Fracas Noir || Susanne Waldau - te Brake I swear to tell the truth as I know it…

Yet another busy Saturday has passed. First into town for a quick lunch and coffee before heading for IKEA. I absolutely love IKEA. It’s almost like being home again i.e. back in Sweden. Even certain furniture brings back memories such as the Billy book case. Those were the days back in the 80’s, my girls [...]

Coming back on that hotel room dream I had the other night. The hotel that figured in my dream appeared very similar to the hotel I once had a similar experience in, this time somewhat more raunchy. I must have been about 18, and had some week earlier been introduced to E who moved in [...]

I just came home from a facial. This was the last facial before D-day and thus I got a bit of extra pampering with a relaxing face, shoulder and neck massage. I just have to paint my toenails and do a manicure to be ready for the big show. A girl wants to give birth [...]

The films that have somehow stayed with me have a few common denominators. First of all they are all urban, taking place in a city, may it be Paris, LA or New York. They are all about the ordinary people, living through ordinary events that yet border to the un-ordinary. There is a certain element [...]

Yesterday I had the what might very well be the last appointment with my midwife before D-Day. Despite my utterly preconceived ideas about midwifes and medical staff in general, she was lovely, and assured me I had nothing to worry about in the department of pain relief. Apparently the Dutch medical profession has taken leaps [...]

Today I got a request via facebook to list 25 things people don’t know about me. Typically I don’t respond to these invites, because of lack of time and interest really. But the subject paused for thought, so here are some utterly useless and probably non-interesting things you may or may now know about me:
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Yesterday, after finishing a document I was reading in preparation for a meeting today, I went on to read the news. My mind was soon enough engrossed in a very sad article of a little two year old girl who was beaten by her mother and stepfather to death. In fact I remember the case [...]

When your head feels like it’s stuffed with cotton balls, attempting any work, reading or writing is fruitless. But yet I couldn’t detach myself from the damn computer, which has become my new best friend since my pregnancy leave. Not that I didn’t spend time on it before, but now she is a constant companion [...]

My morning started sometime at 4 am, when I woke up with the most intense heartburn. It must have been the Whopper from last night not entirely agreeing with me. I was laying in bed contemplating on life. My body was restless. The type of restlessness you feel when you are waiting for something good. [...]

The camera never lies. Or does it? Reinout identified the perfect Kodak moment in our kitchen. Apparently he had not noticed how large I had grown.
“Wow, honey. You look huge.” He was obviously out to score points. I hid my head in my hands, like the site of me, extra large, would evaporate for [...]