Solly as a Rock!!

Is it a hair dryer? Is it a sanding machine? No, it is the 1930s cure against female hysteria…

A bit of aroma therapy- roses and violets-, a giggle with Will and Grace and lots of kisses of the man I love did the trick. I fell asleep with happy thoughts. And this morning, when I woke up, the sun was shining.

It is going to be a lovely day anyway, rain or shine.

Why? Well, me and my man celebrate our 73rd month together, my best girliefriend celebrates her first day of maternity leave a my grand dad celebrates his 89th birthday.

You most likely might not have noticed it- I do not have a webcam and unless you are psychic…- but I have been behind my laptop for the past 3 hours. Surfing the net, checking other blogs, linkdumps, news, quirkies, quizilla… And still I haven’t come up with a subject to write about.

Something happy, I mean. Because I really do not want to write about the remains of wheelchairs and riots in Gaza. Nor did I want to write about possible nuclear explosions in Russia. I definitely did not want to write about the Spring storms and how night frost almost destroyed the first apple blossoms…

I think, I have a Spring depression related writer’s block. There’s too much crap going on in this world at the moment. If you have any happy news, please tell me!

(title is a quote from William Morris’s poem “Earthly Paradise”)

Hooray! It’s Monday! The start of a whole new week, in which anything can happen! The first Monday of Spring, too!

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I tried. I really tried it, this Monday morning. But it is not working. I just do not like Mondays, especially when the weather looks very Autumn-like. Please wake me on a 25 degC Tuesday-morning, please?

Former Dutch Queen Juliana died this morning. The Queen Mother aged 94 died at 5:50 AM in the Soestdijk palace where she lived.

May the country’s common grandma rest in peace.

Things to do when you are really, really bored (and slightly sick-minded).

According to NASA a small near-Earth asteroid (NEA), discovered only Monday night by the NASA-funded LINEAR asteroid survey, will make the closest approach to Earth ever recorded. It will pass us at 11:08 PM CET at approximately 43.000 km – one eight of the distance from Earth to the Moon. Apparently, there is no danger of a collision with the Earth during this encounter. Off course “they” will tell us that, to avoid chaos and anarchy. They might have made a miscalculation. Hopefully, I’ll speak to y’all after 11:10 PM tonight.

update @ 11:15 PM We are still alive!!! I am so glad the damn thing missed us!!!

Yesterday was the first officially warm (hence: 20+ degC) day of the year. Lots of sun too. Too much sun, cause it revealed just how dirty my windows actually were. For you information: I was surprised on a regular basis, when I went out, that in fact it was NOT foggy… So I cleaned my windows. Thoroughly. Birds crashed against the glass: that clean!

This morning I woke up early, still proud, relishing the memory. I opened the curtains with happy anticipation of a fog-less view at the buildings behind mine and… it rained. Off course. I knew it. It’s a fact. “The Law of Recently Cleaned Windows”: Even when it’s not forecasted- even if you live in the Sahara!- it will rain the day after you cleaned your windows.

Right. Forgot about that one – I don’t clean my windows often enough.

When the Bangles wrote “Is this burning an eternal flame?” they weren’t referring to this one, I hope… Yet another sad victory for capitalism over idealism…

According to a US scientist , people should avoid milk and cheese as much as tobacco, as there is strong evidence that dairy products promote breast cancer in women and prostate cancer in men… Speaking at a lecture on diet and cancer, the professor said: “My advice is don’t have any dairy products in any form whatsoever. Just cut them out completely.”

Great. I am sugar intolerant, nearly vegetarian, I quit smoking 9 months ago and now this… Do we have to start an anti-milk lobby now? Ban cows from the Dutch fields? Allow only black coffee? Give milkshake bars the same semi-legal status as coffeeshops? Place an enormous warning on all dairy products – “Eating or drinking of dairy is injurious to health, it causes cancer” And… Where do we stand with breast feeding, then?!