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

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 [...]

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 [...]

Just finished off work, after a long day doing a million thing inbetween preparing a contract template. Although I have no legal background, I’ve written so many contracts in the last years that I’ve become a bit of an expert on the subject. Still it’s boring as hell and only 4 cups of coffee could [...]

Some days can turn out unexpectantly good, completely unforseen, out of the blue! And so with 5 cups of coffee I survived the day, better than I’d thought. In fact the day went by in a breeze and at 5.30 pm I was on my way home to prepare a dinner for our management team [...]

Saturday didn’t turn out bad at all. One would have thought with a blog post as my last, that World War III had broken out in the Waldau – te Brake mansion, but peace prevailed. I said my goodbyes and went into town on my own. It was cold, snowy, but my spirit was on [...]

And so Christmas eve has come to an end. My day started early with laundry and cleaning to prepare for the big day. As an expat in a foreign country, traditions become even more important, and most important of all is Christmas Eve. It’s the evening when a big family meal is prepared followed by [...]

Yesterday was time for a long awaited dinner party. The whole planning started off as two separate dinner parties but as people couldn’t make it got rescheduled, and eventually I got so fed up I fused them together in the hope some old friends would reunite over wine and sushi. I had a feeling something [...]

The house is empty. Reinout left this evening. His Prada aftershave lingering for a few more moments, as to gently ease the void he’s left behind. Again I feel cheated on the promise we once made to eachother, never to go one night without going to bed and waking up together. But one night becomes [...]

I am sitting here in bed, at 9 am on a workday I might add, with a cup of coffee whilst reading the news. When did that happen last? There is an explanation to this however. Last night I was putting together a small soiree. The house looked like a mess and I admittedly bribed [...]

Paris in autumn is fantastic. It doesn’t matter if it’s windy and rainy, because with a cafe or bistro around every corner, you don’t have to ever risk getting too wet or cold. Reinout and I have been strolling around with Sebastian, shopping, eating and drinking. In short perfect for a small city break. Now [...]