Hi Ina! I read your comment on Shaeffer’s blog. Sorry Dave has stopped communicating with you too. He has to defend those that are mostly responsible for picking arguments with others and then blaming others for the arguments they pick. Perhaps he’ll come around one day, though I doubt it will be anytime soon. And, I agree with you-the articles he writes are awesome.
I also read what you discovered about the Patrick guy. I think you may be on to something, though I seriously doubt the original is a child serial killer and was more than likely no where near Fla. at the time of Caylee’s disappearance. If any thing like that happened, more than likely that young man researched the name and used it…a prophet no doubt with the ability to see into the future.
Hi Thinker! I read that the judge thought he was not a serial killer. But what happened to him, I don’t know. And there was another girl found dead, same method used as on C. A. I don’t know, I just wanted to see if anyone knew more by now. Now I have to figure out what RS meant exactly.
I also hope David will let me comment again, I miss our conversations Perhaps one day. He knows what I think about it.
I have recently read some of your comments on Shaeffer’s blog. I am of the opinion that you are “barking up the wrong tree” (an expression) if you are trying to persuade people whose minds were made up based upon the 911 call and all that transpired within the first week. There is another saying (expression) that goes: Crap (bullshit, nonsense, lies, etc.) is King.
One such expression I read that you used on another commenter was the phrase “shut up.” Though this is rampant among many, it is disrespectful and often makes me think that the person saying this thinks themself to be more knowledgeable or a higher person than the person they said it to. It inflames the person to whom it has been said…it just isn’t nice. And, as I recall, MD stated this to you just prior to your disappearance on his blog. I was saddened when I saw it. Please do not think all Americans are like that. And, please try to erase that from your vocabulary so you are not em-brawled in verbal arguments.
In addition, the Thomson case wasn’t similar as she was found in the garbage, which probably isn’t that unusual. I haven’t read that she was bagged, duct taped, or left near the family home. However, they did find her rapidly, which is a good thing. They suspect a serial killer that has come out of the closet (I read this somewhere) because one lived within that neighborhood many years ago. And, the correlation would be, IMO, that those seeking to call serial killers to the forefront, much like a seance which calls the spirits of the dead to come forth, a person would have researched the history of the area first. Which could explain that strange visit to CA by the fellow who calls himself Patrick B.
Just My Opinion as Always…and thank you for allowing me to express it.
Yes that comment on Sheaffers was a bit unfortunate. I wanted to say that we shouldn’t talk about it, I said that we, the public should perhaps shut up about it, and I remembered Davids shutting me up after I put the comment up. Perhaps not a good phrase, like you also say, as there was an angry comment after that… Oh well. I give up. My English gives problems , it was not intentional to be rude. And I don’t want to change people’s ideas, just add some new ones. Not a good idea too.
MD has often shut me up, that was not the first time. Without knowing it, I am very disruptive it seems. He can’t have complaints from his commenters, now can he. He is usually nicer in mails.
The Thompson case I thought had similar things, like dumping the child somewhere. Has that murder been solved? No idea. I also think it is true that we shouldn’t pretend we know all what happened. Especially me, as I don’t even live in the same country let alone state. Not that that fact would stop others
Your ideas about that visit of Patrick B., that might be true. That serial killer they suspect killing Sommer, I wonder if he was anywhere near Suburban Drive at the time C. dissapeared. But I won’t try and look for clues. The web is full of armchair detectives with a lot of time on their hands. They can bark up the right tree when ever they like. I doubt they will ever make sense though. Waste of time really. Have a nice Thanksgiving.
I have been reading in my comment section…they are still on your hiney (buttocks). Ouch! They think if you haven’t studied this extensively, watched every Nancy Grace Show, Murt live, Leonard Padilla,etc., you haven’t a clue!
What they still haven’t been able to explain is how Casey was able to change the DNA of the tibia, how she was able to make the car smell worse than it did when the tow company picked up without the presence of a body, and how she deceived ALL those searchers, each with noses, eyes, and ears, and prevented them from finding the bones lying soooo close to the road. Especially, as heavily as the media staked out the area during the time after that infamous 911 call, with all the extra people in the area that would not be there on a normal day.
Hello Ina! Today is what is referred to as ‘Black Friday’ here in America. The day someone raises their arm, pulls the trigger releasing the loud “boom” that starts the beginning of the season in which most people are miserable…Christmas season. Many will flock to their local mall, Wal-Mart, or other stores in search of the never heard of bargain before this day in history…they’ve already forgotten last year! I must admit, I am tempted! However, the things I think I need may not be discounted all that much…how would I know, I never knew I needed them until today! Lol! It isn’t the same for adults as it is for children. Many already have more than they need, and the brain-wrecking experience of what to get that someone who ‘has it all’ seems to be the driving factor that creates the misery.
When I was a child, we didn’t think that much about Christmas until maybe a week before…decorations we put up that week. We would go into the woods and chop down our own tree, making balls by spray painting some type of small ball shed on a local tree, stringing popcorn to wrap around the sacrificed evergreen, and carefully putting on the remainder of the glass bulbs that weren’t broken from the year before during a midnight sneak-peek attack as children just can’t wait to be surprised. It was a very special time of the year! We got maybe one or two items we would enjoy, and the rest were necessities such as clothing. We didn’t have much, but we were soooo happy to get these things. The biggest joy of all was going to Grandmother’s house-she always wanted everyone around…she, like her favorite Yule time artist, Elvis, always dreamed of a ‘White Christmas.’
Thinker, that sounds like a nice Christmas! We didn’t do much with presents at Christmas, and still don’t, I used to get some books. My best memories are the Christmasses at (on?) sea really, I will put one memory up here soon. I did get a lot of presents on Sinterklaas, St Nicholas, Dec 5. and my birthday Jan 4. Dolls mostly, I loved dolls.
Christmasholiday was also the time for some family to come to the island and stay with us.
My husband often has to work on the mainland as a nurse, but this year only on Boxing day, which is second Christmasday here and just as important We won’t spend much money on food or presents really, but just enjoy the holidaymakers that come here, and perhaps have a little extra of the goodies
As my mother died in September and an other unfortunate event just occured yesterday, we will perhaps just get smashed Just kidding my husband never drinks anymore and I don’t get drunk (anymore)
Black Friday sounds alarming. I hope it all went well.
Oh, Ina, I am so sorry to hear about your mother. I am certain that was difficult to handle. Fortunately, my mother is still doing well, though the age thing seems to be catching up with her. She came and visited me this last September. We had a lot of fun together. then she went to visit by brothers, all of whom live in another state, then she returned here for a few days. She doesn’t walk as well as she once did because her knee is giving her trouble…other than that, she is difficult to keep up with because she likes to be on the go…go, granny,go! Lol!
I am thinking about going to stay with her over the holiday season. She lives in a much warmer place. She lives in a large city; I just hate the ‘bumper-to-bumper’ traffic. However, the desert scenery is always relaxing and a change of pace for me.
Hope whatever happened yesterday wasn’t too bad…maybe ya need to get ’smashed,’ eh?
Hi Thinker, I was on the mainland today so a bit late.
My mother had (probably) Alzheimers, but I think she was reasonably happy till the end, and that is what really matters. She didn’t know me anymore, she thought I was her, very difficult at times but as she never complained, it made it easier for the rest of us. (My family that is, I am an only child.) I think it is great your mother goes to all her children, living in all these states. About the dementia: I hope that when I am getting that way, I won’t be a burden to my family.
So far, my husband still loves me and I wouldn’t want him to see me as a healthcase.
Other way around I am starting to get used to the fact that he is 10 years older and therefore probably will have need of some nursing assistance. Oh woopie. But I suppose I will know by then what to do and how to do it right.
I am handling a family situation at the moment and I sure wish I could get smashed but with my meds I can’t, dammit!
It sounds like you are in the throws of what naturally comes from being from and having a family-natural problems. I can only imagine how difficult it was for you caring for an elderly parent whose separation of persons’ isn’t distinct-you were confused, I’d bet. And, as you stated before, not being grouchy and complaining was indeed a blessing in disguise. Hindsight is always 20/20! Hopefully, your husband will remain in good health, and your children will be near to care for you as you cared for your mother.
I recall how my grandmother seemingly showed signs of dementia. Usually, at family gatherings, no one wanted to talk to her-they didn’t understand it. I always imagined it was their own fear of their future destiny…or lack of forgiveness of some past wrong done to them. After she was gone, their description of her changed, though not by much. I’ve always learned a lot by observing the elderly; especially, within my own family.
Hoping you persevere and triumph over the current issue—– life as it is!
Hi Thinker, I was on the mainland yesterday and after that on the phone for over an hour lol so not much time for the blog.
Both of my grandmothers had this same lack in their memory, but the one was and stayed a very merry person, the other more depressed from it.
I remember very surrealistic conversations as my grandma thought I was her sister, she was ‘living” again in Rotterdam in about the year 1900 .
The current issue is a heartbroken son; a lot of food and new clothes is all I can do I am afraid.
I want to skip December this year Can’t we move straight into the new year? Let there be light!
Hi Ina! A broken-hearted son, eh? Sounds like girl trouble to me! If that is the case, he’ll soon get over it when he meets a new one-less than a week I suspect. Lol! Though, new clothes and food never hurt anyone! Lol! I think I read somewhere on your blog that one of your sons’ wishes to travel to America…if so, when and where does he plan to go.
Wow! To be in the middle of a conversation that would have been around the time of 1900 would have been bizarre. I’ve often noticed than when elderly people can’t remember yesterday, they somehow remember their childhood as if it were just last week. I’ve often wondered why they don’t forget that too.
Hi Thinker Belle, yes my youngest is (hopefully) going to the US next year, we don’t know yet where he will go to in this stage.
The other is not eating now. Problem is he and his gf live together, one of them has to find another place and that is not easy. And who is to go and who to stay.
Oh well, it will all be sorted out eventually I suppose.
Yes it was very strange when my grandmother asked me if I had come by (horse) tram and I said: on my pushbike, she was so surprised that I was biking. So unladylike
Have to cook now. I hope the miserable one will eat.
Have a nice Sunday!
Sundays are always nice, Ina. In fact, it has always been my favorite day of the week. One day, set aside by tradition, or religion-which ever you choose-to relax and recreate. My plans for today went askew when I awoke to find my organic gardening equipment moistened by the changing season. (Yep, my lawn mower was being rained on!) I mowed and mulched a few bags yesterday, thinking I’d get the pile of leaves in the dog run today-before wet weather came and washed them over the drain hole. So, I decided to stay in where it was warm and dry and make ‘cravin’ salad’ from what I gathered yesterday from my soon to be wilting garden. I chopped the tomatoes, peppers, and onion and placed them in a container with vinegar and sugar…yum,yum!
I hope you are able to get the ‘miserable one’ to eat. I guess he is truly broken-hearted. Why is it difficult to find a place to live? Is the area heavily populated and housing is in great demand, or, do you live in the countryside where few people live-having limited, extra housing? I’m sure he finds it comforting just being at home with mother enjoying the home cooking that a younger woman may not provide. In America, I have noticed that many women my age and mostly older do not cook anymore. I guess it has something to do with women’s liberation or something-I missed all that I guess-I enjoy cooking and gardening; it’s a hobby, not a political statement.
Don’t work to hard…take a little time out for yourself. A nice facial is relaxing. I usually open the dishwasher door before it goes into the dry cycle. Lol! Don’t forget the pedicure, separating each toe with a brace, and walking on your heels as the polish dries (be sure to extend your arms like Frankenstein as you waddle around). You can always create one of those pasty oatmeal facials, put mayonnaise on your hair, lemon on your elbows and run around until the ‘miserable one’ runs screaming out the door back into the arms of his beloved! Lol! (Thank goodness no one wears those ‘beehive’ hairdos anymore-all that hairspray and the stuff they’d wrap it up in prior to bedtime…yuck!)
If you’d like a sweet treat for the pouting, I have a recipe for chocolate oatmeal cookies-if you’ve never had them before-that guys always love.
Hi Thinker, never a dull moment here, as now 2 sons are sick ( I won’t give you the graphic details, but it is nasty) The youngest is staying here in stead of going to the mainland and will miss a test, the other wants to go to the mainland anyway and be miserable there.
The housing is a problem in the whole country here, there are just not enough cheap houses. And they need to be there for their school. They were so happy that they found this place, they have only lived there for a month. Before this, they lived anti squatting, which means they stayed in a flat as to keep squatters out, basicly, that means cheap rent.
This was quite a night, with them vomitting and such I am happy my husband is a nurse, he took care of things. (cleaning) He has left for the ferry also now, so I am stuck with one patient and not feeling to well myself. (Was it the chicken we had last night? Or is it the Mexican flu? I think it was the chick, as my husband, who happened to have broken his teeth on Saturday, didn’t eat chicken, and is ok. He had to go to the dentist today before his work. Accidents never come alone.)
So you use the damp from the dishwasher as moisturizer? Pitty I don’t have a dishwasher, good idea.
I don’t understand the not cooking bit: if you want to eat, you will have to cook? Or do they go out every night? Take away food? Sounds expensive to me. You can’t eat pizza or chinese every day? A whole family?
I always cook, sometimes better than other days. I think growing your own onions, tomatoes and other vegetables is great. We used to have a garden in the dunes, with vegetables of our own but not many. It is the season for ‘ hutspot ‘and other ’stamppots’. (potatoes basicly, very simple) I think I must change our eating habbits as my husband shouldn’t eat potatoes. Diabetes. I find it difficult to change that.
I bought my son chocolate cookies that he likes (brownies) but he hasn’t ate them all. I would love the recipe, I will make a page for recipes here.
I can see you walking with your toes like that
In winter, my toes don’t get much polish, as they are in socks most of the day. I do do facials, do you know that honey is also great on the skin! When I was 15 I would put honey on my face. These days it is Pierre Ricaud.
Those beehives in the 50 and 60’s I am too clumsy for that, my hair is always just hair, never a hairdo.
Now is time for work. I wonder if I can focus on writing. If you work today, have a nice workingday, and if you don’t, have fun with the dishwasher
Ina, sorry to hear about the two guys being ill. I would rather it be salmonella poisoning than Swine flu. However, I have heard that the swine flu often doesn’t affect the older people that may have been exposed to all kinds of stuff in their youth. You do bleach your counters and such after handling chicken, don’t you? I usually put a couple of drops of bleach in the water whenever I am cleaning because I touch everything. In the winter, during flu season, I was all the door knobs and anything I touch, including all counter-tops with a bleach solution to kill bacteria. The way people move from country to country these days, you just never know what you may be catching-especially students.
Many Americans would like to believe the cowboys killed the Indians with firearms and other implements of destruction. The truth is, many Europeans brought with them germs that the natives weren’t immune to. Sooo, there goes the John Wayne theory of settling a territory! Lol!
No dishwasher, eh? I really enjoy mine. I didn’t have one for years. This explains why my hands look the way they do. Lol!
I have no idea what ‘in the dunes’ means-perhaps you’ll explain sometime. This year I grew tomatoes, lettuce, peppers, and onions, though I didn’t have a garden to brag about. I have some Romaine lettuce I’m gonna grab before the hard freeze gets it. I love Caesar Salad! Finished picking all the peppers and tomatoes I think I’ll get this year. I guess I could extend the growing period if I wanted to work at it-I don’t. Now, I am going to take what I can and make some sauces and freeze them so I will have something ready in a flash (quickly).
Yes, honey is great for many things. I just found a recipe for a body sugar scrub that is 1/2 sugar and 1/2 vegetable oil. You just make it at home and put it in a pretty jar. I guess one could do the same with the sea salt scrubs that are popular for the hands.
I think it was the chicken, we are all ok now. They are two heads taller than me, and very healthy, normally, so I never worry about a bit of sick, but I suppose I could do more in the hygienic department. Washing doorknobs. That is a good idea
To reincarnate as a doorknob… lol! I knew those things were alive somehow.
Hey where is that cookie recipe?
At the moment I am trying to find out what my husband is supposed to eat. A blogger with diabetes (that is the one) said he would help out, so I have asked him a load of things I wonder about, I am glad he takes the time.
I still think it is fish (and rice) that will have to do the trick. I can’t find carbs in fish so far.
It is starting to get colder here, after weeks of rain and storm, it is not freezing yet but close.
Where you live it is a bit warmer I guess? Have no idea really
I scrub as well, but not my face, tried it, but it felt like my skin was deleted.
Now it is back to the story I write. I don’t want to! Have a good day!
Hope your story got done today. I posted the cookie recipe on the recipe page. Perhaps substituting the sugar substitute will work for diabetes…I really am not certain. Anyways, that is a quick treat without a lot of mess and using the oven. Not to mention, a great way to get oatmeal into the tummy of the young guys who think it may not be cool. Lol!
I think, and don’t quote me, that the whole grains would be better for him. Perhaps brown rice, whole wheat flour, etc. It’s hard to believe he can’t have potatoes! If you lived closer I’d bring you over some Romaine lettuce and spinach to feed him. Haha! I have just come in from pulling stuff out of the garden…twenty tomatoes…all green-though small! You should have seen it last year…I brought in about 50 huge tomatoes! It was unbelievable! I’ve been sniping sage, chives, etc. Even pulled the smallest of peppers as I can use them in something. My potatoes disappeared into the abyss…must have been something I said! Lol! I even found a beet that didn’t get snatched up this summer. And, I’ve decided to plant the chamomile in a hanging basket next year. I often forget in the spring when nothing is there how fast other things grow and over shadow many things. This is a come time to come up with a new strategy.
Two heads taller you say? Wow! Either you are very short, or, they are very tall. I consider myself short, though I tend to come up to most men’s ear or at least above the shoulder. Anything taller than that and I’d be afraid! Lol!
No, maybe not, I do know one guy who is 6′8 inches and he isn’t that intimidating-however, sometimes annoying. Lol! Most are in the 6′ range anymore…people are just getting taller.
Do you play basketball over there? If not, what type of sports do your boys like? Did you play sports in school?
Thank you for the recipe. Oatmeal? But with chocolate. Oookay… I will give it a try!
Tomatoes, we grew them once too. I don’t understand how they can be healthy, as a horse is not supposed to eat them? If a horse can get sick from them, how come we don’t?
Well some people are allergic to tomatoes. We are fortunate, I don’t think any of us is allergic to anything. But when my youngest son was a baby, he would throw up when ever he got eggs. After 4 times, we figured it out. He grew over it though.
Now at 17 he is 1.99 meters. (6 feet52887 ?) so that is rather tall. Tallest of the class. His brothers are nearly that tall. Abroad I am tall too, the more I go south, the taller I feel. Here I think I am normal lol. Not the tallest woman I know.
One son did basketball when he was in high?school, it was not organized by the school. Sport is not as important as in the USA at schools. The final year of the highschool my youngest son is on now, has no physics or sport since the last autumn holiday, so he needs to get his excersize elsewhere.
One son likes sport very much, he did all sorts during one year. And he always did soccer till he left the island for school. 2 of them did Judo. One archery. And never a broken bone so far!
I didn’t get much sport. We did gymnastics, and sometimes volleyball. I did like to swim, but there was no swimming pool then, so only in Summer. In rain and storm lol, with the heater at home waiting for me.
Now I have a hometrainer, that is my excersize, that is the only sort of sport I don’t give up on. 65 minutes, 35 km a day. Good for the Fybromyalgia , high bloodpressure and such, and to stay in shape and fit.
6.’8 wow lol. Where does he get his clothes?
Are you any good in sport?
Ok, it is 19.26 now. Youngest son got sick again, or still is so I suppose it is the flu. Not sure if he will go to school to do the tests tomorrow or come home. His landlady is worried that he will faint. He had forgotten/lost his pass for the ferry, so he had to pay the full amount and is broke now. Other son perhaps found a new place already! In another town, but so quick? And the cat is sick, she can’t “go”.
Yes, Ina, they are very good! My cousin reminded me of this recipe at a family reunion a few years ago…apparently, I was famous for cookie making! Lol! My brothers had talked about them at Christmas time, thinking my mother was the one that always made them. I kept my mouth shut.
I didn’t know horses’ couldn’t eat tomatoes, though I must admit, I never actually tried to feed one a tomato. Maybe an apple, watermelon rind, salt lick block, etc. Lol!
Have you ever tried fried green tomatoes? You’ve probably heard of the movie “Fried Green Tomatoes.” You cook them just like squash, that is, if you choose to pan fry them in a skillet.
I don’t play sports now; when I was in high school I played basketball. I was the one in charge of guarding the center…which was usually the tallest person-I most certainly wasn’t the tallest. However, I could jump as high and run fast enough, I suppose. And, though we didn’t have a boxing day like you do, we were introduced to boxing in gym. One of my first days in high school, the coach, or the girl herself, paired me up with a girl about two grades higher than me. (A small school, gym included all high school) She was no fun at all! I only got in one lick and they carried her away! So, after that, I decided I really didn’t like boxing! Lol!
Oh, hope you don’t have fybromyalgia. I’ve only begun to hear about that recently. The few I have spoken with that said they had it seemed to be rather sedentary. Actually, most that sit all day seem to have more pain than those who don’t…just an observation.
Sorry to hear your son is still sick. Perhaps the flu will run its course. But, the cat?! What’s up with that? I always feed my cat dry cat food. I heard recently that the canned food isn’t good for them. And, you live so close to the ocean, I would think you have access to raw fish and such.
You give me the impression you live on an island. Is there a village there with stores and a lot of shopping, or is it a large city? I never did understand what the ‘dunes’ were-I’m guessing the country.
Just so you know, I do not live in the country. My gardening is done in a very tiny backyard. It is a hobby and something I’ve always enjoyed. But, if the trees keep growing as they do, I may have to give it up for lack of sunlight, or, cut down the trees. Lol!I don’t think the neighbor will let me in his yard to do that. Lol!
There are shops and there are lots of tourists in season, but now it is a bit quiet.
My cat always gets dry stuff too, her problem was solved, as I gave her some milk, she never gets that normally, it worked!
My problem today is the other way around, I think I got what ever it was my son has. So it wasn’t the chicken afterall?
A tiny backyard with trees, that still sounds large! You can put a hammock there perhaps?
Our neighbour has a beautiful Japanese cherrytree, it blossoms real wonderfull in spring. He had to cut of a bit of it though as it was over leaping all of our backyard and got in the way of my laundry. His cherries were blossoming between my knickers as it were. He is very nice, so it was no problem. Sounds like your neighbour is not very nice?
I didn’t know you could eat green tomatoes? Never had that. Ow my tummy is as uspet as a commenter on a CA blog
Still some writing to do. I think I will let someone die in the story, that always makes me feel better
Glad to hear you’re feeling better, Ina. It does sound like the flu or something that was going around at your house. Glad the cat is better, too.
What type of cat do you have?
My neighbor is very nice. I just feel as if it wouldn’t be right for me to ask him to cut down his only tree in his backyard, though he has several in his front yard. I did recommend, once, that he cut out the hack-berry tree that was growing between it, threatening the life of the oak tree now standing. He told me he believed in survival of the fittest, and may the strongest tree live. (A common belief around these parts in all aspects of life forms). So, I took upon my self to prune that part of the hack-berry creeping on my side of the fence; needless to say, it wasn’t fit for much thereafter. (Not to mention getting rid of the ugly seeds that transplant themselves elsewhere). So, I can’t complain now that the oak is finally flourishing-I’ll adjust.
Which CA forum were you commenting on and what was going on that was so sickening? (Most of the forums on that subject are sickening, that’s why I need you to be specific! Lol!).
And, yes, killing someone off in a story is a good way to feel better-I guess. Of course, the funeral is a great place to rekindle a different relationship, eh?
Hi Thin, it was a hectic day, but all went well, son has a new place to live.
About the CA fora: I meant them in general.
The most sickening are those bloggers who claim they are against bashing, but do so and in a very mean way. One of them wrote a comment in a sort of translation engine Dutch on her own blog where I never read myself ( someone mailed me to say :” the nut has a message for you I think”) so I took a peek. It was very bad Dutch. As far as I understand, she said that she stalked me because she has a desire (verlangen) for me, but as I am married… Oh, and she was ashamed.
Well I mailed her that I don’t bend that way. Was she coming out?
Of course it could also mean that she was talking about me and another blogger, something that is none of her business and in which case she is really obsessed and I hope she will stop envolving others in her pathetic and disgusting menchase In reality, it was very nasty and obscene and I won’t forgive her for doing this. It was bashing alright!
So you live in a big city? Is that fun?
Story is almost finished. I am looking forward to a few days of … off…
Am off to bed! Night!
Hi Ina!Glad to hear your son found a place to live. Hope all is well and maybe his love life is better. Hope your love is alright as well and you don’t let the petty stuff on the blogs get to you. It must not be a blog that is on wordpress, or at least not one I read, which are few. It may be a man-it’s hard to tell. At any rate, anyone who would write that kind of stuff isn’t right in the head. IMO And, we’ve seen a large number of those type of people covering the CA forums. That is why I don’t give credence to anything they say.
No, I don’t live in what I’d consider a big city, though it isn’t exactly the country either. In America, most towns aren’t like New York. We don’t have the high rise buildings-just a lot of urban sprawl.
I’ll bet you’ll be glad to take some time off and enjoy yourself. Wish I knew how to read Dutch, because I’d like to read one of your stories.
Well, goodnight and sleep tight…don’t let the bed bugs bite. (Not that you have bed bugs…it’s just an old saying). Lol!
Hi Thin, it was a miracle that he got a room so soon, in a different city than his school but by train it is ok.
You are so right, about anyone writing that stuff. But it is a she, I think.
Some of my short stories come in English now too, but only on the net, I don’t have a publisher for my English stories, I am not good enough in that language to really try that. It still is just for fun. Some are here on this blog.
Imagine, 2 years ago I wouldn’t have thought about doing anything on the internet in English.
It still is a challenge. No matter what happens in the future, that I write in English now is something I owe a certain blogger.
It is Sinterklaas today, we are not the kind of family who insists in celebrating after the children are all grown up, but I want to do a special thing for dinner. So I will have some thinking to do
Hope you have a nice Decembers day!
I noticed on the other forum that you added a cookie recipe. I’ll have to try it as soon as I learn the measurement equivalents-you probably thought the same about my recipe, huh? Peeling almonds? Hmmm…doesn’t sound like too much fun! I think I’ll just buy the slivers already in a package. Lol! And, by the way, in English, the word for bloem (sp)is flour when speaking about a cooking product (especially baked goods); though many flowers are edible. In fact, I just harvested several Nasturtium leaves to put in my salad. They taste similar to a radish and add a peppery taste to the other vegetables.
Sorry about the other blogger being so disrespectful. However, I am curious about anyone wishing for you to see such nonsense. It almost sounds as if they’d like you to be included in one of the brew-haw-haws that they so enjoy. If they hadn’t emailed you the link, you would have never known. Did they use your name? Or, was it just assumed it was about you? (Was it a regular blogger, or just a commenter that is always changing their name?)At any rate, IMO, neither person did you a favor.
I think your English is very good! At least I understand it. And, I am learning some Dutch words in the process.
It is good news that your son found a place to live. Riding a train is probably not inconvenient there. I have never ridden on a train, though I’d like to some day. Over here most people have automobiles. If and when your son comes over he will find that the public transportation system isn’t what he would find there-having an automobile would greatly assist his travels. There are many places that rent them, however, they are very expensive for an extended period of time. He is young and will probably make friends quickly…they will surely assist him.
Have fun planning a special dinner for a special day! And, again, Happy Sinterklauss Day!
FYI-I just read a comment in my readomattic by a person that has once stated he emailed me an invitation to write a post on his blog. His blog showed up on mine, though I never accepted the invitation via email because the email address had been shut down for months. He even went so far as to refer to me as a troll! I think I know who is responsible for putting things in my Google toolbar. I’m not into making wikipedia what it is today, as are some people. So, I guess being called a troll and being maligned as someone who is full of ‘hot air’ is better than someone thinking a blog could actually have sex with another blog. Lol! It is nice to know, however, that this person has a fulfilling life and won’t be scraping the bottom of the barrel, as it were. Amazingly, this person still finds the time to take cheap shots at the family member of a child that is still missing! Go figure!
Well it was an emailpal who mailed someone who always reads that blog, I don’t know why. I certainly never will again
You really never went by train? It is a very good way to travel I think. Not the stress of driving (I can’t drive anyway). I went to Morocco backpacking by train, and by ferry of course, all the way to Marrakech (in 1979) And I have been to Greece the same way in 1980. The problem with those trains were the toilets, they got very dirty with urine running through the corridors.
Of course commuter trains can be packed, so he will not always have a seat.
But it is not that long a journey. He will go by bike to the railroad station, get the train, and then go on his other bike to school or intern job. Or uses a bus. He has not drivers liscense yet, too expensive to get one.
I didn’t quite get you problems with that blogger and your Google toolbar. How did he do that?
It made me think. Just imagine. If a blog could have sex with another blog, how could a blog be protected best, against a virus, and to prevent breading? With a blogdom? Or with Norton? Do blogs have orgasms? I bet some do. Wet dreams. Hm. I better give my blog a cold shower
I don’t know Ina…guess he boarded his X SS and set sail! I’m not too computer literate..just speculation. He is one of those bloggers who insist that the grandparents should be chastised for the missing child, though the child never lived with them. He (I assume) is more than likely a very staunch, hard to get along with, older man who doesn’t think anyone should have any thoughts that aren’t his and his alone.
Very funny about the blog protection! Lol! Though I didn’t quite understand what you meant by “breading” I assumed you meant breeding ..that’s all that came to mind. Yep, don’t want my blog getting pregnant…Mrtdude would would be all over that in a flash! Lol!
Which blog was it, if you don’t mind my asking…just curious…that they made such ludicrous comments about you? I recall reading (on your blog I think) that even some of MD’s commenters had at one time been trashing you. I can’t understand letting that continue.
Public toilets aren’t the best here either, Ina. I avoid them whenever possible. I would love to see the places you went to years ago…bet that was quite an adventure.
I still don’t understand what happened on your pc, I am very not pc literate, although I can do a nice bit of googling things up.
I hope you will open up your blog again and write some nice articles.
Sons are here and it is very busy. Last night my husband waited up for one of them till 4 am, not sure if he had to pick him up by car; later the son came home by cab. It was not only Sinterklaas but also Sundrum, a local fest (Dec 6 really but as it is a Sunday, it was celebrated yestereday) with men in disguise who go from door to door, oh well, lots of fun especially when you are young.
Traveling was fun, but I don’t miss it too much. I like my life as it is. Writing, and watching my children grow up. Sounds boring, but it is not!
Ina, that mail box has been shut down and I never reopened it. My mother was having trouble with Messenger, so I quit talking to her online as I could tell others were following it…they like to attack any and all that don’t agree with them…I’ve even gotten personal mail through the snail mail from them.
The only people able to see it would be me and whoever is in Gohde’s entourage I’d assume since his blog is now on mine. At any rate, they’d more than likely try to hack into the email to see who was talking about whom.
And, your life doesn’t sound boring to me! As we age, most acquire different priorities and not everyone is the same. I love festivals! Tradition doesn’t always make sense, but, it adds to the zest of life.
There was a bit of confusion. If you still want the story, you can mail me, see the about section.
How did his blog get on yours… I still don’t get it . Who is this Gohde?
If you like festivals, you really should come here in June, Oerol festival. Theater and music, all over the island, for 10 days.
Hi Ina! Gohde writes commentary on the Haleigh Cummings case and did a few on Casey Anthony. He is Mr. Mysterious…or so that is the image he’d like to project. He is on wordpress…just look up Haleigh’s name. He has written some very disturbing things about the family, especially when he compares them to himself he comes off as quite arrogant. I think he is somehow tied in with BNN-a network for citizen bloggers. I think he spends a lot of time on wikipedia, as he is also into natural health. How that relates to these children-I don’t know!
It’s not that important that I know who said what…if it was a a forum that doesn’t need logging into, then just post a link. There is a reason these people insist on trashing others. I wasn’t even mad when I was booted off MD’s; but, after a while, and after reading and watching what his commenters were doing, I didn’t understand why I didn’t see that when I was commenting there. And, now I feel as if there is one that I will always hate…yes, that is a very strong word, but, I mean it. She is a biiiaatch! She tried to play the same game on Kreuzer’s blog today, after being caught in her pathetic display of changing avatars and trying to make everyone conform to how they think a blog should operate…with her at the helm! She had made a complete imbecilic azz of herself on Shaeffer’s blog…pathetic!
The Oerol festival sounds like a lot of fun! I’ll bet it is relaxing. Do artist come from the mainland and beyond for this event? I once went to Taos in the summer. Normally it is a ski resort in the wintertime with alot of people. In the summer, it is laid back, beautiful scenery, wonderful eateries, art galleries, and best of all, they had performers in the town square! Yep, they had a town square…isn’t that neat? Well, I went there in the winter once too…spent a lot of my time sliding down the steep mountain on my head! Lol!
I checked Kreuzers (through backtype I found some missing comment) and I see what you mean. Funny, really it is the same commentor that is trying to harm me lol. Your biiaaaatch is mine. So I know EXACTLY how you feel. Now that is already 2 of us just here. I bet there are a lot more who are disgusted.
Don’t all towns have a square <— I tried some double English here. Not sure it worked.
The artists on Oerol come from all around the world. A few years ago we had some Aboriginals who had never been anywhere but there home region, they played wonderfull mysterious music (diggeridoo or something the instrument is called). The street artists are everywhere. A lot is free, other performanced have to be payed. I will look up a link. http://www.oerol.nl/english/index.htm
Yeah, and it keeps getting worse! I can understand the blatant stupidity of these women, even the bullying, but, what I don’t understand is why they think they can control every blog on wordpress! They have full charge of MD’s, have made an absolute mockery of Shaeffer’s blog, and would more than likely be welcomed back intio the hellhole from which they once came, HO’s blog, but, they press on trying to get Kreuzers blog to fold so they can have full charge of all opinions not monitored by them! They see things that clearly aren’t there! Too bad for their pettiness…it’s a shame.
Well you are free to speak your mind here It is not a CA blog, but at least you can say what you want. Lots of lurkers from MD’s and other CA blogs come here as well. Don’t know what they are looking for.
They don’t controll this blog, that is a fact and they never will.
Hello Ina, I deleted e-mails and lost addresses, without having answered some, maybe never getting back to you. Sorry, but having been accused at another blog where it was all so not true, but allowed, has led me to not trust. I know you understand.
Ina, if I may…I think she is talking about that ignorant azz biiiatch Sherry that likes to commit people that don’t agree with her dumbazz opinions. The one that called you crazy and you weren’t able to respond to the pathetic idiot. She also called on staging some kind of warfare on a blog that some commenter had made at some time…both she and her slutty,wrinkly azz comrade from north of the border tried to pick my brain and get me in on it. I didn’t have a clue what they were talking about…all I knew was they were going to war with someone! If I am wrong, please forgive me. I hope my words did not offend anyone or hurt their feelings in any way.
Ina, when you awake, look at Kreuzer’s blog again. Laurali has tried to defend herself, without being asked, about her new name and avatar. She, sLuttyoop, and ss erie, worked me over on sluttyoops blog after sluttyoop called me an alcoholic. No more than a day or two after that, Shaeffer opened up his new blog, and they immediately competed for control of his blog…Laura cussed another out on that very forum. Talk about some ignorant, arrogant biiatches…those take the cake!
Goodmorning… Wow! Thinker, I can well imagine you got annoyed with them and wanted to say it all without any censorship. So you did and that is fine with me, as I know (a little) what was said about you (and me) and we should be able to talk back somewhere.
I think I myself better leave it at this though, as frankly those people are not interesting to me.
None of them have a face, did you ever notice how they hide behind silly avatars? Like as if they are kids lol, it is all fake, they are fake persons who like to call them self good and who fantasize a whole life they can flunt around the net, but I wonder about the truth in what they claim, as quite often you just have to google to see they are lying about things. Their life is the blog? They have to fake and change their identity all the time. I once made the mistake to reveil such a liar, and I will wisely not do that again, but I just don’t have respect for those kind of people. I could tell you stories though lol. And just by googling a bit really.
They are perhaps men in real life? Why would we even care what they say, Thinker? Let them sink into the swamp of internet where they belong and be soon forgotten. They are not important, although they seem to think they are. Don’t let them get to you. I hope you are doing ok.
ps I wonder if it is true that someone linked my blog on the wrinkly azzed one (that one made me chuckle), just to let everyone see how terrible we are lol. How stupid is that? We obviously matter to those lonely souls behind their screens, Thinker! We matter sooooo much to them Pitty for them it is not the other way around.
Well said, Ina. Feel free to delete what I have written. Just thought I’d give them something to feast on since you said they’d often come here, though you didn’t know why-this is probably why! (And, I think I read where they had trashed you as well). It seems sooooo important that they GANG up on people and force them to conform! It doesn’t soften me-it makes me more resilient. If I have something to say, I don’t have to email…I’ll just type it in the open. And, if more did, we’d know who all else has been treated this way as well. I’m not worried about forgiveness, because I know that isn’t something they’d deem worth considering…so I wouldn’t consider it myself either…not anymore.
They keep on doing the trashing, they are sick. Have you ever seen them do normal lol.
Just spoke to a man with a cardiologist to see. I hope it will all go well for him. I do get worried. It must be a strain on his parents too I imagine?
Well have to do some stuff now, later!
They are lurking there fingers to pieces. I am going to hang around for a bit on another English site elsewhere with nice people, not wp but there are some who blog succesfully on wp too. You might want to go there, If you like, I will mail you the spot. You would be surprised how friendly everyone is and no one is trying to hurt others. I am not going to link it here in public, it is much too nice at it is
Thanks Ina, but, I don’t think I’m going to open up the email again. I read somewhere that a person had 35 viruses and had to run something like 8 programs to clean up the computer…not interested in that, that’s for sure!
Kinda reminded me of when a guy (s) (this isn’t a single occurrence either) would tell you(whomever) about their experiences on a motorcycle, describing the last crash, with his head ending up at the front tire of the car that had to slam on the brakes to avoid killing them, then turning around and asking you if you’d like to go for a ride. No sir! Don’t mean maybe! Lol!
I’m sure there are nice people out there…however, it’s not that big of a deal to me either.
I have a good virus scan, never had a problem with it. Norton. Keeps the Trojans out. I got those silly spam stuff (I checked, it came from VA) that asked in Dutch, very bad Dutch, to give all kinds of info lol. So called from my provider. Now that could also have a virus, but my scan didn’t detect any.
I have been on the back of a sort of motor, you know, the smaller ones, a few times. It does nothing for me really. And this ride you mentioned, I would say no too I think.
I am writing fun story; it is about hair. Why are there no hairs on a penis. I suppose I will never know. Or are there some that do have hair? Hm. A writers job is never done?
Thinker, I hope you cheer up soon. One day the people that hurt us both with so much evil will be gone, how long do you think they can fool people? Meanwhile I have found some good advise thanks to you about diabetes.
Thinker, go get them trucker!:) Goodnight. Feel free to say whatever comes natural. Here you can! It doesn’t have to mean I will always agree btw.
It is winter, so I think it will be a short story, but it can always be stretched I suppose.
I put a link on Sheaffers to find out later that it is a sort of penpals site, for deathrow inmates. Now I am sure some people will be pleased lol. They can’t run away! And they love mail! The next best thing to a hubby.
Well having read the shit people dared to write about me, I know now the nuts on wp are not my taste, so I won’t be writing on wp anymore. Have fun trashing me, idiots! I have found a much nicer place, with intelligent and interesting people who have real LIVES and who don’t need to make up stories about dead kids to get some primary earnings. Where nobody needs to put another down. I am disgusted by the people here. Not beatrice, Thinker, Kreuzer and some others. You know how to reach me.
To those jealous and stupid: When you are alone at christmas, another year gone by and no one to love, just wonder how come. I won’t be thinking of you that is for sure.
Ina, Good…whatever, morning afternoon, or evening…I forget which.
Wow! Your last comment! What happened? I can only imagine it is their bully party trying to make you conform to the ideas these people have about the entire family. The pen pal for inmates thing? WTF?
My opinion is that they aren’t jealous as much as they like to provoke and antagonize in order to feed themselves. (Then again, I’ve always been told, when asked what is wrong with people giving me grief, that they are jealous…never been able to see that aspect, so, that’s my blind side). They know where the gravy train is…dead children. People are immune to dead adults…it just doesn’t get others as excited and cause such a stir.
I don’t know who said what, at least not yet, but, I am certain it happened. That is why I don’t try to pal around with these folks…they are like rabid dawgs and will turn on you in a heartbeat! They stress the importance of behavior on blogs, yet they gossip and go behind others backs…not to be trusted-no way, no how!
And, you have reminded me, I need to make plans to travel this Christmas. Wish you were here…we’d go take the walk on the glass ramp over the Grand Canyon! I’ve wanted to do that since I first read about it in a magazine. Can you imagine being able to walk over a canyon, suspended high over the bottom, and be able to see below you-as if you were walking on air?!!!
Ina, I think I know where that may be coming from…the attacks that is. Please delete my comments from the 7th and the 8th…that might slow things down, yet not totally eliminate them. I knew they’d follow me around to see whom I was talking to, though they never seemed interested in me in the least when I was commenting on the same blog. Their motive is simple: to destroy other people’s blogs!
I know I am not totally responsible, as you had stated they had been trashing you prior to my comments. I, myself, would never take advice from a medieval painting.
Thinker, excellent retort to SS at Bill’s. No, I don’t take any pleasure or thrill out of exposing people and that is not what I am all about. I have seen what has happened and I was also done wrong by her. You are doing a good job of bringing her down a peg or two but sadly, I think that there is nothing that will stop her inner snark. That is what she is about, a jealous, bitter, nasty old woman with nothing else in the world to do but create havoc where she is able. I will now retire GUAB and let you do your work on her. She makes my blood boil.
GUAB-thank you for retiring GUAB. However, even long before she interfered, she was never known to post anything other than crap…this isn’t new. You don’t need to point it out to me, I’ve known for a long time what she is and what she is about. She doesn’t make my blood boil, however, she is annoying…I don’t really care about how she treats me, but, I don’t like the way she treats others.
Ina, I’m going to stay away from your blog for a while so these commenters won’t have a reason to follow and whine. I know Dave is your friend, but, they are making me quite sick of him. Goodbye for now.
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Thinker Belle // 25/11/2009 bij 19:19 |
Hi Ina! I read your comment on Shaeffer’s blog. Sorry Dave has stopped communicating with you too. He has to defend those that are mostly responsible for picking arguments with others and then blaming others for the arguments they pick. Perhaps he’ll come around one day, though I doubt it will be anytime soon. And, I agree with you-the articles he writes are awesome.
I also read what you discovered about the Patrick guy. I think you may be on to something, though I seriously doubt the original is a child serial killer and was more than likely no where near Fla. at the time of Caylee’s disappearance. If any thing like that happened, more than likely that young man researched the name and used it…a prophet no doubt with the ability to see into the future.
Ina // 25/11/2009 bij 20:40 |
Hi Thinker! I read that the judge thought he was not a serial killer. But what happened to him, I don’t know. And there was another girl found dead, same method used as on C. A. I don’t know, I just wanted to see if anyone knew more by now. Now I have to figure out what RS meant exactly.
I also hope David will let me comment again, I miss our conversations
Perhaps one day. He knows what I think about it.
Did you get a Turkey already?
Ina // 25/11/2009 bij 20:42 |
Heavy thunder storm now, so I better log out.
Thinker Belle // 25/11/2009 bij 20:43 |
Yep, I’m ready for T-day! How ’bout you? Where and when was this other girl found like CA…haven’t heard that one.
Ina // 25/11/2009 bij 20:45 |
No Turkey day here
I will have to google that one, I have no files I am afraid. But the flashes are spooky! Bye for now!
Ina // 26/11/2009 bij 09:45 |
http://www.popcrunch.com/missing-florida-girl-somer-thompson-found-dead/
I think I mean this one. What if the killer was the same person? Or is that not possible?
Thinker Belle // 26/11/2009 bij 18:33 |
Hi Ina!
I have recently read some of your comments on Shaeffer’s blog. I am of the opinion that you are “barking up the wrong tree” (an expression) if you are trying to persuade people whose minds were made up based upon the 911 call and all that transpired within the first week. There is another saying (expression) that goes: Crap (bullshit, nonsense, lies, etc.) is King.
One such expression I read that you used on another commenter was the phrase “shut up.” Though this is rampant among many, it is disrespectful and often makes me think that the person saying this thinks themself to be more knowledgeable or a higher person than the person they said it to. It inflames the person to whom it has been said…it just isn’t nice. And, as I recall, MD stated this to you just prior to your disappearance on his blog. I was saddened when I saw it. Please do not think all Americans are like that. And, please try to erase that from your vocabulary so you are not em-brawled in verbal arguments.
In addition, the Thomson case wasn’t similar as she was found in the garbage, which probably isn’t that unusual. I haven’t read that she was bagged, duct taped, or left near the family home. However, they did find her rapidly, which is a good thing. They suspect a serial killer that has come out of the closet (I read this somewhere) because one lived within that neighborhood many years ago. And, the correlation would be, IMO, that those seeking to call serial killers to the forefront, much like a seance which calls the spirits of the dead to come forth, a person would have researched the history of the area first. Which could explain that strange visit to CA by the fellow who calls himself Patrick B.
Just My Opinion as Always…and thank you for allowing me to express it.
Ina // 26/11/2009 bij 19:58 |
Yes that comment on Sheaffers was a bit unfortunate. I wanted to say that we shouldn’t talk about it, I said that we, the public should perhaps shut up about it, and I remembered Davids shutting me up after I put the comment up. Perhaps not a good phrase, like you also say, as there was an angry comment after that… Oh well. I give up. My English gives problems , it was not intentional to be rude. And I don’t want to change people’s ideas, just add some new ones. Not a good idea too.
He can’t have complaints from his commenters, now can he. He is usually nicer in mails.
Have a nice Thanksgiving.
MD has often shut me up, that was not the first time. Without knowing it, I am very disruptive it seems.
The Thompson case I thought had similar things, like dumping the child somewhere. Has that murder been solved? No idea. I also think it is true that we shouldn’t pretend we know all what happened. Especially me, as I don’t even live in the same country let alone state. Not that that fact would stop others
Your ideas about that visit of Patrick B., that might be true. That serial killer they suspect killing Sommer, I wonder if he was anywhere near Suburban Drive at the time C. dissapeared. But I won’t try and look for clues. The web is full of armchair detectives with a lot of time on their hands. They can bark up the right tree when ever they like. I doubt they will ever make sense though. Waste of time really.
Thinker Belle // 27/11/2009 bij 05:09 |
I have been reading in my comment section…they are still on your hiney (buttocks). Ouch! They think if you haven’t studied this extensively, watched every Nancy Grace Show, Murt live, Leonard Padilla,etc., you haven’t a clue!
What they still haven’t been able to explain is how Casey was able to change the DNA of the tibia, how she was able to make the car smell worse than it did when the tow company picked up without the presence of a body, and how she deceived ALL those searchers, each with noses, eyes, and ears, and prevented them from finding the bones lying soooo close to the road. Especially, as heavily as the media staked out the area during the time after that infamous 911 call, with all the extra people in the area that would not be there on a normal day.
Ina // 27/11/2009 bij 08:30 |
Thinker Belle, you make sense to me. I didn’t know about that DNA.
Either they didn’t search AT ALL or the body was somewhere else for a period of time before it was discovered?
I read this report of examination http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/images/06/19/6440.6475.pdf
They found no evidence of a murder, basicly, but they call it homicide anyway. It could have been a natural death even.
They can yell at my buttocks what ever they want, I am not reading it lol. —> ((
Thinker Belle // 27/11/2009 bij 17:07 |
Hello Ina! Today is what is referred to as ‘Black Friday’ here in America. The day someone raises their arm, pulls the trigger releasing the loud “boom” that starts the beginning of the season in which most people are miserable…Christmas season. Many will flock to their local mall, Wal-Mart, or other stores in search of the never heard of bargain before this day in history…they’ve already forgotten last year! I must admit, I am tempted! However, the things I think I need may not be discounted all that much…how would I know, I never knew I needed them until today! Lol! It isn’t the same for adults as it is for children. Many already have more than they need, and the brain-wrecking experience of what to get that someone who ‘has it all’ seems to be the driving factor that creates the misery.
When I was a child, we didn’t think that much about Christmas until maybe a week before…decorations we put up that week. We would go into the woods and chop down our own tree, making balls by spray painting some type of small ball shed on a local tree, stringing popcorn to wrap around the sacrificed evergreen, and carefully putting on the remainder of the glass bulbs that weren’t broken from the year before during a midnight sneak-peek attack as children just can’t wait to be surprised. It was a very special time of the year! We got maybe one or two items we would enjoy, and the rest were necessities such as clothing. We didn’t have much, but we were soooo happy to get these things. The biggest joy of all was going to Grandmother’s house-she always wanted everyone around…she, like her favorite Yule time artist, Elvis, always dreamed of a ‘White Christmas.’
Ina // 27/11/2009 bij 20:22 |
Thinker, that sounds like a nice Christmas! We didn’t do much with presents at Christmas, and still don’t, I used to get some books. My best memories are the Christmasses at (on?) sea really, I will put one memory up here soon. I did get a lot of presents on Sinterklaas, St Nicholas, Dec 5. and my birthday Jan 4. Dolls mostly, I loved dolls.
We won’t spend much money on food or presents really, but just enjoy the holidaymakers that come here, and perhaps have a little extra of the goodies 
Just kidding my husband never drinks anymore and I don’t get drunk (anymore) 
Christmasholiday was also the time for some family to come to the island and stay with us.
My husband often has to work on the mainland as a nurse, but this year only on Boxing day, which is second Christmasday here and just as important
As my mother died in September and an other unfortunate event just occured yesterday, we will perhaps just get smashed
Black Friday sounds alarming. I hope it all went well.
Thinker Belle // 28/11/2009 bij 01:46 |
Oh, Ina, I am so sorry to hear about your mother. I am certain that was difficult to handle. Fortunately, my mother is still doing well, though the age thing seems to be catching up with her. She came and visited me this last September. We had a lot of fun together. then she went to visit by brothers, all of whom live in another state, then she returned here for a few days. She doesn’t walk as well as she once did because her knee is giving her trouble…other than that, she is difficult to keep up with because she likes to be on the go…go, granny,go! Lol!
I am thinking about going to stay with her over the holiday season. She lives in a much warmer place. She lives in a large city; I just hate the ‘bumper-to-bumper’ traffic. However, the desert scenery is always relaxing and a change of pace for me.
Hope whatever happened yesterday wasn’t too bad…maybe ya need to get ’smashed,’ eh?
Ina // 28/11/2009 bij 15:23 |
Hi Thinker, I was on the mainland today so a bit late.
My mother had (probably) Alzheimers, but I think she was reasonably happy till the end, and that is what really matters. She didn’t know me anymore, she thought I was her, very difficult at times but as she never complained, it made it easier for the rest of us. (My family that is, I am an only child.) I think it is great your mother goes to all her children, living in all these states. About the dementia: I hope that when I am getting that way, I won’t be a burden to my family.
So far, my husband still loves me and I wouldn’t want him to see me as a healthcase.
Other way around I am starting to get used to the fact that he is 10 years older and therefore probably will have need of some nursing assistance. Oh woopie. But I suppose I will know by then what to do and how to do it right.
I am handling a family situation at the moment and I sure wish I could get smashed
but with my meds I can’t, dammit!
Thinker Belle // 28/11/2009 bij 18:53 |
Hello Ina!
It sounds like you are in the throws of what naturally comes from being from and having a family-natural problems. I can only imagine how difficult it was for you caring for an elderly parent whose separation of persons’ isn’t distinct-you were confused, I’d bet. And, as you stated before, not being grouchy and complaining was indeed a blessing in disguise. Hindsight is always 20/20! Hopefully, your husband will remain in good health, and your children will be near to care for you as you cared for your mother.
I recall how my grandmother seemingly showed signs of dementia. Usually, at family gatherings, no one wanted to talk to her-they didn’t understand it. I always imagined it was their own fear of their future destiny…or lack of forgiveness of some past wrong done to them. After she was gone, their description of her changed, though not by much. I’ve always learned a lot by observing the elderly; especially, within my own family.
Hoping you persevere and triumph over the current issue—– life as it is!
Ina // 29/11/2009 bij 09:22 |
Hi Thinker, I was on the mainland yesterday and after that on the phone for over an hour lol so not much time for the blog.
Can’t we move straight into the new year? Let there be light!
Both of my grandmothers had this same lack in their memory, but the one was and stayed a very merry person, the other more depressed from it.
I remember very surrealistic conversations as my grandma thought I was her sister, she was ‘living” again in Rotterdam in about the year 1900 .
The current issue is a heartbroken son; a lot of food and new clothes is all I can do I am afraid.
I want to skip December this year
Thinker Belle // 29/11/2009 bij 17:12 |
Hi Ina! A broken-hearted son, eh? Sounds like girl trouble to me! If that is the case, he’ll soon get over it when he meets a new one-less than a week I suspect. Lol! Though, new clothes and food never hurt anyone! Lol! I think I read somewhere on your blog that one of your sons’ wishes to travel to America…if so, when and where does he plan to go.
Wow! To be in the middle of a conversation that would have been around the time of 1900 would have been bizarre. I’ve often noticed than when elderly people can’t remember yesterday, they somehow remember their childhood as if it were just last week. I’ve often wondered why they don’t forget that too.
Ina // 29/11/2009 bij 17:26 |
Hi Thinker Belle, yes my youngest is (hopefully) going to the US next year, we don’t know yet where he will go to in this stage.
The other is not eating now. Problem is he and his gf live together, one of them has to find another place and that is not easy. And who is to go and who to stay.
Oh well, it will all be sorted out eventually I suppose.
Yes it was very strange when my grandmother asked me if I had come by (horse) tram and I said: on my pushbike, she was so surprised that I was biking. So unladylike
Have to cook now. I hope the miserable one will eat.
Have a nice Sunday!
Thinker Belle // 29/11/2009 bij 23:11 |
Sundays are always nice, Ina. In fact, it has always been my favorite day of the week. One day, set aside by tradition, or religion-which ever you choose-to relax and recreate. My plans for today went askew when I awoke to find my organic gardening equipment moistened by the changing season. (Yep, my lawn mower was being rained on!) I mowed and mulched a few bags yesterday, thinking I’d get the pile of leaves in the dog run today-before wet weather came and washed them over the drain hole. So, I decided to stay in where it was warm and dry and make ‘cravin’ salad’ from what I gathered yesterday from my soon to be wilting garden. I chopped the tomatoes, peppers, and onion and placed them in a container with vinegar and sugar…yum,yum!
I hope you are able to get the ‘miserable one’ to eat. I guess he is truly broken-hearted. Why is it difficult to find a place to live? Is the area heavily populated and housing is in great demand, or, do you live in the countryside where few people live-having limited, extra housing? I’m sure he finds it comforting just being at home with mother enjoying the home cooking that a younger woman may not provide. In America, I have noticed that many women my age and mostly older do not cook anymore. I guess it has something to do with women’s liberation or something-I missed all that I guess-I enjoy cooking and gardening; it’s a hobby, not a political statement.
Don’t work to hard…take a little time out for yourself. A nice facial is relaxing. I usually open the dishwasher door before it goes into the dry cycle. Lol! Don’t forget the pedicure, separating each toe with a brace, and walking on your heels as the polish dries (be sure to extend your arms like Frankenstein as you waddle around). You can always create one of those pasty oatmeal facials, put mayonnaise on your hair, lemon on your elbows and run around until the ‘miserable one’ runs screaming out the door back into the arms of his beloved! Lol! (Thank goodness no one wears those ‘beehive’ hairdos anymore-all that hairspray and the stuff they’d wrap it up in prior to bedtime…yuck!)
If you’d like a sweet treat for the pouting, I have a recipe for chocolate oatmeal cookies-if you’ve never had them before-that guys always love.
Ina // 30/11/2009 bij 09:58 |
Hi Thinker, never a dull moment here, as now 2 sons are sick ( I won’t give you the graphic details, but it is nasty) The youngest is staying here in stead of going to the mainland and will miss a test, the other wants to go to the mainland anyway and be miserable there.
The housing is a problem in the whole country here, there are just not enough cheap houses. And they need to be there for their school. They were so happy that they found this place, they have only lived there for a month. Before this, they lived anti squatting, which means they stayed in a flat as to keep squatters out, basicly, that means cheap rent.
This was quite a night, with them vomitting and such
I am happy my husband is a nurse, he took care of things. (cleaning) He has left for the ferry also now, so I am stuck with one patient and not feeling to well myself. (Was it the chicken we had last night? Or is it the Mexican flu? I think it was the chick, as my husband, who happened to have broken his teeth on Saturday, didn’t eat chicken, and is ok. He had to go to the dentist today before his work. Accidents never come alone.)
So you use the damp from the dishwasher as moisturizer? Pitty I don’t have a dishwasher, good idea.
I don’t understand the not cooking bit: if you want to eat, you will have to cook? Or do they go out every night? Take away food? Sounds expensive to me. You can’t eat pizza or chinese every day? A whole family?
I always cook, sometimes better than other days. I think growing your own onions, tomatoes and other vegetables is great. We used to have a garden in the dunes, with vegetables of our own but not many. It is the season for ‘ hutspot ‘and other ’stamppots’. (potatoes basicly, very simple) I think I must change our eating habbits as my husband shouldn’t eat potatoes. Diabetes. I find it difficult to change that.
I bought my son chocolate cookies that he likes (brownies) but he hasn’t ate them all. I would love the recipe, I will make a page for recipes here.
I can see you walking with your toes like that
These days it is Pierre Ricaud.
I am too clumsy for that, my hair is always just hair, never a hairdo.
In winter, my toes don’t get much polish, as they are in socks most of the day. I do do facials, do you know that honey is also great on the skin! When I was 15 I would put honey on my face.
Those beehives in the 50 and 60’s
Now is time for work. I wonder if I can focus on writing. If you work today, have a nice workingday, and if you don’t, have fun with the dishwasher
Thinker Belle // 01/12/2009 bij 01:51 |
Ina, sorry to hear about the two guys being ill. I would rather it be salmonella poisoning than Swine flu. However, I have heard that the swine flu often doesn’t affect the older people that may have been exposed to all kinds of stuff in their youth. You do bleach your counters and such after handling chicken, don’t you? I usually put a couple of drops of bleach in the water whenever I am cleaning because I touch everything. In the winter, during flu season, I was all the door knobs and anything I touch, including all counter-tops with a bleach solution to kill bacteria. The way people move from country to country these days, you just never know what you may be catching-especially students.
Many Americans would like to believe the cowboys killed the Indians with firearms and other implements of destruction. The truth is, many Europeans brought with them germs that the natives weren’t immune to. Sooo, there goes the John Wayne theory of settling a territory! Lol!
No dishwasher, eh? I really enjoy mine. I didn’t have one for years. This explains why my hands look the way they do. Lol!
I have no idea what ‘in the dunes’ means-perhaps you’ll explain sometime. This year I grew tomatoes, lettuce, peppers, and onions, though I didn’t have a garden to brag about. I have some Romaine lettuce I’m gonna grab before the hard freeze gets it. I love Caesar Salad! Finished picking all the peppers and tomatoes I think I’ll get this year. I guess I could extend the growing period if I wanted to work at it-I don’t. Now, I am going to take what I can and make some sauces and freeze them so I will have something ready in a flash (quickly).
Yes, honey is great for many things. I just found a recipe for a body sugar scrub that is 1/2 sugar and 1/2 vegetable oil. You just make it at home and put it in a pretty jar. I guess one could do the same with the sea salt scrubs that are popular for the hands.
Is it cold there?
Thinker Belle // 01/12/2009 bij 01:54 |
Correction: I WASH all the door knobs…not I was all the door knobs-didn’t want you to think I’d been reincarnated or something. Lol!
Ina // 01/12/2009 bij 09:01 |
I think it was the chicken, we are all ok now. They are two heads taller than me, and very healthy, normally, so I never worry about a bit of sick, but I suppose I could do more in the hygienic department. Washing doorknobs. That is a good idea
To reincarnate as a doorknob… lol! I knew those things were alive somehow.
Hey where is that cookie recipe?
At the moment I am trying to find out what my husband is supposed to eat. A blogger with diabetes (that is the one) said he would help out, so I have asked him a load of things I wonder about, I am glad he takes the time.
I still think it is fish (and rice) that will have to do the trick. I can’t find carbs in fish so far.
It is starting to get colder here, after weeks of rain and storm, it is not freezing yet but close.
Where you live it is a bit warmer I guess? Have no idea really
I scrub as well, but not my face, tried it, but it felt like my skin was deleted.
Now it is back to the story I write. I don’t want to! Have a good day!
Thinker Belle // 02/12/2009 bij 01:53 |
Hope your story got done today. I posted the cookie recipe on the recipe page. Perhaps substituting the sugar substitute will work for diabetes…I really am not certain. Anyways, that is a quick treat without a lot of mess and using the oven. Not to mention, a great way to get oatmeal into the tummy of the young guys who think it may not be cool. Lol!
I think, and don’t quote me, that the whole grains would be better for him. Perhaps brown rice, whole wheat flour, etc. It’s hard to believe he can’t have potatoes! If you lived closer I’d bring you over some Romaine lettuce and spinach to feed him. Haha! I have just come in from pulling stuff out of the garden…twenty tomatoes…all green-though small! You should have seen it last year…I brought in about 50 huge tomatoes! It was unbelievable! I’ve been sniping sage, chives, etc. Even pulled the smallest of peppers as I can use them in something. My potatoes disappeared into the abyss…must have been something I said! Lol! I even found a beet that didn’t get snatched up this summer. And, I’ve decided to plant the chamomile in a hanging basket next year. I often forget in the spring when nothing is there how fast other things grow and over shadow many things. This is a come time to come up with a new strategy.
Two heads taller you say? Wow! Either you are very short, or, they are very tall. I consider myself short, though I tend to come up to most men’s ear or at least above the shoulder. Anything taller than that and I’d be afraid! Lol!
No, maybe not, I do know one guy who is 6′8 inches and he isn’t that intimidating-however, sometimes annoying. Lol! Most are in the 6′ range anymore…people are just getting taller.
Do you play basketball over there? If not, what type of sports do your boys like? Did you play sports in school?
Ina // 02/12/2009 bij 15:14 |
Thank you for the recipe. Oatmeal? But with chocolate. Oookay… I will give it a try!
Tomatoes, we grew them once too. I don’t understand how they can be healthy, as a horse is not supposed to eat them? If a horse can get sick from them, how come we don’t?
Well some people are allergic to tomatoes. We are fortunate, I don’t think any of us is allergic to anything. But when my youngest son was a baby, he would throw up when ever he got eggs. After 4 times, we figured it out. He grew over it though.
Now at 17 he is 1.99 meters. (6 feet52887 ?) so that is rather tall. Tallest of the class. His brothers are nearly that tall. Abroad I am tall too, the more I go south, the taller I feel. Here I think I am normal lol. Not the tallest woman I know.
One son did basketball when he was in high?school, it was not organized by the school. Sport is not as important as in the USA at schools. The final year of the highschool my youngest son is on now, has no physics or sport since the last autumn holiday, so he needs to get his excersize elsewhere.
One son likes sport very much, he did all sorts during one year. And he always did soccer till he left the island for school. 2 of them did Judo. One archery. And never a broken bone so far!
I didn’t get much sport. We did gymnastics, and sometimes volleyball. I did like to swim, but there was no swimming pool then, so only in Summer. In rain and storm lol, with the heater at home waiting for me.
Now I have a hometrainer, that is my excersize, that is the only sort of sport I don’t give up on. 65 minutes, 35 km a day. Good for the Fybromyalgia , high bloodpressure and such, and to stay in shape and fit.
6.’8 wow lol. Where does he get his clothes?
Are you any good in sport?
Ok, it is 19.26 now. Youngest son got sick again, or still is so I suppose it is the flu. Not sure if he will go to school to do the tests tomorrow or come home. His landlady is worried that he will faint. He had forgotten/lost his pass for the ferry, so he had to pay the full amount and is broke now. Other son perhaps found a new place already! In another town, but so quick? And the cat is sick, she can’t “go”.
I think I will just go to bed early today
Thinker Belle // 02/12/2009 bij 22:14 |
Yes, Ina, they are very good! My cousin reminded me of this recipe at a family reunion a few years ago…apparently, I was famous for cookie making! Lol! My brothers had talked about them at Christmas time, thinking my mother was the one that always made them. I kept my mouth shut.
I didn’t know horses’ couldn’t eat tomatoes, though I must admit, I never actually tried to feed one a tomato. Maybe an apple, watermelon rind, salt lick block, etc. Lol!
Have you ever tried fried green tomatoes? You’ve probably heard of the movie “Fried Green Tomatoes.” You cook them just like squash, that is, if you choose to pan fry them in a skillet.
I don’t play sports now; when I was in high school I played basketball. I was the one in charge of guarding the center…which was usually the tallest person-I most certainly wasn’t the tallest. However, I could jump as high and run fast enough, I suppose. And, though we didn’t have a boxing day like you do, we were introduced to boxing in gym. One of my first days in high school, the coach, or the girl herself, paired me up with a girl about two grades higher than me. (A small school, gym included all high school) She was no fun at all! I only got in one lick and they carried her away! So, after that, I decided I really didn’t like boxing! Lol!
Oh, hope you don’t have fybromyalgia. I’ve only begun to hear about that recently. The few I have spoken with that said they had it seemed to be rather sedentary. Actually, most that sit all day seem to have more pain than those who don’t…just an observation.
Sorry to hear your son is still sick. Perhaps the flu will run its course. But, the cat?! What’s up with that? I always feed my cat dry cat food. I heard recently that the canned food isn’t good for them. And, you live so close to the ocean, I would think you have access to raw fish and such.
You give me the impression you live on an island. Is there a village there with stores and a lot of shopping, or is it a large city? I never did understand what the ‘dunes’ were-I’m guessing the country.
Just so you know, I do not live in the country. My gardening is done in a very tiny backyard. It is a hobby and something I’ve always enjoyed. But, if the trees keep growing as they do, I may have to give it up for lack of sunlight, or, cut down the trees. Lol!I don’t think the neighbor will let me in his yard to do that. Lol!
Ina // 03/12/2009 bij 14:32 |
Hi Thinker! Dunes are sand hills
This island is one big heap of sand I suppose.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terschelling
There are shops and there are lots of tourists in season, but now it is a bit quiet.
My cat always gets dry stuff too, her problem was solved, as I gave her some milk, she never gets that normally, it worked!
My problem today is the other way around, I think I got what ever it was my son has. So it wasn’t the chicken afterall?
A tiny backyard with trees, that still sounds large! You can put a hammock there perhaps?
Our neighbour has a beautiful Japanese cherrytree, it blossoms real wonderfull in spring. He had to cut of a bit of it though as it was over leaping all of our backyard and got in the way of my laundry. His cherries were blossoming between my knickers as it were. He is very nice, so it was no problem. Sounds like your neighbour is not very nice?
I didn’t know you could eat green tomatoes? Never had that. Ow my tummy is as uspet as a commenter on a CA blog
Still some writing to do. I think I will let someone die in the story, that always makes me feel better
Thinker Belle // 03/12/2009 bij 21:46 |
Glad to hear you’re feeling better, Ina. It does sound like the flu or something that was going around at your house. Glad the cat is better, too.
What type of cat do you have?
My neighbor is very nice. I just feel as if it wouldn’t be right for me to ask him to cut down his only tree in his backyard, though he has several in his front yard. I did recommend, once, that he cut out the hack-berry tree that was growing between it, threatening the life of the oak tree now standing. He told me he believed in survival of the fittest, and may the strongest tree live. (A common belief around these parts in all aspects of life forms). So, I took upon my self to prune that part of the hack-berry creeping on my side of the fence; needless to say, it wasn’t fit for much thereafter. (Not to mention getting rid of the ugly seeds that transplant themselves elsewhere). So, I can’t complain now that the oak is finally flourishing-I’ll adjust.
Which CA forum were you commenting on and what was going on that was so sickening? (Most of the forums on that subject are sickening, that’s why I need you to be specific! Lol!).
And, yes, killing someone off in a story is a good way to feel better-I guess. Of course, the funeral is a great place to rekindle a different relationship, eh?
Ina // 04/12/2009 bij 22:07 |
Hi Thin, it was a hectic day, but all went well, son has a new place to live.
About the CA fora: I meant them in general.
The most sickening are those bloggers who claim they are against bashing, but do so and in a very mean way. One of them wrote a comment in a sort of translation engine Dutch on her own blog where I never read myself ( someone mailed me to say :” the nut has a message for you I think”) so I took a peek. It was very bad Dutch. As far as I understand, she said that she stalked me because she has a desire (verlangen) for me, but as I am married… Oh, and she was ashamed.
Was she coming out?
In reality, it was very nasty and obscene and I won’t forgive her for doing this. It was bashing alright!
Well I mailed her that I don’t bend that way.
Of course it could also mean that she was talking about me and another blogger, something that is none of her business and in which case she is really obsessed and I hope she will stop envolving others in her pathetic and disgusting menchase
So you live in a big city? Is that fun?
Story is almost finished. I am looking forward to a few days of … off…
Am off to bed! Night!
Thinker Belle // 04/12/2009 bij 22:36 |
Hi Ina!Glad to hear your son found a place to live. Hope all is well and maybe his love life is better. Hope your love is alright as well and you don’t let the petty stuff on the blogs get to you. It must not be a blog that is on wordpress, or at least not one I read, which are few. It may be a man-it’s hard to tell. At any rate, anyone who would write that kind of stuff isn’t right in the head. IMO And, we’ve seen a large number of those type of people covering the CA forums. That is why I don’t give credence to anything they say.
No, I don’t live in what I’d consider a big city, though it isn’t exactly the country either. In America, most towns aren’t like New York. We don’t have the high rise buildings-just a lot of urban sprawl.
I’ll bet you’ll be glad to take some time off and enjoy yourself. Wish I knew how to read Dutch, because I’d like to read one of your stories.
Well, goodnight and sleep tight…don’t let the bed bugs bite. (Not that you have bed bugs…it’s just an old saying). Lol!
Ina // 05/12/2009 bij 14:20 |
Hi Thin, it was a miracle that he got a room so soon, in a different city than his school but by train it is ok.
You are so right, about anyone writing that stuff.
But it is a she, I think.
Some of my short stories come in English now too, but only on the net, I don’t have a publisher for my English stories, I am not good enough in that language to really try that. It still is just for fun. Some are here on this blog.
Imagine, 2 years ago I wouldn’t have thought about doing anything on the internet in English.
It still is a challenge. No matter what happens in the future, that I write in English now is something I owe a certain blogger.
It is Sinterklaas today, we are not the kind of family who insists in celebrating after the children are all grown up, but I want to do a special thing for dinner. So I will have some thinking to do
Hope you have a nice Decembers day!
Thinker Belle // 05/12/2009 bij 17:21 |
Happy Sinterklauss Day, Ina!
I noticed on the other forum that you added a cookie recipe. I’ll have to try it as soon as I learn the measurement equivalents-you probably thought the same about my recipe, huh? Peeling almonds? Hmmm…doesn’t sound like too much fun! I think I’ll just buy the slivers already in a package. Lol! And, by the way, in English, the word for bloem (sp)is flour when speaking about a cooking product (especially baked goods); though many flowers are edible. In fact, I just harvested several Nasturtium leaves to put in my salad. They taste similar to a radish and add a peppery taste to the other vegetables.
Sorry about the other blogger being so disrespectful. However, I am curious about anyone wishing for you to see such nonsense. It almost sounds as if they’d like you to be included in one of the brew-haw-haws that they so enjoy. If they hadn’t emailed you the link, you would have never known. Did they use your name? Or, was it just assumed it was about you? (Was it a regular blogger, or just a commenter that is always changing their name?)At any rate, IMO, neither person did you a favor.
I think your English is very good! At least I understand it. And, I am learning some Dutch words in the process.
It is good news that your son found a place to live. Riding a train is probably not inconvenient there. I have never ridden on a train, though I’d like to some day. Over here most people have automobiles. If and when your son comes over he will find that the public transportation system isn’t what he would find there-having an automobile would greatly assist his travels. There are many places that rent them, however, they are very expensive for an extended period of time. He is young and will probably make friends quickly…they will surely assist him.
Have fun planning a special dinner for a special day! And, again, Happy Sinterklauss Day!
Thinker Belle // 05/12/2009 bij 19:09 |
FYI-I just read a comment in my readomattic by a person that has once stated he emailed me an invitation to write a post on his blog. His blog showed up on mine, though I never accepted the invitation via email because the email address had been shut down for months. He even went so far as to refer to me as a troll! I think I know who is responsible for putting things in my Google toolbar. I’m not into making wikipedia what it is today, as are some people. So, I guess being called a troll and being maligned as someone who is full of ‘hot air’ is better than someone thinking a blog could actually have sex with another blog. Lol! It is nice to know, however, that this person has a fulfilling life and won’t be scraping the bottom of the barrel, as it were. Amazingly, this person still finds the time to take cheap shots at the family member of a child that is still missing! Go figure!
Ina // 05/12/2009 bij 23:09 |
Well it was an emailpal who mailed
someone who always reads that blog, I don’t know why. I certainly never will again 
You really never went by train? It is a very good way to travel I think. Not the stress of driving (I can’t drive anyway). I went to Morocco backpacking by train, and by ferry of course, all the way to Marrakech (in 1979) And I have been to Greece the same way in 1980. The problem with those trains were the toilets, they got very dirty with urine running through the corridors.
Of course commuter trains can be packed, so he will not always have a seat.
But it is not that long a journey. He will go by bike to the railroad station, get the train, and then go on his other bike to school or intern job. Or uses a bus. He has not drivers liscense yet, too expensive to get one.
I didn’t quite get you problems with that blogger and your Google toolbar. How did he do that?
It made me think. Just imagine. If a blog could have sex with another blog, how could a blog be protected best, against a virus, and to prevent breading? With a blogdom? Or with Norton?
Do blogs have orgasms? I bet some do. Wet dreams. Hm. I better give my blog a cold shower 
Thinker Belle // 05/12/2009 bij 23:59 |
I don’t know Ina…guess he boarded his X SS and set sail! I’m not too computer literate..just speculation. He is one of those bloggers who insist that the grandparents should be chastised for the missing child, though the child never lived with them. He (I assume) is more than likely a very staunch, hard to get along with, older man who doesn’t think anyone should have any thoughts that aren’t his and his alone.
Very funny about the blog protection! Lol! Though I didn’t quite understand what you meant by “breading” I assumed you meant breeding ..that’s all that came to mind. Yep, don’t want my blog getting pregnant…Mrtdude would would be all over that in a flash! Lol!
Which blog was it, if you don’t mind my asking…just curious…that they made such ludicrous comments about you? I recall reading (on your blog I think) that even some of MD’s commenters had at one time been trashing you. I can’t understand letting that continue.
Public toilets aren’t the best here either, Ina. I avoid them whenever possible. I would love to see the places you went to years ago…bet that was quite an adventure.
Ina // 06/12/2009 bij 17:43 |
You got a mail about your question.
I still don’t understand what happened on your pc, I am very not pc literate, although I can do a nice bit of googling things up.
It was not only Sinterklaas but also Sundrum, a local fest (Dec 6 really but as it is a Sunday, it was celebrated yestereday) with men in disguise who go from door to door, oh well, lots of fun especially when you are young.
I hope you will open up your blog again and write some nice articles.
Sons are here and it is very busy. Last night my husband waited up for one of them till 4 am, not sure if he had to pick him up by car; later the son came home by cab.
Traveling was fun, but I don’t miss it too much. I like my life as it is. Writing, and watching my children grow up. Sounds boring, but it is not!
Thinker Belle // 06/12/2009 bij 18:07 |
Ina, that mail box has been shut down and I never reopened it. My mother was having trouble with Messenger, so I quit talking to her online as I could tell others were following it…they like to attack any and all that don’t agree with them…I’ve even gotten personal mail through the snail mail from them.
The only people able to see it would be me and whoever is in Gohde’s entourage I’d assume since his blog is now on mine. At any rate, they’d more than likely try to hack into the email to see who was talking about whom.
And, your life doesn’t sound boring to me! As we age, most acquire different priorities and not everyone is the same. I love festivals! Tradition doesn’t always make sense, but, it adds to the zest of life.
Thinker Belle // 06/12/2009 bij 18:08 |
Oh, that blog is hidden, and even if it weren’t, your comment wouldn’t be seen unless approved.
Ina // 06/12/2009 bij 21:54 |
How did his blog get on yours… I still don’t get it . Who is this Gohde?
If you like festivals, you really should come here in June, Oerol festival. Theater and music, all over the island, for 10 days.
Thinker Belle // 07/12/2009 bij 02:24 |
Hi Ina! Gohde writes commentary on the Haleigh Cummings case and did a few on Casey Anthony. He is Mr. Mysterious…or so that is the image he’d like to project. He is on wordpress…just look up Haleigh’s name. He has written some very disturbing things about the family, especially when he compares them to himself he comes off as quite arrogant. I think he is somehow tied in with BNN-a network for citizen bloggers. I think he spends a lot of time on wikipedia, as he is also into natural health. How that relates to these children-I don’t know!
It’s not that important that I know who said what…if it was a a forum that doesn’t need logging into, then just post a link. There is a reason these people insist on trashing others. I wasn’t even mad when I was booted off MD’s; but, after a while, and after reading and watching what his commenters were doing, I didn’t understand why I didn’t see that when I was commenting there. And, now I feel as if there is one that I will always hate…yes, that is a very strong word, but, I mean it. She is a biiiaatch! She tried to play the same game on Kreuzer’s blog today, after being caught in her pathetic display of changing avatars and trying to make everyone conform to how they think a blog should operate…with her at the helm! She had made a complete imbecilic azz of herself on Shaeffer’s blog…pathetic!
The Oerol festival sounds like a lot of fun! I’ll bet it is relaxing. Do artist come from the mainland and beyond for this event? I once went to Taos in the summer. Normally it is a ski resort in the wintertime with alot of people. In the summer, it is laid back, beautiful scenery, wonderful eateries, art galleries, and best of all, they had performers in the town square! Yep, they had a town square…isn’t that neat? Well, I went there in the winter once too…spent a lot of my time sliding down the steep mountain on my head! Lol!
Ina // 07/12/2009 bij 08:38 |
I checked Kreuzers (through backtype I found some missing comment) and I see what you mean. Funny, really it is the same commentor that is trying to harm me lol. Your biiaaaatch is mine. So I know EXACTLY how you feel. Now that is already 2 of us just here. I bet there are a lot more who are disgusted.
<— I tried some double English here. Not sure it worked.
Don’t all towns have a square
The artists on Oerol come from all around the world. A few years ago we had some Aboriginals who had never been anywhere but there home region, they played wonderfull mysterious music (diggeridoo or something the instrument is called). The street artists are everywhere. A lot is free, other performanced have to be payed. I will look up a link. http://www.oerol.nl/english/index.htm
Have a nice day!
Thinker Belle // 07/12/2009 bij 15:30 |
Yeah, and it keeps getting worse! I can understand the blatant stupidity of these women, even the bullying, but, what I don’t understand is why they think they can control every blog on wordpress! They have full charge of MD’s, have made an absolute mockery of Shaeffer’s blog, and would more than likely be welcomed back intio the hellhole from which they once came, HO’s blog, but, they press on trying to get Kreuzers blog to fold so they can have full charge of all opinions not monitored by them! They see things that clearly aren’t there! Too bad for their pettiness…it’s a shame.
Ina // 07/12/2009 bij 15:47 |
Well you are free to speak your mind here
It is not a CA blog, but at least you can say what you want. Lots of lurkers from MD’s and other CA blogs come here as well. Don’t know what they are looking for.
and they never will.
They don’t controll this blog, that is a fact
Beatrice // 07/12/2009 bij 18:45 |
Hello Ina, I deleted e-mails and lost addresses, without having answered some, maybe never getting back to you. Sorry, but having been accused at another blog where it was all so not true, but allowed, has led me to not trust. I know you understand.
Ina // 07/12/2009 bij 20:00 |
Beatrice, I have really no idea what you are talking about… Were you accused of something?
Beatrice // 07/12/2009 bij 20:13 |
Oh, I might have not worded right…. Please, absolutely
not to do with you. I just thought I had not responded to
you. Sorry
Ina // 07/12/2009 bij 20:16 |
Thinker Belle // 07/12/2009 bij 21:17 |
Ina, if I may…I think she is talking about that ignorant azz biiiatch Sherry that likes to commit people that don’t agree with her dumbazz opinions. The one that called you crazy and you weren’t able to respond to the pathetic idiot. She also called on staging some kind of warfare on a blog that some commenter had made at some time…both she and her slutty,wrinkly azz comrade from north of the border tried to pick my brain and get me in on it. I didn’t have a clue what they were talking about…all I knew was they were going to war with someone! If I am wrong, please forgive me. I hope my words did not offend anyone or hurt their feelings in any way.
Thinker Belle // 08/12/2009 bij 01:01 |
Ina, when you awake, look at Kreuzer’s blog again. Laurali has tried to defend herself, without being asked, about her new name and avatar. She, sLuttyoop, and ss erie, worked me over on sluttyoops blog after sluttyoop called me an alcoholic. No more than a day or two after that, Shaeffer opened up his new blog, and they immediately competed for control of his blog…Laura cussed another out on that very forum. Talk about some ignorant, arrogant biiatches…those take the cake!
Ina // 08/12/2009 bij 08:49 |
Goodmorning… Wow! Thinker, I can well imagine you got annoyed with them and wanted to say it all without any censorship. So you did and that is fine with me, as I know (a little) what was said about you (and me) and we should be able to talk back somewhere.
Why would we even care what they say, Thinker? Let them sink into the swamp of internet where they belong and be soon forgotten. They are not important, although they seem to think they are. Don’t let them get to you. I hope you are doing ok.
Pitty for them it is not the other way around.
I think I myself better leave it at this though, as frankly those people are not interesting to me.
None of them have a face, did you ever notice how they hide behind silly avatars? Like as if they are kids lol, it is all fake, they are fake persons who like to call them self good and who fantasize a whole life they can flunt around the net, but I wonder about the truth in what they claim, as quite often you just have to google to see they are lying about things. Their life is the blog? They have to fake and change their identity all the time. I once made the mistake to reveil such a liar, and I will wisely not do that again, but I just don’t have respect for those kind of people. I could tell you stories though lol. And just by googling a bit really.
They are perhaps men in real life?
ps I wonder if it is true that someone linked my blog on the wrinkly azzed one (that one made me chuckle), just to let everyone see how terrible we are lol. How stupid is that? We obviously matter to those lonely souls behind their screens, Thinker! We matter sooooo much to them
Thinker Belle // 08/12/2009 bij 15:48 |
Well said, Ina. Feel free to delete what I have written. Just thought I’d give them something to feast on since you said they’d often come here, though you didn’t know why-this is probably why! (And, I think I read where they had trashed you as well). It seems sooooo important that they GANG up on people and force them to conform! It doesn’t soften me-it makes me more resilient. If I have something to say, I don’t have to email…I’ll just type it in the open. And, if more did, we’d know who all else has been treated this way as well. I’m not worried about forgiveness, because I know that isn’t something they’d deem worth considering…so I wouldn’t consider it myself either…not anymore.
Ina // 08/12/2009 bij 16:48 |
They keep on doing the trashing, they are sick. Have you ever seen them do normal lol.
Just spoke to a man with a cardiologist to see. I hope it will all go well for him. I do get worried. It must be a strain on his parents too I imagine?
Well have to do some stuff now, later!
Ina // 08/12/2009 bij 21:14 |
They are lurking there fingers to pieces. I am going to hang around for a bit on another English site elsewhere with nice people, not wp but there are some who blog succesfully on wp too. You might want to go there, If you like, I will mail you the spot. You would be surprised how friendly everyone is and no one is trying to hurt others.
I am not going to link it here in public, it is much too nice at it is 
Thinker Belle // 08/12/2009 bij 22:11 |
Thanks Ina, but, I don’t think I’m going to open up the email again. I read somewhere that a person had 35 viruses and had to run something like 8 programs to clean up the computer…not interested in that, that’s for sure!
Kinda reminded me of when a guy (s) (this isn’t a single occurrence either) would tell you(whomever) about their experiences on a motorcycle, describing the last crash, with his head ending up at the front tire of the car that had to slam on the brakes to avoid killing them, then turning around and asking you if you’d like to go for a ride. No sir! Don’t mean maybe! Lol!
I’m sure there are nice people out there…however, it’s not that big of a deal to me either.
Ina // 08/12/2009 bij 22:35 |
I have a good virus scan, never had a problem with it. Norton. Keeps the Trojans out. I got those silly spam stuff (I checked, it came from VA) that asked in Dutch, very bad Dutch, to give all kinds of info lol. So called from my provider. Now that could also have a virus, but my scan didn’t detect any.
I have been on the back of a sort of motor, you know, the smaller ones, a few times. It does nothing for me really. And this ride you mentioned, I would say no too I think.
I am writing fun story; it is about hair. Why are there no hairs on a penis. I suppose I will never know. Or are there some that do have hair? Hm. A writers job is never done?
Thinker, I hope you cheer up soon. One day the people that hurt us both with so much evil will be gone, how long do you think they can fool people? Meanwhile I have found some good advise thanks to you about diabetes.
Thinker, go get them trucker!:) Goodnight. Feel free to say whatever comes natural. Here you can! It doesn’t have to mean I will always agree btw.
Thinker Belle // 08/12/2009 bij 23:39 |
Thanks Ina, hope those links helped. When you are finished with your story, I’d like to read it, even if I have to try to translate it. Lol!
Ina // 09/12/2009 bij 14:00 |
It is winter, so I think it will be a short story, but it can always be stretched I suppose.
I put a link on Sheaffers to find out later that it is a sort of penpals site, for deathrow inmates. Now I am sure some people will be pleased lol. They can’t run away! And they love mail! The next best thing to a hubby.
Ina // 09/12/2009 bij 17:01 |
Well having read the shit people dared to write about me, I know now the nuts on wp are not my taste, so I won’t be writing on wp anymore. Have fun trashing me, idiots! I have found a much nicer place, with intelligent and interesting people who have real LIVES and who don’t need to make up stories about dead kids to get some primary earnings. Where nobody needs to put another down. I am disgusted by the people here. Not beatrice, Thinker, Kreuzer and some others. You know how to reach me.
I won’t be thinking of you that is for sure.
To those jealous and stupid: When you are alone at christmas, another year gone by and no one to love, just wonder how come.
Thinker Belle // 09/12/2009 bij 17:56 |
Ina, Good…whatever, morning afternoon, or evening…I forget which.
Wow! Your last comment! What happened? I can only imagine it is their bully party trying to make you conform to the ideas these people have about the entire family. The pen pal for inmates thing? WTF?
My opinion is that they aren’t jealous as much as they like to provoke and antagonize in order to feed themselves. (Then again, I’ve always been told, when asked what is wrong with people giving me grief, that they are jealous…never been able to see that aspect, so, that’s my blind side). They know where the gravy train is…dead children. People are immune to dead adults…it just doesn’t get others as excited and cause such a stir.
I don’t know who said what, at least not yet, but, I am certain it happened. That is why I don’t try to pal around with these folks…they are like rabid dawgs and will turn on you in a heartbeat! They stress the importance of behavior on blogs, yet they gossip and go behind others backs…not to be trusted-no way, no how!
And, you have reminded me, I need to make plans to travel this Christmas. Wish you were here…we’d go take the walk on the glass ramp over the Grand Canyon! I’ve wanted to do that since I first read about it in a magazine. Can you imagine being able to walk over a canyon, suspended high over the bottom, and be able to see below you-as if you were walking on air?!!!
Thinker Belle // 09/12/2009 bij 19:46 |
Ina, I think I know where that may be coming from…the attacks that is. Please delete my comments from the 7th and the 8th…that might slow things down, yet not totally eliminate them. I knew they’d follow me around to see whom I was talking to, though they never seemed interested in me in the least when I was commenting on the same blog. Their motive is simple: to destroy other people’s blogs!
I know I am not totally responsible, as you had stated they had been trashing you prior to my comments. I, myself, would never take advice from a medieval painting.
Give Us a Break // 09/12/2009 bij 22:19 |
Thinker, did you see that load of crap that Snoopysleuth just posted at Bill S’s?
Give Us a Break // 09/12/2009 bij 22:45 |
Thinker, excellent retort to SS at Bill’s. No, I don’t take any pleasure or thrill out of exposing people and that is not what I am all about. I have seen what has happened and I was also done wrong by her. You are doing a good job of bringing her down a peg or two but sadly, I think that there is nothing that will stop her inner snark. That is what she is about, a jealous, bitter, nasty old woman with nothing else in the world to do but create havoc where she is able. I will now retire GUAB and let you do your work on her. She makes my blood boil.
Thinker Belle // 09/12/2009 bij 23:26 |
GUAB-thank you for retiring GUAB. However, even long before she interfered, she was never known to post anything other than crap…this isn’t new. You don’t need to point it out to me, I’ve known for a long time what she is and what she is about. She doesn’t make my blood boil, however, she is annoying…I don’t really care about how she treats me, but, I don’t like the way she treats others.
Thinker Belle // 10/12/2009 bij 06:03 |
Ina, I’m going to stay away from your blog for a while so these commenters won’t have a reason to follow and whine. I know Dave is your friend, but, they are making me quite sick of him. Goodbye for now.