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I felt like something new, so I moved my entire blog to : www.oxidaisy.wordpress.com Since I don’t have that many regular readers (read: none as far as I know), it really doesn’t matter where I write my blog. Wordpress is supposed to be fun and easy to use, so we’ll see what happens. I can always move back haha. I am still working on making the new blog look pretty, so nevermind the

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Good evening everyone! How are you enjoying your weekend? I am trying to make it as productive as I can. Wednesday and Thursday were regular work days for me, but I took Friday off, because my brother was getting the keys to his first own home. That’s right, my little brother bought his own apartment! He asked me to accompany him to the notary where the house was officially put on his name and

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Hello everyone! Sorry for having fallen of the earth. I am going through some changes in my life here and somehow the urge and time to blog just disappeared. But I am back! I have decided that I want to have more frequent shorter posts. They are easier to make and easier to read, so I guess it is a win-win (assuming somebody is actually reading my ‘blabbings’. So, what has been on my mind?

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And I am back with another race recap! Just over a week ago I participated in the Posbankloop, a tough race. The official course is 15k and it’s known to be very hard. They also have a 6k route, which I did. The course goes uphill for the first half, ending in a, for the Netherlands, nasty hill: 650 upwards with an average incline of 7%. From then it is mainly downhill to the finish. It is a

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So, ladies and gentlemen, I did another race a while ago. I am a bit behind on blogging about my life, because the vacation posts took so much time to make. It was a fun trip down memory lane though! A few weeks ago I did the Bridge to Bridge run in my home town. As the name of the race says, you run across two bridges during your run. My distance, 5k was the shortest and the course was

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Day 9: Lost – La Molliere, 180 km After coming back to our tent the previous night nothing could keep us awake. Well, there was a fire close by so the Boyfriend went to check it out. But I couldn’t really be bothered, I was just dozing off dreaming of the day we just had. The next morning we went to a bakery for breakfast and I somehow (I don’t know what had gotten into me) decided to have

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Day 4: Bernieres-sur-mer – Utah Beach, 110 km Today was war-day. We drove along the D-day beaches and visited several war-related places. First up was the Batterie du Longues, a place with a row of bunkers with cannons at a very strategic point along the coast. They were all damaged but most of them were still in one piece though. The Boyfriend, the 5 year old that he is, had to climb on top of

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Hi everyone! I am back from my vacation in France. Well, officially I have been working for a couple of weeks now but I have been trying my best to keep that relaxed vacation-y feeling. This also meant that I wasn’t really doing anything in my spare time, lol. But, now that I settled in my old rhythm again I decided it was about time that I picked up blogging again. I have a lot to talk to you

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Hey everyone! Just want to tell everyone that today is my last working day and then I will have an entire two weeks off! It will probably be my last vacation until the end of this year, since I will be slaving on my thesis from September on (along with a thousand prayers that I will actually finish it in time). The Boyfriend and I will leave on a road trip together to France! Oeh lala! Yay! Vive

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Seriously, it makes me so mad/sad to see what body image can do to people! I feel so sorry for girls and women who miss out on so much fun, joy and other good things, because they are obsessing about their looks. I can feel really pissed when I hear people fat talk or say other negative things about themselves. Below are a few examples with my comments on them. I know I may sound harsh and I do

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Last week I had to go and fight a giant dragon. It was huge and intimidating and its name was Demotivation. I have been fighting this dragon for a while now but it only gets bigger and stronger.   image found here I have been reading a lot on the topics of productivity and motivation, but all the strategies I read about only seemed to work for a little while. I would feel a spark of motivation

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Hi! I am back again! Today I will talk to you about my new fitness goals. So here we go: GOALS: I want to participate in a 5k on September 12th. My goal is to run the thing (way) under 30 min, finally. My other goal is to have as much summer fun as possible! HOW: Speed training Do interval and speed training to get faster, a couple of times a week. I was doing a 5k-10k program, but only

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Good afternoon everyone! I realized that I haven’t  told you about my new fitness goals yet. But first something about goals in general. I was thinking about how I handled my bike ride the other day. And there are two things about it. On one side I feel like I bailed out when the going got tough, but on the other side I don’t mind at all. I know I didn’t train enough to do well. I am still happy

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Yesterday I got to see my ‘sister’  Lilli from Costa Rica! Let me explain: after highschool I went to Costa Rica as an exchange student. I lived with a host family there for almost a year. We had a great connection and I really consider them family. After the exchange year I visit them two more times, but it had been six years since we saw each other. Sadly, the contact between us had been fading

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So there I was, feeling tired and totally overwhelmed by the part of the course that was still left. I totally felt like quitting and going home, but on the other hand I really wanted to continue, i just didn’t know how. The Boyfriend asked me what I wanted and I told him that I really wanted to arrive at the next rest stop. That would be the farthest point of that lap anyway. Then he told me

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No, this is not a post about marital infidelity in the last 100 years. It is a recap of the bike ride I participated in two weekends ago. As you know, I have been training for a 100+K bike ride for a while now and last weekend was D-day! They Boyfriend drove me and my bike to the start of the bike ride. The weather was cool, which was good, and the forecast had sad rain, which was not good.

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I have to admit it: I am a control freak. And to be honest, I don’t mind! But sometimes it would be nice to be able to let go of things a bit more. For example, take this blog: I have committed myself to a lot of regular features already, and I still have a hard time putting up 1 post a week! Somehow that doesn’t really match, does it? The problem is that it always leaves me feeling guilty. For

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Hello everyone! I have a great idea to get as much out of the summer months as possible. To be honest, it’s based on a Flylady thing, but I filled it in to my own taste. For the whole summer we are going to camp! Not literally, but I am going to pretend that our apartment is a cabin and the goal is to have a lot of fun instead of spending the whole summer doing chores etc. Because I tend to say

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The other day I made myself a special breakfast. I actually made it again today, which reminded me to make post about it. I saw the recipe here and adapted it a little. I used a kiwi instead of strawberries. Next time I would probably pick a sweeter fruit because they didn’t really match very well to the taste of the rest of the bowl. Today I used pineapple and it tasted much better! I also

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I wanted to do a post on my bike ride this weekend, but I didn’t take any pictures even though the whole trip was very beautiful. I guess I was focused too much on the biking to get off my bike and take pictures. It was a tough trip even though it started pretty good. I did over 75k and until 45k I felt great! From then it was downhill however, I kept slowing down and everything started to hurt.

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The week stared off in a horrible way. Monday I was forced to take the day off. There were some problems in the family I don’t want to talk about (done that enough in the last couple of days) which forced us to take care of some stuff. But the whole situation added up with the tiredness of last week plus sleep deprivation from my girls night out left me feeling like a ghost for the first half

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Another week passed. Wow, did that go fast! Unfortunately I didn’t have such a good week as last week, but that was ok. I could afford to take it a little easier even though I would have liked to get some more stuff done. I felt sleep deprived and demotivated all week. So, on Friday I bought myself this: That’s right, a Havenly Hazel! It is a capuccino with some kind of syrup in it,

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29 weeks to go: Meet Paul and Paul. This cute gayish couple is my new mascotte. The boyfriend shot them for me at the fair. Ok, he shot something else and then I could pick a prize. They had name tags which looked like not all the bears would have the same name. So I was like, hey this one is called Paul! And the other one is called, let’s see….Paul! Anyway, they now sit in front of my

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After running several races and since having a colleague who loves biking, I got inspired to start biking again. In highschool and part of college I used to bike a lot and really enjoyed doing it. However, for the last couple (ok, more than a couple) of years I have been slacking on it, scared of the eternal wind in this country. The times I did go I asked way too much of myself so it always

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I did another race two weekends ago. It was a girls-only race called the Mariken run, after Mariken van Nimwegen a famous historical woman from Nijmegen, the city where the race was held. It is a big event where about 8000 women participate in a 5 or 10k race. Of course I did the 5k, because I still (probably never will) don’t feel like running for an hour. I was hoping to set a PR, so the night

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Just about 30 weeks to go until The Book is supposed to be ready. I write a post-it each week and stick it on my desk to remind me that the end is near. :P The week started of bad because the coffee creamer was still nonexistent on our floor. I was forced to get my own coffee (I am the only one using creamer) on the floor below us. That floor is really creepy with all the grey colours (ours

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Last weekend I ran another race! I can happily say that this was a good race, even though my time keeps getting worse. I wanted to do one practice race before the bigger event that is next weekend. I felt so bad after the last race, that I really wanted to get my confidence back before I was going to run with 10.000 other girl on the 16th. So I went there with two other girls from the running

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Let’s see what happened last week:  Monday I forgot to write it down, and now I forgot… Tuesday It was memorial day, we have 2 min of silence and remember all the victims of WWII. After that I went swimming with a friend, like I do every other week. We had fun catching up and chatting away the whole time. Wednesday After reminiscing on the victims of war, today we celebrated the Liberation

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Hi guys! The other day I was utterly bored with my work; I experienced a complete lack of motivation to do anything and my mind was flooded with thoughts, insights and whatever else, both related and unrelated to work. I get this more and more often, but also the deadline for my thesis is getting closer and closer. I just don’t find much joy in the project anymore. Or at least not enough to keep

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Back with a new challenge! I have been feeling bad about my blog lately. I have a lot of ideas but I don’t really get to writing a lot. I would like to do more than 1 post a week, especially if that 1 post is just a weekly review. But making a post takes up a lot of time, and I only have that time on weekends. However, they say that if you want to build a blog you have to post every day,

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Another month has passed by. And wow, was April ever fast! It is time to look back at last month’s challenge: Daisy Do Read, and see how I did.   Daisy Do Read!     Until April 30th I was to try to: - read for half an hour each working day; - read for an hour each day on weekends. I must admit that it turned out quite the challenge, because I noticed that once I am in bed I tend to

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Hi guys! Time to review my week. Again, I have trouble remembering what it was that I did each day. But I guess if I don’t remember it’s not really worth mentioning anyway. Monday and Tuesday were regular work days. Nothing really special. I was supposed to go for an allergy test but it got postponed. Wednesday was my work-from-home day. I am proud to say that I have a desk again! I have not had

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So, let’s look at my week: Monday Monday was just as boring as ever, I hardly remember the day. My brother cancelled spinning class, so I decided to bail out as well, and have a rest day. I think I might have some issues with overtraining so I am going to take a step back on the exercise front for a couple of weeks and see how I feel. I will post about that soon. Tuesday Another day I

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Back again with the review of my week! Monday I still wasn’t feeling well after my disaster race, so I did absolutely nothing after work. Tuesday Same, not feeling well, another rest day. Wednesday Went to physiotherapy and to my doctor. He gave me medicines for my lungs, and the rest of the week I was feeling much better! I went to the gym and did a strength work out in the

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Last week I participated in a race. It was a ladies-only race, as the name of the race already suggests. Of course I was the only person who didn’t notice that, that until it was pointed out to me. I thought it was some kind of Latin name. But anyway. It was a short drive to the location, where the Boyfriend and I met up with a friend from the gym. After getting our race numbers, there was

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And finally it is time to see my Glow challenge went. I must admit that it went pretty well! My skin went from pale, dry and with red spots and zits to not so pale, not so dry and fairly even. I think the turn around point was after about two weeks. However, I had a minor setback as a result of my allergies. So what was the plan again? 1. Face rituals: Clean face every night with mild

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I know it is Wednesday, but I still owe you a weekly review. My laptop broke down, so I couldn’t post anything, which sucks because I have several things to tell you guy! I’ll try and catch up this week. So here we go: Monday One of the thing I like most about Holland is that holidays are doubled! We have 2 Christmas days, 2 Easter days (I know it does not beat Semana Santa in Latin

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Hellooooo! New month, new challenge. I know I have yet to give you a recap of the previous challenge, but I wanted to start with the new one anyway. Daisy Do Glow will continue for about a week. My little soy allergy left my skin completely messed up again. But as soon as that gets better I will make the ‘after’ picture and give a full recap. But I can already tell you that it did make a

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Monday Just another manic monday…wish it was sunday, ‘cause that is my fun day… That old Bangles song was very applicable. I have a crazy busy work schedule until the end of the year. But my bosses decided to give me another project to work on, yay! Well, I guess I have no choice, bahaha. Tuesday A colleague came to show off her 5 week old baby, how cute! I am not that into babies etc,

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Hi everyone! I thought it would be nice to start a weekly journal on the blog. Since I don’t see daily stories on my whereabouts in combination with some more in-depth pieces, I thought it would be nice to not make that my goal (yet). I would love to be able to do that at some point, but for now that goal is out of reach, but that is ok. But, what I can do, is review each week on Sunday eve and

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Hello everyone! Here I am again! I am trying to increase the amount of posts on this blog because I am trying to be a good blogger (lol) and having a short vacation really helps to do so. Let’s hope that I can keep it up, once I get back to work. But my time off has given me some ideas on topics to write about, so stay tuned for more random rambling by yours truly interesting stories from the

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I think that we spend way too little time thinking about the things that we enjoy in life. I sure have those days that everything just seems so blah. That is why I made up a list of 100 things that make me happy. The list consists of simple everyday things that put a smile on my face. Sunshine Latin music Warmth Fireplaces Exercise Good food Cats, my cats in particular

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Hi guys! I am back with a new focus of the month, as promised. Curious about what it is? Well, read on… This week I noticed that lately I have not been looking my best. Dark circles underneath my eyes, pale dry skin, more zits than I normally have. I am going to a lot of stress at work right now (but it’s almost over) and I guess the exhaustion I am feeling at the end of most days is showing. My

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Hello! Here I am again. Had a very busy month. At times it even was exhausting, so the no coffee challenge turned out to be a tough challenge at times.. The first two weeks I did really well. It felt a little bit weird at first, but after my 2 coffees I just grabbed water instead. My stomach certainly appreciated that! After the first week I could not treat myself to a ‘nice’ coffee because I

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Hi everyone! This has not been the best week for me. We received some bad news this weekend and my work has been lacking progress despite my efforts. On top of that, I have been struggling with a cold that eventually defeated me so now I’m sick as well! But, because I feel like a rinsed rag (that is how we say it in Dutch haha) I do have permissions to veg out on the couch all day and have the

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Sometimes life is just not fair. I am generally a very positive person, and I like to look for the bright side on everything. But the one thing I cannot stand is injustice. I become an enraged maniac at those times. I don’t want to go into detail on what happened, because it did not happen to me. But why do people judge others based on something they don’t know a single thing about? Why do they

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Hi guys! When I got my I-don’t-know-how-manyth cup of coffee from the machine at work this week, I knew what my next focus of the month should be. I really have to cut back on coffee intake on work days. First of all, because too much coffee is just not good for you and second because that coffee is just plain groce. It’s only doable because I drink it with milk powder and artificial sweeter (I

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Somewhere in December I made up the Daisy Do focus of the month series. Let’s review the first focus: Daisy Do Zen. I know it has been a long month, but with the holidays and me being all lazy and all (and busy, but I don’t consider that an excuse: you have to make time for stuff), it just took me a little longer to evaluate how it went. In short, I liked yoga but was not so much into

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I love having overviews of things: making tables, calculating averages etc. Yes, I know…I am a nerd…as most bloggers, lol! I used to track my workout on Breaking the Tape, but I changed to a Google spreadsheet this year, because Breaking the Tape is mainly convenient for running, biking and other sports that have a mileage.  But you can’t do much with it when you do other sports. I am still

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  It’s that time of the year again: the last days of a year where people come op with resolutions they intend but for the most part won’t keep. Now, I am certainly not against resolutions, even New Year’s resolutions. I am even one of those persons who will admit that she likes them haha! However, I don’t like goals that are not very specific and do not have a realistic plan on how to

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Why, hello there! Last sunday we had a lot of snow! It had been snowing the whole day and by the end of the afternoon it finally stopped. So we went outside to the park, just before dark. Look, how beautiful:   We were all excited and played like kids, lol.     Monday I had to get through all of that snow to get to work, it was a little less fun then. I got stuck in the

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Good afternoon! How is everybody doing? Still feeling stuffed and with a hangover or not so bad? We had a great time so far. I spent the day of Christmas even veggin’ out on the couch with the cats, it was wonderful! After I submitted my paper for work I was officially free! I really didn’t feel like doing anything so I just stayed on the couch with my laptop, reading e-mails, blogs and did some

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Hey guys/girls! How is everything going? Are you busy preparing for Christmas, or already celebrating Christmas eve? We don’t have very special plans this year. In Holland we don’t really celebrate Christmas eve. When I still lived at home, my mom used to take us to the late night Church mass, but that was about it. The Boyfriend is having some drinks at work with his co-workers and will be

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Saturday I did something I never thought I would do, until a year ago:   I entered my first race ever! I have been running since July and recently finished the C25K program and I really wanted to run a 5k to know what that would be like. As you can see I was very excited and it was very cold outside, about 4C. I was wearing a tank top and a long sleeve underneath the sweater, lol. I took off

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I want to introduce my first series on this blog today. You know that it takes about a month to build a habit, or at least get used to a certain thing. Even though I am a woman and I love to multitask I consider it a bad idea to start 10 new habits at the same time. Instead I want to focus on one habit at a time, this will be the focus of the month. Every month I will pick a new habit I want to

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Do you  have that feeling sometimes, that it is all just a little too much? You feel like you have to somehow balance being a good co-worker, a good girlfriend, a good friend, a good family member and also look good ánd have hobbies? Well, first of all, that is the huge perfectionist in you talking, and second, I sure do feel like that sometimes. This year I have been working on my

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Wow, am I a bad blogger! I have a lot on my mind these days and a lot of ideas to blog about, but somehow I never manage to start op Live Writer and work on something. That’s bad! And I can’t even promise I will be better haha! I left a thread open I should have come back to a few weeks ago, but here it is anyway. I wrote that I was feeling bad and that I was going to take care of me the next

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Look what they did! Again!!   I said again, because this is the third time in 2 years…and it was in different locations so it’s not that I park in some kind of wacko neighbourhood. And no, I did not leave my navigation in plain view…I don’t even own one, I can find my way around perfectly fine without someone yelling that I need to turn around as soon as I can. Anyway, I am clearly very

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I believe that life is all about balance. That is why there will always be sadness along with happiness. I am blessed to be happy most of the time, but today was one of my sad days and I really need to vent a bit. So here we go. My day was one of those mean energy sucking bad days: I overslept way way too late losing my entire morning. I spend my afternoon at the computer and doing a ton of

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Today we went to the hospital and it was hilarious! Just for the record, I don’t consider hospitals very funny, just how things are going when you need to go there for some tests. We went there because the Boyfriend has something with his hands and we want to find out what it is. Expected course of events today: Arrive at hospital. Wait in waitingroom of rheumatology for our turn. Talk to

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Last weekend, the Boyfriend and I went on an overnight trip into the countryside to attend an opera. Bahahaha! That sounds really lame..but to be honest, it wasn’t, we actually had a great time! The Boyfriend has been meaning to take me to an opera forever. Last weekend we decided we wanted to do something fun on his weekend off (he works most weekends). After a little research we found that Les

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Count me in! Where do I sign up? Those were my first thoughts when I read Angela’s post today. She has started Project Snow, which basically means that we -people who are familiar with snow in their backyard- are going to support eachother to keep being active all fall/winter outside. How crazy/cool is that? And how crazy is it, that I am all excited about it? I already committed myself about

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Yesterday I went through my closet to see what the heck was in there, to clean it up and find out if I have enough stuff to get me through wintertime. Here is the almost before shot: I was so eager to start that I already pulled out half of my clothes before I remembered that i was going to take a before-picture, lol!  But the lower two shelves give a good impression of what it looked like

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This morning I went grocery shopping. I do that every saturday, I go to a place called Lidl which is a budget grocery store. They don’t have everything, but what they do offer is cheap! They often only have veggies in season and they have only one kind of PB instead of the zillion you find at the regular stores. You have to be a bit careful though, because even though most things taste

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Let’s start off with some old news. Last weekend I went for a bike ride with a friend. We had a great time and I wrote a post about it. However, I still don’t have the picture that was taken from me that afternoon. So, I decided that I will do it without the picture. I really should start taking more pictures! Here is the thing I wrote last week… Yesterday was a great sunday! We slept late (10

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Yes! Internet is working again! Here is what I wrote yesterday. Hello! Saturday was a busy day for me! Sunday was kind of busy too, but now I finally have some time to blog. Saturday started off with Aunt-nieces day. My mom has one sister who has two daughters and a sun. A while ago, we decided that we should get together, all the girls in the family. Aunt-nieces day was born! My sister

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Sorry guys! I have two posts almost ready to upload, but there have been some technical problems. Let me explain: we have a server which provides internet to a PC and a laptop. The laptop does not understand my camera so I have to use the PC if I want to write a post that involves pictures. Unfortunately our server crashed this weekend. The boyfriend totally freaked out..uhm, I mean, managed to

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Before I leave to meet a friend for a bike ride, I would like to share a happy moment with you:Right now, I am sitting on the couch with my very own laptop! ! Technically speaking it is not my laptop but The Boyfriend's. But he finally got it working again (the hard disk died), so now we don't have to share our only PC anymore. This is a good thing on it's own because now I also get to use a

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I want you to know that I am not a kids' person. Sometimes I find them cute and interesting, but more times I find them highly annoying. I am sorry, I can't help it, but I think I am just missing the mother gene or someting, or maybe it is not activated yet. I do consider myself kind of an average person, living my life like most people do: grow up, get education, get a decent job, find a partner

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Today I finally could give in to my urge to bake. Ever since I saw Angela’s Glo Bites the other week I wanted to make those! But I had to wait since I did not own a muffin-bake-thing yet. But today, after they switched the power back on (I don’t know who thought that it might be a good idea to cut the electricity on a sunday morning for maintenance) I could finally give it a try. They turned

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This morning I tried to make waffles… Let’s just say that this was not one of my best baking projects. I think I used too much batter. It was based on a vegan recipe so it had no egg, which didn’t help either… Anyway, I ended up adding an egg all and baking pancakes of remaining batter. And those were pretty good! But I am going to use milk the next time instead of water ,it just tastes

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Wow, it has been way too long since I posted anything here! Ugh, so far my new goal to have a blog and actually write a lot of interesting stuff on it. And the worst thing is that I can’t even  promise I will do better from now on! Of course I will try, but in between work, sports, redecorating and who knows what it’s hard to keep up. (this may also mean that my life is just so uninteresting that

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Today was a good day: the boyfriend re-installed our bathroom door! Our bathroom is right in front of the walkway in our building, so now I don’t have to suck my tummy in when I am in the shower or pretend that waxing my legs does not hurt!

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And I mean that literally! This morning I was just getting ready to go to the gym when I noticed a few spots on the floor, they were blood… I checked my feet but it wasn’t me, nor cat#1 who was following me around as usual. So I went in search for cat #2 and found her shortly after hidden under the bed. One of the cushions under her paw had the skin partially ripped off, making a bloody mess. She

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Yesterday evening the Boyfriend and myself went to a body combat class! For me that is nothing new, because I go every week. But the Boyfriend has not been able to do any sporting activities for several years due to an injury. At first they made us believe that he was not going to recover, ever. But then they found the real source of the problem and it turned out to be fixable. So he worked very

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The last (I promise!) FlyLady thing that helps me so much in keeping my house organized so that I have more time for fun things is what she calls the Weekly Home Blessing Hour:It involves doing 7 tasks for max 10 min. A few of them take less so in total in takes one hour to finish. I adapted the tasks a little to fit my homeThe tasks are:change bed sheets clean mess in house (like clothes on the

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Lol, more FlyLady from me today. But I just feel like I need to have this off my chest.Here is some stuff I wrote on thursday but still had not posted yet.***Sorry for being such a bad bad blogger. I really would like to be blogging a lot more than I actually do. But I have been extremely busy with just all the stuff I do everyday and also our moving plans.MovingWe fell in love with a house last

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Hi guys!ActivitiesI’m finally back again! It has been extremely hot here, but I loved it! Wednesday the boyfriend and I went to a nearby river/lake at spent the afternoon at the beach, sunbathing and relaxing. It was wonderful! My camera died on me (actually not really, but I forgot to put the battery back in after I charged it, so I only have one picture. I will upload all pictures of this post

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Pfff...I wanted to post my next FlyLady story today and talk about some more stuff. But this room is getting so hot that I am going to get out of it as soon as I can! And that will be about now. I really need some coolness.Oh and I checked the weather forcast and wonder, today is 26 degrees celcius! And it will get even warmer in the next couple of days. Friday eve, when the weekend starts...of

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ActivitiesToday was just a regular working day for me. I was feeling pretty motivated today and did quite a lot during the morning. In the afternoon it cost me more to stay motivated, but still in total I got a lot of work done today. Tomorrow I'm working from home! I had planned a spinning class today, but I don't think I will go. Really don't feel like sporting today so I might skip it.FoodThis

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Good afternoon everyone!ActivitiesYesterday eve the boyfriend really wanted to spend the evening at the computer so I watched some tv. Usually I only watch tv during dinner (even though I would really like to have dinner at the table, somehow we usually end up in front of the tv) or some kind of crime series before I go to bed because the boyfriend says he needs to watch tv before falling

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Good afternoon everybody!Today it's finally weekend! Even though I will have to work a bit because of my lack of motivation this week.Yesterday I went for a run in the park and it was good! I found this technique on the internet that makes you run better, faster and it's better for your muscles and joints!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbgSEG_Yx2kI must say that I feel a bit awkward running like

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Good morning! I slept pretty good tonight and got a bit over the weird mood I was in yesterday haha.Because dinner sucked (pardon my french) yesterday, I hardly ate anything. I don't like throwing food away at all, but this just made me a bit sick to my stomach so there was no other option.Therefore I woke up starving! So I made the deliciously creamy banata oatmeal from Kath. It was soooo good!

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As I said before work was a disaster today. Before going home I went to my parents' place because I'm taking care of their cat until Sunday. The cat was very happy and came to cuddle with me for a while. I felt bad because I couldn't stay with him long. But after I gave him his food he ate and then took off outside...:SI went home and did some work on my blog and read my other favorite blogs. So

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I have been so incredibly restless that last couple of weeks! And our moving plans have not made it any better at all!Yes, we may sell our house and buy another one, bigger and in a more quiet place! I am so excited about it! But right now the best thing I can do is continue cleaning up the mess in our office/study and continue doing what I always do at least until we talked to the bank and know

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Good evening!! I am going to make this a quick post because I have stuff to do and the boyfriend wants to use the computer.Today was my first real working day. Last week it didn't really feel like work (and to be honest I did not do as much as i as supposed to/hoped to do). Work went really well, I was motivated and finished an important part of my analyses, so now I get to focus on writing the

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Hello! I am having a really relaxed fun weekend. Too bad that tomorrow I have to get back to work again. Yesterday I did not manage to do everything I wanted to do, but that doesnt matter really. I ended up spending way too much time at the computer. I did do groceries and washed and vacuumed my car. Now it's all bright and shiny again! I really love my car!After that I needed some energy so I

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Wow, days are passing so quickly! But I have had a lot of fun since my last post.I managed to to work just a little, though not enough. So I will have to be working this weekend too.Thursday afternoon my brother and I went to Nijmegen to see our English friends at the Vierdaagse. Because the whole town is just packed with people we parked the car in a village on the other side of the river and

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I am not someone who gets frustrated easily over things. I don't like being angry and I don't like to spend energy on negative things you can't really anything about in the first place, like traffic jams, be surprised by the rain and getting soaking wet, just missing the bus. But i'm only human, so sometimes you can't escape frustration. And sometimes it even comes in handy. This morning it was

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Hi again! I know my last post was in Dutch. This is because I am not sure yet, what language I want to have this blog in. Dutch is easier because it's my native language, but English is more common in blog-land. Also, it's good to practice...as if i don't do that at work...and frankly i don't care very much if i make mistakes.Well, at some point i will figure out which language works best for

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Zo, hier dan mijn eerste post in het Nederlands. Jammer genoeg wordt het niet een hele spannende want veel is er niet gebeurd vandaag. Ik werk deze week lekker thuis in verband met de Vierdaagse, Nijmegen is echt lastig te bereiken nu en op werk hebben toch de meeste mensen vrij.Het meer slapen is gisteren niet heel goed gelukt, vannacht maar 7 uurtjes geslapen, nou ja, vandaag weer een nieuwe

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I know, I know! I still have not written anything about my adventures in Paris, and I promise I will do so. But first things first:I have joined the Summer Glow Boot Camp at http://www.ohsheglows.com/. It's a bit late, because they started three weeks ago, but I'll just read back the old post and pretend it's going on now, lol. The boot camp involves doing some exercises every other day, but also

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I am so excited! Tomorrow morning i am leaving for Paris for a week!! First I will be attending an international conference on gerontology and geriatrics and from thursday afternoon i will have a short vacation! The boyfriend will come to Paris on thursday as well, so we can have a romantic long weekend in Paris :DI am a little nervous for the conference, because i will be doing a poster

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It is so hot right now! Today i left work early because i finally finished my poster for the conference so i deserved some rest. i spent the rest of the afternoon in the park just chilling and napping a bit. It was way too hot in the house or at the balcony so in the park underneath a tree was my best option.Yesterday was a long day again. A lot of work and after that i went to the gym for my

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Yesterday was such an exhausting day! The boyfriend did not want to sleep and kept talking and tossing and turning, keeping me awake too. So i woke up feeling awful. At work it was fun, we had our guest and in the afternoon we had a meeting with him and some former colleagues of another research institute. After that we went to have dinner. The weather was very good so we could sit outside to eat

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Today was a regular monday. I had to go to work. Because the boyfriend hurt his back, he was not going to work at the usual time, which is very early. Therefore i decided that i could take my time too, and i left later than usual. Of course, i got stuck in a traffic jam on the bridge It was kind of foggy, i always like that, it looks so mysterious. I spent all day at work, preparing my poster

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Sunday was a relaxing day for me! Caught up with laundry, including presoaking and treating some white laundry that all had stains that did not come out the first time i washed them. So let's pray it will work this time!!The rest of the day i spend relaxing. Just figuring out my blog, reading e-mail and i also did some drawing.Funny thing: when i did some abs-excercises tonight, my abroller fell

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Even though my birthday was on thursday, my family came over on saturday eve to celebrate.I am really happy with all my presents and felt like a genuine birthday girl! I spent most of my day preparing and doing things i always do on saturdays: groceries, clean the house, bake cakes. That last thing i havent done for ages but i am planning on doing that more often! We sat outside for a while and

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Hi everyone,This is my first blog (wow, am I late!) I am not sure yet what to do with it, but i'll figure it out.

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