Fracas Noir – Susanne Waldau – te Brake ~ for better or worse

Saturdays used to me a day of at least moderate rest. Slow wake up at 10.30 followed by coffee, news, brunch in town around 13.00, a little bit of shopping, home at 4 o’clock, read a book, watch a film, dinner and a movie. Sounds perhaps boring, but this was my ideal Saturday, no I [...]

Despite having bought a Vanity Fair, to endure my trip back home, I’m drawn to a woman opposite me. In fact she caught my attention before having actually seen her, her perfume announcing her entrance. Like a veil it surrounded her and I imagine she seduced my fellow passengers too with her presence. I know [...]

From early morning until now, I’ve been trawling the net for good site designs. I’m exhausted, and as I got a lousy 4 hours sleep last night, I am desperate to catch some sleep. Hopefully this night will not generate any strange dreams like last, when I woke up in the middle of the night [...]

There is one thing that men and women can’t agree on – money. Is this a relative new phenomena or has it been like this since time of dawn? Are men born with a running calculator adding up every shoe, handbag and piece of fashionable garment that women purchase? Some men may turn a blind [...]

Dinners are perfect ways of getting to know people. Instead of inviting someone over for an afternoon job interview, invite them over for dinner. The devil is in the detail, and the details accumulated paint the picture. It can be daunting, especially for the one invited, but it also creates a perfectly relaxed atmosphere putting [...]

Just back from lunch in town with Victoria. Christmas and Saint Nicholas decoration are lighting up the gloomy streets. Can’t wait until December! I’m already dreaming of Christmas tree, Glühwein (mulled wine) and saffron bread! Today is exactly 2 weeks until we are going on a long-wekend to Disneyland in Paris. Victoria is counting down [...]

This morning I was woken up rather late by my husband with coffee, the obligatory vitamine drink, and a laptop. In this order, the laptop takes priority, and as usual I launched firefox to check out email and news. But today is not any day, and there were other much more important things on the [...]

I just came out of a hot, steamy shower. Perfect ending to a never ending day. My sore throat has gradually receded to a dull ache. Unfortunatly my sexy, husky voice has disappeared too. In fact it was the best compliment I’ve gotten in months from someone other than my husband, when a colleague pointed [...]

We have this battle at home, about whether it will be a boy or a girl. Reinout is adement it will be a boy. After all he is the alpha-male (according to himself), and alpha-males produce Y-chromosomes. So far so good, until last week… It started with an ordinary meeting, with a rather unordinary man. [...]

The day is going towards its end but my mind does not. It’s full of ideas , action items, project plans and dinner appointments. Due to all the work I have tried to reduce get-togethers to a minimum, but as November and especially December tend to be very social months, my agenda is filling up. [...]