StarrySheep - Very baa since 2001

Happy birthday, Olivier!

almost one

Wednesday 29 December 2004, 4:20 pm

One year ago at this time, I didn't even know I was about to give birth yet.

And tomorrow, Olivier celebrates his first birthday. It's the strangest feeling!

It was so quiet on my way to work this morning, almost eerie. Wet snow & sleet pummeling my face, so I could hardly see anything anyway, but still. I don't think there's anyone working, besides me. Ok, perhaps just a few other people. ;-)

I'm too tired for words, really. There's too much in my head at night. All these little things to be finished up at work before I leave on my well deserved vacation - ahem, before I leave to work even harder at home... All the things that need to be planned & taken care of for our move... Not the least of which is Olivier, who needs to have a safe haven when we're all running around like madmen.

Breathe in, breathe out.

Shit, and it's almost Olivier's birthday (two more days), and we still have to get him a gift and buy him (or rather: the birthday guests) a cake...

*runs off in total panic & confusion*

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mice & elephants

Monday 27 December 2004, 2:52 pm
We've got mice & elephants upstairs. Each time the mother of all elephants moves, there's the scurry of little mice feet, too. Somehow, it's a deeply satisfying sound. The mice defying the elephant. I like that image. I hope they're afraid of mice, the elephants.

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Merry Christmas

Friday 24 December 2004, 10:42 am

Merry Christmas everyone! (It says Happy 2005 too, that's for next week!) :-)

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firefox

Saturday 18 December 2004, 1:35 pm
firefox

I've switched to Mozilla Firefox as my browser. Love it! Faster, far more user friendly and above all, far more logical than IE will ever be. No more nasty DSN errors, just a warning: ... cannot be found, please try again. Which lets you repair your typo in the browser address bar without having to bloody retype the whole URL. Yup, I'm in love!

Olivier's almost back to his energetic naughtly little self again. GP thought virus. Fever broke late last afternoon (why is it that children invariably start feeling better mere minutes before the doctor arrives?!), and little mite immediately started his daaahs and deehs. Much better!

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ill

Friday 17 December 2004, 2:11 pm

Olivier is ill. Has been for the last three days. Very high fever, diarrhoea, threw up everything he ate and drank yesterday in one giant spurt (sorry for being so graphic!). I'm getting a bit worried now. He has been ill before, has had fever, but not like this. Poor little mite. His breathing is all off, too, and he's so drowsy he sleeps most of the day, but they're restless little naps. Our GP is coming over this afternoon to take a look. I hope it's just a cold (I'm not feeling too well myself). Or maybe one giant molar. Just nothing serious, please...

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away, away

Sunday 12 December 2004, 8:50 pm

Less than a month to go until we get the key! I'm counting days here. I think I'll have to get me a countdown script. :-)

Meanwhile, Christmas is slowly creeping upon us. For the first time ever, we'll be spending it at the inlaws. I'm not a Christmas person, but it'll be ok. Two of Pieter's sisters (plus their kids & husband / significant other) will be there, so it'll be a family affair, just like it's supposed to be.

When I was younger, we never really celebrated Christmas the traditional way. We mostly spent it in Austria or Switzerland, frolicking in the snow, no sumptuous meals or anything. I never missed it, not really. But it's good to be together sometimes. To really see each other. And I think Olivier will enjoy the Christmas tree. ;-)

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get lost!

Friday 03 December 2004, 09:47 am

Argh! I'm getting sick and tired of comment spam! I DO NOT want to get out of debt (what debt?), I do not want to go to your stupid online casino, and I most certainly do not want pills. Beat it!

I just hope Pivot will have an inbuilt MT-Blacklist or something similar in one of its upcoming builds. Please, make it soon!

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Maybe you should check this link out: http://www.i-marco.nl/pivot-blacklist/
Tobias (URL) - 03 12 04 - 12:08

Excuse my grammar! 'check out this link....'
Tobias (URL) - 03 12 04 - 12:09

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eric.s () (URL) - 03 12 04 - 12:17

Thanks for the tip, Tobias! I had heard about the existence of a Pivot blacklist, but doesn't it require build 1.20 beta 3? I don't know if I'm quite comfortable with installing a beta version of Pivot just yet. :-) But who knows. Maybe I'll give it a try. Thanks anyway!

And Eric: you're a scoundrel! ;-)
Meike - 03 12 04 - 13:13

Pardon my ignorance. Are you saying your 'blogg' gets spammed like email? I've never seen it so this means you must approve/delete every comment ???

What a pain that must be.
HANG ALL SPAMMERS.

P.S. put that silly Sims2 way and try Sid Myers Pirates. I can always tell how good a game is by the pain in my mouse hand/wrist. I've had to stop now for a day or so [-(
Fizz - 03 12 04 - 19:06

Yup, I'm afraid so Fizz. Well, I don't have to approve every comment, but I do have to delete the comment spam a couple of times a day. :-(

P.S. But...but... I LIKE my Sims! I can't just... abandon them, can I?? ;-)
Meike - 03 12 04 - 20:50

I agree, Meike! That's why I put my blog back to password protected. I couldn't stand the spam!
Kristin () - 16 12 04 - 04:47

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Some advice on surviving parenthood

Wednesday 01 December 2004, 8:17 pm

- 'Babies are just as happy with the box something came in as they would be with any toy'

- 'You can tell your child's height by looking at the snot marks on your jeans'

- 'You will stare at other parents' buggies to check out whether they are better than yours even though you know it is a sad thing to do.'

For more tips gleaned from the discussion boards of the parenting website www.mumsnet.com, go here! Great fun and true, true, true!

{Shamelessly swiped from Dreambaby.}

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