My Favorite Things

july 19 2008

My Favorite Things

1. What is your favorite thing to do alone?

bagpiping, singing, reading, writing

2. What is your favorite thing to do with your best friend?

Well, I hardly see my best friend.
But we used to enjoy listening to music, watching star treck, slowly walking through town, commenting to each other on people and eating an icecream.

3. What is your favorite band?

You make me realise I have no modern one at the moment.

I still love Velvet Underground.

4. What is your favorite song?

I have many, depending on the mood I'm in.

5. What is you favorite part of your job?

Im a sahm, and at times I earn a bit by writing.
So I like it when the kids are all asleep, and I look a good opportunity to write fora good reward.

6. What is your favorite TV show, on now?

On now?
Nothing.

Michael Palin will be on tonight. Does that count?

7. What is your favorite TV show all time?

Swiebertje.
Only the Dutch readers will understand me now.

8. Who is your favorite actor?

Ron Ely.

9. What is your favorite film?

Out of Africa.


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the beach

june 21 2008

At the Beach


1. Do you plan to be at the beach this summer?

It would be nice to be able to go there.
But I can never plan vacations, so if I'll be able to go it's just for a few hours.

2. Do you have a favorite beach?

No. not really.

3. How old were you on your first beach trip?

2, and they had to go to a doctor with me. Turned out I had asthma and couldn't deal with the humidity. They had to return home.

4. Did your folks own or rent a cottage at the beach?

Huh? Own a cottage?
No.
Our beaches don't have many cottages on them.

5. Have you or would you bring your kids to the same beaches you went to as a kid?

They have been there with someone else.

6. What type of bathing suit do you wear at the beach?

None.
When I'm there I'll take a long walk.

7. Do you have favorite food you like to eat at the shore?

I think your idea of a beach is far different from mine.
Our beach is just a stretch of sand beide the sea.
Only at the most touristic areas there are some restaurant facilities.
They're far too big for our wallet.

So it's sandwiches.

8. Do you have a favorite drink you like at the shore?

Something I can bring with me.

9. When is the next time you will be beach bound?

I just don't know. (see 1).


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gas and prices

june 21 2008

Summer Movies and Oil

1. The other day I purchased gas for $3.96, which was less than the $4.37 my local station charges per gallon. What is the current gas price in your area for regular?

Gas. You mean for cooking? Or gasoline for the car?

We don't have a car, so I don't know whow much it costs to get and keep it moving.
Cookinggas isn't very expensive. In the north of the country we have our own gasreserve.

2. Will your vacation plans be altered by the price of gas?

No.
We always stay at home, because autism has decided that for us.

3. Is there any movie this summer that you're looking forward to seeing?

No. The cinema is too expensive, and I can hardly leave the house for any relaxation.
I'll just wait for what's on TV. The BBC ususally has some wonderful movies.

4. Gas prices aside, what is your favorite vacation destination?

Scotland.
It's not too far away, I speak the language, I play the bagpipes, and I would love to go there and see the little piece of land I've inherited.

5. Will you watch more film on DVD than in theaters this summer?

Well, I guess I've answered that one already.

6. Will you fly anywhere this summer?

Yea...up the closet, as a saying states, picturing someone really mad.
I wish I could fly somewhere.

7. Guess: How high will a gallon of gas peak at?

It depends on so many influences, I just don't dare to give a serious estimate.

8. Will gas prices effect who you vote for in this fall's election?

I'm not american, bit if I was it wouldn't.
I'm all for Obama, because he's good for international relationships, and because most of the americans here have voted for him.

9. How much will the price of home heating oil effect you?

We don't use oil to heat our homes here.
It's electricity and gas.

The whole world economy will influence matters here negatively.
We already see that support to the handicapped will be diminished.
That means I don't dare to ask for more support for my autistic son and the others, because I'm afraid we'll be halfway and have to stop or even have to pay back.

The problem is not so much that gasprices cause economical unbalance, but that people in the USA with a bad credit history or who were a bad risk were able to loan money for cars and houses. Living on credit has become a way to lead a live, and matters were bound to implode one day or another.

I've grown up with the lesson that one never should get in debt to buy things.
So we don't have a car, and we don't spend money we don't have.
It means our lives are rather sober, but so be it.

We don't live on air and pretend.
What we have is ours and we try to recycle as much as possible, to be friendly for the earth.

When we can't heat our home well enough in the winter, we just put on our cardigans and thick socks.


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facts about my blogging

june 7 2008

SHARING YOUR BLOG HABIT


1. How long have you been blogging?

Since march 21 2001

2. How did you start?

A friend asked me to start blogging too.
About the same way I try to motivate others.

3. How often do you post on your blog?

Several times a day.
You can always see whether I've been at home all day or had meetings.
I like to post when I sit down to have a coffee. So I either have posts spread over the day, or some parts of the days are empty.

4. Have you made good blogging friends?

Oh yes.
Because I don't have much chance to meet other people in real life, I meet them online.
Sometimes it's meeting again, like when one of my former students popped-up.

5. Have you talked to someone on the phone you met through blogging?

Yes, two friends. It was a great experience.

6. Have you met anyone from your blogging?

No. not yet.

7. Have you had a crush on anyone you have not met?

Yes, a long long time ago.

8. Have you had a romance with someone you have met?

No, not at all.

9. Do you suspect you get comments from someone interested in you?

Romantically interested?
No. I don't think so. But maybe I just didn't realise it.


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High school

may 31 2008

HIGHSCHOOL

1. Can you sing the fight song?

What's that? Fight song? Schools here don't fight.

When you mean the schoolsong, yes, I remember them both. I've lost some words, but I remember the tunes perfectly.
Interesting was that at the school reunion, so after 25 years, I was the only one who remembered them both.

Because our girls school merged with the boys school the very old "boys" asked me on the stage to sing the schoolsong with them.
Oh, I loved it!!

2. Who was your favorite teacher?

In highschool. That's for young people between 12 and 18?

I adored the biology teacher of the first year. I've forgotten her name.
2 of my dutch teachers were very caring. They also helped me to find my way into self confidence and journalism.
And my french teacher was great! Even now we're old I still have a crunch for him.

3. What was your school mascot?

Can't remember we had one.

4. Did you go to the Prom?

Well, we didn't have proms here.
Just a party.
I went there because I organised it.
It felt awkward, because I had to take one of the exams again. So I felt I didn't belong there.

5. If you could go back, would you?

I have been back. Three of my children went to school there.
But it's different.
They've changed the building, and one of the schools isn't accessible anymore.

They were remarkable buildings, so have a lot of feelings in it. I'm susceptable for that. So I would love to visit them again now.

6. What do you remember most about graduation?

All the others of the group graduated, except for me.
And because I was in the organising committee I was there. Painful.

I graduated two months later.
People had forgotten about that.
The school even forgot to arrange a decent place to sit to sign my diploma.
So it was in a room, knees on the floor to get at least a good signature on the paper.

None there with flowers or anything.

Such a sad memory.

Maybe that's the reason I never feel I've really accomplished anything, because when I was supposed to have my moment of triumph at the university, I was called in half an hour early and when i came out none of the guests had arrived yet.

7. Where were you on Senior Skip Day?

What's that?

8. Did you have a job your senior year?

Yes, I was a telephonist at the largest telecom company of the country.
I also worked a lot as a volunteer.
Always bussy.

9. Where did you go most often for lunch?

No choice there.
We ate at school.
hedre in the country people don't lunch out as often as in america.
We take our lunches with us to school and work, and eat it there.

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saturday 9

may 10 2008

WHAT DO YOU NOTICE ?

1. What is the first thing you notice about a person (that you are attracted to) when you meet them?

Well, when I'm already attracted to the person it's not really a first thing.
So it depends on what I like most about the person, or, when things aren't going well, on the most irritating thing. LOL!

When I meet someone first and he's one of the kind I would wish to fall in love with, it'll be the way he looks at me.

2. What has been your worst illness or injury?

Thanks to a doctor at the hospital (maternity department) who wouldn't believe me that I was not only having after-contractions, but also a strange pain, I ended up at home with a powerful uterine infection. Within two hours I went from a faint pain and the feeling of pending doom to a feeling I was fading away from the world.

Luckily a friend who is a midwife did believe me and came.
And because she trusted me in my medical opinion she also called the doc when she went on her way.
They arrived at the same time.

I remember she started talking to me, to keep me conscious.
The doc didn't even need to do a full examination as the lymph glands were so very large.
He rushed to the pharmacy to get the meds for me himself.

A few years later I was expecting.
But the baby died and I went to hospital to give birth.
When the baby was born I got a massive bleeding.
There was no OR free, so the obstetrician tried to stop it, but couldn't.
I was rushed to theatre anyway.
Outside we had to wait.
Later I was told it was a matter of minutes or I would have died.

3. Have you ever had a secret crush and then told the person? If yes, how did it go?
Yes, I've had a crush, but I've never told it with so many words.
My eyes tell a lot, and that special smile. Ugh. Wish I could control that!

4. What was the last drink that you ordered at a pub or a bar?

Can't remember.
I haven't been in a pub for, I don't know how many, years.

5. What car have you owned that was your favorite?

What is the fascination with cars?
I don't drive and I don't have one.
Tell me: what's the best buy?

6. What is your favorite holiday?

That one has yet to come. LOL!
I want to go to Scotland.

None of the holidays is my favorite, because it always means it's even more bussy and stressfull as ever.

7. Have you ever had sex with someone that in retrospect was (and stayed) a stranger?

No. Or do you mean my husband? In that case: yes.

8. Who is your favorite female singer?

Do you want me to have another go about Kiri te Kanawa?
I love Janice Joplin too.

9. How often do you read the newspaper?

Let's put it this way: I read all the newspapers that end up in the house.
I don't always read them at the same day.

When things go normal I like to clean my room on monday and then I sit down and have a look at the pile of papers. LOL!
I always ease my mind with the fact that I have a friend whose paperpiles are higher. LOL!



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saturday 9

april 26 2008

THE MOST RECENT

1. Who called you most recently?

The therapist of one of my sons.

2. What was the most recent sports game you watched?

The world cup iceskating.

3. Who is your most recent friend?

Most recent? I don't know. Most of my friends are from long ago, and I haven't had the chance to make new friends recently.

4. What was the most recent TV show you watched?

Holby blue, when it can be considered a show. It isn't isn't it?
I haven't watched a real show for a long time. So I'll guess it's one of the new years shows.

5. What was the most recent music that you purchased?

None. I never purchase music.

6. What were the most recent clothes that you purchased?

Tie and die, yesterday at .bay. I couldn't leave it there.

7. Who most recently did you say “I love you” to?

My twins.

8. Who did you most recently text?

I can't text. LOL!
I most recently mailed my oldest.

9. Who did you most recently kiss?

My twins.
So no juicy stories here. LOL!

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saturday 9

april 19 2008

A Movie, TV, Music, Actors & Idol

1. What is the most recent movie you’ve watched with someone?

Stargate, with my autistic son.
We hoped it was the start of a new stargate season. It wasn't.

2. What is currently your favorite TV show?

It's a trie between: As the World Turns, Casualty, and Holby.

3. What CD by a new artist that is worth a listen?

By a new artist?
Put me in the time machine and sent me back 30 years and I can tell you a lot about new artists.

4. Have you bought a CD recently by an “old favorite” artist, is yes what?

No.

5. Who is your current favorite female actor?

Lucinda Walsh: Elizabeth Hubbard

6.Who is your current favorite male actor?

Pooh... I don't know.

7. Do you pay attention to “actors born on your birthday”?

No, not at all.

8. Who is your favorite artist left on American Idol?

We don't have american Idol. I don't live in america.
(Just skipped another meme, because it was only targetted to americans this time.)

I'm watching I'd do anything from the BBC.
Jessy is my favorite.

9. Who will when win American Idol?

Is there a typo here? LOL!


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saturday 9

march 15 2008

The Best and the Worst

1. What was the best thing that happened to you this week?

Hmmm.... I think that was when the educationadvisor came to think with us about a new school for my autistic son, and he turned out to be a nice man.

2. What was the worst thing that happened this week?

I just can't choose...
my autistic son having a bad mood every day,
the dollar lowering, so my smallpipes are even further away than ever,
or the letter I got this morning. I blog about that later.

3. Describe an item of clothing that has definitely seen better days but that you refuse to dispose of and still wear. Why won't you toss it?

Hmmm... some T-shirts I wear at night?

4. Have you ever lied about your age?

No. People realise that my chronological age doesn't correspond with my real age. LOL!

5. Would you rather be behind the scenes or in the spotlight?

Depends on the subject.
Right now I have some things to say that concerns many, so get those lights on, please.

6. Where was your first out-of-country trip? How was it?

We live near the border of Germany, so Germany it was. I can't remember it, as it was during a walk when I was little.

The first trip I best enjoyed was england.

7. Do you like surprises? If yes what kinds? If no, why not?

I love surprises, because I can't stand a boring life. But please make it pleasant ones, because I'm stressed enough at the moment.
I love little presents.

8. Have you ever had sex with two different people on the same day?

Huh? No.

9. Which do you prefer, the sunrise or the sunset?

It depends, but as I normally sleep suring sunrise let's say it's sunset.


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saturday 9

march 1 2008

Mommy's Alma Mater & More

1. Did your mother go to college, if so where?

No, she didn't.
And she was so jealous I did, that she didn't come to my graduation.

2. Do you have a relative that is a lawyer?

Well, I don't know all my nephews and nieces... so maybe...

3. Do you have a relative that is a doctor?

Yes, I do.

4. Did you take music lessons as a child? If yes, do you still play?

Yes, I had piano and organ lessons, oh and some recorder lessons too.
We don't have a piano here, so I almost never play anymore.
But I whistle a lot, and I play bagpipes and some other instruments.

5. Did you go to summer camp? If so would you send your child?

Yes, but I think pur summer camps are different from the american ones.
It's just 10 days.

When one of the children wants to go, that's OK.
One of them went to one, a few years ago.

6. Do you believe that alcohol relieves stress?

Well it raises stress too, so...

7. Have you ever performed on stage? If so tell us about it.

Yes, often.
I've been a ballet dancer and I've performed on stage very often.
Also played in some theatre plays, played music and I've been a singer in a choir and later in a band.

Give me something to do on stage and I feel fine. It's my second nature.

8. What things do you find easy to remember ?

I have a good memory.
Best to remember for me are medical and psychological subjects, and things about nature.
As a trained psychologist I'm used to remembering a great lot.

9. What things do you find easy to forget ?

I feel ashamed to acknowledge I often forget birthdays.
I forget to check the date consciously and often time has passed far too quick.
Timetravel would help me a lot to make up for missed birthdays.

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