redbandita

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  1. 1. do first things first
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    75 people
  2. 2. buy a bakfiets
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    2 people
  3. 3. record a CD with lullabies and other songs for Torin
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    1 person
  4. 4. make a quilt for my baby
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    1 person
  5. 5. metaphorically drink wine and eat cheese and catch some rays, you know. (Watch them positive waves, man.)
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    1 person
  6. 6. create a place in memory of Rose Tenace
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    2 people
  7. 7. BL: reach Activity Level 2
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    1 person
  8. 8. Do the Couch-to-5k running plan at half speed
    6 team members . 22 entries . 14 cheers
    11 people
  9. 9. declutter the bedroom drawers while applying time limits with the egg timer
    2 entries . 12 cheers
    1 person
  10. 10. identify 100 things that make me happy (besides money)
    46 entries . 42 cheers
    6,863 people
  11. 11. Have 43people help Flirt's 43things Teddy Bear travel around the world!!!
    48 team members . 2 entries . 8 cheers
    33 people
  12. 12. learn (some) Irish
    4 entries . 10 cheers
    3 people
  13. 13. learn (some) Spanish
    6 entries . 5 cheers
    25 people
  14. 14. Fund 43 microloans through Kiva.org
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    66 people
  15. 15. post my favourite picture of my mom
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    1 person
  16. 16. Be a rebellious witch whore
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    12 people
  17. 17. spread atheism
    3 entries . 5 cheers
    10 people
  18. 18. Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro
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    428 people
  19. 19. sometime: move to Ireland
    5 entries . 38 cheers
    1 person
  20. 20. find out if greenwheels.nl is an option for us
    1 person
  21. 21. paint some simple pictures for the baby changing area
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    1 person
  22. 22. put baby down when he's asleep to do things
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    1 person
  23. 23. plan and go on a family holiday (in France)
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    1 person

How I did it
How to have a baby
It took me
149 days
It made me
a mother


How to spend christmas 2008 in Germany
It took me
6 days
It made me
half happy, half sad


How to arrange daycare for my baby
It took me
2 weeks
It made me
more relaxed


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Recent entries
do first things first (read all 13 entries…)
July 3 2009 1 day ago
  • 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 schedule
  • have provider check out what’s wrong with our landline


post random things (read all 53 entries…)
Glasto. 1 week ago

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.



visit my sister with Torin (read all 3 entries…)
It was awesome! 1 week ago

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.



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