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

As Reinout is off on a business trip to Hamburg, Victoria and I are treating ourselves to something really special – crayfish! After Two kg’s of shellfish washed down with Champagne, we are now relaxing with 3 episodes of Criminal Minds ahead of us Crayfish is something very Swedish typically devoured in August This is [...]

It’s to a snow covered Haarlem that I woke up to. It started in the afternoon as I was enjoying Victoria’s school’s Christmas performance. The kids were really sweet, singing christmas carrols mixed with more contemporary songs and poems. As I was leaving the school, a thin layer of snow had begun to cover the [...]

Victoria came with the excellent idea of cooking tonight. I set aside my ascetic diet where carbs are banned (I haven’t been too strict in the last week admittedly). Vic cooked up an excellent spaghetti carbonara which the family was impressed of, Sebastian included! Now we are all stationed on the couch waiting for A [...]

I was going through some of my recently taken pictures and came across an incredibly cute one of Reinout and Sebastian waiting at the hairdresser. Needless to say, it ends up on the blog. That and the statement that Reinout blurted out the other day… Reinout: “Do you think I look younger when I have [...]

It’s been some time ago…I’m not going to bore you with the details. Too few and equally too many. I guess that is the point of where confusion strikes. I’m still batteling chronic pain, so the last weeks I’ve mostly been spending time in bed. Today I had an appointment with my physiotherapist to strengthen [...]

Finally in bed after another non-stop day. 2 meetings down, administration and a near empty inbox I am ready to leave for Cologne tomorrow for GamesCom. Although my schedule is completely open for once, I look forward to some good parties, networking and bumping into familiar faces from the games industry. Sebastian and Victoria are [...]

I haven’t been blogging for days now, but as work, life and getting ill again (the third time in as many weeks!!) took over, there was little energy left. I’ve come down with something of a stomach bug (I suspect something similar Sebastian just came out of). So once again, I’m in bed working. I [...]

After 36 hours of not blogging – I’M BACK!! But don’t expect a fresh rose, posing in front of the mirror tho show off her Karen Millen dress or Dior pumps. Today I’m in bed, after a quick wash and go session (and in this case I’m only talking about my face). Luckily I’m working [...]

I was in a meeting when the phone went off. It was Victoria, but as I was in the middle of a conversation, I turned off the phone. 2 minutes later a colleague comes up with the land line phone. A man, whose voice I vaguely recognise, claims to work for the tax authorities and [...]

As work wasn’t an option I took the day off to spend time with Victoria, Reinout and Sebastian. Victoria and I passed by a newly opened nail studio – MH Nail Studio. I couldn’t resist getting a French manicure and Victoria got her nails done too. The result was splendid, and the price good too! [...]