Author: rainleander
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Dutch Lock Down Day Two
The partner went out for a cup of sugar. Three hours ago. May never see him again. Girl twin has thrown a coup against her older brother and now rules the house under her tiny thumb with Barbapapa playing #AllTheTime and #AbsolutelyNoBroccoli MAMA. Boy twin refuses to NOT splash in the tub no matter how…
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Dutch Lock Down Day One
I haven’t seen my partner in seventeen hours. I think the natives voted him off the island. Or ate him.
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The Latest Nineteen From The Netherlands
Some of these points are media based. Some are via via. Some are personal. Take everything with a grain of salt. Or some other idiom.
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What is Your Armageddon Agenda?
I just figured something out. I’m slow sometimes. #PBBT At a certain time, people started scolding me whenever I would shake their hands, but they would scold me with a dash of embarrassment and humour. Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte accidentally shakes the hand of a health official after announcing a "no handshake policy". Video:…
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This Was Going To Be The Post And Then I Got An Ocular Migraine Instead
the Netherlands didn’t have ANY known cases because that’s the cultural norm – if you’re sick in any way, you take paracetamol and wait at least ten days for symptoms to pass. THEN you go to the doctor.
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Check This Out: Wash Your Lyrics
WashYourLyrics.Com made by the badass William @neoncloth and totally not affiliated with the NHS or any other government body.
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Tell On Yourself Then Brag About It
While I didn’t get a single thing done on that list of three things that I told on myself yesterday, I made progress.
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FYI – A Is The Oldest Child
There are always ‘puzzles’ and looming #ToDos on the horizon wearing us down and sticking in the back of the brain and it all boils down to not prioritizing it.
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And Then BAM! Have Some Depression
I mean, but, well, it’s kind of understandable. My Grandma Porter died a year ago peacefully in her sleep. She had been in hospice for a few months. It wasn’t a surprise. The memorial was a few days later. I couldn’t make it. I wrote something that my Aunt Julie read for me. Thanks, AJ!…
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New Habits Are Hard
There are a few things I consider more important than taking care of someone else – brushing my teeth, showering, sleeping, health, yin yoga, walking outside, exercise, eating, meditation, plenty of english breakfast tea with a ton of milk, and at least one small round of Swedish, Japanese and Dutch every single day.
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It Pours
I completely didn’t write yesterday. I remembered, but then I forgot. That’s how it works sometimes. But I wrote today and published not one, but TWO articles. #WhenItRains WAIT Did I just find my hashtag?!? Holy shit! ASIDE: I once heard a podcast wherein the person said that they were asked to sift through all…
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There are Many Paths – This is Just One
When choosing to respond to events, both negative or positive, because, yes, it’s a choice – we are not animals driven by instinct, but people with intellect and experience and #CHOICES – when that moment comes, you have infinite choices. Perhaps, yes, you can let emotions drive, resulting in variable reactions and while, yes, I…