Generally, as a rule, I don’t blog about work but today is a little exception. Not that I’m going to talk about the job or about where I work but I was thinking about this and wonder how others feel about this. Lately we have a lot of mandatory off days because of (national) holidays. [...]

Last week I traded my relatively new Samsung Jet for a HTC Hero. I got the Jet with my contract renewal last year, after explaining my phone needs to the seller. He suggested the Jet to me saying it could do all I asked for. I think at the time the Jet was a new [...]

After contemplating about getting an espresso machine so I can make all kinds of coffees and use fresh beans at the same time I decided to do some research on different machines. I finally ended up choosing one and then the search for a good deal began.  These things are expensive although if you consider [...]

What do you do when you want are very fond of a font you used in your previous (so this current) layout and want to use it again to tie the layouts somewhat together? Any normal person would look it up in either their credits page or any other location they mentioned it (or wrote [...]

Good service in stores is important, not only to me but I guess to most of you out there as well. Sometimes good service is hard to find though (and I’ve written about it many times already). The supermarket I usually go to is an example (to me anyway) of a place where good service [...]

For as long as I can remember I have loved the Mary Poppins movie. As a matter of fact it’s aired every Christmas on TV here and it’s driving my family crazy because I always say we should watch it. Lucky for them though, I’m generally joking around just because I know they hate watching [...]

I never really thought one of my posts would come back to haunt me. Sort of anyway… On April 24, 2009 (yes only a few days ago) I posted about Test Animal Day, and how that was a little more important than Hairball Awareness Day. I shouldn’t have done that, I should have taken Hairball [...]

Yes I am. Am I famous now?! I was watching a video of Hanson performing in Paradiso, Amsterdam in 2005.  I just wanted to relive the concert (I was there at the time). The video looked to be made from around the same area I was standing and suddenly I saw something that looked familiar! [...]

The only thing I usually eat from the microwave (and not even that often!) are pancakes. Generally they aren’t very good, they are dry, boring and if you get the wrong brand you can even do someone’s head in with it. But I discovered a brand now that does decent pancakes. They are not that [...]

I just realized that I’m a sooner, in more than one way… Generally when I want to do something on this site, or when I have plans, it’s “Soon”. Which basically means that it never gets done. I still have so many plans piled up that need to be worked out but I just haven’t [...]

Ever since it came out I have been interested in getting a Wii, but to be honest, I found it too expensive. Now that prices have gone down slightly I reconsidered getting one. Don’t get me wrong, they still charge a lot for a console, and also for most of the games, but it’s cheaper [...]

After writing so many posts about the bad days with my arthritis, I thought it would be time for a bit of positivity. Even though it’s cold outside, the sun is shining and it seems like a beautiful day. I feel perfectly fine and I although I’m busy at work and with work around the [...]

Every time I go in that place I have to have one, or two, and sometimes even three. There are times when I try really hard to avoid going, but when I need something, I just have no choice. Today, my mother wanted to go in, and of course I went with her. First I [...]

It’s safe to say that it’s pretty weird to have guilt feelings against an object. But I do feel a bit of guilt at the moment. After putting it off for a few weeks I finally made the call to a company today to sell my old car “Panda”. I recently bought a new car [...]

Today I found out that it’s nearly impossible to do Pilates exercises with Sam in the room. He sees it as one big game and thinks I’m doing it to play with him. When I was laying down on the floor doing my breathing exercises, Sam climbed on top of the sofa and jumped down [...]

Yes, I’m about to reveal a big secret about me, and about SB . I know most of you think that everything written on this site is done by a 25-year-old woman from The Netherlands. Since the Internet is a place where one can hide behind an online identity, it was very easy to let [...]

How come people assume others are related because of the way they look? I had it happen twice to me last week by colleagues who hit up my sister’s profile on a profile site similar to facebook. Her photo shows her and a friend and both my colleagues automatically assumed her friend to be my [...]

Today I discovered that it’s possible to do your dishes during a commercial break in a TV show. Even though I was already aware that those breaks usually take forever, I never thought I could do all my dishes in the mean time, until today. I guess that just means we are all watching 30 [...]

No I don’t mean The Smurfs (ooh child hood memories!) but a cleaning product called Blue Wonder. I don’t even know why I would dedicate a whole entry to a cleaning product other than I’m so happy it finally got rid of the mold on the bathroom tiles for me… I tried everything from normal [...]

After my little encounter with the escaped dog in the neighbor’s yard I feared going into the field to put the horses out. Luckily the dog hasn’t shown up anymore and it seems to have gone back home. It must have been a funny sight for anyone watching as I tried to put the horses [...]

It’s really cold outside at the moment, with temperatures below 0 C. Of course I shouldn’t complain because it’s so much colder than it is here in many parts of the world but we immediately went from relatively warm days with rain to freezing temperatures. And it wouldn’t be so ‘bad’ if I could just [...]

Sometimes I wonder if people take the “you’ll find the answer online” thing a bit too serious. Today I was browsing the Internet and ended up on a forum I go to a lot. In the general section I found a girl (or I’m assuming it’s a girl to be honest) asking a question about [...]

Just thought I’d share that I just got back from a nice dinner with my family. My parents took me, my sister and brother-in-law to a restaurant in the city. It’s been a while since I had dinner with the family since me nor my sister live at home anymore. And in case any of [...]

In a previous post I talked about how it shocked me to see my site statistics go downhill in about two weeks. Today I visited my stats page again to see how things are and once again I got shocked. No visitors today at all… Which is very weird as one of my default pages [...]

So you write an oath (or a love letter as some of you called it) to the rain, and what do you get as a reward? You come down with the flu… So much for gratitude Plugged: Kat, Felisa, Amber, Corinne, Mar, Nan

There seems to be some kind of trend in my latest entries; family. Right now though I really don’t want to talk about ancestors, but about direct family. Let’s face it, we usually take our family for granted, and I have to admit I sometimes do too. I can’t remember the amount of times I [...]

I’m shaking like a leaf while writing this. I just got back from my parents, walk in and hear a loud buzzing sound. Loud enough to make the little hairs in the back of my neck stand up. I recognize that sound anywhere; a wasp! Just a quick glance in the direction of the sound [...]

It’s strange how the most random thoughts can hit you at the weirdest times. I was watching TV tonight when a little voice in the back of my head went; Onions, Onions, Onions. And all I could think was, huh onions? Because why on earth would I think of unions on a Saturday night while [...]

You know you’re a grownup when you encounter the joys of bureacracy. Today I received a letter in the mail stating that my request regarding my scolarship for 2001 – 2002 can’t be progressed because the wrong person signed the request. This is the second time in all those years it can’t be progressed, for [...]

In Holland a lot of people take a bike to get places. This might sound like nothing special but I’ve met many foreign people who were actually surprised by all the cyclists in our country. Of course it’s good for your health to cycle rather than take the car but I seriously believe that a [...]

That some pet owners weren’t completely sane was something I already knew, but that a part of those owners go as far as unnecessary plastic surgery for their pets is something completely new to me. Those who know me, know that I love documentaries on all kinds of subjects. This season we have a documentary [...]

Did I ever tell you I can read minds? No really I can. I know you’re thinking ‘What the hell is Famanda©?’ Well Famanda© is short for Fan of Amanda. It could also mean Fuck you Amanda but since I invented it I think it should mean Fan of Amanda. Actually there is no real [...]

I know it wasn’t healed yet even though it’s been more than a year. Recently it started hurting again when walking or when making a wrong turn with my leg. Right now it’s bothering me because there is a rainstorm. I’m not talking about my arthritis but I’m referring to the ‘accident’ I had in [...]

You really can tell the summer holidays have passed. Everyone seems to be back at school, university or work and have gone completely into offline mode. Sites don’t get updated as frequently anymore or go on a permanent hiatus and some people just disappear altogether without notice. I suppose I’m somewhat guilty to it too, [...]

Something some of you might know (if you read the short bio on the sidebar) and some of you who might not (who obviously didn’t read it) is that I really like American Football. I got hooked on it when I watched the Super Bowl, it was aired here in the middle of the night [...]

Sometimes I just like to sit down and ponder about things, you know, really think things through. For instance the world. The world is a very vague description, at least for me it is. With the world one usually means our world; our planet. The planet we call earth. But what if the world is [...]

Traffic really brings out aggressive behavior in everyone, including me. I admit it; I’m pretty aggressive behind the wheel. Not that I’ll get violent or that I go way above the speed limit (all be it a few kilometers here and there) but I do curse a lot behind the wheel, and sometimes when there [...]

After reading a topic on a Dutch forum (you can read it here, or attempt to read it) it got me thinking about the way the police is perceived by many people these days. This topic was about a girl getting a speeding ticket for going 3 km/h too fast. I don’t know how it [...]

Maybe this is a bit weird but I’ve had it for as long as I can remember. I associate numbers with colors. For example number seven for me is green, eight is brown. Every number under ten has it’s own color, the colors or somewhat repeated from eleven to twenty. Numbers in twenties are yellowish, [...]