The Dutch Files

It was a beautiful day yesterday. April 29, temps outside were up to 25 C (77 F). The DutchBitch was not gonna spend the day cooped up inside the appartment. Hell No!

I decided to drive up to the dunes and its forest and go hiking with The Kid. We’ve done the 7 km (4.3 mile) hike before and I love it. It’s a beautiful versatile scenery and especially on a sunny day, with a slight breeze going, it’s great to hike there.

The Kid and the proposal to go hiking? Nah… He’d rather stay in and play his GameBoy or watch TV… I try to get him psyched about going outside… Telling him that being outside and getting some exercise are good things. What am I saying? I couldn’t care less when I was a nine year old either… In fact, I couldn’t care less even a few years ago when I was still dragging ’round the extra 40 pounds.

Still, I love it now and he’d better deal with that! *snort* So make him come hiking with me. I know that once he?s out there, he loves it. It?s like me having to drag him into the shower every night and then when he?s in there, I have to drag him out again because he doesn?t wanna come out? *sigh*

So we bring the camera and the new binoculars I bought him the other day and we?re off. The hike was great. It was exquisite to be out in the sun, walking, talking, photographing? This time I took most of the photographs. You can view them HERE at my FlickR account. We stopped at the edge of a small lake overlooking “Bird Island”. You can’t go there, but there is a small bird watching hut there from which we watched the birds. We also saw a deer. I’ve been walking these dunes and their forest for years now but I’ve never seen a deer before! We tried to photograph it, but that didn’t work out too well…

Today is Queen’s Day in The Netherlands. Check out this post from a year ago to find out what that is all about. It is the first time in 5 years that The Kid is spending Queen?s Day at his dads. So I was planning on going to Amsterdam , but the girlfriend I would be going with cancelled. I have now decided on going to Leiden (the city I work at) instead with another girlfriend, who is incidently also my neighbour. We had a similar past 5-6 years and get on like a house on fire. We?ll be spending the afternoon on a Leiden terrace, having a drink, watching people go nuts… Weather is promising to be great so if all works out we?ll have a blast. We deserve to have a blast!

Holy Crap! I suddenly remembered that upcoming Saturday, May 5, will be the first anniversary of this blog! Wow… almost a whole year has gone by and I think I’ve hardly missed a day of blogging… Hmmm… Feels good! That might be a great day to launch my next competition. I’ve already decided on what it’s going to be about. Nah-ah… can’t disclose yet! Watch this space!

Hey PSSSTT!!!

Watch this space! Only 5 days until the launch of the next DutchBitch Contest!

It’s gonna be good!

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It’s a shame really… It’s so sad… They were in the prime of their lives… Still could’ve had some great times ahead… they lit up our lives… so colorful… so amazingly beautiful…

They were still young… Had just come into this world… Just lifted up their heads to see the beauty around them… They made so many people happy… We were so happy to see them again…

And still… for whatever reason, their time had come… It’s over now… “Off With Their Heads!” people said and thus it was done… It happened… Don’t ask me why… Don’t ask me what horrific crime they had committed to be guillotined… I don’t know…

But as of this week it’s on… all of their heads will be chopped off…

What am I talking about?

Well, pffftttt!!! The TULIPS of course! What else!?

Bulbseason is over, just as quickly as it started a few months ago. They started de-heading the tulips, as it is called over here. Just after they reach full bloom they chop off the flowers off the tulips, only leaving the stem and leaves. Our fields are back to the green green fiels of hoooooommmeeee… It’s oooooooooveeerrrr!!!

So on Wednesday they moved Dutchyland’s very own badass mothagansta to the prison hospital in Scheveningen (yeah, pronounce that! I dare ya!). That means no longer extra security measures in the medical center, no more lame gangsta jokes, no Rent-A-Fences in front of the main entrance, no more journalists wandering around… and… no more hot ass cops!!!

Well, maybe it’s for the best… I was getting serious Ass-RSI from wiggling it in front of those hot cops all the time, anyway.

So we?re back to The DutchBitch being the biggest liability of the medical center again. To me being the most dangerous person around. To me being the biggest security risk. I?m glad to have my spot at the top of the list back. I don?t like losing my rating to a crap gangsta whose nickname is “The Nose” (and that’s not because he has such a great sense of smell, it’s because his nose is huge)…

Anyway, never a dull moment though… Yesterday I came into the office only to smell something burning. I saw that the fire doors had been closed overnight. But then, that could’ve also been because of the kazillionth fire security system test. They go on and on and on, every hour of the day, so that would be no suprise. I walked around our offices and all the other offices on our floor (yes, “fortunately”, aside from being management-assistant and head of the secretariat at our department, I was also “crowned” floor coordinator by our division manager *sigh*). I could find nothing out of the ordinary but just to make sure I called Security. I figured those guys were kinda bummed out, as their exciting time with the cops was over, anyway, so I’d call them to the rescue.

Turns out that probably one of the patients 2 floors up from ours felt that -after the badass mothafucka gangsta moving out- the medical center had lost its touch… had lost its excitement… needed a buzz…

So the mothafucka patient, appartently admitted at the Stomach-, Bowel- and Liverdisease department…

s e t - f i r e - t o - h i s - r o o m !!!!!!!!!!

They spent the better part of the night putting out the fire and moving all the patients to another floor. Crap! I might have missed out on some hot firemen, while I was sound asleep at DutchBitch Casa!!! On the other hand: the cops might be back to do some serious CSI… Like I said: Never A Dull Moment in this place…

Thank God It’s Friday! *Yaaawwwwwnnnnnnnn*