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

It’s been a pretty hectic week. Back to back meetings, followed by catching up on deadlines and sporadic attempts to clear my email backlog. I’m not as fanatic as I used to be, and have curbed my desires to work past midnight. But still when I finally hit the sack sometime in the 11th hour [...]

At work, so little time for a longer blog entry but here comes some pictures from the day! Birthday girl got lucky!! Morning essentials My colleagues celebrated me at lunch….sweet I got “A touch of Sunrise” from Rituals Happy camper! Nice smell too… Healthy lunch at my desk

In inspiration of a question I got about scents for men I decided to raid my husband’s stack of fragrances, which often on either my encouragement or initiative has been added to my husbands already existing collection. A good fragrance pour homme is equally easy as it is difficult to find. The good news is [...]

Dinner at Popokatepetl. I have fajitas, W goes for a burrito. Time passes quickly and at a certain point, rain and heavy thunder errupts. We move inside to continue our female rendez vous. I’m home at midnight, no salsa but evening was great. Reinout is asleep and but comes downstairs to open the door for [...]

In town it’s crowded. As I walk in my black pencil skirt my thighs are rubbing together from the heat. That forever taking diet is not paying off. Thigh rubbing or not, I decide against a cappuccino and order just a black coffee. A biscuit that accompanies it gets handed over to Sebastian who eagerly [...]

I love perfumes. They add definition, drama and passion to my character. Like any other woman I have different perfumes for different occassions. What sets me apart from what I dare to say the rest of the population is my obsession for rare, exclusive perfumes. In my book it’s a travesty to buy any D&G, [...]

Exactly 2 weeks and 5.4 kgs later I am starting a new journey of weightloss. When I’ve gone on my crash course diets in the past they have been rather extreme as there was a lot of weight to loose (think 20 kg’s in 3 months and you get the picture). This time it should [...]

I’ve been pampering myself this evening, leaving my favourite glyco peel from Natura Bisse on extra long, to remove any traces of the “perma tan” I sustained last Friday. My skin looks a lot better now, and the orange shade is finally gone. I use these great products from Natura Bisse. It’s a beauty range [...]

I figured that after some hectic weeks, followed by the anti-climax of a cancelled holiday, I could better treat myself to something good. When I’m on a mission, I’m on a MISSION, and in the course of a few hours I had bought items worthy of a new wardrobe. Classic high heel loafers from Tods, [...]

OK, so here I am, stranded in the Netherlands with no possibility to get to the the Canary Islands for the forseable future. After what seems an uphill battle on the personal and work related spheer, I was looking forward to a 2 week holiday in a 5 start hotel, secluded from everything related to [...]