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

I always dreamed of a Valentino dress. It’s the Ferrari of fashion (not to mention the same colour!), which would make any girl, woman and lady quiver with delight. It’s what Sharon Stone wore in Basic Instinct (or so I imagine), and it’s what Jackie O would have worn if Valentino would have started his [...]

I’m sitting here with my agenda planning the week ahead. It’s an exciting week with several meetings regading a project close to my heart. Last night, in anticipation of the next coming days, I cleaned out my inbox (*relief*), completed my administation (well overdue) and did the laundry in preparation for the cleaners coming over [...]

As with all good things it had to come to an end. It had started in a rather stressful fashion, at 6.30 am walking the dogs, doing the laundry and then off to the gym. More laundry, getting dressed and off to work. At Central Station I detoured picking up cakes at Hema and plasters [...]

It’s summer time and with summer time comes summer scheduled. Trains and buses are reduced to an hourly (and if your lucky a 30 minute) schedule. With my luck I miss the bus by 2 minutes. And this because the train was delayed by 5. I had set the alarm clock to 6.30 am as [...]

17.39. I’ve known him for exactly three days, 17 hours and 34 minutes. I try to calculate the exact amount of hours this would mount up to but fail. Hours always sound more impressive. As long as they go beyond the number 48. He’s standing in front of me, frying up an improvised risotto using [...]

I’m down with a flu…again! Coming to think of it, I must have been ill at least a handful in as many months. Sebastian is the culprit here, coming home with all kinds of deceases from the creche. I started feeling the usual symptoms such as a sore throat and ear pain mid week, but [...]

I wake up early. Not from the alarm clock but from Sebastian wailing. It’s 6.30 am, 10 minutes before scheduled time, so I hastily wrap myself up in an overused, coffee strained dressing gown and head down to the kitchen to make another bottle. Sebastian eagerly takes it together with some pieces of Lego and [...]

The phone is ringing. It’s my husband. I put the phone on silent, but instead it starts to vibrate. A plastic container with nuts becomes a temporary cradle. By the time I position it in the midst of cashew and macadamia nuts the phone has stopped ringing. Instead a missing call message stares back at [...]

Days are hot, nights are humid. Everything comes to a standstill. Trains are late, service is going down an ever slippery slope. And my own commitments are given way for excuses. They rarely hold up. Last night… I lay awake in bed, tossing and turning. I read a book about the fortunes of one Grace [...]

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 [...]