Category: Adventurer
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Moving Back to the States: The Last Walk
[Dutch Lock Down Day Five Hundred Two] This morning I woke up at 0330 because of a panic attack and also because I went to bed at 2130 and also because jet lag is a punk. I struggled to go back to sleep but at four I gave up the ghost, pulled myself out of…
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Under Pressure
[Dutch Lock Down Day Five Hundred One] By the eternal Queen. Mmm num ba deDum bum ba beDoo buh dum ba beh beh
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Moving Back to the States: Packing
[Dutch Lock Down Day Five Hundred] Today is all about packing the things that are going on the actual plane with us – things we’ll need short term that we can’t go without for a few days. This is mostly clothing and toiletries for the big people but also ipads and laptops and diapers and…
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Moving Back to the States: The Last Sunday
[Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Ninety Nine] We are officially under contract for another house. A house that doesn’t look like a castle. A house that doesn’t flood. A house that I absolutely adore. But first the news: Netherlands unlikely to introduce compulsory vaccination Workers took on more unpaid overtime during pandemic out of…
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Moving Back to the States: Reality Check
[Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Ninety Eight] I have scheduled COVID-19 PCR travel tests for the entire family for Thursday morning. Including the minions. Cause they’re over two. #PrayForUs
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Moving Back to the States: A “Real” Update
[Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Ninety Seven] This week friends and neighbors have been picking things up. The house feels emptier, but it feels GOOD to let things go. Today we dove into contract with another house in the United States. Hoping it’ll close by end of August so we can enroll First Minion…
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#Coloratura #MusicOfTheSpheres #Coldplay
[Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Ninety Four] The lovely and distracting Coloratura by the eternal Coldplay. In the end it’s all aboutThe love you’re sending out
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And Then A Fire
[Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Ninety Three] Except not. It’s actually Tuesday because I flew in yesterday to the Netherlands and took a shower and then slept until this morning at three. Holy hell. It’s really hard to focus. Of course. But let’s try to get this story out, shall we? The plane landed…
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And Then A Tornado
[Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Ninety Two] Last night sirens started going off and the landscaper came in and ordered me into the basement immediately. #TornadoWarning TL;DR we’re all fine. I messaged the AirBNB host asking them if they also had sirens in Grosse Pointe Park and then forgot that my phone has a…
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Can’t Handle This
[Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Ninety One] By the brilliant comedian Bo Burnham! I wouldn’t have got the lettuce if I knew it wouldn’t fitWouldn’t have got the cheese if I knew it wouldn’t fitWouldn’t have got the peppers if I knew they wouldn’t fitI wouldn’t have got, half of it
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It’s Complicated: I Bought A Car
[Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Ninety] “It’s Complicated: We Bought A House” will hopefully happen by … say … September? October? Good times. Oke, so, remember when I said I’d be buying a car. But then I didn’t? USAA gave me a car loan. Which meant that when I went to ‘buy’ the car,…
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Time to Pretend
[Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Eighty Nine] By the indomitable MGMT! I’ll miss the playgroundsAnd the animals and digging up worms