Archive for May, 2010

happy birthday…
May 31, 2010

…to me. It’s my 23rd birthday today. It was nice that it happened to land on Memorial Day this year – who doesn’t like to have the day off on their birthday? I was thinking back to last year’s Birthday Blues and how I was feeling at that time. It seems like ages ago that we [...]

This is Fun
May 19, 2010

Architecture in Helsinki Hold Music

Roy
May 12, 2010

Who is Roy? When Ben and I moved into our apartment back in late February, we didn’t meet many of our neighbors.  The one neighbor we did meet in the beginning – was Roy. Our first encounter with Roy was an accident. Ben had gone downstairs to do laundry and stumbled upon Monarch, Roy’s beloved [...]

two dutchies in a foreign land
May 1, 2010

I never thought twice about taking Ben’s last name. I enjoyed having an ethnic last name being of hispanic heritage, but I was thrilled to be a Mrs. and didn’t care for the hyphenated name mumbo-jumbo. Plus, the other half of my heritage is as Dutch as they come, so it felt like an honor [...]

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