Stop that shit!

September 1… today?

Seriously!?

Can someone stop that shit RIGHT NOW!

This year is slipping through my fingers faster than I’d like it to

It said *snap!*

People who have read The Diary of Anne Frank will probably have read about it. People who have had the chance to visite the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam will probably have seen it.

The Anne Frank Tree

The Anne Frank tree was a horse-chestnut tree in the city center of Amsterdam that was featured in Anne Frank’s “The Diary of a Young Girl”.  Anne Frank described the tree from The Annexe, the building where she and her family were hiding from the Nazis during World War II.

On 23 February 1944 she writes about the tree: “Nearly every morning I go to the attic to blow the stuffy air out of my lungs, from my favorite spot on the floor I look up at the blue sky and the bare chestnut tree, on whose branches little raindrops shine, appearing like silver, and at the seagulls and other birds as they glide on the wind. As long as this exists, I thought, and I may live to see it, this sunshine, the cloudless skies, while this lasts I cannot be unhappy”.

The tree is estimated between 150 and 170 years old, and for the past several years it has been battling both a fungus and a moth infestation. The Borough Amsterdam Centrum declared that the tree had to be cut down on 20 November 2007 due to the risk that it could otherwise fall down, but on 21 November 2007 a judge issued a temporary injunction stopping the removal. Second opinion analysis by the Dutch Tree Foundation has shown that there exists no acute danger of collapse. The Foundation and the neighbours developed an alternative plan to save the tree. The neighbours and supporters formed the Foundation Support Anne Frank Tree which carried out the suggested supporting construction and took over the maintenance of the tree.

And then finally yesterday… the tree said *snap!* after high winds came over the city center of Amsterdam. A landmark is no more. The Anne Frank Tree has snapped and is gone. It may sound futile, but somehow that tree was part of important history, and it’s sad that it’s gone now. It belonged to the Anne Frank House and the Anne Frank story. But then, even trees don’t live forever, I guess…

Dating Site Bliss #8954

Some completely unknown to me Italian dude contacted me on the dating site…

He informed me he would be travelling to The Hague in Dutchyland end of September…

And invited me to join him for a week of bliss, romantic dinners, holding hands and…

* drumroll *

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On the way UP, now please!

This week is not working it’s magic for me just yet…

My car is showing signs of needing major “surgery” within the next few weeks…

My TV, granted it’s old, but still, is being all wonkey lately and about to crap out on me, I think…

And The Chief just dropped a huge bomb on me this p.m. that makes me worry about my future at the office…

And that is just some of the major big stuff going on… I am not even moaning about all the little crap…

So forgive me if I can’t be all happy smiley for you right now…

This week better get better fast!