laundry- fold away Mt. Clean Clothes
- shop for BBQ tomorrow
- tidy living room
tidy baby area- wash and sterilise bottles
tidy bedroom- passport photo for Torin
- look into hiring a car for our France trip
- take out trash
dishwasher- look into Dutch law regarding legal guardianship for Torin
pay bills- fill in application for daycare subsidy (can’t, missing id code)
- get id code from tax lady
request Torin’s vaccination schedulehave provider check out what’s wrong with our landline
redbandita's Life List
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1. do first things first
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2. buy a bakfiets
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3. record a CD with lullabies and other songs for Torin
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4. make a quilt for my baby
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5. metaphorically drink wine and eat cheese and catch some rays, you know. (Watch them positive waves, man.)
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6. create a place in memory of Rose Tenace
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7. BL: reach Activity Level 2
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8. Do the Couch-to-5k running plan at half speed
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9. declutter the bedroom drawers while applying time limits with the egg timer
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10. identify 100 things that make me happy (besides money)
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11. Have 43people help Flirt's 43things Teddy Bear travel around the world!!!
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12. learn (some) Irish
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13. learn (some) Spanish
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14. Fund 43 microloans through Kiva.org
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15. post my favourite picture of my mom
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16. Be a rebellious witch whore
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17. spread atheism
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18. Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro
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19. sometime: move to Ireland
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20. find out if greenwheels.nl is an option for us
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21. paint some simple pictures for the baby changing area
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22. put baby down when he's asleep to do things
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23. plan and go on a family holiday (in France)
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How I did it: Bees and flowers. A girl and a boy. Friction and bodily fluids. Love need not be involved but helps with the result turning out better. A midwife with a great attitude, a compilation of my favourite Dead Can Dance tunes and an understanding yet freaked bf were essential in my case on the final delivery (o, what a pun!) Read how I did it…
How I did it: Hired a car, drove to Hamburg, spent 3 nights with my sister and her family, spent 3 days in my home village with the rest of my family and ended up arguing with my dad. Big time. Drove back to Amsterdam without saying good-bye to him. Read how I did it…
How I did it: I visited a few creches and then I sent applications to two of the ones I liked. What's great is that the one next door is amazing, so I have to still hope that they have a place when Beanie needs it, but it sure looks good, so far... Read how I did it…
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It’s been two years today that I pitched my REAL tent just south of Worthy Farm, with a view of Pyramid Stage and the Glastonbury Tor as background. To this day, one of the best things I’ve ever done in my life. I loved the experience so much I wished it was a permanent venue, apart of course of the ever-so-present mud.
Gawd, I so wish I was there this year.
The line up is SO awesome. Maximo Park! Blur! NE*RD! Prodigy! Madness! The Specials! Spinal fucking Tap! Nick Cave and the Seeds! The list goes on and on and on.
I would have even wanted to see Tom Jones…
Ach, ach.
Extreme Spielplatzing (playgrounding) with my sister and her son Elias, chats about what to expect with babies and about her new pregnancy, plans for her house and the future. I had the best time socialising with her and my b-i-l, as well as reconnecting with Elias who with his 2 years and 2 months is starting to put a face to a name when he sees me. Saturday, he wouldn’t talk to me and was very shy, on Sunday, he already poured sand into my palm in the sand box and when I left on Monday, he even told me “Tschüss!!!”
On Sunday, we visited a children’s music festival in the horticultural park “Planten en Blomen”, listening to a recording of “Peter and the Wolfe” at 5pm with matching fountain display. Eating Currywurst, I might add. With an alcohol-free beer.
Torin was cool on the train but had some trouble sleeping both nights, which was to be expected.
We met also with my friend Claudia and had lunch on Monday before we took the train back to Amsterdam.
So fun and easy!
Incidentally, I packed waaaay more things than we really needed.


