Wine and cheese, if you please

Photos from a long time ago...

Never got around to posting 'em thought I might as well post them now.

Back from when the sun still shone in Holland.

Although the definition of sunshine is a bit different in Holland. Sunshine here means 5 minutes of lovely weather then sudden storms, hail, imminent death and then a little peek of the sun from behind a rain clound. 

The weather here is destroying my soul. 

We had a 'Wine and Cheese' picnic in Vondelpark with some of the au pairs making the trek from Utrecht and all over Holland for some fun in the sun.

<---------------------------------------Staple diet of au pairs

Finnish girls! Ik hou van Finnish meisjes!!

 

With my American friend Jenny

 Click to enlarge pics if you want close-ups of our mugs :)

Ps. If you left a comment on my Italy video trip it has been replied to. Check the comments from that post for replies.

Hope your Tuesday's treating you well. Tony Abbott's sure having a good one.

It's a love story baby just say yes

A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY to ma big sis,

BIG M.

BIG UP, Y'all!!!!!

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Happy Birthday Mima!

Will be drinking some charty just for you :)

As you can see in the vid below, Our Lord and Saviour, His Greatness the Manitee, already had a few too many

 

Love love love tiny t/pumpkin 

(Aww yeah unky ren that be my name! You's now Princess!)

xxx

You can do me up like Woodrow Wilson, carry my children, exit the building

Ok who's the best blogger in the world? 
Obvs me since it's currently 3:45am here and I've been up making you guys the most amazing video you will ever see. I actually started this video a while ago but studying for Dutch exams kind of took precedence over blogging duties but that didn't really matter since my video program that I was using crashed multiple times so I had to START ALL OVER AGAIN. And you know what the most fun part of it was? I had to individually adjust EVERY SINGLE PHOTO on the timeline for the right time duration. Yup all 553 of them. That's right FIVE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-THREE photos, FIVE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-THREE photos, VIJFHONDERDDRIEENVIJFTIG photos (just writing it in Dutch to make sure it's absolutely clear to everyone), each one painstakingly placed on the timeline of my video and then altered so the video didnt end up being 17 hours long. 
As expected, I now have bleeding stumps for fingers and there is blood all over my keyboard.


Y'all better be leaving me comment love on this post, due to the massive amount of effort it took me to put this post up. Whoever doesn't comment gets no clogs, windmills, postcards, or presents when I get back or get to taste the magical goodness that is stroopwafels and pindakaas (omg SO GOOD. Now THIS topic deserves a post of it's own). 
In addition, Lord Manitee will pay them a lil night time visit in the fuzzy tingle times. 
Now who'd like to wake up with this sitting beside them in bed?





Yeahhhhhhh that's what I thought.


If appropriate attention is not paid to this post, I think I'll make this blog private on a password only access basis. Haha been wanting to do that for a while now anyway but I cant figure out/be bothered to learn how to do it. 


I expect my inbox to be flooded with messages of love, adoration and devotion tomorrow. You have been warned...



Also making a video was a sneaky way to force you to listen to The Greatest Band of Our Time. Start listening to them now before they get signed to label and they start getting played on every bloody station and every store you go into (on this note: thank you to everyone that's started listening to Phoenix since the release of the last album. Of course Im happy for the band getting the recognition they deserve, but I really DO appreciate hearing the same album in every single shop I enter. For this I have you to thank so nee, really, dank u wel. As long as y'all realise there are better songs than 'Lisztomania' and maybe you should listen to their other 3 albums to find them) plays their songs. 
Any way Boy Crisis are about to head the way of Phoenix, MGMT, Passion Pit et al since I think they're about to be signed (well theyre releasing video clips atm so that must mean something) Have been sitting on them for but since they're about to break out, thought I might as well add some fuel to the hype machine and become part of the process that will end up with me not being able to stand listening to their songs one more time.
Err apologies for the mini rant on nothingness. I put it down to it being past 4 am.

So here they are in all their glory. 
Bez you will like them.
Becky you will like them.
Nushi you will like them.

Krisha you will hopefully like them..? Dressed to Digress always reminds me of that Hellogoodbye song...
Puj you will like them when they get featured on Gossip Girl :P

Mima if i was burning you a new driving mix cd I'd put all their songs on it :)
Tav, Sugs and most of the boys will possibly dislike them...? I definitely think they fit the 'Ladies Man' stereotype ;)



Haha how could you not like a band that has lyrics like "I was up in Chinatown, Tryin to buy a lamp, Smells like dung, Very familiar" and "All up in my spaghetti like you're parmesan"?


Dirtydirty+stupid funny ridiculous lyrics = instant love.

Lol theyre not even that good. Just fun to listen to. One of those bands you eventually get bored of and then seek solace in the comforting arms of Bon Iver.


Turn the music up loud and enjoy :)

Im going to bed.

Stumpy Manitee ventures forth to Italy from tanya s on Vimeo.


PS. All comments will be replied to in this post. Sorry for being lazy and not replying earlier. I shall aim to amend my bad behaviour.