed all the time in public, its not fun for her either. <br /><br />she's had two therapy sessions so far. the first one went ok, i guess. pretty much what we expected: alot of barking and alot of growling and she wouldn't let the therapist near her. <br /><br />last night was her second session and it went ALOT better. i was so proud of her and so amazed to see her acting calmly to her normal triggers: 1.someone rising from their chair 2. scuffing feet in said chair 3. THE DOORBELL! 4. someone running towards her. she sat so calmly for all exercises (towards the end of the hour and a half) we learned the correction technique that she resopnds to best, learned to use it whenever she is doing something we dont want her to. a little growl? BAM! correction. playing strip poker in our basement? BAM! <br />everytime someone comes to our house she is not to go in her cage anymore but to go on the leash (i tried to get gregory to follow suit on that technique a while ago but he didnt do it. he hated anything that gave her restraint. but now he sees she needs it. but of course i didnt have any correctional techniques to use with it so it probably wouldn't have worked out so well anyway)<br />we learned that she will work hard at staying calm for large yummy treats. so we will now keep a bag of large yummy treats by the door and if the doorbell rings and she's good she'll get one and whenever any guests come over they will be asked to take a handfull of large yummy treats and use it so they can come in the house calmly and sit down at ease and get up with ease.<br />luckily the "treats" we give her are actually kibbly bits from a store bought brand FOOD for dogs. in the world of dog food its cheap and therefore not healthy to eat as regular meals but we figure its better than actual dog candy. so if one of her three meals a day gets replaced wiith treats its not so bad because its still food and not candy. it still claims to have all the vegetable and minerals and vitamines in it, and its soft and chewy to make for fast chomping.<br /><br />her next appointment is in a week. we will use this week to practice what we learned, and even invite some people over to help with the whole "people coming into the house" thing. <br />we were told no more than 2 new people at a time. <br /><br />i'm so excited for her and so happy that she might actually become a calm dog outside of the home!(and inside with guests!) we might not ever be able to let her off the leash in public, and we might always have to ask strangers not to pet our dog, but if we can go on city walks and be around people and sit on terraces to eat a meal with our dog not acting like a killing machine then that is all we ask for.mandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663645617659295199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16965101.post-62880724955096118822008-01-22T11:01:00.001+01:002008-12-10T13:39:06.811+01:00updates and things-Roxy had her first therapy appointment lasy night<br />-it went fairly well i guess<br />-it would have been better if she didn't lunge and nip, but thats why she's in therapy i guess<br />-she did get to the point where the therapist could touch her face and stroke behind her ear<br />-but then relapsed<br />-i completed my first week of pictures with only missing 1 day<br />-which is better that i expected, honestly<br />-gregory and i actually got up at a decent hour this morning<br />-and i completed everything on my new morning routine list<br />-but now have slacked off and need to get back on track<br /><br />day 7:<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/m-dee/"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3VNBqG7abDwm75PdmX3bi0nLoZzIxZEozT7-z_A57fOtBk_rC-uFWNgkZC3p5zLM5Yd018POQ3GwwBX6_H9zLmYtfqhfZw5ZuEOejnBah3gVWhc39ajsPaH9UyBBGbREtku2r/s1600-h/DSC_00130001home_executive.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3VNBqG7abDwm75PdmX3bi0nLoZzIxZEozT7-z_A57fOtBk_rC-uFWNgkZC3p5zLM5Yd018POQ3GwwBX6_H9zLmYtfqhfZw5ZuEOejnBah3gVWhc39ajsPaH9UyBBGbREtku2r/s400/DSC_00130001home_executive.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5158240381401391442" /></a></a>mandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663645617659295199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16965101.post-10097760736276143102008-01-21T11:32:00.000+01:002008-12-10T13:39:07.004+01:00more proofI had once shown in article about <a href="http://thebelgiumwaffel.blogspot.com/2006/07/squirrels-attack.html">squirrels attacking</a> in Russia and knew it was only a matter or time before they went on a rampage in the states. well take a look at this magazine cover:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRzqkUIYctflqQjCcX8yfWOVfmaeczzjf_4Ft7ru0ubPOMlscKiKRjWoB5Zg_AFnsBCb6PwtstcjLNJ9jgW1Go6mjPcdubhTj5_Xk-DXq_oo0_rzOJlZGBRvgEjOEGNjSMxvwT/s1600-h/bilson_gq_cover.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRzqkUIYctflqQjCcX8yfWOVfmaeczzjf_4Ft7ru0ubPOMlscKiKRjWoB5Zg_AFnsBCb6PwtstcjLNJ9jgW1Go6mjPcdubhTj5_Xk-DXq_oo0_rzOJlZGBRvgEjOEGNjSMxvwT/s400/bilson_gq_cover.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5157876254074036546" /></a><br /><br />OK look past the scantily clad celebrity and look at the left where they highlight what you can look forward to inside their magazines. THEY HAVE AN ENTIRE ARTICLE DEDICATED TO MENACE SQUIRRELS.<br /><br />when will someone believe me that my fear is not irrational but completely logical?!<br /><br /><br />***********<br />SIDE NOTE:<br /><br />changed blog template to flowers because i thought some color and LIFE would brighten up these dull, grey daysmandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663645617659295199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16965101.post-12914968688370904082008-01-18T11:25:00.000+01:002008-12-10T13:39:07.296+01:00365 DAYSi've started a new project... again.<br /><br />some of you may remember i had mentioned i would be doing a photo project <a href="http://thebelgiumwaffel.blogspot.com/2006/12/december-30th.html">last year</a>, but i never actually did it. i had taken a few pictures but they were mostly boring and stupid so i had never posted them anywhere. this year i've decided to give it another try; however, this one is slightly different. the last 365 project was to just take a picture a day but this one is a self portrait a day. it doesnt have to be of your face, according to the group rules on <a href="http://www.flickr.com/">flickr</a>, just as long as part of your body is in the photo then you're fine. and of course, no one else can take the picture, because then, it wouldn't really be a self portrait, would it?<br />i'm on day three. i invite you all to have a look at <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/m-dee/">my flickr page</a> and see how it unfolds.<br /><br />here's my submission for today:<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwlX8y3nbmUqX0kpb5HYVNaeNcXNKHcvm3ZlaF4mzwCVyvsnQ1KeoDgSXNyTJWBjz4qNz1561f032dIBvHvv6QW_LBg8CTu14Ylh8TyyM9dE6Aginr9u8c6QRJeujhsZ5sc9iP/s1600-h/DSC_00380001wear+your+hose.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwlX8y3nbmUqX0kpb5HYVNaeNcXNKHcvm3ZlaF4mzwCVyvsnQ1KeoDgSXNyTJWBjz4qNz1561f032dIBvHvv6QW_LBg8CTu14Ylh8TyyM9dE6Aginr9u8c6QRJeujhsZ5sc9iP/s400/DSC_00380001wear+your+hose.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5156763071565357362" /></a>mandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663645617659295199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16965101.post-89847437076326264442008-01-17T17:51:00.000+01:002008-01-17T18:00:13.303+01:00UGHI went thrifting today and it was a total BUST! i didnt get anything! every store was boutique style with over priced crap. umm hello, i would have to debate spending 30 euros on a shirt 1st hand! never mind second hand. please. nothing even looked that good.<br />a few good blazers but all way too expensive for someone else already owning and wearing down the clothing. 3 euros, sure; 30 c'mon!<br /><br />i had dreams of finding lovely necklaces, rings, purses, skirts, shoes. but nothing like that at all!<br /><br />i guess nothing wil ever beat the american thrift store. i cant wait to go back and pick my hobby back up again.<br /><br /><br />speaking of going back, something i'm seriously considering buying when i return to the states is a juicer. i've been reading up on the benefits of juicing and it seems really..beneficial. clear skin, more energy, lower weight, less headaches/sinus problems. it speaks to me.mandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663645617659295199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16965101.post-73048287824537761272008-01-15T12:45:00.000+01:002008-01-15T14:04:15.870+01:00excited!i <em>finally</em> figured out that, YES, Belgium does have thrift stores with actual clothing in them.<br />gregory and i go quite often to a local thrift store that happens to be a large european chain much like salvation army only with the tinest, ugliest selection of clothes. we buy other junk like bags of buttons, knitting needles and knick knacks there (or is that just my list of interests?)<br />anywho its been a frustration of mine basically since i've been here because thrifting has been a hobby of mine for quite some time now. and of course i've asked gregory about this many a times throughout my living here but he never has any answers to my questions. his interests have always included skate boarding, going out and drinking, watching tv and sleeping before i got here. (they're beginning to broaden!) so whenever i have any questions about clubs, organizations, any other interest i might have, he never has any idea if it exists or how to find it)<br /><br />lately my own language skills and self confidence with it has improved by leaps and bounds. i can now find things for myself and do things myself which feels AWESOME. (just yesterday i found for the first time, cheddar cheese that i had always wished for) i've even been able to extend myself so far as to voice my discontent with people. i mean honestly, you don't really know the language until you can tell someone where to go and where they can shove it, right?!<br /><br />so anyway, with all these skills i've brached out and thought hmmm..there must be thrift store <em>somewhere</em> and i thought of the search word to use and where to search all by myself and i found a buttload of listings!<br />not in kortrijk, though. but thats ok, i dont mind a little road trip.<br />so today i bought myself a map of Brugge, where there is a wopping 11 thrift stores!<br />i mapped out where all the thrift stores are in relation to the train station and i found a great route that seems quite do-able. so this friday (or sooner if the weather picks up) i will go to Brugge and hit a total of 5 thrift stores. i cant even contain myself! thinking of all the crazy european treasures waiting for me will surely keep me up at night! yay! can't wait!mandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663645617659295199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16965101.post-7449082939043159392008-01-10T12:08:00.000+01:002008-12-10T13:39:10.109+01:00BETTER LATE THAN NEVERChristmas pictures:<br /><br /><br />Christmas eve. a church in Kortrijk center<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZc5G2JMAnLTM1ortIB8m1eS_SHXYm79cCrUtWL2f5dEixg0juMC-7YLPkwq0L4y-5FMUZorIwH6iXqQ4YuJHWwJHkSV17kjH37sccL_G_q70EI-6lJHyFFUpceb11_chBh5Hu/s1600-h/DSC_00010001christmas1.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZc5G2JMAnLTM1ortIB8m1eS_SHXYm79cCrUtWL2f5dEixg0juMC-7YLPkwq0L4y-5FMUZorIwH6iXqQ4YuJHWwJHkSV17kjH37sccL_G_q70EI-6lJHyFFUpceb11_chBh5Hu/s400/DSC_00010001christmas1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153808447598321922" /></a><br /><br />Starting christmas morning right!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0ijNrhkHWC74v8X6L5dL2okbx3D1SZQmIxllJiA6GJynfA7E06_-mjOEfPxVXAPfJouqeKv7tlgshrWSIcehLqKe8GtvtmfFWJ_NDyTHIjHLQryEkSbJLc8iGihrrOK-r8nNh/s1600-h/DSC_00080001christmas2.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0ijNrhkHWC74v8X6L5dL2okbx3D1SZQmIxllJiA6GJynfA7E06_-mjOEfPxVXAPfJouqeKv7tlgshrWSIcehLqKe8GtvtmfFWJ_NDyTHIjHLQryEkSbJLc8iGihrrOK-r8nNh/s400/DSC_00080001christmas2.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153808447598321938" /></a><br /><br /><br />opening presents:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg_54TVgOC8RzviVmFjckj7WDbK46ZelxPbbziMTmPgpKS_G3-tho2AcWDMECJ5SZF0EZRaKsxKhTbXkbyAL_eJTuNEtuwaeevJzH4OAcWMDPKzEU3ysceDDphGlyy4nIU8N-S/s1600-h/DSC_00090001christmas3.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg_54TVgOC8RzviVmFjckj7WDbK46ZelxPbbziMTmPgpKS_G3-tho2AcWDMECJ5SZF0EZRaKsxKhTbXkbyAL_eJTuNEtuwaeevJzH4OAcWMDPKzEU3ysceDDphGlyy4nIU8N-S/s400/DSC_00090001christmas3.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153808451893289250" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYMynqjKqKczlJg3-OUws0KyQgtM_Psg569j2Tm5U8W7R-AxBvld2BjFiIdJLyBlNVh1Fn-PL4DvF2TeNh49Mz9JtFNJu7OljbnraKIXvs3iFewXYbqcQpkARPBrctAPKMNTr2/s1600-h/DSC_00100001christmas4.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYMynqjKqKczlJg3-OUws0KyQgtM_Psg569j2Tm5U8W7R-AxBvld2BjFiIdJLyBlNVh1Fn-PL4DvF2TeNh49Mz9JtFNJu7OljbnraKIXvs3iFewXYbqcQpkARPBrctAPKMNTr2/s400/DSC_00100001christmas4.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153807790468325554" /></a><br /><a 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src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6VDGcIPrhTQZEJmYxVjZE1mWMzFdHyjCk4vPibDS-RWSKhYUKyf-UWam5evkEGB4R6txy9cy5iMF4EGJzED-CDD6c1A_aBjKdmoIdZ4qztPqJ_O1i97vEEeFa31ic5bhYUfdv/s400/DSC_00150001christmas6.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153807794763292882" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNncsnUwRWm6mb1j5EeyZPvMooWYoNNHMOlF0GDXrVj8WR9uFiuG_JjGC9c19rKL3rQ_fT6xRLLHftvu_u_in7fckRXD2eiwKmw8u7LF0eNFQuoVgdjrTMp5Z42q7bqRGtqjkj/s1600-h/DSC_00190001christmas7.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNncsnUwRWm6mb1j5EeyZPvMooWYoNNHMOlF0GDXrVj8WR9uFiuG_JjGC9c19rKL3rQ_fT6xRLLHftvu_u_in7fckRXD2eiwKmw8u7LF0eNFQuoVgdjrTMp5Z42q7bqRGtqjkj/s400/DSC_00190001christmas7.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153807794763292898" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdTkTbOAS4fYkLsmWVdYMV_RlF3BeFsZHqDm8FspcNTZenCIymK1CEQaYMfx2MP_ZOPLR5-ND8C58GAExO_A-nkylS5mLwqDXa2A7nkq9viSdFvJ72M9nDS0928M4R65rAxzlR/s1600-h/DSC_00270001christmas8.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdTkTbOAS4fYkLsmWVdYMV_RlF3BeFsZHqDm8FspcNTZenCIymK1CEQaYMfx2MP_ZOPLR5-ND8C58GAExO_A-nkylS5mLwqDXa2A7nkq9viSdFvJ72M9nDS0928M4R65rAxzlR/s400/DSC_00270001christmas8.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153807794763292914" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnT_vw_JIpoEqWbGtdoHbvvBw_NNZ2zgIPhsmA2SWtF3u1mcyn-y_uFg_GCmWjdbo-bxPcOVE0MPDO-0t3M0ASJg8KBsGxLPpAhdsLI7-RLmze8IrtRGjBr5o-6h4b97VjV82L/s1600-h/DSC_00410001christmas9.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnT_vw_JIpoEqWbGtdoHbvvBw_NNZ2zgIPhsmA2SWtF3u1mcyn-y_uFg_GCmWjdbo-bxPcOVE0MPDO-0t3M0ASJg8KBsGxLPpAhdsLI7-RLmze8IrtRGjBr5o-6h4b97VjV82L/s400/DSC_00410001christmas9.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153807262187348066" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMC0Sp8dAwTURKVbRL-QrzRKHcJBjKY2dm9X4Lu2bX1UvfF0wIL0YoVOLyBKOm_vWeixyJzAmp73yqBWjfrnyPvV7yywNde6FhghpvfIVAfQ_FeETk8XcZoe8afMEMfqvu-Cdh/s1600-h/DSC_00560001christmas10.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMC0Sp8dAwTURKVbRL-QrzRKHcJBjKY2dm9X4Lu2bX1UvfF0wIL0YoVOLyBKOm_vWeixyJzAmp73yqBWjfrnyPvV7yywNde6FhghpvfIVAfQ_FeETk8XcZoe8afMEMfqvu-Cdh/s400/DSC_00560001christmas10.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153807270777282674" /></a><br /><br />christmas dinner at gregory's parent's house. here i am watching cartoons with the twins. matthijs is wearing the santa hat and xander isn't.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXmMCMgE8XpDVuqeqL5ReCHSQ6S9JrS2YZcv5JmhudOsnZHm_cE-Qxhtfkwe-mveIVAGnNqlQDqp0Qkk0e_InoJ7ljoJnWCdlLL1ruy3TKwCLrVAsprmVG8oWHeV8O5KZmRtUv/s1600-h/DSC_00590001christmas12.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXmMCMgE8XpDVuqeqL5ReCHSQ6S9JrS2YZcv5JmhudOsnZHm_cE-Qxhtfkwe-mveIVAGnNqlQDqp0Qkk0e_InoJ7ljoJnWCdlLL1ruy3TKwCLrVAsprmVG8oWHeV8O5KZmRtUv/s400/DSC_00590001christmas12.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153807275072249986" /></a><br /><br /><br />caught off gaurd. sitting at the dinner table with grandma herpoel. i don't normally look that miserable. she does, though.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjST4vBdxG2Pfbno-Z9VFG06p5w0hbvrbLFZQrmvy7n1JdYh6VXiY3Zx-ADkJ9Lt_qnvzSXE137iDwRoExCcCBFRLMxOm4C1MVHUtqAdYMQd00OdcxYWZG2IgJTDdSPjh19eDbR/s1600-h/DSC_00670001christmas111.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjST4vBdxG2Pfbno-Z9VFG06p5w0hbvrbLFZQrmvy7n1JdYh6VXiY3Zx-ADkJ9Lt_qnvzSXE137iDwRoExCcCBFRLMxOm4C1MVHUtqAdYMQd00OdcxYWZG2IgJTDdSPjh19eDbR/s400/DSC_00670001christmas111.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153807275072250002" /></a><br /><br />keep christ in christmas<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9M5KjxpleyXMXYWKPOj1OFRkbiaQNsNr6TsOOLnoAGs2M5vL36rFn4gM1hI6y-_kVuu7xQTwwYIgGxa8q7Y1a8PHAshjshJ_PjT7aZSLCxf1gFTYY56EmXqCaus6Yfd-AkDrm/s1600-h/DSC_00710001christmas13.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9M5KjxpleyXMXYWKPOj1OFRkbiaQNsNr6TsOOLnoAGs2M5vL36rFn4gM1hI6y-_kVuu7xQTwwYIgGxa8q7Y1a8PHAshjshJ_PjT7aZSLCxf1gFTYY56EmXqCaus6Yfd-AkDrm/s400/DSC_00710001christmas13.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153807275072250018" /></a>mandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663645617659295199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16965101.post-39180280804487058622007-12-21T18:39:00.000+01:002008-12-10T13:39:15.828+01:00mix n matchi have a butt load of updating to do and i'm not going to make 12 different posts to do it.<br /><br />last weekend gregory and i went to a wester themed party. everyone dressed up as cowboys. some even had toy pop guns which was fun. the band was...i forget their name, i think something like moonshine boys, i dont know. anyway they were awesome. a 3 piece band made up of 2 fat guys in over-all's. one on a standing base, the other on banjo! and then a skinny guy on guitar and lead vocals. they did "cajon and southern" style covers on punk and metal songs. hillarious. and super awesome. <br /><br />gregory finaly got a reason to wear the superly western shirt my dad gave him. here are our outfits:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYml2LFf4VkijslXHcai83F5JRruRtjOVdWMgAAFyviJck5VvOLz2J92Hhlf_W0q2vHz8DLiLK2SofUDZBzqobIE_7Ko5mqs8FXTl2vOYDj-eUIA6RufbVjGRHbH4atHYZzWrJ/s1600-h/DSC_02940001SLEEPING-GROX.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYml2LFf4VkijslXHcai83F5JRruRtjOVdWMgAAFyviJck5VvOLz2J92Hhlf_W0q2vHz8DLiLK2SofUDZBzqobIE_7Ko5mqs8FXTl2vOYDj-eUIA6RufbVjGRHbH4atHYZzWrJ/s400/DSC_02940001SLEEPING-GROX.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5146489054526791570" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoVTdLDSCW3rXsTqCYJfUqlEUHj79Ng6e0r6ayA2hixvBaC-K4-AV6PNdwpJyG5Te_aUFYVrKtDIXm7suIBWqnhAP0vVrGMdvLrqUmJdQOqPOaDOoAOb-dg2ocMo5MiVmR03F6/s1600-h/DSC_02950001SLEEPING-GROX.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoVTdLDSCW3rXsTqCYJfUqlEUHj79Ng6e0r6ayA2hixvBaC-K4-AV6PNdwpJyG5Te_aUFYVrKtDIXm7suIBWqnhAP0vVrGMdvLrqUmJdQOqPOaDOoAOb-dg2ocMo5MiVmR03F6/s400/DSC_02950001SLEEPING-GROX.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5146489058821758882" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxznK43A0-fXRZ5tDZc6lBWbnrpa6m0aDJ-Zzj0P8b961Qp_HS5ArPAPYehUrds__Orx8DIdfNWvkMN5gY70r4QpFEW7S0s5aX34kIh8wKMqAZuDwc-5VGYBbGApHDVIUqSTdc/s1600-h/DSC_02960001SLEEPING-GROX.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxznK43A0-fXRZ5tDZc6lBWbnrpa6m0aDJ-Zzj0P8b961Qp_HS5ArPAPYehUrds__Orx8DIdfNWvkMN5gY70r4QpFEW7S0s5aX34kIh8wKMqAZuDwc-5VGYBbGApHDVIUqSTdc/s400/DSC_02960001SLEEPING-GROX.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5146489393829207986" /></a><br /><br />we were the bells of the ball, obviously.<br />*************************************************************************************<br />wednesday was my birthday. i turned 25. because gregory is the world's worst planner, all his hard efforst of trying to fix a surprise together fell through. poor gregory. i believe he did try hard because he's not very savvy in the way of keeping secrets either so i could see alot of scrambling trying to be done. the reasons for no party: it was wednesday night and who the hell does anyhting on a wednesday night? people used the old "holidays are here" excuse and said it was too expensive to go out. and theres a party tomorrow night thats suppose to be huge and everyone we know are trying to save themselves for that party.<br />but he did surprise me with the world's largest birthdat cake!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbIod9cUFa2O_lUimMVqvH0Al7FxBAa5VNtDPHFEJMaF3hhqZ4R9lyLDFxC_fcbkkg7_QvZhppY8C06DKs-ErD3qhzAmFQx0Kj4VbGWsFK_zGap_MkQPcm2V_oZlJviaeSDdQO/s1600-h/DSC_0314.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbIod9cUFa2O_lUimMVqvH0Al7FxBAa5VNtDPHFEJMaF3hhqZ4R9lyLDFxC_fcbkkg7_QvZhppY8C06DKs-ErD3qhzAmFQx0Kj4VbGWsFK_zGap_MkQPcm2V_oZlJviaeSDdQO/s400/DSC_0314.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5146491090341289922" /></a><br /><br />we ate it at his parent's house. not too many attendee's because people are LAME! so we polished off the top level, the second is in edith's fridge for them to pick on and we have the bottom in our fridge. i've eaten 2 slices from it so we pretty much still have an ENTIRE cake in our fridge!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7ZjrN476J2ymK3bpqiodLn9Grcax8uPvCEIL8eUWnSdgN4Wq7U_Eaapi6p4wFODRt626MASJ2wkfIXs-DEI0sEiGITKxAICuNtulS3y9jhotAeuy4Pv4PN5xB2UTMZtKmts5t/s1600-h/DSC_03150001SLEEPING-GROX.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7ZjrN476J2ymK3bpqiodLn9Grcax8uPvCEIL8eUWnSdgN4Wq7U_Eaapi6p4wFODRt626MASJ2wkfIXs-DEI0sEiGITKxAICuNtulS3y9jhotAeuy4Pv4PN5xB2UTMZtKmts5t/s400/DSC_03150001SLEEPING-GROX.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5146492112543506386" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCulzae0o1fEZFu9aL0aW83o-bD8Q9gWmZmSxhKYzryBZOiHMb3YyyqqMTSv6qwpchC_MZbk0wpWlX1SDUQmhao0oQIRBcGU6MU2PKgFw8NgAYwGKulFh-m4J9-WJGRxv0bu9g/s1600-h/DSC_03170001SLEEPING-GROX.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCulzae0o1fEZFu9aL0aW83o-bD8Q9gWmZmSxhKYzryBZOiHMb3YyyqqMTSv6qwpchC_MZbk0wpWlX1SDUQmhao0oQIRBcGU6MU2PKgFw8NgAYwGKulFh-m4J9-WJGRxv0bu9g/s400/DSC_03170001SLEEPING-GROX.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5146492112543506402" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBxZky7ADp8tkzFPqsQfwXSryMX1UhhNytEAkdG8mR7F8fkXIx4DygMaD24XOOh__z5om3UbuNzNqRR2jdwmuOWX21gBQezveL_TpN1eaNZkq43mAQnp2VdXUuyC6kxfeXhMiH/s1600-h/DSC_03160001SLEEPING-GROX.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBxZky7ADp8tkzFPqsQfwXSryMX1UhhNytEAkdG8mR7F8fkXIx4DygMaD24XOOh__z5om3UbuNzNqRR2jdwmuOWX21gBQezveL_TpN1eaNZkq43mAQnp2VdXUuyC6kxfeXhMiH/s400/DSC_03160001SLEEPING-GROX.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5146492116838473714" /></a><br /><br />also, a little 25 years of my life story:<br /><br />ever since i can remember i've loved to have my hair curled. i once cried because i didnt have curly hair..or red hair. red curly hair was my one true desire as a child. i dont know why, but anyway, my mom would curl my hair and then brush all the beautiful ringlets away. i also wanted to be like shirley temple in the worst way. i would get so PISSED and cry that my mom ruined my hair and that it looked stupid and all that. <br />i know now that brushing the curls to soften them is whats the norm. what's been done since forever and always, but i still can't help loving the tight curl look. now that i'm 25 i think i'm old enough to wear my curls tight-becuase i can. and because i'm too old for my mom to brush them out.<br />birthday hair:<br />not the tightest i've worn out of the house<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKLfHwdMnJh_YHi2AfRUmn4dto1k3GmMRKmPAmV1Xmfkg2uVkE-JCTMU2EUPC4m_XC4PrH4ryT5p_BZ0KWn7hQJvcL6sn0_sdLCILmTNcXJyRfEL2U7QoxIUg3DhINJTX0ga2p/s1600-h/DSC_0306.JPG"><img 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snowed last night! <br />its been freezing for weeks now and been below 0 for the past couple days. thats cooooooold for these parts!<br />it only snowed enough to make a light dusting on the ground and then it got colder and froze over so this morning everything was frosted with a light covering of frozen snow. it was so beautiful! the sky was pink and everything else was gently coated in white. i didnt take any pictures until 5pm this evening and by then most of the stuff had melted, and i had roxy, the world's WORST photographer's assistant EVER with me. little miss wiggle bottom made it very difficult to shoot in the dark, which is already difficult. so they're mostly blurry but there was 3 that i liked regardless:<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ4OqEegbO71DknIN9-EX06tioWvtXCZHPlku7wriDgvnwIBIYkojsH2j0LVvyc_puPVbRCejvcPNJ4tttun3QbdilWODfgUhQio6Gn9pwVkJV6eoeR9oG2gKWuIrYKvSv0xQ0/s1600-h/DSC_03310001SLEEPING-GROX.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ4OqEegbO71DknIN9-EX06tioWvtXCZHPlku7wriDgvnwIBIYkojsH2j0LVvyc_puPVbRCejvcPNJ4tttun3QbdilWODfgUhQio6Gn9pwVkJV6eoeR9oG2gKWuIrYKvSv0xQ0/s400/DSC_03310001SLEEPING-GROX.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5146496553539690578" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEmL8DdOjziSz4V6-UYCmbnk5liwhVzJ6fFo6sDNBCRY6D1aIu0oe5nKLYWcNdRR5oLbJ3CiP7LAkk8bQHRobq_WF-MDu3nmaE32-hbl4cHH-npgw68QnXiI7JEPRsWAsEetpt/s1600-h/DSC_03290001SLEEPING-GROX.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEmL8DdOjziSz4V6-UYCmbnk5liwhVzJ6fFo6sDNBCRY6D1aIu0oe5nKLYWcNdRR5oLbJ3CiP7LAkk8bQHRobq_WF-MDu3nmaE32-hbl4cHH-npgw68QnXiI7JEPRsWAsEetpt/s400/DSC_03290001SLEEPING-GROX.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5146496218532241442" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYSZ_Y6i9TkdMFxaV4iIhFsInJWyFleW_G0Wmjor1_zV6ofSPLJeMIT360I_ZPo-IKeUl78G1dxpcof6bL0aue3QDfpAtAK_3wfhZcEIMxjXkzXyWhvfOWCMSm12ywepKnwM9t/s1600-h/DSC_03320001SLEEPING-GROX.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYSZ_Y6i9TkdMFxaV4iIhFsInJWyFleW_G0Wmjor1_zV6ofSPLJeMIT360I_ZPo-IKeUl78G1dxpcof6bL0aue3QDfpAtAK_3wfhZcEIMxjXkzXyWhvfOWCMSm12ywepKnwM9t/s400/DSC_03320001SLEEPING-GROX.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5146496218532241458" /></a>mandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663645617659295199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16965101.post-88769449168006152122007-12-12T16:39:00.000+01:002007-12-12T16:41:23.378+01:00OBSESSEDwith France Gall.<br /><br />especially this song:<br /><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oGGviSJ4Ilw&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oGGviSJ4Ilw&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><br /><br /><br />how deliciously 60's is this video?! i love everything about it. i want her dress.mandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663645617659295199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16965101.post-64118855261661821902007-12-11T17:51:00.000+01:002008-12-10T13:39:16.256+01:00little owli made this little guy today!<br />he only took me a half hour. i had just came in from purchasing my materials to make him and wanted to try it out. i had other things to do as well so i couldnt spend too much time playing, i was just experimenting. i only bought brown and white to start with, as i wasnt sure how difficult felting was. turns out its not difficult at all! and actually really fun, too. <br />only things to keep in mind are (so i've read off the internet) are that the needles are extremely sharp so watch out for the fingers. plus the needles have burs on them (thats how it fuses the wool together) so i imagine it would hurt really bad sticking yourself with it. aaand, the needles are really fragile and can easily break. you have to poke straight up and down in order to keep them from breaking. no diagonal poking, no wiggling while poking. just straight poking.<br />i had tons of fun making my little guy and i will def be trying to make more creatures soon.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmHE1FJtLr8KT2s5tv6p5Lh_4L3oSCSXDbwatRgzB5mgGgTYTYF9N34dHbV7-mgWfExD2dR41KeITthH4BFkb7UVURFaYlLswiRusU5asi2ZMFVcdH-o0Yd89Ih4Qq43NRLx3T/s1600-h/DSC_0288.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmHE1FJtLr8KT2s5tv6p5Lh_4L3oSCSXDbwatRgzB5mgGgTYTYF9N34dHbV7-mgWfExD2dR41KeITthH4BFkb7UVURFaYlLswiRusU5asi2ZMFVcdH-o0Yd89Ih4Qq43NRLx3T/s400/DSC_0288.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142759420707180098" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUNlqfdmoRVl-mqTU2VQ_c8kqMxCjzwKmGXD5HN-E0ExYaWafTsRoRkKB0HUGQO6tmKkvMiP3D2ribQ4s_znSjSGM4JsChdJOw-Vs-w7zzJIwmXXRKQOV_S62kGeIU1zJJ6iIA/s1600-h/DSC_0287.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUNlqfdmoRVl-mqTU2VQ_c8kqMxCjzwKmGXD5HN-E0ExYaWafTsRoRkKB0HUGQO6tmKkvMiP3D2ribQ4s_znSjSGM4JsChdJOw-Vs-w7zzJIwmXXRKQOV_S62kGeIU1zJJ6iIA/s400/DSC_0287.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142759425002147410" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBD6qcqo0Xeb-Z_pMeIzLVrRsXXTuYRtxKK9zT3CYH1sdSi49uJkwmkGJikSIzEIE5OMh5dd9hY5xdH-rOAvdE9ENMvGzo_iuIMEQzKP5Ect2jrfj6gProRiIvMRDFoU-s_YCY/s1600-h/DSC_0291.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBD6qcqo0Xeb-Z_pMeIzLVrRsXXTuYRtxKK9zT3CYH1sdSi49uJkwmkGJikSIzEIE5OMh5dd9hY5xdH-rOAvdE9ENMvGzo_iuIMEQzKP5Ect2jrfj6gProRiIvMRDFoU-s_YCY/s400/DSC_0291.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142759467951820386" /></a>mandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663645617659295199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16965101.post-80763331207718111222007-12-10T15:51:00.000+01:002008-12-10T13:39:19.584+01:00Sinter Klaas/christmasSaturday night sinter klaas came to edith's house and dropped off some gifts for the boys.<br />here are some pictures of the evening:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhslCGn2Bf-3-euloYiShomhPHavbIa3CGdm7m6vBBImUEAIWYk_-t3fUbw5hXvjiwHvSt67X98dj4Iu2iA19YiWI6gz5-IdftKpcrsb-G7XkmrTTD1eAvGa13RORrsVDWSYqqa/s1600-h/DSC_0260.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" 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src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi04IjJ3UcXborfm2HLzVejf0gR3I6-aE5qMknI1OOP1c6GAZqX2ZeJICLGpOxL9NrUBHkV32ABWSsNspDPhL7FtUClCnMv2F6-zAZzYGFanY3yjR3oRHcfe0UTf4yim08xEZc_/s400/DSC_0259.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142360229266820642" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSU-hhW9CzDYUWnMimwUqmjVcbWhDPel29Wo12Jfv6Y7RNHi8anixXuKQdufz_U7pQpEUgDUqWZH968kuPjbF7H_AtlozptXzxIF6nQKG_6QaxVDdoXvQp4MQ0d9p4_r4Pehhj/s1600-h/DSC_0257.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSU-hhW9CzDYUWnMimwUqmjVcbWhDPel29Wo12Jfv6Y7RNHi8anixXuKQdufz_U7pQpEUgDUqWZH968kuPjbF7H_AtlozptXzxIF6nQKG_6QaxVDdoXvQp4MQ0d9p4_r4Pehhj/s400/DSC_0257.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142360229266820658" /></a><br /><a 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src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_fbuq65E38TPyyzc-ExUMrMLbRpo2x-0vZHmVH697KvRYcTu0JDjMYOF-v2BvYFUuX8WxUj7SWLRDRwSPfbleWJtvZ4zP4a0mRIJRUoT41vJ_5qvNpFI2ah57jfNzbXVTm_EI/s400/DSC_0268.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142359576431791538" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhuCiDV5ih0GLkyw_WBF9-twrnUI9gSfqDbvRJhS7YZ5aDsuVKFsAiFmWnak-BAWPgvJNET4iQ8QHuK7R7U_-jBdA3DzyBS3h25Os4pFT5pDczMexDezcbiImJUT6D1_MgMMQ8/s1600-h/DSC_0267.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhuCiDV5ih0GLkyw_WBF9-twrnUI9gSfqDbvRJhS7YZ5aDsuVKFsAiFmWnak-BAWPgvJNET4iQ8QHuK7R7U_-jBdA3DzyBS3h25Os4pFT5pDczMexDezcbiImJUT6D1_MgMMQ8/s400/DSC_0267.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142359580726758850" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJk1XLIjJNzmP2vCBLoys-vso1j1SnLH7hsXbIkzpUgzsJScGZFuLq88RxcOYaT86Bq_F6Pgx_T7_BUGXgSd8qYwbAzR8aiV0ivdDtmWDQbxl1_ZtbeVhx7DydpB2w2rZ-jPRr/s1600-h/DSC_0265.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJk1XLIjJNzmP2vCBLoys-vso1j1SnLH7hsXbIkzpUgzsJScGZFuLq88RxcOYaT86Bq_F6Pgx_T7_BUGXgSd8qYwbAzR8aiV0ivdDtmWDQbxl1_ZtbeVhx7DydpB2w2rZ-jPRr/s400/DSC_0265.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142359580726758866" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9ov1EyOmrlrMLU7GlRU9U7zRCT8q6C5IB9sOJlID0tx_67QGSSYQ9GNiGa1VgXHXn3UOyAKEBW0oDg7rCb3SfenQYCJsIH9V22XmgraVKasoISxYNVPF7h0pKEo1rBjSclGhk/s1600-h/DSC_0264.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9ov1EyOmrlrMLU7GlRU9U7zRCT8q6C5IB9sOJlID0tx_67QGSSYQ9GNiGa1VgXHXn3UOyAKEBW0oDg7rCb3SfenQYCJsIH9V22XmgraVKasoISxYNVPF7h0pKEo1rBjSclGhk/s400/DSC_0264.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142359585021726178" /></a><br /><br /><br />CHRISTMAS IS IN DA HOUSE:<br /><br />prized christmas ornaments:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBwvKKwhU1QOBpz22CCS_Hjeo2N9f7Bx7CKJlbas_I3kVw3AENI2e6mIcl65tW7Coo8k5e-brFpHD6fVDaO5DuK894aQZ_mgEShZ-IQ6R48iiR5q8qBLQLRUcFfEkrNJTOsWpF/s1600-h/DSC_0283.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBwvKKwhU1QOBpz22CCS_Hjeo2N9f7Bx7CKJlbas_I3kVw3AENI2e6mIcl65tW7Coo8k5e-brFpHD6fVDaO5DuK894aQZ_mgEShZ-IQ6R48iiR5q8qBLQLRUcFfEkrNJTOsWpF/s400/DSC_0283.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142359018086042962" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHXu3u-ZKwCDcO5CpFwSCxGIwA5KZiqNJqgmaR8uaI3O80rbiaYluDkT3Ejn9W80oue1rnSos6YlR_lBUGG1kXLKIdwLdU5aVtVdqCi-y3JNbAN3R7qMQ1XkEws7qkiuob5WOO/s1600-h/DSC_0280.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHXu3u-ZKwCDcO5CpFwSCxGIwA5KZiqNJqgmaR8uaI3O80rbiaYluDkT3Ejn9W80oue1rnSos6YlR_lBUGG1kXLKIdwLdU5aVtVdqCi-y3JNbAN3R7qMQ1XkEws7qkiuob5WOO/s400/DSC_0280.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142359022381010274" /></a><br /><br />felt trees i made:<br />i wanted something to look like it came out of a dr. seuss book. i think they're quirky enough just for that.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhTXk0PLwipqeI9J6zmp8NasiV-b-jO1Kysc8U6XF5R9reCehoDCQ3584LKTs3I43sypEeXSYGjWsY4Vmn6li4rEn27Ac3XMbRvHrq_cBJfcrvg0KD8sbkG-A8LSlklIdPAc5I/s1600-h/DSC_0279.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhTXk0PLwipqeI9J6zmp8NasiV-b-jO1Kysc8U6XF5R9reCehoDCQ3584LKTs3I43sypEeXSYGjWsY4Vmn6li4rEn27Ac3XMbRvHrq_cBJfcrvg0KD8sbkG-A8LSlklIdPAc5I/s400/DSC_0279.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142359026675977586" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6P6b5oiktbDwh_syP1kxEpmcyTdOtiUAYSZApm0-kSuXSEm8CmwsIkL-5R3dXL5nqvv8TPvNustu_U13Xa6F-NhVf3_2GPROrVfMB8jjoZlywOiCGAs0Qkx3vgE_Mozqrfh1n/s1600-h/DSC_0277.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6P6b5oiktbDwh_syP1kxEpmcyTdOtiUAYSZApm0-kSuXSEm8CmwsIkL-5R3dXL5nqvv8TPvNustu_U13Xa6F-NhVf3_2GPROrVfMB8jjoZlywOiCGAs0Qkx3vgE_Mozqrfh1n/s400/DSC_0277.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142359026675977602" /></a><br /><br />our tiny table top tree this year:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUr_DDNL1xN9Znlkp5fGWCrEkj_7vPq6O2rWjRBFj3Y5s8ajoFqn1-Fk1FeyBc-QWERLx0bHjOoN_PRWO7rr-AK91kD6R-fXQCOv9bXDAB4e45cLrDkP031tZY8WKKL6EPwqav/s1600-h/DSC_0271.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUr_DDNL1xN9Znlkp5fGWCrEkj_7vPq6O2rWjRBFj3Y5s8ajoFqn1-Fk1FeyBc-QWERLx0bHjOoN_PRWO7rr-AK91kD6R-fXQCOv9bXDAB4e45cLrDkP031tZY8WKKL6EPwqav/s400/DSC_0271.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142359030970944914" /></a>mandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663645617659295199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16965101.post-44667789037739111162007-12-06T17:52:00.000+01:002007-12-06T18:22:00.360+01:00THE FIRST DAY OF MY LIFE<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zwFS69nA-1w&rel=1&border=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zwFS69nA-1w&rel=1&border=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><br /><br /><br />perfect.<br /><br /><br /><br />also:<br /><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LqjFKsZiQek&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LqjFKsZiQek&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>mandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663645617659295199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16965101.post-85537755889508083502007-11-27T16:21:00.000+01:002007-11-27T17:04:25.994+01:00what i've learnedhere is a video from a belgian sketch comdey show. they're making fun of the west-flemmish dialect. no one else from the country can understand it because they talk like cave men, yet i've lived here for only 3 years (come february) and I can already understand it (most of it. give me a break.)<br /><br />anyway, i'm pretty proud that i'm able to understand their crazy talk so i thought i'd show you this video of a computer teacher teaching foreigners the west-flemmish terminology for using computers. <br /><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DIHA3vRltrY&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DIHA3vRltrY&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><br /><br />translation:<br /><br />computer teacher gives introduction <br />"first and foremost, the computer is your friend. you will learn how to navigate this computer in west-flemmish dialect"<br /><br />"windows 98 also has a specific language: <em>RUUTE</em> 98" (you can clearly hear the difference between the proper way to say 98 and the west flemmish shit way)<br /><br />ok ok, everyone stand up<br />-everyone trys it for a bit-<br />teacher says: west-flemmish comes from within, let everything out<br />then he picks on gilbert and tells him he needs to let it out a little looser<br />the video cuts to another term word but they dont say the actual english word for it, but for reference they're talking about turning on the computer "start" <br /><br />underline: onderstreeepen<br />exit<br />login<br />log out<br />backspace<br /><br />video cuts to the teacher helping a student while gilbert hits his computer<br />teacher: whoa whoa, gilbert, please!<br />-turns to other student- whats he doing?<br />you <em>never</em> hit the computer<br /><br />if you want to print:<br />print<br />hard disk<br />floppy disk<br />shut down<br /><br />then gilbert asks a question regarding something not working properly on his computer and he needs to transfer files to his floppy disk, what does he need to do?<br />and the teacher answers: thats simple gilbert, you turn it on, stick it in, log in log back out and be done with it <br />gilbert: ahhhh...now i understand<br />(mind you gilbert is also speaking west flemmish so the whole foreigner thing doesnt really fit there)mandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663645617659295199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16965101.post-52253349019857674512007-11-17T18:11:00.000+01:002008-12-10T13:39:21.765+01:00chapelsthere are many road-side chapels here in Belgium. i've always found them all very beautiful and unique. i've wanted to do a project around them (i know exactly what the project is but i'm not saying here in case any lurkers try to steal my awesomely awesome ideas). last weekend the rain had finally let up so gregory and i thought it a perfect idea to go snap some photos of the road-side chapels. he did the driving, i did the snapping. here are the photos from last weekend:<br /><br /><br /><a 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src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm5pfH3GlpFjxc_qjTcIsXWhoAQfi3rbOCuWni_rQ_W-kjGHGl9VeYnZ4WR-rM5cfI0V1jX5PDYOu8iAFLPX_YuHlQXRyc3hFfKFSxBWaWxbjCkiVxoIJ9Q-hymnOh-HVHJIGq/s400/DSC_02030001chapel7.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5133860731541197474" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha-O8-iy9R1d685jr07bcGIJdwfZn0bG1T3i8UHGS5p04ChjS1GVi-OH_WpwAxQdvm6-yAIc1-XSgGeFjbYTgnWBYKrziTRHRSH0B46Z_YtskudEaZMhdEFRwqIyOqOLD8uTK-/s1600-h/DSC_02040001chapel8.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha-O8-iy9R1d685jr07bcGIJdwfZn0bG1T3i8UHGS5p04ChjS1GVi-OH_WpwAxQdvm6-yAIc1-XSgGeFjbYTgnWBYKrziTRHRSH0B46Z_YtskudEaZMhdEFRwqIyOqOLD8uTK-/s400/DSC_02040001chapel8.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5133860735836164786" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqwOhmD05Z4qaHkJT3Cav0JCDIRv7In09w_BUqWkfzukFfJoOwQPGM4yA1NA_Vyz6aQvfEDyWnDHzBzETOFa8kImbXeKb4V7IA2ybN45MhhJNe7PjgUAq3ce7AsHdkf32no9CQ/s1600-h/DSC_01850001chapel1.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqwOhmD05Z4qaHkJT3Cav0JCDIRv7In09w_BUqWkfzukFfJoOwQPGM4yA1NA_Vyz6aQvfEDyWnDHzBzETOFa8kImbXeKb4V7IA2ybN45MhhJNe7PjgUAq3ce7AsHdkf32no9CQ/s400/DSC_01850001chapel1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5133860216145121858" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUurWD9ig5_4VMm25oXZo1QvZLuse6G0I-lxcN496YuGRGVrHVhphjrC9fT0PfGxJeXhfa0vXpZ1cGS9BFJifqCVf5TAq82DmABC7uEtQfoTlRqbborFZbgxjQH8doUSzGh1NT/s1600-h/DSC_01860001chapel2.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUurWD9ig5_4VMm25oXZo1QvZLuse6G0I-lxcN496YuGRGVrHVhphjrC9fT0PfGxJeXhfa0vXpZ1cGS9BFJifqCVf5TAq82DmABC7uEtQfoTlRqbborFZbgxjQH8doUSzGh1NT/s400/DSC_01860001chapel2.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5133860224735056466" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipLt9MMWQveFWqC1QkDa9o00AOuQFDtfNP9wg_nDCUKk91iiSoG0MXUMb6h33cgHhKBIUJ-I5vuY-2T5cgXDIlEuM4nPOMiySHfNqV6uX71L_LF3x4GfFyY-PBI_p5BOjeYkQ4/s1600-h/DSC_01880001chapel3.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipLt9MMWQveFWqC1QkDa9o00AOuQFDtfNP9wg_nDCUKk91iiSoG0MXUMb6h33cgHhKBIUJ-I5vuY-2T5cgXDIlEuM4nPOMiySHfNqV6uX71L_LF3x4GfFyY-PBI_p5BOjeYkQ4/s400/DSC_01880001chapel3.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5133860229030023778" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC_K7nM_CFVeuGGEIcwd8wYXoNDCnlmJHCCqLrZxImHffqh6D1fjaSWVNxbBxgeDm87xcBGfvXe8anrq9Awcg6mVpQMsDBOBBMAn4anTZT-C3TydNJ7pP31e7HM5INE2SgIxGz/s1600-h/DSC_01900001chapel4.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC_K7nM_CFVeuGGEIcwd8wYXoNDCnlmJHCCqLrZxImHffqh6D1fjaSWVNxbBxgeDm87xcBGfvXe8anrq9Awcg6mVpQMsDBOBBMAn4anTZT-C3TydNJ7pP31e7HM5INE2SgIxGz/s400/DSC_01900001chapel4.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5133860237619958386" /></a><br /><br />All roads lead to Belgium<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7Pyfbid4F0wtUdX9ZrHlNjCVCEkm4B1-ar8E9SBEyku0Dc8Z87nI1nzGyPDZYjzhyouJdBCp6hegNRJmz_rfIOSk9Ex-dvin_jl4eK56ez-sfG0ahZjoaEN97pK7OuZxtzpC/s1600-h/DSC_01920001chapel5.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7Pyfbid4F0wtUdX9ZrHlNjCVCEkm4B1-ar8E9SBEyku0Dc8Z87nI1nzGyPDZYjzhyouJdBCp6hegNRJmz_rfIOSk9Ex-dvin_jl4eK56ez-sfG0ahZjoaEN97pK7OuZxtzpC/s400/DSC_01920001chapel5.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5133860241914925698" /></a><br /><br /><br />Taken today:<br />gregory and roxy take many naps, here is one captured <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijrJrFRTdwN18Ja1-F50Rg3BO3pfp5uIb4ELPvUW5U1_bIXso_hyYAFufdzVaS-s8o2uAetIpka7zY2EoTk6YyvetiaqgGPels0ht0nM9mmLfG9X6FEsvdfPcBDKadGfsf3ZCx/s1600-h/DSC_02130001SLEEPING-GROX.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijrJrFRTdwN18Ja1-F50Rg3BO3pfp5uIb4ELPvUW5U1_bIXso_hyYAFufdzVaS-s8o2uAetIpka7zY2EoTk6YyvetiaqgGPels0ht0nM9mmLfG9X6FEsvdfPcBDKadGfsf3ZCx/s400/DSC_02130001SLEEPING-GROX.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5133860735836164802" /></a>mandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663645617659295199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16965101.post-54002855309630868592007-11-07T16:19:00.000+01:002008-12-10T13:39:23.219+01:00November 1, belatedNovember 1 and 2 are holidays in these parts. <br />All souls day; the day to cry because your loved one is dead, and all saints day; the day to be happy because they're in heaven (hopefully, right?!)<br />its tradition to go to the graveyard on november 1 and put flowers down. i think its a beautiful tradition. not only does it make you NOT forget about those who you've burried but it also makes the cemetary look so beautiful, pleasant, welcoming and ALIVE.<br /><br />this is my third all souls day experience yet only my first time taking pictures. every year i asked gregory to take me to a cemetary and every year he was too afraid of..i dont know, mortality, death, looking like a freakazoid because his girlfriend is treating the cemetary like a tourist attraction?<br />i guess he's learning to live with me better, or just growing up because we FINALLY went to one. and he did feel a little weird with me taking pictures but i told him they show pictures in the paper so its not that crazy and he let me do my thing...while staying 200 feet away at all times as to not look associated with me ;)<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSkU_fV6WfWrVStPACEMrZbzmmXFmjiIKXykdtb2urDYaaZBjc-NTLMvkxKU8D4JqFoTQtWtzSvLGNGjcdtBjchpeL92c2Jn-a6LlTHGoGYLlyCAOtpUEJisNXOPYjGDTWVyBG/s1600-h/DSC_01340001girls.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSkU_fV6WfWrVStPACEMrZbzmmXFmjiIKXykdtb2urDYaaZBjc-NTLMvkxKU8D4JqFoTQtWtzSvLGNGjcdtBjchpeL92c2Jn-a6LlTHGoGYLlyCAOtpUEJisNXOPYjGDTWVyBG/s400/DSC_01340001girls.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130121304981460610" /></a><br /><br /><a 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href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuLVt7di3RmilcimxlBFcEcTNZR_XiTay-dV-esJqAp13ZEJ5qBDSnXu23Jeai-8xr1vICBct_oBA3R4vSzMLoV8aA4pCctGveE8Cc8Rmw0bdvoBEUu2B76Pavx1EgOsrOAEvQ/s1600-h/DSC_01410001allsouls4_herpoel.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuLVt7di3RmilcimxlBFcEcTNZR_XiTay-dV-esJqAp13ZEJ5qBDSnXu23Jeai-8xr1vICBct_oBA3R4vSzMLoV8aA4pCctGveE8Cc8Rmw0bdvoBEUu2B76Pavx1EgOsrOAEvQ/s400/DSC_01410001allsouls4_herpoel.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130121335046231746" /></a><br /><br />a herpoel and her husband that we didnt know exisited.<br />(funny story. gregory and janne are related by marriage. but the husband burried here isnt part of janne's family.)<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF7vRXjR5y9hlNtesDJ1YOWjVBibwHZT9yGqGpfeL8_NCsVekGTxxpkvnAftcGPgMP5JZHDquniQtfPzomeaugBoqdm6IJPh185xBG5uG3wpmQsRSutEjI0y6hl3rD9TZlYX7O/s1600-h/DSC_01450001allsouls5.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF7vRXjR5y9hlNtesDJ1YOWjVBibwHZT9yGqGpfeL8_NCsVekGTxxpkvnAftcGPgMP5JZHDquniQtfPzomeaugBoqdm6IJPh185xBG5uG3wpmQsRSutEjI0y6hl3rD9TZlYX7O/s400/DSC_01450001allsouls5.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130122103845377746" /></a>mandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663645617659295199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16965101.post-2012353572134542972007-11-07T15:42:00.000+01:002008-12-10T13:39:24.315+01:00the mystery that is my hairheres a crazy little story that i may have told before; every time my hair grows people ask me if i've cut it. nope. it just falls differently i've come to tell people. what other explaination is there for people thinking that my longer hair is shorter?<br />In september i explained this rather poorly to a college of mine. she got the message and too, found it strange. a few weeks ago some else asked me again if my hair had been cut. nope, not cut. blown dried, surely, a little poofier than normal, certainly, but definetly not cut.<br />but i went to get my hair cut last night. and i was eager for all the oos and ahhs that come with cutting your hair (whether its sincere or not doesnt matter) but there were no oos and ahhs. someone commented on it firs tthing in the morning only because i rode the bus home with her and told her i was going directly to the hair dressers, so she had an obligation to say something. no one commented until the middle of the day! thats a long time for someone not to notice! and i cut a good 3-4 inches off!<br />how can people notice the minute changes in my hair while its growing but not the drastic change of chopping inches off?<br />the world may never know.<br /><br />granted its nothing special. i was only looking for a simple cut anyway, but STILL!<br />jerks.<br /><br />BEFORE<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2CQvkGz9p4ruVjSuunbSNyVap7-rUFPgrLbt05zPLqNBO155BV764oxmc92-rjmGukTyvWig_f-70jjHDMkJSpAX7ezWhA8v5Q2UHeZNwqOkdZ3MfhJtngN-hvyOiovn5KQdT/s1600-h/DSC_0121.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2CQvkGz9p4ruVjSuunbSNyVap7-rUFPgrLbt05zPLqNBO155BV764oxmc92-rjmGukTyvWig_f-70jjHDMkJSpAX7ezWhA8v5Q2UHeZNwqOkdZ3MfhJtngN-hvyOiovn5KQdT/s400/DSC_0121.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130111074369361474" /></a><br /><br />SILLY <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW83W3mTEVCyXrnpUHZac1XYMenPWDnFjU2iYtMxNtQMulm8nyaB5oT7ttknjB1-pFagVJ2gzwu5on5Q3VRYwsJTDBCcGhKars_RnvVhBiOTLT2KPpZ0C2CsHmAD7znoCThOGg/s1600-h/DSC_01720001still_twins.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW83W3mTEVCyXrnpUHZac1XYMenPWDnFjU2iYtMxNtQMulm8nyaB5oT7ttknjB1-pFagVJ2gzwu5on5Q3VRYwsJTDBCcGhKars_RnvVhBiOTLT2KPpZ0C2CsHmAD7znoCThOGg/s400/DSC_01720001still_twins.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130111082959296082" /></a><br /><br /><br />AFTER<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyMfoYACHexYZEXHvtYhL8iJQ_Y8JySQE7qDJuS3CAQC0Vl3pRTrUByqM3oQMq7ETSHXSbr8y_U4goGtp44_wI8u9vjsSHYmD5CqfgNusngeGpoGcAyFiQrLjJSZB54doW4QH1/s1600-h/DSC_0174.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyMfoYACHexYZEXHvtYhL8iJQ_Y8JySQE7qDJuS3CAQC0Vl3pRTrUByqM3oQMq7ETSHXSbr8y_U4goGtp44_wI8u9vjsSHYmD5CqfgNusngeGpoGcAyFiQrLjJSZB54doW4QH1/s400/DSC_0174.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130111091549230690" /></a><br /><br />SILLY<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC_5-iAhEtxS_5IfkPq6u9RiDrn6gLs5KRyqnldqCCDcrTZ23brcGL9e1lVSzOmJEIMpAoKUChGR3scEz21DIcKyaA15V3pCeXnCgmTJJ4tyLYgvFSiFZZkWgGi1dUPosw5f-r/s1600-h/DSC_01760001girls.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC_5-iAhEtxS_5IfkPq6u9RiDrn6gLs5KRyqnldqCCDcrTZ23brcGL9e1lVSzOmJEIMpAoKUChGR3scEz21DIcKyaA15V3pCeXnCgmTJJ4tyLYgvFSiFZZkWgGi1dUPosw5f-r/s400/DSC_01760001girls.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130111095844198002" /></a>mandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663645617659295199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16965101.post-61664269600233684852007-10-25T17:43:00.000+02:002008-12-10T13:39:26.253+01:00Day of the dog/ around town<strong>Dog</strong><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-S1IYGlv6TaCVyWlhjImaD7vO1kyI7yD_2dPQNe90MGkUR5CDpo994tylXAdhebNEKBowpGpnVOl142D1FzP2KXtuQe9r2rLM0eKtodWpnKGdqkeMP_vRDiijsefyL0vVldSg/s1600-h/0001roxy_brightflash.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-S1IYGlv6TaCVyWlhjImaD7vO1kyI7yD_2dPQNe90MGkUR5CDpo994tylXAdhebNEKBowpGpnVOl142D1FzP2KXtuQe9r2rLM0eKtodWpnKGdqkeMP_vRDiijsefyL0vVldSg/s400/0001roxy_brightflash.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125301076070061474" /></a><br /><br />"the flash is so bright!"<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVYx4Hhkdoj4FaleHvXS3RCoX-6AZ32XGg1T2-CzRZSzSyyGRYGymlwXAK3jaGKA9Ar8KUhyphenhyphenSBoVCN-5hdyN7xXBne_DVxVEHinwXbYIXMiQlDRSfQ5-md2xDC-h1i0yI-3_0o/s1600-h/0001roxy_itch.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVYx4Hhkdoj4FaleHvXS3RCoX-6AZ32XGg1T2-CzRZSzSyyGRYGymlwXAK3jaGKA9Ar8KUhyphenhyphenSBoVCN-5hdyN7xXBne_DVxVEHinwXbYIXMiQlDRSfQ5-md2xDC-h1i0yI-3_0o/s400/0001roxy_itch.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125301084659996082" /></a><br /><br />itchy<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm9GplsYvr1zoxyPtAGmzfG_lnQaIDWZvgqnV23qeKjc-Ogwblna14HoCEB4GT0FEozoAHF21bclylHnicSunuisuYWxG-rPckArz_iNFZjj6vae9jtImqrdygP55EK76wTTrj/s1600-h/0001roxy_mud.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm9GplsYvr1zoxyPtAGmzfG_lnQaIDWZvgqnV23qeKjc-Ogwblna14HoCEB4GT0FEozoAHF21bclylHnicSunuisuYWxG-rPckArz_iNFZjj6vae9jtImqrdygP55EK76wTTrj/s400/0001roxy_mud.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125301088954963394" /></a><br /><br />after getting into muck. she looks bummed that i wouldnt let her inside<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqc4KFU3MQmU6TtjrKBsDtCPMNTuZFJ11CEATnByghcklekrJB0lEHUtq-j7L4Sk3E0aC62ZcfqStrLvXeFZ5CRWoLQ9nOzMtRB8412tR9L0ITBsj_qhUwyCB5vWsZiCh0vbhh/s1600-h/0001roxy_pretty.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqc4KFU3MQmU6TtjrKBsDtCPMNTuZFJ11CEATnByghcklekrJB0lEHUtq-j7L4Sk3E0aC62ZcfqStrLvXeFZ5CRWoLQ9nOzMtRB8412tR9L0ITBsj_qhUwyCB5vWsZiCh0vbhh/s400/0001roxy_pretty.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125301088954963410" /></a><br /><br />pretty puppy<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibXY5TPhIcTdfZaywuDRsNjmDiA2J6ZbmivGLLWdblNl56V6cPjEDNXfLGSmM07m7sC0-p1aysgVIJtd6LzFlvpPFbRziNOzRr_ier12BNeObTKkLxqq6sUWhDBsNmsaCEUnuZ/s1600-h/0001jump_ahead.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibXY5TPhIcTdfZaywuDRsNjmDiA2J6ZbmivGLLWdblNl56V6cPjEDNXfLGSmM07m7sC0-p1aysgVIJtd6LzFlvpPFbRziNOzRr_ier12BNeObTKkLxqq6sUWhDBsNmsaCEUnuZ/s400/0001jump_ahead.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125301093249930722" /></a><br /><br />jumping over the bushes<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbg9X8UxP2NpjV8R3vQJ6ZOavsXoVrb9uQiWczqkSNSfjWVAnShKCvMBTbY-PFBGgEaBXXhCLhJR2nQ9-82Fdth-_6Ko078Jw8m_uDnSTTfDpKjeerdjM2tBGiMl-0tS_7blkE/s1600-h/0001jump_back.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbg9X8UxP2NpjV8R3vQJ6ZOavsXoVrb9uQiWczqkSNSfjWVAnShKCvMBTbY-PFBGgEaBXXhCLhJR2nQ9-82Fdth-_6Ko078Jw8m_uDnSTTfDpKjeerdjM2tBGiMl-0tS_7blkE/s400/0001jump_back.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125302321610577394" /></a><br /><br />jumping back over the bushes<br /><br /><strong>Around town:</strong><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8AUlWbbKJ2TAwdP5RnoLkSpD7CykqG7p89mvlKtoasFLgRkkzF_u5taPjRn4nHA3JIWqCnDCvVFq-e8LRWgSOtyR6_LamCjTnwSzb36UPhQ4elZO4GGPCPa-JchN6E11Pld_i/s1600-h/0001tree.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8AUlWbbKJ2TAwdP5RnoLkSpD7CykqG7p89mvlKtoasFLgRkkzF_u5taPjRn4nHA3JIWqCnDCvVFq-e8LRWgSOtyR6_LamCjTnwSzb36UPhQ4elZO4GGPCPa-JchN6E11Pld_i/s400/0001tree.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125302325905544706" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirKAfuQKMTSYiWZRAj2nZP2XDg-jE6ZDTua7iHoPPvnrfPyNbAMVhPRKlKy_0FPtDVY36dD47SiTR6GOEMJ-t5hU32SOcR4Q9acEfXord23yyveMofFa0GPiEvmtass7NwI0iF/s1600-h/0001wagon.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirKAfuQKMTSYiWZRAj2nZP2XDg-jE6ZDTua7iHoPPvnrfPyNbAMVhPRKlKy_0FPtDVY36dD47SiTR6GOEMJ-t5hU32SOcR4Q9acEfXord23yyveMofFa0GPiEvmtass7NwI0iF/s400/0001wagon.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125302330200512018" /></a><br /><br />wagon thingie<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOpsHTE83J46WtK20NFFg8BsQzHARpuMeAIvV8QTVumhYk_Pp0pvd8pZSeTewbLwkGTWWr8RJvG5EwUlRtrWWjfxh4dllFOZY3RCX0R4Ot7BoyRwBY9JckXAjrWip74sDPO2QU/s1600-h/0001wire.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOpsHTE83J46WtK20NFFg8BsQzHARpuMeAIvV8QTVumhYk_Pp0pvd8pZSeTewbLwkGTWWr8RJvG5EwUlRtrWWjfxh4dllFOZY3RCX0R4Ot7BoyRwBY9JckXAjrWip74sDPO2QU/s400/0001wire.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125302334495479330" /></a><br /><br />barbed wire<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitKmPQh57xiqPqKUqKBfWTVfxPhbZBlODJmgOBDcK25VicWrk1r1EEG_yOBOWTMsRzxmuakoPI1VdPZq2EBHdGAGMFDIQpvRtOVT0j6LqjtJ9_C1tCrc0_qV20519t1EIXYO2n/s1600-h/0001berries.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitKmPQh57xiqPqKUqKBfWTVfxPhbZBlODJmgOBDcK25VicWrk1r1EEG_yOBOWTMsRzxmuakoPI1VdPZq2EBHdGAGMFDIQpvRtOVT0j6LqjtJ9_C1tCrc0_qV20519t1EIXYO2n/s400/0001berries.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125302334495479346" /></a><br /><br />berriesmandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663645617659295199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16965101.post-57448691042139294512007-10-23T15:56:00.000+02:002008-12-10T13:39:26.560+01:00forgoti forgot to post 2 other photos from saturday, mainly because they have nothing to do with pumpkin carving.<br /><br />here you will see the first photo ever taken with this particular Nikon D40, and a picture from the end of the night:<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_UHCcuM0CJksW6NTbqpnSuDFZecuvvq4dtJ6FqN0uoZgBsUN1yFQFzrF4B15mJq2vctdOkuXjHAStmYstWyGhY9iI0-qlOyeeZ7YoyoV-M94YwYUfe3ecu7oawNR3bRgZwfuL/s1600-h/0001roxy_greg_kiss.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_UHCcuM0CJksW6NTbqpnSuDFZecuvvq4dtJ6FqN0uoZgBsUN1yFQFzrF4B15mJq2vctdOkuXjHAStmYstWyGhY9iI0-qlOyeeZ7YoyoV-M94YwYUfe3ecu7oawNR3bRgZwfuL/s400/0001roxy_greg_kiss.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124531241924549746" /></a><br /><br />roxy and gregory like to kiss<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRG2KRKsgz9E0oa6212IDMgfuL-RFx4X8nzyQMM_GxWoajfeJe8h0vIaRs9cCcEAhWgPpaDB0ir9p5tMb7HizhYhsPqtmi4Xs4TQviY3Sq_T1_RyfXfD5yUMptTlk6bDopiofC/s1600-h/0001PINTJEDAAN.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRG2KRKsgz9E0oa6212IDMgfuL-RFx4X8nzyQMM_GxWoajfeJe8h0vIaRs9cCcEAhWgPpaDB0ir9p5tMb7HizhYhsPqtmi4Xs4TQviY3Sq_T1_RyfXfD5yUMptTlk6bDopiofC/s400/0001PINTJEDAAN.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124531246219517058" /></a><br /><br />they start them early here in Belgium, how else do you think they get the reputation for having the best beer? <br />baby Daan on quality control in the kitchenmandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663645617659295199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16965101.post-36350502101575142102007-10-21T09:51:00.000+02:002008-12-10T13:39:28.638+01:00new camera/pumpkin nighti got a new camera Saturday! its the Nikon d40! we got it on sale at a local store. apparently it normally comes with 2 lenses but this one only came with 1, hence the sale. but i still find it a good deal because i went into a camera shop a couple of weeks ago and asked how much it was and for 1 lens with it it was still a hundred euros more than this one. yay!<br /><br />so last night there was a pumpkin carving thing going on at a church in Kortrijk. (Halloween is really picking up here more and more each year) they brought in 4 tons of pumpkins and gourds and you were encouraged to use your creativity to carve a pumpkin and they even had wooden dowels so you could make creatures out of you pumpkins. it was a blast! i had to hand over my new camera to Gregory because i was covered in pumpkin goo. here are some photos he took from the evening:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKWc3oJMO9_zj0mYVwCdN4PRtIybj3sh2xFMdcyG0fjeshbs7UJysyGpl0O1R6pDWT8bchFgn37Qoag8rovPb2JVJn49UX0VM7O9Ds1mZeK7ySvvY4mT_LgGJpTThqBWTQmyvh/s1600-h/0001pumpkins.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKWc3oJMO9_zj0mYVwCdN4PRtIybj3sh2xFMdcyG0fjeshbs7UJysyGpl0O1R6pDWT8bchFgn37Qoag8rovPb2JVJn49UX0VM7O9Ds1mZeK7ySvvY4mT_LgGJpTThqBWTQmyvh/s400/0001pumpkins.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123698297441999842" /></a><br />Pumpkins<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg80OrHPikfflCwlRSccvGMTMqE-KXEFSMMEq6UDzrSQt_NNiBtR3wYzutKGcCt9WlkYbCal7VcllTxBsrGmXiGVFddwFOYtlvu91GN-EztE6oXV8D4lcxnzjW4TrRxSgZ93ojH/s1600-h/0001pumpkins2.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg80OrHPikfflCwlRSccvGMTMqE-KXEFSMMEq6UDzrSQt_NNiBtR3wYzutKGcCt9WlkYbCal7VcllTxBsrGmXiGVFddwFOYtlvu91GN-EztE6oXV8D4lcxnzjW4TrRxSgZ93ojH/s400/0001pumpkins2.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123698297441999858" /></a><br />gourds<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh5BqyZrlXyr0u_gYvZ8I_H_8oxEW6t7_jY9LuW2n9KuYCKqpodWr7aylUIm7rYkJ3pz_JAZ0bK1SRXxpn2YuD2iR7fjnTNCdXQaoaI713CDkL-w6ObnNaAyRzpEdRff4liaAk/s1600-h/0001CARVING.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh5BqyZrlXyr0u_gYvZ8I_H_8oxEW6t7_jY9LuW2n9KuYCKqpodWr7aylUIm7rYkJ3pz_JAZ0bK1SRXxpn2YuD2iR7fjnTNCdXQaoaI713CDkL-w6ObnNaAyRzpEdRff4liaAk/s400/0001CARVING.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123698301736967170" /></a><br />my nearly finished product<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimewA2XOyrqQyY8biHFhBMBGEMZnayS_hysWJ0g8xQV-DTKZrenOBMZJSQ5_C84zVzGOibtUsB7GIKFtFbNvXtX_6aQ1vnHDYkQAQYjDwRlEnZlXAfz5uqtofuS5j5cIL77btM/s1600-h/0001GOBLINKIDS_1.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimewA2XOyrqQyY8biHFhBMBGEMZnayS_hysWJ0g8xQV-DTKZrenOBMZJSQ5_C84zVzGOibtUsB7GIKFtFbNvXtX_6aQ1vnHDYkQAQYjDwRlEnZlXAfz5uqtofuS5j5cIL77btM/s400/0001GOBLINKIDS_1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123698301736967186" /></a><br /><br />happy to be carving<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWnhxLR62BsICx5KROWV9qAe44qEPz7cjqpa0Fm9Q3WTvtcygl4ShlB7udt7AYXOwYDsQf5_BIQaF79jU98pnDGIhLB1T1xejCF6aS3H7Ew5N5qVu8KdOGtwwOjj9vCYA_rNCb/s1600-h/0001LOOK.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWnhxLR62BsICx5KROWV9qAe44qEPz7cjqpa0Fm9Q3WTvtcygl4ShlB7udt7AYXOwYDsQf5_BIQaF79jU98pnDGIhLB1T1xejCF6aS3H7Ew5N5qVu8KdOGtwwOjj9vCYA_rNCb/s400/0001LOOK.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123699951004408914" /></a><br /><br />giving people looks while carving<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwddfqUwRf5_clE05c7Z_O7NXgUaPkKU1oGd_TXHyLDQevghfk4SA14TFcpB5eXBXh0il4TRS1TyysL2DkBIkLxzE2ov0fj-Cqyki7q_etBaSOG50eyZdj9pmU8MU44pghJvy9/s1600-h/0001JANNE_ME.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwddfqUwRf5_clE05c7Z_O7NXgUaPkKU1oGd_TXHyLDQevghfk4SA14TFcpB5eXBXh0il4TRS1TyysL2DkBIkLxzE2ov0fj-Cqyki7q_etBaSOG50eyZdj9pmU8MU44pghJvy9/s400/0001JANNE_ME.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123699951004408898" /></a><br /><br />janne and me with our finished pumpkins<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAsHsMflTkOUjCVIUkSeqOIeMxf_BGd-NiikvvOZBLREBiukGbDEKx4LHKA5AGQDgBOSCuDxFRUXBhMayE_6ZvME4t46zYan6Bqvr5w9oNpMR5L8Wncz4KwxzXvTrlTq3je6WL/s1600-h/0001GOBLINKIDS.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAsHsMflTkOUjCVIUkSeqOIeMxf_BGd-NiikvvOZBLREBiukGbDEKx4LHKA5AGQDgBOSCuDxFRUXBhMayE_6ZvME4t46zYan6Bqvr5w9oNpMR5L8Wncz4KwxzXvTrlTq3je6WL/s400/0001GOBLINKIDS.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123699938119506978" /></a><br /><br />goblin kids!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf1yyw_bnikGSuYfcvEWGkiO9GN5hL6nsKHpoZpicJlOfHGpHfHj_Iu-3n6czV4Vw_Vj2unh3Zh1XR8m0nzwey4wKpnF6bT4gtUBHtw_icA4_EZ5_cVJ9irgpyjgk7fX3GilRA/s1600-h/0001CARVING_1.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf1yyw_bnikGSuYfcvEWGkiO9GN5hL6nsKHpoZpicJlOfHGpHfHj_Iu-3n6czV4Vw_Vj2unh3Zh1XR8m0nzwey4wKpnF6bT4gtUBHtw_icA4_EZ5_cVJ9irgpyjgk7fX3GilRA/s400/0001CARVING_1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123699946709441586" /></a><br /><br />more kids dressed up<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZL4bUYGphQNtF022dF-13p65zgVZ5m2px2JPaLnM0OeHwQGT_ra-kCwj6dJlxujffpZ3PTB3Fm0NlXkY5YhwG2UbZwjXIgtFm5DKAcAEg0yzHEOC_b1Kb3nu9O8SMetn4DfZV/s1600-h/0001PIETERJAN_THOMAS.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZL4bUYGphQNtF022dF-13p65zgVZ5m2px2JPaLnM0OeHwQGT_ra-kCwj6dJlxujffpZ3PTB3Fm0NlXkY5YhwG2UbZwjXIgtFm5DKAcAEg0yzHEOC_b1Kb3nu9O8SMetn4DfZV/s400/0001PIETERJAN_THOMAS.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123699955299376226" /></a><br /><br />pieter-jan and thomas NOT carving, but drinking beermandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663645617659295199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16965101.post-46639996467502545872007-10-18T16:23:00.000+02:002007-10-18T16:39:05.386+02:00Halloween survey thingieHALLOWEEN QUESTIONS:<br /><br />What were you last year for Halloween?: dead bride because gregory wussed out and wouldnt be the beetlejuice to my lydia.<br />What are you going to be this year?: a fat drunk on the couch?<br />Favorite costume you have ever worn?: umm.. my pin-up costume that i made?<br />How do you spend your Halloween?: its different every year. i try to do something fun though<br />Are you or are you not going trick or treating this year?: HA! NO<br />Did or do you pull Halloween pranks?: nope<br />Do you believe in ghosts? I do<br />Are you superstitious? yes<br />Do you like caramel popcorn?: eww gross<br />Have you ever gone in the country to look for pumpkins? YES!!<br />Have you ever been on a hayride? yes!<br />Do you decorate your home for Halloween?: uh heck YES<br />Have you ever been to a haunted house?: plenty of made up haunted houses and the lizzie borden bed n breakfast which was def haunted. my old dorm building was also haunted as it was general shaw's estate (the duded that lead the 54th regiment in the civil war. theres your history lesson for today.)<br />Have you ever been to a graveyard on Halloween? yeah<br />Have you ever attended a Halloween party?: yepp<br />Do you watch scary movies on Halloween? I always watch scary movies<br />Have you ever had your candy stolen from you?: no<br />Did you ever steal any ones candy? probably my brothers<br />Has anyone ever gotten hurt due to your prank?: no pranks<br />Have you ever dressed as a witch/warlock?: I've NEVER been a witch<br />Are your parents into Halloween?: not really<br />Do you know someone who was born on Halloween? don't think so<br />HAVE YOU EVER:Passed out candy?: yep<br />Bobbed for apples?: yeah, its messy<br />Gone to a pumpkin patch?: yes!<br />Hosted a Halloween Party? yes!!<br />Attended a Halloween Party?: of course!!<br />Made pumpkin pie?: yes<br />Raked leaves?: yeah for fun and not for fun<br />Watched the Travel Channel with the Halloween specials?: wait..what? i didnt know they had that!<br />HAVE YOU SEEN:<br />Amityville Horror?: yes<br />Halloween?: no<br />Last House On The Left? no<br />House Of Wax?: yes<br />Tales From The Crypt? yes<br />The Exorcist?: yes<br />Texas Chainsaw Massacre?: yes<br />Pumpkinhead?: no<br />The Sixth Sense?: yes<br />All or any of the Nightmare On Elm Street?: all!<br />Practical Magic?: pffft yeah!<br />Any or all of The Simpsons Halloween episodes?: yep<br />The Munsters?: love em<br />The Adams Family?: love em<br />Elvira?: heck yes!<br />The Lost Boys?: no<br />Contact?: no<br />Hocus Pocus?: yes<br />Edward Scissorhands?: *swoon* yes<br />Friday the 13th?: actually- no<br />Childs Play?: yes<br />The Shining?: yes<br />Salems Lot?: yes<br />Fright Night?: nomandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663645617659295199noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16965101.post-62048087362024408162007-09-26T15:21:00.000+02:002007-09-26T15:31:10.199+02:00double dose of crazyone of the old ladies that lives at my work has been <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">particularly</span> crazy the past 2 days. she's normally one of the normal ones that make you question how she landed herself on the dementia floor in the first place.<br /><br />Now i know why.<br /><br />yesterday, as i was making bed rounds, she stopped me before moving past her room and asked for a small, dark, plastic bag. i was pretty confused because we <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">don't</span> use such bags anywhere in the building. I asked her why she needed a bag and she said, as a matter of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">factly</span>, that she needs the bag for when she wets herself. she needs someplace to put the wet pad.<br />OK then....<br />Like i said before, we <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">don't</span> use dark bags in the building so i began looking on my <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">linen</span> cart for something that could be used. i found a small plastic sack that had been holding such pads that she was <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">referring</span> to. it <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">wasn't</span> exactly dark, but certainly an opaque white with blue in it. so i handed it to her and she shook her head.<br />"no no no." it has to be a brown or khaki color, the color of my shit.<br /><br />i blinked.<br />did i seriously hear her correctly?<br />i had a college with me and by her cracking it i think i did. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">mmmhmmmm</span>...."the color of shit"<br />i had to disappoint her by saying i <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">don't</span> have any shit colored bags.<br /><br />fast forward to today. i thought she was having a momentary <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">laps of</span> craziness but apparently it overflowed into today. i got through my entire bed making rounds, even talked to her at her room and all was normal, until i was <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">putting</span> everything away and she flagged me down and asked if i had a girdle for her.<br />WHAT?!<br />she's never worn a girdle since <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">I've</span> been there. and she's skinny!<br /><br />i think its just going to keep getting better.mandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663645617659295199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16965101.post-86245113372813369822007-09-11T17:55:00.000+02:002007-09-11T18:06:19.660+02:00cleaning classtoday i had to stay longer at work because a <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">representative</span> from the company where we buy our cleaning <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">products came</span> in to teach us the proper method in which we <em>should</em> be cleaning. (tomorrow <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">I'll</span> e learning how to serve people and even though i <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">don't</span> serve people at my cleaning job, and the fact that <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">I'm</span> suppose to leave at 12 because <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">I'm</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">working the</span> weekend, i still have to be there from 1-4. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">yay</span>.)<br /><br />turns out i already clean pretty much in the acceptable manner whereas other ladies admitted they <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">didn't</span>. i was so surprised because <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Belgian</span> ladies are always cleaning<; turns out, their point of view is "if the floor is clean then the room is clean!" which i already gathered from observing_____.i noticed before she spends SO much time cleaning the floor yet her house still looks dingy. its because she <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">doesn't</span> have time to bother with anything else after washing floors for hours.<br /><br />while in the class the rep asked our previous working backgrounds. she wanted to know if we cleaned for a living in the past. i gave my answer and the head cleaning lady told the rep that "i <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">don't</span> speak dutch that good" i was furious! i hate when people feel the need to excuse me or <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">apologise</span> for me. other people <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">aren't</span> stupid. they can obviously tell that <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">I'm</span> speaking text book dutch and not a regional dialect which, by process of elimination, would make me a person not from <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Belgium</span>.<br />i should be the only one who <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">apologises</span> or gets to lean on the excuse that its not my first language. but i <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">wasn't</span> in trouble. i <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">answered</span> correctly. the woman understood me perfectly. there was no need to point fingers at me.<br />its at times like that when i just want to smack the person. or yell at them. or just get up and leave. if my dutch is so damn bad for her to have to let the other person know then why was i in the class?<br />then i had to be the "special" one through <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">out the</span> class and be asked if i was following <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">OK</span>. like <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">I'm</span> a retard.<br />yeah. i felt good.mandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663645617659295199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16965101.post-24678108052221793952007-09-10T16:16:00.000+02:002008-12-10T13:39:28.891+01:00spooooooookyis it too early to start talking about <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Halloween</span>?<br /><div>i <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">didn't</span> think so.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>i came across a book that i just HAVE to have!</div><br /><div>by the creator of the infamous "puking pumpkin" and website <a href="http://www.extremepumpkins.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">extremepumpkins</span>.com</a>, Tom <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Nardone</span> has a new book out also titled Extreme Pumpkins</div><br /><div></div><br /><div><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1557885222?ie=UTF8&tag=notmartha-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1557885222"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108580282285707698" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr76P2OWjR70Oxc79h8tVurv1iIW4ICKxpdn3rEYvaBRXO-gCjY7DMGdBlqn-3mdP5KcN4g3J_ERJPMZo4M-YTPWeJsOgEx-mH4_yvb-4tBRsbW1ZbGSXCyQrr0q8kUX6muVTu/s400/extreme.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div> </div><div>only 5left in stock. anyone feeling generous should buy it for me now ;)</div><div> </div><div>I <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">don't</span> plan on having a party this year either, and instead really want to go here:</div><div><a href="http://www.magichalloween.com/index.html#UK">http://www.magichalloween.com/index.html#UK</a></div><div> </div><div>tickets are only 29 euros per person and if you ask me <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">that's</span> not <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">toooooo</span> expensive. i want to go for the big <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Halloween</span> party on the 31st but i <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">don't</span> know if we can get the day off. <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">I'll</span> have to discuss it with <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Gregory</span> but regardless i need to go! its not like anything else <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">halloweeny</span> is going on around here.</div><div> </div>mandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663645617659295199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16965101.post-10484087683726161082007-09-05T15:47:00.000+02:002008-12-10T13:39:32.264+01:00I ZOO do YOU?!<div>Monday Gregory and i went to the zoo, as we both had a day off. it was awesome! the weather turned out in our favor for the most part; can't ask too much more than that from Belgium.</div><div><br /></div><div>we took lots of pictures, so here are some of us for your viewing pleasure.</div><div><br /></div><div>enjoy!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmiYzOOYgRg2jp_jS-3n6QX2vn2Vyypb66pAS8ZkQ93IA4gP0jTMZLzOouE9MNNXFznXqv3SHkpEySNtlz1UplObQXruf1eSbFE49nmvxkfA5tS8-n7xlBThcO8l4DpDDjLtMr/s1600-h/Afbeelding+001.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106718014079226418" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmiYzOOYgRg2jp_jS-3n6QX2vn2Vyypb66pAS8ZkQ93IA4gP0jTMZLzOouE9MNNXFznXqv3SHkpEySNtlz1UplObQXruf1eSbFE49nmvxkfA5tS8-n7xlBThcO8l4DpDDjLtMr/s400/Afbeelding+001.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Gregory on the train to Antwerp<br /></div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5NTimjzyJIbFfeiKxm5PElftVAjmR6RH7r4qIAyxrqPl35bWD8zcM8ZiKBl-z0Oz7v1Y61PdYUaNaTVtzcND3NUpZdaOh5jtwx0GfWwZgtczIIZM7S42qJzfMg2m2BmPWq2Jj/s1600-h/Afbeelding+002.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106718026964128322" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5NTimjzyJIbFfeiKxm5PElftVAjmR6RH7r4qIAyxrqPl35bWD8zcM8ZiKBl-z0Oz7v1Y61PdYUaNaTVtzcND3NUpZdaOh5jtwx0GfWwZgtczIIZM7S42qJzfMg2m2BmPWq2Jj/s400/Afbeelding+002.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Me on the train to Antwerp<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLlORUKVdSxPQScH5V1AU-Zf4cV09Yp6cdoJk-IVhyYw9ViXKyp0qq2hcVKZWslNmqpb2AniHhJ4Y1aptAho2E_2gaiZlxiNqD1X0rAX91rT1H1-guujyPfUSqcmaxX0ofh63k/s1600-h/Afbeelding+003.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106718031259095634" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLlORUKVdSxPQScH5V1AU-Zf4cV09Yp6cdoJk-IVhyYw9ViXKyp0qq2hcVKZWslNmqpb2AniHhJ4Y1aptAho2E_2gaiZlxiNqD1X0rAX91rT1H1-guujyPfUSqcmaxX0ofh63k/s400/Afbeelding+003.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Antwerp station. it was built before the Eiffel tower! its so beautiful and exactly how i would picture a train station in the 1800s--only in black and white.<br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQV0eRa_UmRPt88VxusId4bu26MjFhjEXl61f0CE3m0SucFWG8nBRkvEj4excL6hM_Fo155NXZl4xzaKxAx3cIdvbj9extss9H8hC0FwR4V2hu_zbWvGnz4YLUqb98NK1_-3-a/s1600-h/Afbeelding+004.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106718039849030242" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQV0eRa_UmRPt88VxusId4bu26MjFhjEXl61f0CE3m0SucFWG8nBRkvEj4excL6hM_Fo155NXZl4xzaKxAx3cIdvbj9extss9H8hC0FwR4V2hu_zbWvGnz4YLUqb98NK1_-3-a/s400/Afbeelding+004.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div></div><div>with the warm penguins<br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifdzDsZSyQ58H6RgBw_0gDvjwlWCFRZw5uQthx7UCNW9m165p8SJxn1tZHRIyQwr8d60wcndSt08dJENq11xe2SeT9DOYWnLewZbdK6QDdcin3rzi51PucFgAHOYUjoGuQA0Ig/s1600-h/Afbeelding+014.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106719354109022898" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifdzDsZSyQ58H6RgBw_0gDvjwlWCFRZw5uQthx7UCNW9m165p8SJxn1tZHRIyQwr8d60wcndSt08dJENq11xe2SeT9DOYWnLewZbdK6QDdcin3rzi51PucFgAHOYUjoGuQA0Ig/s400/Afbeelding+014.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div>with the cold penguins</div><div></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWFnUw8E3uOp4JWCYkGMznv5kHyCUembMU4QPyD5frDwYUcv09LS4pzIHa0EkPn9JDeqHGfwxQnylrzZbHZLp1FJE6JE_vzmHYeEG2nnTYQROQdmKg7el2Vz37jssLzvBXcDcZ/s1600-h/Afbeelding+013.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106719349814055586" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWFnUw8E3uOp4JWCYkGMznv5kHyCUembMU4QPyD5frDwYUcv09LS4pzIHa0EkPn9JDeqHGfwxQnylrzZbHZLp1FJE6JE_vzmHYeEG2nnTYQROQdmKg7el2Vz37jssLzvBXcDcZ/s400/Afbeelding+013.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div>telling Gregory the camera is crooked..or am i calling him a loser?? you decide.</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgYMJv4g44He3bTTKkhGoj17gPY0IY606quu75JEAnmEKQyTKeYF2NBPlhcXF20f-asTayErhJRHF9iLB6wqOJxUwZoI6AJ4CLqHxfkoUBzHlxnrSwlSlfEDtB6093isfA5ise/s1600-h/Afbeelding+012.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106719341224120978" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgYMJv4g44He3bTTKkhGoj17gPY0IY606quu75JEAnmEKQyTKeYF2NBPlhcXF20f-asTayErhJRHF9iLB6wqOJxUwZoI6AJ4CLqHxfkoUBzHlxnrSwlSlfEDtB6093isfA5ise/s400/Afbeelding+012.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div>Its Belgium! explanation enough.</div><div></div><div><a 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