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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…

  • 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

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • I Did Not Buy The Car

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Eighty Eight] And then we were locked out of the AirBNB. I don’t want to talk about it. I just…look forward to when… the Universe… stops testing us…

  • Expect Inconsistency This Week

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Eighty Four] I am officially in the States (back posting this one – I’m writing this on Monday 19 July, but publishing it from Saturday) and jetlagged and omg overwhelmed and so much has happened in the past very short and simultaneously very long three days. And also, oh…

  • #OhGodsWhatHaveWeDone

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Eighty Two] I want to throw up. A lot. It’s just … A lot.

  • Moving Back to the States: The Detroit House

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Eighty One] Today the money theoretically hits our Dutch account and needs to be sent immediately over to our American account after I visit the local office to raise our daily limit to ludicrous levels for One! Day! Only! And hope I do everything correctly cause if it needs…

  • FYI – GroningenRain.nl is Going Away Too

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Eighty] That’s another thing. This site, GroningenRain.nl, is going away – cause the owner will no longer live in the Netherlands. #HelaasPindakaas But first the news: Ministers ‘ignored warnings not to relax corona rules too fast’ Workers fear Delta variant at the office, labor unions say R-number rises above…

  • OMGWTFBBQ

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Seventy Nine] SO MANY THINGS went wrong this weekend / this morning leading up to the Haren closing, but it’s DONE! The water meter cover is made of wood and expanded so much that we couldn’t get it open for ten minutes. And then it opened. I couldn’t remember…