etsy

This website is really dangerous!! I keep finding things I'd like to buy!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I haven't yet, though, maybe because each time I put my wallet and credit card far far FAR away...

etsy.com

Im on it too...Try find user: bytinster
:)

edit: here's the right link to my store:
http://bytinster.etsy.com

a new year

December went by rather fast, I think. And now it's already 2009.

I spend new years eve with Michele, Brendan, my kids and some other nice people. Went out to see fireworks at midnight.

Happy new year everyone!!!

(yea yea I know, a very short and boring post, but I'm on my way to bed now, I will be back, though, because I want to write about a few things that we did in december...)

Children free weekend!

This weekend I had a children-free weekend, starting from saturday morning around 9 am until sunday around 10 pm!!! It's so nice to have a couple of days on your own, I don't want or need it every day, but sometimes I do and then it's really great that both kids can be with their father (they went to his parents) and I can have MY TIME.

So....what did I do with all that free-time?

Well, saturday morning I had a ”date” with Michele at the The European School's Christmas Bazaar. We were there to sell some of Michele's stuff. It started 11 am and we arrived with style....a little after 11 am..... ;)

It was really nice to hang out with Michele that day, just her and me with no kids wanting their mother's attention. We could talk, gossip, eat and drink. We DID, of course, also sell a good amount of her stuff too! When the bazaar was finish around 5.30 pm we went back to Michele's place with the rest and I went home – I recently dicovered that one of the busses near my building goes to Michele's area, so I wanted to try this route home. Me being a bit ”stupid” again, took the bus the wrong direction! Yep....bravo...but in all fairness, the bus don't say which direction it's headed, it has BOTH directions listed, so you really need to know which side of the road, you want to jump on the bus. I think I rode the bus maybe 15 min in the wrong direction before getting off and on the mrt (metro) the RIGHT way! When I finally was back home, it was almost 1½ hours later than expected ....

On my way home I passed a street puppetshow, I took a quick picture and walked away. I was too tired to stay and watch....and to listen. It's kinda loud :) But I actually want to try see one longer than just 3 min. I remember the first time I came here to Taiwan, my friend Joney (husband's sister) took me out and we passed a street theater, I didn't understand one word of what they saying but I understood the meaning (the lost love and getting it back). It was a really good experience and the performance was exellent! Yes, I do know there is a difference between humans and puppets... ;)

I showered and ate my dinner (wanted to get curry but it closed 8.30, I was 5 min too late -damn bus 257) and watched Tropic Thunder. Funny, funny movie!

I wanted to go to bed around midnight, but I've been trying to make a bag the last couple of days, so I really wanted to finish it – and I did! It took me an extra 1½ hour (slow, I know, but I took my time, since there weren't any kids to look after) but I think my proto bag look nice. There are some details I need work on, but it's still a little funky, don't you think?? ;)

Sunday I slept until 11.30, boy, that was nice! Then I got up, went for lunch (CURRY), ate and watched a Miss No Good (episode 11, Tang Men kisses Xiao Hua, YAY!) and then I cleaned the apartment while listening to music (I really dig NKOB new album, check it some of it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw8RBL5_auk&feature=iv&annotation_id=event_774569 ). And because I was listening to music the cleaning took about 5 hours – I had to dance a couple of time, right!

Hope you guys, like me, had a nice weekend!!

Shopping with Karri and Annabel

My friend Karri is back in Taiwan for 2 weeks vacation and catching up, so we did just that – and some shopping. We (Me, Mila, Karri and her lovely daughter Annabel) went to a place called Wufenpu commercial area in Nangang, Taipei City where there are heaps of clothing-stores. Most of them only sell by the bulk, which mean you either have to be a family of 30 people or you have your own store! We did find stores that would sell a more suitable quantity and it was still cheap! I bought 5 pieces (pants and sweaters) for Mila and Victor and paid only 100nt$ pr item (about DKK 18).

My canon ixus camera broke a few weeks ago, so I found my older one again and it works...sort of. It can only take somewhat good pictures in black & white, so until I get a new one at some point (no rush, since I still have my big canon EOS 400D), you'll have to settle for these b&w blury photos. We went there around 12 and only a few stores were open at that time, so we walked around (for a while) for some lunch. We had some nice beef noodles and wonton noodles. Yum! And by the time we were finished most stores were up and running, but I forgot to take pictures then......

Video clip of the little girl

Mila is walking. For real now, not just a few steps, so she is all over the place!

17.th November 2008. Victor 3 years old

This is the day after Victor's birthday party. On his actual birthday he got an extra present from my family – a digital camera for kids. He LOVES it, so he click and click and click – he even had to bring it to his kindergarten!

The day after I had to have some extra help to get the big trash downstairs. I used the double stroller we've got.

Baichi wai guo ren!

Yes, that would be me – stupid foreigner!

So....here I am, a simple housewife doing the laundry for the four of us. Doing the usual routine, stuffing the machine and adding some soap, pushing start and leave to do other stuff.

After an hour or so, I go check on the laundry, since it should be finish by now. But no...still haven't tumbled the water out. Hm.

Try to start over. Completely. Press stop af few times (it's already at full stop. Not moving AT ALL) and then start again. Water starts to fill up. I'm confused. The machine actually look broken to me, like the inside tumble-thingy have fallen down!!!! And come to think of it, it DID make some loud noises earlier. Better call husband – so I did, and he had a guy come to look at it.

After 15 min of looking at the machine, he came back and said: OK. Nothing is wrong. Just wrong programme. That will be 300 Nt$...

DOH! So apparently I've pushed some wrong buttons so it wasn't set correct and the tumble inside is just fine, the reason why it looked like it had fallen down is simply because of the weight (water and clothes) and it's ”back to normal” when there is nothing inside.

I'm so stupid and feel SO embarrassed that I've actually had to have a handy-man (not even good looking!) to come and tell me it's JUST FINE!

Ai yo....wo yige baichi....

Luckly this don't happen so often!