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May 15th, 2008
abbagozer
 | 04:27 am - Op de Amsterdamse grachten...
I had the best day ever today. I thought I was working 9 till 8 but then at 4pm my boss came and said that at 5 he was taking me on a boat ride around Amsterdam. It turned out it was me, him, and Robert my colleague. We rode all around Amsterdam in the evening sun, drinking beer and even stopping for a drink somewhere with a terrace on the water. Gorgeous. Its been a while since I have seen Amsterdam in a positive light and this was just what I needed.
Then I raced to Sien and Dennis' house for the birthday party. These are people who were my very first friends here 8 years ago, people who met and told my parents that they would always take care of me. Man, it was so nice to see all my old friends and "Family" from the old west and get drunk and stoned like the old days.
After the party I had a couple of beers with Kostas in the Spijker before returning home. On the way I decided to stop off in the Lellebel voor nog eentje om het af te leren and ended up first chatting with the landlord from the turnpike on the corner, who I have always thought was a bit sexy, and then none other than Hans Klok! He was there with his big hair and young boyfriend, but he was friendly enough and all said and done it was a cozy evening!
After a night like this, Geef mij maar Amsterdam!
Current Location: Thuis
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/drunk.gif) drunk
Current Music: Iets Nederlands
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May 14th, 2008
socktree
 | 06:08 pm - Twits of Thought
LoudTwitter
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agirlnamedluna
 | 09:35 pm - [Fridge]`
For ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) rintheamazing, finally!
( my fridge inside and out )
Nursery pics turned out too dark, so I'll have to retake some there. And I have no time to resize all the others, so that'll have to wait too =)
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socktree
| 12:07 pm - Tweets for Today
LoudTwitter
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da_sjaan
 | 06:46 pm - R.I.P. Ezra Elijah Lionarons
The funeral was unforgettable, emotional, but beautiful. It was a beautiful little boy and now he is resting on a beautiful spot, in a beautiful place. My feelings go out to his parents, my friends, that they may have the strength and power to cope with the loss of their beautiful son...
Rest In Peace Ezra Elijah
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abbagozer
| 02:46 pm - Never mind the winehouse!
She is so funny, I can watch her all day!
Current Location: Amistad
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/smile.gif) amused
Current Music: Amy Winehouse - Fuck Me Pumps
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so_narcissus
 | 06:01 am - hehehe
Sent to: sekretariat@svenskaakademien.se (The Swedish Academy, Prize-awarding institution for the Nobel Prize in Literature)
Subject: ( My name is not important )
Current Location: Still the couch
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/wink.gif) giggly
Current Music: Uh, six o'clock AM
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abbagozer
 | 10:36 am - Wicked!
SJP's transition from lady to total witch is almost complete...
http://seriouslyomg.com/?p=8165 .
Check out those hands!
Current Location: Amistad
Current Mood: busy
Current Music: Q-Music
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May 13th, 2008
abbagozer
 | 11:51 pm - Food Glorious Food.
I am starving and we have quite literally no food in our apartment.
Nothing, nada, nopus! Well, we have condiments, ketchup, garlic sauce and margarine but nothing that can actually be turned into a meal. There is a snack bar about 100 meters from the house but I am so lazy I ate euro shopper peanut butter straight out of the jar instead.
I even went to the supermarket today and after visiting the wine aisle I completely forgot to buy food. So when I eventually die of scurvy or malnutrition at lest I'll be pissed.
Current Location: Home
Current Mood: Famished
Current Music: Oprah
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socktree
| 12:06 pm - Tweets for Today
LoudTwitter
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abbagozer
 | 05:29 pm - Having a billboard time!
It was all very well wearing football shorts, sneakers and a ROB vest while sitting on a terrace in the sun. However, several hours later sitting at the bar in the Eagle it dawned on me that I was infact a fetish. Everyone said I looked sexy and two people even asked if I had been working out (WTF?) but I couldn't help wondering that dressed in sportswear I was somehow giving off the wrong message. That perhaps I engaged in competitive sports or something.
I ended up leaving with an Eagle vest and a Dirty Dicks T-shirt which added to my collection of gay establishment logos means I could wear a different one each day for a week and never advertise the same place twice. For fucks sake I may aswell walk up and down the Reguliersdwarstraat wearing a Spartacus sandwich board.
But far be it from me to look a gift-horse in the mouth, after all, free stuff is free stuff. Plus I dare say, I do look pretty damn hot.
Current Location: Home
Current Mood: horny
Current Music: Mariah Carey - Touch my Body.
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mrtibbles
 | 04:42 pm - Sociaal netwerk: een te kleine neocortex.
Jawel, met een wederom geweldig liftweekend (dit maal naar Berlijn) met ook dit maal spannende avonturen ben ik de 300 vrienden gepasseerd. Hmm? Ik weet niet of ik daar blij mee moet zijn of niet. Natuurlijk ben ik op jouw eigen manier met elk van jullie hartstikke blij, maar ergens in mijzelf knaagt het. Het knaagt onder andere bij Dunbar's Number:
"Dunbar's number is the supposed cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable social relationships: the kind of relationships that go with knowing who each person is and how each person relates socially to every other person."
Driehonderd is net iets meer dan twee maal de algemeen aangenomen waarde van Dunbar's Number dus zou je kunnen stellen dat mijn zorgen niet kloppen, dat ik al lang geleden die grens gepasseerd ben. Er is echter wel wat (wetenschappelijke) kritiek te vinden op Dunbar's 148 waarin vaak bijna twee maal zo hoge schattingen van dat actieve sociale relatienummer uit komt rollen. Ik ben het over het algemeen erg eens met die kritiek.
Bovendien gebruik ik Hyves voor veel meer dan de (nabije) sociale relaties waaraan Dunbar's number een theoretisch maximum legt. Zo is het bijvoorbeeld ontzettend leuk om jullie allen de heerlijke foto's en video's van het liftweekend te kunnen tonen, of om zelf de foto's van degenen die mee waren te kijken. Al helemaal als die vrienden zich aan de andere zijde van de wereldbol bevinden of ik ze niet meer elke week persoonlijk spreek. Ik blijf benieuwd naar jouw wel en wee.
Natuurlijk, als de groep groeit blijft er minder tijd over voor aandacht in lange en diegaande gesprekken met elk individu. Toch is inhoud, zoals je hopelijk van mij wel weet, vaak een van mijn grootste doelen bij het hebben van een gesprek. Een van de belangrijkste redenen waarom ik (soms iets te) directe vragen stel. Geef het dan ook aan wanneer ik niet zo aandachtig overkom. Het is niet omdat ik dat niet wil zijn, maar misschien omdat 't op dat moment nogal druk is in m'n hoofd.
Ik raad trouwens iedereen aan eens wat directe vragen te stellen over hoe de persoon tegenover je werkt. Zeker als je die persoon pas net hebt ontmoet. Merk op hoeveel je daarvan zult leren. Kennis zit in vele hoofden op vele verschillende manieren! Voor mij is een van de belangrijkste dingen in het leven om die kennis (en vaardigheden) op de meest effectieve manier aan te spreken. Daar word ik ontzettend gelukkig van, en dat komt voornamelijk door de mensen om mij heen (met een speciaal plekje voor Tim natuurlijk). Dat was overigens ook de hoofdreden van het schrijven van deze blog: ik ben, door de drukte in mijn hoofd (heen), zo onwijs gelukkig!
Voorlopig zal mijn hyvesprofiel dan ook nog blijven groeien en groeien. Het is ontzettend leuk om te weten waar jullie allemaal mee bezig zijn, zoals ik ook hoop dat jullie de dingen die ik deel als lees- of bekijkenswaardig achten. Wel ben ik ontzettend benieuwd of ik ook daadwerkelijk tegen de door Dunbar en zijn collega's aangegeven fysieke grens zal aanlopen. Dat mijn neocortex echt te klein zal blijken...
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da_sjaan
| 08:22 am - life is unreal...life is not honest
I just had a horrible phonecall from a friend yesterday. One of my best friends had a babyboy and he died after only 1,5 day. It appears he had too little oxygen when his mother was in labour and it damaged his brain, causing his heart to fail and the baby died in their arms in the middle of the night.
I am stunned, I am numb, words do not suffice for a thing like this to happen.
Tomorrowmorning at 8.30 we will deliver the boy back to mother earth. I don't understand, I cannot comprehend, I pray for my friends, the father and the mother, that they will keep up. This is something we will never be able to understand.
He told me, he was such a beautiful, perfect little boy...may God be with them.
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May 12th, 2008
abbagozer
| 11:07 pm - Carpoolers
Is so fucking funny, I just downloaded and watched the entire season back to back and I could almost watch them all again immediately.
Current Location: Thuis
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/thinking.gif) contemplative
Current Music: Comedy Central
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comicbookmovies
[jediwonderboy]
 | 10:41 am - Is Cap's shield in Iron Man?
Interesting article, over here, which surmises that Tony Stark seems to be building Captain America's shield.
From the pic provided, it seems like a little bit of a reach, but I can certainly see the shape of it, and why someone would think that.
If so, then good catch for those who saw it, since during the movie, I was so overcome with the awesomeness of it all, that it totally passed by me.
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abbagozer
| 01:21 am - Batman
So a BAT flew right into my face tonight! With the exception of Indiana Jones and The Goonies who can actually say that?
Current Location: Abba
Current Mood: impressed
Current Music: Leona Lewis - You dont love me anymore
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May 11th, 2008
abbagozer
 | 11:07 pm - And the winner is...
Norway has been named as the best place in the world to live, according to an annual report from the United Nations. The factors taken into consideration were standard of living, infant birth mortality rate and life expectancy amongst many other things. I can only assume from the results that climate, the price of alcohol and suicide rate weren't issues!
Top 15 countries:
1 Norway
2 Sweden
3 Canada
4 Belgium
5 Australia
6 United States
7 Iceland
8 Netherlands
9 Japan
10 Finland
11 Switzerland
12 France
13 UK
14 Denmark
15 Austria
I have to admit I'm not surprised by the results, except maybe Belgium ranking 4th place. As pleasant as our neighboring country is I wouldn't have expected them to make the top 10. Plus based on personal opinion I would obviously swap number 1 for number 7...
Just out of interest Sierra Leone came last! I guess Oprah is yet to open a school for girls there.
Current Location: Number 8
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/sad.gif) envious
Current Music: Transvision Vamp - Andy Warhol is Dead
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abbagozer
| 10:07 pm - abbafolk
The Abba has played host to some wonderful people recently and I have been lucky enough to have enjoyed their company.
On Friday night I met a couple of sweet Lithuanian guys from their capitol "Vilnius". Which is an unfortunate anagram of "Vuilnis". I pointed this out to them and they weren't best pleased! However, so impressed were they by my ability to say I love you in their almost impossible language, that we met for drinks last night in the Spijker. Lithuanians are actually really nice people indeed, who knew?
Then today I had the pleasure of meeting a truly wonderful Canadian lady visiting from Italy, where she lives. We spent a lovely afternoon sitting in the sun chatting about books, movies, travel and even had a light hearted discussion about religion. Safe in the knowledge that we shared the same opinion. We left each other with a list of book and film recommendations and I just know I will love all her ideas because one of her favourite books is "Running with Scissors". For her I recommended "Rant" (of course) and "The Five people you meet in Heaven" which she will totally love!
One of the nicest things about working in Hotels is meeting up with like minded people from all over the world. Who needs internet at work when you can be surrounded by great and wonderful people!
Current Location: Abba
Current Mood: grateful
Current Music: Adele - My Same.
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May 10th, 2008
diseasedbukkake
 | 04:24 pm - Writer's Block: Scaredy cat
this one:
it's called a Tarsier or something. It looks like it's on crystal meth and it's eating... something... and it scares me. It's fuckin' freaky, man.
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agirlnamedluna
| 02:14 pm - [Help, I'm turning into a housewife!]
[x]A while ago I asked about applesauce stains. I have since then found a remedy (as we apparently don't have borax, and whereas I thought washing soda was available, I haven't found it so far).
Marseille soap works really well when applied to it immediately (just rub the stain out with a stick), and it works even on older stains that have been in the dryer repeatedly (I had 50% success rate, will apply it again after next wash cycle, just apply the soap and then throw it in the washing machine like that).
[x]Love love love the Dyson. Thanks for the tip, patti_sue ;)
[x]Next: a mobile a/c unit. I tried looking for swamp coolers but as I've said before, before global warming we really did not need a/c over here. There was 3 weeks of good weather in summer and for the rest it was rainy. I remember playing on a frozen sea when I was little, and temperatures would easily go under 0! Now, it's a record if it reaches 0. So it's pretty normal we're catching up regarding cooling techniques. Ah well, we found an energy class A one for an affordable price (ouch, second big dent!), at least that will get us through until we find a house.
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May 9th, 2008
abbagozer
| 11:08 pm - Tick tock, tick tock.
Its been the longest 4 days of my life, thats all I'm saying.
Current Location: Abba
Current Mood: melancholy
Current Music: Ik weet het niet, random DJ shit op de radio.
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abbagozer
| 02:54 pm - A cruel twist of fate
Why do things that are addictive always have to be so expensive? I decided my ideal man is a tattoo artist that lives on a vineyard in Iceland and grows weed.
Current Location: Thuis
Current Mood: crazy
Current Music: Electric six - Gaybar
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May 8th, 2008
abbagozer
| 06:13 pm - Jamba.
What a bunch of thieving rip off bastards. Dont worry they haven't sucked me in yet but I feel desperately sorry for all the cell phone wielding kids who were.
Not that you actually need to download any of the ring tones because the commercials are broadcast so frequently its quite easy to tire of them without actually owning them. However the new phone software they are trying to flog has gotten beyond a joke. I mean they have always been pointless, irritating and aimed at people with more pocket money than sense. Because lets be honest you would have to have a few screws loose upstairs to order the Crazy Frog, the Fluffy bunny, or the dance remix of the National anthem.
Their latest however really take the biscuit.
Today I saw that you can " Pretend" to sponsor a dying child in africa. they send you a photo of some random black kid. To get it you have to sms "AIDS ON". Surely this is wrong on so many levels.. ????
But the worst is yet to come. You can now download a game that allows you to look through your telephone camera lens and see people naked. Its called the Naaktkijker. Like X-Ray glasses or something (and we all want some of them) Yet the commercial actually claims that this function doesn't really work but you can have fun pretending to all your friends that it does. Excuse me, WHAT? Surely we could do that anyway without having the privilege of paying 3 euros and being locked in a painful ringtone contract. For this delightful service you are required rather appropriately to sms "NIETS AAN" naar 6464 to those kut Jamba scamps.
But who is protecting the children?
Current Location: Amistad
Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: Trentemøller - African People
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da_sjaan
| 09:02 am - summertime
Why is it that exes never really seem to disappear from your life? Why do they have to sit across the street from your house, so you have to see them? Get a life, a hobby, or whatever...I might get me a gun one of these days...j/k :)
Once again a shiny day, my tan is growing, we're going swimming to day with my neighbours from Amsterdam, so I might come back black...or lobsterish :)
Current Location: my house
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/charitycam/goth_girl/angry.gif) annoyed
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May 7th, 2008
abbagozer
| 07:23 pm - More ink!
I desperately needed some cheering up today, and what better way to do that than get a new tattoo... I must have been pretty miserable because it took THREE new tattoos to put a smile back on my face! They look gorgeous and I am totally happy now. I also got my hair cut today and I'm looking pretty dapper if I may say so myself? Now all I need is a whole new wardrobe and I'm good to go...
Current Location: Thuis
Current Mood: content
Current Music: My Ruin - Sycophant
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