Entrewas: for present and past members of entrecard

Paying 50 dollars to give my entrecard friends full exposure of their entrecard knowing they worked so hard to earn the EC’s… when I would be swimming in money I would certainly pay each dollar with love. But I don’t have them, and when I had them, I’d probably spend them on more necessary things. [...]

tsunami warning

A tsunami warning is issued after a strong earthquake hit near the Samoa Islands. It’s best to listen to your own Tsunami Warning Centre to keep updated. Unchecked information tells about a 7 m high tsunami hitting Samoa, several people are killed. New Zealand is on alert. It’s not expected that the wave will reach [...]

Earning by using feelings of guilt

Today I was confronted with one of those friendly aggressive ways of making people pay for services online. It was free registering, even free downloading of some graphics. So that was OK. When I entered my email, however I saw there was a message. It told me that so-and-so is my manager now (huh? Did [...]

When beloved people are dying

A few friends are going through the sad time of seeing their parents or partners die. Ofcourse I want to help them as much as I can, but I know there’s not much I can do in the face of the experiences that belong to life. Added to that I often wonder whether I’m important [...]

Stars and lies

remember the girl who told the media she only wanted a few stars tattood in her face and ended up with 56 stars? She said she didn’t realise there were more because she fell asleep? Well, I didn’t belief her in the first place and I was right. She lied about it all. (Because she [...]

Friday Fill-ins #143

1. One week ago I thought my autistic son would go to daycare today. (See at Laane on the World) 2. I love to wear circle skirts when I was young. 3. Mama told me to be perfect in every sense. 4. I assume that’s why my house isn’t perfect at all, please keep that [...]

Thursday thunks

Does soap or shampoo have to really lather up for you to feel that it cleaned thoroughly? Well, I don’t expect that from normal soap, but I do expect bubbles from shampoo. Do you have a long standing joke with someone that you still laugh about every time you talk to that person? Not anymore. [...]

Works for me: repairing denim

With 6 children, espcially when they were very young, there was a lot to sew. I wasn’t able to buy new socks every time their tows found an easy way out, wasn’t able to buy new denim trousers whenever they made a bad fall. To make the patching up of denim trousers more invisible or [...]

Illegal downloading – a law in France

The French parliament decided to take on a new law to give internetproviders access to computers of suspects and gives the authorities the ability to close the internetconnection of people who illegally download movies or music. In addition fines can reach a maximum of 300.000 euro, and people can even be convicted to imprisonment. A [...]

Market Garden remembrance

The last week there were remembrances and festivities to honor the veterans who tried to free our country from German oppression in 1944 and 1945. Operation Market Garden was a huge event of English, Polish, Canadian, American, and also Dutch, soldiers to secure a route from the south of The Netherlands to the middle of [...]